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Out-of-Placers
A story of inconvenient changes
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OOPs now has a Russian translation which updates shortly after the English pages are posted!
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Oh wow, had the tab open and clicked on it right after the update. Ok, so, sounds like whatever it was is no longer at the bottom of the hole? Then again, they were talking about the hole…
I really hope the other Dinnish refugees appreciate Kass getting them this nice treatment.
You know, it occurs to me, having thought about it a little just now, the Trademaster may be using Kass as an example here. “Hey, one of you was loyal, and found a way to be really useful, and now I’m going to invest in the rest of you, to let you see what loyalty will get you.” He’s basically encouraging them to serve his interests in the future, while also finding an excuse to deal with what was likely an economic issue of a group of refugees with no prospects.
Also, I wonder when Felsa will come back into the picture… She knows about Kass’s situation, and they seemed to be on good terms. I’m surprised she hasn’t visited…
Eh, Kass COULD have hired zheir stripper crush as a personal assistant when negotiating wizh de Trademaster, but we haven’t heard anyzhing from her eizher.
Now I’m wondering if there’s a partial yinglet created by whatever was in that vial. Can’t be anything good.
If it were something that could communicate, like a yinglet, Kass would know.
Maybe it’s something Yinglet shaped, but not alive, but the fact they haven’t moved it and call it “the hole” implies it’s something they can’t remove from the ground.
Meant to elaborate: Kass would know because Ran would’ve brought whoever it was up into the tower with them. No reason to keep them separate.
You know there’s something fishy when they send two officers to repair some floorboards…
They probably have Officers that are also tradespeople. They -have to- have an equivalent of an architect, to design the buildings and also have construction workers that fix things in the main building and surrounding areas.
What’s not in the hole:
The Maltese Falcon, The Holy Grail, The One Piece, The Golden Fleece, The Dragon Scroll, an Unobtanium rock, The Dark Crystal, The Philosopher’s Stone, El Corazon, The Heart of the Ocean, The Arkenstone, The Infinity Stones, ….
What is in the hole:
An enticing cliffhanger that has us holding our breath waiting for the next page! The author is toying with us mercilessly!
My guess is the next page will be them trying to dig it up, and their shovels dissolving on contact.
Wondering if this will explain where Felsa, Galen, and that third unnamed Dinnish character have been since the prologue: they clearly knew Kass, and they know what happened.
Ooh! OOH! I knowz! Is za evils lair of za sooo SOOO evils Clamzy-Fingers! (SOOO EVILS!)
Or… or maybies is Sandz-Crab Kass… za most Crabzy of za Kassez. O_O
Or it coulds be Bess. *blink blinks* No… Am pretty surez she inza bag wizh zhose badzy peoplez headings for za docks.
Maybies is za adsolezsent absnormalz samsurai tiplods… ands za Secrets ofs za Slimez.
Eizher ways… zhere issa termmorz in za farce. Yes Yes… O_o
Does anyone know how many days it’s been since Kass was transformed, comic time?
I keep thinking it’s been a week, but it’s probably only been a couple days. It’s hard to keep track of when perspective keeps shifting and it’s been going for a decade…
I was wondering this a few weeks ago, so I went through and counted the distinct day-night cycles that passed in sequence. I counted 8 nights, including the night Kass got transmogrified, so that was the bare minimum before the scene with the cadaver tongue. But during that scene, Ran described the “incident in the alleyway” as having happened “a couple of weeks ago,” which extends the minimum up to at least a couple of weeks. I also think it’s probably not much more than a couple of weeks.
I’ve had a long think about this. I wonder if the yinglitification juice isn’t limited to humans… and if there were insects like moths under the floorboards, well, they may be looking at horrible partially transformed miniature yinglets.
However, ran’s assistant still called it the “hole” despite it being dug up here, so the corrosive juice probably continued boring a hole into the ground. Perhaps it found a burrowing insect underground, and they’re looking at a yinglet body that tried to expand into a much too small hole, dying instantly. They would probably dig around the bored hole and bring the whole thing up, resulting in a barrel-shaped artifact being stored in ran’s vault.
It is scary territory when you ask a Yinglet to zhink deeply about zhings, but I do have a zheory about “Zhat Zhing”. Yinglets can use it to reset zheir age, and cheat death from old age. Being a razher Senior aged Yinglet, I know my time here isn’t terribly long unless de secret to eternal youzh can be shared. Zhough, to be honest, getting “Zhat Zhing away from de Yinglet council’s grubby paws would be difficult. Zhat, and somehow de Council knew where to look for it. Like zhey had some Yinglet Nostradamus telling zhem to look in ValSalia for it.
But zhats what za Healzhy Healzhies… juice… … …I didsn’t says nozhings! *flashes hisself wizh za Ying In Blacks pen-forgetty-zhingy… FLASH!*
*blink blink* Ummm… Somezhing bouts timez for anozhers clamzjuice. Yes yes?
*blinks* Maybe zhat’s what is in de hole? De result of Ying-transformation, healzhy-healzhy juice? Only a Yinglet would be crazy to put something zhat used to be Kassen Akoll’s fabled Schlong in their mouzhes, but it would make a odd sort of sense why de fabled elixir is so, so rare.
Weeellll… I think that’s where the gender swap comes from. Yinglets have a chronic shortage of females, and here is a thing that produces a yinglet female. When that thing is applied to a yinglet, it *probably* switches their gender. You might be on to something with the age thing though.
Eh, de over-fertility of de Feemlales makes up for zheir scarcity. De males don’t mind, as zhey are busy wizh same-sex couplings, do put it crudely.
It would make sense to have such a zhing as a emergency measure, for when a Enclave’s Feemales were lost due to somezhing unforseen, but Yinglet’s social structure still has Males basically being in charge of zhings. De Matriarch of course has a special place, but none of de ozher Feemales hold positions of authority wizhin most enclaves despite being given special education and better access to food.
So, having “Zhat Zhing” being a sex-change item solely, would not likely be more than a curiosity for de Yinglet Council. But among humanity, zhere is a saying, for rich or poor, deazh comes for us all. But what if some twisted fuck on de Council found a way around dis? Wouldn’t zhey turn over heaven and hell just to get it? Yinglet’s don’t have a strong desire for wealzh, and power is as much of a burden as it is somezhing to kill over. But ask someone who is old, if zhey could take a pill and be made into a young adult? Zhat’s somezhing day a Yinglet…all of us live wizh, zhat we won’t be here in a couple of decades. It’s our doom, de day we realize dat for some reason, de universe decided zhat we live 1/4th the lifetime of a Humani on average.
a new one!!! again!!! will this pattern keep on going? let’s find out!!!
i now understand zhe purpose of rss
*gives a clam*
Congrats, you’re on the path towards knowledge
sadly, it appears to have stopped. there will no longer be any more pages.