Refreshments have arrived, diplomacy can begin.
Vizlet is not entirely lying about the scuffle between her and Kass; a non-lethal dominance fight is one of the older methods of resolving disagreements, as yinglets’ inbuilt psychology pushes them to break off a prolonged fight if it’s lasted more than a few seconds, as they’re not built for endurance. So whoever can push back that natural instinct the longest tends to be the “victor of wills,” and most often the winner of an argument by default.
It has been a long, long time since anyone initiated a dominance match with Vizlet, let alone lasted more than three seconds against her.
Lippie’s face… I want to give her a comforting hug.
I also want to know what the *heck* she’s serving on that tray. Those appetizers look… less than appetizing.
Fresh raw saltwater clams, mussels and such. A delicacy for the guest!
‘Freshmennns!
That actually sounds good. Little bit of horseradish and some lemon juice…
Awww, Lippie. Now that is a face that can break a heart, she needs a hug stat. She looks so shaken by being yelled at, I am guessing she’s not one of the more self-confident yinglets.
And as usual we have an interesting tid-bit of information about Yinglets and their ways. Indeed it must be strange for Vizlet, whom being so used to being the smartest Yinglet in the Enclave, now suddenly finding a newcomer whom is just as smart and capable as herself. I am curious of Vizlet’s history and how she rose to be in the position of head Matriarch. Any chance we may discover of it in the future?
Good observations! And you’re about to get a detailed glimpse into Vizlet’s life veeeeeery soon.
so basically:
hit!
0
hit!
0
hit!
0
con check
keep fighting
hit!
0
hit!
0
hit!
0
con check -2
keep fighting
hit!
0
hit!
0
hit!
0
con check -10
this is going nowhere stop here.
so it seems like we need to add another “ability”:
con check must happen after every round to see if you still have fight left in you.
More or less! The urge isn’t to stop fighting entirely, but to disengage, and/or hop back for a moment. While hunting, this is when the yinglets on the other side of the prey jumps in towards its back.
interesting. so what happens when no pack is present? and or if the fight is long range? possibly using slings, xbows, machine guns, etc. will the endurance timer urge them to break off a fight even if they are not exerting much effort, time based, or is it directly attached to effort applied to the fighting?
Crossbows and machine guns sound just… like they would be TOO MUCH combined with yinglet crazy
fine! Take away their improvised large caliber, rapid fire, jetpacks why don’t ya. How can you expect yinglets to commute to work after you limit them to only small caliber machine pistols, Hmmm, Mr. Yinglet-Minigunners-Must-De-Denied-Rapid-Travel-Options-Just-So-I-Can-Remain-The-Superior-Species. Whats next are you going to steal food directly from poor yinglets mouths just to prevent them from cooking it over an open fire, in their living room, in the same apartment complex, directly under your apartment?!?!?
Show them some respect!
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I support reducing yinglet puntings to Tuesdays and no further than 5 feet. Show you care, vote yes on prop 5. Together we can end speciesism.
Use exoarmor and Tau Battlesuit knockoffs. Tau have slower reation time and no thumbs. Do they let this stop them? Nope, they built bigass Battlesuit and use godlike firepower as a weapon.
It just occurred to me the Kass and his best friend’s status has taken a somewhat dramatic change and in a way improved. as they were before, they were fairly low on the human social ladder.
In Yinglet society Kass is pretty much near the top (which in the overall scheme may not seam like much), and in to a lesser degree, his status in human culture has gone up a not with his new rank and status. Especilly after establishing equal terms and footing with the Matriarch.
His friend, as a side effect, also has an improved status as the guardian of the ambassador to house Ravonmoth.
That is indeed the case! He’s gained a few ranks and pulled his friends along as his entourage, but at the cost of becoming something that few take seriously. Does it balance out?
Who knows!
Well I think as far the the head guild/group is concerned it does sort of balance out, if only because that crest on his chest gives him rank and some authority. Even if the lower ranked ‘humans’ are wondering what has happened to their world that a lowly Yinglet now out ranks them.
Outside the organization, who knows.
At least, when she is in uniform that is. She really needs a pendant so she can wear her official crest when not in her official uniform and is having to wear more traditional garb around the onclave.
Yuuuuup, without that uniform, Kass is just another lowly scavenging rodent-thing to be punted across the street.
Kassen may not feel that way, but he’ll feel better with his own enclave. I look forward to seeing what his enclave looks like. I mean, it isn’t spoiling, the foreshadowing is all there in plain sight, even before reading anything ahead, I already knew that’s where this was heading.
At least Kassen’s misery is well justified here. I’ve read comics where the protagonist wallows in misery for a lot less. Forced to transform into a scav, a female scav, makes the shock and grief he’s going through seem muted and perfectly appreciable. But Kassen IS a fairly smart human, so he should be able to figure out how he can turn his life around. He may as well accept that he isn’t human anymore, and the literary pattern is making it clear that undoing that isn’t an option. So what he needs to do is fortify his new social position before he loses that as well.
so did the brown one just get his arm torn off by Elim? Or is it simply very dislocated and yinglet skin / muscles are some of the stretchiest organic things ever?
I mean he is obviously in pain but the lack of blood, which surprisingly would not have come from the guy wearing the red shirt, and the impossible distance between the brown yinglets shoulder and forearm, around the back ??? of said red shirted Elim, would mean an extremely bad dislocation coupled with extremely stretchy skin. Could also be a mutated yinglet with extremely long arms.
That is in fact an entirely different yinglet behind Elim attempting to push his way through!
Aha so it’s the right hand and arm of a yinglet who is behind the green curtain still. In this case the arm is clipping through the curtain. just need to trace the line of of the curtain down to the bottom of the frame.
It also looks like the angle is off for a right arm to be there.
| … this is the angle of the curtain
/ … this is the angle everyone is running through the curtain at, probably closer to a 45deg angle
to get the angle of the yinglets right arm the yinglet would either need to be in front of Elim and or hopelessly entangled in the curtains.
2 other really small details: bucktooths snout is corkscrewed in a clockwise fashion, counter clockwise from his perspective, and he is missing the lower jaw on his left side. Or did something simply eat, or otherwise remove, the left side of his jaw, possibly leading to a broken snout that didn’t quite heal straight? I left out badly done reconstructive surgery since, I have a hunch that, the only form of reconstructive surgery currently available is a face full of mace.
Sorry that was at 4am my time … I think the hand should have been a left hand not a right that way it could be wrapped around Elim and the yinglet would definitely be behind. Right arms typically don’t bend that way and when they do it’s typically not good.
Have to say it looks like Vizlet might have fond a new front runner for her replacement. Kass is probably the only Yinglet in a fifty mile radius who is at her intellectual level. Well at least Vizlet now has someone to have a intelligent conversation with, and if Kass never becomes human again at least now she might have a distinguished career as a Yinglet Matriarch
How eloquently put, Panel 1 Brown Yinglet.
It looks like most of Vislet’s attention is on Elim in panel two, though she seems to be primarily addressing the Yinglets who came in response.
If I were to make a joke, it would be that Vislet is admiring Elim’s healing factor.
The color on Vizlet’s arm drapery things is missing in the second panel
So it is.
I noticed that the one brown yinglet first yells “AAA?”, as if they’re already panicking before they know what to panic about :u
Yeaahh. I have known alot of people (human) just like that.
That poor little sweetheart. DX
Vizlet was once human, calling it now.
Just read the next panel. Remove these comments and HIDE MY SHAME.
I busted a gut laughing at the Matriarch’s explosion. “DID I NOT JUST DEMAND PRIVACY WITH ZE DIPLOMAT!” I am so pleased at that type of comedic outburst.
“AAA? AAAH!”
poor lippie
You get to be born among the noble class of your species, only to learn you’re at the bottom of that group.
Lippie is so damn relatable.
It’s been years but reading that 2nd to last panel with Vizlet shouting “FOOL” never fails to make me laugh. Read it to today again and could not stop from chuckling.
Vizlet.
APOLOGIZE.