Wielder of Names 1-15
“Next I wyll dyscuss the Gylded Devyl, or Yellow Devyl as they are sometymes called. The Gylded Devyl has the appearance of one tall and shrouded, hyr Mask is Or, hyr Blood is Ebon. Hyr shryveled Flesh is sayd to have a certayn corpse-lyk Qualyty. Gylded Devyls are in Possessyon of the most terryfyng Intellect of common Devyls, and for thys reason Summoners are advysed agaynst attemptyng to bynd them. The Gylded Devil is fond of Moneys and other items of Wealth, she remembers Anythyng whatsoever sayd or seen, and she counts everythyng in metyculous Detayl. Moreover, she cultyvates a profound and honed Malyce whych she wylll not hesytate to turn on Mankind most cruelly.
I myself had an Apprentyce once who summoned one to take care of hys Book Keeping only to fynd to his great Dismay some Weeks later she had bought hym as a Slave.”
-Thulsa Drulle’s Daemonica Maleficum
Oh no.
Her book emits light when written upon, obviously an artifact of great power.
Also, I expect a BLUH in reaction to that Devylish Liquor.
A fellow stuckie, eh?
Well there’s already been at least one Homestuck reference in the comic…
Wait, where?
The words Peregrine and Mendicant appear during the description of the various knights
There’s no bullshit quite like magical bullshit.
Sufficiently unjustified magic is indistinguishable from Bullshit
— Phip’s Law
“There’s no such thing as black magic, just cheap tricks.”
-I forgot who
Let us count, o beloved travellers, the number of poor decisions made by Alice-UN in this short period of time.
1. Accepting a drink ‘on the house’ in a demon-run bar.
2. Denying the protection of any master in the presence of a Magister.
3. Drinking a drink ‘on the house’ in a demon-run bar.
4. Claiming possession of powers desired by nearly all in Throne in the presence of multitudes.
5. Claiming possession of powers desired by nearly all in Throne while actually having them.
6. Asking a fanfiction writer what she is writing.
Truly, Alice-UN is beloved of YISUN, that she so clearly exhibits the wisdom of Aesma.
This adventure would be impossibly boring if our dear hero Alice-UN made every decision with creeping caution and paranoia, you know…
Not so Evicted Saint, though it would be a vastly different tale to be sure.
She did recently just escape from a mob of killers and cutthroats who wanted the key from her head. Suspicion and paranoia aren’t really needed here so much as the ability to recall past events.
Then again, Cio would be out of the job if that were the case.
“Escape” is such a strong word.
It was more like, “Assisted falling.”
Even so, commission of the sixth crime is something any Sailor Moon fangirl should really know better about.
Granted if she claimed to be in someone’s service, it would lead to the Magister asking her to lead their party to said Demiurge. No good could come from that.
Damned if you do, damned if you don’t.
She is, in a way, working for King Zoss, who is a demiurge but not one of the seven. But as his legacy rather than servant, and probably expects prospective employees to work directly with her instead.
Grimdrunk Allison incoming?
This comic can not stop here, for this is demon country.
and suddenly there was a terrible roar all around us, and the sky was filled with what looked like flying demons, all swooping and screeching and diving around our hill, which was rapidly accumulating a crowd of ambulating demons looking very intent and very armed. And a voice was screaming “Holy Zoss, what are these goddamn beings?”
I’m enjoying this immensely
Oh, sweet summer child. Surely, you haven’t forgotten what the angel said?
Looks like the blue devil liquor wasn’t that effective after all.
[BADASS_SWIG]
[VOMITING_INTENSIFIES]
Once again, I am here to ask about Buy Six Billion Merch Items. Is merch something that’s currently on your radar? Please?
I’d like to in the future, but not currently (trying to focus on getting a hard copy of a book to you!)
YES PLS. Can it be oversized, hardcover bande-dessinee style?
In one’s personal interaction with feudal power structures it is wise not to claim to be under the protection of a Lord or Lady that you are not.
However one must be in even greater poverty of wisdom to claim no one’s at all unless they themselves are obviously mighty.
Alas wisdom comes though time and pain.
This must be a serious contender for biggest number of horrible mistakes made by the same character in a single page.
The only possible explanation is that Alison was way more shocked during her previous ordeal in Throne than we had guessed. So freaking shocked, in fact, that nothing Cio and White Chain got through to her o_Ou
nothing Cio and White Chain said*
Well she does have a mystic superweapon in the middle of her skull. That might be having some subtle influence on her choices…?
What can she do with it apart from trying to zap the hell back to Earth if things get ugly?
We are, perhaps, about to find out.
The hard way.
The HARD way is the ONLY way, if you know what I mean.
I’m sort of wondering why Alison doesn’t try banging her head against the gate to see if that opens it. Or does she only need to go to Mottom’s because she’s inffered that her boyfreind is likely in the possesion of the demiurge who owns her gate? Astute of her if so.
The void seems to have an awful lot of stuff in it.
Things have a tendency to fall into the cracks.
Over a few kalpa, that means the dwellers in the cracks grow numerous.
Definitely a crack that needs repairing.
A stranger one day entered a bar, ordered a drink and sat alone in the corner of the fine establishment. As the day wore on, the stranger nursed their beer well into the evening, tasting not the honeyed nectar in their jar, seeing not the golden coruscation in their mug, hearing not the fizz and pop in their pot. At the sixth stroke after gloaming the stranger drained their drink one swallow, staring at the bottom of the mug they spake one phrase…
“Magical Bullshit, indeed”
I suspect that the last three panels go something like this, in Alice’s head:
9: Uh, I sent myself. Scary wizard people are scary.
10: … It’s taken even less time than before for things to go horribly wrong. I don’t know why I ever expected otherwise.
11: Screw it, I’ll get the rest of the idiot mistakes out of the way while I’m at it. Why not?
I suspect that in the last two panels we are seeing Allison notice her irreversible error, followed by a decision to complete the set of bad decisions. Cio was giving her advice that she doesn’t yet have the context to intelligently apply, and she can be reasonably sure that none of those plans will work after her remark on panel 9, so she might as well stop worrying about them in order to start solving problems on her own terms.
I can’t really bring myself to disagree. She’s thrown herself into the deep end one way or another, so she might as well discard all baggage while she tries to swim. To put it another way, competence is derived from experience, and it comes about most rapidly when one understands all the relevant context. Now that she’s dropped those bombs, she doesn’t have to worry about acting according to a plan that Cio understands but she doesn’t.
I suppose that Allison’s outburst is just a reflection of her destiny to kingly things. Of course, Destiny is Second of the Seven Lies of Yisun. Does playing along with destiny prove the lie true? (Hah, truth is the first lie!)
Or maybe it’s Yisun’s great gift to humanity, the terrible Want to have the world that forced her tongue.
And anyhow, One shouldn’t put too much trust in the advice of an unbound Demon; who’s own gift is the secrets which will unmake the world. Cio is, after all, a fanfiction writer!
Your Remedy is within you, but you do not sense it.
Your Sickness is from you, but you do not perceive it.
You Presume you are a small entity,
But within you is enfolded the entire universe.
You are indeed the evident book,
By whose alphabet the hidden becomes the manifest.
Therefore, you have no need to look beyond yourself,
What you seek is within you, if only you reflect.
He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare, And he who has one enemy will meet him everywhere.
Do for this life as if you live forever, do for the afterlife as if you die tomorrow.
A wise man first thinks and then speaks and a fool speaks first and then thinks.
That little blue devil riding on the white one’s shoulder is so damn cute I want one as a familiar.
Also, Cio best girl, Cio x Allison best ship.
For such blasphemy the Fisher-Priests would see you cubed by their slashing nets. The good barque Aesma x Nature of Infinity admits no ships as its superior, and it is unwise to argue the point anywhere its shadow might fall.
Allison has just told a whole bunch of wizards that she lives on a higer plane of existence than they do. She’s also just let them know that she’s not happy at all.
One should also beware the Yellow Devil’s propensity for dissolving into spherical particles and reforming elsewhere to attack the unaware.
Should you encounter it, lightning struck into its eye is remarkably effective, as it is with many things.
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