Nale kidnaps Julia. Communicating efficiently is hard for him.
Cast
Transcript
- Panel 1, Page 1
Roy stands in front of an image of Nale.
Roy: Holy crap! Nale!!
Nale: Long time, no see.
- Panel 2, Page 1
Roy tries to attack Nale.
Roy: Damn, he's just some sort of mental projection into my brain!
Nale: As you can no doubt tell, I am mentally projecting these words into your brain.
- Panel 3, Page 1
Nale: So just sit there—
- Panel 4, Page 1
Nale suddenly disappears.
- Panel 5, Page 1
Roy: ...Hello?
- Panel 6, Page 1
Nale reappears holding a second scroll. The first scroll lays at his feet in the image.
Nale: Ah, sorry, I forgot the spell has a limit of 25 words per spell casting.
Nale: Never mind, where was I? Oh, right, I was saying—
- Panel 7, Page 1
Nale disappears again.
- Panel 8, Page 1
Nale reappears with a third scroll.
Nale: Sorry, ran out of words again.
Nale: Anyway, I was contacting you so that we might find a way, as fellow strategists, to come to an—
- Panel 9, Page 1
Nale disappears once again.
Roy puts his hand to his forehead.
- Panel 10, Page 1
Nale reappears with a fourth scroll, the other three at his feet.
Nale: —DAMN STUPID SPELL! I mean, who can get anything really meaningful said in 25 frickin' words??
Nale: I'm going to find whoever designed this spell and—
Roy smiles.
- Panel 11, Page 1
Nale disappears again. Roy whistles and sheaths his sword.
Roy: ♪
- Panel 12, Page 1
Nale reappears with a fifth scroll; four lie at his feet.
Nale: I've kidnapped your sister and I want to trade her to you in exchange for my brother.
Roy: WHAT??
Nale: OK, that was 17 words, I've got eight—
- Panel 1, Page 2
Nale is cut off yet again.
Roy: Get back here, you cowardly bastard! Show yourself!
- Panel 2, Page 2
Julia appears, holding a Sending scroll.
Roy: Julia!
Julia: They're forcing me to cast this scroll to contact you to prove they've got me alive.
Julia: This is all your fault.
Julia: I'm telling Dad.
Julia: Loser.
- Panel 3, Page 2
Julia is replaced by Nale, holding a sixth scroll.
Nale: Great, so she can avoid getting cut off and I can't? Unbelievable.
Roy: I am so going to kill you for this.
Nale: Bring my brother to Cliffport, to the warehouse on Avenue Street before—
- Panel 4, Page 2
Nale disappears once more. Roy is alone again.
- Panel 5, Page 2
Nale reappears with a seventh scroll. He is surrounded by a pile of used scrolls.
Nale: —Tuesday, or she'll have more in common with poor Yikyik than you'd really probably like.
Roy: Oh, we'll be there, you miserable waste of skin.
- Panel 6, Page 2
Nale: I actually have words left?
Nale: Then allow me to say—
D&D Trivia
- As Nale exquisitely demonstrates, the 5th level Sending spell allows communication over arbitrary distances (even possibly working across planes of existence), but it has a 25 word limit. The subject can also reply with 25 words or less.
- Scrolls contain spells written to them and can be used by characters who otherwise could not cast the spell.
Trivia
- In the first three panels, Nale only says twenty-three words before being cut off. This is because he started by saying "Hello, Roy." at the end of the previous comic.
- In Panel 3, Page 2, Nale only says twenty-four words before being cut off. Normally, he would be cut off after saying "before Tuesday." It is possible that Rich mistakenly counted 25 as two words, or that he counts "can't" as two (can not).
- Nale kidnapped Julia in #257.