unsounded

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Leysa wishes so badly to go over there and break up whatever nonsense this is.

Trying to figure out where the best place for the page dump is, and it may be Friday. This is a build-up of realisations and the pages need to go together for the proper flow.

18-134

"Gosh, Lem, I'm really having a rough night."
"Here, I'll make it worse."

18-133

The promotion talk helps date this pretty well, it's about a week before Duane's death. He liked having a family so much and really thought a woman would help Lemuel's melancholy, but the boy just stopped responding all of a sudden. So weird~

18-132

We haven't had impenetrably verbose Duane for a good long while; I apologise if he is incomprehensible. He is also a little drunk and stoned and just Having A Night.

"Prokul Lledit" means "fucking Alds" which is a very bitchy thing for a Soud to say, but pretty on point here.

18-131

Farold's has been mentioned a scant few times in the background of the story. It's the teahouse and bakery where Durlyne's privileged Soud hang out and discuss politics and romance and eat tiny cakes and drink big mugs of sweet milk with a little tea in it.

18-130

Lem is a little too comfortable shoving a hot sword in someone's face.

Going to skip Friday to bank some pages, but we'll come back with honestly some of my favourite pages in this whole stupid comic. I'm a sucker for the brothers though. I know others are eager to get back to Sette (and we will, shortly)~~

I'll pop into Discord in t...

18-129

I think it's very unlikely you'll remember this guy from chapter 7. He's the leader of the Temple's forces, and it looks like Lemuel and him are buddies even outside of that. Perhaps it's kind of him to comfort his friend in his time of loss~~

18-128

I can't decide if it's cruel or not that Lemuel had her locked up at home without telling her anything. It had its pluses and minuses, I suppose, but she absolutely knew that Duane was dead.

Lem's bestie is on the next page. Anyone want to call who it is?

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Two pages today. As someone with brothers, I found these pages kinda traumatizing to draw, haha x_x

18-123,124,125

Someone called these khert memories "flashbacks" the other day and technically they are, but I can't help but think of them more like a logical progression of the narrative - just slightly out of order, temporally. Here are a few very important scenes that just happened to take place six and a half years before a murderous First Silver monster c...

18-122

Om nom nom.

Y'all wanna visit Alderode one last time this book? Let's go.

18-121

One more page left in this long and strange and revelatory scene; then we'll go see if there's any spark of hope left in all this darkness.

I do creep on comments and it's funny to always see readers waiting for Ilganyag to betray people. She's promising First Sette life again here - Jacaranda too - and she does seem terribly sincere. If ...

18-120

And y'all keep waiting for Lady Ilganyag to betray Prakhuta. Look at her calling out to him! He's her boy! And DarkSette there is her girl. Sette Frummagem? Unreliable. Talks funny. Kinda trashy. Disposable.

18-119

I don't think she wants you in her gang, False Brother Jacaranda.

I feel the need to say explicitly that Lady Ilganyag cannot manufacture artificial memories. It probably wasn't apparent enough when she was with Duane, but she could only use his own experiences on him. She'd slide her way into those memories, take on identities of people f...

18-117&118

Two pages today! Very fond of that triumphant supervillain shot of Lady Ilganyag on 117, with the crows bowing to her and DarkSette being especially fucked up. Everyone's having such a good day.

Of course pay no attention to whoever the "nemesis" is, Lady Ilganyag will not be taking questions. And he's not a character you've met, so just t...

18-116

That's enough storytime. Now, to action! It's your big moment, Miss Frummagem.

DarkSette nursing off Lady Ilganyag is one of those images I've had in my head for like fifteen years, so I'm sorry for doing that to you.

18-115

Sette has a da, of course, but if this other one was indeed of any relation to her, she'd kick his ass.

One more page of storytime on Monday, and then we'll get to just what Lady Ilganyag wants of our little Frummagem.

18-114

There we go, hair bird is the First Soul. I don't think it'll swell Sette's ego too much, she doesn't really like it, and most of the side effects it's saddled her with all her life have been a bother.

"Soul" is such a fuzzy word and I think it's going to confuse people. Basically, everything in the world has a khert soul. It's their perso...

18-113

Sette doesn't trust her. But she is very big, and must be handled delicately. Let her blab for now.

18-112

Sette's not gonna deny that familial assertion at the end there; she knows it's true. One should practise healthy scepticism but sometimes a giant lion, an evil doppelgänger, and a pontificating crow woman leave little room for debate.

Next week is storytime. Lady Ilganyag gonna give us the lay of the land. Or at least, her version of it...

18-111

A few old questions finally cleared up. Sette doesn't deny here that she's older than she looks - no point. If anyone would know, it's probably these freaks. If Duane or Jivi or Quigley was here though she'd be very flustered. It's probably the one single physical thing that she's self-conscious about. She also got very spooked whenever Starfish...

18-110

Ready to get to know enigmatic Lady Ilganyag a little better? Like Ruckmearkha, I think she comes off even creepier when she smiles. But she does try.

Long ago in chapter 8, when Sette related to Duane what this horrible bird thing had shrieked at her - "Malakhomit" - Duane translated it as "Runaway." Sette, however, heard "Run away!" Now ...

Dark Water (Minnow/Duane)

((This was commissioned. It becomes explicit once you see Minnow's butt scroll by, be forewarned! Otherwise it's mostly cute.))

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Upon departing one of Alderode’s most prestigious pymaric Academies after matters relayed to the reader in another tale, young Duane Adelier had turned towards the military, in the hope he’d be ...

18-109

This is the happiest moment of poor Prakhuta's entire life. Everything he was promised is blossoming into existence in front of his tear-filled eyes~

There are lots of Ilganyag boobs in the coming scene, so call your boss over to read alongside you if you decide to check the comic at work.

18-108

The locals are holding their own okay outside, but like Quigley and Jivi and Matty (and Toma and Elka) they're not going to last much longer without some major help.

Just a few more scenes left, but they are all very long and dense. We're at the end game.

18-106&107

Two pages again, to end the scene. Everyone's in place, now for the villains' final strike! :U

18-104&105

Two pages today. Most of Starfish's damage output is Terror-based. He's easily answered with pymary as long as you can time a parry.

18-103

Anyone ever seen Tremors? I love that movie.

18-102

There's a little something to be figured out here, see if you can do it. You got a two page time limit.

18-101

This environment is very Aliens or Event Horizon, hehe~