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Out-of-Placers
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That went surprisingly well. She’s away from Kalkgur, probably not dead, and probably disabled or stunned enough to not be continuing her berserk rage.
That’s optimistic thinking for a berserk Indrel being loose on the streets.
I am very much hoping that falling out of this particular window does not end up plopping Yannit into the garden of sun-thirst.
How… many floors up are they…?
Multiple 🙁
Considering they need an elevator to get up here…
This ain’t looking good for Yannit. Long way down notwithstanding, can the indrel deal with what looks to be the equivalent of a broken leg?
This [i]really[/i] ain’t looking good. If Yannit is anything like terrestrial arthropods (insects, crustaceans, etc), she’ll have an open circulatory system rather than a closed one. Creatures with open circulatory systems have a very hard time dealing with wounds that break through the exoskeleton, because it’s like a hole in a bucket–it keeps draining until all the blood leaks out, there’s really no mechanism to clot. If you can slap a patch over the wound (insert Flex Tape commercial here), you can keep them from bleeding out, but the limb will be permanently misshapen unless the animal can shed and regrow the damaged limb, or unless it can be fixed over time through the molting process.
Ground-dwelling arthropods also don’t get nearly that big, because the exoskeleton simply isn’t great at supporting larger creatures, by my understanding. They likely have an endoskeletal structure as well.
An open circulatory system also seems unlikely for such a large species, but that’s just kind of vibe reasoning.
And eh, a broken leg isn’t the end of the world, she’s a research subject not a labourer. If anything it’s a good opportunity to learn about how Indrel cope with injury, and their healing process.
Also in regards to the long way down: I’m pretty sure the teeth are more mound-shaped than sheer cliffs, so it’s not likely to be a straight drop, and also there’s a bunch of balconies; narrative convention suggests she’ll survive.
Wow, he threw her HARD! Defenestration from that height would kill most people, but Yannit can climb walls, so maybe she’ll catch a grip and hang on. Maybe the badly broken leg will turn her panic from fight to flight, and she’ll go somewhere to hide and calm down. Maybe a broken leg is something she can heal from. So many maybes … let’s cling to them!
Not only did he toss her, he tossed her hard enough that her claws raking for purchase on the wall gouged out furrows in the wall itself, and then tore straight through the corner edge of the window. If she hadn’t snapped a leg on the window sill and had her momentum thrown downward, she would have been straight yeeted who knows how far out into the air. Also, another one of those sneaky visual allusions the comic is fond of; in the process of this happening to Yannit, a tapestry depicting an insect is cut/torn in half, and the process of that cutting and it falling matches the exact timing of what’s happening to her. Break/cut, falling, crumpled on the ground.
*from behinds his box* Whys oh whys can’tz everybeings jus has some clammies an getz alongs…
*crys in his clams-juice a littles… yets sortsa wonders what Yannit tastez likies* O_o
What evidence is there that Yannet’s leg was broken? When I first read this, it looked to me like it was the back of Yannet’s abdomen that was injured. Either way, she has a serious injury that just might kill her. (Hopefully not. That’s up to the author though.)
The location of the stain and foot at the point of impact and her pose in the panel before the impact definitely imply that it’s the leg that hit the wall. That said, it’s not exactly perfect evidence. Her abdomen was closer to the wall and definitely had the chance to hit first, and it wouldn’t be hard to argue that she twisted a bit between panels. Until we see the injury it really is anyone’s guess