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Haledjian posted:She got away! Look where the stone got knocked out of the side of the well. Invigorated by the hearty meal, the slaughterfish climbed out of the well and went off to seek its fortune. You are now the satiated slaughterfish.
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Haledjian posted:She got away! Look where the stone got knocked out of the side of the well. Also the blood. Unless the slaughterfish were really shaking her.
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I know this is all going to end up loving Katia over in the end; it's sort of the entire idea of the comic. Despite that, though, it would be nice for her to get a friend beyond Quillweave. ASOTIL doesn't quite count, since it's pretty obvious he's, at the very least, insane enough to chase her if he decides she violated the law. Gro-Upp is pretty much being set up to foil Katia endlessly, so that's always looming. This Sigrid thing doesn't sound like it's going to end nicely. I'd actually like PNHF to travel with Katia a bit, since she actually does seem like a relatively interesting character. Katia having someone to bounce off of helps a lot in my eyes, since it keeps the constant stream of "KATIA YOU ARE BEST PERSON EVER DON'T WORRY THAT YOUR ACTIONS INADVERTENTLY KILLED AN ENTIRE VILLAGE THE INTERNET BELIEVES IN YOU" away, or at least focused more on things for her to do than constant pep talks. That and the update schedule is really slow for this part of the story, it seems, but that's what you work with I suppose.
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Kurui Reiten posted:I know this is all going to end up loving Katia over in the end; it's sort of the entire idea of the comic. Despite that, though, it would be nice for her to get a friend beyond Quillweave. ASOTIL doesn't quite count, since it's pretty obvious he's, at the very least, insane enough to chase her if he decides she violated the law. Gro-Upp is pretty much being set up to foil Katia endlessly, so that's always looming. This Sigrid thing doesn't sound like it's going to end nicely. ASOTIL is a rules lawyer. If Katya is on the wrong side of the law, I think he'll figure out a PERFECTLY LEGAL way to mitigate her troubles, if he wants to help her out. I'm fully expecting Katya to be stuck in the well but otherwise unharmed, and strike a deal with our perfectly normal friend wherein she gets out of the well in exchange for some hot jelly lickin action.
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Perhaps the "perfectly normal" qualities of the human female are contagious under certain circumstances. Like if she becomes friends with her, the normalness might rub off into her? Perhaps we might be following the adventures of the perfectly normal (but sad) catgirl in the near future. What are katia's opinions on jam?
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Burnsaber posted:Perhaps the "perfectly normal" qualities of the human female are contagious under certain circumstances. Like if she becomes friends with her, the normalness might rub off into her? Perhaps we might be following the adventures of the perfectly normal (but sad) catgirl in the near future. Besides two slices of bread and some peanut butter?
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Pakled posted:I noticed that PNHM's newspaper is dated LS 433. LS presumably stands for "Last Seed," a month in Tamriel's calendar. Oblivion begins on Last Seed 27 in 433, indicating that the death of the emperor and destruction of Kvatch are most likely happening quite soon. As if we needed any more hints
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Volmarias posted:ASOTIL is a rules lawyer. If Katya is on the wrong side of the law, I think he'll figure out a PERFECTLY LEGAL way to mitigate her troubles, if he wants to help her out. Just as a guess following precedent so far, I'm thinking nothing is gonna get licked off anybody anytime soon in this comic. Also, predicting since Kazerad didn't find a name for her to be necessary, our Perfectly Normal friend is not going to be a long-term addition to the cast. (Ed: I have no idea how old the 'third century' would make this character, or if Elder Scrolls vampires get stronger as they age, but so far she comes across to me as p. much a normal lady with fangs, so maybe Katia can take her on? Could this be the moment where Katia crosses the threshold to Level 1?)
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Piedmon Sama posted:Just as a guess following precedent so far, I'm thinking nothing is gonna get licked off anybody anytime soon in this comic. Asotil never actually got a name, Katia just eventually started referring to him by the acronym he was usually referenced with and he never corrected her. By that precedent, I'm guessing our perfectly normal human female friend will be named Pnoff.
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Piedmon Sama posted:(Could this be the moment where Katia crosses the threshold to Level 3?)
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radintorov posted:She was level 1 when the story started and leveled up after managing to survive the Imps in the Aelyd ruin. Oh I see, I know literally nothing about Elder Scrolls. In pen & pencil D&D (3.5) a level 2 character is already a badass and could easily kill a half-dozen normies, so I assumed Katya wasn't even leveled beyond your typical butcher, baker and candlestick maker.
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Piedmon Sama posted:Oh I see, I know literally nothing about Elder Scrolls. In pen & pencil D&D (3.5) a level 2 character is already a badass and could easily kill a half-dozen normies, so I assumed Katya wasn't even leveled beyond your typical butcher, baker and candlestick maker. In elder scrolls every person in the world has a few levels normally, it's far more like DnD 2E, where a PC is just a dude and levels are what make you a badass. Unlike 3.5E where being first level in a PC class already puts you ahead of the common schlubs.
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Living in the "third century" would make her ~150-200 years old. The way Vampirism works in Oblivion is the longer one goes without drinking blood, the more "vampire-like" you become, increasingly gaining the good and bad qualities of vampirism. For example, a vampire that's drunk blood within the last 24 hours isn't harmed by the sun and looks completely normal aside from the fangs, but doesn't have very many special abilities, while a vampire that hasn't drunk blood for over 3 days gains all sorts of special abilities at the cost of being hurt a lot by the sun and having a pale grotesque monstrous face.
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Pakled posted:Living in the "third century" would make her ~150-200 years old. Yeah, the Cyrodillac vampires were renowned for being able to hide their condition. Here's a transcription of an in game book you can find that talks about it. http://www.uesp.net/wiki/Oblivion:Immortal_Blood
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Piedmon Sama posted:Just as a guess following precedent so far, I'm thinking nothing is gonna get licked off anybody anytime soon in this comic. We should try to keep in mind what happened the last time a character got given a name.
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Gnome de plume posted:We should try to keep in mind what happened the last time a character got given a name. That and he was a necromancer who had a threesome with a drunken character and a skeleton. 
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Yeah, the best character ever. Pouring one out for all the dead Necro-homies. I really would find it sort of refreshing if Katia was dead, but I'll settle for the satisfaction of knowing that at least for a few moments Kazerad probably sat back and idly considered killing her right here and what he'd write if that happened. It's the sort of pause many an authour does whenever they imperil their hero, just stop and consider what they'd do if the peril actually did turn lethal. Just knowing that Katia's life is that frail and whimsical is satisfaction enough.
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There's a new update, and it looks like PNHF and Katia seem to be getting along and I couldn't stop laughing
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IronSaber posted:Good lord, I hope she gets that eye looked at.  ) just forgot that she already used her daily Eye of Fear. So she should be ok.At least she's chipper. Incidentally, Kazerad, given that you pointed out multiple times the idiocy of And have you ever played tabletop rpgs, because the way you described how you make the comic reminds me a lot of how game masters are supposed to handle their players? radintorov fucked around with this message at 19:54 on Feb 4, 2012 |
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The thing about reader suggestions with any reasonably popular endeavour like Prequel is that every possibility is eventually articulated. Unless the users are proposing courses of action and then voting on them, then, the authour ends up basically getting back the freedom to do what they want. It's only really restrictive if the writer really puts some limits on themself, like giving some in particular control of a story element, or forcing themself to use the first suggestion, or holding a vote, or having a small enough reader-base that they only get a few suggestions. Katia climbing down into the well and using her eye of fear are less the product of reader foolishness (I imagine they made up only a fraction of suggestions) and more a product of Kazerad deciding to go with suggestions that seemed in character, fit the tone of the comic, and would take the story where he wanted it to go.
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I really like the little touch of HF's eyes getting more perfectly normal as she cleans the blood off Katia. Little details like that are pretty neat.
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Holy Christ, that first panel with Katia in the well caught me off guard. It looked liked Katia had her eye gouged out!
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With how often Katia bleeds out of the eyes, PNHF should stick around. She'll have plenty of opportunities to... clean... wounds. Perfectly normally. Slaughterfish are goddamn terrifying when you're not an omnipotent god-being able to bend time and space to your whim.
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As long as no one tells that's it not a officially-accepted medical treatment, sure. Man, it must have been something really good to make nearly getting eaten slaughterfish worthwhile.
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The only reason she can be so happy, and so eager to visit the Mage Guild, is that in her desperation she managed to cast a second spell, making her eligible to join a guild as a full fledged wizard in her own right. Of course, we don't talk about the Kvatch Mage's Guild, and there has to be a reason for that...
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jng2058 posted:The only reason she can be so happy, and so eager to visit the Mage Guild, is that in her desperation she managed to cast a second spell, making her eligible to join a guild as a full fledged wizard in her own right. This is what I think too, either that or she is able to cast her fire-spell at will now. And after all, the protagonist of Oblivion starts out with two spells, so she'll have to learn both sooner or later
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Robo Pope posted:I really like the little touch of HF's eyes getting more perfectly normal as she cleans the blood off Katia. Little details like that are pretty neat. Its actually a Vampire thing in Oblivion. If they don't get blood for a certain amount of time, they become less and less humanlike, going through 4 stages until its fairly obvious they be evil monsters. If they go find blood though, their eyes go back to normal, skin stops being dead tissue, etc etc. So yes, amazing little details.
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Someone remind me, when an Oblivion vampire is at the baseline "just drank" stage, do their eyes actually become normal color again? The way I remember it, while you lack any traits horrible enough that townspeople would refuse to talk to you (like being emaciated and gaunt to the point that your facial structure resembles a chimp's), you still keep the red eyes, along with the slight paleness and fangs. Also, I have a stupid question I just need to get a definitive answer on: Was Dmitri black/a Redguard?
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Liquid Dinosaur posted:Also, I have a stupid question I just need to get a definitive answer on: Was Dmitri black/a Redguard? Yes.
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 What fangs? An ordinary human such as yourself doesn’t have fangs, silly! The very thought of such a thing is preposterous, offensive, and utterly unsubstantiated. I might grab this, but if anyone else wants it it's up for grabs.
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Figure out how to make her throwing the jam into avatar size.
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Wellp, it's a good thing I decided to post it here before picking it up. Thanks for pointing that out. And I would, Eysiume, but I don't know how to do gifs.
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Here's two versions of that jam throwing part if anyone wants them.  e: They're actually pretty aliased, if anyone wants them with the background let me know. NeerWas fucked around with this message at 04:48 on Feb 7, 2012 |
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radintorov posted:Incidentally, Kazerad, given that you pointed out multiple times the idiocy of As for tabletop RPGs, I've played a little bit but never really got into it. I've done a lot of research on them, though; much of the literature about pen and paper games is very applicable to other mediums as well. Liquid Dinosaur posted:Someone remind me, when an Oblivion vampire is at the baseline "just drank" stage, do their eyes actually become normal color again? The way I remember it, while you lack any traits horrible enough that townspeople would refuse to talk to you (like being emaciated and gaunt to the point that your facial structure resembles a chimp's), you still keep the red eyes, along with the slight paleness and fangs. Liquid Dinosaur posted:Also, I have a stupid question I just need to get a definitive answer on: Was Dmitri black/a Redguard? edit: woah woah woah, I totally just got my first Tumblr ragequit today guys! For railroading, I guess. I will frame it on my achievements board. editedit: wait, I got overexcited. On further inspection, I'm not sure if he was a regular reader or someone going through the archive for the first time. Time to find out. Kazerad fucked around with this message at 11:25 on Feb 7, 2012 |
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