He’d let that kid swing there all day if he didn’t have a job to do
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Out-of-Placers
A story of inconvenient changes
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OMG. He’s doing the exact things I was wondering if he might do and more. Mainly He’s picking up children and letting yinglets ride him.
Confirmed: if Kass wanted to, Kalgkur would let Kass ride on his back or head, among other things. I hope that happens in an upcoming page!
Super smart battle worm using their extra brain capacity to overthink stuff he already knows the answer to, endlessly, possibly without ever realising. Yup, I don’t relate that at all. I’ll, uh, just be grinning and crying on the corner over there if anyone needs me.
I meant the overthinking stuff, of course. I am not a battle worm. Definitely not three small egg laying mammals in a trenchcoat either.
Monotremes! Like platypuses, only farther along enough for more than proto-milk in sacks the young bite open, and fully metabolic warm-bloodedness. Sharing hair, sweat sometimes, further brain development areas in front of what we consider the midbrain in the hypothalmus and stuff.
There really could be a question of if these actually alien creatures (different stars means different solar system and different PLANET) fit the already strained phylum relationship system. Could they be considered mammals? Would life end up reinventing itself that far, to so insistently make things that actively still look avian, and mammalian, reptillian and like arthropods?
Considering the very strange look of the fungii-baaxid, I aaaaaaam… somewhat of the opinion that they are dumb predators infested by an intelligent mycelium utterly mortified in being inside of a predator. Like crocs, but crabspiders, and like ah… name of the fungus in last of us….
Monotremes such as platypus have milk produced in modified sweat glands, and the puggles lick the milk from a furry patch on the mothers coat when it is released. There’s no biting involved.
… The US Education system has failed me!~ 🙂 thanks… modified sweat glands, yeah, makes more sense… than banking on wounding the mother every single time.
It seems yinglets have milk production if they cared to cultivate it. Sweat is not something we know about whether or not they do. They do still lay “eggs,” but that is pretty far along the spectrum that we know about, from the amphibians and warm blooded reptillians we know as the tetrapods, between monotremes and the lobe-finned fish.
Baxids on the other hand… the actual hands… they seem to have the sort of muscles that would be hydraulic in smaller arachnids and crabs. But at that size it would be… insane to imagine the sort of BIOLOGICAL MATTER that would be able to create essentially piston housings in limbs and joints, which requires good steel and very precisely cast and tightly machined cast iron in modern technology. Do they eat iron as well as shells? And yet the body plan would be possible with only that explained.
Perhaps they have a tiny bit of osmium in their diet, or spent uranium? We know they have LEAD in this place so it’s likely that whether or not they can identify it, they have access to uranium. So long as the lead doesn’t come to them from only one nation who has one vein. Man, these shy stabby-crabs fascinate me…. What have they been eating to be so civilized by the way…? Do they have a bug farm or something down there?
Two of our five currently-known intelligent species have non-terrestrial basic body plans. And five intelligent species evolving at once, from such diverse lineage? No, I think we’re looking at a Children of Time scenario here: Someone has been engineering life on this planet. Someone with ‘sufficiently advanced’ technology.
Yeah, I figured that was a given. You don’t get a new species just “materialising”, intelligent or not.
God the worldbuilding in this comic is so fantastic I love it!
ah the innocence of a child.. it is as disruptive as it is reassuring.
The untagged beginning of this arc, for reference…
https://www.valsalia.com/comic/out-of-placers/oops-41/
That’s awfully gentle and sweet of Kalgkur, but if he’s not careful he’ll be turned into living playground equipment, buried under a swarm of children before he knows what hit him!
Unrelated to the comic, I am pumped for Valsalia to download the new WordPress update, and enable the “Enter the Fediverse” thing, so we can follow it from Mastodon and get updates there rather than having to periodically load the website to check for them.
(And I’m putting this here to remind Val to do that)
I feel like the whole site needs an overhaul!
Ya know? Dis is an example of what I said about Humani being de bridge between Yinglets and Baxxid. Dat red flag is a guarantee zhat de Baxxid is dere for good zhings.
I’d say this is unprofessional behaviour for a guard, but I don’t think he is really trained properly for this temporary position.
That, and there really is a “hearts and minds” aspect, both for House Ivenmoth, which keeps its power secure by being the central pillar of the community, and for the Baxxid, which need to be seen as peaceful and friendly. (That, and even with training, this is what Kalgkur would rather be doing: he’s a sweet boy)
Ok this’d not normally be my genre but the sheer charming nature of the designs is what got me to try it out and the worldbuilding and characters got me to stick around. Just caught up now which means I’m on the slow path with everyone else (not a slight, it’ll definitely be worth it) and I just wanted to let you know how much I enjoyed reading this.
(And also how adorable it very often is)