Quote Originally Posted by Marsala View Post
The requirement is supposed to be using a 9th level spell slot for a specific ritual. Unless the ritual is something like, "casting Implosion on a cleric of Thor who was recently resurrected by an acolyte of Loki," it's not related. On the other hand, it does seem odd that Redcloak is using a 9th level spell slot right here and now, and the cliffhanger suggests that Durkon will be saved by something less anticlimactic than a simple saving throw. (Durkon dying also seems unlikely as a resolution of the cliffhanger, since showing him implode would be more dramatic at the end of a comic than the beginning of the next one.)
Maybe he knows that's the only way to keep him dead, i don't think we will see Durkon die, as i said, i think we will cut to RC leaving the scene or something like that.