It’s technically #138 but it’s still a nice number to look at isn’t it!
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Out-of-Placers
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Yes, yes Lopin you are.
I gotta say, I like these medics a lot. Very level-headed and professional. I totally understand why Elim wanted to be treated by them rather than the medic in the Dinnish bunkhouse.
If I didn’t know any better I’d say Lopin is a southern bell. The cutest southern bell ever. He just needs his frilly umbrella. Just the best little guy. He makes me laugh.
Kaz:Tfw yo brain fries.
in disgust
I’m not sure how exactly this advances the sum total of human knowledge, but I’m sure Ran can find a way to finagle a reason for it. Plus it’s adorable.
Wdym you don’t know? This is the most important scientific project of all time!
The cuteness quotient has been a complete mystery for ages untold. Man finds cuteness in rodents, canine rodents with their smushed snouts, and even in wooden figures! Now, oh yes, nowww they will TRULY FIND this mysterious thing… and construct a mighty empire from something so cute naught can face it and stand upright, without a coo and a chin tickle. Oh yessss, moste important indeed….
Please don’t ruin zhis for Lopin, Kass….please don’t ruin zhis for Lopin.
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Wow that’s all I can say really. no other comments.
Is it just me, or does it seem that Ran is Viracroix Salia’s mystery lover?
Wait, wasn’t Viracroix’s lover a “she”? …or am I misremembering?
I thought they had their heart set on kas (as soon as they find another zhat zing and figure out how to NOT turn into a female)
THAT is what KASS thinks, and now, what you think is about Kass, when in fact it is a total mystery and he is not that bad at hiding his lover, now, he rules the Teeth with an iron fist after all!
But seriously he already jested to Kass that it wasn’t that way, she’s just too paranoid as she is.
I’m pretty sure Ran is just an oddball scientist who likes dress-up. Not the Lord Salia, Viracrox’s “she” lover. That is a stretch, friend, and I just can’t see it for truth. Perhaps, Viracrox is fascinated by how Ran described it to him. They seem to think somewhat similarly.
My money’s on Vizlet.
1.) She’s both smart and quirky enough to be a good match.
2.) She represents a fair amount of untapped economic and political power.
3.) Yinglet directed evolution, if properly understood and applied, can possibly lead to Superlets ruling the world.
Can yinglett’s and humans even produce hybrid offspring?
Yinglets and humans, probably not. Yinglets and former-humans-turned-yinglet? A lot more likely.
In that case Violet and the trademaster could never have a family that was truly their own
I go through the trouble to type it in and this phone still changes Vizlet to Violet
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Some one just graduated Cosmetology school!
And……Yes you are a pretty!😘
SO much ribbons, yes. Need more places to stick em, yinglits too small. Soooo…on the feets they go. OMG so adorkable. Lopin is so..so..Lopin…
Kassie: Damn it Lopin! This is not the time for this!… But yes you do look gorgeous, you little minx. Now shut up and let me talk to Ran! Elim was hurt! Please help him!
I feel pretty! Oh so pretty! I feel pretty, and happy, and briiiight!
And I pity, any yinglet who isn’t me toniiiight!
*Sees Lopin*
*Jaw Cartoonishly dropped*
He’s so unrecognizable.
Here’s Lopin’s Darwin award because Kass will have that image in her head anytime she thinks of Lopin. But maybe seeing Kass might want to be intimate with a female (sorta) it might work out with enough clams, who knows?
Oh no, he was LISTENING when Kass said he didn’t want “that kind of attention” and he GOT IT ahaahha (or this is entirely unrelated Ran-nning procedure).
Here’s a question…would Lopin actually be into Kass in the first place? He calls her “so pretty” but he doesn’t really show any other signs of attraction like we’ve seen in other males. On the other hand he’s INSTANTLY into any strong male type that shows up…
Lopin may actually be the rare case of a truly gay Yinglet :P.
I don’t think it’s that rare. There was a seriously …erm..poofy? male as one of the patriarchs deliberately in the breeding pool. Even the exposition didn’t seem to know why. The baker’s roof prophet and one of the corner scavs (ee is too a lil (#$#@) all seem to go that way. It seems like they’ve realized there’s a serious female deficit and they make up for it with some rather feminine looking/acting males?
That’s directly discussed in one of the Field Guide strips, and the “feminine” males are still basically bisexual. They lean towards taking a more stereotypical feminine role in their male/male relationships but are still looking to mate with actual females when possible. What I’m wondering is whether Lopin might actually go beyond that and genuinely show no sexual interest in females.
I suspect poor Lopin has just accepted that, being both smaller and weaker than most females, he’s never going to get any ying pussy. Not good enough to be in an official breeding pool, the only female he might be able to get to do anything is a viscios psychopath about thirty percent of the time, and he’s way too small to force himself on anyone.
Lopin tried to sleep with Kass in OOP#60 so fair to say he’d do it at the drop of a hat, and he’d drop the hat himself given half a chance.
Kass.exe keeps crashing. I think it seriously needs a major patch.
Kass.exe was never meant to run on that hardware, no wonder it’s so unstable
kass can’t seem to catch a break i’d lose it if surrounded by that many lunatics
Nothing could distract me from Eliminate save for best dro-
This is why you send runners with messages ahead of you. Like a singing telegram. I’m rather entertained by this motley collection of lunes, crazies, weirdos, and misfits. On an unrelated note, Sheogorath is my favorite character in all of The Elder Scrolls games. 🙂
Yings are supposed to be faster than humans. Imagine if Trademaster used them for information delivery, it would give him a clear advantage in war and espionage!
You’d be gaining a little speed but you’d be losing a TON of reliabili OOOOOOH SHINEY!
Not if you impress upon them how important, and how reimbursed they’ll be, if they do this job right without fakkin things up.
Messanger boys may be slightly more reliable, it would just take a good training regimen to bring out the best of a ying, and maybe go through a couple of bad yings. They’re still a new species. Very, very new. (And artificially made.) They’ll get better. Some already are better, you just have to cut through the crap to get there, making it all the more satisfying.
Look at Beizel’s scout corps. They’re still twitchy, but pretty damn focused on their jobs regardless. They could probably handle a messenger job very well.
The real issue with a Yinglet Instant Message Service, I suspect, is endurance. They look built for bursts of speed, not long-distance running. I suspect a Yinglet would easily beat any human over sprint distances, but get too exhausted to keep moving by the time a human distance runner would begin to get warmed up.
So inside of the city (or inside a large building complex), they could work. On a larger scale…not so much.
soooo pretty!
What? Am I the one who has to say it? Fiiiiiine….”Looks like Ran has a hot date tonight”.
I know for a fecking fact that I’m NOT the only person here who thought that the moment the door opened.
Sopretty boy Lopin…
The last we saw from Ran was asking Lopin how he achieved a certain purple dye hue. Jump back and we see Lopin all dolled up… but I cant help but notice how PINK that frilly dress is. Maybe its just for comedic effect, but the sheer level of manufacturing detail that would go into making such a thing is noteworthy – the uniform pink dye, the stitching, the frills… a lot more than we’ve seen elsewhere in this world thus far. It almost feels out of place – title drop not really intended :p
Ummmm it’s just expensive… and he is the researcher of a merchant lord in a merchant town. Lace is it’s own industry in this time period. I’m assuming roughly 1400s. The time, energy, and finesse that goes into it is quite worth the coin. Though still underpaid for living well, unless you also had a smart business plan.
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The scaling on this dress is not so different to Lopin here.
The dress is totaly doable with the implied tech levels.
First, you have to realize that there are at lest three layers with that dress, the pleated underskirt, probably petticoats under that too. The white underdress, then the pink overdress. There is only a little lace on the edges of the sleeves and skirt of the over dress.
Ribbons are also just a strip of cloth, so prety easy.
Lace is difacult, but very doable, its mostly that it takes a lot of time, cause its made by crative knot tying.
Loppin: “Am I pretty?”
Kassen: “You! You’ll be fucking GORGEOUS when I’m done with you!”
Highly amusing. Let’s see about reining these two in though. I don’t think too much science was done today. Just using up precious commodity in lace, and in pink cloth, and time. Wow go send your officer lackey to get squicked by egg talk then doll up the lackey’s lackey so she might consider it?
Woooooooooooow. So much science. NOT! QUITCHER SHIPPING RAN! NO ONE IS SURPRISED!
Yinglet genders are probably not well-researched. Presumably Ran is getting quite a bit of insight into the thought processes and lived experience of a feminine-presenting male.
Presumable all right. Yes this is the excuse-like science that is possibly occuring, but really, don’t we all know Ran just likes to play with dolls or dress-up?
And, as I tried to say unclearly, Kassen told Lopin in terms he clearly understood, that she doesn’t “want that kind of attention. What if you were all… muscly?” And suddenly here, aided by Ran’s silliness, plus the coincidence that, as far as either know, Kass was just told all about eggs and stuff, and now Lopin is Actually Pretty. If you were into pretty yinglets. Kass sees no coincidence, clearly. I’m just highly amused at this little turn of the comic, so I tend to overexplain the part I’m excited about.
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>_> Valsalia posted a “non cannon” (I think) rendering of Kass losing her female virginity on Deviant art. Enjoy!
OH MY GODS SO SO-PRETTY!!!
Okay thank you we haven’t seen Lopin in a while I wondered if he was still fancy so this is good news for us.
Ran:…This is exactly what it looks like.
Kass is still thinking like a human, I see. I’m guessing transvestitism is still a bit taboo among them even if it is a different species.