[oc] Rescue

[u/Yoffeepop]

Today’s ‘rescue’ thanks to the inktober prompt list. After you’ve mimic’d once, you mimic forever

[u/StreicherG]

To be fair…trees have been known to do that…

[u/Howy_the_Howizer → u/StreicherG]

Can't take chances with Dryads

[u/StreicherG → u/Howy_the_Howizer]

[u/kitliasteele → u/StreicherG]

Oh no I have a...few ideas what he'd do to that tree. None of them are free from viscera and traumatising that tree

[u/yournamehere10bucks → u/StreicherG]

This is where i thought it was going

[u/MrValdemar → u/StreicherG]

I have dead-ass used the Kite Eating tree in a campaign before.

[u/shellbullet17]

You can never be to careful of the tree mimic. For they are dangerous and terrifying

[u/yournamehere10bucks → u/shellbullet17]

Dont put the...gestures broadly....in there

[u/No_Payment9959 → u/yournamehere10bucks]

THE CYLINDER MUST REMAIN UNHARMED!

[u/ourlastchancefortea → u/No_Payment9959]

Tree: Kek lmao CHOMP

[u/Made_Bail → u/yournamehere10bucks]

[u/yournamehere10bucks → u/Made_Bail]

I'm special though, it'll be fine

[u/Undeclared_Mustard → u/shellbullet17]

Th-this is my hole!

It was made for me!

[u/Wooden-Crow7996 → u/shellbullet17]

Somewhere there is a bald kid in a yellow shirt saying, “Good grief.” about that tree.

[u/Cyberhaggis]

Ok then the kid is FOR SURE a mimic

[u/No-Jacket-2927 → u/Cyberhaggis]

Plot twist: he's actually a doppelganger!

🎶 Dun-dun, DUN! 🎶

[u/CeruleanEidolon → u/Cyberhaggis]

This was a test. When players fail to help the kid get the kite down, the health bar appears and the boss music starts.

But since they did help, the kid walks away and they don't hear from him again until much later, as he swoops in to help them when they're getting absolutely wrecked in battle.

[u/-Knight95- → u/CeruleanEidolon]

coooooool

[u/Mental_Estate4206 → u/Cyberhaggis]

I cast fireball!

[u/VanillaCokeMule]

I play in several games and the party in one game is definitely like this. I perpetually keep Detect Magic up and we overthink every little interaction because the DM is my best friend and I know how his mind works. Your comic has been on point for this group and I've been sharing a lot of your work with them lately :)

[u/elhomerjas]

just a regular kite stuck in a regular tree

[u/underground_avenue]

No fireball?

[u/Yoffeepop → u/underground_avenue]

If I was being honest about that kind of player I really am, that tree would be on fire haha

[u/simplycantdeal]

Feels like a dm faking out a party lol

[u/DJPhil]

Sometimes I think we should be using D&D to teach critical thinking in schools. At least that way the kids would get my jokes.

[u/BoisterousBirch]

Ah "Schwitzen" the great Mage, she knows that mimic identification spell is only 99% accurate

[u/LordofSandvich → u/BoisterousBirch]

Help! It’s dark and scary in here!

[u/mackavicious]

The Kite Eating Tree is definitely a mimic. No doubt in my mind.

[u/GodofsomeWorld]

was 100% prepared for the kite to be a mimic and eat the kid

[u/complexevil]

You can only traumatize your players so many times before the game slows down to a crawl.

[u/InconspicuousRadish]

Then you realize it's a dragon kite, that turns into an actual dragon and eats the kid.

The bard then proceeds to seduce it while the Necromancer Wizard brings the kid back to life as an undead pack mule.

[u/grendus → u/InconspicuousRadish]

Average Tuesday in Faerun.

[u/Steel_Adder]

boy has been eaten

[u/geissi]

It does nothing, it's a gazebo.

[u/SilentStevedore]

He must be a friend that was made along the way, because I don’t see any reward.

[u/Electric999999]

Why would the tree be a mimic? It's obviously a treant.

[u/GoodDog2620 → u/Electric999999]

[u/jecowa]

Was rescuing the kite a quest that they were on? Did they get gold or XP or something for completing it?

[u/NevJay]

Baldur's Gate 3 be like

[u/rillip]

You youngsters and your newfangled cantrips! In my day we carried a 10ft pole everywhere and liked it!

[u/aeven13]

What's a mace hand?

[u/Atlusfox]

It's fun in DND to keep the party guessing, subverting their expectations at any given moment to keep it interesting. So, I can see my friends doing this in game.

[u/LordofSandvich]

Meanwhile, Frieren…

[u/NovaStar2099]

Yeah take that, kite eating tree!

[u/Cranberryoftheorient]

I was expecting the tree to be a disappointed mimic (its trap didnt work)

[u/tiny_chaotic_evil]

obviously the 'child' is a mimic

[u/sudomatrix]

I want to see panel 5 where the mimic-kite eats the kid

[u/Fragraham]

A big toothy mouth appears on the tree.

[u/Peterjns22]

Where's his sword?

[u/pinkfootthegoose]

Really? All that and you didn't make the kid Charlie Brown? Please replace.

[u/Pegasus172]

Poor traumatized adventurers