It’s actually a really great comedian, and every time it finishes a show, everybody gives it a great big hand!
And by “a great big hand”, I actually mean “lots of normal-sized hands”. And by “everybody gives it” I actually mean “it takes by force”. And by “really great comedian” I actually mean “horrifying murderous abomination of magic and nature”. Sorry for all the confusion!
Anyway, I hope Falst and Dainix aren’t too attached to their hands. Because if they are, they soon won’t be! HEYO!
Took me a moment to get the last panel, I thought Falst suddenly had Dainix’ equipment… then I got that Dainix is just that much taller than Falst, lol
How kind of the mysterious gunk to give Falst a warning droplet so that he can get out of the initial splash zone before the rest of it rains down on them <33
I know, right? Falst has somehow ended up in Dainix’s arms so many times this arc that his first instinct when dodging a monster is to leap straight towards Dainix’s arms, and that’s just- THATS SO DAMN ADORABLE
It’s a Dark ChuChu! Equip the mirror shield!
I must say I love that multicoloured sheen the blob’s SFX have, like a petrol spill in water making a rainbow effect. It not only gives this monster a liquid feel, but also an artificial and toxic one too.
Yeah, that thing is definitely alive and is able to detect their presence somehow; it may also be able to manipulate the limbs of any cave crawlers it may have absorbed. We’ll have to find out Wednesday if either Falst or Dainix know what that thing is.
Hey at least you didn’t repeat yourself like I have. But I don’t think you have to worry about critics here. Personally I think both your posts were worth merit. (smile)
I see Falst finely tuned survival instincts have kicked in. Since he is warning Dainix too he must be buds with the clueless ex-desert guardian now. Sweet!
Falst why do you keep doing this to yourself. I mean right now I know why, but when this is all said and done we’re tying you to a bed and making you rest
Since Alinua did not sense the ooze when she was looking for ‘der bois’ my first wild guess is magical equivalent to a nano-tech grey ooze which breaks organic matter to non life soup – just to make it immune to Life magic effects so its not so easy to deal with. When Red types ‘It will be fine’ if she is reassuring us that she is on the heroes’ side or just likes to put said heroes to the test. Maybe both?
Well, the entry for the substance that contains the spoiler notice says that whatever it’s referring to appears as a blue-black crystalline substance. And the sound effect “GLORT” does not scream “crystalline” to me. My theory is that we’re looking at a fusion of Fire, Water, Wind, Lightning, and Life – the only combination of elements described in that post as a “gelatinous liquid”. Notice that the missing element is stone, which is the lacrima that Falst noticed was damaged. Maybe the Ancients were trying to artificially create adamant, but at some point the stone lacrima broke and the machine started producing that slime, which then became ambulatory and crawled up to the ceiling?
Ah, so that’s what the hideous bowling alley carpet protoplasm thing was for. Is it me, or has that thing been eating crawlers? Because those look like crawler hands. Also, I went back to the chapter cover because I wanted to check something, and I couldn’t help but notice that while the black goopy border most obviously has a hand reaching for Falst, I think there are hand shapes reaching for everyone EXCEPT Erin. Curious…
Funny you should mention Erin on the chapter cover, because something just struck me looking at it. Erin is using stone magic while looking down, which at first I thought represented him and Alinua digging. But Alinua, on the same cover, is not doing the same as him; she’s looking at the blackness around them like the rest. Then I remembered the dais with the broken stone lacrima in the room Falst and Dainix are in. What if Erin on this cover is trying to fix whatever went wrong with the dais in the hopes it may defeat the creature?
i LOVE this page– it’s too beautiful!! Also, it’s ma birthday today!! I’ve been reading your comic for years now– it’s been with me through highschool, so THANK YOU!!!
I am glad you got such a wonderful birthday gift this year! At my age you realize birthdays are for making and eating cake with friends and kids. I hope you have a good one no matter what your age! And if your not then please remember chemical imbalances is something that is treatable if you feel angry or depressed (excuse me, mother hen got the best of me again, BBwaaack!)
YES, this astonished me when I reread the whole arc in a short timeframe, I’m still trying to work out why the people of Vash first appeared to Kendal as a creepy amalgamation, when they ended up becoming friendly ghosts.
For mobile readers.
Alt-text: you guys wanted the boys to get more hugs right
Image source: go
Yes: but only the most tactical of hugs.
????
“Tactical hug” is permanently in my lexicon now
Aurora Question #77: IT HAS HANDS WHY DOES IT HAVE HANDS
To flail and grasp and drag itself (themselves?) with!
To give more high fives, of course
Hugs.
They’re a very dedicated hand model
Its more like goo or an ooze to me. (Glort!)
It’s actually a really great comedian, and every time it finishes a show, everybody gives it a great big hand!
And by “a great big hand”, I actually mean “lots of normal-sized hands”. And by “everybody gives it” I actually mean “it takes by force”. And by “really great comedian” I actually mean “horrifying murderous abomination of magic and nature”. Sorry for all the confusion!
Anyway, I hope Falst and Dainix aren’t too attached to their hands. Because if they are, they soon won’t be! HEYO!
Your comment is a work of art
All the better to hug you with, honey.
Red is undergoing TOTK PTSD with the funny Ganon Hands.
(Couldn’t reply yesterday for some reason)
Took me a moment to get the last panel, I thought Falst suddenly had Dainix’ equipment… then I got that Dainix is just that much taller than Falst, lol
I think Dainix might be turning to look at it/give it a poke before they leave. For science, I guess?
Hello there new (maybe sentient) goop of… thing
How kind of the mysterious gunk to give Falst a warning droplet so that he can get out of the initial splash zone before the rest of it rains down on them <33
A color pattern… conveying a texture? (!)
glort.
glort.
they have GOT to stop catching each other like that
I know, right? Falst has somehow ended up in Dainix’s arms so many times this arc that his first instinct when dodging a monster is to leap straight towards Dainix’s arms, and that’s just- THATS SO DAMN ADORABLE
also i LOVE the glowy smear?? blur?? effect on falst’s eyes its just so nice
Venom?? That you??
wait is that the heart of elynthi blot? are we in front of an extremely well-planned crossover between jocat and red?????’ /j
It’s a Dark ChuChu! Equip the mirror shield!
I must say I love that multicoloured sheen the blob’s SFX have, like a petrol spill in water making a rainbow effect. It not only gives this monster a liquid feel, but also an artificial and toxic one too.
Yeah, that thing is definitely alive and is able to detect their presence somehow; it may also be able to manipulate the limbs of any cave crawlers it may have absorbed. We’ll have to find out Wednesday if either Falst or Dainix know what that thing is.
The pollution got so bad it gained sentience.
(Magnus archives vibes anyone?)
Love how the sound effects have the same colours as soap bubbles. Red is really creative
The iridescent colours reminiscent of a soap bubble for the sound effect! That’s genius, I love it!
Woops sorry, I thought my previous comment had disappeared instead of uploading
Hey at least you didn’t repeat yourself like I have. But I don’t think you have to worry about critics here. Personally I think both your posts were worth merit. (smile)
The black pudding attacks from above. Roll for initiative.
At least Falst made the dex save
… and a ‘good time’ was had by all involved. (At least the readers were entertained.)
Oh, how lovely, the ceiling goop wants a hug
“Mysterious colors, unlike any seen on Earth.”
(ʘᗩʘ’)
*singsong* Refrences!
The colour of the sound effects kind of reminds me of Fuzzy Ooze from Splatoon.
I love how the onomatopoeias of the elemental goop have the same colour pattern as itself, that is such a nice detail
Oh crap it’s The Flood (well it’s the Aurora equivalent at least).
Welcome to Apocrypha, Jimbo
good thing neither of them wear armor. I think that one gives -1 to your armor’s AC every time it lands an attack
SLIME!!!!!!!! YES!!!!! Favorite fantasy monster right here.
Come on Red, another combat in the same day? They gotta be running low on spells slots and chi points…
incredible how it just keeps on getting worse
I love how we’ve gotten to the point where Falst’s first instinct is to leap into Dainix’s arms himself
Like damn Red you are just ENCOURAGING the shippers at this point, not that I’m complaining
I see Red has been playing a lot of Tears of the Kingdom
glorp is an insanely accurate sound effect
I see Falst finely tuned survival instincts have kicked in. Since he is warning Dainix too he must be buds with the clueless ex-desert guardian now. Sweet!
(Still wating for the message bord to drop in any time now..)
Falst why do you keep doing this to yourself. I mean right now I know why, but when this is all said and done we’re tying you to a bed and making you rest
Well when it dropped I kinda thought we’d have some time before it fell
Nope! It falls all at once with a meaty schlop! Also that alt text is evil!
I love the oily effect of the creature and how Red applied it to the sound effects as well! This thing is horrifying, I love it.
!! PLEASE TELL ME YOUR THEORIES ON WHAT THE HECK THIS THING IS I NEED TO KNOW !!
My (rather nonsensical) theory is that a bunch of cavecrawlers tried to eat each other and them got merged into that
Since Alinua did not sense the ooze when she was looking for ‘der bois’ my first wild guess is magical equivalent to a nano-tech grey ooze which breaks organic matter to non life soup – just to make it immune to Life magic effects so its not so easy to deal with. When Red types ‘It will be fine’ if she is reassuring us that she is on the heroes’ side or just likes to put said heroes to the test. Maybe both?
I think she might have seen it, actually. If you look at page 1.22.3, there’s some weird goopy hands just below Falst and Dainix.
My wild guess is that it’s one of the near-adamant fusions, for no other reason than this Tumblr post: https://comicaurora.tumblr.com/post/690174989500071936/what-about-organic-fusions-containing-other
The ominous “REDACTED FOR SPOILERS” thing got me thinking…
Well, the entry for the substance that contains the spoiler notice says that whatever it’s referring to appears as a blue-black crystalline substance. And the sound effect “GLORT” does not scream “crystalline” to me. My theory is that we’re looking at a fusion of Fire, Water, Wind, Lightning, and Life – the only combination of elements described in that post as a “gelatinous liquid”. Notice that the missing element is stone, which is the lacrima that Falst noticed was damaged. Maybe the Ancients were trying to artificially create adamant, but at some point the stone lacrima broke and the machine started producing that slime, which then became ambulatory and crawled up to the ceiling?
Thank you for reference link @Sun!
Welcome…to the HUG ZONE.
I wonder if Red has been reading/watching ‘Lockwood and Co.’ recently… This reminds me a LOT of the Changer in the first book…
TL;DR: And here I thought slimes were the lowest level opponents…
Paging Mr. Curry. Tim Curry, you’re needed on mic.
Ah, so that’s what the hideous bowling alley carpet protoplasm thing was for. Is it me, or has that thing been eating crawlers? Because those look like crawler hands. Also, I went back to the chapter cover because I wanted to check something, and I couldn’t help but notice that while the black goopy border most obviously has a hand reaching for Falst, I think there are hand shapes reaching for everyone EXCEPT Erin. Curious…
Funny you should mention Erin on the chapter cover, because something just struck me looking at it. Erin is using stone magic while looking down, which at first I thought represented him and Alinua digging. But Alinua, on the same cover, is not doing the same as him; she’s looking at the blackness around them like the rest. Then I remembered the dais with the broken stone lacrima in the room Falst and Dainix are in. What if Erin on this cover is trying to fix whatever went wrong with the dais in the hopes it may defeat the creature?
A non bridal carry!? HERESY!!!
i LOVE this page– it’s too beautiful!! Also, it’s ma birthday today!! I’ve been reading your comic for years now– it’s been with me through highschool, so THANK YOU!!!
I am glad you got such a wonderful birthday gift this year! At my age you realize birthdays are for making and eating cake with friends and kids. I hope you have a good one no matter what your age! And if your not then please remember chemical imbalances is something that is treatable if you feel angry or depressed (excuse me, mother hen got the best of me again, BBwaaack!)
Happy (belated (very)) birthday! (have i ever been on time?)
Oh what the Death, is there no end
To enemies against which they’ll defend?
yay hugs!
Giving me flashbacks to Kendal’s dream amalgamation of hands. But these ones are dark like Void’s element. Fun.
YES, this astonished me when I reread the whole arc in a short timeframe, I’m still trying to work out why the people of Vash first appeared to Kendal as a creepy amalgamation, when they ended up becoming friendly ghosts.
Ah, so this is the “Hyrule Castle Ganon’s butthole” part
I made a tessellating pattern for this scene I like to call “bowling alley carpet protoplasm”
Never have I heard a better descriptor
Oh, so *that’s* where the name Glort came from…