dungeonmaster
Original: dungeonmaster on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1:
Woman (the ecologist, standing in a tavern/hall): I'm the queen's ecologist! I'm looking for interesting species to study!
A seated patron: Interesting, eh?
Panel 2:
An old man with an eyepatch and a fur-collared coat: I tell ye, in the Black Mountains, there be a cave of sinister goblins and their goblin queen and their treasure be a golden hoard of-
Ecologist (interrupting): Say no more.
Caption: The quest begins.
Panel 3:
Caption: LATER
Ecologist (gesturing, holding up a hand): ...and using molten aluminum, we obtained a complete casting of the nest structure.
Votey:
A speech bubble pointing toward the old eyepatched man reads: Monster!
Woman (the ecologist, standing in a tavern/hall): I'm the queen's ecologist! I'm looking for interesting species to study!
A seated patron: Interesting, eh?
Panel 2:
An old man with an eyepatch and a fur-collared coat: I tell ye, in the Black Mountains, there be a cave of sinister goblins and their goblin queen and their treasure be a golden hoard of-
Ecologist (interrupting): Say no more.
Caption: The quest begins.
Panel 3:
Caption: LATER
Ecologist (gesturing, holding up a hand): ...and using molten aluminum, we obtained a complete casting of the nest structure.
Votey:
A speech bubble pointing toward the old eyepatched man reads: Monster!
Alt text
A four-panel SMBC comic. Panel 1: A woman announces to a group of tavern patrons, "I'm the queen's ecologist! I'm looking for interesting species to study!" A seated man replies, "Interesting, eh?" Panel 2: An old man with an eyepatch and fur coat begins, "I tell ye, in the Black Mountains, there be a cave of sinister goblins and their goblin queen and their treasure be a golden hoard of-" The ecologist cuts him off: "Say no more." A caption reads "The quest begins." Panel 3: A caption reads "LATER." The ecologist gestures matter-of-factly and explains, "...and using molten aluminum, we obtained a complete casting of the nest structure." The joke: she treated the goblins like an ant colony, pouring molten aluminum into their lair to make a cast of it (which kills the colony), rather than going on a treasure quest. Votey (aftercomic): The old eyepatched man, now drawn in close-up, is pointed at by a speech bubble reading "Monster!" - he is horrified at what the ecologist did.
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.