When you go into a dungeon full of goblins to get a princess out
But it turns out Goblin Guard #284 was the princess’ best friend 4 ever
(That’s the one you got a critical hit on with your 2-handed warhammer and is now covering most of floor 7’s walls)
Thanks as usual to Raptie for handling the character coloring and shading on this page!
Yes, this pleases me greatly. Brakka’s like a cartoon character running out into empty space, and HE JUST LOOKED DOWN.
This is a startlingly appropriate analogy
Poor Brakka, he lost control of said situation a long time ago.
We all do! Mostly on day one following birth
Brakka done fekked up now.
Yuuussss
Poor Brakka, he thought he had all the answers. ;w; Kinda feel sorry for the- *thinks back to him stabbing Elim*
Nope, empathy’s gone.
THAT’S THE SPIRIT
Agreed. DRAW AND QUARTER THE LITTLE RAT. POUR MOLTEN SILVER DOWN HIS THROAT. FLAY HIM ALIVE. NO MERCY.
Naw, we gotta torture the info outta him for the trademaster first.
Sorry? He must PAY!
Glorious realization. And nah it will solve itself. If he is very unlucky he will be pumped for information then given to MISTER SCIENTIST for DETAILED STUDY!
Brakka get fucked
“Do you see zhis HUGE stone tower? Can you see how hard it is and how many levels it has? Good…cuz it’s a literal representation of how fucked you are right now.”
*Continues making ever more lengthy metaphors for fuckupedness*
“There’s a mountain in the southern regions of Telseria. It’s mostly composed by fosilized giant armor worms feces. Imagine that: A GIANT, COLOSSAL, GARGANTUAN MOUNTAIN OF PURE SHIT…just like your life from now on until your soon to be painful and merciless death”
…I’ll be here all the week!
Thanks for putting my life choices into words, Walter.
Hold up, has this been a setup for a male harem manga this whole time?
Lopin, Brakka, Poak is next…
I see through your plot, Val, don’t you try to hide it from me! >O
I for one accept our future harem overlords.
Sooo, should we be upset that the role of Kasslet was malewashed, or that it’s kinda Yaoi, since everyone is actually a male anyway?
Those concerns should have been raised long ago.
You know that feeling when you get out of your car in front of the store, and reach behind you to push it closed, but then you realize as the door is swinging closed that you forgot to grab the keys from the ignition and have just enough time to turn around and watch your car door slam shut, locking your keys inside? I bet that’s how Brakka’s feeling right about now.
No its worse, the engine is running and the brakes are off so the car starts to roll and as you mounting ‘oh crapness’ rises, you watch as your car rolles into that police car, and then you realise, you have no insurance.
Also you are running an important deal for the mafia to regain your freedom, which relies on you using the car and the booze you were to buy. You then realize that your jacket got caught in the door as well…
While you try to get out, the jacket rips open, you lose the SD card with important blackmailing material right in front of the store owner whom you were supposed to blackmail.
even the white furred guy here is looking at BraKka as if to say “Dude, what the hell?”
It’s kind seems more like a “What’s wrong with you?” Look.
pothesis: Brakka bought the cooperation of the other exiles with big promises of a huge payout they can share in. Brakka’s just realized his plan’s in the crapper. His renta-mooks have just realized they’re:
a) also in the crapper
b) not getting paid
They will not be happy with Brakka, and do awful things to him, forcing Kass to save him because Brakka knows important things.
Kass might carry the day by promising if they help Kass drag Brakka to Ivenmoth, they’ll be forgiven/rewarded.
Then Kass has acquired even more dumbass exiles following him around.
*Reads description* That is an invalid simile. Goblins are invariably evil and cannot be trusted by anybody, and I know because I was informed thus by the ultimate authority on this matter: an exterminator wearing full plate armor who never shows his face and flat out refuses to give his real name. 😀
Hey, could I ask for a link to the Discord? I joined a few weeks back but I then got out thinking I could later rejoin easily like an idiot.
https://discord.gg/yYgvxB
Danke schön!
Well once again, Brakka proves that he was trying to do what he thought was the right thing. Yah he flocked the whole thing up big time, but, I honestly have to give him points for trying to do the right thing. Most would have just been out for whats in it for them. Brakka has a serious hate on for humans, hes shown it more than once in the past. Of course hes going to assume that Elim is Kass’s jailer, not protector. Now hes really begining to understand just how badly he messed up the whole thing.
Much as we all like Elim, think of how it must have looked to Brakka, and again, remember how much hate he has for humans. (Bad experence in the past I expect, more than anything else.) Of course hes going to knife the human holding the female he wants to talk to prisoner. To his mind, that has two pluses, one, it recues a female, two, he gets to try and get info from said female.
Alyeska has some great skiing slopes.
And I think you make a valid point, but that isn’t going to save him from the looming ass-kicking.
Never figured it would, but, as I do write on the side, I kinda tend to look at things from more than one angle, and this mess is pretty dang twisted if you look at it.
ITs good to look at things from more than one side, helps prevent errors like Brakka has made here. If he had taken a few momants to listen to what was going on between Elim and Kass, he might have realized how badly he was about to mess things up.
25 days? are you alright?
Oh Brakka, you dumb motherfucker.
Oh Brakka, you are going to end up chained up deep underground with ‘He knows what he did’.
Sorry Brakka, yinglets are dumb. Sign of the times at the moment.
yet you watch the yinglets with Elim, soaking up the stories he was telling them, the stories the humans get from a very young age, and you wonder how smart they can be with the right education.
I like all the little ways we get reminded Kass isn’t used to their new anatomy, in this page being their head accidentally slapping Brakka’s.
I don’t zink it’s accidental, or at least if it is, it’s a “happy accident”. Kass is seriously steamed and not letting Brakka intimidate her in ze slightest, razzer turning ze tables on him. Coming in under his chin, not only reasserts her personal space, and invades his, it also slapped his idiotic mouth shut and brings her shelltoof right up close to his so juicy zroat. It was a glorious move and seems entirely deliberate and wiffin her character and ze flow of ze scene.
I’m vylit. I vus a wolf before I got turned to a yinglet, and I approve of zis message, and ze message Kass sent zere.
Yeah, that isn’t accidental. She’s pissed and wants to strangle him. It’s also an intimidation tactic, which he would have picked up as a soldier.
I love this attention to detail.
how do people know his name is brakka has it been said?
One of Brakka’s henchmen (henchlets?) says his name a couple of pages back. Also, much earlier when he first showed up there was a scene with Vizlet and Beizel where it got mentioned.
Next he should point out that the female in the fancy outfit he kidnapped, is also ranked personnel of the rulling house, and even better, higher ranked than the guy he stabbed in the back.
That, in addition to someone the notoriously-ruthless trademaster has a personal interest in as a pawn and will probably not appreciate being tampered with.
And the mystery of Zat Zhing continues. In a world where there’s no magic, and no bio/nanotech, just what could turn you into another species?..
Yet to here no biotech/nanotech, just the no magic stuff
No magic, just “sufficiently advanced Technology” 😛
I have maintained for a while that this is in fact the far future and this world is an extrasolar colony that lost its tech base. Zhat Zhing is a nanotech thingie designed to create sentient yinglets out of lesser yinglets. Why someone would create such a thing, and why it would work on a human, are admittedly holes in this theory, however.
Elementary, my dear.
*inhales*
Zhat Zhing was created in joint partnership between yinglets and humans with goal of social re-engineering of yinglet society under the aegis of Progressor Initiative. Unfortunately, humans tend to be a tad sloppy when it comes to nano-tek applications in the area of operative genome recombination, and yinglets… well, are yinglets. And so, the “Yanglet Project” was pretty much doomed from the start.
The resulting product, dubbed “Zhat Zhing” by the political opponents of Progressor Initiative, was used by the religions fundamentalist block as a testament that humans should not play god, and let to rise of Neo-neo-luddites and severe limitations imposed on any research in the areas of genetic manipulation and nano-technology, and outright carpet banning of overwhelming part of existing tek.
As for the outpost colony where research centers of the Progressor Initiative (now disbanded and declared a terrorist organisation) were resided – well, after the quarantine bombardment ended, it is now under the strict interdiction, and forbidden to contact and land on for a few millions of years more – just to be sure that the plague of Zhat Zhing won’t sweep through humanspace – not now, not ever.
I stand on a theory that DNA is really not to far off from being able to do the things that a nanite or micro machine might be capable of. Are bodied are every bit as complex as a machine with one difference. It can adapt and change itself. Speed up the affect and give it the ability to change other DNA, boom you have a biologically agressive inhancing DNA with mutative properties.
As always, I love this comic. Every release is worth the wait.
DNA – no. Straight ‘no’.
RNA, on the other hand – or, more specifically, GE retrovirus rewriting your genome – yes, quite possible.
The problem is time. You can rewrite subject’s DNA all you want, you still wouldn’t be able to shift phenotype rapidly. Thing that could reshape a grown male into a diminutive rat-bird female in one night is, essentially, a highly efficient molecular machine, blurring the limits between nano-tek and biology to a point of vanishing.
Not unlike a virii, I suppose.
How to achieve that speed of transformation? You’ll need either a transfigurating vat, or a cocoon serving as a transfigurating vat. Then you can use a retrovirus.
To bypass the cocoon/vat entirely you will need something so complex to act as a vector, that it must have a controlling algorithm that can pass a turing to operate. Which leaves us either with sentient disease, or a maddeningly complex and highly troublesome nanobot swarmer, that will use “vanished” bodymass to feed/fuel itself during the transfiguration process.
…Or magic. Magic will work too, I guess.
As for adaptation and changing – look into modern expert systems, even rather primitive concurrent AI can do this. Now imagine AI that can change and adapt with an array of 3D printers on standby, ready to implement such changes into the hardware – and welcome to a future where H.Sap is an obsolete junk.
As a consolation – in a hypothetical case of Zhat Zhing being container for nano-bots, such machines would most probably be constructed from carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, and nitrogen – basic components of any life. They just would be much more efficient than any naturally evolved body will ever be.
LOTSA GOOD THINKIN’ UP IN HERES
The biggest question is where to dump all the HEAT generated by such a transformation.
God I just love this comic series sometimes.
Sometimes? Always, you mean
Brakka. The Dorothy Zbornak of Yinglets, but all in all still just a Rose Nylund.
I think he’s Brakka
Touche.
Ok he may have stabbed Elin, and apparently is kinda of a cunt. But i really hope Brakka don’t die. If for no other reason than to see him be this reality’s whipping boy, you folks have to admit this is hilarious.
And on a practical note, he has info on what turned Kass and likely some other stuff on the patriarch’s plans too
bottom line is he’s a useful bastard, is all i’m saying.
Am i the only one that thinks so, if anyone is willing to answer i wouldn’t mind a clever and educated debate.
It suddenly hit me that, without known context, this scene can be easely used to illustrate the difference between your average Bond/Cage/Hunt/whatever in presentation of Brakka and a real
spy– ahem, agent of influence – in person of Kas; with a short summary of only one of multitude of reasons behind latter actually existing, and former being confined to the realms of fiction.Really love the shading in frame 7…. the darkness slowly creeping in while Brakka realizes the $#!.. fekked up situation he’s in. This comic is easy top 10 in my list.
*za happy yinglet’s shriek*
Ze white yinglet is full of the feels.
Boss man; why you did this?
He is screwed on 999 different levels
kass is just too cute even when mad
His only way out of this now is to have the guy’s life he’s going to have to go back and and grab him.
Panel five looks as if he’s speaking from personal experience.
Maybe it’s just me, but I kinda feel relieved that brakka can actually have a relaxed, gentle expression instead of just his usual angry, squinty expression… Also, soooooo fekked. Lol
He is a squinty bastard though!
Ngl, was kiiiinda looking forward to Brakka having a seizure upon learning that zhat zhing self-destructed.
The bromance is and always will be the best thing ever.
Yeah, I wonder if they will think too much of the word ‘companion’ too and might infer a more romantic fondness for humans, and a lesser fondness for ying-kind. (Which can also be forgotten/reinforced by Lopin being Kass’s servant)