8 years of our time, or in-strip time? Because 8 years of “reader time” might actually not be enough to cover the whole adventure.
Dxyye Mwp Ewxk, everybody.
From here. Dxyye Mwp Ewxk, Peter.
(Amazing that we’ve been fighting Serini since last March)
I haven’t been able to do this in years!
New one: Bite Sized
https://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots1251.html
Oh, don’t exaggerate. It hasn’t been that long since the last update!
Hiding some dialog.
“Sharks don’t have fire or acid.”
“You’d be surprised.”
Leather-toed hill dingus? Pretty sure that’s not in the Monster Manual.
I assume that is halfling for “white trash redneck”
Well, I guess we can stop worrying about that amnesia potion. Funny that it’s not all over the floor, but I didn’t see any.
For the record, my DM once ruled that digestive juices count as acid, which was useful when I fed a troll to a kraken.
When playing Nethack, the player eating a troll is one way to prevent it regenerating (although it can regenerate in the middle of your snack).
I thought acid damage was a pretty standard followup to a Swallow attack. Maybe celestial sharks are full of Holy Water or somethin’.
Not that it matter besides the joke; Serini ain’t gonna notice two rounds of d8 acid damage.
“One wonders why our party ranger did not try to deploy his own [ferocious beast].”
“Shut up!”
Last we saw of Bloodfeast, he was biting a cat’s tail. I wonder whatever became of him. I imagine that we will find out next time.
This strip is leaning into “halfling togetherness”. I’m curious if that will go anywhere.
I think it’s just being played for laughs.
This approach shouldn’t really work anyway. Why would a murder hobo like Belkar be satisfied with “wetting his beak” when he can just kill you and loot everything you have.
Golden goose, and all that? Although Belkar strikes me as the type who’d grasp an immediate gain over future income.
I was thinking it might go the other way. Maybe Belkar will be the one she listens to.
In the sense discussed here, Bloodfeast isn’t the “ranger’s ferocious beast”; the cat is. Scruffy is Belkar’s animal companion, to whom he has a special bond, and who has statistics considerably higher than one would expect for a creature of its type. An animal companion is comparable to a paladin’s mount. Bloodfeast is just a random animal who happens to have taken a liking to Belkar, mostly because Belkar feeds him well, but the two of them don’t have any particular special bond.
Instead of the usual “shoulder angel and shoulder demon”, Belkar just has two shoulder demons, one advocating for short-term gain at the expense of others, the other for long-term gain at the expense of others. And the one time we saw him choosing between the two, he chose the long-term.
Sure they do. Belkar freed Bloodfeast from his cage in the arena, then rescued him from life as a battle mount. Bloodfeast remembers.