Wielder of Names 6-117
“Lord Intra,” said Intra’s sparring partner one day, “You are called Lord of Swords. Yet you are a man, and men make poor swordsmen.”
“It is true,” said Intra, for nearly all of the famous sword masters of the day were women and the ya-at, who were three sexed. This tradition was rather long in the bones, and rumored to have been started by a famous vagrant who rarely cut her hair and lived in a barrel. There was popular theater about it, in those days.
“Men are too preoccupied with their swords,” said Lord Intra, “They get distracted.”
“You mistake my meaning,” said Intra’s sparring partner, “What I mean is this: you are a mere man. What can you do to the new gods of the Red City, with their whips of fire and their heavy chariot wheels?”
“I am not concerned with enmity,” said Intra, “I am very skilled in Pankrash Circle Fighting”
“It is true you are very fierce,” conceded his partner, “But my son’s fighting beetle is also very fierce. Could his beetle fell a lion?”
“That depends,” said Intra, “How skilled is the beetle in Pankrash Circle Fighting?”
“Beetles cannot learn Pankrash Circle Fighting, Lord Intra,” said Intra’s attendant, and made a bitter motion.
“Don’t tell the beetle that,” said Intra, who was very skilled at smiling. “If you don’t tell him he will learn it anyway and cut the lion in half with a single blow.”
-The Song of Maybe
Oh Good Lord. The sheer, utter annoyance on Om’s face in that third panel. So wonderful. XD
And oh look, its… *attempts to remember name…fails…attempts to go back and find it, but is too lazy for that too* Um, I’m just going to nick name her ‘Pippy’ for right now. >.>
-Princess Mamoru Moonshine Jagermeister Jack Jack Daniels Timothy Tim Bill Freddy Mercury Blueberry Luna, Esquire Pippy suddenly looks even bluer-
The look upon her face shows a surprising amount of “oh you have GOT to be kidding me.” On it.
The look of many a blue devil’s master.
I knew quite well once.
Well, she’s had her magic peach crop destroyed, her ballroom blown up, her guards killed, her apprentice reject her, two folk try to kill her directly, been sassed by a pipsqueak devil, and been papier-mâché-bitch-slapped, all on account of a whiny girl who was in the wrong place at the wrong time. Even though she’s a survivor of a wicked huge war, she hasn’t learned yet to not mess with Australian girls.
Does it seem likely that Cio could easily learn the death-of-a-thousand-paper-cuts attack?
If she needs a thousand paper cuts, she only needs one. Do you not remember the scene where she quit her prior employment?
So judging by the handsome mask on the prow, I’m guessing this is Princess nee Vladok’s ship.
Recall a white dragon, that had lost its name.
They say that before, he was a river.
He was plagued by paper people, stuck upon him by Granny Witch.
Paper clings to hungry lips, and she but needs to wipe her mouth.
I would think she would have more manners than that, to not have a napkin ready for any sudden banquets is an odd practice for the merry.
But perhaps, she was not merry at all.
Devil ex machina
Mottom’s expression on panel three is pure gold.
Oh, it’s little Jack Jack Daniels and Blueberry Luna and So Forth. I prefer the old bastard in that form; lots prettier, and more importantly, lots more edible.
Too bad she’ll die like the rest of them!
This is my favourite page yet. Satisfying and feel-good.
A ship and Nakamas. We One Piece now!
KIN G. ZOSS was king of the multiverse. He had fame, power and wealth beyond our wildest dreams. Before he was executed by the Thorn Angels, these were the final words he said:
“My Key is yours for the taking, but you’ll have to find it first. I left it all in ALL-YISUN.”
And so, a new age of Persuers was born, searching for the for the King’s Key, the power to become king.
YO! YA-YO, YA-YO!
Keep dreamin’, don’t give it up Allison!
Keep dreamin’, don’t give it up White Chain!
Keep dreamin’, don’t give it up Cio!
Keep dreamin’, don’t give it give it up give it up give it up give it up give it NO!
Here’s how the story goes we find out
About a key in ALL-YISUN, there’s no doubt
The pursuer whose eye is on it
They’ll sing “I’ll be King of the Universe
I’m gonna be king!”
YA-YO, YA-YO!
Her name is Allison
That’s Wanda Ruth, Allison
Gonna be king of the universe!
She’s got a key in her head!
(Blue Devil singers) How did that happen?
Yo-ho-ho she tried to sleep with her boyfriend!
YA-YO, YA-YO
Her/his name’s White Chain, she/he’s just like a divine cop
And L-A-D-Y CIO curse words will drop
The pursuer crew coming through, doin’ their thing,
With the king of the universe, she’s gonna be king!
YA-YO, YA-YO, YA-YO, HOO HOO!
Set sail for the King’s Key, it’s the name of the treasure in ALL-YISUN!
YA-YO, YA-YO!
Set sail for King’s Key!
That is the face of a woman who’s getting too old for this sh-.
The amount of I’m done here is overwhelming.
Wise words are best left unspoken.
I’d glad to see that even after reverting to a primal state, being embarrassingly renamed and reduced to a blue devil, Princess Mamoru still has Vladok’s exquisite pipe.
Anyone with a desire to look respectable should never go anywhere without something that produces toxic fumes clenched between their teeth.
Nadia’s like “Seriously?”
“Men are distracted by their swords.” Lord Intra be praised for these words, which will elicit some marvelous expressions on the faces of my male sparring partners, when next time I take up the sword.
… Aw damnit. This skull has no hands to grab a blade.
(Besides, this page is among the bestest ever, especially panel 3.)
Welcome aboard the good ship Rincewind. Careful with that first step…
See, this is why you invest in spells that don’t require semantic components.
WHY DO KNOWN OF MY COMMENTS ACTUALLY SHOW UP, AM I SHADOW BANNED OR SOMETHING?
The shadows may come for thee one day! but most likely this is due to the comments being moderated to avoid spam. They appear in big chunks once or twice a day
Stories. They’re stories, characters, plot twists, random passages zipping out of Cio’s book and changing the world. Truly the storyteller is the first and last mage. Everything starts as a story, even a child. And Mottom never learned to tell her own. Even with a whole palace to set it in, she couldn’t convince Alison for a moment.
But like, would she not be still able to pronounce the “sh” with her lips shut?
I hear PERIMF is a different word with wildly different meaning. best not mix ’em up.
Mottom in panel 3: “Really? Really? This is what you’re going with?”
BWAHAHAHA
It occasionally may lie upon the storyteller to interfere with the story itself. That is why Such accomplished bards of my order such as myself are accompanied by another bard, in order to record my great acts of heroism while I record great acts of heroism. There are some in my order whose bards even have a bard, and then a bard after that.
a cast of heroes
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A BUNCH OF IDIOTS
82 RETURNS!!
Wait a sec…is that the Devil Allison named, and the girl she (unknowingly but no less heroically) kept form dying earlier?