And by long and difficult, you mean non-permanent, right?
The ironic thing is that if V is still carrying around those Energy Drain negative levels, he stands a good chance of actually losing his worked-for skills.
(The other ironic thing is that if V had taken Limited Wish, he could have used it to cast Restoration or Death Ward himself. He’s not affected by the non-compete divine magic emulation clause, after all.)
This encounter was a lot like Miko’s run-in with the party. But for an externality (the weather, V’s sudden inability to use his own magic effectively), the fight would have gone much differently.
Xykon managing to cast Superb Dispelling and drop a rock on V in the same round didn’t help, either.
Huh. I think the last panel shows that Xykon has no idea what the CitD is capable of, or even what he is. The fact that he doesn’t even *suspect *that he had anything to do with V and O-Chul’s escape proves that.
I think “forgiveness” is Xykon’s dump stat. Red Cloak is going to have to get used monocular vision.
The mood Xykon’s in, I’m surprised there aren’t a lot more dead hobgoblins around.
Given that Haley and Belkar abandoned Mr. Stiffly to nine months of creative torture, one would have to think that any reunion is going to have to be awkward…
Does anyone else think that with most of the city’s garrison trudging through the sewers, the oppressed humans of Azure City will finally have their opportunity to throw off their shackles?
It’ll be easier to do it once Xykon and Red Cloak are gone. Myself, I wouldn’t be stirring up anything with a really hacked off Lich in the neighborhood.
The moment Xykon has his phylactry in his hand he’ll teleport out of there (with Redcloak in tow), rebellion or no rebellion, as a matter of principle. He might even help the rebels out of spite.
I don’t think things are going to be that simple for Xykon. Of course that’s mainly due to the fact that the strip needed some kind of win against him and just finding his phylanctery after hunting for it for a few hours would make what was achieved meaningless.
And Xykon dismisses the “destroy self and regen with it” plan too easily. A sea monster wouldn’t be able to digest it and as noted here he can just wait it out. I can understand that he wouldn’t want to do it given his impatience rant in this strip but the option should still be on the table.