Miko Miyazaki makes her way to the throne room as the remaining Order of the Stick are cut off from doing the same.
Cast[]
- Haley Starshine ◀ ▶
- Elan ◀ ▶
- Belkar Bitterleaf ◀ ▶
- Durkon Thundershield ◀ ▶
- Hinjo ◀ ▶
- Miko Miyazaki ◀ ▶
- Daigo Da- ◀ ▶
- Kazumi Kato ◀ ▶
- The Sapphire Guard
- Soon Kim ◀ ▶
- O-Chul ◀ ▶
- Black-haired Sapphire Guardswoman ◀ ▶
- Blue Crewcut Sapphire Guardsman ◀ ▶
- Blue-bearded Sapphire Guardsman ◀ ▶
- Eyepatched Sapphire Guardsman ◀ ▶
- Road to Adventure Sapphire Guardswoman ◀
- Black-Haired Sapphire Guardsman ◀
- Blue Spike Haired Sapphire Guardsman ◀
- Chonmaged Sapphire Guardsman ◀
- Completely Bald Sapphire Guardsman ◀
- Crewcut Sapphire Guardswoman ◀
- Do-Ragged Sapphire Guardsman (also as Ghost-martyr) ◀ ▶
- Flying Sapphire Sorceress ◀
- Goggled Sapphire Guardsman ◀
- Grey-cloaked Sapphire Guardsman ◀
- Navy-haired Sapphire Guardsman ◀
- Balding Sapphire Guardsman ◀
- Blue-cloaked Sapphire Guardsman ◀
- Blue-haired Sapphire Sorcerer ◀
- Green-haired Sapphire Guardswoman ◀
- Grey-haired Sapphire Sorcerer ◀
- Grey-shield Sapphire Guardsman ◀
- Jiaya ◀
- Purple Spiky-haired Sapphire Guardsman ◀
- Purple-haired Sapphire Guardswoman ◀
- Teal-haired Sapphire Guardswoman ◀ ▶
- White-helmeted Sapphire Guardsman ◀
- Wingfooted Sapphire Guardsman ◀
- Yunji ◀
- White-cloaked Sapphire Guardswoman ◀
- Dark-Goggled Sapphire Guardsman ◀
- Grey-bearded Sapphire Guardsman ◀
- Unarmored Midriff-baring Sapphire Guardswoman ◀
- Blue Streak Sapphire Guardswoman ◀
- Xykon ◀ ▶
- Redcloak ◀ ▶
- Jirix ◀ ▶
- Three Hobgoblins
Transcript[]
- Panel 1
Jirix: Hey, the Supreme Leader said to stay here!
Hobgoblin Soldier #1: We should be helping him!
Hobgoblin Soldier #2: Yeah!
- Panel 2
Jirix: Those are positive energy spirits now, not flesh-and-blood humans! You can't hit them with nonmagical weapons like that!
Jirix: Trust me, we're a LOT safer staying right—
- Panel 3
Miko Miyazaki decapitates Jirix with a high kick, "POW!" His head strikes the first hobgoblin, "clunk!", killing him.
- Panel 4
Miko continues past, killing the remaining soldier with a karate chop, "chop!"
- Panel 5
The throne room. Scores of dead paladins lie below the flying Ghost-martyrs which they became. Soon fights Xykon while Redcloack turns five of the remaining spirits, "POOF! POOF! POOF! POOF! POOF!". O-Chul remains paralyzed by Soon's Gate.
- Panel 6
Miko sees the carnage from the throne room door with alarm.
- Panel 7
Miko Miyazaki: It all makes sense now. I understand what I need to do.
- Panel 8
Miko: The path is clear.
She enters the throne room.
- Panel 9
Cut to Elan in the wall tower.
Elan: ...
Elan: Hey, did anyone else get that foreboding feeling just now?
- Panel 10
Elan: Guys?
Haley: No, we are NOT launching ourselves into the throne room using the catapult!
Belkar: Why the hell not?
Haley: Because we don't know how to aim a catapult that precisely!
Belkar: Right, and that's why we fling the two nameless soldiers first, so we can see where they splat and adjust our aim accordingly.
Kazumi Kato: *gulp!*
Belkar: I mean, seriously, do I have to think of everything around here???
Trivia[]
- The title is a running gag from the Star Wars franchise, first spoken by Luke as they approach the Death Star.
- Released about 12 hours after #460, this strip marks the shortest time between updates to the comic during its entire run.
- This is the final appearance of most of the Sapphire guard.
- First appearing in #320: Road to Adventure Sapphire Guardswoman.
- First appearing in #447: Black-Haired Sapphire Guardsman, Blue Spike Haired Sapphire Guardsman, Chonmaged Sapphire Guardsman, Completely Bald Sapphire Guardsman, Flying Sapphire Sorceress, Goggled Sapphire Guardsman, Grey-cloaked Sapphire Guardsman, Navy-haired Sapphire Guardsman, Balding Sapphire Guardsman, Blue-cloaked Sapphire Guardsman, Blue-haired Sapphire Sorcerer, Do-Ragged Sapphire Guardsman, Green-haired Sapphire Guardswoman, Grey-haired Sapphire Sorcerer, Grey-shield Sapphire Guardsman, Jiaya, Purple Spikey-haired Sapphire Guardsman, Purple-haired Sapphire Guardswoman, White-helmeted Sapphire Guardsman, Wingfooted Sapphire Guradsman, Yunji, and White-cloaked Sapphire Guardswoman,
- First appearing in #449: Dark-Goggled Sapphire Guardsman, Grey-bearded Sapphire Guardsman, Unarmored Midriff-baring Sapphire Guardswoman.
- First appearing in #461: Blue Streak Sapphire Guardswoman.