It’s especially impressive considering that Lippie has a near-constant low-level anxious tremble going on.
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Out-of-Placers
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Really interesting to see the different perspectives of Kass’s situstion, and how it’s gained the respect of the patriarchs.
Step 1: Have boobs
Step 2: Get respect
I has boobs
I can has respects?
You can has two respects!….
but no more zan zat!!!
Dark thoughts and gloomy contemplations, the trio plots against the spy in their midst, and then … needlework! Vizlet is sooo proud of her Lippie. So, wait, if Narklet has been preempting Beizel’s scouts for his own purposes, this means it has been Narklet from the beginning and Beizel is only just finding out about these artifacts. Maybe Beizel should be asking his scouts some questions.
Perhaps the scouts and their patriarch are both not to be trusted. But this meeting is a good sign that Vislet has some power in the Enclave to resist the council’s machinations. It hasn’t been lined out specifically that Vislet has a lot of power outside of her being over the females, besides that of awarding loyalists time in the breeding chambers.
I’m fairly certain Beizel’s loyalties lie squarely with Vizlet. His scouts are also likely just doing as ordered, and Narklet is high ranking.
If Vislet continues down the path of trying to shed the traditions of the System that keeps Yinglet-kind a stable system, it may not come down to her having mostly loyal people around her, but just one assassin sent to depose her, or smash her eggs as a warning, or set fire to her lodge etc.. We have seen the quality of guards that are posted outside of her encalve’s buildings, and I’m here to say it’d be easy, especially with Narklet on the inside giving movement patterns, maps of building interiors, and acquiring inside help (traitors) that would turn a blind eye to Vislet’s admittedly heavy handed ways being curbed.
Got to agree with you there. That’s why I’m betting that there’s a high probability that Narklet will meet with an “accidental” encounter with a stray hungry dog before he can report back to his superiors.
While I agree, let’s not forget, Specific, that most Yinglets are that level of competency.
We spend a lot of time with the exceptional ones, so it’s easy to forget a quality assassin is just as likely to get distracted by the same shiny thing as the guards, and result in three of them standing around gawking at it.
Whoever said that a assassin had to be a Yinglet? The council may be ultra conservative, but they must realize that a single hand of outlaws could destroy most Yinglet enclaves. Its the utter poverty of said Yinglets that prevents this. But with bribes, this could change. Yinglets exist in a multi-species world, and if I had to bet, some of the bad ones could be very bad indeed if the trademaster is a example of what it takes to exist in this world.
Lotsa good thinkin’ up in here
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Good work Lippie! I’m proud.
One day you may grow up to be a great artist, and embroiden a series of tapestries about a human dude who’s turned into a…
wait a minute
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Ooh, didn’t realize we had a super duper spam filter running now. I said the same thing multiple times, thinking something was just wrong.
I wouldn’t say “Super duper”… but the addition of the reCAPTCHA seems to have stopped the spambots. So it’s an improvement over what we had before.
Anyway, throw another suitor on the pile!
Awww look at them rooting for lippie. 😀
I am so excited to see more lesser-developed characters getting more time to shine!
Indeedly!
Wonder what Narklet will do when he realizes he’s being circumvented.
And, WTG Lippie!
So much of the world has yet to be flushed out, as in do Yinglets have a mount to carry them distances? Some of Narklet’s options vary on how much is he in touch with the Council, and the ease of that communication. Don’t see any animal like a passenger pigeon bred to carry messages in this world as of yet, and its been said that it is dangerous for a lone Yinglet to travel, so something like the Inca’s form of relayed messaging would be unlikely. So dunno, its something that we haven’t seen yet, this world’s means of long distance communication, and that of Yinglets specifically.
I’m curious if you might add a character that can get Lippie to calm down a bit. I imagine it would be a human. Definitely an interesting idea. 😉
Lippie for best Matriarch.
Change my mind.
Maybe we’ll see that in the epilogue.
She’s not a matriarch. IIRC there is only one matriarch of an enclave, where as there can be multiple patriarchs, each heading different specialized skill sets.
All of this is happening because everyone doesn’t know who Kass really is. What would happen when (and not “if”) they’ll discover it? After all Beizel is patriarch of scouting and intel and “it is not his job to not know things”.
When it comes to several of the patriarchs, they would not get less interested in nailing Kass, so to speak, but they WOULD realize the notable complications with doing so … on the other hand, as they already know that Kass is respected by human authorities, they have already realized some of those complications, so that knowledge might not change their position towards Kass, but it may affect their view on themselves….
I wonder if it might not make her even more appealing to some, for whatever unique genes she might bring to the table. I mean, who knows what her potential offspring might add to the enclave’s gene pool?
I think you just touched on a very important aspect of this whole “human turning into a yinglet, male or female”. What wouldn’t an enclave do to get some potential human genetic material into the gene pool? Think bigger, smarter, longer lived offspring. Your enclave would have an immediate advantage over the other enclaves and its’ standing with the local humans would go from “annoying scavenger you could step on” to a group you’d have to treat, if not with respect, then a lot more caution.
Or I’m reading a book into a single sentence.
This is an interesting point, indeed …
I’d expect zhat being turned into a yinglet would have by definition replaced all hyoomin “genetic material” viff yinglet … But that’s not to say that Kass didn’t get some of the best available yinglet traits.
More to the point however, even Ran, who is among the most learned and well studied scientists( still weird boy and pervert) still has a pre-Mendelian and pre-Darwinian understanding of reproduction. So verds like ‘gene’ and ‘genetic material’ are not on anyvuns tongue. So far zey’ve just been called traits, behaviours and appearences. Zoh ValSalia has use “mutation” in it’s modern meaning. Since that comes from Latin ‘mutare’ (to change), it’s reasonable usage.
Za way Ran describes it is more compatible with Lemarkian ideas … Vhich actually ve are coming to understand are not impossible and not as absurd as previously zhought. But Epigenetics is a very young science.
I watched a full grown, healthy young man get turned into a female rat bird MAYBE 1/5th of his original mass in under 10 seconds.
I’m keeping an open mind for the time being.
I don’t think that’s reading too much in at all; I think it’s a reasonable explanation for Zhat Zhing’s purpose. An above-average human is practically a genius by yinglet standards, and a transformed one, assuming they could be convinced to breed, would presumably pass that intelligence on to their offspring. And I think that’s what Narklet intended to use the artifact for… take a look at the splash panel where the patriarchs are introduced. He’s the only one who doesn’t speak, instead he’s just sitting there positively *beaming* at Kass… he knows what she is. The only thing that doesn’t make sense is that he’s supposedly a staunch traditionalist, and a brood of human-intelligent yings would *definitely* be a destabilizing force.
Quite possibly this is how we got from the lesser yinglets to the greater yinglets in the first place.
This has happened before… it will happen again.
my brain tries to give this guy an accent that i can only guess is,
90% 60s comedy stereotype of a newyork italian mob boss and 10% russian.
i dont even know how it came up with that.
Really? I’m thinking a “this is a knife” accent.
Australian?
I just hear him as “squeaky angry rat dude.”
No ethnic accents, just……….squeaky angry rat dude.
I hear Willam DeFoe’s voice. Not too low pitched, a bit of gravel, smoldering anger.
For some reason I’m thinking more the Yinglet equivalent of Jason Statham, at least in voice.
No the perfect voice is Joe Pesci. “You talking to me? Is zat what you doin?”
I keep hearing Vizlet’s voice as Zarya from Overwatch.
I really want to see how this plays out… I hope they find him somewhere so bad they consider it punishment enough.
That is good stich work. And I just realized that Kass is so different from other yinglets he’s probably a very attractive one to most yinglets because of her bravery and how much she accomplished (in their eye’s).
I have a thought of Kass requesting for his friend to wear chainmail under the uniform in case of this again chain-mail would do a good job deflecting those shives.
Also I have a stange feeling that embroidery is going to end up with Kass somehow.
Can’t forget that Yinglets have a 18-20 year lifespan. It shouldn’t take much to impress anyone beyond being able to function in a way that isn’t outright embarrassing to the Yinglet race. I’m thinking that “Zhat Zhing” that transformed Kass is also being re-applied to the elders of the Yinglet council to reset their biology to that of Kass’s age to keep them from dying of old age. That would be a powerful reason for them to resist change to the system that keeps them effectively immortal. And also why Barakka was so damm desperate to get it back. Also I’d laugh if it was actually made from Gelflings (Black Cauldron reference)!
…you mean dark crystal?
I stand corrected! Indeed it was the Jim Henson movie I referenced.
i would die for lippie
Your devotion to the innocents of the world is commendable.
Keep at it!
Lippie is the safest of the Female Yinglets. If Narklet is likely to remove Vislet as Matriarch, he needs a replacement, one that is both easy to control, and not likely to act independently. Lippie would be the logical choice as a new Matriarch for a enclave that needed less female interference in a male dominated society. I’m thinking she’ll be safe enough, even if Vislet and Kass isn’t.
If Vizlet dies, none of za girls can replace her. Zey all lack za verldly knowledge zat Vizlet has gained in her young life. In particular, Lippie vood not be matriarch for long, as it only takes one smek, likely even a threat of smek and enny of za ozzer grrls would cow Lippie into submission. Narklet for sure does not get to decide hoo za noo matriarch vill be. Nor enny of za patriarchs. Zat’s for us girls to decide hoo ve vill trust to … hoo is grumpy and stoopid enough to try to run za Enclave. Kass is clearly za most villful, and vood very much begrudgingly step into Vizlet’s … we don’t wear shooz.. ummm. step into her matriarch robes. But if kass vusn’t zere, My munnies vood be on Zally trying to run zings, so she doesn’t have any more verldy knowledge, she seems much feistier zan za ozzer girls. Hopefully Zally would heed Pekkit’s bookish advice…
The expression you’re looking for is “Donning The Bells of Command”.
It’s a very old and honored saying from the dawn of rat bird history and not something I just made up cause rat birds, nope, not at all…
I’d think having nobody to “Replace” Vizlet would be the better option for the council if they decide to crack down on her. Lippie fits the bill for a easily controlled egg slut with no spine to stand up to whatever the patriarchs the council sees fit to lead the enclave decide whats best for her. Its dark, yeah, but Vizlet is heading down a dark path, one that could destroy her enclave. That Vislet’s gamble on Kass helping bring yinglet kind out of the dark ages they reside in is beside the point.
it might destroy her enclave or it it might just set the trends for the foreseeable future after all it those changes make the yinglets an actual competitor to the other races, perhaps not equals (not for awhile anyway), the other patriarchs “might” change their tune nothing says out with the old like progress and a better life
Change happens when the barriers of conservatism are broken down. Sometimes change is organic, where it happens through time, like the English Language over the past 500 years. Sometimes its a violent process where change is forced upon a unwilling world (see The Last Jedi for a example), and sometimes change happens through consensus that things need to change, and are agreed upon by parties representing different viewpoints coming together and compromising(see the writing of the US Constitution). Now imagine you are a ratbird with a I.Q. of lukewarm dishwater, what’s it going to take to make you embrace change? I’m thinking for the majority of Yinglets, they just won’t care. Which means Vislet has a hard road ahead of her, selling a change that most of yinglet kind can be persuaded to abandon for a piece of tail and a bucket of clams.
perhaps but don’t forget they’ll be on board for the same price as well really it’s the patriarchs that need convincing so perhaps for them a bit of tail and an extra bucket of claims will change their minds bonus points if they have the extra clams due to the aforementioned progress
One of Yinglet’s greatest strengths is that for Humanity, we often have to wait 20 years for a generational change in attitudes. For Yinglets, a generation is 5 years in length(1/4th of both species lifespans) meaning that Yinglets ought to be able to absorb and adapt to change much more quickly than Humanity for Example (no Idea how old a Baxxid can become). That said, there would be a greater tendency to sticking with what currently works as Yinglets seem to lack the desire to learn from the past in the way Humanity does, with Vislet being a exception. Being somewhat hedonistic in nature kind of derails most scholarly tendencies they have as a culture.
So Kattajak’s markings. Are they make-up of some sort? Or do Yinglets actually get such geometric markings?
They do have crazy marks like that, but it may also be just face paint in this case.
50-50 chance.
He paints himself with war-shapes!
Kattajak is back!
Lippie’s embrodery is back!
A plan to capture Brakka and expose Narklet is spun!
There’s naught in this page I do not love!
is it wrong that i find vizlet more sexy here than when she showed off kazz to the patriochs
This is so adorable, but my memory isn’t great.
Which one is Lippie again?
” ‘Freshmennnnssss! ;~;”
Ahh, yes, the smol one with the short curly brown hair.
Check out Page 25 and Page 26. She’s the one with the case of nerves.
Wait, do you also manually moderate comments now?
Looks like a firm “Nope” ==”
Oh, nice, more screentime for Kattajak and Beizel! Getting to know more about Kattajak, and just seeing more Beizel. Yay! :3
And hey, Kass got an admirer among the patriarchs! 😀 I mean, there’s already been Poak, but it’s one thing when a guy just sees a pretty girl and immediately wants to get a room with her, and a completely different one when a guy likes what he’s seen of the girl as a person (well, and as a girl, too). I like Kattajak’s attitude towards Kass a lot better than Poak’s.
And hey, Lippie’s doing so well x3 best girl! And I like how the patriarchs praise her work, too 😀
This comment didn’t go through the first time and then I couldn’t send it again because “duplicate comment detected”, so I’m trying again.
When I want to comment, I go to the top of the page, hit the tab key on my keyboard a couple of times, until some dirty red writing shows up right below the OOP logo Yinglet’s head, one of which says log in when you move your mouse over it. That Brings you to the WordPress login page and after logging in, I’ve never had a issue with chat. Hope this helps, and suppose one could just go to wordpress and login there, but its fun finding cloak and dagger tricks in a comic about cloak and daggering!
To be fair, Kass had been wearing that leaf of carnal desire or whatever when Vizlet put her in a costume. So I wouldnt say that’s Poaks fault.
But still.
Does the Hunter Patriarch use a tooth blackener or is he just in desperate need of a Dentist?
Well theres such rampant mutations in yinglets that it wouldnt surprise me if they aren’t just naturally that color.
He’s one o’ them natural black-teethers
Naturally black-toothed? Then there could be a natural Gold or Diamond toothed one?
Have you tried natural teef blackener? It’s rilly pleh! Eizzer ya gottem, or ya don’t. zere is no fakin’ za black teef. Zally’s gottem, Kattajak’s gottem, Za Bones filosofer’s got black teef too. It’s a zing some yinglets have… I hear it may give you +1 to bitey powers
Just my personal opinion, I’m not a fan of glasses being done like this. Just looks silly when they are that glowing white.
On a side note, it seems that the spam bots have been tamed.
It’d be awesome if Lippie eventually makes something for when Viracroix gets married, what with craftsyingship like that.
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