Undead would probably still trip the mirror trap, as they can be reflected just fine. Barring some sort of special undead such as Toren, 4 v 1 is almost always going to result in the 4 winning. The same is true for other summoned creations.

The only reason people typically get passed that point is the mirrors can’t copy equipment properly.

Lesser undead/summons would also likely fair poorly against the golems.

This is also all assuming that the doors don’t have some sort of Detect Life spell bound to them, such that only an actual living being would be able to open them, which would be a very easy deterrent against minions. That would force the mage to enter the rooms themselves, making minions not nearly as effective.

[spoiler title=””] another way Ryoka and co couldve done this is found a way to get rid of the illusion/invisibility on the mansion, tracked where the archmage was then bust down the ceiling like the kool-aid man. [/spoiler]

Just always assumed it was a nod to the d&d races .

The length of TWI alone is respectable on itself, at least to me. I am a huge fan of dicipline, if it turns out pirateaba mostly slacks off, then she is a sort of genius.

But what really had me was none other than her most well executed idea, Ants as a fantasy race. Once i dreamed of seeing such a fantasy being produced into a fantasy book, for many years such a thing was not excuted in a story that did justice to the idea.
Of course if you tougth of zerg or other such creatures you would find similaryties to what actually happens in the wandering inn.
The real magic comes from how the culture and values of the ants are developed.
In this story Pirateaba asks: What if ants were people? and she answers beutiful, just like bugs life, or antz did once upon a time.
Since she went there with the ant question, pirateaba also asks that of the undead, vampires,goblins, golems, and many other humanoids under the sun.
Her portrayal critizes with force all those representations of humanoids or non humanoids in wich their differences or uglyness makes them evil by default.
Of course there are monsters, but unlike such a classic aproach you got to give them and the story they are in to see who is what and who is who.

Ultimatly the really evil ones are either functional natural disasters, depraved monsters and stuburn fools. some with an opurtinity for redemtion or some barren from this door.

The wandering inn reconciles an often overlooked aspect of fantasy:the dayly life of the people of this world. The characters are not always in an adventure, in an epic battle, or diving caves.
They got to work,survive, drink, sing and have sex sometimes. Pirateaba makes suficient and exhaustive descriptions of evevry activitity under the sun. The wandering inn, the place, being the center of the story reminds us that for the characters, the races in the story, to read as if they were real they need to conect to us by showing the fantastic along side the mundane.

And therefore the wandering inn has the down side of dealing way to much with the mundane.

But even at that, it does so with some elegance. Steven Universe comes to mind when you think of story that interrups a good sequence of events for showing mundane stuff. Thankfully TWI avoids interupting high fantasy content withe slice of life when it should not. And when it does it gives more flavour to the story, it doesn´t substract from it.

that being said the The wandering inn needs a lot of patience to read. So if you are not really into slice of life, or Ants I would advise to look somewhere else for some quick fantasy action.

recently i bougth the last tide, I would suggest giving discord codes to buyers of the comic.

good luck Pirateaba and thanks for everything!

its not really deepest, she had like 10 more layers to go where ryoka and the rest skipped like 6 layers that we didn’t get to see cause they got kidnapped

“Send in something expendable to set off the traps” is so basic a tactic that it’s hard to believe Valeterisa didn’t have any precautions against it until the deepest layers of her mansion.