OOPs #300
Dec30
Considerations
All right, looks like everything’s up and working! I’ve been sitting on this site redesign too long, and just needed a couple days to get everything remade. And in a strange bit of good (?) timing, my Wacom tablet died a few days ago, which I assumed was the universe’s way of telling me to get off my ass and update the site already. Thankfully Wacom made a speedy repair and delivery back, so I’ve already sketched up the first few panels of the next OOPs page.
And a special shoutout to Xandispin, who first suggested a site update several months ago, then set up this snazzy new WordPress layout for me to customize (which I then sat on until this past week). Thanks man; it took me long enough to get around to it, but without you the site would still be looking like something from the early 2000’s!
Seriously, I was manually creating pages and re-entering every altered link when there was a new page, using a long-defunct version of Dreamweaver 2001. That gets tiring real quick.
Anyway! There’s some new stuff in the Art & Extras section now as well, which you might not have seen if you don’t frequent Deviantart and such.
Exploded… that’s quite the description, Trademaster… an accurate one, but still.
Welp, looks like we finally have full confirmation of what actually happened to the guy.
“A normal existence is no longer possible” means Kalgkur is officially Out-Of-Place. I hate how it had to happen for him, but I’m certainly looking forward to seeing him added to the main crew. He’s a perfect fit for the “straight man” in a comedy troupe!
I bet by the end of this series, there’s going to be a full party of Out-Of-Placers.
With Kass, Isher, Yannit, Ran, and Lopin, there kind of already is one. One might also say Elim is “Out Of Place” too, considering he was already a refugee before being dragged into this.
thought you were replying to Apple_Boy’s comment from looking at the rss
“ran’s tail is too big?”
I wonder what role he’s going to fill for this expedition. If he’s going to act as a bodyguard, I cannot think of a worse choice, as his trauma could lead him to hesitating at a crucial moment. Unless they’re hoping to bank on his newfound reputation as a ruthless killer, though I don’t see that working on Yinglets who are both unlikely to know baxxid reputations or recognize specific baxxids even if they did.
Yeah, if Kass is riding on his head, I think anyone with any knowledge of how fast such a huge, sharp-edged creature can make a killing blow is going to be absolutely sure not to harm the tiny yinglet it’s protecting. I bet even if he hesitated, a group of would-be assassins wouldn’t stand a chance against him, especially not Yinglets: that circling thing doesn’t work on Baxxid.
I’d consider Elim a member of the “OOPs Party” before Ran. In my opinion, Ran is about as perfectly “in place” as anyone could be. In gamer terms, he’s more like a friendly “essential NPC” than a member of “the party.”
This isn’t where my reply was supposed to go. Did a yinglet get tangled up in the web scripts again?
Fair, I’d say deterrence is likely the most useful aspect of any bodyguard. However yinglets have not exactly been depicted as the wisest creatures, so I wouldn’t trust the presence of an enormous murder worm to be enough to keep the really motivated ones away. It wasn’t even enough to keep an idiot human thief from swiping something literally right in front of him, so relying on the rationality of potential bad actors doesn’t seem like a good strategy to me.
I wonder if he still owes the city his community service time as a guard. Wearing the red flag might also be useful, and Nell could give him a piece of jewelry for proof of who he is.
Isher and him can be “oh god help my tail is too big for this room” buddies.
And to think this all started with Kalgkur being afraid of a bug.
Varakses is correct, everything Kalgkur has been through along with this newfound caution, mixed with his own interests in other cultures make him perfect for learning and growing as well as baxxid-to-others relations.
Something I noticed here…
I was thinking that Viracroix was a bit sociopathic, especially after the scene where he has a tarp thrown over himself and the guy axed to death, but it seems like he is the one showing more concern for the well-being of Kalgkur than the elder of his own race. Either he is actually very caring for his subjects, even the ones who aren’t human, or he is very good at understanding why pretending to be is very important.