…And the hair knobs are still there because they keep the hair out of Kass’ eyes, which are very large now and prone to getting things in them, like hair, bugs, and despair
Out-of-Placers
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Kass should be more concerned with why so many of the comic’s readers seem to want this.
Yes, knowing this would not be good for his mental wellbeing.
Knowing that there are thousands of disembodied extra-dimensional observers with a variety of vested interests in Kass and his friends, from the empathetic to the perverse?
Eh, many of our world’s religions have ideas along those lines, only a few people let it get to them.
Apparently I’m arguing with my own first statement.
it’s ok it happens XD
“I’ve looked at life from both sides now…”
I wonder if there’s porn of it yet… R34 is a universal law after All…
The world wants this.
Is that a heliocentric model on the blackboard? A man could get himself burned at the stake for that!
Naw, it’s pretty widely accepted by the general populace, as the un-ignorable activity of their local moons helped them figure the basic idea of “orbit” early on.
Plenty of other reasons to burn someone at the stake though
Wait, moons? Plural? Was this established already?
Not in-comic, no! You haven’t missed anything.
So how many moons are there? Perhaps we could get a “Field Guide” of the known solar system?
I gather that the traveling moon causes tides that rise and fall on the order of weeks or months, unlike the daily tides related to the planet’s rotation. So there’s something very, very odd about it. It could be near a geosynchronous orbit, but that would put it inside the Roche limit for a normal moon…so it must be small, yet extremely massive for that scenario to work.
One of the moons does make an appearance in Prologue #20 (i.e. the fishmonger’s lucky day).
Earth has a yellow dwarf star (Sol), which is class G. Vilous has a white-yellow dwarf star, which is class F. What is the class of star that shines upon the city of Val Salia? Inquiring minds need to know.
Specifically, I amgetting close to finishing the Vilous Chapter of my comic, Enchanted Wolf Vineyard, and will start the Val Salia Chapter immediately after that. Elevator pitch: Sergals meet Yinglets ^/^,
Serms to me that would just mean that the traveling moon has an eliptical orbit. The very name reenforces this idea. The moon travels far away and then travels back.
Think about it, tides follow the planet’s rotation, not the orbit of the moon; i.e., Earth’s lunar and solar tides are daily, there’s no 28-day lunar tide. An elliptical orbit would still have the tides follow the traveling moon in the sky as it rises and sets, just be greater when it’s closer. Perhaps that’s what meant in the comic, but that would be rather hazardous for the beachcombers when those big tides rolled in. I got the impression that the TM’s tides fell and rose over weeks or months.
Ah, I understand now. I get that contrary to the slow tides the moon would have to orbit the planet extremely fast, just slightly slower or faster than one orbit per day. So if the moon was far away it would have to be moving ridiculously fast, which may be unusual (or odd, as you said) but not necessarily impossible.
I can imagine a scenario such as a black hole flinging the moon out of another system at a high speed, and it just happening to approach this planet at just the right angle to fall into orbit while maintaining it’s speed.
An alternate theory: That’s no moon, that’s a space station.
Haha!
Good one!
But maybe it is some asteroid converted to a generation starship that brought humans and other species to this world. Maybe aliens kidnapped humans a thousand years ago and dumped them here just to see what would happen, and they’re still watching. The tides could just be a side effect of some gravity drive, or of some hypermass thingy in the moon (little black holes are quite good in converting mass into thrust if they are spinning really really really fast)
Not only is the traveling moon a space station, it’s a space station full of perverted extraplanetary beings who are far too interested in Kass’s reproductive capabilities.
We-e-eeell…It turns out there’s a thing called perigean spring tide which occurs when the moon is closest to the earth. Distance does matter. Additionally, while you are correct that tides are caused by the earth’s rotation relative to the moon, if there was more than one moon and they weren’t directly opposite each other it would cause extremely more complex tidal bulges in the ocean (and actually, though it’s harder to notice, in the planet itself) relative to each moon as the rotating ocean’s surface distorts both at the point nearest moon A and furthest from it and also nearest and furthest from moon B (or other moons). It’s easiest to imagine this as the ocean forming a slight oval with its long axis aimed straight at the moon while the planet remains (roughly) spherical, thus forming greater and lesser tidal variation. Two moons would generate (sort of) two ovals, overlapping, with higher tides on the sides of the planet directly towards and away from each moon. If both moons were aligned on one side OR ON OPPOSITE SIDES, you’d get a supertide.
Given that there are multiple moons, the Travelling one could have a vastly more complex orbit than a simple elliptical one. All that n-body fun stuff (where n is greater than 2).
Most of those systems would end in an earth-shattering kaboom eventually…
At least he isn’t fetching the ‘Visible Yinglet’ like from my high-school biology class. (shudder)
Better than an invisible yinglet, those things are annoying as hell and hard to catch.
But they are great for the enclave! Acquire many things that others have plenty of and wont miss! Yes-yes! Good for enclave! No chase!
I wonder if Kass should introduce the guy to his newest assistant…
Yeah, Lopin’s first mission! He might even enjoy it.
Ah, I can see it now:
Ran: “Hello little one! I like your hat!”
Lopin: “EEEeeheheeee, you do?”
Ran: “Now, Kass tells me you can tell me about how yinglets reproduce.”
Lopin: ???
Ran: “Uh, I want to explore yinglet sex.”
Lopin: *swoon*
Did Lopin go off with Elim to get inducted into Ivenmoth service? Is he getting fitted with his own little rank zero uniform? Tragedy: we haven’t seen any grunts wearing hats at all–just the Trademaster.
After all Kassie has just been put through she could use a break. But we all want to hear any new information we have not heard on scav sex. So sorry Kassie your nap will have to wait.
Or will it??!?
Haha! Little brave traveler…yeah…it’s not like she is a giant insectoid creature that can lift like twenty times her own weight and tear your head apart as if it were a soda bottle cap :V
That’s what he said!
…Brave little traveler. 😀
Now that raises some interesting questions. With RL insects most of those ‘lift 16X body weight’, ‘jump equivalent of a skyscraper’, etc type things are a result of the way things work at that scale rather than some sort of biological superness.
So then seeing as Val tends to do things at least semi realistically just what are Yannit’s physical capabilities?
Yeah, but remember Yannit is not an Earth insect or even related to anything we know, so may have differences in biochemistry and internal structure that could result in super strength.
Even a 90-lb Earth chimpanzee is vastly stronger than any human, due to the way their muscles attach to their limb bones and give them more leverage. Leopards can pick up prey that weighs as much as they do in their jaws and climb trees with it.
Proof: Ran is from the internet.
What if there was like, a town named that somewhere. So many jokes possible.
So many people using the girl prefixes in their comments now! If you want to see a funny transformation look at comic section from transformation to now. And watch as slowly by slowly people use she instead of he. #HePrefixesStand
Yeah, it’s an odd grey area that Kass is in now, where you might refer to him/her as “her” in a more immediate or physical sense, but “him” in terms of his old-and-ongoing personality, sense of self, etc etc
Internet would be a weird name but what about Web?
A small but prosperous town noted for cultivating and weaving spider silk.
A region composing of small hamlets and villages of insect/arachae silk harvesting communities that organized into a coalition, calling themselves the Internet Guild, perhaps? Its a bit of a stretch, but the human imagination can withstand a surprising amount of tension.
Or towns that farm certain plants that would grow nowhere else and that yield very strong fibers for use in their unique, expensive fishing nets? Or capture endemic flying bug-things that yield a unique dye? All kinds of possibilities.
Poor Kass.
Your awkwardness will not stop here.
Yeah, it’s basically a never-ending self-digging hole at this point.
I wonder if he will eventually remember to watch his sarcastic comments, especially around that guy.
Wow, what a quick update! Thank you for such a great surprise!
It happens sometimes!
On my birthday too! Yay!
I’m gonna say that was intentional.
How awkward can these situations get for Kass? Eventually there’s gonna be screeching and flailing and-
…wait, no we did that already. Hm.
Welp! looks like Kass is gonna be teaching an OVERWHELMINGLY eager scholar things about the birds and the …rats? that even most yinglets don’t actually know.
In his defense, screeching and flailing solves just about any problem.
C’mon Kass. Quit kink shaming.
It’s different when YOU’RE the kink involved
Hey anyone interested in getting a tv tropes out of placers page going? I’ve set up a skeleton of a page but it going to need a lot of work.
Oh, and a link
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Webcomic/OutOfPlacers
Ha! This looks fun. I guess this is a real comic now that there’s a Tropes entry.
Awesome!
Hay, i was wondering if i would be able to use your consepet in a role play? and if a can i was wondering whats the adveridge height and how much they can carry. Thx
Sure, go for it! I’ve seen a few tabletop conversions, including in the comments on this page: http://www.valsalia.com/comic/out-of-placers/oops-29/
The gist of it is that they’re generally between 3 or 4 feet, have a low carrying capacity, are small, fast and have an inbuilt knack for spears and running around like crazed chickens.
Thanks, Being honest i didnt think you would reply. Thx for that. 🙂
Valsal is pretty diligent to replying to almost every comment the first day or two after an update. Also tends to post another wave of replies shortly before a new update.
Oh, Ok i just arrived and fell in love with the characters and the story. I wish i thought of it as well. But, its nice to see someone talks to there commeters, not just their friends or their paid commissioners.
Our dear author is practically begging for someone to make a rule 34 at this point.
… who am I kidding, there’s probably a couple dozen already
Oh, there totally has been, mostly in the 4chan /co threads.
Lopin’s hat alone likely has its own fanbase and naughty pictures.
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Well this has certainly been a ride, and it looks like I got on at just the right time! A friend of mine linked your comic here and I have to say I am absolutely enamored with the world you’re building here. Yinglets are probably my new Favorite Thing right behind the bugpeoples you have going on. Lookin’ forward to MOAR
Eyyy, great to hear! It is good that you like yinglets because nobody in their native setting likes ’em.
So because of scientific inquiry and all that,
Does err, Kass’s outfit include a uhh..
A supportive undergarment for the ehh, chest region?
Based on previous images I’m going to assume that there is only a cloth wrap binding
Yinglets don’t seem to be particularly large-breasted
Re-read the prologue, Isher gives her like bindings of some sort. Should be around the time when they went to Isher’s house from the Dinnish bunkhouse
My birthday is the 19th. Not saying anything just saying :3
I love Yannit so much. She’s adorable. Despite being, y’know, basically a huge bug that could effortlessly tear a person in half. That said, looking at her jaw, I bet it can split into mandibles, which would be… unsettling.
Is this the first time Yannits seen Kass like this..?
No, she was there to see him transform, and was with Kass until the next morning until she was taken to the Teeth to meet the Trademaster and Vislet.
Then why does she say “Little new Kass”? Did she forget?
Just commenting to herself. I don’t think she knew that humans didn’t transform into yinglets as a matter of course, and may not be too sure about it now.
Im shipping it Lopin and Kass #Kapin
Nah #Lass
Scav rule 34 is yet to come due to Kass not explaining it properly :^)
TEACH ME ALL THE SEX THINGS
I can’t stop reading this. I think I’ve found a new webcomic I like.
Got here from Lusty Argonian Maid’d.
…Also, I should probably sleep now.
How hard is it to remove nail polish?
Just scrub, rinse, repeat, ETC.