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Is that caracal in the last issue perhaps single

Gonna need to write a lore doc for all the separate cool background characters I design this chapter

Oooh executioner is so cute. i wanna place him in a hamster wheel and watch him goooo

Putting him in the wheel.

Who's the person sitting next to Fortune? I love their outfit!

Mickey Pika, she’s a frequent guest at Fortune’s club and could tentatively be called a friend of Fortune’s. Fortune has a rotating inner circle (that Oakley just demonstrated can be swiftly exited) but Mickey’s managed to become a fixture of it. Mainly because she’s smart enough to never feel too comfortable with a gun at the table.

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may i request a little Oakley fun fact if you have any, for the soul? ive fallen a little in love with his design despite the fact he was around for only 13 pages (unlucky number come to think of it)

The exactly 13 pages thing wasn’t intentional, but definitely a happy coincidence lol! Fits pretty well given how his ‘luck’ turns out.

As for Oakley, funnily enough I did have a loose backstory for him in mind while writing the prologue, so I definitely have a few fun facts to share!

Oakley grew up in a small town, part of a large family that ran the town’s main grocery store. He always had bigger ambitions than running a small local business, so he left.

He spent a few years going from place to place, running cons and getting banned from gambling dens, before he wound up in the city.

He inserted himself into circles of entrepreneurs and stockbrokers, using his naive small town kid in a big city routine to lower their guards as he cheated them out of their cash.

Oakley thought he could run a similar con on Fortune.

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fortune is very fun thank you does she have a rune gun

Yep, she has a rune gun that shoots rune bullets and Pandora had a BLAST designing it.

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Ask box is being a bit weird so I had to take a screenshot to answer.

First of all thank you!!! Has it really been 18 months already? That’s wild to think about. I started posting as a New Year’s resolution for last year, but even then I didn’t think I’d get this far. With only a few more issues to go in Chapter 2, I’m really happy with how far this project has come.

Now, onto the questions!

Pertaining to Melody giving up without a fight and allowing the Hamsters to lure Pip to the theater in 2-5, it’s a similar situation to her first appearance in 1-8, where she refuses to negotiate for Pip’s life with Barker. Melody’s developed a sort of apathy, she’s very unwilling to fight what she figures fate has in store. If something’s inevitable, she doesn’t see the use in delaying it. Eventually, Pip and the Hamsters were going to fight, so why should she waste time or energy in trying to stop it or interfere with the outcome. Her philosophy is one that we’ll be coming back to quite a few times in the upcoming chapters.

The posters for Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead, as well as Die Zauberflöte (also known as The Magic Flute, an opera courtesy of Mozart), both serve as foreshadowing in 2-6, yes! All the posters, including Rigoletto as seen in 2-16, serve either as direct foreshadowing of future (and past) events or a reflection of the story’s themes overall. The specific choice of Rosencrantz & Guildenstern is a fun way of placing a poster with a prominent noose on it right behind Jury, but the choice of that play is also very intentional in terms of the ideas I’m exploring with this story.

Rigoletto specifically is a really great revenge opera by Verdi I highly recommend checking out. It features a song that is very catchy and features in a lot of pizza commercials that will become very funny once you learn the context of it in the story (and what the lyrics mean lol). But yes, Rigoletto is definitely important, if you want to learn more about it (or any of the operas mentioned), my dear friend @leporellian is an expert on the subject.

As for Kitty’s jacket in 2-10! Not a Rune Weapon I just worded things a bit confusingly. Only Rune Weapon in play here is the axe:

This part’s intended as a demonstration of the axe’s destructive capability. It eats through the fabric of Kitty’s (very expensive!!!) jacket, leaving only plumes of ash. Imagine what that could do to a person :)

On the subject of gory demises featuring Rune Weapons: Judge Hamster! I really like getting to explain the way Rune Weapons operate (and will at some point need to make some fun posts breaking down each Rune Weapon we see), so this is a fun question!

As you might know, a Rune Weapon requires energy from the user to complete its reaction. Unfortunately, Judge had already begun his downward swing when Pip stopped it, so the weapon had already taken the energy it needed to complete the reaction.

Going into some more detail: Judge’s weapon has two triggers, the downward swing and the impact with the base. The exposed nature of the second trigger requires the first trigger to refine the runes in preparation for the impact. If the runes went straight from the chamber to an exposed trigger, they would be unfocused and could pose a risk to the user. Energy from the first trigger is designed to lay in wait, stored for the second trigger. If the second trigger doesn’t occur, a safety feature is in place to gradually deactivate the weapon. If Pip had waited too long, the weapon would’ve deactivated and Judge would still be alive. Unfortunately for him, she was able to bring the gavel down before that happened.

Very glad you asked about the phone contacts!

Val (Math) is actually a character you’ll be seeing a lot of next chapter. As for Mom Hamster (not her actual name. I feel the need to clarify because of the Hamster family’s naming conventions), you’ll get a bit more details on her soon.

As for the sparing poll, that one was just a bit of fun. Executioner, and this moment for Pip’s character, are a bit too important to the story overall to kill just yet, so it was always intended for him to live here. Sparing him winning was fun though, and produced this image I get to share here now:

Look at those big sad eyes. I’d spare him too!

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Does this mean no Jury Duty reunion tour? :(

They’re definitely not making it to the Battle of the Bands, I’ll tell you that much.

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Watching the Hamster kids drop one by one actually hurts a bit because I've really grown to like them since their introduction. But that does make me hate the Good Mayor even more, because who sends their three kids to deal with someone like Pip, someone who already committed a brutal double homicide (triple/quadruple? Were Bones and JR killed too or just knocked out?). Love that Jury, the one who seemed most likely to save her own skin, died trying desperately to save her only surviving brother. Let's hope for his sake it's not in vain.

Simultaneously delighted to see readers like my funny Hamsters and feeling very very guilty for killing them brutally in front of you. Sorry <3

And yeah Mayor sure did send his 3 children to fight someone he’d explicitly been warned was dangerous and that he knew had just committed, yes, a double murder (Bones and J.R. are… well maybe fine isn’t the right word). He’s sent them into fights before, but none of this scale and never against another Rune Weapon user. He sent his kids to a battle they were never going to win because he vastly overestimated the power of 3 Rune Weapons vs 1.

As for Jury, I’m always a big fan of having a seemingly selfish character wind up being pushed to make an inherently selfless choice. She wound up dying just to give her brother a chance to live.

It’s tragic in a lot of ways. While Mayor never overtly played favorites, it’s very clear which of his kids he’s placed on a pedestal. And it’s never, ever, been Jury. As she said earlier in the chapter, she’s a ‘screw-up’. In her mind, the future doesn’t rest on her shoulders, it rests on Executioner’s.