Annotated 3-2
Erica was a little unsure about my script for this scene when she got it at first. After all the attention we’d lavished onto not over-sexualizing the female characters, the request for “prison rags” seemed like it might be a step backward.
“I have a few comments about the random encounter that I’ll just all together put here. One- prison rags will show off Syr’nj’s tattoos prematurely. Two- the rags would also make the scene needlessly sexy, what with the lot of them wearing thin, wet clothing…”
I replied: “One and two, agreed, for a certain definition of ‘prison rags.’ That probably wasn’t the right word for what I was visualizing. I just meant very simple, ragged-looking clothes, and they could as easily be too BIG as too small. The main point is that the adventurers have been (ahem) stripped of their usual accoutrements, so things like Byron’s axblade-shoulders and Syr’Nj’s potions are not available to help them here.”
Erica’s third comment is more relevant to tomorrow’s page than this one, so stay tuned!
Yeah, that are some nice Prison-Pyjamas.
The next page is one of my absolute favorite and one of the reasons our actual ending made me so sad I’m still trying to cope!
I always thought that “S’cuse, please!” was kind of cute, with the dropped “me” and all.
I never noticed before that Bandit seems pretty tall here, though. Or rather, her left leg seems to.
So are those iron bars of very poor quality and uniformity of composition, or did they intentionally work harder to put tight S-bends there, rather than allowing the expected natural parabola?
Clearly, the bars are made of Cartoon Iron, a material notorious for bending in the way that will be most visually interesting rather than that required by standard (i.e.: non-cartoon) laws of physics.
And Frigg rolled a natural 20 on her Strength check, along with all her standard bonuses.