panel 2 & 3 made me laugh my head off, Jolon’s face just *wheeze*
Ali appears to be healing! and voidy dosnt look like hes gonna come out so thats a bit sad
Kendal: I really believe that people are good and people like us can be accepted, but it’s not always easy and you have to work to find it and return it, and DO YOU REALLY WANT TO TALK ABOUT THIS RIGHT NOW WE’RE IN THE MIDDLE OF A FIGHT FALST JUST FOCUS ON THE BATTLE SO WE DON’T ALL DIE OK
Falsts claws are small compared to that chimera maybe not enough to brake fur and skin, poke Damage after all.
I think punching, he can apply more blunt force so that the chimera is pushed away from Kandel.
I mean he could have clawed at eye or nose but than the chimera might have twitched and injured Kendalls neck.
I should really stop comparing Falst to Wukong; they’re very different characters with different motives. However, disposing of a magical snake by throwing it to the moon? That’s pretty Monkey King. Also like how he’s quick enough to get past Jolon without him realising.
Sorry Jolon, you may have had a chance when it was just Kendal active but with Falst now close to joining them and the mages soon to be back in the game it’s a different story. Unless you have even more chimeras, or a death wish, I’d consider playing to the paragon and surrendering; there may still be a slim chance they’ll accept a surrender.
Next week’s predictions: Kendal following up on Falst’s question with a paragon speech (assuming he can still talk ok, those bruises around his neck look nasty), Alinua healing fully and very ticked off, Erin escaping using fire/lightning as void is no longer needed, and Jolon tries to use the lacrima to bolster his forces but something … goes wrong with it (i.e. the chapter cover page becomes a reality with Jolon at ground zero).
I went to the comic’s Tumblr page last night, and was pleasantly surprised with a piece of music by Varda Alighieri! A 4-minute long piano piece (with some singing, but due to the unfortunate yet understandable lack of a recording microphone, I couldn’t hear her singing above the loudness of the piano).
Specifically, it’s her idea of a theme for The Void Dragon (nearly everyone’s favorite character, apparently), and it’s just… *chef’s kiss* As a music theory nerd and fellow low-budget composer, I really enjoyed listening out for different parts; there are a couple of recurring leitmotifs sprinkled throughout, there’s some good contrast between the deep bass notes in the accompaniment and the high notes in the melody, there are a couple of multi-octave chromatic slides up and down the keyboard, it even sounded like there were some time signature changes at one point (though I could be wrong there). Basically, the song as a whole sounds bombastic, intimidating, sinister, and powerful, which fits very well with The Void Dragon’s personality and abilities.
I know, right? It has such a good vibe!
I don’t think she’s varying the time signature. Not intentionally at least, as far as I can tell.
Varda, if you’re reading this: stellar job with that theme! Big props to you.
(I’ll admit, I’ve been trying to do my own take on the Void Dragon’s theme/motif, but real life kinda put a pause on that, and I’m also confined to only a guitar instead of a piano. So, um, yeah.)
Since I use a digital audio workstation (DAW) instead of a single instrument, I’m slightly less limited on the composition work, but since all of the virtual instruments I have are free (again, low-budget, I don’t have a job yet), it would take quite some time to make a rendition of my own sound good.
Yeah no intentional time signature variation… I, actually… don’t compose with a deliberate time signature. At all. Might have been a subconscious switch though!
THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU
I’m really proud of that chromatic scale all the way up and down, I’m so glad you liked it! If you go back a bit further I also wrote themes for the main trio, which you might be interested in! It’s so wonderful to hear that my quarantine composition practice is paying off!
I love how Falst just turns and looks at Kendal like, He’s known him for less than a day, fought with him for longer and is now like
I Require Your Opinion
Alternatively, How fast can this comic say found family?
Woohoohoo! Time for two pissed off mages fully in control of two ancient, hard to control super powered primordials in full “this is my one chance at having a living incarnation don’t u dare mess this one chance up for me I will kill you for trying to kill my host” mode, probably with life in an extra state of “and you tried to do it with MY powers” as well
Jolon:
Bad experiments
Jaded
Opportunistic
Hurts people
Overall jerk
… but at least he cares about his little snek buddy. Bon voyage, poor Shirii, you little cutie.
Nobody else has noticed this, but kendal didn’t say he felt still alone, he send you don’t have to be alone. Is this an in character misinterpretation by Falst, a misinterpretation by me, or an error?
Since this is the internet, you will never know my real name.
I appreciate this so much because I’m reading Drizzt rn and just that journey of having people accept you for who you are rather than what you are is just wonderful.
Y E E T
RIP Shirii
Bad snek is blasting off agaaaaaain~~
Snek not bad. Snek just have bad influence.
OMG FALST YEETED THE DANGER NOODLE
OMG ALINUA’S EYE
OMG JOLON’S FACE
OMG FALST I’M PROUD OF YOU
Do not underestimate the danger noodle.
It is a magic danger noodle.
danger noodle: I’ll be back.
But seriously that thing is too cool to not turn up again (I mean, not the same one, but more Spelleaters)
panel 2 & 3 made me laugh my head off, Jolon’s face just *wheeze*
Ali appears to be healing! and voidy dosnt look like hes gonna come out so thats a bit sad
I know, I like Voidy, it’s too bad. Oh well. And yeah, Jolon’s face was ridiculous.
How to summarise todays page: Best face of the year and *snek gets launched into atmosphere*
I’m glad The Void Dragon isn’t making an appearance; it’s always bad when he shows up, what with the whole possession thing
Somebody needs to make that face into a reaction on the discord
With the framing of the moon in that second panel it briefly looked like they suddenly started playing dodgeball.
Kendal: I really believe that people are good and people like us can be accepted, but it’s not always easy and you have to work to find it and return it, and DO YOU REALLY WANT TO TALK ABOUT THIS RIGHT NOW WE’RE IN THE MIDDLE OF A FIGHT FALST JUST FOCUS ON THE BATTLE SO WE DON’T ALL DIE OK
THAT’S MY BOY! WOOOO!
Ok ok yeet the snake and everything… but why punch the chimera when you have CLAWS?
Falsts claws are small compared to that chimera maybe not enough to brake fur and skin, poke Damage after all.
I think punching, he can apply more blunt force so that the chimera is pushed away from Kandel.
I mean he could have clawed at eye or nose but than the chimera might have twitched and injured Kendalls neck.
Yes, additionally, a blow to the throat can be fatal by means of internal damage, while his claws only have the length to penetrate a short ways.
Actually, I think Falst punched Galdr in the jaw; look closely at the panel where Kendal is coughing, it looks like a tooth was knocked loose
I dind’t notice the teeth, that makes a lot more sense (still the way that that punch has been drwan seems a bit too superhero-y for me).
Um how this happening… this is weird.
I had errors
AAAAAHHHHHHH
He really did just say Y E E T
Y E E T
Well the spelleater has been handily yeeted into the stratosphere, and with it any real leverage Jolon may have had over the once-trio-now-quad squad.
Dear Jolon,
I’ve had enough of you crap. Say goodbye to your overgrown magic sponge and your freaky bear-deer.
-Falst
I should really stop comparing Falst to Wukong; they’re very different characters with different motives. However, disposing of a magical snake by throwing it to the moon? That’s pretty Monkey King. Also like how he’s quick enough to get past Jolon without him realising.
Sorry Jolon, you may have had a chance when it was just Kendal active but with Falst now close to joining them and the mages soon to be back in the game it’s a different story. Unless you have even more chimeras, or a death wish, I’d consider playing to the paragon and surrendering; there may still be a slim chance they’ll accept a surrender.
Next week’s predictions: Kendal following up on Falst’s question with a paragon speech (assuming he can still talk ok, those bruises around his neck look nasty), Alinua healing fully and very ticked off, Erin escaping using fire/lightning as void is no longer needed, and Jolon tries to use the lacrima to bolster his forces but something … goes wrong with it (i.e. the chapter cover page becomes a reality with Jolon at ground zero).
Sorry cute lizard, you were a problem. And wooo Falst!
JOLON’S FACE PFFFFFFFT
Haha Falst punching away the chimera just so he can clarify a few points with Kendal
“I will save the hero just so that I csan argue with him some more” yup we got us a lancer
Oh shit, dis gonna be good!
Get th’ explanation helms!
… Yeah, no, that’s definitely not the last we’re going to see of that snake.
Falst be like: Y E E T U S D E L E T U S
I went to the comic’s Tumblr page last night, and was pleasantly surprised with a piece of music by Varda Alighieri! A 4-minute long piano piece (with some singing, but due to the unfortunate yet understandable lack of a recording microphone, I couldn’t hear her singing above the loudness of the piano).
Specifically, it’s her idea of a theme for The Void Dragon (nearly everyone’s favorite character, apparently), and it’s just… *chef’s kiss* As a music theory nerd and fellow low-budget composer, I really enjoyed listening out for different parts; there are a couple of recurring leitmotifs sprinkled throughout, there’s some good contrast between the deep bass notes in the accompaniment and the high notes in the melody, there are a couple of multi-octave chromatic slides up and down the keyboard, it even sounded like there were some time signature changes at one point (though I could be wrong there). Basically, the song as a whole sounds bombastic, intimidating, sinister, and powerful, which fits very well with The Void Dragon’s personality and abilities.
In short: good on you, Varda!
I know, right? It has such a good vibe!
I don’t think she’s varying the time signature. Not intentionally at least, as far as I can tell.
Varda, if you’re reading this: stellar job with that theme! Big props to you.
(I’ll admit, I’ve been trying to do my own take on the Void Dragon’s theme/motif, but real life kinda put a pause on that, and I’m also confined to only a guitar instead of a piano. So, um, yeah.)
Since I use a digital audio workstation (DAW) instead of a single instrument, I’m slightly less limited on the composition work, but since all of the virtual instruments I have are free (again, low-budget, I don’t have a job yet), it would take quite some time to make a rendition of my own sound good.
Yeah no intentional time signature variation… I, actually… don’t compose with a deliberate time signature. At all. Might have been a subconscious switch though!
THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU
I’m really proud of that chromatic scale all the way up and down, I’m so glad you liked it! If you go back a bit further I also wrote themes for the main trio, which you might be interested in! It’s so wonderful to hear that my quarantine composition practice is paying off!
I love how Falst just turns and looks at Kendal like, He’s known him for less than a day, fought with him for longer and is now like
I Require Your Opinion
Alternatively, How fast can this comic say found family?
Woohoohoo! Time for two pissed off mages fully in control of two ancient, hard to control super powered primordials in full “this is my one chance at having a living incarnation don’t u dare mess this one chance up for me I will kill you for trying to kill my host” mode, probably with life in an extra state of “and you tried to do it with MY powers” as well
SHIRII i liked you snek
Actually find it kind of cute that Jolon seems genuinely worried about Falst yeeting the sname.
Jolon:
Bad experiments
Jaded
Opportunistic
Hurts people
Overall jerk
… but at least he cares about his little snek buddy. Bon voyage, poor Shirii, you little cutie.
haha high-velocity noodle go brrrrrr
I love this.
STELLLAAAAAAAA… wait, no…SHIRIIIIIIIIIII!
Wait, what is that a reference to? Because I’ve heard the reference before but I didn’t get it.
Panel 3 is a new meme format
Do I see a Villainous Breakdown coming on?
OH NO! NOT THE DANGER NOODLE! The danger noodle did nothing wrong!
Was anyone else kinda hoping it’d become the team pet?
RIP Danger noodle, the characters may not have loved you but everybody else did
When this is all over, Falst needs to work on his listening/language comprehension skills.
Looking forward to seeing Erin and Alinua back in action!
did anyone notice that both Falst and Jolon got cut off while saying business? kinda funny I thought
Yeah, it’s like don’t say business in the world of Aurora unless you want to be interrupted.
We interrupt this villainous monologue to bring you, “Life Counseling with a guy that is Nine Days Old”.
You ever get so emotioanlly exhausted you just have to yeet something?
You know, if there’s a way Shirii can be stopped from eating things she shouldn’t, she could be nice to have around when VD gets uppity.
Well, I doubt she could do much against void, because void would theoretically be the element she uses to neutralize the others.
Nobody else has noticed this, but kendal didn’t say he felt still alone, he send you don’t have to be alone. Is this an in character misinterpretation by Falst, a misinterpretation by me, or an error?
When your pet danger noodle eats elemental energy … and is yeeted at the moon.
NOOOO THE SNEK
TL;DR: Lionboi yeets the magic danger noodle. He has several questions.
YEET the magic eating snake! and also friendship but mostly YEET!
I appreciate this so much because I’m reading Drizzt rn and just that journey of having people accept you for who you are rather than what you are is just wonderful.
Alt text: you mean you’ve never heard of the power of friendship??
Image source: insolent
(*insert Ducktales moon theme for Shirii*)
Yaaas a fellow ducktaler
HE PUNTED THE SNAKE!!!
Falst just helped Kendal to be able to yell at him face to face
Shirii go weeeeeeeeeee