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[Mobbstar]

The middle panel seems an obvious reference to the Final Supper/Passover painting.

I disagree.  Firstly, L’Ultima Cena by Leonardo da Vinci features thirteen characters, as opposed to the ten in OotS.

Secondly, the Last Supper scene is when Jesus reveals he has been betrayed and will be executed soon.  No such revelation has happened in the OotS scene.

Thirdly, the facings do not line up with the characters you have assigned.  The five apostles to the left are all facing right, John and Jesus are looking at nobody, the three apostles right of them are facing left, and the rightmost three are talking in a group of their own.  That's a big group and a small group.  In OotS, it is two equally-sized groups, though arguably Minra and Haley are not in any group at all.

If it is meant as a play on the Last Supper, then only in passing without much to read into.

[Kagus]

I feel like something smells pretty fishy around the whole "Oh I haven't checked the vault itself in a while" line... Potentially also the bit about Serini's memory.

Now whether or not that fishiness is a red herring is another matter

[Akura]

Well, the other Gates were actively maintained. Two of which were kept up more-or-less pretty well even after the deaths of their original Scribbler guardians. Serini managed the upkeep of the gauntlet leading to her Gate, but it sounds like she's just sat on her old, tattooed ass in regards to the Gate itself. In fact, it doesn't look like she any plans whatsoever for her eventual death by old age if nothing else. Girard and Soon, ironically, did plan for that one, while Lirian was probably still pretty young by elven lifespan. No idea what Dorukan had planned, but his wards were pretty durable despite his death, enough that even Xykon was afraid of tripping them.

[Lord Shonus]

From what she says, she was really hoping to get the Scribblers back together. There's a strong hit in this strip that she would really have liked to have at least one of the others improve and fortify her protections, and she said earlier that her plan for dealing with anything that could crack through the outer dungeons was to call in the cavalry in the form of her old party.

The other thing is, her Gate is essentially invulnerable to accidental discovery - nobody is going to just accidentally clear all the dungeons out if they don't have a reason to know the final one is even there. Particularly given that the monsters are strong enough to provide a meaningful challenge to an epic level lich. Xykon is at least level 22, which means he's effectively level 26 for XP purposes. And is gaining experience in these dungeons. This suggests that most parties that tried to clear it (as opposed to the hobgoblin tribe that sees the monsters themselves as the core resource and just hunts enough to get what they need) would be swiftly destroyed.

[Lord Shonus]

1280

[TD1]

Bel-kar
or
Bel-care?

[Enemy post]

1281.

[Rolan7]

1282

[Kagus]

Ah yes, the endemic rise of Pay-to-Marsh gaming.

[Enemy post]

1283.

[Kagus]

So... Did the eye change color as part of maturation, or what?

[Mathel]

Green is their eye color, but they are wearing a pink contact lens to cancel out their Antimagic Cone.

[Enemy post]

1284.

[scriver]

Wedding reception planning is, in fact, a cleric class skill

[Enemy post]

1285.