With this much chick love going on, it is with a depressingly weary sigh that I confidently predict her boyfriend will be made out to be some kind of villain by the end of things. Because men are always bad and keep strong, independent women down.
I think it’s already been established that Zaid was a bit of a jerk and Allison was only dating him because she (not being remotely strong and independent) was trying to use him to prop up her self-esteem. I also get the impression she hasn’t been thinking she wants to be with him since she grew her first vertebra early on, let alone a whole backbone later.
None of that makes him a villain, but it does make it sound a bit redundant to say he would be made into a bad guy. He’s already not very good.
He was the sort of jerk that is totally irrelivent at this point. So much has happened to both of them that it would be foolish to believe Zaid is the same person he was that night.
Taking him the villain rout would be trite in my opinion. And I trust Abdon enough not to go for the easiest options.
“Zaid is kind of a creep, but he doesn’t deserve this.”
As much of a twist as it would be to have her primary motivation for the past year turned on it’s head, by Zaid being totally deserving of everything that has happened to him, I think Abadon has a specific vision of who Zaid is, and some more complex plan for what he’s going to do with him.
I would be disappointed to see him wasted on such a twist, but I don’t expect that.
I wouldn’t be surprised if Alison does come to wish, at least occasionally, that she had just left him there, though.
We know that Zaid was clumsy when making love to Allison, and that her friend called him a creep when she *thought* that Allison was upset because Zaid had hurt her. Evidence for jerkhood is not strong. My guess: he was (is?) a virgin too; clumsy because inexperience and considered creepy because he lacks confidence.
Zaid and Allison never did it, they were just getting started – they both still had their clothes on and Allison was obsessing over her hair as I recall. Pretty funny in hindsight.
Allison scheduled losing her virginity, and she couldn’t have looked less interested when Zaid was putting the moves on her. I think Allison had something to prove to herself, and Zaid was just convenient.
That doesn’t make him bad, but I don’t think she loves him, and yeah as the other perspective heir to Zoss’ power it does make sense that some of the seven will champion him the way Incubus is championing Allison. They could easily wind up on opposite sides vis a via politics for that reason.
Yeah, I’d honestly much prefer him to just be the other male stereotype (when juxtaposed with the ‘powerful woman/ women’ character type, the ‘ineffectual, whiny, doesn’t-understand-anything-that’s-happening-around-him-ever moron’. Even ‘aw, men are such useless little idiots, aren’t they?’ is marginally better than ‘men are all bastards’ I’d like to think this artist/ writer has something more interesting in mind on past form, but you’re right, it’s depressingly commonly encountered by virtue of this kind of negative characterisation being relentlessly shoved into people’s eyes and earholes at every opportunity…
My preferable variant would be this: during his imprisonment by Solomon, he was taught the comprehensive principia of government by his jailer – either of Solomon’s boredom, or sense of proper; and now, Zaid is far, far more suitable for being the ruler than Allison or any of her posse is. The new governing structure, thus, would not even rely on transfer of the Key, with Zaid managing administrative and lawmaking side, and Allison&Co serving as the circle of advisers and semi-autonomous order enforcement agency.
But eh, ultimately I’ll accept almost any outcome, so far KSBD was quite good in the storytelling department, imho…
I like your idea, except for the “cooperation” part. I feel Zaid could have become a proto philosopher king (sort of), a cold (yet good) and stoic young man raised to be a ruler, but there is something in the politics behind his raising or his ruling which makes Allison not want to renounce her key, and maybe ultimately it’s about Zaid’s “divine right” vs Allison’s “humanity” or something of the like.
you know solomon is a bad guy right? it would be weird if zaid established a similar realm, kinda contradicts the narrative of the long traumatic history this story-universe has with domineering monarchs
“There’s not-heterosexual women going on, and men aren’t involved, so that must mean the author hates men and is going to villainize them! I am upset when we are not talking about me!?!?”
I was thinking a few weeks back… this is the only webcomic I know where the five members of the hero… well, the PROTAGONIST’S gang are non-hypersexualized females with real personalities. Nyave is amazing, Cio is fun, Princess is TOP, White Chain is delightfully conflicted and so is Allie.
Sadly not many and NOTHING out of either Hollywood or the Recording industry.
The RIAA and MPAA can all drown in a stadium septic tank after a rugby match.
Sex is natural and can be a part of character development in any mature entertainment. I would not say, however, that these characters are here to sate the sex drive of us, readers. They are relatable, and not excuses for erotic scenes. Therefore, not HYPER sexualized, merely sexually active.
And yes, intelligent women with personality are sexy. As is intelligent people with personality.
Pretty much all of the major characters are awful bastards with the exception of Nyave. Even Allison is a a sentient trashpile with chronic moron syndrome. So I’m not really sure what your worry is regarding Zaid; we have no reason to think he’s a bad guy and it’s not as though the ladies are coming out of it any better.
Hmmm…you know, if memory serves, I think every single lady of the team has attempted to imprison and/or murder at least one other lady of the team at least once (except for Nyave).
In the same vein as Addlepate the Daring’s concerns, I could easily argue that KBSD is actually perpetuating the stereotype of women as high-strung she-devils who are constantly cat-fighting with each other, because of course the only thing they can actually bond over is a man. Look at this mission, all centered around Allison getting her man back! Look at the last chapter, a heist mission where the majority of the party was male! Evidence abounds, if only you know what to look for! I’ll bet that after they rescue Zaid, he’ll just become the main character of the whole comic, and assemble a team of daring men to keep all these “incompetent” ladies in line! PROVE ME WRONG, STRIP!
(but seriously, I don’t think the strip is trying to send a message that all men are one thing or all women are one thing. It is focusing a lot on an all-female perspective, though, so I guess I can understand your confusion, Addlepate.)
I mean, from the very beginning, like *literally* page 1 of chapter 1, Zaid was pressuring his girlfriend to have sex while she clearly wasn’t comfortable. She was consenting, verbally saying yes, but to quote Judith Lewis Herman (one of the big trauma research experts):
“… in practice the standard for what constitutes rape is set not at the level of women’s experience of violation but just above the level of coercion acceptable to men.”
Zaid has *always* been the kind of guy who was okay with pressuring and coercing his girlfriend into sex without concern for whether or not the experience might be violating for her. He (probably, maybe) wasn’t the kind of guy to violently rape someone … but with men like him that’s typically because that’s harder to justify to oneself and feel okay with. But even the *slightest* attentiveness to Allison’s comfort should have been bringing him to a screeching halt and yet he didn’t, in fact he reacted by pressuring her to stop expressing those signs of discomfort. We’re given every reason to believe Zaid can and does trample over sexual boundaries in violating ways from *literally* page 1. Zaid is, if not a rapist, at least rapist-*adjacent*. He is not a good person.
Now could this experience have made him more cognizant of his own mortality and fragility in a way that’ll lead to him doing some serious self-reflection? Sure. Maybe he’ll have changed. And maybe not. Maybe, given access to power, that propensity to casually disregard the comfort and happiness of another person will lead to even worse actions from him.
The point is that such a narrative “twist” would not be very twisty, and in fact be the very inciting premise of the story.
But the *real* point here is … how the heck did you miss this? I mean, “villain by the end of things”? How did you see the first few pages and not go, from the very beginning, “oh, this is not a good person”? When did he become a decent person in your mind?
Or did that first scene just register as a comfortable level of coercion?
I’d just like to put in that I was one of the readers who instantly disliked Zaid for that exact reason. Him complaining about her discomfort and anxiety and yet still going screams “assault” in my book. Doesn’t matter if she verbally said yes; her reactions were clearing saying “no.”
You know you are maybe revealing a great big spoiler there if you think about it. I never liked Zaid either, but to me it wasn’t so much sexual as general bullying. However I think he may have evolved a lot – and if he hasn’t he is in for a universe shaking pummeling..
Previously there was some discussion over the nature of Alison’s flames and rainbow symbology in general. I believe this time there should be no disagreement: That fire is gay as fuck.
“And lo, upon seeing her demon wifu, the Rising King’s Crown arose in eldritch fire upon their brow and through the air around them, harshly illuminating the entire arena, and all who beheld it did shield their eyes in pain and cry:
“THAT SHIT IS GAY AS FUCK!”
-from the Book of the Rising King
More in-universe though, I wonder if the rainbow ring is a key attribute of the master key, like how the other demiurges have their own color keys, mix them all together and what do you get? A rainbow.
I also wonder that. Interestingly though, Allison’s own flame is a light blue. Do the other demiurges have their own flame colors, separate to the keys, or do the keys attune themselves to the flame of the wielder?
I believe that one was explained? It is the user’s atum and you can manifest that fire without a key, it’s just incredibly difficult and requires generations of training.
Al-Yisun bears the greatest key, from which all other keys descend. The star on her brow is pure light, uncolored. As a prism splits light to reveal all the colors it encompasses, so the act of division reveals the component parts hidden within the whole.
Even the keys borne by the mighty demiurges are but limited divisions of the power of the true key. They each bear one divine Word, their stars burn with but one color.
No but what I want to know is whether or not the demiurge’s atums are the same color as their keys (and if so, why?) or if they just don’t ever show them.
Sort of?
In 2-30, Yisun’s multitude of selves are splayed out around and behind itself in a rainbow pattern that closely resembles Allison’s ring. And the pose was certainly the basis for her pose when Allison called out ol’ Salami.
The halo itself only showed red-orange-yellow-green-white, though. There may have been blue and violet hidden behind their divine noggin, admittedly.
Felix the Unburnt, Sword of the Song What Sings Itself
Cease such talk for your own sake! Weaponized Love-Magic is an ancient and storied art, but those practices are forbidden and locked away in many a temple vault. We once explored an entire planet which had been reduced to rubble by the emanations of two demigods’ lovemaking. May the 7 never learn these secrets (though perhaps, having hearts corroded by time, they would be incapable of using it?)
The rules have been discarded and replaced by Solomon’s declaration of “battle royale”. It would not be against the rules for you to join, Draco, though I predict that you will not, being a cowardly capitalist.
Eh, we should have tried our luck with some consistent tourney – the Demiurges are fickle and act without law. We lost a pretty coin and purse on this event (each 7 of us had wagered on a different champion) and within 3 minutes of the Battle Royal’s start all our choices were slain. Such as it is, we do enjoy the spectacle! The food stalls in town aren’t bad either!
All non-combanants were removed before the rule change, and I doubt Splomon wants random people from the crowd jumping in.
Given that, it would make sense that Alison should be disqualified, but if that were to happen the expected course of action would be to send her to the same high security cells Zaid has just been sent to, and Solomon likely doesn’t want that.
I guess he could recsend the order to put Zaid in to imprison Alison and Cio instead?
I love this page. 😀
This page is love.
Halo of Gay Rights
Six Billion Demons said “Gay Rights”.
It said Gay Rights a long time ago, this is just a friendly reminder ^^
Somewhere over the rainbow blue girls fly…
Might makes right.
Gay was never as mighty.
With this much chick love going on, it is with a depressingly weary sigh that I confidently predict her boyfriend will be made out to be some kind of villain by the end of things. Because men are always bad and keep strong, independent women down.
Prove me wrong, strip.
I think it’s already been established that Zaid was a bit of a jerk and Allison was only dating him because she (not being remotely strong and independent) was trying to use him to prop up her self-esteem. I also get the impression she hasn’t been thinking she wants to be with him since she grew her first vertebra early on, let alone a whole backbone later.
None of that makes him a villain, but it does make it sound a bit redundant to say he would be made into a bad guy. He’s already not very good.
Well both of Cio’s exs are kinda villans…
Also devils. They’re expected to be villainous. Cio herself is exceptional in actually having some morals.
He was the sort of jerk that is totally irrelivent at this point. So much has happened to both of them that it would be foolish to believe Zaid is the same person he was that night.
Taking him the villain rout would be trite in my opinion. And I trust Abdon enough not to go for the easiest options.
“Zaid is kind of a creep, but he doesn’t deserve this.”
As much of a twist as it would be to have her primary motivation for the past year turned on it’s head, by Zaid being totally deserving of everything that has happened to him, I think Abadon has a specific vision of who Zaid is, and some more complex plan for what he’s going to do with him.
I would be disappointed to see him wasted on such a twist, but I don’t expect that.
I wouldn’t be surprised if Alison does come to wish, at least occasionally, that she had just left him there, though.
It was already established that Zaid, while maybe a jerk, is hoping that Alison can/will rescue him. I don’t think he’s in the Solomon camp.
We know that Zaid was clumsy when making love to Allison, and that her friend called him a creep when she *thought* that Allison was upset because Zaid had hurt her. Evidence for jerkhood is not strong. My guess: he was (is?) a virgin too; clumsy because inexperience and considered creepy because he lacks confidence.
Zaid and Allison never did it, they were just getting started – they both still had their clothes on and Allison was obsessing over her hair as I recall. Pretty funny in hindsight.
How is he a jerk? I mean when they are about to have sex he doesn’t try to pressure her and made it very clear that if she said stop he would stop.
Allison scheduled losing her virginity, and she couldn’t have looked less interested when Zaid was putting the moves on her. I think Allison had something to prove to herself, and Zaid was just convenient.
That doesn’t make him bad, but I don’t think she loves him, and yeah as the other perspective heir to Zoss’ power it does make sense that some of the seven will champion him the way Incubus is championing Allison. They could easily wind up on opposite sides vis a via politics for that reason.
It just turns out that by the time Alison got here, Zaid also found out he was gay and started dating one of Solomon’s sons.
>and started dating Solomon
FIFY
They are both kinda creeps.
Fifty Shades of Purple.
That all sounds grape to me.
Wait!
How does one hear a colour?
You know what?
Let us not answer that question.
why not it even has a name it is synesthesia i mean the name s right there and
@Prost-Phet: NICCCEEE 😀
Yeah, I’d honestly much prefer him to just be the other male stereotype (when juxtaposed with the ‘powerful woman/ women’ character type, the ‘ineffectual, whiny, doesn’t-understand-anything-that’s-happening-around-him-ever moron’. Even ‘aw, men are such useless little idiots, aren’t they?’ is marginally better than ‘men are all bastards’ I’d like to think this artist/ writer has something more interesting in mind on past form, but you’re right, it’s depressingly commonly encountered by virtue of this kind of negative characterisation being relentlessly shoved into people’s eyes and earholes at every opportunity…
My preferable variant would be this: during his imprisonment by Solomon, he was taught the comprehensive principia of government by his jailer – either of Solomon’s boredom, or sense of proper; and now, Zaid is far, far more suitable for being the ruler than Allison or any of her posse is. The new governing structure, thus, would not even rely on transfer of the Key, with Zaid managing administrative and lawmaking side, and Allison&Co serving as the circle of advisers and semi-autonomous order enforcement agency.
But eh, ultimately I’ll accept almost any outcome, so far KSBD was quite good in the storytelling department, imho…
I like your idea, except for the “cooperation” part. I feel Zaid could have become a proto philosopher king (sort of), a cold (yet good) and stoic young man raised to be a ruler, but there is something in the politics behind his raising or his ruling which makes Allison not want to renounce her key, and maybe ultimately it’s about Zaid’s “divine right” vs Allison’s “humanity” or something of the like.
you know solomon is a bad guy right? it would be weird if zaid established a similar realm, kinda contradicts the narrative of the long traumatic history this story-universe has with domineering monarchs
I love how the notallmen brigade are so sensitive that they assume the brittle martyr position 400 pages in advance.
It takes real dedication to give so much headspace to imaginary persecution.
“There’s not-heterosexual women going on, and men aren’t involved, so that must mean the author hates men and is going to villainize them! I am upset when we are not talking about me!?!?”
*sigh* and this string is soooo much better.
Buncha immature idjets all o’ ya sexually orientated peeps
Asexual supremacy?
I’d call that a new one, but prokaryotes already been there, done that.
Bigotry knows no sexual orientation.
Egro, bigotry itself is asexual.
I was thinking a few weeks back… this is the only webcomic I know where the five members of the hero… well, the PROTAGONIST’S gang are non-hypersexualized females with real personalities. Nyave is amazing, Cio is fun, Princess is TOP, White Chain is delightfully conflicted and so is Allie.
How many samples of fiction in media have this?
Sadly not many and NOTHING out of either Hollywood or the Recording industry.
The RIAA and MPAA can all drown in a stadium septic tank after a rugby match.
Our Five Woman band isn’t hyper-sexualized?
I must be reading a different comic, then.
The blood god is Pleased.
Then again, I think intelligent women with personalities are dead sexy, so…
Sex is natural and can be a part of character development in any mature entertainment. I would not say, however, that these characters are here to sate the sex drive of us, readers. They are relatable, and not excuses for erotic scenes. Therefore, not HYPER sexualized, merely sexually active.
And yes, intelligent women with personality are sexy. As is intelligent people with personality.
Pretty much all of the major characters are awful bastards with the exception of Nyave. Even Allison is a a sentient trashpile with chronic moron syndrome. So I’m not really sure what your worry is regarding Zaid; we have no reason to think he’s a bad guy and it’s not as though the ladies are coming out of it any better.
Hmmm…you know, if memory serves, I think every single lady of the team has attempted to imprison and/or murder at least one other lady of the team at least once (except for Nyave).
In the same vein as Addlepate the Daring’s concerns, I could easily argue that KBSD is actually perpetuating the stereotype of women as high-strung she-devils who are constantly cat-fighting with each other, because of course the only thing they can actually bond over is a man. Look at this mission, all centered around Allison getting her man back! Look at the last chapter, a heist mission where the majority of the party was male! Evidence abounds, if only you know what to look for! I’ll bet that after they rescue Zaid, he’ll just become the main character of the whole comic, and assemble a team of daring men to keep all these “incompetent” ladies in line! PROVE ME WRONG, STRIP!
(but seriously, I don’t think the strip is trying to send a message that all men are one thing or all women are one thing. It is focusing a lot on an all-female perspective, though, so I guess I can understand your confusion, Addlepate.)
> I’ll bet that after they rescue Zaid, he’ll just
> become the main character of the whole comic
I’ll take that bet.
> I guess I can understand your confusion, Addlepate.
I’m not “confused”; I’m concerned.
There are none who think you can tell the two apart.
Such is your condition, O Clutcher of Male Pearls.
waaaaah
oh god oh nooo
lesbianism and a male villain aaaaaah
oh christ. oh no.
I mean, from the very beginning, like *literally* page 1 of chapter 1, Zaid was pressuring his girlfriend to have sex while she clearly wasn’t comfortable. She was consenting, verbally saying yes, but to quote Judith Lewis Herman (one of the big trauma research experts):
“… in practice the standard for what constitutes rape is set not at the level of women’s experience of violation but just above the level of coercion acceptable to men.”
Zaid has *always* been the kind of guy who was okay with pressuring and coercing his girlfriend into sex without concern for whether or not the experience might be violating for her. He (probably, maybe) wasn’t the kind of guy to violently rape someone … but with men like him that’s typically because that’s harder to justify to oneself and feel okay with. But even the *slightest* attentiveness to Allison’s comfort should have been bringing him to a screeching halt and yet he didn’t, in fact he reacted by pressuring her to stop expressing those signs of discomfort. We’re given every reason to believe Zaid can and does trample over sexual boundaries in violating ways from *literally* page 1. Zaid is, if not a rapist, at least rapist-*adjacent*. He is not a good person.
Now could this experience have made him more cognizant of his own mortality and fragility in a way that’ll lead to him doing some serious self-reflection? Sure. Maybe he’ll have changed. And maybe not. Maybe, given access to power, that propensity to casually disregard the comfort and happiness of another person will lead to even worse actions from him.
The point is that such a narrative “twist” would not be very twisty, and in fact be the very inciting premise of the story.
But the *real* point here is … how the heck did you miss this? I mean, “villain by the end of things”? How did you see the first few pages and not go, from the very beginning, “oh, this is not a good person”? When did he become a decent person in your mind?
Or did that first scene just register as a comfortable level of coercion?
I’d just like to put in that I was one of the readers who instantly disliked Zaid for that exact reason. Him complaining about her discomfort and anxiety and yet still going screams “assault” in my book. Doesn’t matter if she verbally said yes; her reactions were clearing saying “no.”
You know you are maybe revealing a great big spoiler there if you think about it. I never liked Zaid either, but to me it wasn’t so much sexual as general bullying. However I think he may have evolved a lot – and if he hasn’t he is in for a universe shaking pummeling..
god damn you tore that fool apart
What?
I just love Allison’s expression. Find someone who looks at you the way she looks at Cio
They already have rights :l
YEAH
THE BITCH IS BACK
Stone cold sober, as a matter of fact.
ooh, nice one.
PREPARE FOR CIO FALL, BEST GIRL DROPPED.
Rubbery ducky, you’re the one!
You think I’ve been seeing all this action from the sidelines? Ha! I’ve been here since the Rising King first walked the void!
Oh my god the way her crown flares up when she catches Cio. Adorable.
I was noticing that, too! It’s very cute.
“Are you attaining Royalty, or are you just happy to see me?”
It’s the banana in her pocket.
Banana nothing, that’s a scepter– Nay!
A Rod of Lordly Might!
A Wizards Staff has a Nob on the end
The Hedgehog Cannot Be Buggered At All
also her heart starts glowing like the mf grinch
rainbow fire and all
shits gay
I feel like there’s some subtext here… Something about that fire…
Personally I’m wondering about the rubber duck. That one has me stumped.
A certain kind of ladies toy frequently uses a rubber duck as a disguise…
What exactly is the function of a rubber duck…?
Well, it floats in the bath.
And if you explain things to it, you can gain insight into those things.
And if it’s the kind of rubber duck I mentioned, and you have compatible erogenous bits, you can masturbate with it.
Excellent callback to Chapter 4 Page 60. I approve!
Excuse me, I’m screaming.
That sound? That is me squealing like a little girl. And proud of it.
MAGNIFICENT
Y’ALL,,,
Previously there was some discussion over the nature of Alison’s flames and rainbow symbology in general. I believe this time there should be no disagreement: That fire is gay as fuck.
Surely you meant “gay as DUCK”
“And lo, upon seeing her demon wifu, the Rising King’s Crown arose in eldritch fire upon their brow and through the air around them, harshly illuminating the entire arena, and all who beheld it did shield their eyes in pain and cry:
“THAT SHIT IS GAY AS FUCK!”
-from the Book of the Rising King
Allison’s power recharged through GAY
Lords Above & Below, that’s cute!
It’s mystically adorable!
Isn’t it just?
It’s ^^
Cio: I’m only here to help you recharge *kisses Alison, then swings around to hang off her like a backpack* now go kick some butt.
Turns out Allison was a Star Sapphire all along.
You have acquired ‘Tiny little font of gay energy.’
You feel refreshed!
I am filled with joy. <3
More in-universe though, I wonder if the rainbow ring is a key attribute of the master key, like how the other demiurges have their own color keys, mix them all together and what do you get? A rainbow.
I also wonder that. Interestingly though, Allison’s own flame is a light blue. Do the other demiurges have their own flame colors, separate to the keys, or do the keys attune themselves to the flame of the wielder?
I believe that one was explained? It is the user’s atum and you can manifest that fire without a key, it’s just incredibly difficult and requires generations of training.
Al-Yisun bears the greatest key, from which all other keys descend. The star on her brow is pure light, uncolored. As a prism splits light to reveal all the colors it encompasses, so the act of division reveals the component parts hidden within the whole.
Even the keys borne by the mighty demiurges are but limited divisions of the power of the true key. They each bear one divine Word, their stars burn with but one color.
No but what I want to know is whether or not the demiurge’s atums are the same color as their keys (and if so, why?) or if they just don’t ever show them.
Didn’t the original panel of YIS-UN prior to their holy suicide show them with a halo of rainbow flame?
Sort of?
In 2-30, Yisun’s multitude of selves are splayed out around and behind itself in a rainbow pattern that closely resembles Allison’s ring. And the pose was certainly the basis for her pose when Allison called out ol’ Salami.
The halo itself only showed red-orange-yellow-green-white, though. There may have been blue and violet hidden behind their divine noggin, admittedly.
yaaaaaaaaaay cio is back!
Anyone else notice that the only thing limiting Allison’s power was her own emotions?
Many dudes will now be exploded.
She believed she was limited and lo it was as she thought.
Unfortunately, the most common use of The Art.
The multiverse runs on the Discworld model of reality, then?
In The Disc, and in Derry, Maine, Magic and the gods are shaped to our expectations.
On The Wheel, the Universe is the fiction that bends to the self-delusion of God.
“We are all just parts of Yisun, deceiving our-self into seeing Divisions where none is truly possible.”
Divison is merely a subschool of the Red Art of Lying.
My god, this is cute.
Makes you wonder, if seeing Cio against makes Allison’s powers reignite, could there be a way to weaponize that sort of effect?
Though I gotta wonder what Cio’s escape plan is, given she’s surrounded by the strongest Fortnite players in the multiverse…
Cease such talk for your own sake! Weaponized Love-Magic is an ancient and storied art, but those practices are forbidden and locked away in many a temple vault. We once explored an entire planet which had been reduced to rubble by the emanations of two demigods’ lovemaking. May the 7 never learn these secrets (though perhaps, having hearts corroded by time, they would be incapable of using it?)
“COMPLETE WORLD TERROR”
Going that route is how you get giant robots surfing on rainbow dreams to fight for freedom while dodging lasers.
I understood that reference.
Booo! Boooooo! Get thee gone, Yabalchoath! This is against the rules! I can only win my prize money if 82 White Chain wins fair and square!
If the rules did not prevent it, I would come down there myself and release a jet of molten gold blood to assert dominance.
The rules have been discarded and replaced by Solomon’s declaration of “battle royale”. It would not be against the rules for you to join, Draco, though I predict that you will not, being a cowardly capitalist.
Eh, we should have tried our luck with some consistent tourney – the Demiurges are fickle and act without law. We lost a pretty coin and purse on this event (each 7 of us had wagered on a different champion) and within 3 minutes of the Battle Royal’s start all our choices were slain. Such as it is, we do enjoy the spectacle! The food stalls in town aren’t bad either!
The spectating’s better when you don’t have anything on the line, anyway.
No matter who loses, I always win, but I still love a bit of wagering.
One grows tired of betting only on sure things.
If one wishes to win a fair fight, cheat.
Im fairly sure this is highly illegal when regarding the tournament rules
Solomon basically threw out the old rulebook when he changed it to Battle Royale.
I’m fairly sure that doesn’t even matter at this point. Especially if they win.
All non-combanants were removed before the rule change, and I doubt Splomon wants random people from the crowd jumping in.
Given that, it would make sense that Alison should be disqualified, but if that were to happen the expected course of action would be to send her to the same high security cells Zaid has just been sent to, and Solomon likely doesn’t want that.
I guess he could recsend the order to put Zaid in to imprison Alison and Cio instead?
See? Someone else gets it. One hundred thousand Draco Nickels have been added to your bank account.
Oh hey look, 20 bucks, thanks man.