They all forgot Ike was there for a second. Ike did not mind.
Bugbear camp mugs are in the shop if you want to own your own mug covered in horrible bear-shaped hobgoblins!
They all forgot Ike was there for a second. Ike did not mind.
Bugbear camp mugs are in the shop if you want to own your own mug covered in horrible bear-shaped hobgoblins!
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Lily’s tail wagging is SO cute.
If she wags any harder, it’ll come off.
Sometime in the near future:
Ike: Hey, Lily, I’d like to borrow something for one night…
I do wonder why the Bugbear Talisman was created in the first place. Something tells me it was by somebody who personally knew a Bugbear and wanted to prank them back.
Also OMG Lily’s tail waggies I love it ~
I imagine the Sphinxes made it after getting tired of ancient bugbear pranks
Or we can remember that bugbears prey on people’s fears, they aren’t just cute pranksters. Seems like there’d be a significant market to make magical artifacts to make yourself invisible to the monsters hunting in the dark.
That makes me wonder. Humans could do magic once, right? Just… mostly forgot? Sphinxes were just innately super-powerful but I can most definitely see merit in that train of thought.
Either hiding from the monsters hunting in the dark… or hunt them back.
For but a split second, Ike was living his best life
Imagine what a yinglet could do with that.
Holy heck. I think that talisman might actually be carved from a bugbear claw. The width and curved shape are very similar to Kevin’s own claws, just held front wards. Maybe their claws are more like ivory and less like keratin? Makes sense given the size.
That makes sense… a ‘hair’ of the ‘dog’ right?
Or in this case a claw of the bugbear that hunts you…
That’s a good view of the structure of a bugbear’s… fingernails. I wonder how much work it is to keep those trimmed? If bugbears were a bit more gregarious, would there be big debates over proper nail length and best methods for industrial manicure?
Bugbear guy: *pats custom Dremel rig* This boy does everything! Know a good home tinkerer, that’s the way!
Bugbear gal: Sure, Bernard doesn’t look like much, but I’ve never liked big alpha types. Our kids came out fine, and he has such a deft hand with a spokeshave! *spreads hand, wiggles fingers*
And Madam U was worried it wouldn’t be used resposibly.
Siiiiippy
I have a feeling “being used responsibly” was never intended by the creator of the talisman. “I solemnly swear I am up to no good.”
It may have prevented the occasional heart attack, though, which wouldn’t be such a bad thing! ;-)
Bugbears are responsible for “everything that’s scary”, according to Alec.
He is apparently afraid of what whoever carries this talisman can do to him.
Therefor …….
He was just sitting there enjoying the show
… round of mead for the entire pub, in a vat instead of a tankard for a certain hybrid and glaistig, coming right up …
And a “spice”, I mean “sting” for Lily’s mug
https://www.skindeepcomic.com/archive/bugbear-talisman-10-classic/ is still one of my favorite pages of this comic. I’m pretty sure Ike remembers. (: And Alec, to his displeasure.
M’thinkin’ Lilly has a personal interest in Alec that goes beyond prank wars. Is this something like the traditional way to flirt with bubears? For that matter is ‘flirting’ even a thing with bugbears?
It’s just, when I imagine a couple of bugbears getting together, or for that matter anybody getting together with one, I can’t help imagining that … if they really love each other, then some very loud noises, shouted threats, and occasional, um, “voluntary mutual participation in enthusiastic violence” might be a regular occurrence.
Followed by an inevitable breakup and years of annual Christmas cards containing fond reminiscences and recriminations on the relationship, accompanied by occasional loving death threats.
Is that just me? Or is that the way anyone else imagines bugbear romance? Is Lilly on the right, uh, “wrong track” if that’s her goal?
I’m in the same camp, I’m convinced Lily is not-so secretly into Ike and this is her way of getting him to pay attention to her. “Fated lovers start in conflict” is one of the oldest tropes in the biz.
yeah, i totally ship them
Meanwhile, Dean is just there.
I dig the implication that not even the mugful of bees stopped her. Pain be damned, the girl’s *gotta* commit to the bit.
It’s not a bad thing to be happy that someone’s taking the piss out of Alec, but you KNOW he’s gonna get you back for laughing at him, right…?
Sauce for the gander is sauce for the goose.
xD
I think Lily didn’t learn her lesson after getting bees in the face.
How many does the talisman hide? ‘Cose unless Lily likes to leave herself open for Alec’s revenge (which could be possible), as Alec, I’d be very wary whenever I could actually sense her around. That means always that the talisman is somewhere else at that moment…
Why are Alec and Ike freinds? Turns out there was a readers question about it. (2024, 192, 2 if the link can’t be used)
https://www.skindeepcomic.com/reader-questions/2024-reader-question-194-2/
Didn’t Myra say back in the dogpatch chapter that bugbears can’t sense each other? Why’s Kevin need that little thing