Seeker of Thrones 5-34
Chapter: 5
A traveler once asked an old peregrine knight the path to the Red City. “Why by the seven winds would you want to head there?” replied the knight, who was very wise.
“I hear the streets are paved in gold there,” said the traveler.
“It’s true,” said the peregrine knight.
“Then why the note of caution in your voice, friend?” said the traveler, curious.
“Because every ounce of gold in that gods-forsaken city is filthy as a midden heap,” said the knight, “So you might as well be walking on shit.”
– Common parable
On the street we talk in tongues,
Spaced apart like ladder rungs,
but breathe the same air in our lungs.
Always love your comments waxy
Run catch up, and you will see.
Suzu, oh, I’ll meet with thee.
And I will speak, and you’ll agree.
Looks like Cio might have twigged onto something strange going on with Allison.
Why? What’s wrong with Allison? She looks perfectly fine to me… after having just been bandaged… and bleeding. Hmm.
Well, anyone would look a bit off after seeing squid kisses for the first time. That must be it. You worry too much.
If every breath of your life is immersed in the art of the deal, you learn to recognize them pretty fast.
Wondering why that hat Cio has on has a tag says “ohayou” on it, in Hiragana…
Is it morning, at this particular moment? One does wonder
Princess Mamoru MJJJDTTBFMBLE is a gift to humanity
And Cio is doing something odd with her tail…
Tail Boner(tm)
Indeed, Princess Etc Etc Esq is a gift.
Oh yeah, Princess just has that perfect look on her face like “I was so done with this shit 4 hours ago.”
This is me at the mall.
Cio is smol and gay.
This narrator is observant.
Mice hide in holes, thieves hide in plain sight, but kings do not hide, so dress to impress.
The squidfolk in panel 2 should get a room
What, like you’ve never shaken hands with someone.
Why should friends having an innocent conversation need a private room? Given the juxtaposition with all the other languages being spoken, it’s possible the squid servants are simply speaking to each other in their own language. One that is more decently tactile than the ones all us audio-deviants speak.
Walk as king, hidden without hiding.
Yo Abbadon, I can see the JPEG compression artifacts on this page. They’re sort of super noticeable. If this is some kind of automated temporary thing to make sure the site doesn’t get DoS’d by happy fans, neat, sorry for wasting your time. If not, yeah, *super* noticeable.
On the step of the Throne the king shall gather kindling and the Flame shall catch among them. They shall wear power as the mantle and royalty as the robe. The first among them shall burn in the Flame of the dragon and so shall begin a continuous cutting motion.
What of the blue devil?
Cio, or the one Alison ate?
I’m not sure if she has lost he Gift of Tongues, or if the general hubbub is just too much to process.
Also, it’s possible she needs to eat another one.
Some of the supplementary text recommended hiring a translator, due to the adverse health effects of eating too many of them, so one assumes that additional devils are eventually needed.
http://killsixbilliondemons.com/comic/ksbd-5-81/
lol at Cio’s tail placement
Dear Cio has the face of one that has been caught completely red handed.
…where are they getting the money for shopping, anyway? Are they telling everyone to just put it on the Rightful Heir’s tab, she’ll pay them back after she ascends to the throne?
Three of these posse folks have been around (in one form or another) forever. Assume resources!
What do you mean, ridiculous? She gets classier as time goes by!
In the stygian depths of that realm called “Fashion”, there is no difference. There is only FABULOUS!
Not quite sure what those two squid faces are doing, but I’m positive it does not require that much drool.
Look, when you figure out how to communicate using your two foot long writhing lips without drooling all over the place, then you can judge.
Princess, you don’t -have- to perch on everything. I mean if you don’t want to.
Has the devil liquor worn off? Why else the tongues?
She’ll just have to get some form Cio IF YA KNOW WHAT I MEAN *eyebrow waggle*
Is that a Teapot brooch?
YAY! COSTUME CHANGE!
‘While its merchants trade in many things, only a fool neglects to pay for protection in the Red City.
After all, it is only two letters from being a Dead City.’
– Also a common parable
Sounds like she need to eat more devils
Yeah, what happened to her translation?
We know a least one blue devil who would be totally down with that.
They HAVE been shopping? I was so hoping for a shopping arc!
On tabletops, I have crawled through caverns
and duelled with breathing-worms.
All to go shopping.
I support the alt-text goal wholeheartedly.
Also, Allison needs to eat something she puked up again, stat.
So, get a pool going on the following?
– Japanese schoolgirl
– Fanservice bikini and beach volleyball
– sexy scientist (labcoat, clipboard, and rrawrr)
– sexy librarian (variant of above, but tweed instead of labcoat)
– the Village People. All of them. In a montage.
– a courtier from the reign of Louis XIV
– victorian widown in mourning
For some reason, I never noticed Cio had a tail.
It’s been around. The Coat of Arms made it harder to notice, on a lot of levels.
I agree. I never noticed she had a tail until I read the comment and looked back in my memory’s.
Poor Cio is so startled her tailboner is acting weird again!
Also, wtf, I get stumped on figuring out how to do a particular thing with the KSBD Dwarf Fortress mod I’m working on so to get out of a rut I went over to work on a full conversion warring states/feudal Japan/China/Mongol Hordes/Crusaders type of mod and then pow, there’s this big Japanese-cyberpunk-yet-retro-feeling city! You’re teasing me.
Wait, did you say KSBD DF mod?
KSBD Dwarf Fortress mod? Are you trying to seduce me?
If this work reaches completion at -quality- or better, I will require a copy.
I owe whoever bet on Cio a large bone.
Friend reaper, they have literally just disembarked. Besides, bone-shipping is two levels down, if I recall the ports of Ashton properly.
I bet someone part of my corpse that White Chain would figure out what Alice has done before Cio, but the last panel makes me think I have lost.