OOPS #364
Aug03
Vizlet stress levels rising exponentially
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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.
(If this posts twice it’s because I had some error trying to post it the first time)
Some interesting tidbits I can point out now that commenting works for me and these two are on the same page.
Narklet and Kass look almost identical. Color, markings, build, everything. The only real differences are hair color (which we know Kass retained from his human self) and Narklet having a bit of fluff at the tips of his ears (but not always).
With this in mind: we never see the tip of Narklet’s tail. And while Kass has a fairly masculine snout for a female, Narklet has a feminine snout for a male.
It’s true that we never see the tip of his tail, we come close on several pages but it is always slightly cut off. That’s a good observation.
Is it possible that Narklet is ‘Sweet Polly Olivering’?
But isn’t Narklet supposed to represent and uphold yinglet traditions?
Conservatives conserve their power and the structures that enable that power. They will often talk about tradition, family values, community, protecting some group, or something else seemingly positive when positive words might change the behavior of others. Conservatives will just as often talk about “the other”, disease, danger, military matters, controlling purity, or other negative things when they think fear will sway people. When anyone puts conserving their power at the forefront, they can’t help but eventually run afoul of truth.
Erm… you lost me there ^^”
Narklet was sent by “enclave elders” to preserve their power. We don’t have a lot of other details. In real history lots of people conserving power structures have done “anything necessary” to conserve that power. Not a value, just a no nonsense accounting of history, in fact if we pick examples I would like to start centuries ago to prevent a heated argument.
Narklet is appealing to tradition to do what the elders want. He is likely doing other things too. Some are likely genuinely beneficial and some are likely not altruistically motivated. Like his archaeological pursuits, if he was just recording and analyzing that would be benevolent, but it seems he is looking for powerful antiquities the elders can exploit.
I am not saying he is right or wrong to do any of these things (maybe the elders have very good reasons we don’t know). I am saying he will likely need to deviate from the truth as a more objective outsider might see it to achieve his goals. Perhaps lying about social structures while knowing antiquities can alter them or lying about the antiquities he is finding.
The better the reasons the elders have the less he will need to lie. So far it seems the culture in Val Salia and this enclave are about as progressive as the tech and economics allow, so those reasons would need to be really reality shaking to be good enough to divide peaceful Yinglet/Human integration as seems to be Narklet’s goal.
You say that like liberals don’t also pursue power.
Why do people keep injecting real world human politics onto a comic about fantasy societies and creatures?
That is because the comic is being read by a person who will inevitably make the connection because that’s what they have experienced and learned.
Good science fiction, and this certainly qualifies, provides just enough distance to make a social point or say something about the human condition without making people quite so sensitive. A fictional society almost has to resemble something we know in the world to make any sense.
So it’s not a surprise that people see a message in a trans species transgender regression comic, nor that they apply their own lens to it.
Sometimes though, someone makes a big deal about the curtains being blue when the curtains are just blue.
Well, I mean Star Trek tried to make the, at the time, TransSEXUAL issue a thing and like speak on it… Via an alien. And this is the problem. They always use aliens. Aliens, like birds and various lizards which can have various mating and “gender” systems are NOT HUMAN. And that’s kinda the point. They whole thing is a strawman or a nonsequitor. Regardless of whether you’re for or against any of the current, previous, or future THINGS regarding Sex, Gender, Race, and Consent, aliens in fiction do not have bearing on the mental, social, emotional, and especially physical and genetic health and function of actual humans.
I mean, “Squeaky” hates conservatives and construes everything to be about power. Through the liberal, or more commonly leftist lens it is. For conservatives the lens is morality which is rooted in disgust. In reality they are two naturally opposing forces which work better in different scenarious and have interesting genetic links and causes related to illness during development. Effectively, the outside world, the way of the people who are not from here, can bring new genetics and new ideas. It can also bring disease and murder. Both are accurate at different times and for different people.
And then there’s the “libertarians” and the actual “left” and a handful of other though systems and groups. And that’s all a fuckin mess that jumps in and out of psychology, neurology, socio-economics, and epidemiology like a jackrabbit with a rocket up its ass.
And all of that is a combination of people who don’t know shit failing to correctly regurgitate the slow and quiet study of a few dozen people who actually know anything about it. And then someone writes some fanfiction to convice everyone that they have it figured out and we can all just get along because Mary Sue has a Male Harem that includes a cast of thousands and Gary Stu can bench press a truck (WITH HIS BUTT) while banging a hermaphrodite elephant that used to be a small mousey, but ultimately HUMAN, woman from accounting who is actually the author’s fursona.
It’s a mess ya’ll.
Because “real world politics” reflect backwards AND forwards, through time, and apply to even ancient times, as typically reflected in even other-worldly fantasies like this one… As such, they become the source for excellent ethical dilemmas in all kinds of literary/entertainment offerings, such as this comic.
All factions, throughout history, have sought “power” in some form or another… The question always is, do they use that power “progressively” (as “liberals” often tend to historically) to advance society beyond certain negative social aspects (such as slavery, such as sexism, such as wealth accumulation, such as societal dominance over the underprivileged, such as religious/nationalistic “supremacy”, etc.)….OR…. do they use their power “regressively” (as “conservatives” often tend to historically) to maintain a degree of “status quo” pertaining to those same afore-mentioned negative social aspect (because maintaining that status-quo KEEPS them wealthy and allows them the societal influence necessary to dominate others based on race, gender, religion, etc.)
None of these constructs are “new” ones or “modern” ones… They have existed since the first rise of human beings on OUR world, certainly,…so one can only imagine that such constructs would/could apply to most other imaginary worlds as well… You shouldn’t be surprised to see this kind of societal dilemma reflected in most literary constructs (realistic, fantasy, or otherwise) ANYTIME one faction/race is pitted against another group in a storyline… It’s pretty standard fictional fodder that writers use to excellent effect…
Very much this. I didn’t comment on progressives seeking power because it was the actions of a conservative seeking to conserve it. Also, by the definitions I proposed Conservatives conserve power and whatever opposition they have seek to take power.
It is possible to have “good” or “bad” conservatives or progressives, but certain conditions lend themselves to make certain pairings of that more or less likely.
The projection and lack of self-awareness showcased by a few people in this thread is getting rather irritating.
Just out of respect for the author and readers, could we just all drop the real-life politics parallels drawn from our own mental imagery please? I’ll just add that If you decide to attribute equivalences to real life organizations from this fiction that’s entirely on you not on the author.
All I meant to say was that the elders probably wouldn’t have chosen a trans male as a representative of yinglet traditions…
This makes sense, thank you
Your politics. They are dumb and based in presuppositions rooted in your own prejudices.
Most politics “are dumb and based in presuppositions rooted in your own prejudices”… Most politicians prey upon those prejudices to get votes, and they will gladly paint “the other” in whatever terrible terms they need to in order to create a villain for their story’s narrative… It’s why white supremacy is such an easy, albeit disgusting, thing to sell… One side sells it as something “the enemy” primarily engages in because they’re all racist (even if a percentage of them aren’t), whilst the other side sells it as “maintaining our family traditions and values despite a changing society of those that don’t look like us” (even if a percentage of them don’t buy that garbage)… At the end of the day, the only presupposition that makes any sense is that humans deserve equal civil rights no matter what gender, color, nationality, or religion they may be, and that the best set of things we should ALL be doing, all the time,…ad-infinitum,… is making ourselves happy, without hurting others, and then helping others be happy, without hurting ourselves…
Holy shit, well spotted. That’s not an accident, it definitely means something for the story. Either Narklet was created by similar means to Kat, or Zat Zing turned Kas into a (partial?) clone of him for some reason.
How hard we think it would be for a female Yinglet to “pass” as a male? Would just trimming the tail bush work? Or do they have pheromones that would be harder to mask? What does it change if Narklet is a female disguise?
I ask because we don’t know what the antiquity potion does in entirety, do they all make Yinglet females?
As a Narklet x Kass shipper, this is a positively delightful realization. And now I’ve got a whole new theory to posit (based entirely on “it would make for a hot ship”): Narklet as a gender-nonbinary time traveling Kass from the future, here to help Kass realize that what they want is in front of them, not behind. Narklet won’t make it, but the comic will end with Kass dying their hair and stepping into the time machine to become an unending moebius love story.
That strikes me as unlikely given if that was the case, Narklet would peobably try to push this from a different angle to get Kass on board with it. But looper stories are wild in general, so who knows.
heck yeah, it’s the improbability of a causality loop that makes it delicious! Narklet being unable to remember their conversations because they happened too long ago. Not knowing when events are unfolding the same from a different perspective. Unwittingly hiring the same guy because Kass never learned who Brakka was. It’s 120% crackship.
This is amazing and chaotically hilarious. Fits your avatar, haha
Isn’t that like….selfcest?
I think that Kass was turned into a generic female yinglet
Narky being from one of the main enclaves is a mixture of purebred yinglet so really close to generic yinglet.
Being one of the outliers, Val salia has a higher number of genetic weirdos and founder effects.
Even without assuming that greater yinglets weren’t created by zat zing in the first place , Kass is deliberately brown paint and Narky is brown because he’s all the paints thoroughly mixed together.
Alright, then why are they exactly the same shade of brown, have the exact same eye color, have the exact same markings in the same shade of light brown, etc.
I know Kass is a generic Yinglet. I’m saying I think Narklet may have been made by the same process.
Yinglets are a ridiculously young species right? So there hasn’t been much genetic drift from brown fur yellow eyes low sexual dimorphism in the main population to the south. If you take every dominant common gene in the yinglet population and mix them together you get a narklet.
This.
Kass was turned into a baseline yinglet. Narklet was selected because he’s baseline yinglet.
Also thus far it seems the magic goo only creates females, though there are only two examples of it in action. Narklet is male, so it’s unlikely he was also created.
There was a second one? Kass is the only one I know of.
There’s a side story in Art & Extras.
There was an extra where Ran was zhinged into a feminine male.
My point regarding “we never see the tip of his tail” is that we never see if there’s extra fluff there (like how some males have) potentially from, say, trimming away a tail poof.
Interesting observation. Personally, I don’t think it’s coincidence.
Kass has breasts. They may be vestigial, but they’re there. Narklet does not. Narklet is male.
The magic goo apparently changed Kass into as close to a generic, baseline yinglet as was possible with his previous form. Narklet comes from a conservative political group that seems more than a little yinglet supremacist (for lack or a better term), so it makes sense that he is also pretty close to baseline yinglet. In the same way that the Nazis tended to recruit mostly blonde haired, blue eyed “aryanmorphs” into their SS jackboots (just an example – no Godwin), the ones who sent Narklet to the enclave would have sent only a “pure” yinglet with “pure” ideology.
It should be no wonder, therefore, that they have a similar appearance.
And we only ever see Narklet in a full body-covering outfit, usually from an angle where we can’t see much contour. Who says there isn’t a binder under there?
Personally I don’t think this is a particularly plausible theory, but it definitely would make for an interesting foil for Kass. Someone who resists thinking of themselves as a yinglet vs someone who has so thoroughly embraced it that the other yinglets thing he should loosen up a bit. Sort of the supernatural version of “immigrant patriotism”. We also know that he’s interested in the artifacts for some reason despite the fact that, as a traditionalist, you’d think he’d want to avoid contaminating the ‘pure’ yinglet ways. The only question is how the hell a changeling would end up becoming a patriarch in a distant enclave in the first place
“We are not meant to live as humans. YOU are not meant to live as humans. Not anymore”
There was an extra where Ran was transformed into a feminine male.
Ohhh, Narky Narky Narky.
You have no idea what’s really going on, do you?
Then again, Kass probably doesn’t, either. Is he even aware of Narklet’s position in all this, how important it is to maintain appearances?
It might have been better to not be… QUITE so forward with that information, buddy… Sorta, leading Narklet on, like ‘Oh yeeeaaahhh maybe someday, zhanks for zhe offer’.
I can see he tried, but I think he went a BIT too hard on establishing his position to get Narklet off his back, but… Vizlet should have prepared him better, really.
Vizlet has indeed informed Kass about Narklet’s positions. Kass is doing good diplomacy-wise, in my opinion, except he is as stubborn as Narklet.
One smart thing for Kass would have been to pretend being distracted by something else, and change topic, taking advantage of Yinglets being flighty. That has the disadvantage of appearing weak-willed, when compared with Viz, Nark.
Another solution would have been to evade forward, making promises to eventually “return” into the loving arms of family, but not right now thank you very much. This has the disadvantage of Narklet returning to the topic at every meeting in the future.
I think Kass is deliberately trying to bait Narklet into saying or doing something he’ll regret later.
I don’t think Kass is that good at manipulation. He’d need to be good enough with people to recognize Isher had a crush on him and could heal from deadly wounds overnight. He’s not perceptive enough. Though… He’s trying. Call it rolling with disadvantage.
Given that Narklet has been desperately searching for artifacts like the magic goo rock, it’s likely he knows exactly what it does.
So it’s also quite possible he has suspicions about Kass.
Even if they found something similar, they might think it was a sex change potion and fountain of youth.
This isn’t a fountain of youth! It’s a fountain of John Grierson aged 27! And now it’s pouring into the ocean and they’re all dying. An entire school of minnows is now an entire graduating class of John Grierson aged 27 that is now suffocating because apparently they don’t know how to work lungs. Several John Grierson aged 27’s are now sidling back and forthwith their hands held out like claws and making pinsiring motions at one another. All the while John Grierson aged 32 is looking disgusted as it all happens like it did last time in Borneo with the gulls and the luthier. Don’t ask.
I’d be impressed if Kass is able to hold it together, depending on what Narklet says next to expound on his point. Worst case scenario, I wouldn’t be surprised if there’s violence.
Likely not violence, but I could see Kass getting in Narklet’s face and giving him a piece of his mind.
I know it’s mainly for cartoon emotive reasons, but it does raise the question; do yinglets actually sweat? Anything with that much fur, especially fur that I assume it quite oily waterproofing reasons, doesn’t seem like sweating would be very practical.
Very few animals sweat; only about a dozen or so mammals do it, and most of them only from specific body locations (for example dogs sweat but only from their paws). Humans are weird. Where most mammals pant to cool off, we are what you might call super sweaters. We have sweat glands almost everywhere, and we produce multiple kinds of sweat. That’s one of the reasons why we are almost hairless even though we are very small compared to most other hairless mammals (such as elephants). Sweat and fur work to cross purposes, and sweaty fur soon becomes dirty and smelly (not good for avoiding disease and predators).
The more you know.
Since yinglets are furry, it’s highly unlikely they sweat. Given their riverine lifestyle, it’s unlikely they ever need to. At most they’d have oil glands, which are not quite the same thing.
So when you see a yinglet sweating bullets like Vizlet, you know she must be REALLY anxious given that physically she can’t actually sweat.
Horses sweat. I am not disagreeing. Most furred creatures of that size don’t use sweat to cool themselves.
Horses are one of the dozen or so mammals that do sweat, but their sweat is different from humans. Human sweat is watery and oily. Horse sweat is soapy, and probably evolved that way to help them deal with being both sweaty and furry. Consequently it’s also a lot less effective at cooling than human sweat. That’s how Native Americans used to catch horses. They’d literally walk them down, for days if needed, until the horse literally collapsed from heat exhaustion. Humans aren’t just weird. We’re scary.
What I want to know is if yinglets have unidirectional lungs like birds (also dinosaurs) or dead end lungs like mammals. Birdy lungs would make panting a lot more effective, especially if they also have pneumatic bones. All the yinglet exiles we’ve seen loafing around on rooftops and wherever in town probably weren’t (just) being lazy. They were probably trying to stay cool in the heat of the day.
Given that yinglet eggs seem more like monotreme eggs than bird eggs, they probably only have mammalian lungs, but it’s an interesting possibility (especially when combined with hollow bones).
Now I’m imagining Yinglets with those dark magic bird vocal machines.
Now I’m imagining yinglets playing Angry Birds.
Lmao, Vizlet’s reactions are golden 😂
Agreed! She starts to sweat right in the first panel during Kass’ opening welcome speech, and it just get more intense with every panel. 🙂 And I suspect Ambassador Kass really does NOT know what s/he just said.
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This is going to be good… 😉 🙂
This is the first update I’ve seen since I started reading and caught up last week! I wonder how many details I’ve missed, because I read it all so quick or what I might have retained because I read it all so quick. Things like how similar Kass and Narklet look, but, because I’ve read it all over the course of a couple days, I remember Narklet plotting with another yinglet about the different antiquity dig sites, implying he has some kind of connection. There are so many cool ways this could play out.
Someone else proposed that maybe Kass is a clone of Narklet. I think it’s more likely they’re both similar because they were both made by antiquity potions.
Vizlet is not one given to the classic “Oh, Crap” reaction.
Right now that “Oh, Crap” reaction should be in a museum, it’s that classical an example.
Meanwhile, Kazz is showing why they are the Diplomat here.
I’m surprised she’s able to be so polite to Narklet, given that his name was on the lips of her attacker, who he employed to help with whatever skullduggery he’s got going on. Let’s see how long it lasts.
I had to rush back to see when Kass was attacked by that yinglet crew in the alley to see if Brakka had actually mentioned Narklet out loud, but the only mention of him by name was when Brakka was thinking about him and how mad Narklet would be, but those words were only what he was thinking inside his own head, not him actually speaking that out loud for Kass to hear (no speech bubble, just floating words beside Brakka’s head)… I guess even Brakka was smart enough not to implicate Narklet in all of this…even though he was pretty sure Narklet would have him killed for failing in his mission so completely…
Narklet better be “really” careful here with the patronizing… “Mansplaining” to Kass is NOT going to end well from the standpoint of treating him like some brainless, naïve individual with no common sense… This little “innocent misogyny play” Narklet seems to enjoy engaging in could VERY EASLILY backfire into Kass reading him some kind of “riot act” in the least, and outright turning the tables to a return-fire of back-handed insults to Narklet’s own obvious “weaknesses” in Kass’ opinion… This could end up being a real “foot in mouth” moment for EITHER of them, either figuratively OR literally, depending on how it pans out…
“Mansplaining”? Really?
Narklet’s a True Believer. He’s a zealot. He’s zealotsplaining.
It’s a lot easier to understand the plot when you don’t unnecessarily paint it with inapplicable modern real world human political concepts.
Jadugara used the correct terminology. Mansplaining is misogynist trait, not a political one.
Exactly as Rankamateur indicates, though my terminology may be “modern”, misogyny is both “old-world” and practically universal, and yes,…that’s EXACTLY what Narklet’s engaging in, whether he’s being a zealot about it or not… So, yes,…”mansplaining really”,… because in a world with more than one intelligent species, ESPECIALLY one which treats females like “brood-mothers” literally, one can expect talking down to females (AKA “misogyny” AKA “mansplaining”), to be both ubiquitous and universal… Calling that out in no way indicates that I’m finding it “difficult” to understand the plot, nor is “mansplaining” merely an “inapplicable modern real world human political concept”,…it’s very plainly a universal theme engaged in by douche-like characters of all sorts of races, across a wide array of varying literary/entertainment offerings, including excellent fantasy comics like this one…
Wonder what it’s going to be like when Kass figures this dude basically ruined his whole life.
Oh, Narklet you’re being cringe. Do yinglets have a concept of cringe? They probably do. Narklet should brush up on that.
Zhee hee. Am I zhe only one who thinks Narklet is pweddy? Narklet could brush up on me instead….
(‘ows zhat for cringe? Ehehehe)
Oh, they definitely do. Just look at Vizlet’s face. It has “CRINGE” written all over it.
It’s… about to get messy, isn’t it?
Narklet the narc. Someone really ought to introduce this guy to the sport of ying-flinging.
I think from Narklet’s point of view Kass is spouting some sovereign citizen crap. “Oh no, I belong to Ivenmoth”.. Like. No lady. You’re a yinglet , we have a yinglet government and our rules apply to you. You’re running around on your own NOW but there’s a timer before you have to make with the egg making.
It’s quite an unsettling point of view by today’s standards.
Pretty sure most of val salia would be equally icked…
I have no idea what “sovereign citizen crap” is but even if s/he was a naturally born yinglet, Kass would be right? Like The Envlave System have no rights to take them based purely on their species and if Kass or any other yinglet decide to live in Val Salia thats their call. Rememver that Vir goal is to turn the city into a multi-species polity for wathever reason and he would accept yinglets if they could pull their weight.
Yeyes, but from a ying point of view, dey need every female dey can get, ’cause dey need da eggs. So evens if de idea is dat Val Salia should be super-duper diverse, da yings, for de simple cause of making sure da enclave doesn’t die, can’t really let dat happen.
Sovereign citizens are a group of whackos that think the government isn’t legitimate so that if they declare certain things the law doesn’t apply to them. For example they’ll claim that because they’re not using a car just to get around and not for commerce they don’t need licenses registration or insurance, or a blood alcohol level south of a screwdriver.
Why would they not claim sovereignty based on species? The southern enclaves clearly don’t recognize human borders for yinglets. They send yinglets north, pull females south, send food, tax food, all accross international human borders. They write yinglaws she’s a ying she’s under their laws. It wouldn’t surprise me if they DON”T have an exile process for females at all.
I vaguely remember Vizlet saying she needed permission to go galavanting about learning things from humans.If they explicitly withdrew that from Kass… oh boy…
Found one of them. back in 27 Vizlet said she had the right to claim authority over Kass as a yinglet mother. Its probably not a LOCAL patriarch ability to override her on that but the Elders probably can.
I’m betting that Vizlet needs some kind of permission from the Patriarchs of her enclave specifically because she is their Matriarch… As for Kass, he has already indicated that he in NOT a part of their enclave (though he is willing to act as a diplomat for Ivenmoth TO their enclave), and as such Kass does not fall under the authority of the Patriarchs of Vizlet’s enclave…nor the enclave that Narklet originally hailed from… Regardless of how much it may annoy Narklet, Kass is making it pretty damned clear that he is under the authority of House Ivenmoth only, and NOT any of the yinglet enclaves, no matter what species he appears to be “born into”… This, I think, is why Narklet is stooping toward back-handed, insulting, misogynist comments.
I think there’s one thing Narklet is forgetting. Kass wasn’t always a yinglet, so has intelligence that’s a lot higher than normal for one. I’m pretty sure Kass knows precisely what he’s doing, like baiting Narklet into saying something he shouldn’t.
Also, I absolutely LOVE Vizlet’s reactions. XD
Not forgetting. Narklet doesn’t know that.
It’s possible, though, that he suspects…
Hopefully Narklet doesn’t try to prove Kass wrong by any evil means.
Narklet is coming of kinda creepy to me on this page
Kass should definitely get Narklet talking. Get him to explain, in detail, what his goals are. If Narklet gets long-winded enough he might let something important slip.
Narklet isn’t evil. He’s just set in his ways by the elders who trained him. It’s going to be hard to wait for the next page, when he tells Kass what “she” is saying. As far as I can tell, it’s unknown to both Kass and to the reader, though I’d guess it’s something about how yinglets and humans aren’t “supposed” to be living that closely together, for … religious(??) reasons?
I think the jury is still out concerning how “evil” Narklet might actually be, because it was hinted at earlier in the storyline that he secretly knows more about the strange material that transformed Kass than any of the rest of the yinglets do, which leads many folks to think that Narklet is part of some greater conspiracy to both obtain that transformative substance, and potentially keep using it for the wicked purpose of transforming people against their will…
Transforming people into female yinglets against their will, presumably to make eggs, sounds horrifically close to trafficking and rape. Really hope that this story doesn’t turn that dark.
My thinking is Narklet sees Kass as speaking of something akin to voluntary exile, which would be seen as a HUGE deal no-no to Yinglet culture, especially for a female.
Wid all due respect, Patriarch… NO NO NO DON’T SAY DAT TO KASS!!!! no one here watching wants to see dat.
Alsos, funny expressions dis page!
…I feel like Figgins and Vizler are giving that subtle look of “we need to separate these two before a fight breaks out…”
I hope Figgins is picking that up. Both Kass and Narklet are known to be strong-willed, and Figgins is clever and close to Vizlet. I also hope other patriarchs are right around the corner and can help play peacemaker. Ooh, better Poak or Beizel than Kattajak. :/
I dunno wheder Beizel would be lotta help in tis situation, but I’d bet on Poak doing a great job. Kattajak might just have another fantasy about murdering Narklet. Or he’d get reeeaaallllly mad.