Seeker of Thrones 8-97
Chapter: 8
“IA! IA!
Sharpen your chain-blades!
Pity the Dragon and Venerate the Count!”
– War Cry of the Priests of the Count
Kill Six Billion Demons
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“IA! IA!
Sharpen your chain-blades!
Pity the Dragon and Venerate the Count!”
– War Cry of the Priests of the Count
The Cat Is Protected. All Is As It Should Be.
PROTECT THE KITTY
Praise Joko.
PRAISE HIM! King Joko the Inevitable, the last Primeval King, Joko the Undying, and the Scourge of Vabbi, who hath seen fit to protect our beloved feline friend.
Plot twist: Cat Master iis the cat and the devil body is just an appendage, like Juggernaut and his wheel. How did he get so strong while remaining Pale??
Glory to the count
Ruh roh raggy
What’s that cat doing there?
Whatever it pleases
What is any cat doing anywhere? Their ways are mystery, their plots legion.
He’s with the four armed guy. The cat has been around for a while.
There’s a fondness we can form
That is our own but not returned
For Kipling’s cat walks by himself.
That’s the Cat Master, clearly.
What, you thought that someone could be master of a cat? The unnamed Devil is obviously its servant.
Through Pain, Gore, and Hellish Fury of the Dragon’s Count.
Know that the cat will always be protected by his trusted friend.
While it’s convenient to see the layout of the maze for what it is, I doubt that the opaque thickness of the new ‘paint’ makes it any easier to navigate when you’re in it.
And it’s slippery. Then sticky.
i’m all here for the ominous dings
And I’m here to serve the drinks!
More mimosa?
That ding ding ding is the sound of dying priests… right?
It’s not angels getting their wings…
I think the lower thier number the more powerful they are, so when one dies, the count goes down, and the one less powerful than him becomes more powerful
“You fool! When one of us dies, we all move up in RAAAAAANK!” *Flexes, becomes slightly more swole*
I like this idea! The hierarchy is automatically updated as vacancies are created.
Nah, it’s just Hector Salamanca zooming about in his wheelchair.
Laughed out loud.
Oh goody. Promotions for everyone.
“You die, and we all go up in rank!”
Lorn,
It comes
Lorn,
Count thy tears
…Lorn,
They are unnumbered.
Interesting. Not sure I follow what just happened though.
There was a fight, winding down but not quite over. It was ALMOST one sided and it is unclear if it has been a worthwhile career event for the nutters. There are literal fire flies surrounding a user of paper magic. Davis Bowie loves to wade in blood. The sorority girl is wondering if being not-whiny is really her thing. A cat is feeling the need to rescue it’s master, but cats are really really lazy so the adventurers are about to be culled by one more. There’s dynamite rolling around but the teacups are stowed away well and so are safe for now. Oscar is all kinds of tough but Princess has become a wild card; maybe they’ll fight later. I think that’s it…
Our demonic friends, plus barista, have overcome an obstacle.
SOMETHING BEAUTIFUL
GODS BE DAMNED IF IT DOESN’T MAKE ME WANT TO CAST MY SWORD ABOUT
Lo! I wonder; to impose a state of death upon another – a show of strength or weakness?
It’s a matter of perspective, really, and entirely dependent on the stipulations of each death dealing.
Epics can go on for ages
Heros, cowards, trophies, sages
No-one’s here for minimum wages
never underestimate an engineer, cio. not even a dead one
Notice how the cat got through the mayhem without a scratch, and without getting covered in blood and guts.
Cats. Stylish fuckers.
Well, at least the labyrinth will be all nicely mapped out after this. Who’d have thought the good old priests would be doing them a favour.
THEY ARE MARTYRS. IT IS THEIR BUSINESS TO DIE WELL FOR A CAUSE.
OF COURSE, NO ONE SAID ANYTHING ABOUT IT BEING FOR THE CAUSE THAT THEY SPECIFICALLY APPROVE OF. THIS IS BECAUSE NEARLY ALL MARTYRS ARE BLITHERING IDIOTS, AND MAKE FOR SPECTACULARLY INCOMPETENT WARRIORS.
VIOLENCE IS A CHIEF ASPECT AND VIRTUE OF LIFE. NO ONE WHO INTENDS TO PERISH FOR THE SAKE OF PALTRY AND TRIFLING IDEALISM CAN TRULY MAKE GOOD USAGE OF IT.
Down, down, down we go. At the bottom, much blood will flow.
But seriously, after all this killing, there’s gotta be a pond of blood at the bottom of this maze.
Dragon Maze Passages
Pitiless Pecuniary Priests PUREED !
Plunderers Ponder Perplexing PINGS
Porten-DING….?
Everybody seems alive, if a bit worse for wear. Perfect timing for someone actually good in a fight to show up and try to mop up.
On a completely unrelated note, I do wonder what Purple Cash Nun has been doing these last couple pages…
The struggle of Princess’s clothing to maintain her modesty is the most accurate metaphor of this party’s tenuous durability.
… Anyone remember what level that open door was on?
An impossible riddle: which is the correct door?
They seemed to be going down a few pages ago. But now they appear to have gone up. One good thing about being attacked from all sides is it shows them which passages don’t have Bass-o-Matics in them.
I wonder if Yabalchoath’s venture 3 turns ago (I think?) led go the same kind of turnover as we’re seeing here.
My word, what a horrible end to these brave heroes.
To be slain by devils in one’s own bank-monastery! I wish the noble priests of coin and cash who serve the Grand Dragon nothing less peaceful journey into total gilded oblivion.
May loadsofhellmoney await them in the hereafter.
I see that Mammon is taking the Zapp Brannigan approach to dealing with his enemies.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EF3g4Ua5e7k
Fools! Don’t split the party!
Well, at least they can tell where they’re standing now, what with all the blood.
The party is gaining many levels.
Choke the hallways with your flesh indeed.
Such glorious violence. I wonder what they count, lives perhaps? meat?
They’re not expecting victory as just being in the fight is enough. They’re not merely bored accountants; they are Priests of the Count. They’re counting coup!
Ding!
I bet Alice-UN bears no scratch
Well, that’s one way to paint an invisible maze.
What a bunch of ding-a-lings.
He protect
He attack
Most importantly he love cat
i love u
The cat got out. That seems important.
count’s dropping
like fireflies
How many Demons does it take to paint a wall? Depends how mad they are! Glad to see the cat is doing fine as well
Gods dammit Cat Master is so cool it’s going to physically hurt when he (it?) dies.
IA! IA!
So chimes the bell of the damned.
Awesome page, but it misses the *really* important question – how many kills did the kitty get?
Oh yeah. Mr Scruffy already killed a commoner in the Arena. This guy here must have a few more…
Hrm… I prefer the Copenhagen interpretation. Until we actually read these pages, the cat had gotten all of the kills and none of the kills, simultaneously. But now that we have observed them, the quantum superposition has collapsed into one of the possible definite states and we can see that the cat has none of the kills.
Yet.
Cat remains safe. Good.
Cat-man still best Demon. He will die defending his fluffy baby
Cat King Demon is best demon. I will stab anyone who disagrees today.
Taking bets if anyone wants to fight evileeyore.
No reason.
My oh my, Miss Cio. What have you gotten yourself into?
Is Oscar really just too dumb to bleed?
Heh… I noticed that too. Whazzat, 5 blades sticking out of his back? “Tis but a flesh wound!”
That made me laugh, but he also didn’t bleed when shot—just griped about his expensive coat.
There may be more to Oscar than meets the eye.
He’s really a very small blue piloting a golem is some type.
An angel’s getting their wings!
An entire fleet of angels are getting their wings.
31 count on the ticker last page. 40 dings here–though clearly some of the smaller panels overlap with kills on the maze map.
Still, I think they’re done after this. :-}
I like the detail of the little fallen paper-soldier at Cio’s feet.
I didn’t know there was a murder version of Splatoon!
Out, out creepeth the lizard wizard
slickly sickly slither
and save your devil lizard gizzard
Doesn’t have anything to do with the update but gIVE CIO A GF!! Bonus points if that’s Allison! Please,, just let my daughter be happy,,,,,
They inked that splat zone real good
Cio’s bare leg looks a lot spikier here than they did back in the WoN days.
If they cannot stop the thief with their blades, they shall drown him in their blood.
What’s all the dinging and increments on those counting things about?
I believe they count the lives spent in defense of the count.
Specifically the lives serving under that high priestess lady.
Could be wrong though.
How much XP is all this worth, anyway?
Ah, Ciocie Cioelle is looking quite ebon these days. Perhaps Ciocie Cioelle is remembering who she was too?
I don’t know much – if anything – about devil anatomy, but is Charon’s blood meant to have turned silver since two pages ago?
Ding! Ding! Everyone is increasing their levels!
Mammon is having his Infinity Vault redecorated.
Not looking quite like yourself there, Cio.
Took me a moment to realize that the hallways are visible now due to the amount of blood… But that also means the group is split up now? (I hope Princess and the cat master + cat makes it)
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