Knocked down? Erin’s pride has not been able to get up at all since he met the Ebon Dragon!
(I’m expecting things to come to a head and an identity crisis sometime soon. When you define yourself and your identity by being powerful and Extremely Important and spend months basically being the party load…)
I say it eh-rin (the eh like the e in fled and rin like rim but with an n), and I say Karen like kair-en. I did not know that wasn’t the most common pronunciation.
In my brain, Erin and Karen rhyme perfectly. “Erin” is pronounced air-inn for me. And this is a pronunciation I actually feel comfortable defending because I had a friend named Erin (granted, she was a girl, but same name) and it was pronounced exactly like Karen but without the ‘k’.
V.D.: You know, despite having my plans delayed and my vessel currently inside my nemesis’s headquarters, I am so glad I can witness this.
Falst trying to contain his laughter gives me life and Alinua’s deadpan expression adds even more. I know he’s a very different character to Red’s Sun Wukong but by golly does Falst feel like the monkey king at times.
Falst is only beaten by the receptionist, deadpan expression, great hairstyle, assertive and perfect comebacks to Erin’s requests. Aseran embassy receptionist, why can’t you be more like Paladin headquarters receptionist?
At least for Erin’s benefit this implies the Paladin’s here don’t know he’s got V.D. as a roommate, if they did know they might let him in, saying they’ll give him access to the records, only to backstab him when he least suspects. So long as the tattoo stays under-wraps, maybe his status as elemental magus too, Erin may walk out of this humbled but not in danger.
Until Erin, desperate without his precious privilege, pulls out the “AHA! I am not the public, I am the host of your belief system’s cosmic entity! Now will you let me in?”
I’d love that even more if the receptionist didn’t believe him.
Receptionist: “Ugh. Another one.”
Erin: “Wait, what do you mean another one?”
Receptionist: “Another ranting lunatic/philosopher/etc claiming they worship the Dark Dragon just to stir up trouble, make some semblance of a philosophical argument against our religion, yada yada. We get about two a week now get out before I call security.”
Apparently the receptionist(?) puts up with shit like this on the regular. Ah, the wonders of public service jobs… hardening even the softest, kindest people into no-nonsense badasses.
So when I first read this page I couldn’t tell what Alinua was looking at and was worried that there was trouble incoming… and then I realized she’s just watching Falst XD
It seems that, in fact, quite a lot of people commented it before you
It’s fine, you can never have too much of a funny thing!
Well, maybe you can, but not this
Off topic- Me writing a comic: Let’s stick in this reference to my childhood that no one will get hehe
Also, people seem to like floof. I had to make my characters sleep for the night so the one with a neat ponytail ended up with a floofy bedhead and my friends don’t want her to ever do her hair again.
huh, interesting, looks like Runic doesn’t have double letters
I wanted to know what the runes on the book and the door said and I didn’t see that anyone had done it yet so that went off on a probably-like-half-hour-long-where-I-found-all-the-available-runes-so-I-would-know-the-alphabet tangent
Anyway, here are the runes as far as I could tell:
Book:
_eat beast of flame [Great?]
the temple casting
in al directions we [all]
the dark one was to
we were not _oly
tly the beast
ses of being
dark one and
ilp agains
d? lames
s and
sela p? as
s rage
e dark
ad
a
Second page:
ores [June’s hand] and and it apere [appeared?]
the dar [June’s hand] a also [Dark one probably]
unprepa [June’s hand] su_ a [unprepared]
strugl [struggle]
The door:
ublic
acses
rbiden
Which we can assume says “Public access forbidden”.
It looks like June’s writing about the explosion thing that destroyed the Ancient’s city and created the Storm? Transcribing it from another book? or something?
If only Erin knew my stepmother. She could get him what he needs from them.
The world marvels at Kerin’s negotiating prowess.
I like this lady! Not only ‘cuz she’s cute, but also because she’s taking Erin down a peg!
And she’s clearly some kind of scholar, and anyone academically-minded immediately has a special place in my heart
Being cute is the baseline in this comic, but taking Erin McHubris down a couple of pegs is a rare accomplishment.
ERIN’S PRIDE GOT KNOCKED DOWN
Ego, CRUSHED
Knocked down? Erin’s pride has not been able to get up at all since he met the Ebon Dragon!
(I’m expecting things to come to a head and an identity crisis sometime soon. When you define yourself and your identity by being powerful and Extremely Important and spend months basically being the party load…)
When someone tells Kerin “no”
Oh my God, Falst!!!
No one likes a Karen, Erin.
Also, it’s great we finally get to see those floof technology advancements. https://twitter.com/AuroraWebcomic/status/1350753701414268928?s=20
Falst in the last panel is exactly how I feel reading this page
Falst just having a blast with every second of it.
Erin and the Manager be like: IS THERE SOMETHING FUNNY FERIN!
Well Erin does rhyme with Karen..
Wait, it does? I must be pronouncing stuff really strangely then.
I may be stretching it somewhat.
Wait, how are YOU pronouncing it? I’ve been saying AIR-in because that’s how I grew up saying it.
I say it eh-rin (the eh like the e in fled and rin like rim but with an n), and I say Karen like kair-en. I did not know that wasn’t the most common pronunciation.
In my brain, Erin and Karen rhyme perfectly. “Erin” is pronounced air-inn for me. And this is a pronunciation I actually feel comfortable defending because I had a friend named Erin (granted, she was a girl, but same name) and it was pronounced exactly like Karen but without the ‘k’.
I pronoun Erin AIR-RIN, and Karen CAH-RUN, and to me, those don’t really rhyme.
Erin
rin
rn
ren
aren
Karen
Oh no
Erin +Caring = Caren.
V.D.: You know, despite having my plans delayed and my vessel currently inside my nemesis’s headquarters, I am so glad I can witness this.
Falst trying to contain his laughter gives me life and Alinua’s deadpan expression adds even more. I know he’s a very different character to Red’s Sun Wukong but by golly does Falst feel like the monkey king at times.
Falst is only beaten by the receptionist, deadpan expression, great hairstyle, assertive and perfect comebacks to Erin’s requests. Aseran embassy receptionist, why can’t you be more like Paladin headquarters receptionist?
At least for Erin’s benefit this implies the Paladin’s here don’t know he’s got V.D. as a roommate, if they did know they might let him in, saying they’ll give him access to the records, only to backstab him when he least suspects. So long as the tattoo stays under-wraps, maybe his status as elemental magus too, Erin may walk out of this humbled but not in danger.
Until Erin, desperate without his precious privilege, pulls out the “AHA! I am not the public, I am the host of your belief system’s cosmic entity! Now will you let me in?”
I’d love that even more if the receptionist didn’t believe him.
Receptionist: “Ugh. Another one.”
Erin: “Wait, what do you mean another one?”
Receptionist: “Another ranting lunatic/philosopher/etc claiming they worship the Dark Dragon just to stir up trouble, make some semblance of a philosophical argument against our religion, yada yada. We get about two a week now get out before I call security.”
V.D.: Bonjour.
You can HEAR Erin’s hubris being destroyed. I love this lady already
Also, Falst is a mood
Loving Erin’s expression on hearing no XD
Listen son, you would be better off asking the incarnation of the city of law if you could break some rules. Oh, have you seen our prison yet?
Oh, good, somebody else got the receptionist’s little quip!
TL;DR: Mr. Hubris used privilege! It has no effect on the opposing Paladins!
“Roll for the wow-you’ve-got-privelege factor.”
“Uh . . . one.”
“Ha!“
“But it worked before, and if it works once it must ALWAYS work!”
“Roll inspiration?”
“Two?”
“You demand to see the manager and the receptionist continues to not give a flying fig.”
“…Dang.”
“Roll persuasiveness?”
“One”
“The receptionist is laughing inside”
Apparently Erin treated charisma as a dump stat. Bad idea when he tries to be all diplomatic all the time…
Ngl, someone needed to call out the Karen behaviour Erin is showing.
Also Falst in this page is a mood, lol.
Erin more like Karen, amiright?
I can’t belive he said : “I’d like to speak to the manager.”
Flast is all of us when we see a Karen not get their way.
Erin’s entire role in this series seems to be “person who gets constantly brought down to reality about how important they actually are.”
Falst in panel six
Me when I hear a friend’s business plan
Same, diff
Falst, I say this every time you’re in a panel but never change
Panel 6 Erin do be like “Was ist dis? ‘No?'”
NEW TITLE
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“Erin the Karen”
Karen: I want to speak to the manager!
Kerin: Perhaps you should find me your superior!
Darnit. Too many people beat me to the obvious Karen/Erin/Kerin joke.
Yeah I was prepared to make the joke but everyone had the same idea haha
Apparently the receptionist(?) puts up with shit like this on the regular. Ah, the wonders of public service jobs… hardening even the softest, kindest people into no-nonsense badasses.
So when I first read this page I couldn’t tell what Alinua was looking at and was worried that there was trouble incoming… and then I realized she’s just watching Falst XD
When you roll a 1 for persuasion.
“The entitlement of the “The Customer is Always Right” crowd reaches across dimensions and into this fantasy world.”
What is her name?????
My favorite caeriter is alinus!
can I just say I love the receptionist’s hair?
YES, AMEN.
Ooh, to any navigation/geography nerds like myself, check out the world map!
World map! Where is it? I must see it.
In the top index bar between “Sketches” and “Contact”.
Red, I’m glad that folks who provide face-to-face customer service in your world can argue back with customers without fear of losing their jobs!
KAREN ERIN!! sorry I just read that panel and had to comment it. Someone probably commented it before me. Sorry about that.
It seems that, in fact, quite a lot of people commented it before you
It’s fine, you can never have too much of a funny thing!
Well, maybe you can, but not this
Off topic- Me writing a comic: Let’s stick in this reference to my childhood that no one will get hehe
Also, people seem to like floof. I had to make my characters sleep for the night so the one with a neat ponytail ended up with a floofy bedhead and my friends don’t want her to ever do her hair again.
HAha
Alt text: see? falst CAN have good days
The thing I said about Erin “I’d-like-to-speak-to-your-manager” Ruunaser several pages ago continues to hold up.
~dying of laughter noises from Falst~
Alinua: confused unga bunga
Tsk tsk Erin, YOU were the one who called them a cult. You REALLY should have expected this. I wonder if Falst did.
huh, interesting, looks like Runic doesn’t have double letters
I wanted to know what the runes on the book and the door said and I didn’t see that anyone had done it yet so that went off on a probably-like-half-hour-long-where-I-found-all-the-available-runes-so-I-would-know-the-alphabet tangent
Anyway, here are the runes as far as I could tell:
Book:
_eat beast of flame [Great?]
the temple casting
in al directions we [all]
the dark one was to
we were not _oly
tly the beast
ses of being
dark one and
ilp agains
d? lames
s and
sela p? as
s rage
e dark
ad
a
Second page:
ores [June’s hand] and and it apere [appeared?]
the dar [June’s hand] a also [Dark one probably]
unprepa [June’s hand] su_ a [unprepared]
strugl [struggle]
The door:
ublic
acses
rbiden
Which we can assume says “Public access forbidden”.
It looks like June’s writing about the explosion thing that destroyed the Ancient’s city and created the Storm? Transcribing it from another book? or something?