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Out-of-Placers
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Honestly, Kass’ easier to understand then the natural creatures of her species. Even the Matriarch and the Ninja dude are easier to understand. Sheesh.
On the other hand, imagine the horror of trying to get a room full of yinglets to sit still and pay attention long enough for grammar lessons
Like some sort of English teacher’s personal hell
Gutter rat slang is hard to grasp when they’re not literal rats, of course these guys would be tough to understand.
It’s a tough art transcribing a strong accent without irritating every reader, and I’ve read worse accents than Yinglettian.
You’ve just described teaching in any middle school, minus the hormones.
I don’t know, maybe I’m pulling a Ran here but I bet a carefully measured amount of clam meat fed to them at certain intervals and cleverly placed intermissions with a goofy thing to properly direct their attention back to the subject could help. We just need to run some tests to figure out what will work best.
Or just force-feed ‘em Adderal. It’s what we do to people with ADHD like me; just giving us a drug and permanent heart problems is easier than actually working around our unique strengths and weaknesses.
Can confirm, kids are bad enough at that. Plus, there’s almost zero interest in being able to communicate effectively, it’s kind of a desultory effort. Barring the occasional kid who’s reading too much to pay attention but magically does well, because reading is basically the only form of practice for English class that exists. Nobody expects a 10 year old to keep a journal– and I mean a journal, not a diary. There’s a difference. But reading’s entertaining, so it’s like an addiction with positive benefits. Or at least that’s how I look at it.
what is the difference between a Diary and a Journal? Seriously I had no idea there was!
A diary is where you vent your feelings, hopes, and fears. A journal is more like updating your future autobiography. Just the facts, ideally. It’s a memory aid so years later you can check back and see what you were up to, in case you forgot.
His name is Beizel…
He is the Patriarch of scouting and intelligence gathering…
…And you just went and called him “the Ninja dude”.
……………………I agree %100! XD
Can I use that term too, sometimes?
Look up Bogun slang and try to understand it.
That’s how I view a lot of the “vulgate” yinglet speech is like.
I have unironically discovered this comic browsing e621 in search of a good fappable comic; it overtook 97 percent of my online following where 3 percent were oglaf, nerfnow and perfectly drawn lines, it’s the first thing ever I followed on patreon and it’s damn good. You guys managed to keep it as apolitical as it gets, kudos for that.
The politics are there, they’re just in between the lines.
You gotta have the lines to keep them fenced in.
Dude, same
Hey, that’s how I found it, too!
Came here months ago from sadpanda for similar reasons lol
/trash has a general on Out of Placers. It was there I learned of the glory that are Scavs.
It seems like half the people here found the comic through porn sites – the other half did too, but doesn’t want to admit it.
And yes, I admit. Found this on sad panda almost a year ago now. So glad I did too. This comic is a thousandfold better than anything else the site could offer.
I… I…
*sigh*
I found this comic a few weeks ago by checking TopWebComics and there I found it at around rank… 96,, I think?
It…. it…was not through a porn site….
Oh, please, no! Don’t ostracize me for that, I beg you! I didn’t CHOOSE to avoid porn sites, okay? I was raised that way! I WAS RAISED THAT WAY!!!!
I also came from a non porn site : The Belfry Webcomics Index
yep same here, found it randomly browsing sad panda
found it on funnyjunk myself. pity the guy who posts it disappeared.
So am I like the only person that didn’t find this via a porn site? I picked it up as a sidebar link from another webcomic (and then, like a month later, found it on e6).
No, you are not alone. I found it while searching on google images for a comic about a human transformation into something else. I like to see how this affects his body and mind. I really liked when Kass freaked out when he/she woked up at night some time ago.
Ah, yes. How someone reacts to a transformation has always fascinated me. Always interesting to see how each author’s take on the subject!
Was in my google feed / google “discover.” NTTAWW the other path(s) here.
I found it via sidebar link from GrrlPower to TopWebComics, and then I found OOPs from there.
Guess I’m an outlier then. Someone mentioned a comic with spastic ratbirds in a team chat and I decided to take a look.
Call me a denier but I found Val’s FA from picarto, saw some (admittedly suggestive) images of adorable birdraptorthings and wondered what they were from. 4 hours later I’m here and eagerly awaiting more~
Eyyyy, excellent! It means a lot knowing that this stuff I’m making was what got somebody to take the Patreon plunge.
And yeah, I’ve been getting an unexpectedly large amount of traffic thanks to e621 and such; never expected that would be the case when I first started this thing, but I’m certainly not complaining!
As for the politics issue, I feel there’s already more than enough “fantasy species/organization/etc represents real-life group/ideological system” narratives available; I’m generally more interested in how culture and politics and such formed and developed throughout history, so I’m really aiming to keep the “politics” aspect of the story specifically about the things going on in the story, as opposed to “the yinglets represent [real-life sociopolitical ideology X] and they have this set of problems, so that’s why [real-life sociopolitical ideology X] is bad and doesn’t work!!”
I’m really happy to hear you confirm that, it makes me even more hopeful about where this careening clown car of ratbird awesome is gonna go next. 🙂
I found this comic looking from the belfry webcomics index (this comic has that special star that causes it to show up under readers faves)
I think by “politics” they meant the real-world equivalent or trying to push political stuff into a clearly fantasy comic.
On the other hand, inter-cultural politics that apply in-world can be interesting, I don’t think anyone would complain about that.
I found it through the Traditional Games board on 4chan
Found it through Imgur, thanks to the glorious tagmaster. Still took me a while to get around to reading, but after well over a month of stalking, I’m going to create a Patreon just for this comic(and a couple other artists I keep meaning to donate to).
i found this comic from scrolling through furaffinity
Ooh, plot! I wonder what Bozzock’s plan is.
(It’s to kill people isn’t it)
found the OOTS reader!
Ah yes, his name is Brakka. Silly me.
I feel like he is going to get a lot more zen he bargained for with Kass
Considering what/who Kass has available in the way of friends and an over protective subordinate…
Just the one human friend and a scav that has more brain power than a potato clock would be enough to upturn this entire banana republic, and they also have a house full of giant reptile and insect people to call on if things get dicy. He won’t know what hit him… and neither will all the people who are splattered with his remains.
Kass also has human formal miliary training. Even though she’s a scav, she could easily be the best scav fighter.
I see it going two ways :
-Either his/her scav brain screws up and he/she runs away like a headless chicken
-Or his/her scav brain screws up and he/she wakes up covered in blood and things get… interesting from there (“train me a yinglet squad!”)
Kass might know more about tactics and such, and general principles, but I can’t see any human martial training translating well to yinglet physiology at all. Especially since she’s unarmed.
Also, scavs are sneaky. I wouldn’t dismiss Brakka as not a threat. Kass never leaves the teeth unescorted by Elim, but he also goes unarmed. He may have the might of ten or twenty yinglets, but I’m not expecting a frontal assault, more of an attempted snatch-and-grab.
Don’t forget the Spear Circle tactic! Elim is going to have a run for his money with those guys.
Still totally rooting for him, though.
Considering that Elim doesn’t appear to be wearing armour and not carrying any obvious weapons I’d say a spear circle poses a very real threat to him.
Amusingly while thinking of weapons that would counter a spear circle well I came up with the idea of a ‘battle rake’ as in a long handled weapon with a sort of extra spikey leaf rake like bit at the end.
The best weapon to counter a spear circle might be… a spear. A human can wield a spear with much greater reach than a yinglet spear, and can jab without having to break their defensive stance too much, especially if they also have a shield. The spear circle also seems to rely on being able to isolate and partially surround a single opponent, so they’d be mincemeat against a cohesive formation of soldiers, but uh… Elim doesn’t have one of those.
I’d say best bet is a polearm; all the reach of a spear, with the swinging power of the battle rake. Either that or one of those jumping toys you put on one leg and jump over, so that you could sweep these light fluff balls out of the fight.
Pike!
Actualy, Kass probably picked up more training once joining ivanmoth, than she had before. The Dinnish government basicly conscripted everyone and rushed them off to the front, with minimal training. I also expect that Kass is fairly much so in pretty good shape, for a yinglet. Shes had a good bit of practice being a yinglet by now, if only shown by how well she is able to dress herself. Might not seem like much, but, that outfit she has on is more complex than you think.
I should also point out, military training is, in part, training the soldiers to actualy harm another person.
There have been issues with people being unwilling to actualy kill another person, even with that training, so it is an actual issue.
Think about it this way, a knife, by itself, is not dangerious, its just a hunk of metal. Its the person holding the knife that is posably dangerious.
Alyeska, you hit it right on the money. I could easily see Kass having learned the balancing and physical nature of her body to distract from the other aspects, like her gender. Something to keep her mind off other things, and something to do when she needed to lose energy before writing again. The best way scavs could get the upper had on her is if she doesn’t see it coming or is outnumbered. This is why he’s gathering “the boys”.
I don´t think Kassen is ready for a fight yet. It’s only being a few days since he got transformed. Then again, A LOT happened in those few days.
I mean, half of combat training boils down to “Be willling to do unto others before they do unto you”- that translates no matter what you’re fighting with. And Yinglets, being not-alpha-predators, probably don’t have half the killer-instinct that Humans (even transformed) do.
Kassen doesn’t seem terribly interested in learning the mechanics of his new body.
With some time and training, though, I’m sure he could surpass most of his Yinglet peers just based on the psychological differences alone.
The best yinglet fighter would probably be one the one who pops out of a bush and cuts your Achilles’ tendon when you aren’t looking. I’d wager Kattajak and Beizel are probably up there. Brakka strikes me as fairly tough as yinglets go, too.
While he has military training, he is most likely not a very trained soldier – just some “frontline material” – why else would he be a deserter, after all.
But even with his below average knowledge of human fighting tactics, he could still explain how humans fight – and thus come up with strategies against humans.
If he really wants to do that, is up to him.
Now if Brakka really wants to kill Kassen or to simply abduct him… well… Time will tell.
But since Kassen has a female body, it is unlikely his subordinates will stand by him if he tries to kill a female of their species – after all we know, birdrats are protective of their females and get very dangerous if they hear even just a yelp of one.a
Kass is a yinglet female. She doesn’t need to fight. All she would have to do is point at Bozzock and screech. Half of any yinglets in the area will converge on him and start tearing him apart, including the ones he hired himself.
How many pages has it been?
Those two got stamina!
The oracle may have two wooden legs, but the third one still works perfectly.
Exactly ten pages, actually.
I suspect their stamina meter depletes really quick but also recharges really quick, so that a session of humpin’ would be like how lions do it: a prolonged string of brief ‘unions’ with rest breaks in between. The session probably ends when they’re too tired/dehydrated/sore to continue.
Brakka completed enough shrines to max out his stamina meter.
Comes at the cost of only having 3 hearts, but hey. Just don’t get hit.
I can’t wait to see who “da boys” are. I also wonder if they’re been away but are now back in town.
I also wish you could edit comments in case you misspell something or use the wrong word.
The WordPress comments system isn’t great lol
At least it has threads.
All roads lead to the boys being back in town.
I have to reconsider my speculations about Brakka: if he’s got ‘boys’ then he’s not the lone operative I thought. Makes it more likely he’s working on the sly with Narklet, who’s loaned him some goons.
XD I love the little grey guy. such a curious boy!
and i know i mentioned it before , but kudos on such beautiful implied movement in the last panel.
Since I was a child, I thought that mushroom could grow in the dark because they simply could live without having to rely on the sun.
Now I am informed it was all because of a fight between the two.
I don’t know what to believe anymore.
O’wise Oracle of Bakersroof has again pulled everything into motion by string pulling from the shadows!…also by humping like a bunny with viagra overdose…
Turns out that’s how he accomplishes a lot of things
Call me crazy, but I think these scavs are easily aroused.
No, that’s pretty much normal for humans too. Humping is a major human pastime.
Or profession…
Ah, yes, the oracle of bakersroof. The one character I was hoping to never gaze upon again, so that my eyes and my mind may cicatrize from last time.
Oh, well, can’t have everything.
Looks like things are really picking up now! I hope this guy doesn’t go…Lopin….someones head off, eh?
Brakka is in big trouble. Lets assume he succeeds in abducting Kas.
Not mentioning her not having the thing might come up and diffuse it right there.
Kas friends includes scary people and a skullcrushing bug.
Not to mention that he will draw the PERSONAL ire of an extremely scary trade master.
There is no world in which this will go well for him.
I don’t think he caught that. She.
Yeah, that will be interesting when he figures that out
Elim already said he would pull a guy’s face. Plus a bug person that will crush skulls. Maybe Brakka should not mess with these guys tomuch. Also, I think Narklet knows that Kass was human. The way he looked at Kass when Lopin was brought to him. As always, love the comic.
I ship Baker Street ying and Barra. Just wanted to get it in there.
Brakka
This struck me that after a few minutes of walking it suddenly hits him and he says, “She?!!!” THen has another seizure as he starts flopping around like a fish.
I am shocked that Ran hasn’t shown any interest in the fact that yinglet females have permanently enlarged breasts, a trait that in reality is unique to humans.
See, here is a conundrum of mine:
On one hand, I am fairly certain that Vizlet and some of the other females do not have big boobs.
But on the other hand, to prove that point, I would actually have to go back and look at their breasts in previous pages.
Decisions, decisions…
….
….Bah! I’ll take your word for it! You win, Zappity.
I can confirm that Vizlet’s are sizeable, you can find a pin-up style photo on the deviantart. Even if they were smaller though, in most animals excluding female humans the breast tissue size is comparible to male size until pregnancy
Well, I can tell you about a few non-pregnant female dogs who can toss that theory out the window. We should really start putting clothes on our pets, honestly.
Anyway, I think I have figured out what is causing this yinglet breast phenomenon: fantasy fanservicitis.
You see, in science fiction space operas, high fantasy, low fantasy, urban fantasy, and any other such fantasy you can think of, one thing is universal: boobs. On all females. All of them.
The fantasy setting this story takes place is clearly affecting the bodies of the beings living there….
I though I gotta hand out credit to the design of the Indrel and the Braxxid. First flat-chested female characters I’ve seen in a fantasy story in MONTHS!
Only months?
I read a lot of cheap and/or inexpensive fiction. Sometimes I find stories with extremely unusual elements, such as a comic about a guy who got turned into a rat-chicken-girl, or you know, a story with a non-busty women (which is only slightly more common).
A truly horrid affliction… Poor things :p
Actually Yinglets do lactate, and, at one point not too far in the past, used to nurse there young. Considering how quickly a yinglet can lay eggs, and, other factors resulting in a short refractory period between a clutch, permanantly elarged breasts are not that out of place a thing. If anything, it was, at one point a biological need.
In humans, large breasts are a secondary sexual thing, one that has actualy been bred for, at lest among many human groups. The japanese tend to have smaller breasts as they, culturaly, find them to be more atractive than large breasts.
Oh, I never doubted their utility. I was just poining out how odd it was that the scientist showed little interest in this trait. 🙂
Anyone who likes this comic might find it worth the effort to hunt down a way to read The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin.
You know, I’ve kind of been wondering. What’s a yinglit cup look like. I mean, there’s no way you’re getting a lip over that shell-tooth for to get a good seal on the rim of a cup or bowl. I suppose they lap up their drinks with zere spiky tongue tips? Certainly another blow to Kass’s dignity….
They could possibly drink from the side of their mouths.
They probably use their tongue as a spoon like a cat does…. Or they submerge their snout
https://www.deviantart.com/valsalia/art/Record-of-known-Yinglet-Inventions-545677995
Top center: The Reedstraw
That said, I don’t think they drink much or that often. Many desert birds and rodents (got yinglets coming and going) are so efficient they can get all the water they need by combining hydrogen atoms from the hydrocarbons (fats) and carbohydrates (sugars, starches) of their food with inhaled oxygen. Many seabirds are similarly good at it, plus they can drink salt water and excrete the extra salt without dying. Yinglets arose in salt marshes, where fresh water wouldn’t be super-abundant but starchy or wet foods (yay for toxic marsh plants and clams!) were. I figure just juicy foods and maybe a sip of fresh water on dry days when working hard would be enough to keep them going.
They’re successfully colonizing plains to the south of Val Salia, and the whole reason that plains are plains is they don’t get enough rainfall to support trees. Not needing a lot of water would be an advantage there.
Err, actualy, a lot of areas that have great big swaths of plains are that way because of fire, more than anything else. Across the plains of north america, grass fires would kill most anything, including any trees trying to get a foothold. Thus the grass that had roods going down 20 feet or more into the ground, would servive, but not much else, and the fires would tend to happen pretty often. At the lest like every 3-5 years.
On a diferent thought, there are a couple posabilitys for making cups for Yinglets. AS lot really depends on the flexabiity of there mouth and lips. As they can use a straw, else why make the reed straw? Then they can make some sort of seal, so I expect thay do better than it seems. But yes, off to one side or the other is the easyist. Another is a cup or bowl with a dip at one point for the shelltooth, and yet a third, something with a spout, allmost like a mesuring cup, but, probably a longer spout, depends on a lot of diferent factors how long to make it.
That red eyed one is just, me. On a Yinglet scale.
If it wasn’t for the Oralcle and his never-ending stream of Oralcle-Seekers, The Baker’s roof would no longer leak the secret ingredient to Skavski Kreme Donuts (Plus they feel rubbish for causing the wee Skav busting up their legs). It explains why the Oralcle hasn’t been evicted oncr more
NEED MORE
Yinglets, what will they say next?
i dunno about you but i would love a pet yinglett >.> so cute!
Wouldn’t that be slavery?
A wild shrinkhead appeared!
Shrinkhead used Swarm!
Shrinkhead’s friends appear! They want to battle!
Or something. It’s been so long since I had a current pokemon gaming platform.
Aww yea the first fight with Kass’s new body! Hope they don’t hurt Elim too much with their spear circle….wonder if Kass’s martial know-how is gonna be of use here, or if his mental state is too rewired to fear….
i will stop helping on patreon, the page releases are way to slow.
i am going to support this comic instead http://shiney.fun/turn-you/
Yeah fuck him for getting sick right… Asshole
Wait, he’s sick?
I thought he was just spending the month off to be with family, this being the month of Christmas and New Year and all.
I should sign up to the Discord to get this info, shouldn’t I?
He goat a cold/flu type thing and made a post mentioning it on Patreon – https://www.patreon.com/posts/postings-been-23332175
Oh yeah, definitely want to drop this comic for one with more boobs *eyeroll* If you want to promote yourself, don’t trash other people my dude.
I’ll reread this from beginning to end while waiting for updates. That way i don’t get board.
Wait I just realized if he attacked a female he would not only be on the run from matriach but also every sinble Yinglet in the city. Considering how protective they are a fellow Yinglet assaulting a female Yinglet would probably constitute of something not as bad but probably below Desecration of a holy object a crime no Yinglet would ignore which would drastically make his situation even worce than being turned over to a matriarch.
So it’s risk his problam getting out or having a fate probably worse than death for who knows how long until he’s probalby put out of his misery or used as an example.
I see two general possibilities.
One, Brakka doesn’t quite realize yet that ‘dat Ivvenmot scav’ is a female, and the shit shall verily hit the fan when he tries to abduct her.
Two, he knows full well he’s out to abduct a female and has a plan for how to manage it. I can see one. Females aren’t IN CHARGE of the enclave, except for the Matriarch. And the panic call’s not something they can do at will, it takes genuine panic. If Brakka spins this as getting a wandering unprotected female to safety he just might be able to get away with it.
This comic you linked to is self-endangering consentual transformation, and contains only a “moral” of pessimistic selfish self-endangerment. That in modern society its, basically impossible to remain inoffensive… just tumblr misquoting the constitution, essentially. Why you’d prefer a story like that, to a meticulously built world, just for… what, zee drive for moar art? That one artist has more time, for their extra not thought out plots?
well you do you. Some people have no standards.
sorry, meant @anoni
A very merry Christmas to all, and to all a good night. May you all be with family and friends on this jolly of days. To any one alone on this or any other Christmas day, I wish you the best.
Sincerely Joshua.H.
Aww, same to you, fellow internet dweller!
And a belated MC and a premature HNY to you as well comrade(s)!
I just realized, the Oracle has really pretty eyes.
Cool lookin little dude.
Funny how it ended up that to yinglets, the color light blue indicates a willingness to “get it on” and the bakersroof guy happens to agree with his eye color.
I doubt that’s a coincidence. :S
We demand a shrubbery! And an update. Its been a month, pleeeeeeease?