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PleasingFungus
Oct 10, 2012
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Funny that two of my favorite comics (MSPA and Unsounded) decided to go... decidedly unhinged around the same time. Maybe there's something in the air?

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PleasingFungus
Oct 10, 2012
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Ketzal posted:

You can see the same bird in the windows of the Black Tongue hideout scenes. So, I guess it's some sort of god? Either way I love that thing.

Oh, wow! I hadn't noticed that at all.

TheFuzzyLumpkin posted:

It's the Ilangyang, which is a harpy-esque creature who steals children and tries to nurse them, but her milk is poisonous and the children always die. It's a senet beast deal. The Black Tongues are named after her.

. . . I am personally responsible for about 30% of the anon questions on her formspring and I've read the entire thing. I'm a huge fan of this comic so if it's anything she's talked about on formspring, I'll probably be able to answer the question.

Heh. I had to google 'senet beast', and, well...

PleasingFungus
Oct 10, 2012
idiot asshole bitch who should fuck off
Skip every odd-numbered chapter, let us know how confused you are by the end.

Hard mode: skip every odd-numbered page.

PleasingFungus
Oct 10, 2012
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Nuns with Guns posted:

Wow. Wow between all the stuff on her DA and your sperging about it here Unsounded seems more like a dumping ground for all her favorite OCs than anything. I always assumed the story would smooth out once Sette and Duane had some room to breathe, but honestly I don't see that happening now with a new sexy man OC of hers being introduced every chapter or so.

Also, that stuff in the middle about the nature of Duane brushes uncomfortably close to being a spoiler, in my opinion. I agree with whoever said that supplementary material or historical stuff should be under spoilers for people who don't want to read about Cope's "answer to a sexy lich" and other things.

Lumpkin's whole argument is that the comic isn't following the course as the RP; that is, there's no reason to think that Duane is a ghost/sexy-lich.

Also, just got my kickstarter survey asking what character I want on my book! Pretty psyched to see that coming soon. (Apparently the $25 tier and below have already shipped?)

PleasingFungus
Oct 10, 2012
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Nuns with Guns posted:

Duane isn't the ghost/sexy lich, this is. I'm direct quoting here there, but I didn't want to link to more background material. Considering that every other character from that RP that she's taken the time to give detailed digital paintings to has shown up in the comic so far, I'd be comfortable betting a large sum that the lich shows up sooner or later. My point wasn't that it's going to follow the RP. I'm concerned with the introduction of more pet characters of hers when the story hasn't really given the ones she already added time to breathe.

Huh. That's... really a thing.

And it's looking like Murkoph is coming along - he just got named, after all. So...

Well, I'll weep for the comic's total ruination once it happens. No hurry!

PleasingFungus
Oct 10, 2012
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Haha, how had I never seen the front page of the site before?

That's amazing.

Case... closed?

PleasingFungus
Oct 10, 2012
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Takezio posted:

Yay, new Unsounded, let's--

...

GodDAMN, this chapter's been an emotional roller coaster.

So, I'm a bit slow. What's going on in this update, exactly?

PleasingFungus
Oct 10, 2012
idiot asshole bitch who should fuck off
Just got my Unsounded book in the mail!



I think I made Good Sketch Choices.

PleasingFungus
Oct 10, 2012
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I really like the 'magical language' showing up on this page. (It was mentioned at the end of the book, but I forget what the name was.) Unsounded's "magic-as-reality-programming" is really growing on me.

PleasingFungus
Oct 10, 2012
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Oneiros posted:

This is some Temple of Doom poo poo here. :stare:

Gotta love the newspaper headlines. "Do the Black-Tongues Have A Cure??"

But, yeah. This is going to be bad.

Wiki-reading people, what are we seeing here?

PleasingFungus
Oct 10, 2012
idiot asshole bitch who should fuck off

SirSamVimes posted:

It just makes me want to know how he transitioned from being an adorable dork to being a horrible undead monstrosity.

By dying, mostly.

PleasingFungus
Oct 10, 2012
idiot asshole bitch who should fuck off
I love, love, love the facepalm on the guy in the back of the last panel. Not "oh my god, he punched him!", just "oh, god, he punched him." Beautiful.

PleasingFungus
Oct 10, 2012
idiot asshole bitch who should fuck off
So, uh, remind me. Who are we looking at here?

PleasingFungus
Oct 10, 2012
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Likin' Lt. Elka here. A fun, down-to-earth character - nice to get back to after all that Khert nonsense.

PleasingFungus
Oct 10, 2012
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Fabricated posted:

And that's probably Murk.

Yep! Well, a Murkoph-free comic was nice while it lasted.

PleasingFungus
Oct 10, 2012
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Oxxidation posted:

Look at the windows at the very top of the most recent page.

Now that you mention it, he's in the windows on the previous page, too.

Where's the smiley face?

PleasingFungus
Oct 10, 2012
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Gabriel Pope posted:

EDIT: Also drat :stare: I definitely have not been paying enough attention around the edges of the flashback panels.

The scene on the left is pretty obvious, but what's being crossed out in the very center? I can make out an arm...?

Fabricated posted:

Hmmm...from the wiki:

So does this mean Sette has a twin lurking out there somewhere?

PleasingFungus
Oct 10, 2012
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Paramemetic posted:

I really really love this detail, that she sees bankers as the very pinnacle of a cool badass thing, out of control, playing it fast and loose etc.

It's in-character, cute as hell, and also very funny.

PleasingFungus
Oct 10, 2012
idiot asshole bitch who should fuck off
Finally, Unsounded addresses the difficult issue of fantasy race relations & magic blackface.

PleasingFungus
Oct 10, 2012
idiot asshole bitch who should fuck off
On a rather different note:

Sette :3:

PleasingFungus
Oct 10, 2012
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bigbigtruck posted:

God drat, what a great page today. :allears:

Yep, pretty much.

This comic is so dark in so many ways, so "inside, you're still that grinnin' wanker in green knockin' down bullies" is... really heartwarming, basically.

(Link to current page.)

PleasingFungus
Oct 10, 2012
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DarklyDreaming posted:

Booballoons with nooses on them. This loving comic. :allears:

Not balloons. They're magic! They've got wings!

e: panel 4 is something else

PleasingFungus
Oct 10, 2012
idiot asshole bitch who should fuck off
I hope the book version has pop-outs.

PleasingFungus
Oct 10, 2012
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I'm quite impressed by Duane's self-control, here. Seemingly completely unperturbed, even with all that blood and fresh meat, right in front of him.

(Also, gotta love that panel 3 face.)

PleasingFungus
Oct 10, 2012
idiot asshole bitch who should fuck off
Not exactly making friends and influencing people.

PleasingFungus
Oct 10, 2012
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DarklyDreaming posted:

It also wouldn't surprise me if all the employees at the Deadly Nevergreen are brainwashed/hypnotized to some degree

Is there anything in particular that makes you suspect this?

PleasingFungus
Oct 10, 2012
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There's some implication that's she's a (re?)incarnation of (one of?) the dead lion-twin gods, iirc.

PleasingFungus
Oct 10, 2012
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I am ready for adventures in accounting.

Chapter 10: Sette Examines The Deadly Nevergreen's Books (pp1-49)

PleasingFungus
Oct 10, 2012
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And off Duane goes, led about like a child by a literal slattern.

Sometimes one wonders if he might be a wee bit hypocritical.

PleasingFungus
Oct 10, 2012
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Gabriel Pope posted:

It does sound like it, but remember that we don't know if Stockyard has the whole story either. It sounds a lot like a line that was fed to him.

Yeah, there are (at least!) three separate stories about Duane, here:

1) The truth.

2) The story that Stockyard was told.

3) The story that Stockyard is telling Sette right now.

Those could all be the same thing! But given the characters involved, I wouldn't bet on it.

PleasingFungus
Oct 10, 2012
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Fabricated posted:

Also that she doesn't seem to age. I mean I'd assume someone would have had to notice Sette magically appeared out of nowhere and didn't age or something

Isn't that exactly what's being discussed?

PleasingFungus
Oct 10, 2012
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Huh, is this our first title drop?

PleasingFungus
Oct 10, 2012
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Mind-blowin' revelations.

If we need a candidate for the ringleader of this brewing palace coup - well, right now, we only know one person in the palace besides the queen, and Lady Emne is already being set up as something of an antagonist.

Just sayin'...

e: Another good candidate. (Do we know any more about him?)

e2: t'bloody his hands...

PleasingFungus fucked around with this message at 19:50 on Jul 18, 2014

PleasingFungus
Oct 10, 2012
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Jackard posted:

Throwing up a bunch of death flags right about now

But they're just one last job away from retirement! No way they die now, no way.

PleasingFungus
Oct 10, 2012
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Slashrat posted:

So not only is General Bell a traitor clearing the way for the silver, he also knows that Toma & co and making a mess of the plan. I suspect that the next batch of soldiers to arrive in town will make the contents of that cell seem pretty decent by comparison.

Yyyyep.

Loving the magic telegraph machine in the second-to-last panel.

PleasingFungus
Oct 10, 2012
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TheFuzzyLumpkin posted:

In before the next 800 posts about how it's obvious Glass is just a pee fetishist furiously masturbating to pedo golden showers.

really it goes without saying

PleasingFungus
Oct 10, 2012
idiot asshole bitch who should fuck off
What a place to end on a cliffhanger :(

PleasingFungus
Oct 10, 2012
idiot asshole bitch who should fuck off
Now that Sette has explained her plan, there's no way it can fail.

PleasingFungus
Oct 10, 2012
idiot asshole bitch who should fuck off
this is not a good night for people keeping their arms attached.

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PleasingFungus
Oct 10, 2012
idiot asshole bitch who should fuck off
So I guess the explosion was Mathis exceeding "Mogul's number". A Very Exciting Stack Overflow Exception.

I really do like Unsounded's cosmology. It's cute.

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