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Thank you for the support! You guys are awesome!

Oh sheeeeit, haven't seen her in a while!

Okay, some (most) of you are probably all, "Um... who is that?" It's Sciona, who is possessing Escorpia's murdered body. (She got better.) Of course, no one in the room knows this. She's obviously been busy since she, I don't know, took over some nowhere town in Mexico? Or just stuck all her disembodied pals in a bindle and marched across the border. Woe to the ICE unit that tried to detain her.

I bet you guys thought this page would be Maxima, Dabbler and Halo on an alien magic heavy planet kicking the shit out of a dracolich or something, but no! Get ready for some hot and heavy budget meeting action!

See, Maxima wants her own private dungeon. Like having a garden in your own backyard. Why buy groceries like a sucker when you can have fresh tomatoes four months out of the year assuming the rabbits don't get 'em first?

Can you imagine the dungeon farming industry in an industrialized, capitalist society? You could go into the grocery store and just pick up a bag of dragon scales, and of course there'd be "imitation dragon scales" which are really salamander scales but they work the same in about 15% of alchemical solutions so the FD&DA allows it. Then there'd be a call for "free range" alchemical ingredients, but of course no one wants rust monsters in their neighborhood so all the dungeon farms have to be out in the middle of nowhere in case some of them escape. And then there'd be stuff like "organic eye of newt" that costs 2.5 times as much even though it's the same thing because how could you have inorganic eye of newt, but some people will pay extra to feel good about themselves by getting shafted by "Ma and Pa Farms" which are owned by Colosso Corpo Farm.

Oh, and feel free to ignore any inconsistencies in Ingsol's accent. My initial strategy with him was to transpose all his "V's" and "W's" but that doesn't always make for super legible dialog. Plus, neither of those are the most common letters, so when reading his lines, remember that his actual accent is Chekov looking for nuclear wessels meets The Count from Sesame Street. Aah-ah-ah!

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Ampws

Considering how old Ingersol is I suspect his accent is something he uses to put people off there game. I suspect he can speak perfectly in whatever language he chooses, but likes to throw people off occasionally. I have a scot friend who speaks perfectly but who will sometimes thow in an odd gaelic word or two just to throw you off.

Bharda Sullivan

…interesting tattoo. And red clothing. *thirty years of Forgotten Realms ttrpg experience tingles*

Fogel

You just know that PETA will try to free the farmed Rust Monsters

Andrew Denton

Aw, but rust monsters are adorable! And, in the age of plastic, remarkably easy to keep.

Vernon E. Parker III

With regard to his accent, why not just write what he is saying as normal. We all know he has an accent and trying to decipher how it’s written is, not fun.

LucasTheLost

Different fonts for different accents? Not so sustainable in a hand-lettered comic.

Anton Schleef

Ummmmm.......that's why you have a green house. Grow the tomatoes in there and the rabbits can't get to them and you can enjoy fresh, vine-ripened tomatoes all year long no matter where you live. Oh, and the "organic" eye of newt means that it was raised with only the best (and usually most expensive) of organic feed and with as little antibiotics and other medicines as they can get away with. It actually costs about twice as much to raise "organic" newt for the "organic" eye of newt and you get fewer newts per acre of land utilized, so it costing 2.5 times as much as the "regular" eye of newt is actually barely enough to have a comparable overall income to just raising "regular" newts. My younger brother has been looking into the possibility of transitioning the family farm into an "organic" farm and he's discussed more than a little of the process and requirements with me.

Tim Malmström

*looks up 'encephalitic'* ... Oh EEW!

AlpineBob

Huh. If I were her, I'd have let my hair grow out to have less of an identifying mark. Not that most/any of the people here would have heard of Escorpia, let alone know of her tattoo, but some of the MU's might well have done some traveling (lookin' for potion ingredients or artifacts or whatever), and so it ever so slightly possible that someone *might* notice said tattoo and actually realize its significance. Like, maybe the same odds as being struck by lightning, so she's safe enough, I suppose... Then again, a walking dead body...that is something many of the attendees might notice - "something about her doesn't smell right..." And how in the world has she achieved sufficient clearance to be at this classified meeting? Oh, yeah, magic influence. I wonder if anyone will notice traces of that... What sensors does Dabbler's bionic eye have again?

eddi_TBH

A dragon cow, or a cowed dragon. At least one who values their teeth.

Ron Jarrell

Organic newts are fed only the finest druid-made newt food, and you harvest 2 eyes each. Non-organic newts are fed radioactive waste which causes the eyes to grow back about a dozen times but does lead to some occasional teensy weensy effects on your potions from the extra heavy metals. Hardly ever causes the abyssal door to collapse into a black hole. Not since that wizard in tunguska anyway.

Spike

Now, dragons are usually portrayed as sentient, and Maxima is reasoning with that one verbally....so she's proposing the government imprison sentient creatures so she can forcibly harvest organic materials from them? Whether or not that's something our government would definitely do in real life, that seems problematic.