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.
It’s because the stars tell them to haven’t you been listening to narklet
Well, I have a feeling there will be a change of scenery in a coming arc
Time to throw Kassen into the swamp.
The paaaain. I feel your pain and frustration, Kass.
Not WONDER they want to so tightly control everything and all the Enclaves, they can’t risk their intentions getting out.
They definitely keep things under wraps, and heck, maybe they deliberately don’t educate their Yinglets so they don’t question stuff?
Or they’re just rapid-expansion fodder to work through Antiquity sites without question.
But Vizlet sorta raises a good point; why DOES Ivenmoth want them so bad, to the extent of paying so much for even scraps?
Ivenmoth wants them for the same reason governments do anything: power.
Also to keep others from having that power.
That said, I don’t think Ivenmoth cares so much about the scraps themselves. They pay much more to learn where the scraps were found.
Knowledge is power. Wealth is power. Antiquites are both.
But the very French (or Luciferian) idea that everything is always and only about power leads to some remarkably repeatable category errors.
I didn’t say everything is about power, just everything governments do. Which is practically a tautology. A government without power cannot govern.
Good clarification. My apologies, but some things are only about the uses of power, or enabled by it, even with government.
> some things are only about the uses of power,
But they have to have the power first. You can have an honest government that only seeks power to use it for good. Or you can have a corrupt government that seeks power for its own sake (or for nefarious purposes). But you cannot have a government without power because that’s no government at all. At most it’s a puppet state controlled by whoever actually does have the power.
The real problem is that while most governments start out with good intentions, and only seek power to effect whatever good they intend, they must achieve the power first because otherwise their good intentions are nothing more that useless political masturbation. However entropy is a thing, and even the best intentioned government inevitably corrupts to where the power itself becomes the goal, even if only to keep anyone else from having that power.
Governments either increase their power or they lose power; there doesn’t seem to be a steady state solution. Governments that lose political power are no longer governments. This is the life-cycle of government.
TL;DR: Government == Political Power == Government
> most governments start out with good intentions
Ha ha ha… as a Russian, let me tell you: HA HA HA.
Ahem. I mean… you speak well, but I honestly doubt this part. They seek power from the get-go.
There’s a reason why I said “most” and not “Russian”.
I don’t want to turn this into a political board, but seriously, WTF is the deal with Russia in particular? The Russian people have deserved better government for going on centuries now, but for some reason, from the tsars to the current bad lot, they always seem to get screwed politically. Just one shit government after another after another. /rant
There’s also a reason I said “start” and not “stay”. The start of things can be a very short time indeed.
> They seek power from the get-go.
That’s exactly my point. They may seek power for some benevolent goal, but always the power comes first. Inevitably the power becomes everything.
Antiquities hunting like a lot of research is one of those moderate cost low chance high payout things. Much like pure research, Ranns blatherings find 800 useless things… and then he finds a way ti distill bloodroot 8 times over. Finding another that thing could find anything from free candles for life or a weapon mounted on the wall that makes your city impossible to invade or the secret of eternal youth… Zhat zing is a secret to.. well not eternal youth but some of it.
Panel six is just begging to be used in a meme.
Yes, please make it happen!
Put the beacon in her hand, that’s the EXACT look of every skyrim player who touches it.
This might be the meme you’re looking for.
tinyurl dot com /kassbeacon
Perfection.
Panel five is pretty memeable too!
Kass feeling the physical pain of getting roughly net zero information LOL. New meme dropped!
He got information, useful, valuable information, just not the information Kass ex-expected.
Gift horse, mouth, acquainted.
Hoarding an arsenal of (possibly) magical (possibly) weapons!
I still have this nagging feeling that they’re not hoarding magic-nukes, but nuke-nukes. There’s so much about this world that smacks of “lost colony” I don’t even know where to begin.
Plus the singular antiquity we’ve seen was straight up just a holographic projector like one would find on a Starship bridge
Oh yeah they’re very obviously ancient technology, it’s entirely possible that the greater yinglets are some sort of engineered slave race, and the goo that transformed Kass was a mutagenic agent used on criminals or something.
The lesser yinglets would therefore probably be a distant descendant of the greater yinglets (or possibly the greater yinglet is an intelligent-ish modification of a shared ancestor), and the greater’s reemergence is possibly a bunch of them coming out of some sort of vault-like shelter, or just some creatures being affected by this mutagen under unknown circumstances ‘re-birthing’ the race from extinction.
The motive behind the cultural direction of hoarding antiquities could be anything, master race still exists and is reclaiming relics of their technology, slave race that’s trying to piece something together from the technology of their extinct masters, or just some unlucky humans or something else that got transformed exploiting their command over the young race to accumulate personal power.
Hell, maybe the head honchos aren’t even yinglets.
Please, would it be possible to get a version of Panel 5 without the first speech bubble, just Vizlet saying she has no idea? It’s got lovely meme potential, as others have said.
After refreshing every day for a month for the Big Reveal I honestly had to chuckle here. Very well played.
Still, some interesting new wrinkles. The obvious conclusion is that the yinglets are hoping to curb their gender disparity issue by finding and even mass-producing Zat Zhings, but that seems a bit boring given the long buildup. I wonder if they’re in some way connected to the civilization that produced the antiquities, or are even their true descendants? Sure, they’re supposed to be a young race, but species don’t just randomly appear.
No one ever likes zhe contents of zhe mystery box. Zhe mystery is tastier 🙂
I also refresh sometimes 4-5 tiems a day for new history of Ying. Was worried somezhing has gon’ wrong.
Flashback to the FNAF 4 box.
“Perhaps some things are left forgotten. For now.”
> species don’t just randomly appear.
They kind of do, actually. It’s called Punctuated Equilibrium.
The greater yinglet mutation is such a massive selective advantage over the lesser yinglet it should be no surprise how rapidly they replaced them. What’s more interesting is the extreme animosity between the two. Genetic studies in humans show that we didn’t just fight our predecessors (neanderthals, denisovans etc.), but we also did a lot of another thing starting with ‘F’. Given the yinglety tendency to pansexuality we’ve seen, it’s surprising there isn’t at least some interspecies humping going on, but instead they seem to universally choose violence (and refuse to give the reason why).
> there isn’t at least some interspecies humping going on
There is, they just prefer humans.
I meant interspecies and intrageneric. I assumed that was obvious by context.
As far as interspecies and intergeneric, it seems to be only male humans that male yinglets are interested in. I may be mistaken, but outside one probably non-canonical side story, I don’t recall any yinglets with intentions for any female humans. What’s up with that?
I don’t think Narklet knows what “That Thing” was capable of. If he did, he’d probably have seen through Kass’s fake backstory. But I don’t think anybody knew what it was until it did its thing to Kass. Narklet and his scavengers are definitely finding antiquities, but we don’t know what else they’re finding. What we have just learned is that the farther North the yinglets search, the more antiquities they find. That alone is significant, and it implies that they might be working their way towards a yet-undiscovered mother lode of antiquities. Narklet might think Brakka found it, which would explain his willingness to work with the exile.
ohhh? dis startin to sound much more… interestin! soundses like… twetening almost! we feel your pain Kass, alla us wants to know what’s happenin. But you shows it in funniest way.
I hope this isn’t going to end up in some ying vs ivonmouth conflict
While Kass and Vizlet don’t know why the Elders want Antiquities or what they do, neither do we. All we know is that they’re remnants from an older civilization that disappeared. This thing about the yinglet gender disparity that’s being attached to them is an assumption that I think is wrong.
*New Image Macro Get!!!*
After being on edge this week waiting to learn some Yinglet feminization stone lore. I have Kassen’s exact reaction
From Enclave to Empire, ever expanding to the sands of the sea, searching the shores for tools from a time before time was known, always to be sent to the central home. But even the wisest women leading are kept shrouded, shadows hiding these prizes’ purpose.
You’re back, VERY Kool.
You just made my night. Thank you!
I wonder if the “stars” are satellites?
Kass, look into a mirror and ask that question to yourself.
I think kass is gonna try to get traded to another enclave to learn this stuff
That might be a bit too much for him. For now, at least.