The Tinkertown authorities enter the fray, with unhelpful results.
Cast
- Haley Starshine ◀ ▶
- Bandana Secundus ◀ ▶
- Crystal (as golem) ◀ ▶
- DGS Aide-de-camp ▶
- DGS Commander ▶
- DGS Gunner ▶
- DGS Shooter ▶
- Three Operatives of the Department of Gnomeland Security
Transcript
- Panel 1
Bandana: This Hit ‘n’ Run stuff is a leg up on the old Run ‘n’ Run we were doing, but I think she’s still giving better than she’s getting.
Haley: OK, new plan. She’s just after me, right? I keep her busy, you go get help.
- Panel 2
Bandana: Heck no, I ain’t leaving you alone!
Bandana: Besides, it seems like help went and got itself. Look!
- Panel 3
Several gnomes arrive with a wheeled contraption, "CHUGGA CHUGGA CHUGGA CHUGGA"
DGS Commander: This is the Department of Gnomeland Security!
DGS Commander: Drop your weapons and put your hands behind your heads!
- Panel 4
Bandana: See? We got the cavalry right—HEY!!
- Panel 5
Crystal: GO AWAY
Crystal hurls Bandana into the DGS tank, "THUNK!"
- Panel 6
DGS Commander: Right, then. Knock her hat off, squad!
DGS Aide-de-camp: Sir, she does not appear to actually be wearing a—
DGS Commander: Can we please just shoot her?
- Panel 7
The DGS Gunner charges his ray gun, "ZZZZZZZZZZZZZ"
- Panel 8
And fires, "ZZAP!!"
- Panel 9
DGS Aide-de-camp: No! Use the harpoons, not the lightning gun! You’re just going to charge her—
- Panel 10
Crystal, pumped with electricity, charges at twice the speed.
DGS Aide-de-camp: —up.
D&D Context
- Flesh Golems in D&D, perhaps as a nod to Frankenstein's Monster which was brought to life with electricity, are not only immune to electrical attacks, but they actually heal the monster, potentially even raising them above their normal maximum hit points. Normally, an electrical attack on a flesh golem also cancels out any slowing effect inflicted onto it (for instance, attacking a flesh golem with fire slows it down), but Crystal appears to take it a step further and end up under a Haste effect, vastly increasing her movement speed and giving her an additional attack.
Trivia
- This is the first appearance of the Department of Gnomeland Security: DGS Commander, DGS Aide-de-camp, DGS Gunner, and DGS Shooter.
- The Department of Gnomeland Security is a pun on the United States Department of Homeland Security.
- The interaction between golems and electricity was previously brought up in #578.