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Out-of-Placers
A story of inconvenient changes
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Oooh, he put a little too much Baxxidish on that one.
Yeah, you zhought he screamed loudly last time, get ready for somezhing zhat de indrel hive will hear.
Well that’s gonna affect his social standing.
Also “Bodystalk rotation early complete” is that supposed to say ‘nearly’ instead of ‘early’?
Either works, he could have turned too fast
I have a theory. I think it was “complete early” but the composition of the words on the page didn’t look well, so the author wanted to change it to “nearly complete” but forgot to add the extra letter. That’s the kind of dumb stuff I’ve done, and seen done in such situations, at least.
Ho boy. This could put a little crimp in the works.
Still you know what you say, a friend who will hide a body for you is a friend for life.
And thus began the saga of how he was permanently assigned to the guard.
or
“The day that Kalgkur learned how to bring the shape that does not exist, into reality itself.”
This is the worst way for him to learn that humans are squishy and delicate.
Hey, he was going to lose the hand for theft anyway. I’m sure the Trademaster will be understanding.
Kalgkur just went from a sweet dream to a horrifying nightmare in the blink of an eye. If he isn’t about to wake up from the nightmare in a cold sweat on the next page, I don’t see how he can ever recover. I did NOT see this coming!!
Well, that certainly escalated quickly. That’s also a lot of thinking for what must be (for the claw to be moving fast enough to do that) an extremely short period of time. I wonder if Baxxid’s process things more quickly than humans? That might be part of why they’re noted as being mathematically talented – they think fast enough to do the calculations seemingly-instantly.
Holy shit. That was not expected. :V
Let me get this straight, some guy thought it was a good idea to swipe a merchant in full view and claw reach of a baxid guard THAT HAS THE FULL FUNCTION OF SIX EYES
he wins the darwin awards that’s for sure
(OOPS. Title drop! Too soon? Too soon)
See, this is a thing that makes me wince when I see it in stories. Not because it doesn’t make sense in universe, no, with the opinions of the baxxid about this kind of work this was going to happen sooner or later. And I’m sure the humans in charge of assigning the patrol had a thought of the line of “no one is going to be stupid enough to (see doughmoan’s comment)”. Yes. Yes they will. This deeply human shit is why we have stuff like Murphy’s law irl.
This is a stupid, horrible thing that could have been prevented if the station of Baxxid as guards was taking seriously, instead of as a punishment for misbehaviour. A creature with that must power has to recieve training on how to handle it safely when near squishy humans.
And now this horrible thing has happened, and hopefully it will be a lesson learned instead of the start of more horrible things. Just like in real life.
I have a love-hate relationship with this page now.
*taken* seriously
that *much* power
I really should proofread everything I write before posting it.
Yeah, if you zhink your typos are so, so bad, try typing wizh your toes sometime. It is literally what Yinglets have for fingers, bozh truehands (topmost), and foothands (bottom pair).
As for training, yeah zhere should have been a LOT more of zhis, but look at how much training zhat officer Kass has gotten zo far. If you say zhere has been none of zhis, you are correct. Zhis is like giving a Yinglet a job zhat requires zhem to stand in one place or else de room would explode..and not tell zhe yinglet about zhe explody bit.
For zhe love hate zhing, yeah, as soon as zhings were looking like ONE GODDAM pair of people were going to have any sort of a happy relationship beyond a quickie, stuff like zhis happens. Like seriously, boss come on, we haven’t even found out yet is if Isher is pregnant from her one night stand, I’m not sure how many sad love tales we can take!
I think we’ve established that the local rulers are fine with a certain level of stupid leading to a certain level of dead. And this guy crossed it.
That is true to a point, but having a baxxid under the service of House Ivenmoth publicly disembowel a human can’t be good pr.
Why! Why would you steal directly in front of a GUARD baxxid? And they are KNOWN to resort to deadly force if needed! You run, they strike faster.
Because zhat art was zo pretty it was somezhing to die for!
Whoopsey daisy.