Seeker of Thrones 6-59
Chapter: 6
The final winner of the devil contest! But not quite the final member our party.
This was inspired by a written entry and a drawn entry together. I really liked the first idea of a devil that had somehow cajoled the beggar dead into working for him, and I really liked the cape of coins/coin eyes in the second design, which both help play very well into what is going to happen next!
The Guilds have ONE STINKING LAW for the common welfare, and these rat-kings insist on breaking it.
Ah well. No doubt Mammon will have them tied together by the tails and hurled into the Pit e’er long.
In fairness, as I understand it they subvert, circumvent, or outright ignore the “stinking law” on a regular basis.
If Mammon hasn’t gone out of his way to mete punishment already, I feel as though it wouldn’t change.
Granted, for what they’re about to do, it might just change after all.
Well, you see, The Dead have a system to their sacrificial economy. As the they pile more gold on, some tumbles down back to the masses. I believe it is known as “tumble down” economics.
Of course, then The Dead pick up the coins and simply throw them back on, so I don’t really know what they think they’re doing.
Some say ‘rats’ is rude
Ask them to give up their food.
It’ll change their attitude.
Remind me what that is, please?
sibling White Chain
once said (2-32):
“please do not give
money to the dead,
it is against
city ordinance.”
I hope cio gets her glasses back ;-; you don’t have to be a bad person lass!!!
She is sinking slowly back into the depths.
It appears she has elected to dive.
Shame. Perhaps someone will bring her back.
Stay good Cio!
stay good.
Perhaps once.
But now there is Yabalchoath!
Only if she keeps those pants though. 😉
Oh goody. I can hardly wait.
Shine and clink, shine and clink
Do the deepest depths we’ll sink
For the glory and coin yet unspoken
Once the Queen of Thieves is awoken
Is that an Ebon devil?
’cause we kind of have a bad history with ebon devils.
Green, or Verdant, Devil. They are reptilian and have skulls for heads.
Nay, ’tis Verdant
Eh, they’ll be blue with an exceptionally embarrassing name by the end of this. Such is the fate of all Ebons the new king knows.
Lizardiness and skull make me think verdant.
Verdent sweet price. Verdent.
Devils and bad history are one and the same.
As the Wax Head would say, this is axiomatic.
It certainly looks Ebon, but it also has the reptilian features of a Verdant devil. We’ll see.
Unlike most Ebon devils, Charon isn’t consumed with desire and fire.
Charon’s want is a slow, cold, patient thing. As certain as entropy and death.
Outwardly, Charon would rather tend to their dead and wait for your impending demise, than kill you outright. (By a slim margin, mind.)
If you’re referring to Charon, he appears most like a Verdant devil.
Everyone has a bad history with Ebon devils. There is no other type of history to be had with an Ebon devil. Soul sucking life drinkers the lot of them!
–Malodious Malborn Gracely a Jealous Gold devil
Green.
Green, I think. Way way WAY back during the drinking contest where the devils were described in the comments, it said Green devils tend to have death-like masks.
With an epithet such as that, I’d imagine that applies to many others.
The entries it’s based on are verdant so I don’t know
Most likely a Verdant, considering the caption of the source artwork, the coloration of the body, and the skeletal face. Though not as bleached nor skeletal as that of other Verdants, perhaps this one’s mask is from a bygone era and style.
Lookin’ hot, Cio.
Right? Cio looks S M O K I N
It was always my belief that Cio had the best ass in all of Throne, and by YISUN and the Grand Dragon my faith has been rewarded
Please do not give money to the dead.
It’s against city ordinance.
They’re a pestly bunch and we don’t want to give them any reason to hang around.
Cio is a Dark Brotherhood cosplayer in her spare moments.
That was my first thought, too.
She’d tried so hard to change her ways and yet they refuse to see. Hold firm, Cio. Those who matter will understand.
I can’t tell if the Shepherd of the Dead is Verdant or Ebon…
Either way, it seems as though this red toothed lizard nurtures a foul, choking envy for the Grand Dragon Mammon and his boundless wealth. I wonder if Allison and Cio need to even bother paying him any coin, other than the mere chance of finally looting that fractural nightmare of a dungeon crawl.
In undertakings such as this, it is a well-known fact that the odds of success are directly proportional to the motleyness of the crew. With such a colorful and interesting team, we can only hope some will survive (though perhaps it would be for the best for society as a whole if certain members did not).
‘I narrow my eyes like a coin slot baby, let’er ring! Let’er ring!’
-God’s away on business, Tom Waits.
By the way, I do approve of the way Charon is decked out in proper goanna skin. Very stylish.
Is this place so rich that even the dump is made of piles of money?
Im filled with rage over this clear breach in city ordinance
Honestly, I don’t think that look really suits Cio, even if it is practical. I hope she can get back to her previous sense of fashion after this, and that she doesn’t wind up too traumatized from the experience.
Two pennies for the river-boat…
Sorry if this is something everyone else figured out already, but I wonder what COCCOL means.
CEE-OH-CEE-AY (CIOCIE) CEE-OH-ELL-AY (CIOELLE)
it spells the name of a delicious fizzy beverage
It’s pronounced Cee-Oh-See-Eh Cee-Oh-El-Eh. Should become clear when you say it out loud.
The Es at the end are pronounced like an A. Hopefully that helps you out >_O
both final ‘E’s
are pronounced
now try again
A current theory is that the Es aren’t silent. See oh see ay, see oh el ay.
Which has interesting implications.
An alternative theory is that it is pronounced as if one were reading Italian.
Vaults require strength.
a weak wrist or leap
will land you ‘pon your face.
Huh, I don’t remember being quite that handsome.
Ciocie Cioelle, maybe is it time to shed names and rise again?
It is sometimes quite hard to figure out what color a devil is or even where his mask is supposed to be. Is Charon even wearing a mask?
I wonder how many devils I’ve confused with servants because of this…
The laws exist to keep hard-working businessdevils from lucrative revenue streams.
YOU CAN SEE IT FROM THE FRONT
I want to perform a cover of this song for my band. How would the melody go?
The dead tend to be ineffective beggars.
They spend their pity too freely on the living to get any in return.
Hrm, Cio is looking very Yabby in that last panel, isn’t she.
Indeed. She looks almost ebon, apart from her mask. Is she wearing a purple suit, or is that her skin?
Ciocie Cioelle! All Hail! Her horns grew two sizes that day!
In the top five all time of comic characters to grace the interwebs.
You’re all leg, huh Cio?
how tall is Cio?
Most blue devils stand between two and five feet tall. My guess is the Cio is probably around four or five feet.
So, er, how do you pronounce Cio’s name, again?
(See-oh-see-ah)(See-oh-el-ah)
cee-oh-cee-ay cee-oh-el-ay
So I realised the words to “Bring Me a Bottle” fit a bunch of old folk song tunes, and I thought I’d give a go at recording a couple versions of it.
https://soundcloud.com/user-136731568/bring-me-a-bottle-john-barleycorn
https://soundcloud.com/user-136731568/bring-me-a-bottle-king-henry
(If this isn’t okay, just let me know and I’ll take them down, I just really liked the song and wanted to give it some music, and I hope other people enjoy it too!)
Well handled. The second version is close to what occurred to me, personally.
Not even the dead are safe from the curse of gold
Being a product from the Hot Black Flame tacitly implies that oneself has an unspoken desire of sitting or standing over piles of golden items.
So that’s why the dead turn to begging.
I’m worried for Cio
I already miss Ciocle’s floofy fluttery fancy clothes. Hopefully she will wear new and more ostentatious costumes later.
What a happy bunch, they’re always smiling.
From description and form Charon seems to be a green devil.
tbh I will always see this guy and think “hehe – they have the same name as a soccer mom
I just updated my recording of Bring Me A Bottle to add the final (?) verse. I also cleaned up the mix a bit.
See https://soundcloud.com/user-116672315/k6bd-bring-me-a-bottle
I didn’t get a lot of feedback from the preview version, but what I got was positive. Thanks for listening. 🙂
And once again old chap, it’s damn good.
It sounds like a lost work from Kurt Weill and Bertolt Brecht. I could see this being sung by Lotte Lenya.
Lol, why Cio’s hair has become so long since her last appearance? But yet I love her.
Blue devil’s hair length can change at will, and consuming it medicinally can cure diseases of the mind.
Oh my God. Ciocie, you look so good, babygirl! Let’s hope you can steal as well as you dress, or all your new friends are gonna die.
Plan for freeing Zaid is:
– collect a heap of gold in front of Ys
– wait till Mammons servants come and get it
– ???
– Profit.
lovin the monitor lizard color scheme on Charon, so cool!
What is ole’. Is this shortening of something or just an article. Explain please its hard for translation and understanding. Thank you
“Ole’ ” is informal “Old”,as well as “lookin’ ” or “livin’ “, I hope it helped.
Short for old.
It is the word “old” spoken with an accent my friend. It has a “d” so soft it disappears.
An unusual version of old. One could perhaps write it ol’, as well, since the e is silent.
So. Er. Nice outfit, Cio. Looking…very good.
Is anyone else troubled by what Cio’s going to look like as she changes forms on her way back to blackest Yabalchoath? Can you imagine her as a red, for exaple?
TEETH
Charon…a fitting name, when he swipes the air does it leave an opaque trail of ash?
Anywhere you can find the full lyrics to the devil drinking song?
good question. I was surprised to find someone didn’t do a cover of it
I’m glad that Cio is still on the staff. She departed so suddenly that I haven’t even the chance to give her birhtday gift.
For thrones sake people he’s green.
He’s not ebon.
You can tell because his skin isn’t ebon, it’s green. A muted reptilian green. Like ‘Traitor’s Green’ from privateer press.
I never thought I’d say this, but thank Mammon that I’m not at Yre right now. It ought to be a divine shitstorm when the Grand Dragon splatters the so-called “Rising King” across His walls and makes servants of the rest. But I’m sure my pal Coranuld ag Scorpio will be able to tell me all about it at the next meeting.
Cio’s booty is looking DAMN FINE in that tight suit. Unf.
“Look after me hat, will tha” she said.
I never saw her again.
Damn. Cio is going back to her bad habits, and Allison is probably too screwed up by the chunk of Incubus in her head to notice or care.
Deals with devils rarely go well, but deals with Demiurges? The trapdoors may be bottomless.
O gathered blades, O ye who lay damned by all the five rivers.
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