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OOPs now has a Russian translation which updates shortly after the English pages are posted!
Now also in French:
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OOPs now has a Russian translation which updates shortly after the English pages are posted!
Now also in French:
And Ukranian:
it is nice to have the long implied idea of collecting different races realized in proper propagandized form! cool page
Front-on Baxxid doesn’t exist, front-on Baxxid can’t hurt you.
There has been several front-facing baxxid shots tbh. the first instance here: https://www.valsalia.com/comic/out-of-placers/oops-244/
And it’s been deeply cursed every time.
yup, without a doubt…
yeah!
I imagine having an indrel use a pickaxe would slow down their digging rather than speed it up. However, it’s probably only there to provide demonstrative imagery so the viewer can immediately tell what task the indrel are uniquely suited for.
In that vein… a yarn and thread? You can tell the propagandists were stumped on finding a civilian task yinglets are uniquely suited for. For the baxxid and indrel their advantages are pretty obvious, but yinglets? “They can… I dunno, I guess they can knit. Yeah, go with that.” I sympathize; aside from general tasks that require a smaller body and limbs to fit in tight spaces (good luck when the industrial revolution hits, poor yinglets), finding a practical civilian use for the little buggers that one of the other species can’t do better is challenging.
Militarily, however? Yinglets would make AMAZING spies, scouts, saboteurs and assassins. They’re small, agile, and hardy enough to survive pretty harsh conditions without supply or equipment, making them perfect for extended operations behind enemy lines. One would have to run a very tight ship indeed to prevent a motivated yinglet from gaining access to areas they aren’t supposed to be in and engaging in all sorts of mischief. So while integrating them into civilian life might be challenging, it’s easy to see the enormous strategic advantage one could have from commanding a force of loyal yinglets in wartime.
Patriarch Beizel tacitly approves of this message, but he offers no comment, for the sake of plausible deniability. I think a small, flexible, agile body would have advantages in a lot of “civilian” jobs as well, not to mention the talent yinglets seem to have for climbing and their tolerance of toxic environments. Whoever printed this broadsheet probably doesn’t know much about yinglets, but at least it’s a benevolent effort.
The yinglet mail service is the future!
In Val Salian choirs, baxxid voices contribute the infrasonic sub-contrabass parts. I don’t know how high yinglet voices can sing, but I suspect their high eeeeeee is well above the human vocal range. I guess we’d call that supra-soprano?
I’m willing to bet that some yinglets could reach ultrasonic ranges too high for human hearing. Although if they did that, they’d have to be careful of all the dogs around them.
HnnnDid I hear a rock and stone!?