I would post a direct link to the relevant comic of them being turned to stone, but whenever I do it, the post gets flagged for moderation and takes ages to appear (also, heads-up to Wormius that such is happening). Just check the comics of the previous appeareance of Capria, Miko, Lyca, etc…
Yeah, sorry about that. Anything with a link gets flagged, and I get a little too scatterbrained to moderate them in a timely manner sometimes.
On the Plus side, it does save you folks from a lot of online pharmaceuticals ads!
And also, if you ever leave a really cryptic comment like “Wow, a lot of great posts here. I’m going to tell my friends about it!” that just gets trashed, because I assume it’s a bot trying to get a post approved so that it can do something nefarious.
Only things I could think as workarounds that woudn’t need you taking time away from more important stuff would be either to just post the comic number and let the reader the burden of search, or obfuscate the URL (which MIGHT trip spam detectors anywat), or the off-chance you could tweak the spam filter into ignoring self-referencing links (which may or not may be in your list of priorities to begin with).
Well, we’ll manage, man.
Anyways, I see someone (LITERALLY) 😀 managed to post the relevant link.
Fun episode – for some, anyway. I love that ‘stone Miko’ officially became a bird sanctuary – nice nest, nice eggs! Oh dear. Good to see the Valryn girls (two at least), and Lyca, who had the closest encounter with Draxx, declaring him gone. Meantime, as I predicted, Capria has lost her arm, ugh, messy, blood! Someone get to attend to her, but just punishment for betray Sephni and the High Elves. I guess Bree is going to have to reconcile her friendships. There’s a lot of dead, decapitated palace guards to clear up. Oops.
Gotta agree with you on something – Capria placing Kindal as puppet, and sending assasins after her, might be either
a) treason (usurpation), and more treason (getting rid of the real ruler)
b) acting as defacto regent in Sephni’s absence, and mercy-kill her suffering, possesed friend
and we won’t know until she actually tells. Albeit I’m leaning towards option B.
Seems more likely Kindall arranged himself to become King but his plans around Sephni seemed to go beyond that. He would have already been King (or maybe Prince Consort) after marrying Sephni and been able to simply get her killed to assume Kingship. Instead he seemed to buy into the Devourer and the idea that everything would be consumed, but he presumed with the collar that he would be the sole survivor… Which probably would have been true of Draxx had taken over, but in the end he found it wasn’t the desirable life he hoped for.
The Red Fang seemed to believe that Sephni was responsible for some reason. But even though Kindall had command over a number of them, they seem to have answered to a “Council” and were perfectly willing to kill Kindall. Whatever the case, they appear to have believed Sephni was already dead and they needed to kill her permanently… to be fair, she turned all the people in her land to stone and was infected/controlled to a good extend by Draxx, so they likely weren’t in the wrong to believe it a necessity. But Caprica certainly appears to have had absolutely nothing to do with supporting Kindall or the Red Fang.
When did Capria put Kindall on the throne? Doh! Sometimes the story doesn’t have spell out every bit of detail. It’s obvious, either at the time or later. Capria took Kindall away, supposedly to punish him. Next thing she is the shadow behind the throne, masked up, disguising who or what she is, giving orders “in the king’s name”. The whole point of good story writing is to not reveal things until the last possible moment, especially who might be betraying whom. There is nothing to indicate the dragon had anything to do with it, he was in the Wood elf lands, with his own motives. These were (dragon, Draxx, Capria) all different players, each either not aware of the others, or only dimly/ And the Mindripper was never tasked with hurting Bree, only removing Sephni’s immortality collar, perhaps so she could be killed, perhaps not. I see the shadow elves, by their very name, as being somewhat towards the dark side, ruthless and scheming.
No, go back before Damina got swallowed (rather than eaten) to episodes 359-360, where Lyca communicates with the Draxx character as he/it reveals the true nature of things, after which she vows to help Paige get the crown to Bree. At one point Lyca herself goes grey with weird eyes – was that just her sliding briefly into the Draxx world, or something else? So it is Lyca of the three who at least partially understand the nature of the Draxx monsters.
Capria is a shadow elf. She killed the red fang guy way back early in the saga, the first time we met Tyra. The mindripper made it clear to Bree that it was “someone you know” who had put the contract on Sephni, as it was who subsequently sent the Red Fang assassins under Dorian to kill her. And, rather than taking Kindall to a shadow elf dungeon, she installed him back on the high elf throne as a puppet ruler, she welding the real power. While Sephni was seemingly OK about it, the impression I got she was pissed, and promptly wasted no time in removing Capria’s ace-in-hand by putting Kindall out of his misery. Nothing that he didn’t deserve. Even if Capria now pretends otherwise, hopefully Sephni, at least (and certainly Imugi), won’t believe her. But then you always root for the bad guys.
Yeah, did go back that far (to remind self what colour the Val’s were), and took that encounter as simply Lyca understanding what was really happening
If ‘always root for the bad guys’, shouldn’t that mean rooting for Kinny, Drax and that orc-dick that was in league with the dragon?
And what does Cap being a shadow elf have anything to do with anything? Unless it’s some racist crap that all shadow elves are evil and can’t be trusted (that’s what they say about orc’s, and we have seen more good orc’s than ‘evil’ so far)
Frank Quitely, don’t believe anything Mindshitter said, specially seeing how he was trying to get into Breen’s head to kill her
To be fair, the best taunts are those that ARE true. “It’s ALWAYS somene you know” is thus a perfect taunt. That much, I’m willing to believe.
But, since we’re remembering things, let’s remember how:
1) the hit on Sephni, confirmed to have been put by Capria, might be a plan to get Capria on the throne, OR might be a mercy kill – and the attitude of the OTHER assasins seem to point quite strongly towards the latter
2) the hit on Bree herself we don’t 100% know who was – just that Occam’s Razor points 99% towards Capria (how contrivedly complicated would it be, he being under TWO different contracts which just happen to travel together? Yeah, I also thought so) – and it SPECIFICALLY included the proviso that she was to remain ALIVE and UN-mindbroken. (452, contractual-obligations) Which also strongly hints at “it’s for her own good” more than does at “Capria is Iznogud in disguise”.
on an unrelated matter, Doublegee, you might want to check the last comic’s thread for an answer of mine to you that got delayed because it included links.
Yes, thank you. Having a good idea by now how Mr Hunter’s creative mind works, I still think Markho’s ‘casting’ must have some purpose other than being in debt to Bree, and using the acquired sword on the Draxx slug thingy. But agreed, so far, we have nothing definite either way. However, remember Mala’s remark about there are more avatars than just Sark. Apparently Teal is predicted to reappear sometime.
Been so long since we last saw the Val’s, thought they had changed skin-colour: Dam was ‘tanned’ while Lyca were more ‘sun-burnt’, and Thess was a little more ‘yellow’
Also had to check if you got the horns correct (specially Dam), but was a nice trip through the archives 🙂
Hah! Damina’s horns are the least consistent thing throughout the comic. For some reason, I always had it in my head that, since I drew these characters to begin with, of course I would remember how to draw them later. One of the most important lessons I’ve learned from drawing this comic over the years is the importance of a model sheet.
You can always headcanon it as in, “their horns (which as you might remember, ar a bone protusion covered by a layer of cheratin – the same substance that makes the hair) are 99% keratin layer, and said layer is actually mre flexible than horn usually is – because magically created species, that’s why” so they actually are able to STYLE THEIR HORNS.
Which would not just justify the inconsistencies, it would also give us a magificent(ly horrible) pun for “horn comb”.
*rimshot*
I’ll see myelf out.
THOUGHT: All the Player Characters are somehow playing Brian’s game, or games inspired by him.
Haven’t worked out how to link it to Sark yet, but if Brian was a developer, he may have developed some 90’s, game that went on to have sequels or clones using the base world he created.
Good things are clearing up….mostly. LOVE the closeup of Lyca. She and her people are pretty and strong. 8D
Thanks!
beyond relieved to have miko back
Let’s the stoned become unstoned!
Solo quítales los porros 🙂
MEDIC!
Intriguing …. but, have no idea who/what/where/when this is about.
I imagine a lot of that are the people who were turned to stone no longer being stone.
I would post a direct link to the relevant comic of them being turned to stone, but whenever I do it, the post gets flagged for moderation and takes ages to appear (also, heads-up to Wormius that such is happening). Just check the comics of the previous appeareance of Capria, Miko, Lyca, etc…
Yeah, sorry about that. Anything with a link gets flagged, and I get a little too scatterbrained to moderate them in a timely manner sometimes.
On the Plus side, it does save you folks from a lot of online pharmaceuticals ads!
And also, if you ever leave a really cryptic comment like “Wow, a lot of great posts here. I’m going to tell my friends about it!” that just gets trashed, because I assume it’s a bot trying to get a post approved so that it can do something nefarious.
Yeah, Wormius, I thought as much.
Only things I could think as workarounds that woudn’t need you taking time away from more important stuff would be either to just post the comic number and let the reader the burden of search, or obfuscate the URL (which MIGHT trip spam detectors anywat), or the off-chance you could tweak the spam filter into ignoring self-referencing links (which may or not may be in your list of priorities to begin with).
Well, we’ll manage, man.
Anyways, I see someone (LITERALLY) 😀 managed to post the relevant link.
Thanks!
So, quick recap:
The stoning: https://delvecomic.com/comic/happy-ending/
Capria statue near the throne: https://delvecomic.com/comic/pvp/
Capria statue falling and losing an arm: https://delvecomic.com/comic/return-of-the-queen-3/
Thanks!
Thanks!
Fun episode – for some, anyway. I love that ‘stone Miko’ officially became a bird sanctuary – nice nest, nice eggs! Oh dear. Good to see the Valryn girls (two at least), and Lyca, who had the closest encounter with Draxx, declaring him gone. Meantime, as I predicted, Capria has lost her arm, ugh, messy, blood! Someone get to attend to her, but just punishment for betray Sephni and the High Elves. I guess Bree is going to have to reconcile her friendships. There’s a lot of dead, decapitated palace guards to clear up. Oops.
Fairly sure it was Dam who had the closest encounter with Draxx (remember, she got eaten and Paige told the gods to fuck off to heal her)
Not gonna believe Cap betrayed Seph until it has been shown (apart from Breen, Cap was the only one interested in getting Seph back)
Gotta agree with you on something – Capria placing Kindal as puppet, and sending assasins after her, might be either
a) treason (usurpation), and more treason (getting rid of the real ruler)
b) acting as defacto regent in Sephni’s absence, and mercy-kill her suffering, possesed friend
and we won’t know until she actually tells. Albeit I’m leaning towards option B.
When did Cap put Kinny on the throne? Wasn’t that because of that black bastard dragon?
Unless they’re referring to Caprica returning Kindall to the throne: https://delvecomic.com/comic/checkmate/
Caprica didn’t seem to be in league with Kindall as she was spying on him:
https://delvecomic.com/comic/good-as-new/
Seems more likely Kindall arranged himself to become King but his plans around Sephni seemed to go beyond that. He would have already been King (or maybe Prince Consort) after marrying Sephni and been able to simply get her killed to assume Kingship. Instead he seemed to buy into the Devourer and the idea that everything would be consumed, but he presumed with the collar that he would be the sole survivor… Which probably would have been true of Draxx had taken over, but in the end he found it wasn’t the desirable life he hoped for.
The Red Fang seemed to believe that Sephni was responsible for some reason. But even though Kindall had command over a number of them, they seem to have answered to a “Council” and were perfectly willing to kill Kindall. Whatever the case, they appear to have believed Sephni was already dead and they needed to kill her permanently… to be fair, she turned all the people in her land to stone and was infected/controlled to a good extend by Draxx, so they likely weren’t in the wrong to believe it a necessity. But Caprica certainly appears to have had absolutely nothing to do with supporting Kindall or the Red Fang.
When did Capria put Kindall on the throne? Doh! Sometimes the story doesn’t have spell out every bit of detail. It’s obvious, either at the time or later. Capria took Kindall away, supposedly to punish him. Next thing she is the shadow behind the throne, masked up, disguising who or what she is, giving orders “in the king’s name”. The whole point of good story writing is to not reveal things until the last possible moment, especially who might be betraying whom. There is nothing to indicate the dragon had anything to do with it, he was in the Wood elf lands, with his own motives. These were (dragon, Draxx, Capria) all different players, each either not aware of the others, or only dimly/ And the Mindripper was never tasked with hurting Bree, only removing Sephni’s immortality collar, perhaps so she could be killed, perhaps not. I see the shadow elves, by their very name, as being somewhat towards the dark side, ruthless and scheming.
That’s the point: unless it’s spelt out, people will run with assumptions until they start to believe them to be true
No, go back before Damina got swallowed (rather than eaten) to episodes 359-360, where Lyca communicates with the Draxx character as he/it reveals the true nature of things, after which she vows to help Paige get the crown to Bree. At one point Lyca herself goes grey with weird eyes – was that just her sliding briefly into the Draxx world, or something else? So it is Lyca of the three who at least partially understand the nature of the Draxx monsters.
Capria is a shadow elf. She killed the red fang guy way back early in the saga, the first time we met Tyra. The mindripper made it clear to Bree that it was “someone you know” who had put the contract on Sephni, as it was who subsequently sent the Red Fang assassins under Dorian to kill her. And, rather than taking Kindall to a shadow elf dungeon, she installed him back on the high elf throne as a puppet ruler, she welding the real power. While Sephni was seemingly OK about it, the impression I got she was pissed, and promptly wasted no time in removing Capria’s ace-in-hand by putting Kindall out of his misery. Nothing that he didn’t deserve. Even if Capria now pretends otherwise, hopefully Sephni, at least (and certainly Imugi), won’t believe her. But then you always root for the bad guys.
Yeah, did go back that far (to remind self what colour the Val’s were), and took that encounter as simply Lyca understanding what was really happening
If ‘always root for the bad guys’, shouldn’t that mean rooting for Kinny, Drax and that orc-dick that was in league with the dragon?
And what does Cap being a shadow elf have anything to do with anything? Unless it’s some racist crap that all shadow elves are evil and can’t be trusted (that’s what they say about orc’s, and we have seen more good orc’s than ‘evil’ so far)
Frank Quitely, don’t believe anything Mindshitter said, specially seeing how he was trying to get into Breen’s head to kill her
To be fair, the best taunts are those that ARE true. “It’s ALWAYS somene you know” is thus a perfect taunt. That much, I’m willing to believe.
But, since we’re remembering things, let’s remember how:
1) the hit on Sephni, confirmed to have been put by Capria, might be a plan to get Capria on the throne, OR might be a mercy kill – and the attitude of the OTHER assasins seem to point quite strongly towards the latter
2) the hit on Bree herself we don’t 100% know who was – just that Occam’s Razor points 99% towards Capria (how contrivedly complicated would it be, he being under TWO different contracts which just happen to travel together? Yeah, I also thought so) – and it SPECIFICALLY included the proviso that she was to remain ALIVE and UN-mindbroken. (452, contractual-obligations) Which also strongly hints at “it’s for her own good” more than does at “Capria is Iznogud in disguise”.
Where was it confirmed that Cap put the hit on Seph?
on an unrelated matter, Doublegee, you might want to check the last comic’s thread for an answer of mine to you that got delayed because it included links.
Yes, thank you. Having a good idea by now how Mr Hunter’s creative mind works, I still think Markho’s ‘casting’ must have some purpose other than being in debt to Bree, and using the acquired sword on the Draxx slug thingy. But agreed, so far, we have nothing definite either way. However, remember Mala’s remark about there are more avatars than just Sark. Apparently Teal is predicted to reappear sometime.
Been so long since we last saw the Val’s, thought they had changed skin-colour: Dam was ‘tanned’ while Lyca were more ‘sun-burnt’, and Thess was a little more ‘yellow’
Also had to check if you got the horns correct (specially Dam), but was a nice trip through the archives 🙂
Hah! Damina’s horns are the least consistent thing throughout the comic. For some reason, I always had it in my head that, since I drew these characters to begin with, of course I would remember how to draw them later. One of the most important lessons I’ve learned from drawing this comic over the years is the importance of a model sheet.
You can always headcanon it as in, “their horns (which as you might remember, ar a bone protusion covered by a layer of cheratin – the same substance that makes the hair) are 99% keratin layer, and said layer is actually mre flexible than horn usually is – because magically created species, that’s why” so they actually are able to STYLE THEIR HORNS.
Which would not just justify the inconsistencies, it would also give us a magificent(ly horrible) pun for “horn comb”.
*rimshot*
I’ll see myelf out.
Actually, Dam’s horns are correct, just viewed from a different angle
THOUGHT: All the Player Characters are somehow playing Brian’s game, or games inspired by him.
Haven’t worked out how to link it to Sark yet, but if Brian was a developer, he may have developed some 90’s, game that went on to have sequels or clones using the base world he created.
Not possible. Modern elven gods, in past – Player characters too, was lived long before Brian even born. French soldier from WW1, plantation slave…
…proto Hare Krisna? 😀