Seeker of Thrones 4-28 (King of the Pit)
‘The plain man dressed only in coarse cloth, and his feet were bare, but this was simply a clever disguise, for his unassuming exterior, and even his very flesh, were mere wrappings for the awful and terrible flame inside of him. Enyis could see it poking through his eyes and mouth.
“Enyis,” said the King of the Pit, “Take this flame and with it you will ascend to the surface world once more. Love and light will be yours once again, and you will know the embrace of your family.”
Enyis almost accepted, but as the king held the flame in outstretched hand, Enyis felt its sickening heat, and knew instantaneously that if he took that flame, it would become him. It would never stop burning him until all that was left would be a hunger for more fuel. And he knew it was a clever trick by the King, who could never truly leave the pit, to get him to take that flame to the surface world, where it would burn forever.
It is said Enyis never saw the sun again, and wandered the deep for the rest of his life. But for the alternative, it was a far better fate.”
-Enyis and the Boar King
“Failures, drunks, and weaklings!”
And they, who have eschewed the virtue of righteous toil, now live in a pit of blood and filth. They have become clockwork oranges, wound up by a god, and set loose to fulfill a sordid purpose. Now they are wound down, miserable in their purposeless existence.
It is known that Incubus really likes cups.
FLAMES FOR THE FLAME GOD!!! CUPS FOR THE CUP THRONE!!!
HOLY CRAP!
By the great black goddesses @#$#! I haven’t seen drug withdrawal since that incident with exploding god spine three centuries ago.
Yeah, Black Glass futures are still up.
“Look into those flames, supplicant! Raise your head, look! Is that what you wish to hold, supplicant? Is the shaping of flames what stirs your heart? Know that flames can burn, and if you would learn their power, you must suffer their touch.”
-Mad rantings of a crazed but wise hermit
All of the wisest hermits are also crazed.
The Guild has few rules, but that one we enforce quite strictly.
THE SAINTLY IDOL OF DECADENCE AND ADDICTION! AN ENDLESS NUMBER BODIES SATE HIS COURT! AND STILL THEY HUNGER FOR MORE! MORE! MORE! MORE!!! ALL HAIL THE LORDS OF THE PIT AND THEIR HOLY SWORD KING!!!! MADNESS! MADNESS IS THEIR SALVATION!! FOREVER THEY WANDER, BLOATED AND STARVING, THROUGH THE ROTTEN BLOOD OF DEAD AGES!
What do you think it is that drives people to want far more than they could ever use or need? I frankly think it’s insecurity. How do we let the world know that the trappings of this life are not the things that are ultimately important for being accepted?
Accepted by whom?
Holy crap! Its Pankrator f*king Jagganoth! Sh*t just got real!
Those poor deluded souls. They can’t see their own suffering in this fetid waste pit. Their minds twisted to believe that they have found the greatest, most important thing in the world, something that only the Dealer of Dreams can provide. After all, what wouldn’t one give up to have the greatest thing in the multiverse. Family, friends, self respect, dignity, basic sanitation, they are all expendable in the service of the twisted shrunken reward center of what is left of their mind. Healing from this point is difficult and costly.
Just Say No! and walk away.
Well, looks like his previous emissaries (http://i.imgur.com/T8RfW3q.png) aren’t doing as well from the left side of the 2nd and 3rd panels.
Wonder if Jagganoth is just stopping by for a social visit and a bit of gossip, or something shady?
How many of these are people we know? We see those three from Allison’s dream in the second panel. Am I forgetting that we’ve seen some other folk before?
And here, my lovelies, behold the final trap on the path to Royalty. One who evades the snares of pride and humility, of fear and of wrath. One who has glimpsed Royalty, and the continuous cutting motion it represents.
One who has cut the flesh of God, and found the taste more pleasing than the cutting.
Beautiful is the flame.
But ever must it be fed.
Also, is Incubus blind?
I’m wondering that myself.
Oh look, it’s three of those guys! But where’s the fourth? *scanning the scene for large alcohol container* Ah, there she is, climbing up that bridge!
(Let me just say that I am forever grateful for this comic. It is truly amazing. Like nothing I have ever seen before.)
See alice, its like what they always say. Stay in school and don’t do corporal representations of the god of creations spunk made addicting by the tortured immortality of a demiurge.
These don’t seem like particularly sanitary conditions.
Oh shit. Those people he “helped” ain’t looking so pleased anymore.
I can’t wait to see Cio’s reaction when she finds out what Alison has done.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3f8hnCc_r5k
Cliiick iiiit
A King among the ashes of kings…
The word Flame burns hot indeed.
Well, Allison certainly has a bright future ahead of her if she doesn’t doublecross Incubus somehow.
A King among the ashes of Kings… the word Flame burns bright indeed.
This is why we must purge the Wheel. Why the circle must be pure and infertile.
You can see the people from the vision incubus showed allison in the left of the second panel. Hope Allison doesn’t meet the same fate.
This all seems quite unsanitary.
Just noticing the ‘inspiring examples’, looking a bit haggard there in panel two…