# 29 There’s No Place Like Tome
Jun14
Hey kids, I don’t know about you, but I always forget things when I travel too. Oh well, at least he didn’t have to go through Customs!
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Hey kids, I don’t know about you, but I always forget things when I travel too. Oh well, at least he didn’t have to go through Customs!
We hope you enjoy the strip, and please VOTE! 😀
So, yeah, left all his clothes behind in the Real World.
Well, got that one, he’s in the book. Now, if I could only understand what the text is saying.
Transcription, since that font is bloody hard to read when it’s been reduced down so much:
Your lineage the key, I open for thee.
Port-Hole welcomes Great Master Azure…
Blood SO blue, blood SO pure…
How may I serve thee?… waait a minute, you are NOT he!
Through magic thistle, prickly and rough, ’tis NOT wise to port in the buff!
Thank you! I had such a hard time reading that flowy text.
Hehe, “strip”.
Fortunately there was a well-placed cryptic character.
“Great Master Azure”, eh? I guess he really is the Blue Wizard. . . or at least his ancestor was, given the “lineage” bit. The spell definitely identified him as being of the right bloodline (with a blood sample and all).
Maybe Melvin doesn’t have quite enough power yet to ‘port his clothes, too. I wrote a Sailor Moon fanfic years ago featuring a chibi senshi who sometimes teleported while leaving her duds behind.
Also, the blue theme reminds me of an old Piers Anthony novel, Blue Adept.
Possibly–so he can only teleport his own body (and assumedly implanted stuff like dental fillings), but not anything outside of his body. This will result in much comedy until he gets the hang of it. On the other hand, this [i]does[/i] prevent him from taking any of his ordinary high-tech gear to the presumably lower-tech magic realm, so he will have to learn to use his magic quickly rather than relying on becoming a Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court.
How ’bout:
Poor Melvin has let out a howl.
No sign of a loincloth or towel.
With clothes he’s not wearing
He’s saved from all-baring
By the grace of a fortunate vowel.
Bravo! 😀
I am thinking that Melvin might be a warlock and not a Genie.