The party’s end
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Sad reveal
OK, honestly, what kind of monster does something like this to just really mess up some poor person’s mind???
I initially saw this comic reposted on Discord. Curious, I looked it up.
I have to ask: what exactly *is* happening on this strip? Does it signify the friends the hero sacrificed along the way? Or something else? I am very curious, please tell us.
Unbeknownst to him, his friends (who he met during his quest) were the ghosts of fallen adventurers who needed someone to find their remains so they could finally rest. I’ve read interpretations that theorize he killed them, but I don’t think there’s anything in the comic to indicate this -I think it’s sad and haunting enough as it is. More than anything, it’s a twist on that old trite saying.
in the right setting, such as the general dungeons-and-dragons ones, finding their bones is the first step to resurrecting them, so… I’m now imagining a follow-up where they’re all at the bar and he points out that they could have just admitted they needed help with the corpse run?
but seriously before you explained, i was thinking there was some kind of horror-trap that killed everyone nearby except the guy that opened the chest, stuffed the dead in the chest and aged them, probably feeding the life energy to some other nasty thing… i might use that idea, so thanks
i dont get it could someone explain?
This got somber very quickly.
Still, it did remind me of this gag from the somewhat risqué comic Oglaf…
https://9gag.com/gag/an9zxNo
Oh, oh jeez that’s the most melancholy ending to a story ever. I love it.
And now he has to climb in the chest with the note to wait for the next hero to arrive… and so the cycle continues