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Out-of-Placers
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Ah yes, punishment by blinding words from the ether, a classic.
Kalgkur is clearly suffering in that last panel. Before I read your comment, I thought the “blinding words” were an expression of unintelligible anguish from Kalkgur in reaction to seeing the black-flagged baxxid approach, but on second look, it does seem more like it’s coming from the latter. Are these “blinding words” the “Judgment” itself? Is the spot he’s sitting in a chamber built to shape the echoes of that blinding sound? Is this meant to test his contrition? How deep will the gouges he’s digging in the walls get before it’s over?
it really seems to be kalgkur screaming in terror to me. what indicates it’s coming from black flag?
Don’t zhink he’s screaming in terror, it is more like self hate eating away at his verneer of civility to de point he becomes de monster he zhinks he is.
At least someone cleaned off de blood for him.
Given Kalgkur’s penchant for panicking, the Black Flag could be here for anything ranging from a stern talking to an execution. In any case, they have business with the criminal.
I can’t see much that is specifically identifying whether this is a short story or if this is a flashback that is going to become relevant in the main story shortly.
Is this He Who Knows-What-he-Did? Do the humans call him a dissenter because they forgot (or never knew) the circumstances behind what-he-did? I’m looking at the skin color and flesh bump patterns on his tail. Besides the overgrown bones, this could easily be the same design.
Is he called that because he’s there not as punishment from the rest of Baxxid society, but because he’s punishing himself? And so he knows what he did because he’s the one keeping himself there? The chains were requested by him?
page 241 has a field guide entry with a black flag baxxid entry on it that looks exactly like this current one, so I don’t know if this is The-One-Who-Knows-What-He-Did, but there is definitely an entry that marks this one to _not_ be interacted with in any way.
No, this is definitely Kalgkur and an unknown black-flag baxxid. He-Who-Knows-What-He-Did is shown waay back on “Field Guide Entry 7,” between comic pages 44 and 45. That guy, the only known “dissenter” against the baxxids’ code of honor, has been chained to a rock for 43 years, and is in no shape to do anything other than lie there and think about what he did.
https://www.valsalia.com/comic/out-of-placers/the-val-salian-regional-field-guide-entry-7/
Kalgkur was not ready.