And we’re back! With a little reminder that this is still a D&D inspired comic even if it’s not based on a campaign anymore. This scene was very much planned as an actual combat encounter where Kolya uses a hoard of low-level goons to tip the action economy in his favour. Yeah sure, a level 14 adventurer is likely to make a DC 14 save, but can they make that save three times? Five times? Ten? Good times.
The crowd also would have let Kolya escape – every token being identical, you can’t immediately tell who is enchanted, who isn’t, and who is Kolya – but the bastard just had to show his big dumb face and get hit with Mind Spike.