Pictured above: a massive, nearly-brainless cargo behemoth, known to various local peoples as kargurhevd, hauler-crabs, Osseous Rex, and most often “those big slow things that drop a million stinking eggs every couple months.”
Their forward crawl is only slightly faster than a human’s brisk walking pace, but they continue moving forward as they sleep, require relatively little daily nutrition for their size, and contain a great many (mostly) sterile water-bladders, which expert handlers can funnel a tap into, making them essentially a giant walking fresh water container.
They drink salt water and filter it through their systems, so while they are very useful along coastal regions with little to no fresh water, their specializations make them far too expensive to raise and employ in most other types of environments. Some are kept as curiosities by nobles.
Thanks as usual to Raptie for handling the character coloring and shading on this page!
BFFs shit themselves for mental well-being. I’ll keep that in mind.
Nothing screams ULTIMATE BROHOOD like taking turns on taking care of each other while suffering a several and weakening intestinal infection…
I just realized something their now heading back while the Yinglets looking for him are now heading to the nursery. The two groups could completely miss eachother which would be really funny.
Well they might be planning on getting Kass as she returns. I might be giving them too much credit however, but I think we all can agree they are going to piss Kass off by treating her like a regular ying female
I only.now spotted it, which makes me feel blind, but there is a very interesting ship in the background. It makes me think of Jabba the hutt’s hovership mixed with the ships from monster hunter. Has outriggers as well, ships with dual outriggers like the one here were first found in and around Asia and Madagascar so this could potentially be giving us a hint on what part of the world Kass and their friends inhabit.
Those ships weren’t near as big this one looks to me to be at least frigate sized if not larger.
So Kassie has a few little brothers huh. I hope she gets reunited with her family someday. And I hope she finds a way to get her brothers to believe that their big brother is now a little sister to say nothing of her parents, but that would be hard to impossible. But it would make a good story ark.
And Kassie breast feeding a younglet just has to happen someday. Not today not tomorrow but someday.
I don’t think you or Kassie really want that Elm. But that last panel is hilarious.
One day… Someday…
THIS is the best late xmass present ever
What do we think Kass’ voice sounds like?
Minnie Mouse.
Probably.
I imagine they all sound like different variations of Shirley the medium from “Courage the Cowardly Dog”.
That is EXACTLY the voice that I think of when I read Vizlet’s dialog. It fits too well.
I also hear Vizlet sounding like Shirley.
Kass’ voice is made of yinglet. It’s probably ridiculous.
I’m trying to imagine the voice in the Ask A Yinglet interactive video but in a feminine tone. It’s not easy.
i guy on helium
I think kinda raspy, not too high-pitched
Kass looks gorgeous in that one panel.
Is it just me or have those eyelashes gotten longer and more girly since last time?
SO PRITTY LADY YES!
totally agree, that 3rd panel is extremely flattering.
I also tend to feel guilty over enjoying story where bad things happen to the characters within.
And then I shake the feeling of guilt off and keep on reading.
To quote the Felipe from the comic “Mafalda”: “Even my weaknesses are stronger than me.”
This comic captures ‘really really close friends’ so well.
That thing must move sloooooooow.
That is possibly the most absurdly impractical beast of burden I have ever seen
I know. It looks like a sea turtle had sex with a crab, and traded in its front flippers for horse-hooves and more junk in the trunk.
The driver makes me think of that song “smoke gets in your eyes.”
*snicker* In the last panel you can see what Kass wears under their cloak there!
Well, it’s definitely not a speed demon. But if you have someone to drive while you sleep, it can keep moving 24 hours a day, and not having to haul a huge supply of drinking water along with you is a plus. Since they drink salt water, along the coasts they’re probably a lot more practical.
As a side-note, Val’s notes say that its top speed is “slightly faster than a brisk walking pace”. For a human, that’s defined as about 3 miles (5 km) per hour. So if it’s slightly faster than that, then it can cover a little over 75 miles (122 km) every 24 hours, if the driver(s) have figured out how to minimize rest breaks (i.e. bringing along ‘trail rations’ of dried nuts and pemmican so they don’t have to stop and cook lunch).
Oh, forgot to add: It can also carry a larger payload than any other single beast of burden available to them. So … yeah, if you’re travelling along the coasts, and if you aren’t carrying perishable cargo (or carrying perishables over short distances of a day or two), it might be a lot more practical than it looks.
It also seems as good a replacement as any when you don’t have a horse or camel around.
Come to think of it, are there any real life animals in this story? Yannit mentioned the story of the princess and the frog and one of the Regional Guide’s mentioned a yinglet got eaten by a dog, but that’s about it.
Well, clams, obviously, since Yinglets eat them. Fish as well, though they may not look exactly like any species we’d recognize. And in panel 1, those are probably birds flocking around that fishing boat. But you have a point… we haven’t seen any real-life land mammals (zebras, horses, lions, etc), unless I’m forgetting something.
Speaking of birds…
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Ahh, poor Kas, dealing with all of this crazy shee-ought like a strange body and weird new urges. It’s like going through puberty again, only worse because now he/she’s a rat-bird.
Still, I wonder if Kas is ever going to get used to it. I know in the comic time it’s only been a few days, but I’m kind of interested to see where that goes.
Cargo Behemoths sounds and looks very interesting. Could they continue to walk unguided when their owners sleep?
Is it me, or is Kass subtly being portrayed in a cuter, more feminine way over time? I’ve suspected that for a while, and panel 3 brought it back to mind.
It could be intentional to show that Kass is becoming more like a Female over time. I mean, the Matriach gave one HELL of a creepy smile a few pages back.
Are the hauler-crabs related to the Baxxids?
The shell looks similar to that of He Who Knows-What-He-Did.
Have seen your characters floating around the internet for around the past month and just today discovered the comic itself. I read it all in one go. I love it and cannot wait for more. The story has a good sense of directional feel to me and you pair it with neat characters and a great art style! I am a fan now.
Side note: embarrassing story to share but my bff once cleaned vomit off of my nether regions in a bar bathroom after I drank far too much and attempted to sit down and pee while also trying to make my vomit make it to the toilet. I was then dragged out of the bar across the street where I continued to vomit until our uber arrived. I guess what I’m trying to say is that your best friends are the ones who will clean puke off of your dick in your hour of need.
Don’t get too hateful of what you are right now. No knowing what tiny spaces about are full of yinglet exile….
Oh wait that’s the dramatic irony and tension only the reader knows.