Shadow Play, Chapter 13

Chapter 1 - Chapter 2 - Chapter 3 - Chapter 4 - Chapter 5 - Chapter 6 - Chapter 7
Chapter 8 - Chapter 9 - Chapter 10 - Chapter 11 - Chapter 12 - Chapter 13

The next morning, much to Terra’s surprise, Zoltan elected to join them for breakfast in the cafeteria. Although once again they did not all fit into one lift, today he seemed in much better spirits about sharing a lift car with Terra and Hyren.

“Have you been practicing your summoning?” Zoltan asked the owner as the lift descended. “I vant to make sure you are vell-prepared vhen next you are asked to fight.”

Terra nodded. “Yeah, a little,” she said. “Sometimes I summon it just to make sure I still can.” She leaned away from Hyren and Zoltan, reached to her opposite side, and twitched her wrist slightly, as though she was loosening a blade from its sheath. In a flurry of magic, the sword appeared, and she grinned.

 

 I was listening to an episode of a paleontology podcast where one of the hosts said he wanted to see a reconstruction of a sauropod with a bullwhip of feathers at the end of its tail. I'm never one to turn down a wildly speculative reconstruction, so I went for it. 

 Come to think of it, isn't this sort of thing how Ash earned the majority of his Kanto Gym Badges? Kinda seems like cheating the system. No wonder he only placed in the top 16 in the Indigo Plateau Conference.

... Oh wait, this comic is about the video games.

 I, and many professional astronomers, are extremely tired of people blowing pareidolia out of proportion. Yes, sometimes things are almost sort of shaped like other things if you use your imagination. No, it's not aliens. It's never aliens. It's going to take a lot more than these sorts of shenanigans to convince me it's aliens.

... Now I'm hungry for poutine.

 I'm honestly not sure what's so scary about someone being able to see into your soul? Like... now they know your favorite color, I guess?

I had way too much fun with those little ghosties.

 If you average out the power of every Trainer the player character has encountered up to this point, this Medium probably has like level 20 Pokemon, tops.

Also, I just really enjoyed drawing the ghosty effects.

Shadow Play, Chapter 12

Chapter 1 - Chapter 2 - Chapter 3 - Chapter 4 - Chapter 5 - Chapter 6 - Chapter 7
Chapter 8 - Chapter 9 - Chapter 10 - Chapter 11 - Chapter 12 - Chapter 13

Once they cleaned up after dinner, Terra placed her new weapon on the living room table, and Hyren ducked into his room and brought out his sword-maintaining tools. They were tucked neatly away in a leather holder than he unrolled onto the floor, pulling out a metal mallet with a punch that unscrewed from the top.

Meanwhile, Zoltan held his paws over the sword, closing his eyes as the purple streaks on his fur and mane surged. “No curses or evil magic,” he reaffirmed. “It is bursting vith light magic, however. As for enchantments… zhere’s a strengthening enchantment to prevent zhe blade from breaking… and an ever-sharp enchantment.”

Hyren turned to face the blade, mallet in hand. “An ever-sharp enchantment?” he asked. “Only faeries know that one.”

“I thought you vere not one for magic,” Zoltan said. “How do you know zhat?”

“Not most magic,” Hyren said. “But magic relating to weapons? Let’s just say I research weapons a lot. All righty, let’s see how well-made this blade is…” He moved aside some of the leather binding on the grip to reveal a metal peg that ran through the hilt. Flipping the sword over, he found the smaller side of the peg, and he carefully used the punch and mallet to work the peg out.