Seeker of Thrones 9-120
Chapter: 9
“Beware thou crawling thing! When the gods clash the sky is red with their lightnings. The hosts of Khamun-re and Astet come forth to do battle, and they smite each other with stars. Turn thou thy face backwards against their black heat, or thou wilt taste death.”
– Ritual warning of the priests of The Azure Palace
I knew something terrible would happen the second Mammon turned out to be so kind and calm.
So much for 000001’s idea that the chaos outside could just stay out there.
Granted, 000001 never really expected one of the other Demiurges to pilot their floating palace straight into the recursive bank.
Big tactical mistake, assuming any of the Demiurges are sane.
mammon’s not kind and calm. he’s old and wasted. he’s a fallen god, not an evolved being. so is mottom.
And so the petty queen wrecks grandpa Mammon’s nice home.
What a turbobitch.
Some say that subtlety is for lesser beings. Those people are not always wrong.
Well, that’s a much easier way of breaking in.
He is blind. He is foolish. He has the mind of a child.
He is still a god.
And someone has come to take a toy from him.
the hungry one returns.
=//=
ALL SHOULD FEAR WHEN GODS DO BATTLE!
particularly when a young god has reason to take up arms beside an old one
1. Cio got no nip nops!
2. BOSS TIME!
Once again the children of the Hot Black Flame disappoint.
No blood to drink; no nip nops to nibble.
Knoc knock.
Knock Knock.
Mottom: “Alright, just park it carefully outside the- FUCK”
ME
Listen! Listen close. You can hear it in the winds. The thunderous roar of gods.
that’s a lot of guests
Depends on how many people on Mottom’s palace survived entry. Mottom herself is a no brainer, but her many servants and nobles are another matter.
mottom hasn’t heard about paralell-parking
One notes the difficulty of parking parallel when one’s vessel is a disk.
And thus Mottom CUTS through infinity, and glory strikes the tower.
Elsewise is observant.
This is what we in the industry call a “holy shit moment”.
Holy shit.
to put shortly… OH. NO.
OH NO!
pheh. speak the Hexagrammaton correctly.
O H Y E A H
Well, that’s going to cost a lot to fix…
Oh wait
Yeah! Let’s COUNT!
Question: if a 3 km wide city crashes into the side of a 1 km fractal building, will the whole city fit inside before coming out the back wall?
Looks like Incubus is getting his war, even if Allison’s not going to be the one to start it…
She is a wedge to drive between them.
That is the nice thing about vague prophecies: any fool could see the moment a new player came on the scene, the proverbial “excrement hitting the whirling chandelier” would inevitably come to pass.
Technically, Allison DID set off Mottom’s roaring rampage of revenge. Our young rising king still was the catalyst for cosmic war.
“Goddamn it.” – Mammon
THUNDER DOOOOOOOOME
Two men enterrrrmmmm… wait a second. There are no men in this picture. >.>
TWO GODS ENTER, ONE GOD LEAVES
Come on, people. Just this once, can’t we get Beyond Thunderdome?
*Throws Hands In The Air* Y E S ! Y E S !
Oh dear God.
You speak of which one? There are two.
Regardless, time that Cio flew.
War
Who
What is it good for?
Good God
Mother Om
What is it good for
Queen
Damn, this is even more unexpected than nice dragon.
Good Gods Y’all
What is it good for?
Good GOD y’all!
Good gods, y’all
what is it good for
Good god, Yall
“Mottom is not a very subtle Queen”
from the image’s alt text.
So, will Alison end up with two more keys now?
What is it good for?
Yeah..
Yeah…
WHAT IS IT GOOD FOR!?
ABSOLUTELY NOTHING!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tYH4HsHvxO8
What is it good for?!
Yeah
War? What is it good for?
What is it good for?
Huh
But, what is it good for?
War never changes
It was Unavoidable
WHAT IS IT GOOD FOR
There shall be a reckoning of blood and lightning and gold and wrath and fire
Because shit’s goin’ down.
What is it good for?
Huh!
What is it good for
Good Gods, y’all.
what is it good for?
Say it again!
OHHHH YEAAAHHHHHHHHH
*MS Paint Adventures narration*:
In dismay, you watch as Mottom crashes her floating palace through the wall, Kool-Aid Man style.
Gluttony confronts Greed. Though if they switched places, could you tell the difference?
yeah i mean mammon looks emaciated for no good reason and mottom made a huge deal out of looking good by eating stuff
Welp, so much for staying safely away from the woes and the corruption of the outside world. I guess it’s multiversal war again.
Meanwhile Cio is like “OK, how do humans work and how do you fix them?”
What! How!
Great, so now two decrepit mad gods are about to fight
Haven’t seen this many pissed off geriatrics fight since that tussle at the old folks home.
Something tells me the orderlies are going to have a harder time breaking it up this time, though.
And Mammon is like, “That’s what I get for complaining about never getting visitors anymore.”
Smashing his windows like that is just terribly rude.
She’s dying and he can’t die.
I like his odds.
Tea party!!
DERP
E
R
P
yo, somebody’s gonna get killed here
OOP!
~THERE~
~IT~
~IS~
For the Queen of GLORY took wicked flight
Into the Vault to pillage and blight;
And the Priests of the Count gazed in dread
As doom’s shadow across the land did spread
Exquisite
Don’t fidget
I wish things were a tad more rhythmic
The bitch is back, stone cold sober as a matter of fact
o fuk
Verily.
OH YEEEEEEEEEAH!
Whoo, the sense of scale
Yeah
What is it good for
Mottom really knows how to hold a grudge.
there’s this big old shit, and it’s sailing through the air towards this humongous fan.
Why didn’t they do that in the first place?
Oh dear, if any of that rubble gets in the way it might terribly mess up the count.
Holy shit! Mottom is pissed.
mottom pls, granddad dragon is a large insectoid cinnamon roll, don’t make him PERISH
PEACHES!!!
Oh for the love of…. I just discovered there’s alt text.
Time to reread!
S U R P R I S E ! Good luck reading the entire comic again!
Trust me, the alt-text is REALLY GOOD.
This is not The Place One Should Be.
Violence is inescapable.
Well. That is certainly one way to reach Yre-ynamon. The straightest path is the quickest, no?
That moment when a Bottomless Hunger meets Infinite Recursion.
On another note, I love how Cio’s face in the second panel fully and completely encapsulates how tragic the situation was. That they went to all that trouble and got all those people killed, and it was a pointless exercise.
They don’t even have any extra hands ready to haul away the loot (not that they’d have much luck outrunning the priests at this point). This, my friends, is why you don’t start killing your heist-mates until AFTER you make your getaway.
OH YEEEAH!
She came in like a wreeeeeeeeeeckiiiiiiing baaaaalll
Mottom. She comes. For you.
Things fall apart. The center cannot hold. Chaos is unleashed upon the world.
The Red City comes
The Count interrupted
The Devout ready themselves
The Innocent wait for death
Kool-Aid Mottom
SEE HOW PEACE TURNS TO RUIN WHEN BROKEN QUEENS CAST DOWN AN EYE
DEATH TO ROYALTY
BREAK THE CROWN
Seek heaven through violence.
*Kool Aid Man voice
“Oh, Yeah!”
Welp. Guess who’s back.
Also, we can now see what Cio’s strategically placed strands of hair were concealing:
Blank carapace.
Well yeah, I mean do demons even *have* babies?
When dealing in the vicinity of the seven, you can’t go wrong wrong with full life and afterlife coverage.
Don’t worry, she’s just here for the Friday fish fry.
Independence Day has arrived for the fine citizens of the vault.
Crashing this party. (with no survivors)
It’s funny, because Mottom was sort of having a party on her flying palace. Meaning she is literally crashing a party into the Infinite Recursion Bank.
Off in the distance, man of glass watches these events unfold, aghast, the liquid contents of his hollow sloshing with the tremors of the violence.
“Oh, MAN!”
Oh… Dear…
That’s gonna leave a mark!
Oh fuck.
One way to break into the vault I suppose.
Comes the Eater to the palace of the Lord of Rent.
Mother Om bears the word GLORY.
Sigh oh
Oh sigh
Ten, is ten, whether counted or naught; Count them.
Twelve, is twelve, whether counted or naught: No matter the distraction.
Eternity, is never eternal, whether counted or naught: So count them, for there will be no end of your quest, no matter the distraction.
Sigh oh
Oh sigh.
Ah, it seems that our good Queen’s everything is aflame. Good to know.
Also, hands off our grandfatherly Dragon god. Just don’t.
OHHHHHHHHH YEAAAAAAAAAA
And all the gold in Yre could not buy him peace.
If words existed to describe how angry I am right now, then surely my mouth is too small and simple to speak them.
Fuck you, Mottom. Fuck the fuck off and leave Mammon the fuck alone. My Lord has been through quite enough lately.
I wonder if I’m the only person that thought, for a split second, that this was somehow Oscar coming to ruin everything before recognising Mottom’s palace.
HE TOOK THE DEAL. HE TOOK IT ALL.
Is that Mottom’s palace crash-landing?
Alas, she was incredible for eyes to behold, yet she infiltrates the dwellings of the Grandest Father, and flays my simple heart into un-stitchable pieces, leaving me to simply awe and rue and fear the moons to come!
Holy shit!
Whatzerface’s city!
The question is, is this an attack or a crash landing?
When gods go to war, is there even a difference?
OH SHIT
When making a house call, one does not normally bring their own house.
Shits going down
To say Mottom is not very subtle is akin to saying the day in Throne is long or the humans need to keep all that red fluid inside them to keep functioning. The latter point being something someone should remind Cio of, soon.
It would seem the poison of the outside world has already come to call. Apparently even an impenetrable labyrinth cannot endure the force of a full city-sized collision.
Well THAT can’t be good.
“OH SHIT” Sayeth the God
Nooo! Things were sorta happy here! I’m both excited and scared.
http://i.4cdn.org/co/1521606847826.jpg
REACH HEAVEN THROUGH VIOLENCE BABY!
I accept this.
“…and thus did the terrible light of GLORY breach the high walls of the TOWER, and lo, the sight and sound of that dreadful incursion did strike fear into the hearts of those who beheld it. For it seemed that once again the Sovereign Kings would rise from their thrones and war amongst themselves, and their battle would shake the foundations of the Red City, such as had not been seen since the Universal War.”
Guess Allison should’ve finished her off when she had the chance.
…that better be the Koolaid guy
What is it good for?
Good YIS y’all!
What is it good for?
Jesus, looks like somebody has absolutely no chill. She just wrecking-ball styled her city into the vault wow.
Oh, Yeah!
DEJA VU
Ah.
Good fun ahead, m’lads, and what looks to be the start of a damn good show. .
I’m certainly looking forward to seeing what a war between two masters of the universe looks like.
Cio doesnt have tits, but have breast? Fuck you Abaddon why u even show them if they dont have tities?
Ask every anime artist ever
WHAT!
Even for a god this seems a bit much.
AND THEN THERE WAS MOTTUM!
Did you not learn the lesson of the Sliver Prince? Even if you find your peace, violence is inescapable.
what a party pooper
oh Shit
OH SHIT
i bet THAT will last a LONG TIME!
Oh, Granny, what big floating city you have!
All the better to crash your extradimentional fortress with, my dear!
Quick prediction: 000001 will hold Cio and Allison responsible for Mottom’s attack.
Reasonable, given that they kind of ARE.
Whoa.
Okay, so now he gets what he paid for, right?
YEET
-Whoever is responsible for this, probably
Report that ricochets
Echos enable speech
Who calls them gods, truly?
Well shit. Now we will never know what he was counting. Also, Id love to see Mottom, Mammon, the purple Mother and Cio discussing the fate of poor Allison over tea and cookies, but right now that doesnt look like the most likely outcome…
Here’s the weather for today
Cloudy skies with a chance of heavy, and I do mean Heavy, precipitations
all that effort to hide nips that weren’t even there
Came in like a wrecking ball.
Oh, look at the time, it’s Let’s-Get-The-F***-Out-Of-Here O’clock!
How rude of you, Nadya.
Though the last panel is epic one indeed.
to the tune of “hello motto from the 90’s”:
HELLO MOTTOM
Whoa. That is a easy way to get insiste the Infinite Vault.
This is some cutting the Gordion Knot shit, right here.
Has she even paid him the first interest rate of that thing?
Crashing this plane.
With no survivors!
“Ah! What brings you here? Come, sit, it’s been too long.”
While Mammon does not deserve my pity, he does have it.
The fortress doesn’t look very impregnable somehow
Mottom is stopping by for tea with a kind old dragon. she just forgot how to park her floating city properly.
Well shit
Well…. that can’t be good.
Now this takes “Breaking and entering” to a whole new level
knock knock
Mammon: That’s 1 falling cityscape, ah ah ahh.
Weak Mother might be the one to stirr the whole shit again, duh.
Shit is 100% percent going down
Is Mottom coming for the (supposed) Heir or for Allison? Either way, Mammon and #1 should have reduced their exposure by telling everyone they sold the Heir. This sort of thing makes me think that the prophecy of the Heir is not about a supremely powerful being who strikes down the seven Lords, but about an agent of chaos who simply causes them to fight themselves to their own destruction.
That’s how Incubus wants it to play out, but I suspect that old man Zoss has a few tricks left up his sleeve.
The eternal Recurrence of Throne
huh
Ah, Mottom. How have you been?
And who is this guest you bring with you? It must be none other than Death. A lovely name, to be sure.
This is the fault of believing any Tower built is impenetrable.
There is always something stronger.
Granted one is forgiven for assuming one wouldn’t throw a floating city at one.
Mottom (that’s the name of the woman whose tree got blown up?) is here, and all hell is going to break loose.
WAR. what is it good for?
making a bucket of money, Mammon.
The hag against the dragon, my money is on the geezer.
Iä, a Giant Floating Castle and a Queen for the Vault!
Mottom’s shit is going to hit Mammon’s Fan
Whatever this is, no doubt it has a sufficiently exposed vulnerability placed somewhere with difficult but just this side of ‘possible’ access by, say, a plucky if currently unconscious heroine, which would destroy it in one climatic and also possibly cineastic explosion.
Ahahahahahaha
Mottom is PISSED
Attacking with Shock and Awe. I am extremely curious as to what the response will be.
I am reminded of a certain piece of entertainment I saw once on earth. Quite terrible really, but it certainly gave me pause to take in the enjoyment of the destruction that was to later occur.
Well, to be fair, the plot was kinda stalling
Okay. Even knowing about the awesome cosmic powers and whatnot, I still find it impressive that Mottom got the palace inside the bank. I mean, it’s big inside, but it can’t have been big enough from the outside to fit conveniently.
And so, the War begins.
If it was that easy to get in, why haven’t more people tried it
Most people are not gods.
Hrmm… I’m thinkin’ that most folks wouldn’t consider it easy to wrinkle space-time in such a fashion as to transport a flying city into a dimensional fortress containing infinite space and arrive at the exact location of the person(s) you are looking for. If so, then they probably have no need to perform such a feat, as they could more-easily magic up anything they desired that said fortress might contain.
Maybe it was an accident and she actually just wanted to drop by her beautician, now that she’s a bit … wrinkly.
“Told you we should have turned into left on that last n-dimensional space-time fold!” “Shut up when I’m driving! I haven’t done this in ages – oh, hey, there’s Mammon, let’s ask for directions …”
Shadows Fall as Red Gods rise,
As Daemons, Mortals, in mourning dies,
The God of Greed sees his Demise,
Invictus Sol, et Vetu Mais
There’s always that one jerk who brings their flying city crashing into your tender moment in a murder dungeon maze.
murder maze idyll
tender moment now ruined
one jerk’s flying city
Seek not the islands of heaven. They will always find you in time. Time is immaterial in heaven. You are already found.
It did seem to easy all of a sudden.
Well, easy if you wield the power of one of the 7 lords of infinity. Not everybody has floating cities to fling around.
WHO DISTURBS THE COUNT
I see that Mammon’s tower has appeared.
Hrmm… Now, y’all might recall something about Cio having stolen a piece of Key from Mammon in the past. Now, I’m not sure what’s required to do something like that, but I’m guessing that she might be able to “borrow” a sliver of Key from our gal Allison. With that she should be able to work some healing magic to put the Rising King back on her feet.
Maybe.
Oh, hello Mottom. Nice city you have crashing into my treasure fortress. Would you at least mind wiping your feet before you continue to BREAK EVERYTHING?
THAT’S A LOTTA DAMAGE!
How about a little more!
Anyone else seen the GIANT BABY edit?
https://78.media.tumblr.com/004d6ad5ad152609e32fb7261f10b338/tumblr_p5x8cvVd5f1utxsh4o1_1280.jpg
READY TO RUMBLE!
That is such a good edit, oh my God.
THE LIGHTNING-STRUCK TOWER
coins vs. cups
round one…
I CAME IN
LIKE A WRECKING BALL
I NEVER HIT SO HARD IN LOVE
ALL I WANTED WAS TO BREAK YOUR WALLS
Iggy Pop summed it up well –
” The gods all suck … “
I like to imagine Mottom crashing through abut 100,000 empty rooms before finally getting to Mammon
Mottom, I swear to YIS-UN if you kill dragon grampa-
That might be a problem to clean up.
Love that last panle.
Thanks for taking the time to discuss this, I feel strongly about it and love learning more on this topic.