And that was Dice With The Universe! A massive thank you to everyone who ever rolled a dice to see what would happen next. It is accurate to say that this series never could have happened the way it did without you. It’s been a lot of fun chronicling the adventures of Beatrice, Cromwell and The Elephants across the last two-and-a-bit years. It’s also still mildly terrifying to remember that for all that time I had no idea which way the dice would fall from one week to the next. Fortunately, even though Dice has ended, I still have plenty of mild terror to go around – my next job is to at last finish writing up my doctoral thesis on digital comics. You can expect E-merl to go quiet for the next few months while I take care of that little bit of business. See you on the flip side!

So! One last time: roll a six-sided dice and post the result to the comments thread or tweet it to @merlism. Rolls will be tallied on and the final strip will be posted next week.

Put the dice away for now folks, Beatrice has got this one. Discover what else she chooses next week…

Roll a dice. Who knows what will happen? But we’ll find out next week.

Choose. Choices will be tallied and the result shown next week.

Some plans remains timeless in their simplicity.

Cromwell – take him or leave him? Roll a six-sided dice and post the result to the comments thread or tweet it to @merlism. Rolls will be tallied on Thursday and the result shown on Friday.

New favourite sound effect? Also: special guest voice actor!

A ghost? Or an elephant? Roll a six-sided dice and post the result to the comments thread or tweet it to @merlism. Rolls will be tallied on Thursday and the result shown on Friday.

Interestingly, this wouldn’t even make the top ten of Cromwell’s worst failed pick up lines.