Sunday March 29, 2015
Book 15: Delegates and Delegation — Part III: Conflagration

Transcript

NARRATOR: Aboard the battleplate Popigai, 6 hours later.

MURTAUGH: Commander Foxworthy, relax...  You did exactly what I would have done if I'd been up here in command.

MURTAUGH: Okay, no.  Technically, that's not true.

I don't have the engineering skill to do what you did.  If I'd been up here, and you'd been down there, I'd be the one apologizing.

While running away from a devastated city and a civil war.

Now, has Popi's commissary fulfilled my request?

battleplate (foreground): *printed* AI

battleplate (background): *printed* CHICXULUB

ELF: Yup.  One Kowalski-mass barrel of Ovalkwik.

MURTAUGH: Your payment, Sergeant, for one completely uneaten Kowalski.

cryokit: *printed* CRY

SFX: POOOMF

SCHLOCK: This tastes way better than Petey's newest inmate would have.  Not as crunchy, though.

MURTAUGH: I'll take your word for it.  Thank you for being patient while I arranged delivery of your... bonus.

SCHLOCK: I knew you'd come through.

You're the Captain.

ELF: Speaking of captains, we need to get another ship under your boots, sir.

MURTAUGH: Ship or no ship, he'll call me Captain for as long as I supply him with barrels of Ovalkwik.

SCHLOCK: I like the word "barrels."

cryokit: *printed* CRYOKIT

MURTAUGH: How quickly can we get another ship?

CLOSING: THE END...

You've reached the end of Delegates and Delegation, Schlock Mercenary Book 15 but you have not yet reached the end of Schlock Mercenary.  There's still quite a bit of that left.

Big Dumb Objects, Schlock Mercenary Book 16, begins with the very next strip...