RTH: Just missed

Another contest piece for River Twine Holt -- this time the theme was "rare pairings", showing tribemates who haven't been seen much together prior to this interacting in some way.

Here, Blacksnake (left) is playing a game of taal with Greenweave (right, belongs to ) and Pathmark (above, belongs to ). Greenweave has just successfully dodged Blacksnake's attempted tag (if Blacksnake had tagged him, he would have had to give up a game-token; the elf with the most tokens at the end of the game wins). Greenweave is now allowed to try to tag Blacksnake back. I think the person here who stands the best chance of picking up some tokens is Pathmark.

Taal is a game that was created within the "Blood of Ten Chiefs" anthologies of ElfQuest, and it only appeared in one comic... in which the evidence for how it was played and what the game equipment is was... erratic, at best. Our group has the game, though (which can be described as stalking/hunting practice), which has mostly been featured as an RP game run occasionally by one of our members, . I have taken the depiction of the taal-sticks from her.

Black Prismacolor pencil linework, Copic marker coloring, effects in Photoshop.