Elan uses his bard song to help Vaarsuvius concentrate.
Cast
- Roy Greenhilt ◀ ▶
- Elan ◀ ▶
- Belkar Bitterleaf ◀ ▶
- Vaarsuvius ◀ ▶
- Six Goblins
Transcript
- Panel 1
Roy: Aw crap! Vaarsuvius, you're surrounded!
Goblin (with Belkar on his back): Get it off! Get it off!
Vaarsuvius: No troubles, Sir Greenhilt!
- Panel 2
Vaarsuvius: Though it take great concentration, I shall cast my deadly spell defensively, thus denying these miscreants the opportunity for attack.
- Panel 3
Elan: I'll use my bard song to help you concentrate!
- Panel 4
Elan (singing): ♪♪Concentrate, concentrate, concentrate, concentrate, on your spell!♪
- Panel 5
Elan (singing): ♪Concentrate! (Concentrate!) Concentrate! (Concentrate!)♪
- Panel 6
Elan (singing): ♪Connnnn-centrate good times, c'mon!♪♪
- Panel 7
Elan (singing): ♪♪We will, we will Con-cen-trate!♪
- Panel 8
Elan (singing): ♪♪Concentrate! Concentrate! Concentrate! Concentrate! Concentrate! Concentrate! Concentrate! Concentrate! Concentrate! Concentrate! Concentrate! Concentrate! Concentrate! Concentrate! Concentrate! Concentrate! Concentrate! Concentrate! Concentrate! Concentrate! Concentrate! Concentrate! Concentrate! Concentrate! Concentrate! Concentrate! Concentrate! Concentrate! Concentrate! Concentrate! Concentrate! Concentrate! Concentrate! Concentrate! Concentrate! Concentrate! Concentrate! Concentrate! Concentrate!♪
- Panel 9
Vaarsuvius: CONE OF COLD!
The cone catches Elan and 3 goblins in the area of effect
- Panel 10
Elan and a goblin are frozen in individual blocks of ice.
Belkar: Sweet spell V! You froze 'em all!
Roy: Too bad you froze Elan by accident.
Vaarsuvius: Accident... yes. Of course. By accident.
D&D Context
- Casting a spell while an enemy is in melee range will allow your enemy to get an attack in on you (in what is known as an Attack of Opportunity or "AoO"). Spellcasters can prevent enemies from attacking them by casting defensively, which requires a successful Concentration check.
- Cone of Cold is 5th level spell that does 1d6/level damage in a cone area of effect. It does not actually have the capacity to freeze enemies in blocks of ice. Haley Starshine’s +5 Icy Burst longbow, first shown in strip #615, has a similar effect and also would not typically have that power by D&D 3.5e rules, suggesting an artistic interpretation of these magical effects by Rich Burlew.
Trivia
- Elan's song in panel 6 is a parody of the song Celebration by Kool & the Gang
- Elan's song in panel 7 is a parody of the song We Will Rock You by Queen
- The first panel is reminiscent of the first panels of #1 and #34