Kobolds are jerks.

yea but she could also conclude that he is violently ill, thus he got sick. For it to be the mark he would need to violate its conditions which as far as she knows he hasn't. For it to be illness he'd need to become infected, which could happen at any time and without anyone noticing.

If to your knowledge he has not done anything to activate it, then its more logical to conclude something else caused it. Especially since she doesn't know what would happen even if it did activate.

For her to come to the conclusion she'd have to assume the mark would cause this reaction, that he did something to activate it, and afterwords something caused her to forget that he did (which as I said, I think the barrier makes impossible as Roy never considered it even though it was obvious their memories were unusually fuzzy). Thats one possibility

The other is that a bug bit him when they weren't looking and he got sick.

Belkar is pretty sneaky normally. It not a particularly big jump to assume he was causing havoc while I was say sleeping or something. It's not like he hasn't done such a thing a million times before.
Also if he was normally ill they only need to find a level 1 cleric to cure it. And the illness is pretty debilitating so one would assume they would try and find a cleric, any cleric, pretty quickly.

I think it's pretty likely that Haley just doesn't care that Belkar is sick. I mean he's delusional sick and that's impossible to miss. It's normally pretty dangerous to be delusional sick too especially with the crazy fatal DnD diseases. When you don't care about the guy being sick you really don't think about the why or hows or even the extent of his sickness.Which is my explanation for the whole Haley doing or saying nothing about the whole Belkar in an obvious extremely downward spiral. Going to be pretty amusing to have Roy return only to have Belkar succumb to the sickness and kick the bucket.

New comic.

We can stop arguing about the Mark of Justice now, cause the cleric just was like, oh, hey, it totally went off, FYI.

Aw man, I liked Pete. :(

Oh well, now I can like the Loki cleric instead, though he should rethink his no name policy very quickly.

Yeah this seems like we're going to have a long running trail of 'The Cleric' in reference to Loki. Though maybe not since they know who he is now.

Wish Pete didn't act like a dick though. Roy saying 'well, not as much impact the second time around' was pretty funny too.

I am wondering if this is going to spurn up Belkar's death, considering since Haley refused to cure him (And now they don't have time to if they had to), yet I don't think she'll leave him behind. Very interesting development, though for the comic's sake I hope we get on track of resurrecting Roy.

EDIT: Visual gag; Haley using Evasion on Belkar's vomit.

Heh. "Everyone I grew up with is an asshole."

New comic, btw.

I hope Pete's basement is not also Sending-proof.

I have noticed how Burlew still manages to make Celia's drawing look like a crude stick figure, given the circumstances.

The crack in the last comic of 'I always get the eyes the same shape' set me up for that one. Its pretty amazing how his cartoony stick figure comic has its own crude stick figures without looking too much like each other.

EDIT: I sincerely hope Celia doesn't get killed. This comic has enough female protagonist deaths, I'm quite happy with keeping it as it is, especially since he's flat-out explained, hey, FYI, here's a reason Celia can die and stay dead.