There is a reason some false deities consider blood to be such a significant sacrifice. That reason is also why most warriors are fond of keeping theirs within their veins. That reason, of course, is that losing much of it has the rather inconvenient effect of causing unconsciousness.
How come the Villains pretty much always are way cooler and wicked powerful than the Heroes?. Perhaps the repetition of one character lowers their illusion of power and Villains seem more powerul to make them a worthy opponent?
The gathering of power at the expense of others is always more effective, in the short run. Power gained heroically comes slower but it’s potential is limitless.
Yes a crushing blow it was.
One ruptured spleen, two bi-sected liver,
Three – Whoops nope – save the broken hearts for later.
“Hello O’ Dragon’s Avatar !
Is that a Flaming Glaive – for a Knave ?”
“Nay it’s a Flaming Halberd – for I am PERTURBED !
The Penalty is Death – or perhaps Atomization
For MAKING OUT WITHOUT PERMISSION !
You TWO ARE INCREDIBLY RUDE !
A short list of your offenses…
You Break in,
Commit property damage,
Slay the Dragons’ servants,
Steal his coin,
Don’t give due homage to my lord
And proceed to intimate entertainments !
While my lord may be indifferent and blind to your trespasses,
You offend my eyes with your lack of contrition and passionate embraces !
If you were elsewhere – you could get a room,
Here instead – you shall face your Doom.
Since you are so full of Desire
– I will give you FIRE !”
Once, I met the god whose breath weaves the tale of Throne here in the City of Emeralds. I predicted that Cio is in fact not Yabalchaoth. Yabalchaoth never left and became Mammon’s Emissary, I said. He asked what my theory was based upon. I told him it was clear before me, since Mammon’s Emissary is purple. He was speechless before my great wisdom. Unfortunately my dog needed watering so I had to leave soon after.
I think Cio just hit most embarrassed person in many of the long and varied histories of the universe.
– Fanfic author whose self insert was discovered
– …by the author of canon, who is ALSO the main character she was shipping herself with
– …via the method of them kissing
– This came right after her succumbing to the temptation to return to the awful thing she once was. Deep personal shame is a type of embarrassment, right?
– She’s also named after a soft drink
“Fret no father, we have no need of thy flail. Tis only the flame, quivering at misguided Ash. Please avert thine eyes. I will snuff out these ashes for good.”
Remember, all.
Don’t make out with demons whilst bleeding out on giant piles of gold. Wait until you’re no longer bleeding out, or until you’ve dealt with the caretakers of said gold.
Les-yay is fun, but only if you don’t die.
17, Despondent Harmonies Drawn Across Frayed Strings
“If any one steal the property of a temple or of the court, he shall be put to death, and also the one who receives the stolen thing from him shall be put to death.” -Code of Hammurabi
Also, I love how her feeling uncomfortable n not really into it with her relationship with her boyfriend is now easily explained with compulsory heterosexuality, maybe even feeling like she had to have had sex to belong among her sorority sisters/peers, but that’s just a conjecture. Anyway now the question is how long will it take Allison to realize that? Will she still feel like saving… Zach,? Idfk. And once the conflict hopefully resolves how will her relationship with Cio evolve if she has to go back to her earth?
Well she did “schedule loosing her virginity” so yeah, it sounds like it something she was doing because she felt like she SHOULD have lost her virginity by now.
I can relate to that actually since that is the reason I was dating despite feeling no romantic attraction to anyone.
Hopefully she would still want to save Zach regardless because thats that decent human being thing to do.
Though this universe is kinda full of people who need saving and AREN’T trapped inside the most secure place in the multiverse. Some of them might even be more deserving than Zaid!
Yea ik, it was mostly a rhetorical question, but one i felt had to be asked, if it makes sense? But anyway her relationship with what I now know to be named zaid is def gonna change
That’s a very mobile blush on Cio. Side effect of her unusual biology, perhaps? Having a quasi-artificial, situationally-mutable face must make for some interesting expressions.
Let’s see how Cio does against the jealous nursemaid, now. I suspect a Bad Man will be the one dealing the final blow in the coming fight.
Whelp time to roll some death saves and then take a short rest.
Also, I can’t wait to see the Imperiatrix’s palace smash into the vault. A building battle between two gods would be massively satisfying and totally appropriate.
You guys may be thinking, oh no, Alison is defenceless, but here’s I am excited bc we get to see cio defending her new gal pal with the fury of a thousand suns.
A fair part’a me is hoping dear ol’ Mammon will find it in his big ol’ grandpa dragon heart to ask his nurse there to stay her hand. Young love ain’t somethin’ to be struck down with a fireaxe. Or a fire axe, for that matter.
I think she was doing what Sister Friede does in Dark Souls and really slowly walking up. If so she just struck that pose and is about 2 seconds from going ham.
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last panel is oddly comical
I didn’t see it that way. All I saw was damned perfect composition.
she was just waiting there throughout the conversation
No she wasn’t. Cio flung Allison pretty far.
I wouldn’t be surprised if she spent that whole conversation very slowly advancing in a menacing manner.
‘Oddly comical’ is basically the running theme of KSBD as far as I can discern
Not nearly as much as the fifth.
The Lover is… very nearly late, in this case.
“Yes, yes, very heartfelt. Time to die.”
Everything is oddly comical
000001: lemme smash
I gotta try some of these pickup lines sometime, “We’re in the middle of a fucking hell dungeon” might work on some of the cute girls at work
It’s funny, because the two locations you referred to are actually the same location.
Might also be appropriate if you work in a place that specializes in BDSM.
May want to save “Let’s try and kill each other again sometime” for a few dates in.
Say what you will Al-YI-son, you digged it.
Well, that’s just what she said.
Its nice because you like girls, Allison.
Also, run.
> RUN
Not enough Strength!
> WALK
Not enough Strength!
> STAND UP
Not enough Strength!
> PASS OUT
OK.
You can’t haul ye ass!
You really do have to just sit there and think about why you can’t get ye flask.
List of worst places to pass out from blood loss in the entire multiverse:
– This one.
Ia! The Graceful Mother! Blessed Mother! Intercede for us now, and at the moment of our deaths!
Ah yes, the grand adjudicator of loans. May she dole out interest rates with prejudice and grace
I misread “prejudice” as “prepuce” and went “what the fuck.”
But, hell, she seems like a crazy lady, so perhaps she DOES dole out interest rates with prepuce and grace…
I think 000001 is more of a Foreclosures and Recoveries type, than what we’d have called Sales material.
There is a reason some false deities consider blood to be such a significant sacrifice. That reason is also why most warriors are fond of keeping theirs within their veins. That reason, of course, is that losing much of it has the rather inconvenient effect of causing unconsciousness.
I’m still imagining Mammon sitting a few feet away trying to figure out what the fuck is going on.
Always, in matters of shipping, one must remember to pay the Ferryman his due.
the beggarman holds out his hat
for coins, reminding you that
you never get Tit without Tat
Good!
mmmMMMMM delightful
The priest has arrived. To marry them? Perhaps not.
Even girls love girls, damn I love girls :V
On the next page:
Zealot: “Sinner! You’re going to hell because you kiss other girls instead of boys!”
Cio: “Literally a demon.”
Allison: “Literally already in hell.”
Zealot: “Oh, right… carry on then.”
I dont think these are those sort of priests
IÄ! THE IMMACULATE GATE-WARDEN: PITILESS, PURE AND STERILE! BLESSING AND WORSHIP UPON THEE, O STAINLESS REGENT OF THE UNBREACHABLE TOWER!
IÄ! PRAISE HER! PITY HER!
000001 has no sense of timing, doesn’t she?
quite the contrary, actually–I’d say her dramatic AND comedic timing were perfect in this particular case!
My, my. That’s quite a weapon. And her “Ok, I’ve had enough of this shit.” face is just adorable.
Lady musta taken out a fiery axe ’cause she reads the Cio fanfic but ships another pairing. This development is unforgivable to her.
What’s our ship name anyway? Cioon? Allio?
Alicio is my vote
Yabalchoallison, silly!
I vote Demi-Demon.
Kill Six Billion Demons.
The whole time, the series’ actual point was right there in the title.
where the heck’s that coat of arms when you need it, cio
…maybe grandpa dragon will save the day miraculously? i wanna believe
Cio’s expression in panel three. “Awwww, shucks, just showing affection the devil way…”
Cio’s expression in panel six. “Again some time? SHE LIKES ME! SHE REALLY LIKES ME!”
0000001’s expression in panel seven. “And now you must fight her seven evil exes…Starting with…ME!!!”
Also, 0000001’s weapon is the most badaxe tool to date in this comic.
Heh. “Badaxe” ^^
How come the Villains pretty much always are way cooler and wicked powerful than the Heroes?. Perhaps the repetition of one character lowers their illusion of power and Villains seem more powerul to make them a worthy opponent?
The gathering of power at the expense of others is always more effective, in the short run. Power gained heroically comes slower but it’s potential is limitless.
I dunno, the Seven seem to have been unstoppably powerful for quite a long time.
Ah, but they were heroes once.
Power corrupts.
Turns out humans really do need all that red liquid in them… Who’dve thought that?
“How do you make a peerless, ageless, Ebon demon stop in its track?”
“Pray tell, master Lorr!”
“You kiss it.”
Begone, THOTS
Exsanguination – Exhalation – Exclamation – Expurgation ?
“Oh what I crush I have on Thee !”
Yes a crushing blow it was.
One ruptured spleen, two bi-sected liver,
Three – Whoops nope – save the broken hearts for later.
“Hello O’ Dragon’s Avatar !
Is that a Flaming Glaive – for a Knave ?”
“Nay it’s a Flaming Halberd – for I am PERTURBED !
The Penalty is Death – or perhaps Atomization
For MAKING OUT WITHOUT PERMISSION !
You TWO ARE INCREDIBLY RUDE !
A short list of your offenses…
You Break in,
Commit property damage,
Slay the Dragons’ servants,
Steal his coin,
Don’t give due homage to my lord
And proceed to intimate entertainments !
While my lord may be indifferent and blind to your trespasses,
You offend my eyes with your lack of contrition and passionate embraces !
If you were elsewhere – you could get a room,
Here instead – you shall face your Doom.
Since you are so full of Desire
– I will give you FIRE !”
Once, I met the god whose breath weaves the tale of Throne here in the City of Emeralds. I predicted that Cio is in fact not Yabalchaoth. Yabalchaoth never left and became Mammon’s Emissary, I said. He asked what my theory was based upon. I told him it was clear before me, since Mammon’s Emissary is purple. He was speechless before my great wisdom. Unfortunately my dog needed watering so I had to leave soon after.
KSBD was already great, now its cannonically sapphic, my day couldn’t get better!
Judicator: So this has been uh, really great I guess? I’m going to smash you now.
I think Cio just hit most embarrassed person in many of the long and varied histories of the universe.
– Fanfic author whose self insert was discovered
– …by the author of canon, who is ALSO the main character she was shipping herself with
– …via the method of them kissing
– This came right after her succumbing to the temptation to return to the awful thing she once was. Deep personal shame is a type of embarrassment, right?
– She’s also named after a soft drink
An incisive post, the last line of which made me actually snort-laugh.
GG NO RE
Eventually Abaddon will run out of cliffhangers.
That I very much doubt.
It is cliffhangers all the way down.
All the way down the cliff.
CAN’T. HOLD. ON. MUCH. LONGER!
In pleasure, departure
Therefore
Blindness, deafness,
And after that
Silence
It’s okay, the priest lady’ll use that hammer to nail all be blood back into Alisons body.
That’s how it works right.
Man, she really is just straight up Elfreide huh
“Fret no father, we have no need of thy flail. Tis only the flame, quivering at misguided Ash. Please avert thine eyes. I will snuff out these ashes for good.”
D-Darling, they’re having a moment.
Bill collectors always call at times like these.
They have a sixth sense for intimate moments.
The one true way to feel alive is to come within a hair of death.
Awww, sometimes all you need to hear is that you won’t be killing each other later rather than now.
Yessss. Reciprocated!
What kind of halberd is that?!
A giant, flame halberd.
Obviously.
Honestly after little over a week of makeouts this was a perfect followup that hit on all relevant points.
Ma Grumpy looks like she’s thinking “To kill, or not to kill. That is the question.”
She’d have to be exceedingly stupid if she hasn’t figured out these two are no threat to her beloved dragon.
Also, yay for lovebirds.
If 000001 is not shipping that, then 000001 must die.
Judicator is fucked. Cio will enter 200% mega-lesbo-defense for her new boo.
And this comic has shown time and time again that LOVE CONQUERS ALL!
000001 is about to unleash the spin-to-win.
The last panel makes me think “dark souls boss” for some reason.
She made a Dark Souls reference just a couple of pages ago.
First kiss happens in the vaultroom
Holy Mother waits to kill you.
Nothing happens in a vacuum.
“Arrival” seems a bit disingenuous when she’s been standing around this whole time, waiting for these useless lesbians to have their first/last kiss.
I’ll be honest I was charmed by Cio’s apparent crush/fanart, but I wasn’t sure or expecting it to be requited. That said, INTO IT.
Great composition of the last panel
The blood loss is finally catching up.
well, at least there past the point of discovering each others fetishes.
“If you two are /quite/ finished, I’ve got some smiting to do.”
More like cleaving, but yeah.
The 10% of me that’s straight thinks this is cute as hell and the other 90% is cheering at the execution.
(Okay, and Cio’s face in panel five is cute by all possible definitions.)
O hey there number one, no don’t mind us just making out in your hell dungeon haha
‘Are you done? Can I behead you now? I dont want to be rude or anything, I swear’
Ah, behold. The executioner’s fiery axe, known as Moodkiller.
That Maria pose. No secrets here.
Also, is it me or is Cio’s hand in that last panel the wrong colour? The one that’s holding Allison?
You’re right, her hand definitely appears to be Allison-colored
I Like This
Nothing ever good comes of red halos and weapons wrought from holy fire.
Bashful Cio induces, in me, feelings indescribable.
As a prince with a thousand enemies (and thus experienced in the art of danger) I’m fairly sure this is a “take AL-YIS-UN and RUN” moment.
Run now and live to steal the cabbages later. Always good advice!
“Does tha mind, giant flaming axe-dude? We are having a moment here”
Remember, all.
Don’t make out with demons whilst bleeding out on giant piles of gold. Wait until you’re no longer bleeding out, or until you’ve dealt with the caretakers of said gold.
Les-yay is fun, but only if you don’t die.
Poleaxe of Want, I support this.
The only item in the composition that dares to defy the symmetry.
Like makeup sex. Only with potential murder involved. Just that much better.
*don’t try at home
Ia! The ship survives it’s test at sea, may it’s voyage be eternal.
Is It Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon?
“ahem”
“If any one steal the property of a temple or of the court, he shall be put to death, and also the one who receives the stolen thing from him shall be put to death.” -Code of Hammurabi
That gives new meaning to “throw the book at her!”
The flustered tail wagging is what I’m here for tbh
Also, I love how her feeling uncomfortable n not really into it with her relationship with her boyfriend is now easily explained with compulsory heterosexuality, maybe even feeling like she had to have had sex to belong among her sorority sisters/peers, but that’s just a conjecture. Anyway now the question is how long will it take Allison to realize that? Will she still feel like saving… Zach,? Idfk. And once the conflict hopefully resolves how will her relationship with Cio evolve if she has to go back to her earth?
Well she did “schedule loosing her virginity” so yeah, it sounds like it something she was doing because she felt like she SHOULD have lost her virginity by now.
I can relate to that actually since that is the reason I was dating despite feeling no romantic attraction to anyone.
Hopefully she would still want to save Zach regardless because thats that decent human being thing to do.
Though this universe is kinda full of people who need saving and AREN’T trapped inside the most secure place in the multiverse. Some of them might even be more deserving than Zaid!
Yeah, but several demiurges still think he is the Heir, so he has tactical value too.
Well, she came all this way, and she did promise White Chain, so she might as well rescue Zaid.
Even if he is a creepy asshole.
Yea ik, it was mostly a rhetorical question, but one i felt had to be asked, if it makes sense? But anyway her relationship with what I now know to be named zaid is def gonna change
Cio blushing is one of the best things I’ve ever seen
THEY WERE HAVING A MOMENT 00001!!!
The Bank of the Grand Dragon’s rates for a moment are, in my opinion, exquisitely reasonable.
Axe-murder and a bit of petite mort go together surprisingly well. I love this show.
Smooch time over. Banker lady has some unfinished business with Yabalchoath.
Alice being smooth.
Also, passing out at the worst time. So, Cio, how does slaying a dragon sound?
horny on main is Definitely not allowed here
000001 has recognized this other wretch…
That’s a very mobile blush on Cio. Side effect of her unusual biology, perhaps? Having a quasi-artificial, situationally-mutable face must make for some interesting expressions.
Let’s see how Cio does against the jealous nursemaid, now. I suspect a Bad Man will be the one dealing the final blow in the coming fight.
Boxblocked!
Oh dear, I don’t think this Judicator is fond of dramatic romance.
I mean, at least giant axe lady was nice enough to wait until they’d finished having a moment. .__.
Ship: confused?
I guess it is wrong to pick up girls in the middle of a dungeon.
Back to business, then!
+1
Looks like the ship is still floating, but barely…
Gonna need some lifeboats, and fast…
Reach heaven through violence indeed.
Whelp time to roll some death saves and then take a short rest.
Also, I can’t wait to see the Imperiatrix’s palace smash into the vault. A building battle between two gods would be massively satisfying and totally appropriate.
Adrenaline + Demon Saliva is one Hell of a Drug
bury your gays
calling it now, KSBD is just about Allison becoming a top.
Awww. Whenever a woman is strong she has to be gay. I guess it’s a rule.
not all strong women are gay
but all gay women are strong
debatable, my friend
But…but… half the point is that she’s not all that strong?!
oooh she likes it 😀
And now Mammon will ask her to bring him his flail, but she will tell him to avert thine eyes
Damn, AL-YISUN, ain’t it a little early to be hitting her with the “What are we?”
“Don’t hit me with the ‘what are we’ so early in the morning.”
Calling it now, Alison’s character arc is literally just her becoming a top.
DAMMIT I’M CAUGHT UP
That’s a pretty fair reaction. But room for future growth is never a bad thing.
if this ends badly, then I just have one thing to say
I FRIGGIN CALLED IT
5/5 Would be murdered by this demon again!
You guys may be thinking, oh no, Alison is defenceless, but here’s I am excited bc we get to see cio defending her new gal pal with the fury of a thousand suns.
That’ll beat the fury of a thousand nuns every time.
A fair part’a me is hoping dear ol’ Mammon will find it in his big ol’ grandpa dragon heart to ask his nurse there to stay her hand. Young love ain’t somethin’ to be struck down with a fireaxe. Or a fire axe, for that matter.
“But seriously, get the fuck out of my bank.”
How long has she been watching in that pose?
I think she was doing what Sister Friede does in Dark Souls and really slowly walking up. If so she just struck that pose and is about 2 seconds from going ham.
The final battle is joined at last. Let nothing separate you, not even this axe.
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I think you might want to look behind you.
It is notable that she doesn’t make any mentions of them being of different species. At least that’s one obstacle less for the ship to sail through.
A bit of bestiality never hurt anyone.
Well, apart from the drunk bloke who tried to fuck a porcupine.
‘Tis not bestiality when both parties are sentient
See, I’m not the only one who thought it came out of nowhere. 😀
That third wheel tho…
“I don’t know why, but It is nice. Let’s try and kill each other another time”.
Yes, Al-is-un. This is what love is about.
Hey, it worked for Un and Yis.
Guys! Its a humanoid Soulsborne boss! Time to parry or run! Parry or run!
Quickly, Adjudicator! Smite them, smite them now, before they start fornicating on Mammon’s sacred gold!!
“Alison, I know this world is killing you.
Oh, Alison, my aim is true.”
dat tail twitch doe…
Thank you Courtney, as always!
YOU CHANGED IT. WHY? I MUST KNOW ;_;
Hmm changed? what was changed?
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