Sigdi basically tells him that that rule goes both ways, and her extended family arrives in time to kill "Gontor".
Gas stations for camels, and shortly thereafter a metal detector.A package from Amazon with the D&D Fourth Edition core books.computer (though this one is in the afterlife.).rocket skates, and later business cards (these are everywhere).Xykon's crystal ball has picture in picture.Schizo Tech: Although the general technological level of the world is supposed to fit with the average D&D medieval campaign (with sometimes a bit of Steampunk, like with the airships), you see plenty of anachronistic modern appliances, usually for a one-panel joke.Saved by the Coffin: The heroes use the coffin of Girard Draketooth to survive the explosion created by Girard's Gate being destroyed.and leaves Tarquin to fall (knowing it won't be fatal anyway). Elan tells him all about what happened with Nale, and why he's not going to fall for the same thing again. Much later, Tarquin assumes Elan will do it for him.
The rest of the story concerns the Order's efforts to keep the other gates from being used for evil, so that the abomination isn't set free to destroy the world. Then the next arc reveals that within the dungeon was a gate to a prison dimension where a world-destroying Eldritch Abomination is kept, and the lich was planning to use the gate for nefarious ends.