oots


The pieces fall into place for "Durkon" as the elven pilgrim agrees to take them to the location of the Godsmoot.

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Panel 1, Page 1

Roy: So, we were hoping to find someone who could—whoa!
Veldrina: Oh, don’t mind the tiger. Little Whiskers wouldn’t hurt a fly.
Wrecan: On the plus side, that was more Giant Monstrous Fly experience points for the rest of us.

Panel 2, Page 1

Roy: Uh, right. At any rate, we were looking for someone who could restore Durkon to life.
Veldrina: Oooo! That would be experimentally intriguing.
Veldrina: Would that even work with a Raise Dead spell? No, I think it would need to be Resurrection, due to the negative particle wave interference.

Panel 3, Page 1

Wrecan: And you…You actually want to be alive again?
"Durkon": Och, aye. All I want is ta better serve me friends as healer.

Panel 4, Page 1

Inside Durkon's head
"Durkon": And if the elf is capable of doing it, I’ll have to murder everyone in this room. Even worse, I’ll have to come up with a new plan.

Panel 5, Page 1

In the room
Veldrina: While I’m sure it would yield illuminating empirical data, I’m afraid I don’t actually know the Resurrection spell yet.
Roy: Oh. You’re not powerful enough to cast 7th-level spells, either?
Veldrina: No, I am.

Panel 6, Page 1

Veldrina: But I’m not what you would really call a “temple-certified” healer.
Veldrina: I’m not actually a cleric, I’m the favored soul of my (really minor) elven goddess.
Veldrina: It’s kind of complex, but the bottom line is that I haven’t yet mastered every cleric spell.

Panel 7, Page 1

Veldrina: I have what would best be described as an idiosyncratic approach to magic.
Wrecan: Also known as, “Feign it ‘til they ordain it.”

Panel 8, Page 1

Veldrina: Hey, I’m just as good as those stuffy hierarchal frumps!
Veldrina: They wouldn’t have picked me to represent the combined Western and elven pantheons if I wasn’t!
Wrecan: Secret mission, Vel. Remember? Secret!

Panel 9, Page 1

Roy: Represent? That would have to something to do with a whole bunch of clerics taking a trip to the Pinnacle Mountains, right?
Veldrina: Oh, see? He’s already in the loop. Told you he seemed nice.
Wrecan: I guess…

Panel 10, Page 1

Veldrina: I can’t figure out why the Clerics of the Northern Gods called their Godsmoot with just three days’ notice, though. The winter solstice is tomorrow!!
Wrecan: We’d already be there if ship we chartered hadn’t balked at her bringing a tiger.

Panel 11, Page 1

Veldrina: Can you believe I threw 5000 bucks down the drain just to get stuck here?!?
Wrecan: And it felt like it took two or three years to get this far!

Panel 1, Page 2

Veldrina: That’s money I could have spent on a new broach. Or maybe a nice cameo.
Wrecan: …and then we spent all day combing through Tinkertown’s magic shops for a single-use item that could get us there—
Wrecan: —but some other elf beat us to the only teleport orb we could find.

Panel 2, Page 2

Flashback to a magic store in Tinkertown. The sign on the window reads, "MAGIC"
Roy (inset): Another elf? With red robes and a pet raven?
Wrecan (inset): Yeah, that’s the one.
Veldrina: Hey, we need that for an important mission!
Vaarsuvius: I believe I am experiencing what is commonly referred to as dejá vu.
Blackwing: Darn, I left my sombrero on the ship.

Panel 3, Page 2

Wrecan: We were able to find a Wind Walk scroll though, so we’ll try that after Veldrina has tranced.
Wrecan: Though I think even that spell’s top speed won’t get us there before the moot starts.
"Durkon": Roy, if we—
Roy: Yeah, I’m already there.
Roy: I’ve got good news for you two. That elf works for me.

Panel 4, Page 2

Wrecan: Oh, I get it. You want to trade the orb for the spell you need.
Veldrina: But I can’t cast that spell!
Roy: No, that’s not what I’m proposing.

Panel 5, Page 2

Roy: My wizard was right, we need that teleport orb. But what we have that you don’t is an airship.
Roy: If you know where this meeting is, we can get you there on time.
Roy: Right in the nick of time, if the ship’s owner is to believed.

Panel 6, Page 2

Veldrina: You would do that for us?
Wrecan: I don’t understand. What’s in it for you?
Roy: A room full of clerics we wouldn’t be able to find otherwise.
Roy: At least one of them should be able to restore Durkon, right?

Panel 7, Page 2

Inside Durkon's head
Durkon: Tha’s wha ye were after all along, weren’t it? Tha location o’ tha Godsmoot.
"Durkon": Oh, no. I already knew that. Zenith Peak, about 830 miles northeast from here.

Panel 8, Page 2

Durkon: But—then—Why go thru all this trouble ta find out?!?
"Durkon": What was I supposed to do?

Panel 9, Page 2

"Durkon": Walk up to Roy an ask him to take me to a secret meeting that poor dead Durkon would have no way of knowing was happening at all, much less knowing where?
"Durkon": I assure you that your friend would not bring me there if he knew who I was or what my mistress was planning.

Panel 10, Page 2

Durkon: Ye let Roy learn aboot it on ‘is own so ‘e wouldnae think twice aboot going.
"Durkon": Uh, I’m a vampire. Letting something appear organic when it’s really a cruel unnatural charade is kinda my whole thing.

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