46. Rubber Ducking - Pepper&Carrot

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Panel 1. Cepper, the Gothic Sorceress, is at her iconic desk with a quill, she was writing in her big personal project: her book of incantation at university. She is thinking with intensity bringing the quill to her mouth, looking up and frowning. On a stack of book, nearby, stands a yellow static rubber duck.
Cepper: "Avian Intelligence, what is the correct incantation for a fireball? Hmm... You know, something _Pyro... Ball..._"

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Panel 1. Cepper, the Gothic Sorceress, is at her iconic desk with a quill, she was writing in her big personal project: her book of incantation at university. She is thinking with intensity bringing the quill to her mouth, looking up and frowning. On a stack of book, nearby, stands a yellow static rubber duck.  
> Cepper: "Avian Intelligence, what is the correct incantation for a fireball? Hmm... You know, something _Pyro... Ball..._"

Panel 2. Cepper is now excited, the rubber duck is still silent, staring happily in the void.
Cepper: "PyroBolus! Perfect."

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Panel 2. Cepper is now excited, the rubber duck is still silent, staring happily in the void.  
> Cepper: "**PyroBolus!** Perfect."

Panel 3. Amall, the small blond elf sorceress appears in the frame from one side, she is puzzled at what she probably saw before. Cepper is laughing a bit of embarrassement.
Amall: "A rubber duck!? But it can't answer you! Are you okay, Cepper?"
Cepper: "Haha, don't worry, Amall, I'm fine."

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Panel 3. Amall, the small blond elf sorceress appears in the frame from one side, she is puzzled at what she probably saw before. Cepper is laughing a bit of embarrassement.  
> Amall: "**A rubber duck!?** But it can't answer you! Are you okay, Cepper?"  
> Cepper: "Haha, don't worry, Amall, I'm fine."

Panel 4. Cepper is happy and proud of her invention, Amall scratch her head but with a smile, considering the discovery of her friend.
Cepper: "I just figured that formulating my questions out loud helps me to solve them, and finally that's all I needed."

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Panel 4. Cepper is happy and proud of her invention, Amall scratch her head but with a smile, considering the discovery of her friend.   
> Cepper: "I just figured that formulating my questions out loud helps me to solve them, and finally that's all I needed."

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## Rubber Ducking

A comic in four panels:

Panel 1. Cepper, the Gothic Sorceress, is at her iconic desk with a quill, she was writing in her big personal project: her book of incantation at university. She is thinking with intensity bringing the quill to her mouth, looking up and frowning. On a stack of book, nearby, stands a yellow static rubber duck.  
> Cepper: "Avian Intelligence, what is the correct incantation for a fireball? Hmm... You know, something _Pyro... Ball..._"

Panel 2. Cepper is now excited, the rubber duck is still silent, staring happily in the void.  
> Cepper: "**PyroBolus!** Perfect."

Panel 3. Amall, the small blond elf sorceress appears in the frame from one side, she is puzzled at what she probably saw before. Cepper is laughing a bit of embarrassement.  
> Amall: "**A rubber duck!?** But it can't answer you! Are you okay, Cepper?"  
> Cepper: "Haha, don't worry, Amall, I'm fine."

Panel 4. Cepper is happy and proud of her invention, Amall scratch her head but with a smile, considering the discovery of her friend.   
> Cepper: "I just figured that formulating my questions out loud helps me to solve them, and finally that's all I needed."

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Published on 2026-04-01.

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While I'm painting, Krita periodically takes a snapshot of the process. Here is a video compilation of all the snapshots for this episode, accelerated a lot (an episode takes between 10 and 16 hours to complete).