Since the exact number he needed to roll was likely in the mid-thirties (20 + V's caster level) and Blackwing would likely have a negative modifier to his roll on a 20-sided die, his failure was assured and he knew it. Failing an attempt by 10 or more causes a "mishap", dealing damage to you as the magic within the item backfires. note This is a legitimate effect of attempting to blindly activate a magical item in the D&D 3.5 ruleset. However, he proceeds to weaponize his complete inability to activate it by deliberately causing the magic within the scroll to explode, creating the magical attack he needed. In need of a magical attack, he manages to find a scroll Vaarsuvius was scribing earlier, a harmless locate creature spell that would be useless even if he knew how to use it.
For most of the comic's run, Blackwing just disappears until V remembers needing him, but from the start of Book 5 V is trying to make up for the years of neglect, while Blackwing acts as the elf's much-needed conscience. V ignored Blackwing for years, and in fact never even named him - it was Haley who gave the bird its less-than-original moniker.
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