Bonus speedpaint: https://www.peppercarrot.com/en/miniFantasyTheater/070.html#bonus
Transcript:
A comic in four panels:
Panel 1. Amall, the small elf scholar takes tea with Cepper, the gothic sorceress. Amall looks at the empty perch while eating a mufin with a pink frost on it. Cepper serve the tea to her guest.
Amall: "Wait, where's your Avian Intelligence parrot?"
Cepper: "I got rid of it."
Panel 2. Amall is now curious, while Cepper explains herself, a cup of tea in her hand.
Amall: "Really?"
Cepper: "Yeah, I realized the benefits weren't worth the costs."
Panel 3. Amall is confused, and Cepper continues her speech, confident.
Amall: "The... costs?"
Cepper: "The ecological costs. The data scraping. How it's all controlled by a handful of corporations..."
Cepper: "But mostly how it made my brain lazier and lazier..."
Panel 4. Cepper now asks Amall a question with a pleading pose. Amall realizes her friend invited her with an ulterior motive and responds with a blasé attitude, her pointy hears turning down.
Cepper: By the way, how do I cast a Ring of Fire spell?
Amall: Wait... Have you invited me here just to replace your AI parrot?