| 8-Bit Theater | |
| Episode 1221 | |
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| Too bad Cleric's | |
| Longest Set Up In Webcomic History | |
| Date Published | February 20th, 2010 |
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And a brick joke comes back to haunt Black Mage.
Cast Appearing[]
- Thief
- Fighter McWarrior
- Red Mage Statscowski
- Black Mage Evilwizardington
Chaos- White Mage
- Preist
- Shaman
- Healer
Settings[]
- The forest near to the Temple of Chaos
Script[]
| Thief | What the hell was that? |
| Red Mage | Looked kinda like an impossibly pure white light to me. |
| Black Mage | Wonder if that's why it felt like the heat of a thousand suns burning out my withered, blacked sould like a giant celestial cegarette butt being smushed in my face. |
| Red Mage | Let's check it out despite Black being really weird about it. |
| Fighter | Does Chaos look a little more pile of ashes to anyone else? |
| Black Mage sneezes and blows the top half of Chaos off. | |
| Red Mage | This is our victory. I'm not even going to question it, man. |
| Fighter | Hey, look, guys. Witnesses to our victory. |
| White Mage | What, witne--No, no, we did this! |
| Red Mage | That's not how I choose to remember it. |
| White Mage | That's because you weren't here when… White Mage Preist Shaman And Healer Killed Chaos. |
| Silence… | |
| Black Mage takes out the Nintendo Power from Episode 007. | |
| Black Mage | Oh, goddammit it. |
Trivia[]
- Priest is misspelled preist.
- The joke was from way back in Episode 7, in which Black Mage responds with incredulity to Nintendo Power's suggestion of beating Final Fantasy with four white mages. White Mage proves him wrong with her party.
- Clevinger himself has stated that he had the end of the comic planned from the very beginning. And although it's impossible for him to prove it, he always had the idea of four White Mages emerging victorious floating around.
- This episode actually was the longest set up in Web comic history. It was possibly only bested in time by Ctrl+Alt+Delete's having Ethan die from a time machine related shenanigans. In terms of comic length (not time), Homestuck beats this by around 4000 pages. However, Rich Burlew had the longest setup in real world time, of 13 real-world years with the reappearance of Hilgya in strip 1106 of Order of the Stick.