Seeker of Thrones 7-77
Chapter: 7
No matter how far down they traveled, no matter how perilous the drop or yawning the pit, Enyis never found an end to the Deep.
“The Deep is very treacherous indeed,” said Enyis once, as they camped on the edge of a howling abyss.
“The Deep has one purpose,” replied the Boar King, “And that is to swallow men whole, or else make monsters out of them.”
– Enyis and the Boar King
It has been a while since we’ve seen some weird fuckin shit(tm) in KSBD. It’s rather refreshing.
Just as planned.
*Steeples fingers and the reaper archons bring forward the Yis-Holy Chalice.*
Next episode Felicia will be back as the Lucky Screaming Head in the Door, having activated her hidden Screaming Head gene her father injected her with as a child, enabling demonkind to fight back against the Screaming Head in the Door scourge!
Dammit! How did I miss this when I was looking for the best place for Crimson Bow and Arrow?
Curse this linear timeline nonsense!
Oh my shit. This is the coolest thing I’ve ever seen.
I wouldn’t be surprised if that was the last we saw of her. cats are known to evade death more than one time, is that correct?
regardless.
F
For my part, if I were Mammon’s chief of security and I were designing a trap to separate an incoming hostile party, I’d try to keep the separated one alive enough to pump for intel. Depending on the degree of sorcery available, that might not be very alive at all.
Think you the Selfish Wurm let another man draw the path of his heart?
Perhaps, perhaps. But if so, that man’s head lies in a box, numbered and written and put away against the great scorecard.
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Luck is no replacement for good decision making.
You take a job from a devil and you end up dying a gruesome death. It’s hard to feel pity for one so lacking in insight.
Not deserving of such a fate aside, she brought it on herself.
Wow…this one is upsetting….
Cherish your ability to feel this pain. It may be the only hope for a world whose heart has grown dull and cold. Cherish it.
Every time you try to rob the unbreachable fortress, Oscar kills a catgirl.
Please, think of the catgirls.
Y E E T
LOV THE GRONCH
Bye, Felicia
Yep. lol
She is very important to open the door.
She WAS very important to open the door ж)
Her legacy will live on,
in the back button!
It’s okay, cats have 9 lives
She’ll be back.. unless that was her last one.
Suppose she wasn’t so lucky after all.
Watch Felicia come back more powerful than they could ever imagine.
It would be surprising, to be sure…
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Hello nightmare fuel for the next two weeks.
Dang.
Congratulations, Charon.
Ahh, but did the Deep succeed, in the case of Enyis? That is what must be known.
Ah.
Among the people of Wrong Pass, a very poorly situated glacial valley notable for floral beers and fecund teratogenic forces, there is a folk wisdom.
Call yourself skillful, virile, mighty or clever and you will merely annoy your peers. The title of Lucky, however, offends fate.
I’ll admit I do feel a little schadenfreude for these ones, but I don’t rush them.
There’s little enough to enjoy in my work, and I like to savor their folly.
Sadly, people who think of themselves as lucky rarely last long in Throne, anyway.
This is the first time I’ve ever hoped for a TPK and I don’t like it.
Just curious. If they throw a patsy into the mouth to get in, where do they throw a patsy to get out?
It wasn’t designed with an exit.
and if it was then you REALLY REALLY do not want to go that way …. unless you were truly into your work as a scatologist.
Sometimes calling yourself “lucky” does not make it truth.
Crunchy! Just like meat buns from China!
Aww. Sad Cio is sad.
I am a bit disappointed that our friendly barista didn’t boot Incubus out and feed him to the door, but I suppose he’ll come in handy later.
By the way: “The Deep has one purpose,” replied the Boar King, “And that is to swallow men whole, or else make monsters out of them.”
That’s two purposes. 😛
The “or’ in that statement is the “and/or” version. Like in math. After all, in the end, the Fate is the same.
“Pauvre, pauvre pussycat. Ah, c’est la guerre!” – Tuffy, “Touché, Pussy Cat!”, 1954
Press ‘F’ to pay respects.
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Cio dun wanna be involved.
And here I was hoping she might manage to escape that sticky situation… Alas, what a shame, to fail to live up to one’s name.
“F” tho
I had hoped she would make it out some how. Oh well.
ABSOLUTELY B R U T A L
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I dunno. Sure, you knock a lot of points off for triggering the alarm, but I’ll give them a few back if they leave the area before the guards arrive.
It’s possible they could score a D-.
How many more will Yre consume?
in a pool of blood i drown
to find that i’m not wearing my frown
instead a crown
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This entire page makes me cringe for various simultaneous reasons. Among them is because being chewed by dull teeth after just having been horribly betrayed is probably down there in the ‘bottom 100 ways to die’ list. Poor Felicia..
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;_;7 F
Fuck.
There’s a skull with teeth that gnash
Election victim’s blood does splash
Open, brother. Let’s get some cash.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o-IzvO-F5QA
Bye, Felicia.
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Bye Felicia.
Poor Lucky
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The Door Opener.
Crunchy munchy Felicia.
I’m real glad that sleep is unnecessary after seeing that.
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But he looks SO HAPPY! (The door that is.)
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She said she could open any lock. so she did her job i guess
The shape of the face as the door opens reminds me of what it looked like the first time Alison used Divison…
LOV THE CRONCH
Lov the gronch.
Felicia dun’ got Eren’d
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It turns out that calling yourself Lucky tends to result in your luck running out a wee bit early.
Holy fuck!
Rest in peace Felicia, we knew you too little
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At the rate these guys are going, it’s not going to take anywhere near an infinite number of rooms to finish ’em all.
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Teeth
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we all knew it was coming, but still
Attack on Titan reference?
Also, F
Damn that face splitting action looks good, also
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#NOM
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Also nice timing on the lucky 777 comic.
Too bad no one told Felicia that luck will only help out so much. It can’t really save you from being stupid enough to go on a Devil Job.
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Look at poor Cio’s face ._.
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It seems poor Felicia got… F’d.
I’m starting to like this comic
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“C.I.O.”
respects paid(s)
in spades
It is the nature of fools to be sacrificed upon the whims of the devious. Likewise, it is the fate of the devious to be thwarted by fools. Today, it is the devious who have won, but it is the nature of things that the foolish shall have their day.
On that day, Incubus will know Regret.
The head opens in layers, skin, muscle, bone.
We’ve seen that pattern before. I wonder if there’s a deeper connection here…
Is the labyrinth built in the void? It that where the vault borrows its extra space from?
Well, it was created using a seventh part of a copy of the same tool, the Key of Kings.
That seems to be a visual theme of performing Division, which as far as we know, the act of teleporting between universes/dimensions. Considering that the true vault is it’s own infinite space, I’m guessing it’s representative of the fact that they’re actually going to move to a whole new dimension once they’ve passed this door.
She’s still alive, right? Just missing that arm? Right? Just trapped inside that skull, right? There’s no way she’s dead.
Mnch Mnch
Do mine eyes betray me, or does our resident devil Cio Ciocelle have a look of REGRET!? Or is it shame? Mayhaps both? After your anger and pain at having been told you are friendless, I do think something not quite black burns within you, Cio. For as is painfully obvious to everyone, you do not act like a true devil. Not at all.
To protect its children, the beast of the forest would attack anything that moved. Chased birds above it, moles below it. All was fine and stupid until it came across a river, and everything was stupid.
The children were soon without a mother.
By her passing, so too may they pass. This has been observed.
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this is one of the things i like about this comic, you see, not all comics have a big F going on their pages, this one does and it does it and does it really well.
rip lucky cat, ahh wait, she is lucky felicia, she might had been lucky? no dont think so.
Today is a lucky page. Not for her, though.
777
Not all luck is good luck, but all primes are lucky.
5 and 13 are generally considered more bad, usually, which is why having the 5th weekday on the 13th day of the month is considered bad luck, and western hotels skip 13 when numbering floors.
3 and 7 have much better PR, but I wouldn’t turn my back on them. Disasters come in 3s, and arch-devils in sevens (or sometimes tens but that is another story).
When we promised the luckiness of primes to UN-Ganitam, did we promise GOOD luck? No, we did not.
Well, at least the door’s happy.
This one suspects that Incubus will look back in regret upon thwarting the Rising GodKing’s will here.
Briefly.
In fairness, he was warned.
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Poor Lucky Felicia. But those who go on Devil Jobs and go armed are not bloodless or blameless. Even so, betrayal on the job itself is just poor form. It lessens the chance of success and invites further betrayal.
What if they throw something else in instead, like, let’s say… a mimic?
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LOST CAT
One eye
Missing left front paw
Answers to “Lucky”
Everyone and their mother called this one when Felicia was introduced. Though, most thought she’d be the first one to die. Close enough and unfortunately rather predictable.
Couldn’t they brought a cow or something?
Has tha ever tried luggin’ a cow through a booby trapped vault?
If in all of my existence I never again have to see something making that expression, it will still have been too soon.
Cio looks so sad. Good to know that for all her talk it’s just a front.
oh gross haha
Not-so-lucky Felicia
So…Who’s next? Lot’s of cannon fodder available. Ironic fates, too. The climber falls, and the pick-lock is eaten by a door.
We all knew this had to happen, but it still saddens me. Goodbye, Felicia. We hardly knew ye.
I don’t understand what F means, pls halp.
@ 99 Taker of Bottles of Beer from Wall
F is a reference to the Call Of Duty games, in which there was a quick-time-event that asks you to “press F to pay respects”. Basically, everyone is saying “RIP Lucky Felicia”.
Well that got dark.
Alison this is so on you.
It’s a video game meme. There was a scene in one of the modern-day war FPS games where you attended the funeral of an NPC soldier, and get instructed “Press F to pay respects”.
“Press F to pay respects” is a meme. That would be my guess as to what the alt-text is referencing.
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Among the first kingdoms of men, it was common to approach the cairn of a fallen warrior and press a sigil similar to a common F. The tradition carries on to this day to honor the fallen.
Probably an abbreviation of FFFFFFUUUUUU, ascended to it’s own meme status. So, basically ‘fuck’. I think.
Press F to pay respects to our ignorant initiate
In some worlds, it is the custom to “press F” to pay respects.
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(search for “Bluecho”, he explained it best)
Let’s hope they all die (with exceptions).
*sigh* Knew it was coming, and yet.
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Plot Twist: The head chews up any contraband and then excretes Felicia into a holding cell for interrogation. The door lock was set up to make a raid party throw one of their own under the bus, priming the betrayed member to turn on their own crew.
Poor wretch. What drives mortal beings to consort with devils I will never understand.
Overhand full-body pitch? Good arm on that ‘un.
Not-So-Lucky Felicia
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Well, F***.
Sickening, even if I knew it was coming, and one hell of a place to catch up… I’ve been binging on this comic whenever possible since I discovered it but now: “waiting is”
Your art and worldbuilding is both inspiring and intimidating at the same time.
I’m not sure I’m going to like where this ride is going but I’m too hooked now to disembark so I’m gonna Patronize you in the meantime…
Play on!
also, too:
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This is why I’m afraid of Deals.
Felicia may or may not have survived that. It matters little. Leaving a grudge behind you is like leaving a trail of blood.
Would that we could all have the same enthusiasm for our work as Oskar.
The friends one chooses are a factor in how long one tends to live.
It is still sad. She cared enough about why Allison wanted to do this that she offered some manner of reassurance. That in itself elevates her above some.
Of course, now they’ve still got that disturbingly animate-looking skull in the way.
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This panel was the first thing I ever saw from KSBD, it was posted on the comic books panels without context page. This has come to be my favorite comic of all time though.
Not so lucky now that the vile and suppurating venoms of the night has blinded the eye of god, eh, bitch?
May thy soul be forever chewed on.
How did she get out, anyway?
(sorry for necromancy, but why save for three people noone mentioned?)
I I I T’ S J A C K P O O O T ! ! !
Thanks for taking the time to discuss that, I feel strongly about this and so really like getting to know more on this kind of field. Do you mind updating your blog post with additional insight? It should be really useful for all of us.