Seeker of Thrones 6-60
Chapter: 6
“If you ever hear the Night Curse spoken, run. It only passes the lips of devils, and only when they are up to misdeeds. This is known in nearly all of the ten thousand kingdoms.”
-Payapop Pritram
“If you ever hear the Night Curse spoken, run. It only passes the lips of devils, and only when they are up to misdeeds. This is known in nearly all of the ten thousand kingdoms.”
-Payapop Pritram
Heeeh! Spit in the Eye of God? Aye!
If Cio’s glasses weren’t broken, would she have had to take them off for the eye covering or would she have just slapped her hand over the lens since she obviously doesn’t need them to see?
Love the look of Charon. Really enjoying your work!
I have a feeling that ‘Lucky’ Felicia is our Abbadon’s answer to the character who shows up and swiftly dies at the start of every Suicide Squad movie.
I only hope that her outfit survives.
Why do I get the sinking feeling that Lucky Felicia is less cat burglar and more sacrificial lamb?
Devil’s Eleven?
Allison’s Eleven. It flows better.
Plus we know most of ’em can sing.
Oh, how did the old shanty go. Something about money in the ground, and murder in the air.
One and a half make it out of this alive, I’ll wager. I may go as high as two.
So, what odds would the resident bookies give me on Lucky Felicia being an unwitting blood sacrifice to open the door?
10 to 1
Books are closed on that one, regrettably. Open to the question of how, when, and where, though!
No bets on a sure thing, mate
I remain unsure why everyone is so convinced of this, and so give this being the case even odds with it not.
Should be clarified in short order, regardless.
Take is 10 percent, yet I count 11 thieves. Could it be that someone is not getting their take? I wonder if that be willingly or through treachery…
Good point. From the most optimistic angle, maybe Allison is being left out because she’s not after wealth. From the most pessimistic side…well, just read some of the other comments!
They seem to be counting Xand and Nxor as one devil. Note that Oscar also says he brought her five bad’uns, which only works out if Xand and Nxor count as one.
Poor girl ‘s gonna die, fed to The Door. None enter without sacrifice: Brains bashed in by the knocker, blood to lubricate the mechanism and, hardest still, a willing soul to say please.
Interesting to see that, of all the company present, they all cover their left eye and raise a finger yet Nxor uses the right hand for the covering and the left hand for the finger. Even their sibling does it the correct way in plain view.
They all close their other eye as well, except for Oscar who appears to have no eyelids.
That is short one “aye”…
Suppose you had a devil that was born (created, formed, masked,whatever) without eyes- what part of their anatomy would they cover up during this oath?
TEETH
Excellent post / av / username combo.
I hope this turns out felicitously for Felicia. Given the company, I’m imagining the rest of the crew ritually sacrificing her on some rock altar to open a door rather than her picking any thing.
Aye.
Aye.
Last time I witnessed a group of devils doing this, somebody died.
Actually, come to think of it, a lot of people died.
…and I woke up with one hell of a hangover and a horse’s head sitting in my lap.
There’s good eating on those, if you don’t mind eyeballs.
A being of no import once said that keys are a sacrifice of security. Regardless of what shape a key takes, the only way any door is opened is with sacrifice.
Take is 10% yet there are 11 people…?
Hm.
Interesting.
I imagine that either the Door Opener is a volunteer, Allison doesn’t get a cut, or it is anticipated that one won’t live to collect their cut.
The optimistic reading: Xand and Nixor split their take, being brother and sister.
I share the sneaking suspicion that ‘Lucky’ is about to have her luck run out, and she’s the only one who doesn’t realize it.
Well, perhaps she and Al-YIS-UN.
I’m betting Lucky Felicia is a sacrifice to open the door to yre. Thus it will all come out evenly to 10%
Yyyyep. Doesn’t seem like opening the door is going to require much in the way of brains, poor kid.
They’re gonna kill that cat.
How did humans open a mystical gate in Ghost Busters?
“I am the Gate Keeper”
“I am the Key Master!”
That would take this story in an interesting direction…
Aye.
im calling it now Felicia is gonna be sacrificed to open “the door”
Charon can’t take a rest anywhere without a pile of gold accumulating underneath him.
About the ten percent take vs eleven thieves: surely any devil worthy of the name would eliminate half the party on the way out, just to increase their own take.
And I must say Cio is starting to look particularly devilish. I wouldn’t be at all surprised if her alter ego makes a dramatic appearance soon.
Sounds like my D&D games in college…
So do we think the human dressed as a cat is just there because the door is going to kill who ever opens it?