Bandana warns Andi and strips her of her pay.
Cast[]
- The Crew of the Mechane
Transcript[]
- Panel 1
Mateo: And we're through! Clear of the mountains, Captain.
- Panel 2
Carol: We did it!
Mateo: Of course, now we don't have any weapons.
Bandana: Eh, it's not like siege weapons're really gonna do the trick against the enemies we're fighting these days.
- Panel 3
Bandana: When we get back to Tinkertown, I'm gonna look into hiring a full-time ship's wizard.
Bandana: Or maybe I'll drop in on that plucky little lieutenant and ask her about buying a few of those big lightning cannons.
- Panel 4
Bandana: I want everyone who doesn't need to have hands on the controls to start mendin' and patchin'—
Bandana: —'specially 'round where the turrets were. Rope Elan into castin' that spell of his, if you need to.
- Panel 5
Bandana: And as for you, now that we're out safely—
Andi: *gulp*
- Panel 6
Bandana: —that's Strike One.
Andi: ...What... what happens on Strike Three?
Bandana: Nuthin'.
- Panel 7
Bandana: 'Cause you won't make it past Strike Two.
- Panel 8
Bandana: Now I'm gonna go take care of this splitting headache.
Bandana: That I got.
Bandana: Somehow.
- Panel 9
Felix: Wait, Captain!
Felix: Since Andi put the ship in danger, can I have her pay from this trip?
Bandana: Come on, Felix. That just wouldn't be fair.
- Panel 10
Bandana: We'll split her share up between the whole crew.
- Panel 11
Felix: What?
Felix: You wanted to know what I was going to do about it, didn't you?
D&D Context[]
- Bandana uses the idiom of "three strikes", which implies that baseball exists in the Order of the Stick world, a fact already established in the bonus material with Roy's skill slot in Profession (Baseball Player).[1] Volleyball is also known to exist.[2]
Trivia[]
- The title is a play on the phrase "level a threat" (i.e. aim or direct a threat) as Bandana does to Andi, and "threat level" such as used by the UK Threat Levels for terrorism activity or the US Homeland Security Advisory System. The latter system was referenced before in Order of the Stick, in #513, "Security Deposit".
- Andi intimidated Felix into not resisting the mutiny by asking "what are you going to do about it?" in #1064, "Chained of Command".