Time for war crimes! :rip:
Glad to see Falst’s reflexes are back; Tess could have definitely broke that bracelet with Alinua’s help (eg: grow seed under the lock)…
It’s not going to be very convenient for Erin or the entire city of Asera if known fugitives get caught wearing the Shiny Ambassador Emissary cloaks. Also I feel like this is going to end on a cliffhanger and cut back to Dainix and/or Kendal’s shenanigans with the government.
(gasp) Shrike is loitering! Guards, arrest that woman.
About to capture the gang but looking so dang good doing it with the casual talk and leaning against the wall. I do hate Shrike, but her style combined with the last page’s lore makes her very much a love-hate character. At least to me.
I have a bad feeling that Shrike may have found the time to get a life magic sealing cuff in between here and their last meeting. It would make sense given how they escaped last time; Shrike doesn’t know Alinua is trying to avoid damage via plant growth.
Now, they may be surrounded but the walls of this alley are very narrow. Falst and Tess may be able to scale them by going side to side but I’m sure Shrike and some of the hunters could do so as well. Plus they’d be open to Shrike’s chain snares.
Prediction for next week: Stalling for Erin to arrive. Part of me could see Alinua giving herself up to Shrike in exchange for letting Falst go, arguing she manipulated the plants, Falst was just caught between them and she has no right to arrest him. Shrike would then counter by mocking how naive she is and make it clear she will arrest Falst, whether he’s guilty or not. Alinua gets angry and almost goes full Life before Erin shows up and tries to defuse the situation.
Okay, a couple of possibilities for what happens next:
1. Epic chase scene
2. A wild Erin appears to bully the bounty hunters and argue with the crime trio
3. Sudden storm appears
4. Emissaries show up to announce the upcoming fight, which prompts two characters to stop caring about collateral damage.
WE ARE OUTGUNNED, OUTMANNED, OUTNUMBERED OUTPLANNED
I wonder if the alley is too much close contact for Shrike to use her sleepy-time balls. It seems like now she’d be taking the risk of knocking out her own boys if she threw one now. I’m sure she’d say that it was worth it for that sweet entrance. Also, Shrike, can you really call them kids? You’re probably the same age.
I love that Tess is putting her arms out to protect Falst and Alinua. While Shrike’s gang probably won’t attack them head on, if they did Tess would be the least able to take damage due to her skin being metal. I really like protective characters so I like my Protective Sister/Friend Tess head canon.
Well a thing just happened and I recall someone vented on here and nobody was too annoyed so I guess I’ll vent as well.
I got mad and my dad and retaliated by avoiding talking to him, my mom noticed and we had a heart to heart talk. I STILL feel very much justified in my anger but my mom had some words with me and it’s toned down a bit.
The worst bit is I HATE touchy feely and wholesome moments. Sure I’ll watch/read them, but it’s a whole nother thing when it’s happening to me.
I can BARELY say affectionate words to my best friend. (He’s my best friend by default, I’ve literally got no friends my age and all my other friends are relatives a couple years younger than me) I threatened to call him sweet and it took me a whole 10 minutes to get the nerve to say the word, and he just laughed his head off.
So to get in a feely moment like that made me incredibly uncomfortable. I absolutely hate crying, it makes you wet, and you feel like you’re drowning in snot for a few minutes, I try avoiding it at all costs. And yet HERE WE ARE, I cried during the feely moment.
My friend is currently asleep, so I had nowhere to rant except here.
I know y’all are really nice and won’t reprimand me or anything, but I do apologize for taking up space in the comments.
So Trusk didn’t fake Shrike out. It seems their friendship is genuine after all. I also don’t see him here, which makes me think he’s going to hang back and avoid the fighting.
I’m going to go ahead and jump on the Erintervention bandwagon.
Evil Tree:
I’m caught between “Shrike seemed like she was in a hurry to find Trusk and it doesn’t look like much time has passed between the last fight and now, so she probably didn’t have time to grab another sealing cuff” and “I dunno, Shrike is ludicrously prepared and resourceful, maybe she grabbed a cuff for each element before first heading out”.
Are we in for an epic fight?? Or an epic .. conversation? XD
Also beautiful how falst my precious boy who I love and would kill for is still the most street-smart one in the group. (That is how I call I’m in my brain and that is what I’ll call him here now too)
What, you expected more? ….. Sure, fine. Red’s prolly gonna cut away come Monday to Dainix, there you go Humanoid Clay. They just loveee putting us on edge. I’m wondering where the h*ll Erin is. Dude they kinda need you right now. How are tensions with AM and Dainix going? Our upcoming fight could be interesting… Normally I would give an entire speech about all the info we received and all my predictions for the future, and how cool it is, and my thoughts on the characters reactions in an extremely cheerful way and respond to pretty much everyone (I might do that tomorrow or Sunday) but it’s been one of those days… (I can barely remember the number of i’s in my username)
To ImuyanMangoCat: I think that may have been me, I too have a propensity for ranting and a distaste for getting into odd “wholesome” moments. And a bit of an anger issue. Probably me. Sorry everyone.
@hiii, I would’ve, but Purpleswans already kinda did my work for me, as well as a few other people here. I will say, though, that a potential option is that Shrike monologues, giving Alinua time to unlock the cuff on Tess. Call that one a Gift Horse, if you like.
As I highly doubt Alinua is interested in levelling a few city blocks, either Erin shows up to whisk them away, or they’re getting captured. Come on, say it with me: “PRISON BREAK!”
Welp, I’m back and in a slightly better mood.
ImuyanMangoCat:
Nice to know I wasn’t the only one having a bad day. I understand, family is amazing and infuriating. I’m in a bit of a love/hate relationship with autocorrect cos I can’t spell anything, but autocorrect loves twisting my words as well.
New question!
What member of this comic would you live with if you had a chance? (This can be romantic, friends, or just roommates) I would love to live with Tess because, AMAZING! She’s so positive, sarcastic, thoughtful and protective even though she’s been through hell! Personally, I have no idea who I’m romantically attracted to irl, so I can’t say whether it would be romantic or not, but regardless she’s amazing, and recently, I really like big intimidating figures who also have a soft side, and Tess is just the greatest!
@Hiii I think I would actually enjoy having Erin as a roommate. Definitely not in any romantic sense, but I would love to completely nerd out with him about science and magic. I imagine our apartment would resemble a library with the shear number of bookcases, and research road trips would be awesome.
Well, an evening just disappeared! Loving every minute of this. Your pacing gets better and better as the story develops. You’re handling the numerous stories and secondary characters beautifully, seamlessly. Sometimes your dialogue has too much exposition, but I’m enjoying your marvelous imagination (oh the gods, the elementals, the myths!) too much to care about that. When I hit the last scene, I could think only one thing–two, really. #1: Awwwww! #2: More, please!
@ Hiii Probably Erin. The nerding out I could do….. I’d also probably get myself an in-depth explaination of Aurora. THE SHEER VOLUME OF BOOKS WE WOULD COLLECT OMG
Evening Star and Book_Cat:
I too am a HUGE nerd and would love geeking out with Erin and explaining everything together, however, hubristic and overly fancy and eloquent people drive me insane, and we would probably hate each other, but hanging with post hubris, more open Erin who’s not as worried about being polite and neat would be a lot of fun!
@Hiii
I’d like living with Falst. I’m not sure how old he is exactly but I get the feeling he’s in his early 20s or sum’n and that is way too old for me so a romantic kind of setting is sorta out the window. If I were older then that’d be a different story
But on the other hand I’d love to have him as an older brother figure, I like the idea of protective Falst
@Hiii
Ps. Fancy people like Erin piss me off to, I’d probably get in arguments with him if I lived with him.
“Why are you sitting like that?”
“Do you have a problem with it?
“We’re at a diner!”
“Yeah and we’re here because you knocked over the diner *I* cooked! Which means you’re also paying”
“Why we’re here doesn’t matter, SIT PROPERLY!”
“MAKE ME!!!”
ImuyanMangoCat
LOL! Teasing protective Falst would be hilarious. Annoying Erin would be great, too. When protective grumpy figures get upset at teasing its the cutest thing. When they get flustered is even better, so I imagine teasing Falst would be great.
Man it’s been awhile since I’ve commented!
@hiiii, I love all the characters, but I think the one I would get along with the most as a roommate would be Alinua. She’s really chill, and a bit reserved, and I am both those things myself (exept maybe not chill sometimes) and I just feel like we would get along well.
@sombody, and ImuyanMangoCat, it’s okay, I know what it’s like to need somewhere to vent, especially if you don’t have anyone you can talk to about it. If you aren’t really looking for someone to give you answers to questions, but do want to think it through by talking about it, I would really recommend journaling. That’s what I do a lot when I need to vent, and especially if I’m really mad, (and you don’t mind scratching the paper.) it feels really good to like push the pencil down really hard into the paper. It’s surprisingly therapeutic! XD
I love the transitions between shrike and trusk to the crime trio, it feels really smooth and cohesive. Different from a cut in a video.
there’s only one solution to this problem, CHARGE!
Ah well, that’s not good.
They’re totally surrounded,
except from above.
Time for war crimes! :rip:
Glad to see Falst’s reflexes are back; Tess could have definitely broke that bracelet with Alinua’s help (eg: grow seed under the lock)…
It’s not going to be very convenient for Erin or the entire city of Asera if known fugitives get caught wearing the Shiny Ambassador Emissary cloaks. Also I feel like this is going to end on a cliffhanger and cut back to Dainix and/or Kendal’s shenanigans with the government.
Uh-oh… time to run!
Time for a twink called Erin to kick some butt :3
Um, Erin? Now would be a good time to intervene…
who cares about morals, kill them all
The stories are coming together…*evil laughs in the corner*
I noticed that guy in the 3rd panel is holding a desert melon
Ah, great, now we have to hang from this cliff all weekend. I’d be upset if it weren’t deviously well timed, intentionally or otherwise.
(gasp) Shrike is loitering! Guards, arrest that woman.
About to capture the gang but looking so dang good doing it with the casual talk and leaning against the wall. I do hate Shrike, but her style combined with the last page’s lore makes her very much a love-hate character. At least to me.
I have a bad feeling that Shrike may have found the time to get a life magic sealing cuff in between here and their last meeting. It would make sense given how they escaped last time; Shrike doesn’t know Alinua is trying to avoid damage via plant growth.
Now, they may be surrounded but the walls of this alley are very narrow. Falst and Tess may be able to scale them by going side to side but I’m sure Shrike and some of the hunters could do so as well. Plus they’d be open to Shrike’s chain snares.
Prediction for next week: Stalling for Erin to arrive. Part of me could see Alinua giving herself up to Shrike in exchange for letting Falst go, arguing she manipulated the plants, Falst was just caught between them and she has no right to arrest him. Shrike would then counter by mocking how naive she is and make it clear she will arrest Falst, whether he’s guilty or not. Alinua gets angry and almost goes full Life before Erin shows up and tries to defuse the situation.
why can i only hear Shrike saying “hiya, kids” as Agatha Harkness shrieking “HIYA, KIDS”
That’s some strong “hey Adora” energy right there.
“No entrance? Gate too tough? Break a wall!”
That’s the Sun Wukong way of doing things. (As learned from Monkey King:The Lost Empire (2001) movie). Results may vary.
It is time for Tess to use her last resort
THESE GUNS
Time for AC style parkour!
Ha, first time I have ever seen the ole “running into a dark ally in order to avoid our pursuers” trick failing. Oh dear.
TL;DR: This has to be the most unfair game of hide and seek ever, the seekers had a sniffer the whole time!
Erin’s gonna’ jump in and save the day!
Okay, a couple of possibilities for what happens next:
1. Epic chase scene
2. A wild Erin appears to bully the bounty hunters and argue with the crime trio
3. Sudden storm appears
4. Emissaries show up to announce the upcoming fight, which prompts two characters to stop caring about collateral damage.
Now you might want to run…
Ten+ on three? I like those odds
Shit’s abou to go down ! Alliuna is going to go Full life I predict it. 50/50 on Erin joining the fight.
WE ARE OUTGUNNED, OUTMANNED, OUTNUMBERED OUTPLANNED
I wonder if the alley is too much close contact for Shrike to use her sleepy-time balls. It seems like now she’d be taking the risk of knocking out her own boys if she threw one now. I’m sure she’d say that it was worth it for that sweet entrance. Also, Shrike, can you really call them kids? You’re probably the same age.
I love that Tess is putting her arms out to protect Falst and Alinua. While Shrike’s gang probably won’t attack them head on, if they did Tess would be the least able to take damage due to her skin being metal. I really like protective characters so I like my Protective Sister/Friend Tess head canon.
Well a thing just happened and I recall someone vented on here and nobody was too annoyed so I guess I’ll vent as well.
I got mad and my dad and retaliated by avoiding talking to him, my mom noticed and we had a heart to heart talk. I STILL feel very much justified in my anger but my mom had some words with me and it’s toned down a bit.
The worst bit is I HATE touchy feely and wholesome moments. Sure I’ll watch/read them, but it’s a whole nother thing when it’s happening to me.
I can BARELY say affectionate words to my best friend. (He’s my best friend by default, I’ve literally got no friends my age and all my other friends are relatives a couple years younger than me) I threatened to call him sweet and it took me a whole 10 minutes to get the nerve to say the word, and he just laughed his head off.
So to get in a feely moment like that made me incredibly uncomfortable. I absolutely hate crying, it makes you wet, and you feel like you’re drowning in snot for a few minutes, I try avoiding it at all costs. And yet HERE WE ARE, I cried during the feely moment.
My friend is currently asleep, so I had nowhere to rant except here.
I know y’all are really nice and won’t reprimand me or anything, but I do apologize for taking up space in the comments.
*mad AT my dad. Autocorrect loves twisting my words around
So Trusk didn’t fake Shrike out. It seems their friendship is genuine after all. I also don’t see him here, which makes me think he’s going to hang back and avoid the fighting.
I’m going to go ahead and jump on the Erintervention bandwagon.
Evil Tree:
I’m caught between “Shrike seemed like she was in a hurry to find Trusk and it doesn’t look like much time has passed between the last fight and now, so she probably didn’t have time to grab another sealing cuff” and “I dunno, Shrike is ludicrously prepared and resourceful, maybe she grabbed a cuff for each element before first heading out”.
oh well that’s not good
Jesus how big is her crew. They’re gonna lose to raw numbers at this rate.
alt text: the dark alleyways…… betrayed me??
Today’s image source dubs this page: Hiya.
Are we in for an epic fight?? Or an epic .. conversation? XD
Also beautiful how falst my precious boy who I love and would kill for is still the most street-smart one in the group. (That is how I call I’m in my brain and that is what I’ll call him here now too)
Well, crap. This is going to be a problem.
What, you expected more? ….. Sure, fine. Red’s prolly gonna cut away come Monday to Dainix, there you go Humanoid Clay. They just loveee putting us on edge. I’m wondering where the h*ll Erin is. Dude they kinda need you right now. How are tensions with AM and Dainix going? Our upcoming fight could be interesting… Normally I would give an entire speech about all the info we received and all my predictions for the future, and how cool it is, and my thoughts on the characters reactions in an extremely cheerful way and respond to pretty much everyone (I might do that tomorrow or Sunday) but it’s been one of those days… (I can barely remember the number of i’s in my username)
@Sunstorm the Budgie: Don’t be ridiculous. They’re right in front of them, Falst clearly said to only run if they’re behind them!
To ImuyanMangoCat: I think that may have been me, I too have a propensity for ranting and a distaste for getting into odd “wholesome” moments. And a bit of an anger issue. Probably me. Sorry everyone.
@hiii, I would’ve, but Purpleswans already kinda did my work for me, as well as a few other people here. I will say, though, that a potential option is that Shrike monologues, giving Alinua time to unlock the cuff on Tess. Call that one a Gift Horse, if you like.
Shrike: condescending to the main cast despite possibly being one of the most immature characters so far. The irony is not lost on me
As I highly doubt Alinua is interested in levelling a few city blocks, either Erin shows up to whisk them away, or they’re getting captured. Come on, say it with me: “PRISON BREAK!”
this is like 100% gonna be a cliffhanger. and im not happy about it. I NEED TO KNOW WHAT HAPPENS.
Ah, I see we may have to partake in some violence&property damage. Nice.?
Welp, I’m back and in a slightly better mood.
ImuyanMangoCat:
Nice to know I wasn’t the only one having a bad day. I understand, family is amazing and infuriating. I’m in a bit of a love/hate relationship with autocorrect cos I can’t spell anything, but autocorrect loves twisting my words as well.
New question!
What member of this comic would you live with if you had a chance? (This can be romantic, friends, or just roommates) I would love to live with Tess because, AMAZING! She’s so positive, sarcastic, thoughtful and protective even though she’s been through hell! Personally, I have no idea who I’m romantically attracted to irl, so I can’t say whether it would be romantic or not, but regardless she’s amazing, and recently, I really like big intimidating figures who also have a soft side, and Tess is just the greatest!
This is gonna be fun!
@Hiii I think I would actually enjoy having Erin as a roommate. Definitely not in any romantic sense, but I would love to completely nerd out with him about science and magic. I imagine our apartment would resemble a library with the shear number of bookcases, and research road trips would be awesome.
Well, an evening just disappeared! Loving every minute of this. Your pacing gets better and better as the story develops. You’re handling the numerous stories and secondary characters beautifully, seamlessly. Sometimes your dialogue has too much exposition, but I’m enjoying your marvelous imagination (oh the gods, the elementals, the myths!) too much to care about that. When I hit the last scene, I could think only one thing–two, really. #1: Awwwww! #2: More, please!
@ Hiii Probably Erin. The nerding out I could do….. I’d also probably get myself an in-depth explaination of Aurora. THE SHEER VOLUME OF BOOKS WE WOULD COLLECT OMG
Evening Star and Book_Cat:
I too am a HUGE nerd and would love geeking out with Erin and explaining everything together, however, hubristic and overly fancy and eloquent people drive me insane, and we would probably hate each other, but hanging with post hubris, more open Erin who’s not as worried about being polite and neat would be a lot of fun!
I like how casual shrike is
@Hiii
I’d like living with Falst. I’m not sure how old he is exactly but I get the feeling he’s in his early 20s or sum’n and that is way too old for me so a romantic kind of setting is sorta out the window. If I were older then that’d be a different story
But on the other hand I’d love to have him as an older brother figure, I like the idea of protective Falst
@Hiii
Ps. Fancy people like Erin piss me off to, I’d probably get in arguments with him if I lived with him.
“Why are you sitting like that?”
“Do you have a problem with it?
“We’re at a diner!”
“Yeah and we’re here because you knocked over the diner *I* cooked! Which means you’re also paying”
“Why we’re here doesn’t matter, SIT PROPERLY!”
“MAKE ME!!!”
ImuyanMangoCat
LOL! Teasing protective Falst would be hilarious. Annoying Erin would be great, too. When protective grumpy figures get upset at teasing its the cutest thing. When they get flustered is even better, so I imagine teasing Falst would be great.
Ps That imaginary convo is the greatest!!
Man it’s been awhile since I’ve commented!
@hiiii, I love all the characters, but I think the one I would get along with the most as a roommate would be Alinua. She’s really chill, and a bit reserved, and I am both those things myself (exept maybe not chill sometimes) and I just feel like we would get along well.
@sombody, and ImuyanMangoCat, it’s okay, I know what it’s like to need somewhere to vent, especially if you don’t have anyone you can talk to about it. If you aren’t really looking for someone to give you answers to questions, but do want to think it through by talking about it, I would really recommend journaling. That’s what I do a lot when I need to vent, and especially if I’m really mad, (and you don’t mind scratching the paper.) it feels really good to like push the pencil down really hard into the paper. It’s surprisingly therapeutic! XD
@Hiii: Probably Kendal or Alinua. Both of them seem chill. Alinua probably wouldn’t want a roommate, though, so Kendal.