Dominic Deegan: Oracle for Hire, Mk. XLV: Beams and shields, nothing else

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Honestly, don't think today's strip is worth mentioning, but for the sake of habit.

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I eagerly await Luna's counter beam spam.
Seeing how the itch-mage is using his powers and can't even catch one thief with a minor illusion spell makes me very sad.

Imagine this chain of events:

Dominic and Stunt exit the house and meet with Luna and Bumper, and they all see the grasshopper.

The grasshopper casts the big boom spell, Luna raises the shield, but it immediately breaks knocking them all back.

Grasshopper grabs Stunt, but bumper shows that he now has the necklace.

Dominic casts the illusion spells to buy some time, Luna is recovering from being knocked back earlier.

Not bothering to fight the illusion, Grasshopper conjures an entire field of entangle weeds, instantly destroying all the copies, and capturing all the team.

Luna, in desperation, casts a large fireball on the field. All the team are now hurt from the fire, but also free from the weeds.

The grasshopper punches the ground, creating a huge hole, dropping everyone except him in it.

Using a spell, Bumper is flying out of the hole with the necklace, the grasshopper easily caches him with one jump and throws him back, only to discover that it was just another illusion by Dominic.

These precious seconds give Luna enough time to cast her one last spell...

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This chain of events has the same elements of what happened so far: No one is killed, grasshopper wants the necklace, and it all ends up with Luna casting a big spell.
The difference is that the way the story is told in DD, it's like team Deegan is playing games with a mage, instead of desperately trying to protect themselves against a superior force.