The shrink item spell is easy to break. Just tap the item on a firm surface.
It’s the flesh-to-stone that’s the problem. How long does that last? Permanent until broken?
What happens if the flesh to stone is broken while he is still tiny? Does he remain as a tiny dinosaur? Would that wear off?
Yes. Duration is “Instantaneous” which means it’s an instant permanent change.
The issue with the Shrink duration isn’t ending it, it’s some hypothetical situation where the rest of the Order were all dead, Xykon & Co aren’t ending the world any longer and somehow Belkar gets stuck with a life-sized dinosaur statue before he can get Bloodfeast returned to flesh. It’s not a scenario likely to happen for a bunch of reasons.
(No, not a new comic, sorry to alarm anyone).
But it only just occurred to me that Serini probably has zero doses of the “herbal antidote”, and that’s why she doesn’t want to give it up. She only told Sunny that to overcome their reluctance to use their eye ray. If the rest of the Order hadn’t caught up to free Durkon, she’d have hidden away or smashed the statue, and told Sunny that he went away to a cave upstate to frolic and chase trees.
1311 - Take a Moment
I love the last panel!
There’s now been 5 strips about the problem of Bloodfeast and petrifying/shrinking him. And at least one more to go. That’s a lot, so somehow this is going to be real important. OK, it’s already important for emotional growth by Belkar (the saying goodbye thing), but it should be important for something beyond that.
Looks to me like we’re being prepared for Belkar’s death.
It would be unexpected if as soon as everyone else leaves the room, Bloodfeast eats Belkar and Mr Scruffy.
After all, he’s a lizard. He may not feel the emotional attachment Belkar feels towards him.
That would be an unanticipated fulfilling of the prophecy.
That would certainly be unexpected. Though Belkar probably has enough hp to carve himself out before actually dying. You need to use light piercing/slashing weapons (which he has) and do some fairly trivial amount of damage like 25hp worth to cut a hole. Allosaurus has some contradictory/homebrew stats online but Purple Worm is 25hp to cut free so it’s gotta be similar.
Not well done by Roy. He should have kept it more general, as in “Who knows for whom the bell tolls, that’s why WE ALL should always say nice things to our loved ones” or something like that. By singling out Belkar and Bloodfeast, there is a big chance that Belkar will misunderstand, think that he needs to protect Bloodfeast and run away with him.
No, I think Roy handled that the way it needed to be handled. If he had given a general speech on saying goodbyes, Belkar wouldn’t have picked up on the subtext that it was directed at him. Roy needed to tell Belkar directly.
Agreed. And it was nice to see Roy talking to Belkar from a stance of both leader and friend. Like he now sees Belkar as a member of the team, valued for more than his utility as a sexy shoeless god of war.
I also liked how Sunny doesn’t quite get the concept of a “blind spot.”
And he really does understand that Belkar is new to this whole “caring for others” thing, and that he needs it explained to him.
A bit of an inversion, this strip, leading off with the silly joke in the first panel, with the last panel being the Serious Business. And no, calling Scruffy a “murder kitty” doesn’t count as a joke.
Until the other shoe drops.
While I joked above about Belkar dying in the next strip, I feel very strongly this won’t happen yet. Because I feel very strongly that there will be a scene before Belkar’s death - the one where Belkar finds out that Roy and Haley have known about his impending death all this time and never told him.
Belkar will justifiably see this as a major betrayal. And Roy and Haley will also realize in retrospect that they were wrong and they should have told him. I expect his to be one of the big moments of the entire story.
Haley knows that? I vaguely recall that Roy was dead, so he wasn’t affected by the spell. But i am fuzzy on the details.
On a lighter note, I’m looking forward to seeing Belkar in the afterworld, and curious where he ends up.
I don’t know if she knows from that statement that Belkar will die in that time frame, though.
Ditto
How so?
Roy says that within seven weeks Belkar will meet “someone bony with a black robe and a big scythe”
Seems pretty clear to me.
Because you know what he is talking about.
Unless Roy told her about the prophecy off screen, that’s a pretty cryptic statement.