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For the curious, Witberg is an east Crescian bordertown famous for Aldish refugees. The DMZ is at its least inhospitable there, allowing for rare border crossings by foot. If you'd served there, you'd have seen the occasional Plat stumble into the area half-mad after trekking through thirty miles of khert-fire, ghosts, and mutant animals.

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The last panel really makes me laugh. I also really like that fourth panel of Bell and his goons arriving. Just a solid page, maybe.

Think Bell will play with his food?

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Pain babies for the save! Maybe. I think it's kind of funny that two flying infants yoinked Sette from Quigley's noodle arm. Everyone make fun of him.

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Did you ever imagine what Vienne must have been like when she went off an Aldish screed against Roger Foi-Hellick? Imagine how ugly and uncharacteristic it had to have been.

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I saw some fun speculation that the Chief's warning of "one more vliegeng" would be Lemuel but no, no. He'll spend the rest of the chapter playing Resident Evil.

I had a lot of indecision with this page. I wanted the Alds to use even stronger language than "cocksucker" but then someone reminded me it's Pride month and I chose not to go the...

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I'll never stop finding the baby-armed zombies funny, especially contrasted with kindly old Maur.

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Two pages today! These look fairly different on the site - https://www.casualvillain.com/Unsounded/comic/ch17/ch17_133.html - but you can see here how they'll print. Khert shenanigans! Remember how  old Windows would do this freaky graph...

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Flann didn't originally have any lines on this page but y'all seem to enjoy him so much I went back and let him get a dig in. See! I can pander sometimes too! Next page is a doozy.

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If you're going down, take as many of your enemies with you as you can! Spite is a fine motivator. 

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Viper in the tall grass, eh?

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Hetr's ghost is floating around here somewhere peeing himself while fluttering hearts orbit his head.

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That should be "then theirs," I think. I'll fix it in post :3 I really love this scene, though I just know some of the drama haters are going to whine that Bell doesn't immediately headshot Toma here. Deal with it, haters! Writing villainous gloating is like the only reason I do comics!

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The nose knows.

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Pantoffel needs those little booties they put on rescue dogs who have to walk over rubble.

I know we're doing that thing everyone hates where the perspective jumps around but it's crucial, you'll see. Just remember you promised to go back and read the whole chapter at once when it's all done ;)

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My dog Carter used to pant just like this when she was upset. People would ask if she needed water or something but nope, she was just scared and wanted to go home.

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Lots of running D: Let's torment Toma for a while. His Queen and daughter are burning, his Lieutenant blew up, who knows where his dog is. This bad day is turning into an awful night.

Recent Commissions

Hey hey! In lieu of a new page tonight I thought I'd share some commissions I did this weekend. The first one came from me mentioning a while back an early story idea where Sette lost Duane in a poker match with Stockyard. That idea was dropped in favour of Knock just spiriting him away, but a reader was intrigued enough to pay me to illustrate ...

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Of course you knew that Knock's name was going to be used for a knock knock joke eventually, right? Oh, Cutter.

Gonna skip Wednesday to do some housekeeping before these kids run into the next scene, which is very long and heavy and sad, like Ruckmearkha after chewing on Roger's cranium to reread chapter 14. Tragic romance! His favourite ...

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Man, Ana's magenta soul clashes something fierce with all that red. Imagine going into the afterlife so uncoordinated v_v This page might be worth viewing on the site too - https://www.casualvillain.com/Unsounded/comic/ch17/ch17_122.html ...

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I'm really fond of that gentlemanly hand kiss. It's the closest Prakhuta's ever been to his patron goddess.

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I really like the next two Cutter pages. He's so sure he's reached the end of the road.

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I liked some of the guesses I saw after the last update that assumed we'd be going for a scene change while Duane and Elka tidily dealt with the second snake in the same manner as the first. Nope, fake out, they got asploded.

Bell took a long time to enter the battle but he's pulling no punches now that he has. Everyone needs to be really...

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Toma trusts Elka and Duane to handle this now that he's seen they can pull it off. Should be no problem! Go evacuate Chea and her Majesty!

Incidentally, it's real easy to type in a script "the updraft from the fires balloons beneath the vliegeng's skin and sends it skittering away from the manor like a gory kite, and into the sea," and not...

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Toma, what are you even doing? Just struck by the idea of her being under so much sudden pressure, and gotta put yourself at her side somehow, even if there's absolutely nothing you can do to help? That's kinda cuuuute~

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It's subtle, but you can see Duane torching the dead soldier in panel 4. And he's leaping forward at the end to kill those soldiers before they kill themselves as much as he is to prevent that snek from threatening Toma's kid. Ever the cleric, saving souls.

Elka stepping forward like that is similarly verboten, but he's still impressed. Th...

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Oh to be as calm and well-disciplined as Pantoffel when bodies fall from the sky. But it's a really bad time to be a sane Soud when your comrades grow suddenly curse-drunk. Imagine deciding if your chances are better to play along and crash into the building, or refuse and get thrown overboard and hope you land in a tree. In an early draft I let...

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Bell knows how to make an entrance. We'll see if he also knows how to make a difference; there's not much battle left to be fought. Our heroes have been at this all day, Cutter has very nearly reached his target, and the khert's ready to start smacking down wrights.

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Well, that's one major disaster averted, thank Yerta. Let's see if we can manage another one.

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Everyone on this page cracks me up, even melodramatic Emne turning on the waterworks in order to get her own way as the world literally explodes around her.

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I've always used Duane's glamour - and occasional lack thereof - to help express his mood. It's a good sign he's wearing it in an effort not to be an affront to the people he's with, even if Elka and Toma inevitably will see right through it if they look his way. But random soldiers and citizenry only see some tall and lanky stranger who must be...