Turns out it’s a lot easier to “keep secrets” when you’re the least believable person in your entire local refugee bunkhouse
Which is an experience we’ve all had at one time or another
Out-of-Placers
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Nice to see that they know Kass is the one who got them the perks. And now I kinda want to see Kass laying an egg.
The can of worms has been opened, there’s no way we’re NOT seeing Kass lay an egg at some point. It’s an inevitability.
Some of us have allready been trying to zhink up names for Kass and Lopin’s kids to be.
Well, Kass + Lopin = boy named Lass or girl named Coping. Hehe.
let the writing of factual fabfic commence
It’s like a Checkov’s Gun 😉
Checkov’s Egg?
^_^
Apparently you’ll need some very hard drugs to visualize this. And hey, if you can score any, feel free to share. I yearn to have that image burned into the back of my eyelids. You know… for scientific research purposes, of course, and nothing untowards.
Yeah, the bunkhouse folks got the half-truth version from Felsa, leaving out the “female yinglet” part of Kass’ situation as per his wishes.
R34 exists. And it’s supplement. Anything that is an exception as soon as it is brought up, is immediately brought under the heel of r34.
Idiot. Kass won’t “pop” out eggs. It’ll be more like a slow *sssssshhhhhhhlorrrrrrrrp!*
Very true! A “pop” seems to suggest a velocity that’s dangerous to an egg.
It could be less like “POK!!!” and more like “plop” which would imply landing in fluid, which might help? but they might wash away? It is probably a bad idea to send babies down a river for random people to find and adopt…
Yeah, especially if it’s a Daikini baby. Nothing but trouble, those.
When the horrors of war are the least of the problems that you’re smoking away…
New horrors for ya, traumatized veterans, right here!
He saw the horrors of war, but was unprepared for the horrors of peace.
If it’s anything like chicken egg laying cycles it’ll be anywhere from few days to one week before Kass has to go through that.
I definitely want to see it ASAP. It’ll be funny as hell.
This world is great, I’m giddy with silly ideas almost every new page.
Reproductive cycle is allready known to be two weeks, so be a bit before Kass can lay. Though I expect pigging out on clams the other day is going to give things some incuragment to start soonish.
I need to reread those field guides. XD
There’s a lotta words in ’em, so I do try to make them optional reading! They’ll give you more info about the setting, but if something’s centrally important to the story, it’ll be mentioned in the main comic pages.
I enjoyed reading them but failed to remember ’em. Binged this comic too fast when I found it again. xD
Can we see the field guides in quick links from the archives? The dense information makes it more likely for rereading.
Considering that Yinglets appear to be mostly mammalian, I’d expect something more like a monotreme’s cycle- and therefore, would only lay if fertilized.
I might be reading the art wrong, though, and Yinglets may be saurian in nature instead- being feathered dinosaurs in nature, in which case the chicken-parallel might be more apt.
Love that snark.
WHEN YOU LOSE YOUR HOMELAND
SNARK IS ALL THAT REMAINS
SNARK NOW, SNARK FOREVER! HAIL HOUSE SNARK!
Yinglets are mammals, I think. They don’t lay eggs, I think. I know this because I, the random man with no PFP, wrote this comic. I have stolen Valsalia’s identity. And I WON’T give it back. Should’ve invited me to that birthday party, Val!
You put Val’s thumb back onto his hand RIGHT NOW, or else I will challenge you to a battle of will! What say you… uh… di… gu… DOODY HEAD?!?!
Zat is fine, but, zhat also means you gotta pay Val’s rent/morgage, all of Val’s bills, and grocerys and vacations and everyzhing else. Oh yes, you gotta keep ze comic going good, or we send ze army of yinglets to come and eat you.
Also, you where invited, have you looked in your mailbox this decade?
They are kinda-sorta mammals! Specifically they are a weird sort of monotreme.
Besides they wouldn’t be the only mammals to lay eggs *cough *cough platypus
That’s what monotremes are. Platypi and echidnas.
When I read about them being like platypi and echidnas, I snirted. Then kept reading. xD I love your work, and find this highly amusing. Tell me, would you ever make it so people could make yinglets? What I mean is, like opening commissions to have a yinglet character made. Perhaps with the option to use said yinglet in the comic as well? I know I’d for sure pay for something like that! x3
Kass will be glad to see that his end of the bargain has been held up. A wise man, that Viracroix. Even he understands that Hell hath no fury as a tiny chicken-faced-duck-lady who beat a friggin’ MATRIARCH in a battle of will. Smart.
I suspect his house did not get to be as big as they are and as durable, or as popular with the people without honering thier agreements. We have already seen that they actually value thier people.
Yup; even if it’s for ultimately self-protective reasons, being good to The People means that The People will usually have your back in a bad situation.
Yes, it is well known that the house values the people! The wisdom of elders, the experience of masters, the industry of adults, the passion of teens, the insight of children, the deliciousness of babies, value can be found in all people!
The Salia line drills the importance of keeping trade promises to their children!
As they should. Otherwise, I’d have to ask the local autho- oh, yeah. I forgot.
“It had a chicken’s head with duck feet, and a woman’s face too.”- lyrics from “Bushes of love”, a song made from a bad lip reading of star wars. Your welcome.
https://youtu.be/RySHDUU2juM
Thank you very much for that. I’d missed that one and it is so fitting.
Pfffffffft. Like the head researcher would let him get away with not being watched during both conception and birth.
I suspect convincing him to go along with the conception process to be problamatic at best.
Oh, please. Kass is going to get blind drunk on clam juice one night and pounce Lopin. And since the head researcher is on the same floor, and has people watching Kass, it’s CLEARLY going to be well documented.
And Kass is going to wake up after, find Lopin in her bed and freak the flock out.
Naaah… I think it far more likely Kass will basically go “Oh… Zhat wasn’t a dream. Okay I need more clams.”
I see much less talking. More of a calm evaluation of the situation. A measured march into the kitchen. Then a formal permanent head-first upside-down dunk into a barrel of clams. The barrel with legs-and-tail sticking out of it will then produce a sustained, high-pitched whine for several hours.
Privacy has no place in the advancement of science
Exactly. Poor Kass.
Aww Happy to see these two again!
Felsa is still such a charming lovable gem! 😀
And is Galen is still … an asshole. lol
Its nice to see Kass’s countrymen/family , and the people of Dinnlan getting an upgrade in their second chance home. Go team Veracroix! (Aka ‘the Reds’)
It was tempting to call them “the redcoats,” for obvious reasons
The Dinnish are coming! The Dinnish are coming! 😀
And the blanket gal too!
She’s there too!
now the question is do yingets lay eggs. Im not sure I want to find out!
It’s a bit of a hidden piece of knowledge, but they do.
It’s all detailed in a two-page Field Guide between pages 27 and 28.
I’m calling the knowledge hidden because this field guide has no direct link to it in the archives but instead needs to be travelled to from the surrounding pages.
For those with less functional thumbs (page 2 you gotta do the work yaself tho)
http://www.valsalia.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/FG07-05-1EDIT.jpg
Don’t know why I’m linking this … >_>
http://www.valsalia.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/VSRanLesson08.jpg
Drugs are bad, mkay?
Next, retake your homeland with a yinglet army! Onward!
Do not forgett zhat zhe Yinglet of Deazh is on Kasse’s side and will gut everyone who zhreatens her or her friends.
This week, on CRAZY WEIRD SHIT STUFF THAT NEVER HAPPENED!!!
But like, when you think about it… is ANYthing really, like… reeeeeal, man?
…?
…?!
!?!@?!/!
“!”
ALL MUST BURN!
AAAAALLLL!
I just read this entire comic and i have to say: I love it : )
Nice Artdraw, wonderful unhurried storytelling and easy to understand explanations about the worlds strukture. Its totally relaxing.
So to start a debatte:
what do you think yinglet eggs look like?
I imaggine them formed similar to a sandpiper egg, but shorter and pointier and big as a tennisball, in a goldbrown to golden collor.
PS: The turtle moves.
I can see poor Kass laying non fertile eggs and panicking endlessly until Lopin or some other yinglet such as the matriarch finally explained the ordeal, or even just her panicking because her belly is spontaneously expanding with eggs
Laying of non-fertilized eggs is also called ovulation, and at least some birds go through it and some will even brood a large enough clutch of “bad” eggs
Consider the fact that female stores male sperm until her cycle, if not all of Kass’ sperm were collected instead of transformed and species cross-fertilazation is indeed possible. Kass could produce a clutch of half human-half-yinglet hybrids the first time she ovulates.
Sweet sassafras that is terrifying…
Nightmare fuel for the nightmare bus to drive off the nightmare cliff
lookin out for ya homies even when you’re morphed into a different species!
I still wonder if the species in this world can cross fertilize.
For all of her quirks, Isher is very very human. She doesn’t look anything like any species we’ve met though, so she doesn’t offer any insight into yinglets… It might not be so much that species in this world are compatible, and more that there is something out there that is like dragons from dungeons and dragons, that can apply the half-dragon template to almost anything, but all the other species can neither produce halves nor mules nor… get outside help propagating their own species.
YUp. he sure do need those…hey wait a tick.
FIrst mention of Vizlets breeding cycle…now an off joke about Kassy laying eggs… is this foreshadowing Kassie’s next personal misadventure/consternation?
Ah, I always end up laughing really well by the end of it. Excellent work, as always! And, plenty of time to get around shaping the rest of the world, and ensuring that the plot progresses in previous settings in the story when it’s been a while since they were last visited! Characters don’t just stop existing even when they’re out of the picture!
Hope that the Grand Trademaster doesn’t use Kass as the next mother for the house or everyones favorite half-breed pervy gal. Man, the possibilities for the next mother of Ivanavan house is immense.
food for thought. things that lay eggs, tend lay them regardless of them being fertilized.
Kass is in a for a fun time.
Oops,I just watched the video again2-3 weeks for fermentation for the sauerkraut.
I can’t help but think that one of those blankets is the one from the previous page.
Wasn’t he considering quitting after that incident.
So many of these comments read like “Haha I wonder what kass’s eggs smell like? Asking for a friend”
Welp. Still keeping track. Curious what whats his face got murdered with. Axe? Club? Indistinct object number 43.
The haunted look in his eyes in the last panel ahaha