OotS has SO much text per strip, I could really do a lot with that kind of real estate.
It is an artifact, the "Forgeringer".
Some artifacts might be powerful enough to have function inside anti-magic fields... although the Forgeringer has never displayed that kind of power. More problematic though, it'd be kind of difficult to use a hammer in the middle of a poker match undetected.
Exposition's really difficult in comic format. People don't really want to read a full page of text when they're reading comics, so you got to find some ways to at least give it some visual flair...
Faelys has negative tact.
Bonus Konsi, as usual
Since some people's clients can't properly display tall images, here's the comic split in two for readability.
If that is ALSO not helpful to you, I recommend looking at it on my site
Sorry it's been so long, I've been rather busy and have had less time to draw (I'm planning/prepping a wedding.) - I hope to get back on the wagon again though.
Anyway, here's a bonus Konsi.
Did someone say "Bonus Konsi"?
Aw man, imagine using technology to reduce the amount of time people had to spend working, rather than making rich people more money... what a crazy world.
The number of posts on lemmy has almost exactly doubled since I started posting this comic series.
I don't know what that signifies.
You'd probably be able to do that and win the match, but, well, there's a few problems...
First of all, Addis is a Tymoran priestess with level 5 spells, so she'd be pretty difficult to take down quickly unless you were serious adventurers. Chances of pulling it off without a hitch are non-zero. We don't know for sure what is and is not on Addis' spell list, but if we imagine it's similar to Konsi's list well... Konsi always has Dimension Door prepared, grabbing her would be very difficult.
Secondly, this is Konsi's boss, you might win the match by default, but the repercussions within the temple would be much worse.
Third, Konsi would never approve of kidnapping anyone who wasn't evil... She's too much of a good bean.
Probably the biggest problem is that the entire point of this match is to have Konsi play a high-stakes poker match under scrutiny, to prove that she legitimately has skill at the game, and doesn't cheat. They're staging this whole thing to head off accusations of foul play... Kidnapping your opponent and winning by default doesn't exactly solve the problem!