Crustiness factor is not a reliable measurement of quality
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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.
Ahhh, yeah. Who knows what sort of things Vizlet may have given away unknowingly?
…It may be interesting for Kass to ask Viracroix about that, later. Been a while since those two have interacted, I feel.
I also… hope Vizlet doesn’t think she was truly at fault, but it sounds like she does…
…uh oh.
Has Raan been testing every piece of junk the trademaster traded for on his apprentices …?
I don’t think Ran would perform human experimentation on his apprentices…
… that’s what condemned criminals are for, after all.
Yeah, that’s the thing with precursor super tech in settings like this. You don’t know what any of it does or what condition it needs to be in to function, so there’s literally no way to tell what’s valuable and what’s junk at a glance.
“Oooh! It’s so shiny and it glows! This must be a powerful relic!” (holding a lamp)
“A rusty sphere? There’s a little rattle when I shake it… are we sure this is even an antiquity? (holding a thermonuclear bomb)
Fortunately, an old and unmaintained thermonuclear bomb is unlikely to detonate. Still would not be a good idea to be near one, as it would still contain radioactive material and the shielding may leak. But it’d be more “cursed item causes everyone who gets close to fall sick and die” rather than “entire city mysteriously disappear in a flash of intense light”.
“I found this cylinder of metal with strange markings.”
“we’ve managed to translate the markings! it says ‘Cobalt-60, Drop and Run'”
The could understand from the shape that its a weapon, but something like the demon core would be deadly and you couldnt tell that its deadly by looking at it, in general i dont think they know what radiation is
Okay, but imagine how different of a story this all would’ve been if Vizlet had traded away that crusty lil’ rock and it exploded in, say, RAN’s face.
He would have taken Beizels offer up in a heartbeat for one thing
I’m not convinced Beizel would’ve made that offer if Kass wasn’t trying so hard to act “manly”.
Poak still would’ve made his offer though
Oh, definitely.