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All right, looks like everything’s up and working! I’ve been sitting on this site redesign too long, and just needed a couple days to get everything remade. And in a strange bit of good (?) timing, my Wacom tablet died a few days ago, which I assumed was the universe’s way of telling me to get off my ass and update the site already. Thankfully Wacom made a speedy repair and delivery back, so I’ve already sketched up the first few panels of the next OOPs page.
And a special shoutout to Xandispin, who first suggested a site update several months ago, then set up this snazzy new WordPress layout for me to customize (which I then sat on until this past week). Thanks man; it took me long enough to get around to it, but without you the site would still be looking like something from the early 2000’s!
Seriously, I was manually creating pages and re-entering every altered link when there was a new page, using a long-defunct version of Dreamweaver 2001. That gets tiring real quick.
Anyway! There’s some new stuff in the Art & Extras section now as well, which you might not have seen if you don’t frequent Deviantart and such.
Ah yes, punishment by blinding words from the ether, a classic.
Kalgkur is clearly suffering in that last panel. Before I read your comment, I thought the “blinding words” were an expression of unintelligible anguish from Kalkgur in reaction to seeing the black-flagged baxxid approach, but on second look, it does seem more like it’s coming from the latter. Are these “blinding words” the “Judgment” itself? Is the spot he’s sitting in a chamber built to shape the echoes of that blinding sound? Is this meant to test his contrition? How deep will the gouges he’s digging in the walls get before it’s over?
At least someone cleaned off de blood for him.
Given Kalgkur’s penchant for panicking, the Black Flag could be here for anything ranging from a stern talking to an execution. In any case, they have business with the criminal.
I can’t see much that is specifically identifying whether this is a short story or if this is a flashback that is going to become relevant in the main story shortly.
Is this He Who Knows-What-he-Did? Do the humans call him a dissenter because they forgot (or never knew) the circumstances behind what-he-did? I’m looking at the skin color and flesh bump patterns on his tail. Besides the overgrown bones, this could easily be the same design.
Is he called that because he’s there not as punishment from the rest of Baxxid society, but because he’s punishing himself? And so he knows what he did because he’s the one keeping himself there? The chains were requested by him?
page 241 has a field guide entry with a black flag baxxid entry on it that looks exactly like this current one, so I don’t know if this is The-One-Who-Knows-What-He-Did, but there is definitely an entry that marks this one to _not_ be interacted with in any way.
No, this is definitely Kalgkur and an unknown black-flag baxxid. He-Who-Knows-What-He-Did is shown waay back on “Field Guide Entry 7,” between comic pages 44 and 45. That guy, the only known “dissenter” against the baxxids’ code of honor, has been chained to a rock for 43 years, and is in no shape to do anything other than lie there and think about what he did.
https://www.valsalia.com/comic/out-of-placers/the-val-salian-regional-field-guide-entry-7/