Local Additions

posted by A on 2013/2/25 (Comics)

So sorry, I thought I uploaded this last week. Things have been a bit nuts at Casa De Pen. A combination of moving twice in two weeks and me and Mrs. Pen, as well as both our little golf pencils, catching some horrid nasal and lung destroying ick has caused me to... well... misplace the last couple of weeks. I literally lost a couple weeks of time somehow. But I am scripting, and Dyluth is doing a wonderful job deciphering my sick bed scribblings of fantasy and oddness, so here you go. Some of Lana's backstory is about to appear!

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WJS - 2016/10/16
There isn't a damn thing wrong with panel 3. To those complaining about it, is English your second language or something? Because that exchange should be understood in any English-speaking country.
Colin oskopi - 2013/4/25
Lana has an extra arm
Xykeb Zraliv - 2013/3/1
No, I totally get what you're saying about Lana's line, and I agree that it would be weird for her to say that. I still think Paul could have said something different in response that would reduce the weirdness of that exchange a little, though.
leakingpen - 2013/3/1
Night, you realize that those are all EXCELLENT reasons to make him a villain, right? Naw, I'm kidding. Or am I....

On the dialouge, she's trying to be nonchalant. She's playing it cool. Nodding, saying, so... thieves' guild. (and i'll ask Dyluth to get that typo fixed, thanks for pointing it out. my bad). as a way of implying he's part of the guild. Saying, "So you are in the thieves' guild now" would to me be more stilted. Enh.

And no, no Malack! (totally shocked by that turn. glad I wasn't reading the WMG threads)
Night Templar - 2013/2/28
It just occurred to me that she dropped the stuff she had been carrying the previous comic. She should put it in the wagon before going off to the thieves' guild.

Also, I have to say that I like Paul. As far as I can tell, he's fairly nice, has an actual reason to steal (orphan who therefore wasn't exactly wealthy when he got out of the orphanage, from the sounds of it), and I doubt he's going to turn out to be an enemy since it wouldn't make any sense for the Ivory Veil to recruit a thief for them.
Exuberant Panda - 2013/2/28
Are you sure you wouldn't want a horribly powerful, vampire cleric wandering about? Very happy
Mad Lemmey - 2013/2/28
Exuberant Panda - 2013/2/26
To follow up on Red XIV's comment, insert Malack here.

Please don't - he's too powerful in OOtS, here he would be...

Plus I went right off him after the Bloodwart incident! Tongue
Exuberant Panda - 2013/2/26
To follow up on Red XIV's comment, insert Malack here.
Red XIV - 2013/2/26
“So is this guy completely oblivious to her glowing red eyes and "undead" voice?
And the fangs in her mouth?”

Vampires are supposed to be able to blend in among humans, so maybe that stuff is only obvious when she wants it to be.
Xykeb Zraliv - 2013/2/26
What Paul says in the third panel is sort of weird. Neither Lana nor Paul offers anything for the people from the orphanage to be; she says "Thieves' guild?" and he says "a lot of us are". But "are" what?

I guess it's implied that he's saying most of the people from the orphanage are now in the Thieves' Guild, but linguistically speaking it makes no sense. Paul didn't actually say that they "are" anything, nor did Lana say anything for him to logically follow up on in that manner. The result is that Paul's grammar and word usage is based on what Lana meant ("So you're in the Thieves' guild now"), rather than what she said ("So, Thieves' guild"), which doesn't really work. I guess it's not so horrible because it's at least obvious what he's talking about, but I don't think this kind of thing really happens very much even in casual conversation.

I'm also kinda with FrankNorman on this one, you'd think he would at least acknowledge that she's a freaking vampire now. I mean, it really just doesn't make sense for him to completely ignore it, even if it's made immediately clear that he doesn't care (in fact, that would probably even make his character a little more interesting than it's been up to this point).

That all said, this strip is a lot more palatable than the last one, so credit where it's due, I guess.
loosefoot - 2013/2/26
@FrankNorman

Yeah, well, I think he was a little, um, distracted by her vampiric... assets. See comics #3, #4, #5 and others.
FrankNorman - 2013/2/26
So is this guy completely oblivious to her glowing red eyes and "undead" voice?
And the fangs in her mouth?
Bob - 2013/2/26
Time for background story. And the new guy is likable.

"Dude, I can't join the thieves' guild. That was in a previous life"
Downzorz - 2013/2/26
Thieves', not Thieve's.
Slythistle - 2013/2/26
Them wandering hands...
Mad Lemmey - 2013/2/26
Ohhhh sweeeeet! :X

How long before she drains all his levels by mistake? ;P
Locnil - 2013/2/26
A love interest from the unmentioned past? Wonder how this will turn out...
Tatsu - 2013/2/25
Yay Comic
loosefoot - 2013/2/25
First post!

Sorry, Laris... you're displaced.
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