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I imagine Durkon's entrance was like this in the comic.

And "wanna" -- Yeah, I counted, too

New strip and you've never seen Durkon looking so cute.

Considering how much time was spent on this gate (not even counting injury time out), I'm not sure how soon "soon" is. I wouldn't necessarily assume it's going to be that straightforward. I suppose it depends on what he actually wants to do with the whole "world in the rift" thing.

I've also noticed that the output has dropped down to just one comic a week for the last several weeks. For a while there, we were getting two a week (and occasionally even three). Not sure what to read into that, if anything though. Could just be that the holiday season is busy, so less comics. Or could be "we're getting near the end, so pace them out a bit". Dunno.

The Star Wars reference was cute.

I just chalk the slow down to the holidays.

Halley's Short Sword/Long Dagger is just lying on the deck of the ship right now.

Based on the positioning in the earlier panels both weapons should be off screen between the top of Haley's head and the Raven who's name I currently forget.

Sometimes, it can be amazing just how much a low level spell can do. I'm suspecting it's more likely to be a case of clever use of game mechanics than a sadder repeat of the cleric fight several hundred comics ago, assuming V truly learned the lesson from the fight with Xykon a ways back.

Probably at least some bluff. V should be around 13th level (she/it used prismatic spray, which is a 7th level spell). That means V has somewhere around 26 base spells, plus maybe another 4 or 5 bonus spells. V also gained a ring of wizardry along the way, which doubles one spell levels worth of spells (so call that another 4). Still, barring having multiple rings of wizardry or some other means of enhancing her spell totals, she shouldn't be much above maybe mid 30s in terms of total spells per day. Given how many she had cast up to that point, she maybe had a handful left. How many of those were combat useful? Who knows?

V may also either be higher level than some have suggested *or* she/he/it has some other magic item/ability that grants additional higher level spells. For example, in just the fight against Tarquin and his buddies, V has used 3 7th level spells (that I'm sure of): Prismatic Spray, Force Cage, and Grasping Hand. Unless V has a ridiculously high int score (which I'm assuming is not the case), this would normally require being 16th level. So something is granting V additional high level spells.

She defeeted the villain ah ah ah.

Darn. I was kinda hoping that they would confirm that it was an orange prism ioun stone that V's familiar stole. But that was a pretty entertaining ending for Tarquin.

I'm pretty sure the Giant said that it's not THE end of the book, but near it.

Just to rub it in Tarquin's face even more.

That's just as well, you've been arguing with gbaji - not solidly, obviously, more of a hundred years' war style affair - for as long as most of the posters there have been alive.