Xykon can't scry spontaneously.
He needs to teleport to his Teevo to scry.
That doesn't really seem to be the relevant trap to me. Just saying something is pretty efficient ("Redcloak exhibits sunk cost fallacy"). Showing anything takes much longer. The words are there, for the most part, to show characters emotions/ personalities/ and relationships.In all honestly, when talking about word count per page, I feel like OOTS has the highest counts of any comic I can remember reading that doesn't get into the trap of 'show, don't tell'.