#com3150project

[asktheraggededges]

That interaction between Aloysius and Verity got me wondering. How deep is his commitment to think like an Ork? I mean, does he suppress his sex drive? Are Ork Hunter expected to be chaste?

I ‘OPE NOT.

WHEN I’S HUNTIN’ I AIN’T THINKIN’ ABOUT SQUEEZY BITS, THOUGH.

SO, MAYBE A LITTLE BIT, YEAH.

[boktheneutral]

Question for the spider girl from BtN 013: Are there any humans willing to do commerce with your people? On the one hand they call you monsters, but on the other hand humans have been know to go to great lengths for fine textiles, and you've got silk coming out of your butts.

I am sure some of them might. Such trades are not common, though. Humans, or indeed any of the ternion species can’t be counted upon to not betray us or at least panic.We have been contacted by traders, agreed to meet at a neutral ground. But when their guards spot ours, far too often they open fire. Something about our species, perhaps the way we move seems to elicit instinctive fear in many people.

I realise it is more complicated than that.

There are many many tribes of Pajak, my species.

Not all of them are fuzzy, largely pacifistic vegetarians like us. 

There are many tribes that invade towns, engulfing them in web, killing hundreds and kidnapping dozens to be fed upon by their brood later. Other tribes set traps designed to pull unwary travellers underground and consume them.

So, part of the problem, I am quite sure, is that most members of ternion society cannot tell one tribe from another.

Similarly, many Pajaks, even from peaceful tribes like my own, do not distinguish between elves, orks and humans who hunt them and those that don’t. So, some of my tribe who have lost family are hostile to them on sight.

In the event that we have silk we can spare we generally sell it to the goblins who will then sell it to humans, at what I assume is an amazing mark up.

[misterculexus]

You're really flourishing in the talking head format. Have you ever considered making a reusable comic layout, like Dinosaur Comics?

Dangerous. This format is skirting the ragged edge between fulfilment and effort already. I don’t need to get any lazier.

I’ve been indulging in it because its the end of the year and its hard to get a  decent art project going and I still want to make content. I do not want to get to used to it, though. Gotta keep making the good stuff.

[unsoundedcomic]

Sette said way back that she could smell pymary. Can she smell Timofey?

When he does certain things or if she was to physically stick her face into him, but he’s a pymaric so all his pymary funk stays isolated on his own little self-contained khert. Surely he won’t do as she asks though. Why would he read Nary’s letters to her? There could be any number of incriminating, complicating lines in there that could stand to bite Bastion in the butt. But Sette does have a way of getting pymarics to do exactly what she wants...

[asktheraggededges]

I tend to read too much into things, seeing subtext that isn't there. That having been said, does Cuddles use subtle mind control to prevent Colton from killing herself?

nEvEr.

tHe boSS is VERy cLeAR oN this IS

and I dO as sHe sAYs.

not REaLLy my speciALITy, aNywAy.

[ARCHIVAL DATA ACCESSED]

It’s not that I don’t appreciate your concern, Sawbones. But honestly, none of the stuff I take is doing me half as much damage as your lho habit.

What are you on? Two packs a day? Those things’ll kill you.

[subject  sighs,exhaling a plume of smoke]

No.

No they really wont..

[asktheraggededges]

I have started to suspect that Malak is on the autism spectrum. Author's intent?

((I generally don’t write a character with anything specifically in mind. They just act how they act and I leave it to peoples interpretation. Sometimes I flesh it out but generally I leave it up to the reader.))

[unsoundedcomic]

Do you like Les Miz? It recently hit me that the setting and tone of your story is similar to Les Miz; rouges and outcasts, unstable politics, shattered families, etc. Maybe if Duane survives all this he'll write a book. Maybe the producers of Quigley's play will read it. Maybe they'll produce a musical...

Les Mis is not a favourite of mine! Its religious themes are a little heavy-handed for my tastes and the characters are les miserably boring, but it does have some nice songs. I do like musicals and opera quite a bit though, so someone setting one of Duane’s lachrymose journal entries to music would please me mightily :)

[wilwheaton]

Have you ever invited Anita Sarkeesian to Tabletop? She's into board games.

If we do another season, she's on my list of people I'd love to game with