First panel is falst throwing away the goo arm from last page
Second panel falst’s injury flares up
Third and fourth panel falst dodging goo
Fifth falst grabs some goo
Me: (inhales) … Oh boy. Next page is gonna be painful.
From the screaming and the twitching goo hand in the first panel, Falst is bringing the pain. However, in the second panel, he’s also bringing it to himself. His physical injuries are starting to take their toll; he better get heals from Alinua this time.
Looks like the slime is opting for faster attacks with tendrils in panels 3-5; clashing motion lines for Falst and SFX direction for the slime, finally aligning when they make contact in 5. Also seems to make the absence of SFX in the final panel rather chilling.
Yes Falst, you are giving it a favour; you’re standing still. Don’t get me wrong, I’ve loved your snarking since they page we met you, I agree with the tumblr posts on your roughness and jerk attributes being great points, but maybe save them for opponents smart enough to get ticked off and/or snark back. Else they ignore you and things like this happen.
I agree that Red is telling the tale here with action and motion. I would have expected this for a Friday Cliff-hanger but this makes me even more excited for Friday’s panel!
The world slows down, the background blurs out. Soft violin music drifts through the air.
In its shining eyes he sees his life. A life full of pain and rejection, of abandonment and hardship. This is how it’s always been, how he expected it to always be. But somehow, in this sudden moment of serenity, he sees a different future. A life side by side with someone, someone who comforts him and catches him when he falls. Someone whose embrace will always be welcoming, who will wait for him when he comes home, who will at last free him of his loneliness. He reaches out to return the embrace.
And just like that it’s over. He realises with a start what just went through his head, tries to pull away. But too late. His limbs anchored in its body, his half-open mouth filling with slime, his sense of self draining away.
In a way, he will never be alone again. In a way, he did find the embrace that will hold him forever. As his voice is raised among the countless more, screaming in unison through the night, he knows that and nothing more.
(That went a bit off track. But admittedly I’ve written plenty of horror and no romance at all, so maybe it was bound to happen.)
That’s true. Sarcasm aside, it could be much much worse. I’m actually really impressed things are updated so consistently alongside Red’s biweekly videos on OSP.
Bro! What did I just tell you? What did Danix just tell you? What did the Alt text tell you? What have the comments been screaming at you you idiot catboy?!
Shockingly, it turns out that “don’t look into it’s eyes” is not actually super helpful advice when you’re up against a semi-amorphous blob which is constantly rearranging it’s body parts! WHO KNEW
I was away for a couple of pages but I’m back (yayy) and uhh oh boy that was a whole thing reading the few pages I missed one after the other. Poor falst 🙁
For mobile readers.
Alt-text: bro what have I told you about monologuing bro
Image source: favor
FUCK. FALST THE EYES
His chest does crick, his movement swift
But its eyes seem to in position shift
Also, OH NO, Jeff officially becoming even scarier! Like, its face is even kinda cute, but it’s still utter nightmare fuel.
Ooo! Possible plot twist with Jeff!!
Oh shit here we go again–
Those failed wisdom saves will mess you up, man.
DONT LOOK IN ITS EYEBALLS FALST WAIT NO W
I’m honestly not so sure what’s going on in the first 5 panels here…
But also, Falst, what did Dainix just say about looking at its eyes?
First panel is falst throwing away the goo arm from last page
Second panel falst’s injury flares up
Third and fourth panel falst dodging goo
Fifth falst grabs some goo
Since he is smiling and moving very fast I interpreted it as his injury healing
oh no he looked into the eye
Ah shit. There it is. Being Falst is suffering
Ooooh the eyes are pretty. The rest of the goop? Not so much
In my expert opinion, that is a problem
Me: (inhales) … Oh boy. Next page is gonna be painful.
From the screaming and the twitching goo hand in the first panel, Falst is bringing the pain. However, in the second panel, he’s also bringing it to himself. His physical injuries are starting to take their toll; he better get heals from Alinua this time.
Looks like the slime is opting for faster attacks with tendrils in panels 3-5; clashing motion lines for Falst and SFX direction for the slime, finally aligning when they make contact in 5. Also seems to make the absence of SFX in the final panel rather chilling.
Yes Falst, you are giving it a favour; you’re standing still. Don’t get me wrong, I’ve loved your snarking since they page we met you, I agree with the tumblr posts on your roughness and jerk attributes being great points, but maybe save them for opponents smart enough to get ticked off and/or snark back. Else they ignore you and things like this happen.
I agree that Red is telling the tale here with action and motion. I would have expected this for a Friday Cliff-hanger but this makes me even more excited for Friday’s panel!
UH OH
Oh no oh nO oh NO oH NO OH NO OH NO
I love Falst’s snark and monologuing, but bruh. Falst. Falst you’re walking RIGHT INTO that psychic damage my dude D=
*Falst checks his character sheet and finds a +2 to Will
*Rolls a 3
– “SO… thats a good number right?”
*The DM’s mouth curves into a smile, but there is pity in his eyes.
That last line works with both ‘pity’ or ‘no pity’ (smile)
That’s true x)
I sense a plot twist coming up
Kinda sweet how they are holding hands and looking into each other’s eyes.
oh boy
I’m guessing this thing was a fusion of every element gone wrong. The oily rainbow effect might also indicate each elemental color.
holding hands 🙂
Man what did Dainix JUST SAY
Falst you FOOL! The monster just recharged his trauma attack!
Awww, look. It’s holding his hand. So sweet!
Everyone knows that interlaced fingers and holding one another’s gaze for more than a second or two signals a romantic relationship, right?
The world slows down, the background blurs out. Soft violin music drifts through the air.
In its shining eyes he sees his life. A life full of pain and rejection, of abandonment and hardship. This is how it’s always been, how he expected it to always be. But somehow, in this sudden moment of serenity, he sees a different future. A life side by side with someone, someone who comforts him and catches him when he falls. Someone whose embrace will always be welcoming, who will wait for him when he comes home, who will at last free him of his loneliness. He reaches out to return the embrace.
And just like that it’s over. He realises with a start what just went through his head, tries to pull away. But too late. His limbs anchored in its body, his half-open mouth filling with slime, his sense of self draining away.
In a way, he will never be alone again. In a way, he did find the embrace that will hold him forever. As his voice is raised among the countless more, screaming in unison through the night, he knows that and nothing more.
(That went a bit off track. But admittedly I’ve written plenty of horror and no romance at all, so maybe it was bound to happen.)
I wish I could like comments. I wish I could like this SO BADLY! It – is – good! So, that’s what I wanted to say. It’s good. Really.
I hate when something is so good I consume all of it in 2 days. You’re telling me now I have to wait for the comic like the rest of these schmucks?!
Oh come on, it’s not so bad; a new page every Monday, Wednesday and Friday is a lot more than I expect from webcomics.
I know! As someone also new to the community I’m so happy at how consistent updates are.
That’s true. Sarcasm aside, it could be much much worse. I’m actually really impressed things are updated so consistently alongside Red’s biweekly videos on OSP.
Bro! What did I just tell you? What did Danix just tell you? What did the Alt text tell you? What have the comments been screaming at you you idiot catboy?!
Peek a boo
Shockingly, it turns out that “don’t look into it’s eyes” is not actually super helpful advice when you’re up against a semi-amorphous blob which is constantly rearranging it’s body parts! WHO KNEW
Just finished diving the archive, and adding this webcomic to my list ♥
*Jeff rolls badly on the physical attack*
*Jeff rolls a 20 plus bonus on EYEBALL attack*
Yeah, Falst is kinda screwed.
Ngl it looks kinda cute there
Hard agree. Welcome to the questionable cuteness sense club I guess!
Is this like the blot?
Jeff, Glort, what other names does this have? Ozzie?
According to Comic Aurora Tumblr, he also goes by Mr. Gloopy-Pants
I call it the Goo of Horrors aka Goh
I’ve been alternating between the Smooze, Ivan Ooze, and Dark Chuchu.
dark chuch or malice chuchu?
The Mistwraith.
Its not surprising, but it is nice to see another Brandon Sanderson fan.
Tarr. the oiliness and the idea it is created by a combination of elements reminds me of Slimerancher Tarrs.
uh oh…
NOPE NOPE NOPE I’m nope-badgering out of here NOPE F*CK THIS AAAAAAH
AUGH OH NO. WHAT. No.
I was away for a couple of pages but I’m back (yayy) and uhh oh boy that was a whole thing reading the few pages I missed one after the other. Poor falst 🙁
TL;DR: Caught by surpr-eyes *badum tsss* Bad joke, I know.
Faust, you had one job.
Well… several jobs, but you only had one thing you COULDN’T do.
awww they’re holding hands
There’s teh TotK surprise eyeball.
I don’t like the way Falst’s arm just cracked