Magical Difficulties

A storyboard sequence about a court mage slowly losing her mind while her friend watches.

Transcript

12. Dialog Tamager: Hey, hey, Valda!
13. Dialog Tanager: Sorry for just letting myself in, but I came up with another composition!
14. Dialog Tanager: I wanted to get a second pair of ears on it, so I thought I'd pay you a visit!
15. Dialog Tanager: Figured you might...ah...
18. Dialog Tanager: ...Warming up the room a bit, I see!
19. Dialog Tanager: I must say, your workshop always struck me as being rather gloomy; it's almost pleasant to see it lit up like this.
20. Dialog Tanager: A dash of color's always a nice change of p- Valda: Tanager. Get out.
22. Dialog Tanager: ...pardon me, am I interrupting something? Valda: Just get out.
23. Dialog Tanager: Ohh, I'm not just going to buzz off like that!
24. Dialog Tanager: There's something up right? Come on, you can tell me.
25. Dialog Tanager: If it's anything confidential, I won't sing about it!
26. Dialog Tanager: If it's anything confidential, I won't sing about it!
27. Dialog Tanager: Or perhaps a bit of feedback? I know I'm not the best with magic, but perhaps you could still go through it with me?
28. Dialog Tanager: Come on, tell me!
29. Dialog Tanager: Valda, you can trust me.
30. Dialog Tanager: Come on, at least do me the courtesy of kicking me out.
31. Dialog Tanager: Come on, at least do me the courtesy of kicking me out.
32. Dialog Tanager: Vaaaalldaaaa...
33. Dialog Valda: Stop it!
34. Dialog Valda: Here! Look. What do you see?
36. Dialog Tanager: A...flame?
37. Dialog Tanager: That's purple?
38. Dialog Valda: ...it's supposed
39. Dialog Valda: ...it's supposed TO BE GREEN!
40. Dialog Valda: Our lord hands out assignments. Mine is to change up the dungeon lighting.
41. Dialog Valda: Lord suggests green. I try green.
46. Dialog Valda: That's CYAN.
47. Dialog Valda: Well, then, first you don't succeed,
48. Dialog Valda: try again, right?
53. Dialog Valda: THAT'S PINK.
54. Dialog Valda: But fine, fine, maybe I'm looking at this the wrong way.
55. Dialog Valda: Maybe I just need to try one more time.
56. Dialog Valda: Let's
57. Dialog Valda: Let's give it
58. Dialog Valda: Let's give it another
59. Dialog Valda: Let's give it another go.
67. Dialog Valda: Huh. 33 iterations and I haven't seen THAT before.
68. Dialog Valda: ...dear gods.
69. Dialog Tanager: I mean...
70. Dialog Tanager: ...these colors are all very nice.
71. Dialog Valda: It's not green! Green is basic, is it not?!
72. Dialog Valda: Why is this so difficult for me? What does any of my fancy training matter if I can't do this?
73. Dialog Valda: Look at me! Smote one dragon and tricked the king into thinking she was competent,
74. Dialog Valda: now I'm court mage, and I can't even do the same job as a stained glass window.
75. Dialog Valda: I'm dead, I'm so dead, he's going to skip firing me and go right to executions,
76. Dialog Valda: why did I ever think I could do this job,
77. Dialog Valda: he's going to fire me directly into the sun, mark my words, I'm dead.
78. Dialog Tanager: We haven't had an execution in centuries.
79. Dialog Tanager: We haven't had an execution in centuries.
80. Dialog Valda: Maybe he'll make an exception for me, who knows, a girl can dream.
81. Dialog Tanager: ...You're off to a great start, you know? If you could take down a dragon, you can take down this assignment! You'll knock it out of the park.
82. Dialog Valda: or i'll be knocked out of the park.
84. Dialog Tanager: Well, I did say I came around to play you a song. Think it'd help take your mind off of things?
85. Dialog Valda: ...Yeah, sure. Tanager: Alright!
88. Dialog Valda: ...A bit...silly again, isn't it?
89. Dialog Tanager: Ah, probably. We'll see how it sounds a few more drafts down the line, right?
90. Dialog Valda: ...Hm...