Haley and Bandana escape, but Crystal gives them a reason to reconsider.
Cast
- Haley Starshine ◀ ▶
- Bandana Secundus ◀ ▶
- Crystal (as golem) ◀ ▶
- Sir François ◀
- François's Companions
- Four Gnomes
- Four Orcs
Transcript
- Panel 1
Bandana: We can’t keep running away forever, Haley!
Haley: Not a problem, I just needed to gain some distance first.
- Panel 2
Haley zaps herself with a wand.
Haley: Not all of my new wands are for zapping other people.
- Panel 3
Haley: Up, up, and away!
Crystal: NO NO NO
Bandana: Hell yeah!
- Panel 4
Crystal: COME BACK
Crystal: STARSHINE
- Panel 5
Haley: Now we can circle back to the airship and maybe find a way to—
- Panel 6
Crystal: COME BACK
Crystal hits a gnome, "CRACK!", killing him.
- Panel 7
Bandana & Haley: AAAHHH!
- Panel 8
Crystal: COME BACK
Crystal kills another gnome, "CRUNCH!"
- Panel 9
Bandana: This is much worse!!
Haley: I’m taking us down.
- Panel 10
Bandana: Hey, ugly! We’re over here!
Haley: Come catch me if you can, Crystal!
- Panel 11
Bandana: I can’t believe a golem outsmarted us into coming back down to earth.
Haley: No, see, we tricked her into suspending her gnome murder rampage.
Haley: It’s an old dungeoneering trick called “reframing the narrative.”
- Panel 12
Cut to Sir François with his party standing over some dead orcs.
Adventurer: Hey, they attacked us first!
Sir François: Because you were committing a home invasion.
Adventurer: Which would never have happened if they hadn’t chosen to live in such an obviously cool adventure location.
D&D Context
- Haley's wand casts the Fly spell, a 3rd level spell.
Trivia
- This is the third and final appearance of Sir François thus far. Sir François is a paladin for whom Elan served as Herald. He first appeared in #415, though he is referenced by Elan earlier in #141 and #311. There's more of him in On the Origin of PCs.
- The two adventurers with Sir François also appear in Gygax Magazine #2, a continuation of the Dragon magazine continuity of Order of the Stick. This is their only appearance in the main comic continuity.