“Gog no longer? How does that work?” –When Gog popped out of existence / teleported to another dimension / whatever following her failure to subsume Alison, it would appear that control over her thralls was broken, or the worms inside them died, or something.
Wasn’t that, like, three hours ago or something? Seems like an awfully short time to organize yourself enough to the point that you have a fully staffed and thematically named battlecruiser ready to go to war.
I am of the opinion that the missing eyes have nothing to do with AL-YISUN and instead a surgical act of deviance to remove The Beast’s contol over a host.
In King of Swords 7-63, (when Gog-Agog shows up at the house with the plants), we see a background character with a Worm crawling out of her eye. This makes me think that many hosts have similar ocular worms, which must be removed to be liberated from thrall-ness.
Not to mention that the Beast was tamed at most a few days ago, and I would be greatly impressed if a whole fleet dedicated to this triumph could form in so little time.
I would suppose to agree, if they all were missing the same eye as Allison. However, they aren’t…I thus supposition that there may be a procedure to remove the worm—presumably, through one’s eye. I’m reminded of the Magnus Archives, though I won’t say more for fear of spoiling things.
The fact that all three individuals are Gog-No-Longer makes me wonder if we might be looking at a fracture of the Gog hive mind as opposed to fully autonomous individuals. Kind of like a Borg cube that’s been disconnected from the larger hive mind.
Then again, “The wireless” would be an odd choice of name in that case.
Maybe it’s just like how multiple people in an office can be named Steve.
not quite the same thing but reminds me of a faction of characters in ffxiv who are an insect race normally part of a hive-mind called the onemind. the ones who broke free and split off call themselves the nonmind. they name themselves after finding a purpose but even still are sometimes susceptible to being pulled back in.
i wonder if these folks might be something similar, either yet to individualize themselves or just going by their shared purpose at the moment. i imagine being part of something as vast as gog-agog makes it hard to have a sense of self even after leaving.
My thought is though the are no longer controlled, their original identities are still lost. This would mean they’re all individuals, but more or less blank slates with nothing to lose.
I actually love this. It implies that our countless multiverse immortal worm is actually not so immortal. If you were SOMEHOW to de-worm all Gog’s bodies, then perhaps one could even hope to end worm’s entire existence?
It was stated way back when that Jagganoth could* kill Gog but it’d be a massive effort and given how Gog is willing to just abandon the other demiurges she’s probably not much of a oppositional threat to Jags anyways
She’s made of worms, not atoms! I mean, technically, even if she could reconstruct herself from a single atom, it would be possible to kill her. But lucky, with a worm hive mind, you don’t need to be NEARLY as thorough!
The multiverse is vast, full of wise, powerful, and enigmatic individuals. Is it really such a shock that someone, somewhere, for some reason, figured out how to pull the “Gog” out of gog-thralls?
And who knows if Gog-a-gog even noticed. I mean, she’s got so many thralls in so many places how many of them must die in any given minute? A few more thralls going dark in some distant corner of existence probably wouldn’t even trouble her long enough to look into it.
and those are just the flagships. Flagships usually are part of fleets, so i’d be considerably more than just 24. And that’s not counting all the lesser godships, godboats, godtenders, godskiffs, godyachts, godrafts, and kayaks.
And, heavens forfend, the “deuscanoe” is just entirely too close to being a “douchecanoe” that the demiurges ruled that one out right on the drawing board.
Not enough, unfortunately. These brave souls sail to their death with hope in their heart that such blind sacrifice will be enough for Allison One-Eye to finally end the Cycle.
That would most likely add eight more weeks of grace beyond the tragic upcoming early demise of this comic. NOBODY would object to that, would they? Petition time?
I notice all the Gog-no longers have one eye missing, which lines up with Gog Agog being grossed out by Allison missing an eye. An interesting detail that I’m unsure the exact meaning of.
That’s astute. It suggests that Gog was terrified by the resemblance to the thralls who have escaped her, which would be the ultimate horror. Like the song says:
Every time you go away
You take a piece of me with you
This is huge, you can actually survive a gog a gog orgy and get away with only losing an eye at minimum, which is a tremendous upgrade from the previous risk of being forever absorbed into the hivemind
I think you might be losing more than just an eye. Consider that “Gog-no-longer” is written as their name, not just some sort of title. It very well might be those people lost their memories so the only thing they can really identify by is no longer being Gog.
That brings to mind an interesting possibility, that the being we know in our world as Odin was once a Gog Agog. As the myth goes, Odin traded an eye for wisdom and all-sight, which (arguably) aligns with escaping from the dissolute madness of Gog Agog herself.
One needs only purchase the latest edition of Jane’s Fighting GodShips, Throne’s most comprehensive and reliable GodNaval reference. It covers literally thousands of ascended entities, including those loyal to Jagganoth and those about to be destroyed – which categories overlap quite a bit, actually.
“Gog-No-Longer”? Has someone being playing more Caves of Qud?
Also weren’t the others supposed to be gathering up the dregs of the other powers, did that mean these lot or are we about to have some awkward encounters…
It makes sense that the dominant powers in these gods’ realms would be those who opposed them. Anyone capable of opposing a demiurge without getting squashed would’ve absolutely had both the will and the power to take charge once the demiurge was gone.
Although in Nathor’s case I’m guessing all of Mammon’s possessions/contracts fell to her(?) upon his death, being his closest living relative. The Bank’s “rule” was one of ledgers and bills, after all.
While I think those pictures probably know, I could absolutely see the demise of Om being a secret on her worlds. Unlike Salami Dave Om didn’t seem to be that important to the day-to-day of her empire and the people around her might just find that their position is best maintained by just saying that Great Mother Om is just not taking visitors these days.
Wait, Gog no longer? How does that work.
Well, it seems to involve removing an eye.
Which weirdly coincides with AL-YISUN’s condition. Hm.
Does it? I could also see that being in imitation of Allison, who defied Gog-agog. She-who-ate-the-worm-but-did-not-submit, etc etc etc.
Anti-OM resistance?
Bane of the Grand Dragon Bank?
Wormless liberation fleet?
Reclaimed flesh?
Gog No Longer?
These are not going to join Alisson against Jagganoth!
She went to get the Demiurges armies. These, on this page, are the Demiurges ENEMIES!
THEY ARE COMING TO ENGAGE ALISSON, FOR FROD… I MEAN, FOR JAGGANOTH!
No, they are introductions of the elements of the fleet shown on the last page.
“Gog no longer? How does that work?” –When Gog popped out of existence / teleported to another dimension / whatever following her failure to subsume Alison, it would appear that control over her thralls was broken, or the worms inside them died, or something.
Wasn’t that, like, three hours ago or something? Seems like an awfully short time to organize yourself enough to the point that you have a fully staffed and thematically named battlecruiser ready to go to war.
No
I am of the opinion that the missing eyes have nothing to do with AL-YISUN and instead a surgical act of deviance to remove The Beast’s contol over a host.
In King of Swords 7-63, (when Gog-Agog shows up at the house with the plants), we see a background character with a Worm crawling out of her eye. This makes me think that many hosts have similar ocular worms, which must be removed to be liberated from thrall-ness.
Not to mention that the Beast was tamed at most a few days ago, and I would be greatly impressed if a whole fleet dedicated to this triumph could form in so little time.
Perhaps it’s because I’ve watched Young Frankenstein recently, but the first thought in my head here was, “FOR FRODERICK!” 😄
This made me laugh out loud for real.
“WE ARE HERE, JACK! WE ARE HERE TO RESCUE YOU!” Like ‘Samurai Jack,’ you see.
Oooh, I thought it was me.
I would suppose to agree, if they all were missing the same eye as Allison. However, they aren’t…I thus supposition that there may be a procedure to remove the worm—presumably, through one’s eye. I’m reminded of the Magnus Archives, though I won’t say more for fear of spoiling things.
It’d be pretty weird if they were all missing the same eye as Allison though, I think.
Like did they find her eye and were sharing it before, but now have lost it?
Seems TERRIBLY careless IMO
A really messy poop
So stop pooping.
Specially on company time.
♫ Boss makes a dollar,
I make a dime.
That’s why I poop
On company time ♪
😖💩💩💩💩💩💩💩💩💩💩
Beeeeeeeee bop bop bobobop
It’s simple. They stop being Gog.
STOP being Gog? In an earlier age, such total rebellion would have been inconceivable. Will wonders never cease…
The fact that all three individuals are Gog-No-Longer makes me wonder if we might be looking at a fracture of the Gog hive mind as opposed to fully autonomous individuals. Kind of like a Borg cube that’s been disconnected from the larger hive mind.
Then again, “The wireless” would be an odd choice of name in that case.
Maybe it’s just like how multiple people in an office can be named Steve.
*wormless, not wireless.
>buy wormless device
>look inside
>worms
That always bothered me…
not quite the same thing but reminds me of a faction of characters in ffxiv who are an insect race normally part of a hive-mind called the onemind. the ones who broke free and split off call themselves the nonmind. they name themselves after finding a purpose but even still are sometimes susceptible to being pulled back in.
i wonder if these folks might be something similar, either yet to individualize themselves or just going by their shared purpose at the moment. i imagine being part of something as vast as gog-agog makes it hard to have a sense of self even after leaving.
“Gary?”
Oh Gary that art in the sky.
Gary be thy name.
My thought is though the are no longer controlled, their original identities are still lost. This would mean they’re all individuals, but more or less blank slates with nothing to lose.
I actually love this. It implies that our countless multiverse immortal worm is actually not so immortal. If you were SOMEHOW to de-worm all Gog’s bodies, then perhaps one could even hope to end worm’s entire existence?
It was stated way back when that Jagganoth could* kill Gog but it’d be a massive effort and given how Gog is willing to just abandon the other demiurges she’s probably not much of a oppositional threat to Jags anyways
It’s not that complex. Just kill them all and she’ll die.
She’s made of worms, not atoms! I mean, technically, even if she could reconstruct herself from a single atom, it would be possible to kill her. But lucky, with a worm hive mind, you don’t need to be NEARLY as thorough!
Know what? *un-Gogs your Gog*
Just like in bloodborne, the worm is stored in the eye
The multiverse is vast, full of wise, powerful, and enigmatic individuals. Is it really such a shock that someone, somewhere, for some reason, figured out how to pull the “Gog” out of gog-thralls?
And who knows if Gog-a-gog even noticed. I mean, she’s got so many thralls in so many places how many of them must die in any given minute? A few more thralls going dark in some distant corner of existence probably wouldn’t even trouble her long enough to look into it.
Given how old she is she probably knows it’s possible to de-worm people
Ivermectin: the best deworming agent in the cosmos.
Some worms are resistant to Invermectin …
Gog-no-longer goes incredibly hard.
AESMAS BLACKENED TITS HOW MANY GODSHIPS DO THEY HAVE
According to the alttext, at least 24 more.
and those are just the flagships. Flagships usually are part of fleets, so i’d be considerably more than just 24. And that’s not counting all the lesser godships, godboats, godtenders, godskiffs, godyachts, godrafts, and kayaks.
love how there’s no godkayak in this list, implying that *all* kayaks are godkayaks
Or that no god would sully themselves with such a vessel
And, heavens forfend, the “deuscanoe” is just entirely too close to being a “douchecanoe” that the demiurges ruled that one out right on the drawing board.
Not enough, unfortunately. These brave souls sail to their death with hope in their heart that such blind sacrifice will be enough for Allison One-Eye to finally end the Cycle.
How can one de-gog itself ????
Ivermectin.
Ah, yes, what may the fearsome and awe-inspiring Gods do before the rumble of scientific triumph?
DEMIURGES HATE THIS ONE TRICK!
Ahh, the Godship Ivermectin, sister ship to Godship Combantrin.
RFK seems to have managed (or has he???)
His brainworms are all-natural and organic, none of those Gog mRNAs for him. 😒
Bug spray, I assume. Administered pan-corpus (i.e. infusing one’s entire body). It’s excruciatingly painful, but highly effective!
SKREEEE THEY”RE MOTHERFUCKING LIBERATEDDDDDD
Keep going, the next two and a half years are going to be exclusively godship pages
And then they all without exception get immediately destroyed in a single panel once Jagganoth gets out.
Would be the funniest shit ever.
Gog-No-Longer? Someone’s been playing Caves of Qud
One simply has to do the next run as Ptoh-No-Longer
The early Ptoh gets the Worm.
👀 is that one of Pyran Sor’s relations?
Judging by the branch on her belt, she’s either his widow, his successor, or both.
Elder Sky’s Rim is observant.
Go on, pull an Illiad. You know you want to.
You should. You should do it for eight more pages.
Agreed.
Agreed again
That would most likely add eight more weeks of grace beyond the tragic upcoming early demise of this comic. NOBODY would object to that, would they? Petition time?
My favorite Gog-no-longer is Gog-no-longer.
Thanks, I needed that today
They weren’t talking to you
I’m absolutely gobsmacked by the rawness of this answer
An aspect of Gog that rebelled against the rest of Gog? Aw man, now I want to know more
Ok this is sick as fuck
Epic ship designs is not a thing I expected from a comic involving epic character designs, somehow.
Considering Abaddon also handles all the mech designs for Lancer, he is especially skilled at making big war machines with cool captains.
The man is truly talented beyond all understanding.
What we were once will always be apart of us as memory
reaches into your face and ungogs you
I notice all the Gog-no longers have one eye missing, which lines up with Gog Agog being grossed out by Allison missing an eye. An interesting detail that I’m unsure the exact meaning of.
That’s astute. It suggests that Gog was terrified by the resemblance to the thralls who have escaped her, which would be the ultimate horror. Like the song says:
Every time you go away
You take a piece of me with you
This is huge, you can actually survive a gog a gog orgy and get away with only losing an eye at minimum, which is a tremendous upgrade from the previous risk of being forever absorbed into the hivemind
I think you might be losing more than just an eye. Consider that “Gog-no-longer” is written as their name, not just some sort of title. It very well might be those people lost their memories so the only thing they can really identify by is no longer being Gog.
That brings to mind an interesting possibility, that the being we know in our world as Odin was once a Gog Agog. As the myth goes, Odin traded an eye for wisdom and all-sight, which (arguably) aligns with escaping from the dissolute madness of Gog Agog herself.
Hmm…
I want to know more about being deGogged. Asking for a pal.
This is awesome. Rebels from at least three of the domains of the demiurges. I’m down for another 8 pages.
I would buy a whole book of these tbh
One needs only purchase the latest edition of Jane’s Fighting GodShips, Throne’s most comprehensive and reliable GodNaval reference. It covers literally thousands of ascended entities, including those loyal to Jagganoth and those about to be destroyed – which categories overlap quite a bit, actually.
“Gog-No-Longer”? Has someone being playing more Caves of Qud?
Also weren’t the others supposed to be gathering up the dregs of the other powers, did that mean these lot or are we about to have some awkward encounters…
It makes sense that the dominant powers in these gods’ realms would be those who opposed them. Anyone capable of opposing a demiurge without getting squashed would’ve absolutely had both the will and the power to take charge once the demiurge was gone.
Although in Nathor’s case I’m guessing all of Mammon’s possessions/contracts fell to her(?) upon his death, being his closest living relative. The Bank’s “rule” was one of ledgers and bills, after all.
Anti-Om resistance? Don’t they know she got turned into peach-flavoured jam? By the one they’re flying into battle against, in fact?
They know what’s at stake. Nothing unites like the threat of obliteration!
Plus, they aren’t here to fight Jag, they’re here to fight his armies.
While I think those pictures probably know, I could absolutely see the demise of Om being a secret on her worlds. Unlike Salami Dave Om didn’t seem to be that important to the day-to-day of her empire and the people around her might just find that their position is best maintained by just saying that Great Mother Om is just not taking visitors these days.
This is like if the boat list in the Iliad was good
Heck, I thought resistance was O(h)m. 😄
(I’ll see myself out…)
I would very much like to see 8 more pages of this.
Me 2
Hell yes
DEFECTED WORMS?