Serini gave one to a badly wounded monster en route to the final dungeon to squeeze if Xykon came through again. The other peas in Serini’s possession would squeal out a warning letting them know that he’s on his way.
…If I’d known you were about to post that, I wouldn’t have just done an archive-dive, too.
No need to dive, just look it up in the wiki
No strip this morning means 21 strips this year, after 22 in 2023.
So, about the same pace.
1316 - Reflection of a Reflection
I really like this one. I especially like the riff on the garden of earthly delights.
I took too long to finish posting. 
You need to put more points in DEX.
You almost feel bad for Nale. Almost.
I definitely cheered when he got ashed. That bit when they had Nale tied up in Azure City and talked about how even if they killed him he’d just come back right away was freaky - it almost made Nale feel like an undefeatable Eldritch horror - and then (years later) that whole question is resolved so easily…
But now I almost feel bad for him.
Of course, he did butcher dozens of innocent people just to lure Elan in Cliffport, so fuck him.
What’s up with what appears to be a dance party inside a collosal wizard’s cavernous bum?
It’s a reference to Bosch’s Garden of Earthly Delights
Gotcha! I was thinking it might be a DND reference. That makes sense.
(Bosch’s creature looks more like a broken open egg than a cavernous bum. Thanks for that mental image, Rich! 
)
I just clipped that. Again, I am too slow. Anyway, I love that he referenced that.
It has legs. It’s a monstrous bum in the original, too.
Aww.
Also note the evil lava lamp, evil Newton’s Cradle, and D20 of doom.
Where is he? He was LE, wasn’t he? So the Nine Hells?
And who is being tortured? He seems to be doing okay.
I’m wondering about that thing on the roof of the temple. Seems like it’s under construction.
Perhaps it’s the artifact the IFCC mentioned in 1183
Well, he has Sabine to vouch for him. That probably helps.
Having a girlfriend on the facility staff grants you certain privileges, I guess. He’ll probably skip the Lemure stage and go right to Fiend.
Looks like a bed inside a cage with two people on the bed. And a long line of more people waiting their turn. Some kind of sexual torture, perhaps.
Some of the people impaled on the stalk look familiar. That may be just a function of the limited possibilities of stick figures, though.
Yeah, I wondered about Nale’s torture. Is sitting in a waiting room alone that severe a torture for him? Especially when they let someone else into the room?