Neither does Bloodfeast. “Eight creatures” presumably includes the six humanoid members of the Order, plus Blackwing and Mr. Scruffy. I’m surprised Blackwing didn’t mention it, given how much he admires his strong theropod role model. Unless he assumed that it was the cat who was getting left out?
What if you have a lizard in your backpack? Would it come along for the ride if you were teleported?
Maybe Blackwing goes along as a freebie since he’s V’s familiar?
Hey, if he’s going to get roped into V’s soulspicing deal as a conjoined spirit, he may as well get some benefits out of it as well.
He does - Familiars have the “Share Spell” ability that does exactly that.
I didn’t want to revive the thread and give the false impression of a new strip. But as long as there is a new strip and the thread’s revived anyway, I’ve been wondering about a dangling plot line. What’s Sabine doing?
Her twenty-four hours of off-world exile must be completed by now. So she’s free to come back and seek revenge for Nale’s murder. If she went directly after Tarquin, the first two spots she would have looked for him would have been Bleedingham and Girard’s Gate. But the last time we saw Tarquin he had been dropped in the desert.
If Sabine can’t find Tarquin, she’ll be looking for new allies. And with Nale dead, the three fiends will want a new group to manipulate in their quest for the Gates.
We know the location of one powerful evil group seeking out the Gates. So Sabine might have headed off to Kraagor’s Gate to join up with Xykon and Redcloak.
Laurin teleported Tarquin back to his palace. She mentions it to Miron when he asks how she got Tarquin to agree to giving her the rift – she called in the favor while he was still stranded in the desert.
Back on his home turf, he’s not in danger from a single succubus and Sabine has to know that.
Good point. So Tarquin is back in Bleedingham. And Sabine wants to kill him but, as you note, he’s too powerful in his home base for her to just attack him directly.
I was rereading some strips because of this and something occurred to me. There is a group being formed to overthrow Tarquin. Its leader is apparently Amun-Zora.
But is it really Amun-Zora? Or is it Sabine shape-shifted to look like Amun-Zora?
I can keep coming up with new theories as fast as people knock them down.
That strip apparently took place on the same (very very long) day that Sabine was banished. So no, it’s not Sabine. Or at least it isn’t in that strip.
I would, in fact, revise my statement to say that under any half-normal circumstances Tarquin would wipe the floor with Sabine no matter where they fought. After all, Roy easily bested her while rescuing his sister (although he intentionally waited for her beneficial spells to expire) and Tarquin is a better fighter than Roy.
Plot being what it is, you could create a circumstance where, say, you drop an arena on a half-orc in a basement despite him being stronger and tougher than you but by the numbers Tarquin has little to fear from Sabine.
Was it just me, or did V’s comment seem out of character? S/he has been developing to give respect to his/her peers, but the line in the comic wasn’t so much snarky as just mean spirited.
I think it’s a sign V still has a way to go on social graces. He’s advanced enough that he’s willing to acknowledge Blackwing’s help. But he hasn’t advanced enough to tell polite lies. If he finds Blackwing’s behavior annoying, he says so. V’s still a work in progress on balancing honesty with good manners.
I read it as a particularly dry joke.
I think you’re right. V tells the joke, pregnant pause as they both wait for a reaction from Blackwing, then Blackwing is all “shiny!” and V sighs.
V seems pretty calm about gaining that Ioun Stone. That’s a pretty sweet piece of loot!
E’s a 16th-level adventurer. E’s probably pretty used to scoring sweet pieces of loot, by now.
Eh, it’s no Greater Quicken Rod.
Bourgeois, me ? 
Did they change how ioun stones work? I was always under the impression that if they weren’t floating around you (as in under their own power), you didn’t get the benefits.
The comic doesn’t always obey D&D rules. Rule of funny trumps game rules.
On this particular occasion, this particular artificier was able to transmogrify this particular stone without losing the benefits.
does it matter if that’s in the rules or not?
I’m not super knowledgeable about 3.5e, but in Pathfinder at least there are ways to “socket” them into a few items (the most notable of which is the Wayfinder), in which case the item itself is boosted a bit while the ioun stone still gives it goodies.