569 – Haunt Me Baby One More Time

If you had told me an indeterminate number of years ago when I was in high school that one day my job would consist of drawing cartoons that included (among other things) a flirty ghost, I’m honestly not sure how I would have reacted.

Life’s a funny thing, y’know?

Take care,

~Rob

Transcripts

PANEL ONE
GELIDEK (close up shot, furious): I WILL FLAY THE SKIN FROM YOUR BONES FOR THIS INDIGNITY! I WILL GRIND YOU INTO DUST!

PANEL TWO
GELIDEK (barely audible due to his greatly reduced size – trapped in a box of Humdingers) \\\|||\\\|||
DHUR: How long’s he gona be like this?
CH’P: An hour? A year? Hard to say. We’d best get moving, at any rate.

PANEL THREE
MOH: Son, would you do us a favor? CH’P: Absolutely, Master Moh.
MOH: Take the plaque we’re trapped in with you?
CH’P: Consider it done.

PANEL FOUR
MOH: Thank you. I presume there will be someone in Scrybl who can unbind us from the plaque and let us move onto the afterlife.
CH’P: I’ll make it my first priority, I promise.

PANEL FIVE
JAQ (leaning towards Ch’p very suggestively): Besides, after I’m free, maybe I could haunt you a little! Would you like that? Hmm?

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9 Comments

I suppose with practice, you could step outside of your body while you meditate. This is one way you could have a physical relationship with a ghost. Perhaps with the right combination of materials you can bake a ghost a new body.

Inequity is a strange word choice.
Iniquity = sin (common definition, not dictionary meaning)
inequity = not equal OR no collateral/property value

Indignity = not dignified, i.e. an action that shamed him.

Of course, not all characters have a firm grasp on literary excellence. Honestly with how solitary dragons are I’m surprised they don’t talk even more strangely than normal.
“Forsooth! I spy yon group of adventurers with aim to mulberry me! I best trucky-lent them ‘fore I wind up as blemish pie!”

@Kulian: You are absolutely right – the change has been made to “indignity”. Thanks!

@SGT Lewis: I don’t know about later editions, but in 3.5 there’d be lots of ways you could pull it off. Some of them might get expensive if you want more than a few minutes, though…

Good point Stardrake. I suppose you could have a druid do some sort of reincarnation spell or perhaps make some sort of mechanical body the spirit could possess. If there is a powerful cleric or paladin available I suppose the body could be resurrected.

Oh yeah, resurrection! I didn’t even consider that possibility. 😮

Might not be possible if she died of old age and her spirit reverted to youthful looks, though.

@ Stardrake,
True. But if she had died of peaceful old age while in bed would she really have found her spirit bound to an artifact like that and have ended up being known in history as a *lost* master? That does kinda argue that something untimely happened. Another thought that occurs to me is that a good wish ring or a wizard with a wish spell might be able to help. Not that easy, but in a D&D universe not exactly that hard either. ^_^

In spite of his rage he’s still just a Wyrm in a.. hamburger box?..

@Marcus: Actually, it’s a box of Hamdingers. It’s a MST3K reference. 🙂

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569 – Haunt Me Baby One More Time