unsounded

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So this merry band is off to Litriya to investigate. I don't think Hetr is going to have a lot of patience with the stormfolk keeping him from getting in, but if we're lucky one of the naked skyboys will fry his murdering ass with a lightning bolt before he manages to torture Toma and Elka to death. I'm sure it'll be fine.

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Captain Hetr needs an eyepatch.

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All these figures took a while to draw, man. This page and the few remaining in this scene were a bear. But I like the lighting, it's kind of cinematic.

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Two pages today. Cutter's attitude towards Ana has certainly changed. She's not a target of mockery now but a comrade in arms - or at least someone else who can appreciate a good bit of verse.

We won't see these two again for a while. No one expects the Silver to show up in the form of a dead-eyed and disfigured woman, so this is better than any ...

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Pantoffel doesn't mess around!

For the record, Toma is not left-handed, so I think he deserves some credit for fending off these goons with his subordinate swordarm. And poor Elka just got overwhelmed. In the script I had this fight go on a while but taking out nameless henchmen is a bore and I couldn't get into it.

We'll do two pages Wedne...

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Crepe callback!

You know that old newspaper comic Family Circus? How it would do those single panel strips following a character around and showing their path with a black dashed line? The second panel here reminds me of that. Toma Kick!

Ah, crud, I just noticed I forgot his chest wound in the third panel. It never fails.

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You think Toma was a little stung by Bastion's crappy remark? He looks stung to me. The good Captain's expressed dismay in the past at putting his people in danger, or letting them get hurt under his command. After the events of the past month his self-confidence is near rock bottom.

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Elka, you're almost a terrible person. Plus you stabbed those innocent frogs! Man, c'mon! D:

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THREE new pages today, two of them mildly NSFW.

So what kind of guilt has been eating Anadyne up? Guilt over failure? Or guilt over murder? Did she let Stockyard fall or did she let Stockyard fall?

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Pantoffel just wants to go lick herself in a dark corner.

I want to post all next week's pages together, so we'll do a single three page update on Monday. I can't promise you will like it and it may even piss you off (it pissed off my proofreader), but it's some of my favourite stuff of the comic so far D: Until then, have a good weekend!

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Two pages today. Don't let Captain Toma fool you; he's more injured than he lets on, but he's not going to hang back and let his Lieutenant do this for him. Going forward though, cut him some slack. Some crazy zombie bit a chunk out of his right shoulder and then a tumble over a waterfall snapped his arm and busted a few ribs.

Seed of Evil

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Knock can't catch a break. Though maybe her ribs may catch a few. Oh-ho!

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I have a feeling Tumblr's going to want to know what Cutter means with his accusation here, but some things are best left behind the veil of doubt.

Monday, someone will be disrupting this charming heart-to-heart. Ana welcomes it, I'm sure. Have a great weekend!

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I don't entirely believe Bastion would be dealing with Duane directly if he wasn't instead compelled to be ending the world as an I'm Sorry to an insane lizard. I don't think Bastion wants to touch Duane with a ten foot pole.

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This is a good page to view in high-res; I luxuriated in the details a bit :3

Sneaky Prakhuta not respecting a man of letters working hard at his craft.

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Delicieu is a right bastard but he does intrigue me. He's almost two-hundred years old and deeply cynical. He's seen all the human race has to offer and knows exactly how little it cares for anyone who is crushed beneath the wheels of progress. Eventually there's hand-wringing, victims are memorialised, romanticised, but it rarely stops the wheels ...

Dad's Crazy

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Prakhuta's memory of the next few pages in history is a little fuzzy - you'll notice he's not paying any attention to the humans in that middle panel and is instead focused on his new friends. There's been a theory I've seen tossed around that Delicieu the Human's soul is inside Cutter but I think this page debunks that one. It's not a theory I lik...

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I enjoy this touch. We assumed that his disfigurement was entirely from Delicieu's abuse when actually most of his physical scars are from his own people punishing him for letting the humans do this to him at all. Like Duane, Cutter no longer has a kind.

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Can you imagine how bad the inside of that Silver must smell? Before he entered I had considered a brief few panels of Bastion putting some funky stuff under his nose to block the smell, like they use in movies, but a bit of research revealed that stuff doesn't actually exist; it's just a visual trick by filmmakers to show off the local stank.

Cu...

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Prakhuta has absolutely no chill in this scene. But at least Ana's feet look okay.

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Hey, I remember her! Feel vindicated if you guessed it. I think the turquoise-coloured spell a few pages ago was the biggest tell :)

This is the point where we start flipping around a lot from place to place. Remember Darkest said he was gonna follow Bastion's advice and go "ask the birds" where old Master Delicieu is? But Bastion's also inside t...

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Knock is good at knocking thing over and she has excellent knockers but she doesn't have a lot knockin' about upstairs, if you get my drift. She recognises it though, and knows she and Ana work best as a team. 

Knock's characterisation honestly owes a lot to various barfly friends my mom had when I was growing up. They were rough, crass, lou...

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Captain Hater I mean Hetr! It's been too long. Sounds like he's no dummy. He knows he's expendable and he knows men taking great risks in the name of power have no problem sacrificing their pawns once the finish line's in sight. Bell must be really nervous about something though.

Captain Colt there - Abby - was the Peaceguard Captain stationed ac...

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With this update I have to recommend you read it on the site! You are privy to the print version though. It'll be laid out like above. Probably. I had mentioned on Friday wanting to make a last minute edit and that edit was to add the port...

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I had a bit of a brain-fart with this page when updating it tonight. I had totally forgotten it was the first of a three page update I wanted to post all at once. It has a transition that goes with it that would be totally lost on its own. However I forgot I'd wanted to do a major edit to the page after, so I don't have all three pages ready to pos...

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Get your butt inside and confront your old friend, Bastion. This flashback is just more procrastinating. Shameful!

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Bastion looks a bit uneasy about all this. Puzzling, since he's spent the entire story so far ostensibly facilitating all of Cutter's plans.

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So I'm very excited about this page because Bastion says "Dingleberries."

Patreon has become very inconsistent in how it displays the pages on here - either they're fine, blurry, or half the size they should be. From now on I'll always also be attaching the page as a downloadable file, just in case.