Ch4 34
And we’re back! After the universe tried so hard to stop us, we have returned. It only took one power surge that blew up Alli’s monitor, the nefarious windows Ink update to stop Alli’s pen from registering, the software Alli uses to ink while not at her home computer to refuse to be re-installed while on vacation and a surly dwarf with not enough ale in his blood stream. Only one of those are made up – you can take a guess at which. But we’re back! We’ll be trying to return to 2 updates a week, but with all the fun things that happened, we did not have the ability to build up that buffer as we had hoped.
So we’re going to work hard at getting the 2 pages up and trying our hardest to build a buffer simultaneously! Wish us luck!
Also, some blue Abyssal shows up on this page. I’m sure he’s not important.
“Singnal” ? Hmmm.
Not sure if typo, or character-softening thhpeech impediment.
Just the lingering remnants of Hasera’s incompetence. 😜
Hasera’s? But the only time she was even close to Bael was when Lark threw him at Sazael. who was standing over her…
Right, the enemy has left. Time to take whatever useful/valuable materials our dead allies/friends have left behind. Then we must check in with somebody important somewhere to let them know of the events that occurred and see who all else is alive/dead/fate unknown. War is coming I do believe.
Good. Now they have left, Hasera and Lark can get back to arguing
Bickering. They were bickering. “Arguing” might (accidentally) imply that they were behaving like adults, stating cogent points of debate, etc.
True 🙂
Interesting that whatever they’re doing, they apparently have a time limit to do it before being portaled out. Might be a matter of their leader deciding they’re needed more somewhere else.
They might regret that decision.
Is the blue guy a guardian of these two clowns? A kind of chaperone? He looks like it.
The reality is far, far worse.
He’s their father!! *Dun Dun Duh!!!*
The made up one must be the dwarf; he must have had too much blood in his alcohol stream!
Thundercats will be back!
So do Abyssals prefer long hair? Or is that some kind of racial thing?
SOMEONE NOTICED!
I have an entire write-up for all the races, their lore, their habits and their lifestyle decisions, let me pull from the Abyssals!
Abyssals hair is one of the strangest phenomenon for the race of massive, brutish, violent beings. While most would see long, flowing locks as a detriment when fighting, the Abyssals embrace this odd display and are even proud of it. They believe that showing off this weakness and still winning a fight indicates that they truly are the most powerful of the 9 races.
To add to this, Abyssal hair is very durable. Only the sharpest blade can cut the hair of an Abyssal and to do so would be considered very damaging to an Abyssal’s pride and standing.
Short hair among Abyssals indicate some form of loss. Whether the loss is some form of punishment for a job done poorly, an indication of family status having been stripped by the Succubus Queen or a forfeit in the arena.
Any Abyssal seen without their hair is often ridiculed by other Abyssals or, at the very least, looked down upon by their kin.
It’s theorized that a lot of Abyssal women choose their mates specifically by measuring hair length, thickness and softness. For this reason, most young Abyssal males take great lengths to ensure their hair is displayed in some unique way, shape or form.
There are rumours that there’s some kind of underground Elven hair-product enhancers that can be found in the less reputable areas of certain Abyssal schools – but no Abyssal would ever admit to using namby-pamby Elf hair additives to their glorious manes.
Oh Jesus I didn’t think I’d get such a huge answer for such a small detail I thought to be unimportant 😅 Thank you for the surprise lore.
No one expects the surprise exposition!
My stories generally have little things people think inconsequential all throughout them that only after the story is done do they go back, notice them and waggle a finger at me for putting them in so quietly. I’m not saying every little detail is important, but some that you may think inconsequential is well thought out and either a hint, red herring or some kind of plot trick to be used for later. Think Shaun of the Dead’s “You’ve got some red on you”
The one with the blue hair is definitely using those underground Elven hair-product enhancers. I mean look at that bounciness and shine!
Not to mention the volume. Something is definitely up with Azeophael’s hair. I’d bet you were right. Wouldn’t challenge him on that, though. Dude’s bad news at the best of times.
Pfft, challenge him? I’d ask for product recommendations :p
Not sure what it says about my mind (OK, I know all too well what it says…), but I first read “Ith’ir’s incompetence!” as “Ith’ir’s incontinence!”. It works; actually, I might like it better… 🙂 Great comic; I’m looking forward to seeing where it goes!
No, that would be a much more drastic swear.
I’m not convinced any are made up, and you’ve just been embracing your dwarven heritage again.