1 {scene: the enormous and dimly lit Hall of Dworin, deep beneath the Orcrift Mountains}
1 Dwalin: Thus way, to thu Brudge of Khazad-Doom. {translation: This way, to the Bridge of Khazad-Doom.}
2 Lambert: I wish you'd stop saying that. It makes it sound like we're about to be ambushed by thousands of orcs or something.
3 Mordekai: Oh come on; what are the odds of that?
4 [caption]: Earlier:
4 GM: {grinning over an army of painted orc miniatures} Eight-hundred painted, six-hundred to go...

I'm not entirely happy with the last panel. The fact is, I don't have an army of orc miniatures. I found someone who does, and asked him to take a photo of them for me, so I could paste myself in front of it, but unfortunately he only had a dinky webcam and the resulting photo wasn't fantastic quality. Ah well, it gets the point across.

I love that first panel, by the way.

Oh, and if you're watching, the last panel is an example of a scene to scene transition - fairly rare in Irregular Webcomic!

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2016-09-23 Rerun commentary: While I have painted several miniature gaming figures over the years (including all of the Fantasy cast themselves, plus the Space cast), I haven't painted enough to qualify as an army of any sort. It's a fairly time-consuming hobby.