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Nah, some of the stuff they've gotten is material goods you could divvy up and send a cut of back.
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Sette is going to burn that place to the ground. That laugh signed their death warrant. Business is business.
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May 5, 2014 13:39
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"Duane, make me tall and glorious". Sette, you're awesome. 
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SlothfulCobra posted:Sette is going to burn that place to the ground. That laugh signed their death warrant. If the way Anadyne reacted to Sette at the docks was any indication, Stockyard's known she was coming for a while and has his own plans for her. I guess we'll find out how many ways you can booby-trap a brothel.
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Oxxidation posted:booby-trap Well, Duane did say he would fight them all.
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~Duane! Make me tall so I can see eye to eye with Stockyard~ ~Shhh Duane dont interrupt me the adults are talking about family business~
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I'm thinking that everything is connected and getting both Duane and Sette there along with that silver is all part of one big plan. What that plan is, who can say really, but I've been doubting for a while Bastion would be so eager to let on about Duane's condition to Nary merely for him to send his (maybe?) daughter on a collections mission. There's a great big plot at work here, and we could have the curtain start to peel away this week possibly, very exciting!!
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Gally posted:I'm thinking that everything is connected and getting both Duane and Sette there along with that silver is all part of one big plan. What that plan is, who can say really, but I've been doubting for a while Bastion would be so eager to let on about Duane's condition to Nary merely for him to send his (maybe?) daughter on a collections mission. There's a great big plot at work here, and we could have the curtain start to peel away this week possibly, very exciting!! The big enigma right now is Delicieu, and what everyone else's interests are in him. My current guess is that this is all one big play by Bastion to use Duane and Sette as a catspaw to lure out Delicieu - given that Bastion doesn't seem to truck much with mortality, I don't know how fond he'd be of a wright who specializes in the manipulation of pain.
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There's no way Nary didn't know about the labor points stuff. Another reason to think he's sent Sette in with ulterior motives. Though I suppose his perspective may have just been 'not my problem, give me my money'.
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the answer is "forward some portion of the bartered goods", as was pointed out earlier good luck trying to smuggle it, though. Come and get it yourself if you want it, etc.
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I think the job was basically to deliver Duane and/or Sette to the location and to some party or another. The only thing that Sette or Duane have that's of value is well, themselves. also the bottom right corner of today's comic: 
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Fabricated posted:also the bottom right corner of today's comic: No, your other right.  Stockyard might be a charmingly loathsome monster of a rogue, but his comparison of Cresce to a giant company town feels appropriate. I have to wonder if Duane's talented enough to crack the encryption on everyone's labourcoin wallets. And if the Frummagems already knew that.
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T.G. Xarbala posted:No, your other right. Yeah, I noticed that just now The big mystery is the real reason that Sette/Duane were sent there. They're just too weirdly unique for it not to involve what they are. Duane's a magical curiosity (and likely the person who made him that way is involved or connected), and Sette is obviously not human nor young if Ashley's constant hints are to be believed.
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Fabricated posted:and Sette is obviously not human nor young if Ashley's constant hints are to be believed.
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Jackard posted:What's this again?
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That could just as easily mean she's a lot younger than she looks, too.
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There's some implication that's she's a (re?)incarnation of (one of?) the dead lion-twin gods, iirc.
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Tenebrais posted:That could just as easily mean she's a lot younger than she looks, too. v
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May 8, 2014 00:53
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That's right, Sette! The power of math shall be their undoing!
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You don't bring a man's hair-do into family business. Low blow Sette. 
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I am ready for adventures in accounting. Chapter 10: Sette Examines The Deadly Nevergreen's Books (pp1-49)
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Duane's looking a little gray around the gills. I hope Sette doesn't keep him out after dark! 
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And off Duane goes, led about like a child by a literal slattern. Sometimes one wonders if he might be a wee bit hypocritical.
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PleasingFungus posted:And off Duane goes, led about like a child by a literal slattern. I think that may be the point yes. For all his idealism, Duane is from a fairly toxic culture and still has ingrained many of their precepts. Check dat casual misogyny he drops, despite his typical airs of being a gentleman.
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Ashley, via Tumblr posted:He’s a product of his environment. Alderode’s a fiercely patriarchal place. So yeah, by our standards he’s pretty sexist. And again posted:An Aldish free-thinker is someone like Vienne Quigley who actively wanted to tear down the caste system, take apart the Dammakhert, dismantle the government, redistribute the horded wealth of the ruling families, provide social services, end the endless aggression against Cresce, open the borders, and establish equal rights for women and the less esteemed castes. If she hadn’t lived out in the boonies she’d have been seeking out The March and joining them instead of trying to design them weaponry from afar. Yep.
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Oh look, a shoe is dropping.
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Skippy McPants posted:Oh look, a shoe is dropping.
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And Toma and Co are on their way at this very moment too.
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I figured the whole deal was for the purposes of delivering Duane and/or Sette to someone. I can't believe that Sette was simply used to deliver him because Duane is a soft touch for disadvantaged children; she's got to be part of the deal for one of the parties involved in this unless Nary/et al are complete retards and don't really know what Sette is.
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Someone in Cresce, possibly. Cresce itself, no way. This page explains a lot. The whole point of sending Sette was to keep Duane on-task, which means that whoever arranged for that to happen (working with Bastion) knew him very well, enough to know that he wouldn't be able to act against Sette and would go all the way with her to keep her safe. This person was almost certainly Lemuel or someone getting information from him. Nary and Stockyard both think Duane is just a plod; Sette is the only one outside the conspiracy that is aware of his true nature, and only because of the events of last chapter (which is presumably why that had to happen before this point, to influence her thinking). Duane, one kind of weapon, was being shipped to the same place another kind of weapon (the first silver) was also sent, along with a mechanism that can control him. (Sette can only use it to control him at night, but that doesn't mean it has no influence on him the rest of the time if someone knows what they're doing.) It feels very much like some kind of horrifying nuclear pymary is planned, but aimed at who, and for what purpose? To win the war, or just end it?
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SpaceViking posted:I don't know if I'm reading this the wrong way, but now it's sounding like Cresce (or someone in it) really was the ones behind Duane's assassination. Or perhaps it's that pleasant fellow Delicieu. It does sound like it, but remember that we don't know if Stockyard has the whole story either. It sounds a lot like a line that was fed to him.
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idonotlikepeas posted:The whole point of sending Sette was to keep Duane on-task Are you sure of that? One-of-a-kind things. Seems to me she's just as likely to be integral to this conspiracy.
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