by Nicholas Killewald

Friday, September 18, 2026

Inside a largeish tent, one outfitted with various accoutrements of the captain of the Roslori city guard, including a trunk, a small bed, a table with an unlit lamp, a small potted plant, and other bits, we see Sienna, Gena, and Theo, the three lookouts atop the Roslori city wall from the previous chapter. They are standing at ease, addressing the captain off-panel. Sienna implicitly continues a description of the tribal attack. "...then the woman went in the tent with the bogus icon, and, like, then the illusion started." Gena adds, "The tribes looked about as confused as we were, same as when they gathered outside the city." Theo finishes with "But, they still charged the gate. Sienna went for the bell, and, well, everyone saw the rest." Off-panel, the captain mutters "Mmm hmm." The captain of the guard is a red-haired woman in an outfit that, much like the officer from the previous comic, is much like the leather armor of other patrol members, but hers has a fancier, multi-layered shawl, with a lighter green layer atop a darker green one. The lower layer ends in a blue diamond shape in the front. Her helmet, with a larger plume than the officer's, lies on the bed behind her. Said plume has a gradient from green at the base to blue at the edges. "That's about all the other lookouts saw, too," she comments. "Hmph." Off-panel, Sienna adds, "It was a lot to take in, dude." "Yes, yes, I understand. Very well, thank you. Dismissed." As the captain says this, the officer from the previous comic arrives at the entrance to the tent, report in hand. "Ma'am? The scouting team just returned." As Sienna, Gena, and Theo leave, the captain walks up to take the report. "Excellent, I've been waiting. The short version?" Handing her the report, the officer responds, "Whole city's deserted. The tribes, their 'goddess', everyone." The captain is, understandably, incredulous at this, looking back at him with an arched eyebrow, responding with "...what?!?" The officer says, "I know, it sounds absurd, but nothing about what happened makes sense to begin with." Flipping through the report with some frustration, the captain angrily states, "If they just up and left after an attack like that, it makes even LESS sense! Who WAS that woman? What was she thinking? Why were the tribes listening to her? What's going on here?" The officer, undeterred by this, simply states, "Just going on what's in the report, Sue." The captain (Sue) sighs and says, "All right. Tell the other officers to get ready to head back tomorrow. Maybe we'll get answers in town." The officer responds with an "Aye, ma'am."
 
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Greetings. Welcome to the Dementia of Magic, a somewhat silly plot-grounded comic, updated MWF (eventually). Sit back, enjoy, read the story, have a look around, just have a nutty good time.

If you're new here, you're best off starting from the beginning. It's quite a bit plot-dependent.

September 4, 2023:

Hey, guess what, it's 2023 and Chapter Nine is finally starting! Finally.

It's been quite the year of, y'know, work and various garden-variety anxieties and such like that, so that's always fun. It's also involved me trying to plan out the visuals of this next chapter, which really started getting slow when I had the idea to make everything in 8½"x11" pages, which means I need to draw more and work out layouts, and then I realized I planned the first part of the chapter to feature changing scenes and crowds and such. It's been slow, is all.

But, the chapter's about to start, I've got at least some idea where these stories are going, and I can hopefully draw said ideas out, so that's good! Technically! I hope you enjoy it! It's really good, seriously you guys!


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