Also, if milkshakes for everyone is the normal outcome, the number of contestants might drop off rather sharply – the game can’t appear too _obviously_ rigged.
The arena itself looks remarkably still intact, save for the obvious hole in the roof, and the plinths Solomon himself drew forth – even though this edition saw some of the strongest fighters in many a thousand Turns.
Does the demiurge order his same construction crews to dismantle it each time, purely to rebuild it 3 years later?
I am not sure about that. There have been a couple of mentions suggesting it’s been a while since Ki Rata has been seen used, and the contestants were obviously quite surprised by Salami Dave issuing a general challenge. I think the tournament strayed enough from the norm, that he considered that a firmer display of power was needed.
@3wylnct: It’s not really clear that it’s dismantled and completely rebuilt every three 1/2 years, it’s possible that it often gets partially destroyed (though the destruction outside of the fighting area itself has been rather minimal) and it gets restored.
@the reader without eyes: Yeah, Solomon probably hoped it would go like normal after he scrambled Gog Agogs fight rankings in the most randomized way he could think of. Then it went completely off the rails.
I’m certain theres a joke to be made somewhere about 82 white chains (seperate of course from White Chain) in this situation. Alas, I cannot think of it myself.
Foolish Last-of-Pen, Favored of the Impure Snow Wolf
I think the “joke” is that one of the most powerful beings in the universe, holder of the word Beast, can’t recognize that White Chain IS a cool heroine. Without question.
Aye. Twas a bit shockish for us tae see wen we got back. Oddments and baubles, these two. Differentlyish, us’s tries t’find an share drink wae ye after Dustyarse right walloped ole Spikeyarse, but cannae ae find ye!
And I witnessed the unforeseen;
Amidst the Shadowy Ruins of the Void, the infant God King reappeared, her Flame riding the lightning as she had done so once before. Understanding and Royalty were gracing her head. The Master Key of Kings shone bright in her brow, her atum crown even brighter. She had wanted so many things. Aspired to overcome so many trails and tribulations. But in that moment, all she truly wanted was to do right by her angelic teacher, whom she had sought and now found meditating in the place that was its home. And thus the Fledgling God King spoke: “It was you who named me Demiurge and challenged me. It is you who challenges another Demiurge still. Well, go forth and teach this Tyrant his lesson, as I had to learn mine. Go forth, not only clad in your newfound determination and power, but armored in those of mine as well. Go forth, White Chain Born In Emptiness Returns To Subdue Evil. Go forth as my Cherubim. Go forth, as my Angel Adversary.”
And I witnessed the impossible; and she was Glorious.
42 Fragments the Universe Beyond All Reintegration
That alt text sounds like a pretty good description of pretty much any countries Parliament/Congress/Duma/ chambers of legislature at times. Too bad Gog Agog didn’t take up politics rather than the entertainment industry.
Possibly the most overt 4th wall breakage alt text relating to politics that Abbadon has ever made. Though the insider trading thing in the Senate has been around a few months.
Who doesn’t love the Worms? For ages, nobody even considered mass public transport around here. And why would they? The fun is in the journey, and nothing says “journey” like a twenty-thumper ride to see your parents.
This den of correction has had its handſome inhabitants ſcatter once before by that girl and her crimſon war-imp. That ſcuffle was ſmothered near’ as ſoon as it roſe–ha, ha! Heir Apparent now knows better than to brew plots under the noſe of pitileſs Solomon.
A new day dawns. The night has seen carnage and despair. Uncounted are the lives cut short. Their ultimate unity only realized as their entrails mingle as one. Oh why must I war against itself so. Is Yisun so troubled, so conflicted. A hundred tragic endings for but a few stories of hope triumphant, wounds healed, and virtue honored. It hardly seems worth it. Yet I remain. Though the night fleeth and hideth her face in shame, I remain. Rest, dear night, where I cannot. My duty calls me to hope, to see if the light of day will reveal a better way.
Also, I thought night lasted only an hour (and once a year at that, some strange astrodynamics), or did it get retconned to have a normal night/day cycle? Just asking because ‘morning’ implies a night/day cycle and those on such a world wouldn’t have the same concept of ‘morning’ as one would in a more typical night/day cycle.
Just sort of nitpicking at terminology, though I guess a fair explaination would be that whatever word Gog Agog is using gets translated into its closest English equivalent.
42 Fragments the Universe Beyond All Reintegration
You misremember (unless Abaddon changed the text before I read it). *Twilight* lasts 1.000 hours on Rayuba, and *night* lasts 8.000 hours.
This scene is at the end of morning twilight, the last page was perhaps an half an hour into Rayuban night, and the arrest processing might have taken another half an hour. Allison, who desperately needs sleep, has been listening to 8 hours of carping from Cio, who doesn’t. That is cruel and unusual.
As it is written in spear law: “If you are trapped in a cell awaiting a judgement that will surely end in your swift execution, hire the best lawyer avaliable. If you cannot afford a lawyer, always remember that the average being has it’s kidneys behind an approximately less than an inch of skin and that the armour of a prison guard is made by the lowest bidder.”
It was very strange hearing Spinel (a la Steven Universe recently, and who I can’t help hear Gog-Agog sound like in my head) doing a Robin William’s “Good Morning Vietnam!” impersonation.
Oh.
Hmm…
Dire straits abounding, our most powerful folk bound and trussed?
Doth this preclude some righteous coup?
That mind is clouded, dwelling underneath violent meditations!
I choose to believe that, aside from one of the contestants wielding a Key of Kings, this is more-or-less how the tournament always goes.
I suspect the Emperor reduces fewer people to milkshakes all at once.
If you do it too often then people get bored and you have to up your game – and that probably means levelling the city itself.
Also, if milkshakes for everyone is the normal outcome, the number of contestants might drop off rather sharply – the game can’t appear too _obviously_ rigged.
A fascinating case study of one’s yard bringing the boys into milk shake.
Hrmm… Damn right…
Something that could be taught? For a charge, of course.
I imagine that in the normal course, only one kombatant ends up facing the Emperor himself.
The arena itself looks remarkably still intact, save for the obvious hole in the roof, and the plinths Solomon himself drew forth – even though this edition saw some of the strongest fighters in many a thousand Turns.
Does the demiurge order his same construction crews to dismantle it each time, purely to rebuild it 3 years later?
It’s like the Olympic village. Paying people to build a new arena is an economic subsidy.
Yon bars looks un bit corodesome fer newbuild.
I am not sure about that. There have been a couple of mentions suggesting it’s been a while since Ki Rata has been seen used, and the contestants were obviously quite surprised by Salami Dave issuing a general challenge. I think the tournament strayed enough from the norm, that he considered that a firmer display of power was needed.
@3wylnct: It’s not really clear that it’s dismantled and completely rebuilt every three 1/2 years, it’s possible that it often gets partially destroyed (though the destruction outside of the fighting area itself has been rather minimal) and it gets restored.
@the reader without eyes: Yeah, Solomon probably hoped it would go like normal after he scrambled Gog Agogs fight rankings in the most randomized way he could think of. Then it went completely off the rails.
“Should have taken the money Toombs.” Is what comes to mind with the human flavored milk shakes.
A milkshake is a good and righteous thing to be
The milkshake disagrees.
Which milkſhake doſt thou ſpeak of? The dairy confection poſseſses not any wit or will to ſpeak of, to ſay little of its ability to diſagree.
Once they are ready for me to drink them, nobody gets to complain.
You gotta do that in advance, not that it will change anything.
Milkshakes are indeed good. My ice is perfect for making and storing them!
I shudder to think what price may be asked for milkshake made from a throne.
Then again, it can not be more exorbitant than milkshake handcrafted by Solomon himself.
He’ll make you a milkshake if you ask.
O Lord, bless this Thy milkshake, that with it, Thou mayest bring all the boys to Thine yard. In Thy mercy.
Hrmm… Damn right…
Uuuummmmm, iiiiiiit’s going to beeee… Blooood flavour pleease.
Did you guess correctly?
May all your strawberries and cream come true.
Do do do doop de doop de doop doodleeoop, de do do doop de doop de doop.
Legend says that they do bring all the males of recognised youth to the adjacencies.
a moment of respite
Fairsome puggled thum twae lookin.
I’m certain theres a joke to be made somewhere about 82 white chains (seperate of course from White Chain) in this situation. Alas, I cannot think of it myself.
Eighty to White Chains? Eighty of what to White Chains?
Nah, you heard it wrong. Its “Eight tea to White Chains”
Right on it. One shall help our sister in any way one’s able.
82 chains (slightly over one statute mile) is the distance over which her remains will be spread unless somebody finds some reserves of awesome.
She’s gotta get that spare Thorn armor from Metatron.
She got some perch leftovers. Mebbe Salami D likes fish.
I think the “joke” is that one of the most powerful beings in the universe, holder of the word Beast, can’t recognize that White Chain IS a cool heroine. Without question.
A transition like this really sets that feelin’ of dread in me chest. A new day’s come, and an aeon’s gonna die.
Aye. Twas a bit shockish for us tae see wen we got back. Oddments and baubles, these two. Differentlyish, us’s tries t’find an share drink wae ye after Dustyarse right walloped ole Spikeyarse, but cannae ae find ye!
Princess Mamoru Moonshine Jagermeister voice from the next cell: “Hey Peebrain, you teleport?”
And I witnessed the unforeseen;
Amidst the Shadowy Ruins of the Void, the infant God King reappeared, her Flame riding the lightning as she had done so once before. Understanding and Royalty were gracing her head. The Master Key of Kings shone bright in her brow, her atum crown even brighter. She had wanted so many things. Aspired to overcome so many trails and tribulations. But in that moment, all she truly wanted was to do right by her angelic teacher, whom she had sought and now found meditating in the place that was its home. And thus the Fledgling God King spoke: “It was you who named me Demiurge and challenged me. It is you who challenges another Demiurge still. Well, go forth and teach this Tyrant his lesson, as I had to learn mine. Go forth, not only clad in your newfound determination and power, but armored in those of mine as well. Go forth, White Chain Born In Emptiness Returns To Subdue Evil. Go forth as my Cherubim. Go forth, as my Angel Adversary.”
And I witnessed the impossible; and she was Glorious.
An excellent thought, gloriously rendered. May YISUN make it so.
Still waiting for the other clown shoe to drop tbh
Ne’er was there a more dreaded HONK unheard!
Hmm, so Solomon truly is White Chain’s obstacle to overcome, not Alison’s? (much like the last arc was kinda Cio’s?)
Methinks, dear gog, you have missed a cool heroine, and one who actually *is* about to fight the emperor- how unlike you!
Love how Gog as narrator and audience, always seems to enthusiastically stroke the Fourth Wall.
I wondered what that strange sensation was!
Right shiversome it was.
observe the royal markets: a perpetual leveraged shorting
That alt text sounds like a pretty good description of pretty much any countries Parliament/Congress/Duma/ chambers of legislature at times. Too bad Gog Agog didn’t take up politics rather than the entertainment industry.
Possibly the most overt 4th wall breakage alt text relating to politics that Abbadon has ever made. Though the insider trading thing in the Senate has been around a few months.
Gog Agog may not have, but Gog Agog did.
Heh, how’s tha tell th’ diffrence?
Ah… that cell seems an ill omen.
Gog Agog or: How I learned to stop worrying and love the Worm.
Never doubt the Worm
Who doesn’t love the Worms? For ages, nobody even considered mass public transport around here. And why would they? The fun is in the journey, and nothing says “journey” like a twenty-thumper ride to see your parents.
Bound and trapped while a dear friend goes to her doom. This should prove interesting.
Also… prison break arc? Prison break arc.
This den of correction has had its handſome inhabitants ſcatter once before by that girl and her crimſon war-imp. That ſcuffle was ſmothered near’ as ſoon as it roſe–ha, ha! Heir Apparent now knows better than to brew plots under the noſe of pitileſs Solomon.
A new day dawns. The night has seen carnage and despair. Uncounted are the lives cut short. Their ultimate unity only realized as their entrails mingle as one. Oh why must I war against itself so. Is Yisun so troubled, so conflicted. A hundred tragic endings for but a few stories of hope triumphant, wounds healed, and virtue honored. It hardly seems worth it. Yet I remain. Though the night fleeth and hideth her face in shame, I remain. Rest, dear night, where I cannot. My duty calls me to hope, to see if the light of day will reveal a better way.
Better call Mugsy to bust’em out.
Also, I thought night lasted only an hour (and once a year at that, some strange astrodynamics), or did it get retconned to have a normal night/day cycle? Just asking because ‘morning’ implies a night/day cycle and those on such a world wouldn’t have the same concept of ‘morning’ as one would in a more typical night/day cycle.
Just sort of nitpicking at terminology, though I guess a fair explaination would be that whatever word Gog Agog is using gets translated into its closest English equivalent.
You misremember (unless Abaddon changed the text before I read it). *Twilight* lasts 1.000 hours on Rayuba, and *night* lasts 8.000 hours.
This scene is at the end of morning twilight, the last page was perhaps an half an hour into Rayuban night, and the arrest processing might have taken another half an hour. Allison, who desperately needs sleep, has been listening to 8 hours of carping from Cio, who doesn’t. That is cruel and unusual.
As it is written in spear law: “If you are trapped in a cell awaiting a judgement that will surely end in your swift execution, hire the best lawyer avaliable. If you cannot afford a lawyer, always remember that the average being has it’s kidneys behind an approximately less than an inch of skin and that the armour of a prison guard is made by the lowest bidder.”
Royalty is a continuous shivving motion.
This got a hearty chuckle from me.
That was a refreshing sleep. Alas, I’m going to have to stay here another day–after all, I can’t simply *not* watch what is to come!
It was very strange hearing Spinel (a la Steven Universe recently, and who I can’t help hear Gog-Agog sound like in my head) doing a Robin William’s “Good Morning Vietnam!” impersonation.
Hehe, yes!, your new best friend Gog Agog.
It’s O600. What’s the O stand for? Ohh my Yisun, White Shackle’s gonna die!
The calm does not come before the storm. The calm is but one facet of the storm itself, the drunken master’s stagger that has you let down your guard.
Do not be fooled by a serene moment. Peace is disaster’s favorite pseudonym.
Something tells me Gog-Agog’s plan isn’t working out the way they were wanting it to.
Negogtiations have failed.