OOPs #369
Sep19
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.
Hooo, wow, Kass RATTLED Vizlet.
Poor lady, she’s so concerned… and just got slapped.
Hey, at least it means Kass is getting better with Ying combat!
Imagine if that was Narklet, or the other one, coming in to say one last thing, though? That would have been a disaster… he can’t afford to be so jumpy, I feel, and I worry that will have an impact.
Good that he’s noticed the other one, more mysteries to solve!
For every nat twenty there is a nat one. For every polyhedral roll roll roll…
Dude really was rolling nat 20s XD the law doth states you must roll a nat 1 at the funniest time afterwards
I call it bad on Vislet zhere. Really all she had to do was touch Kass’s tail to let her know someone was behind her before moving into smeking range.
Narklet’s lackeys seem to be larger than him for some particular reason.
You know, its a hard sci fi universe. I wonder if hes just closer to the lesser yinglets, the original greater yinglets.. … or if at some point he used zhat zhing variety as a yinglet and had to shrink as a result.
Or if I should not be awake at 5 am.
You realise that they vary in size, right?
Yes but the guard or whatever they are is about the size of Poak and Deema, just with a average build.
No, no, Deema and Poak are considerably bigger still!
Narklet is just particularly small
Obviously he’s called Narklet because he’s a small narc.
I’m glad those glasses are sturdy.
they are also falling from much lover height than than when falling from most human faces
Just wanted to say zhankyou for not leavin’ us waitin’ for too long.
I know I get the ying brain when I’m just WAAAAAITING on zhe pads of my feets for zhe next slice of our history of Vasalia! Is it zhere yet? Is it zhere yet?….
What if I checks now, Is it zhere yet? Eeeee….. We always love new news!
Careful Vizlet, don’t startle the diplomat like that, you’ll get slapped. Though she’s immediately sorry about it this time.
I have to womder if that was a case of the yingirl brain in danger like with meeting kalgur or a reaction to what happened in the alley.
I think it’s a case of someone sneaking up on a war veteran.
that definitely goes on the and/or/list
Hehehe! She jumpscared te Diplomat! I sorta t- uh, tought tat Kass would get smaked back. But now Matriarch might be confused.
Maybe Vizlet is just dramatically adjusting her glasses before the slap-back? She’s at least cooking up a witty retort.
smeck!
SMEK!
This does make me curios about yinglet glasses? How are they made? You think they’re hard to get? They seem fairly rare. Is poor eyesight common in yinglets? I’d figure with their genetic malleability and status as a prey species a trait like bad eyesight would be naturally filtered out, or maybe it’s a sign of age. Or maybe Yizzie just wears them to look cool and wise as befitting her station. How is she wearing them anyway? Her ears are to big for the limb part of the glasses. I bet yinglet glasses need to be custom made to fit securely to the snout. That would be cool to know.
I totally think its to look smarter to humans more zen anything else.
Humans didn’t start wearing glasses until they started reading more. It was originally almost exclusively clergy, like illuminators, who wore glasses as their eyesight deteriorated. Most people just didn’t actually need to see clearly to do what they needed to. Slightly blurry crops are still crops.
This.
Clear vision is even more important for writing than reading, and Vizlet probably has to do a lot of writing.
Since yinglets have whiskers to feel out close things, they may very well be somewhat farsighted like cats etc Their wider field of view probably makes Vizlet’s lenses act more like the lower segment of a pair of bifocals. This might also explain Kass’ atrocious handwriting. The scion of a merchant house really should have better penmanship. An inability to focus on his writing would account for that.
I often wonder how many of the little details like that in this comic are intentional or just happy coincidences.
In regards to the handwriting: read page 132, a Kass Journal, particularly the section about “hands.”
What de comic doesn’t portray well for artistic purposes is how dark most indoor places are in Kass’s world. It is hard to read zhings in low light, but magnifying glasses do help see writings in low light. Conversely straining one’s eyes to read in low light for years, can be unhealthy for seeing.
As for Kass’s eyes being worse as a Yinglet, I’m sure zhey would be bitching about it if so. Being a Yinglet sorta person, it’s more zhat we have a narrower field of stereoscopic vision for many of us depending on head shape.
I bet they’re pince-nez style glasses. That’d make the most sense.
That’s certainly how they’re drawn.
Now I want to see a yinglet with a monocle.
Correction: I want to see Lopin with a monocle. And a top hat and waistcoat and bow tie. And a cane. Peak Dapper Lopin. Please make this a thing.
Better zhan using glue to fasten zhings to one’s fur is de Pince Nez. De only zhing missing is the Pince part, as when off de nose, Pince Nez tend to fold up. I call it just being easier to draw for de boss.
To be fair, Vizlet should be used to easily startled yinglets by now.
This exactly. The females of her own enclave have shown more than once how tightly wound and jumpy they are.
The other females of Vizlet’s enclave are not transformed war veterans like Kass is. Kass is trained to fight back and attack whoever did the startling.
I’m not sure how much actual training Kass had as opposed to here everyone put on armor and walk towards the other guys in armor.
He had enough to use a heavy, flexible weapon at least, which is a trickier combat style than “Hit with stick” or “Poke with long, pointy stick”.
I think he had mr spikeball before he was in the army and took it with him but Im not sure why I think that. Its a great weapon for a merchant since you get lot of reach for something that fits in your pocket.
I think most of Kass’ military training was “on the job” as it were.
The fact that he and Elim managed to survive thus far shows either a lot of skill or a lot of luck (or both). Being a Main Character doesn’t hurt either.
I think she’s just not used to Kass being easily startled.
Kass’ smek has evolved into a full full WHAP
Vizlet took quite the whap there. Seems Kass must still be under some stress from that level of schmoozing.
There are only a few things that ‘already?’ could be referring to and none of them are good.
If Narklet’s own men somehow found Brakka first I suspect round 2 of this conversation won’t be nearly as civil.
Hmmmm. Hadnt thought of that. But I think that would have gotten a finally rather than an already from Narklet.
Agreed. I don’t think Brakka can be found soon enough for Narklet. Clearly Narklet has other plates spinning. He’s a very busy boy.
^can’t be found soon enough.
Once again I miss having an ‘edit’ option.