An argument about the word "level".
Cast
Transcript
- Panel 1
Roy (thinking): At last! The stairs down!
Haley (thinking): Oooh! That Goblin Cleric was worth 1000 XP!
- Panel 2
Roy: Time to go down a level!
Haley: Time to go up a level! (in unison)
- Panel 3
Roy: Up a level? But we already did that.
Haley: Sure, now we do it again
Roy: Why, what's up a level?
Haley: More sneak attack!
- Panel 4
Roy: What?? We'll get sneak attacked if we go up a level??
Haley: No silly, just me
Roy: You want to go up a level so you can get sneak attacked?
Haley: Naturally.
- Panel 5
Roy: No way. That's too dangerous. We should go down a level instead.
Haley: Down a level? Wouldn't you need like a vampire or something for that?
Roy: Huh?
- Panel 6
Haley: Anyway, what do we get if we go DOWN a level?
Roy: Tougher monsters!
Haley: You want to go down a level AND face tougher monsters?
Roy: Of course.
- Panel 7
Haley: Wouldn't it make more sense to go UP a level before facing tougher monsters?
Roy: No, we already finished that level. We should go down.
- Panel 8
Haley: Up!
Roy: Down!
Haley: Up!
Roy: Down!
Vaarsuvius: Aha! A new spell level!
Roy: L-E-V-E-L.
Vaarsuvius: Huh?
- Panel 9
Roy: I spelled "level"
Vaarsuvius: But you're a fighter, you can't learn spell levels.
- Panel 10
Roy: Can't spell? Is that another "Fighters are dumb" crack? That's it, we're going down a level.
Haley: Up a level!
Vaarsuvius: But if we go down a level, I will lose my spell level.
Roy: L-E-V-E-L.
Vaarsuvius: HUH???
Belkar sits on the panel frame, extending outside the page, breaking the 4th wall.
Belkar: How much crap do we have to go through on a daily basis because no-one at TSR looked up "level" in the thesaurus?
Trivia
- The dungeon level/character level/spell level joke continues as a running gag throughout the comic.