It took Kass about 4 drafts to make a version that wasn’t illegible due to loopy handwriting.
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Out-of-Placers
A story of inconvenient changes
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Poor Kass, she was just at the Yinglet enclousure to learn about Yinglet Reproduction when Elim was stabbed. Its been maybe a week since she was changed from Human. Yeah she owes the Trademaster big time, but how does she know about the Drinnish enclave actually getting better treatment? We got a report already about the Yinglet life cycle already, which is likely this report being given as well as what she has learned about Yinglet reflexes and other observations.
Do wonder if this is the start of her contributions to the Val Salian field guide though. That would be interesting for this to be the start of her contributions to that publication. That we as readers have already read several don’t mean they were written in order we see them in the comic. I could see Kass’s group being a large part of House Ivenmoth’s study into the world around them beyond her own experiences.
Section 1, page 1: Introduction to Yinglet Aerodynamics
“Due to the disparity of weight differences between Yinglet and Human specimens, it can be observed in many occasions that the Yinglet has remarkable aerodynamic tendencies, or as it is colloquially known, “Air time”. Upon volunteering myself for testing this hypothesis, I can say for certain that the Yinglet body has several adaptions to aid in aerial recovery such as a tail, reflex grabbing upon meeting a surface, and overall lightweight structure to lessen force upon the body when meeting another surface.
Thus, if I were to extrapolate from this knowledge, I can guess that the Yinglet evolved in an arboreal setting where these adaptions would be beneficial in traveling and hunting. However, due to human expansion and the depletion of such environments, Yinglets have relatively recently adjusted to the change with supplemental knowledge of human species to aid in the transition.”
I would add purely in the aid of scientific reasoning that a Yinglet being similar to the weight of a House cat, their terminal velocity is rather low, aiding in achieving ridiculous amounts of air time. Further testing is required however if it is to be known if like a House cat, you can drop a Yinglet off a 40 story building and have a reasonable chance of survival.
If I dropped a yinglet off a 40-storey building I reckon my chances of survival would be quite good. For one thing, if the yinglet wanted revenge they’d be forty storeys below me and the elevator isn’t working so they’d have to use the stairs.
Amazing! She moves with the grace of a drunken ballerina!
This is a really awesome comic thanks for making it. I really like stuff like this and I like the story and everything
Sooo… I missed ze left turn at Zetti Alpha Six, drifted zhrough ze Nebula of Spume, crossed ze Bog of Eternalz Stinkies, escaped ze Gremlink swarm (Who fed zhem after late-dark anyways?), and at zat word-stick up ahead, has entered… ze Yinglet Zone.
*insert poorly choreographed parody of “I’m turnink Yingletese, I zhink I’m turnink Yingletese, I really zhink zo!” here*
EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!
*deep breazhs… deep breazhs*
OOOKay. After reading ze arch… arch… before pages (more zhan a few times), I has ta say I really like ze… places where ze stuff and zhings and peoples do za stuff and zhings and interactings. Yes yes! Zhen zhere are all za peoples and zhings, like handsome and kind sir Kass… oh sooo kind… changed into ze loud and scary yet oh sooo pretty Lady Kass… oh SOOO pretty. Zhere is also strong and more handsomes Elim hooman… oh SOOO good Kass friend, yes! Also is smart and pretty Matriarch Vizlet… oh SOOO smartsy (Issa clevers gurl.)… zhough not as pretty as Lady Kass (We gonna needs a bigger enclave!). Also is fancy-boy Lopin… oh sooo fancy hat. And very nice but shaky Lady Lippie… oh sooo nice stitcher, yes! But not all are good, oh nooo. Zhere is zhat annoying Ran hooman (I won’t do ZHAT for clams! Go aways!)… oh SOOO annoying! And bad baddy Brakka… oh SOOO bad (Him knowz what he do… would smek an take to Ran for ‘sperimenz’.). Or even za smelly Galen… oh sooo stinky head-spinny smells (an all za funny swirlly colorz…). But zhen zhere is also za tasty ivermozhs… oh sooo tasty (Soylent Ying is peoples! IS PEOPLES!). And ze character expressions… sooo good. Oh SOOO good!
So, I shall certain be watching (from za shadowz behinds crates in za alley)… hungries for more… like clams, yes?
Remarkably coherent lettering for one whose equilibrium (and potentially cookies!) has so recently been tossed.
Check the author commentary: 4 drafts.
You know, I make a point of reading those blurbs every time, and yet somehow this time I missed that.
I see a useful task only yinglets could perform: Aerial surveying! As the lightest by far of all intelligent species, they could easily be brought aloft suspended by a very modestly-sized hot air balloon. A fraction of the size you’d need for a human. If this world has the notion of hot air balloons even as novelties like chinese lanterns, they may well achieve lighter-than-air flight at a slightly earlier stage of technological development than their own. That is, right about now. Think of the military applications.