Durkon wanders off from the party and approaches Redcloak.
Cast
Transcript
- Panel 1
Elan: Then he told me I had to go, and that took another twenty-five minutes.
Roy: I'm going to say that finding a piece from an Azurite board game at the North Pole is about as conclusive as we're going to get.
Roy: They were definitely here on this ledge at some point.
- Panel 2
Roy: Now we just need to figure out where they went.
Haley: Well…they can't fly, I don't think.
Roy: Good thinking.
- Panel 3
Roy: Belkar, can you check out the cliff face and see if there's any signs of climbing?
Belkar: Yeah, sure. Ears, give me a lift.
- Panel 4
Belkar: Yeah, I got relatively fresh signs here. Little bits of rock crumbled and stuff.
Roy: That doesn't tell us too much, because they would have climbed down to this ledge in the first place. Try below.
- Panel 5
Belkar: …No. Nothing. Zip.
Belkar: This rock face is as untouched as a naga's toenail clippers.
- Panel 6
Haley: See, this is progress! If they left under their own power, then they went up.
Roy: But they still might've been captured and flown out of here.
Haley: Right.
- Panel 7
Roy: Although…we should consider that there could be another way off this ledge.
Roy: Maybe try checking the rock face for secret doors?
Haley: Got it!
- Panel 8
Roy: Durkon, try casting True Seeing.
Roy: Maybe there's a passage that's being hidden by…uh…hidden by…
Roy: …Um.
- Panel 9
Roy: Has anyone…
Roy: …seen Durkon?
- Panel 10
Cut to the bugbear village, where Redcloak and a bugbear appear to be exchanging a scroll, with Durkon on the right.
Durkon: Hullo.
D&D Context
- A naga is a magical snake creature with the head of a human. As such, they have no feet, and so therefore require no toenail clippers.
- True Seeing is a spell which lets the target see through any magical effects such as polymorph, invisibility, normal and magical darkness, blur and displacement effects or help the subject find secret doors concealed by magic. However, it is ineffective against nonmagical disguises, hiding creatures or secret doors hidden by nonmagical means.
Trivia
- The title refers to #75, where the Order discovered that Durkon had been missing for some time without them noticing, and #732, where Durkon once again found himself left behind by his party members and shouted, "Och, not AGAIN!"
- In #1200, Roy instructed Durkon not to contact Redcloak through Sending. Durkon has opted to meet in person.
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