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No. 926: The Perils of Initialisms

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The Perils of Initialisms

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Permanent URL: https://mezzacotta.net/owls/?comic=926

Strip by: Buster Maruca

Delkin: Hey Holly, I’m hosting a tabletop RPG session this weekend. Wanna come?
Holly: Sure, I’d be happy to!
Caption: Later, that weekend…
{Holly and Delkin walk into a room. Ambrose is already there, as is a table with a miniature cityscape on it. Delkin is carrying some sort of bulky projectile weapon.}
Holly: Hi, Ambrose!
Delkin: Here we are.
Ambrose: Hello, Holly!
{Delkin aims the projectile launcher at the mini city.}
Holly: Wait, what are you doing?
Delkin: Just watch!
{Delkin fires the launcher and the city is enveloped in a fireball.}
SFX: EXPLOSION!
{The mini city is destroyed.}
{Beat.}
Holly: What.
Delkin: What? I told you that it was a tabletop RPG: Rocket-Propelled Grenade!

The author writes:

RPGs and RPGs, you see.

Also: Flat "What"

Ambrose doesn't really serve any role in this strip; he's just there so that Holly wouldn't be the only other person at Delkin's get-together.

Also, I didn't intentionally mean to make this my second strip in a row in which Holly is befuddled by homonymous words; it just happened.

The background of panel 1 is this photograph by Sami C of Flickr, licensed under a CC BY 2.0 license.