>"…the chapel’s dedication will commence mid-morning, with worshippers allowed into the beautiful new building at noon. Shadwe Grandvin said: "As one of the world’s greatest Ssaelit cities, it is important to maintain and beautify our ghers chapels. Ssael stretches His hand towards the hard-working people of Ghers 51 and the Icebox Arcade Association for funding this restoration."Icebox Arcade flier, “Restored Market Chapel Opening Today!”
reckon the waterwomen will eat that too
>>152477984I thought duane was the only talking plod?
Website comment:>Now gents, don’t eat your feelings.>~AshleyPatreon comment:>I really liked drawing the inside of that giant market. Has major Blade Runner vibes. It's called Icebox Arcade, and you want to watch your purse when walking through because fingers therein are quite sticky, but you'll find the finest stuffed potatoes and lamb puls in the ghers. Tree always tips well.>In the script I called out the old lady's stall as being conspicuously ignored by customers and Tree choosing it for that reason, but didn't feel worth dedicating the panels to making that clear. He is trying to spread his (stolen) wealth to someone who looks like she needs it, though.
>>152477984Fucking Alds, can't just give a complement instead of an entire poem.
HOLY FUCK WOULD I LOVE A STUFFED POTATO RIGHT NOW FUUUUUUCK
>>152478290The same Shadwe is in Durlyne, so I guess things haven't been TOO shaken up yet
Man the environments are characters in themselves in this comic
>>152478290Tree redistributing the wealth, the way God intended: through murder, theft, and buying stuffed potates.
Thats secret code for something else right?
What's with all the taters?
>>152478466The jokes on him. They're stuffed with dogshit.
Stuffed with WHAT
>>152478350The Shadwe was pretty evil anon.
>>152479069yeah but when things are about to really chimp, you might expect top clergy to start getting bumped off
>>152479108We might be seeing that at the temple dedication this morning.
>>152478968Nah, you see the high-minded nonsense that self hating sharte was spewing? Definitely not the kind of sophisticated and well schooled individual who'd make sure to have a back of Dog Pie wallet for one last fuck you to his killers.
>>152479069Shadwe liked Duane though. I don't think he was involved in the conspiracy.
>>152478466One goes into the ground, one comes out of the ground. It's the circle of life. Setting aside the fact that the poor bastards that funded these particular potatoes went in the drink, I mean.
>>152479123Shadwe was in on itThe only reason Bastion was there was because Shadwe is his pal
>>152477984Aldish criminal: can't buy a potato without doing poetry at the sellerSharteshanian king: "Fuck off, diplomat, I'm playing a mahjong H-game"
>>152479134My impression is Shadwe probably wasn't actually involved. Sure, he's the Bastion connection, but Silver Daddy's little aside to him when people started openly talking about releasing the plague on the Gefendur seemed to indicate that it was important to keep the Shadwe out of the dirtier backroom plans like the conspiracy.I'd guess he was the connection that brought Bastion to the group, who was not quite as circumspect as we might have guessed given Duane casually warned Lemuel about it, but outside of that he was probably purposefully in the dark and only learned what the plan was afterwards.How that plan came to is also worth some thought. That it had to be a tacit caster must be a Bastion thing. Which means he would've had to tell them who the target was going to be. Or unless there's some other weird plotting going on. It's strange to consider how something as bizarre as a "make an undead martyr plot" could've possibly gotten off the ground without Bastion involved from the outset, but also we have real idea how much of what Lemuel thought was true was just him being fed bullshit. His conception of what would happen is near enough to how it worked, so obviously not all of it, but the actual nature of what the Ald plotters wanted to happen on their is is still vague.
>>152479146It looked like he was playing strip-Risk.Best ruler on the continent and Cope was so convinced he'd be hated she warned readers before he appeared...
>>152479205>The game pymeric was Cope's real self-insert all along
>>152479021Stuffed with potatoes.
>>152479294Traditional Ir- uh Aldish fare.
>>152477984drugs will fix everything
>>152479198I'll argue against this. I think the Shadwe likely was completely aware of the plans for Duane and of any other conspiracy within his temple. His appearance as a kindly cleric is just a convenient personal mask; he must be wholly a politician. His kind words to Duane were meaningless: the Shadwe may have had some personal regard for Duane but ultimately that's irrelevant, Duane is just another soud, and it's the role of such people to be spent by their stenkonn betters to advance the interests of Alderode and Ssaelism as a whole. I don't think Duane becoming a Composer was ever truly on the cards; I think it would have been an embarrassment to the Ssaelit majority if the best wright they could put forward was a pissmop.The Shadwe is more important than we first thought: the Temple of Song isn't just a Ssaelit temple, it's the one in the biggest and most important Ssaelit city in the world. There are only two Shadwes: he is half a pope and the more prominent half. I simply do not believe someone truly ignorant of the goings-on underneath him would rise to this position. If his Amadwes and Motadwes occasionally whispered among themselves, I believe that would be more to allow the Shadwe plausible deniability than anything else.And ultimately if the plan with Duane as Lemuel had understood it is true, and if it had worked, if the Ssaelit had received a living prophet to rally around, that would still have been more merciful than spreading the Weeping Plague to the Gefendur. So you can see Shadwe Grandvin as taking the kinder option and still merrily sending Duane to his death over a glass of wine with Bastion.
>coolboy edgelord I hate Tree
>>152477984So much green. Reminds me of four The Wizard of Oz countries where locals wear and decorate everything using their representative color.
>>152479486>me when ssael killed my gods but I’m a green dye manufacturer
>>152479529Ironically one of the best industries in Durlyne>reliable demand>ssaelit will never allow it to be outsourced to plods>valuable skill that can used everywhere in KasslyneWhichever Adelier who began the scrivener business was also very smart too.
>>152479474>I hate TreeI know. And he hasn't even stuck his dick in Mikaila yet.
>>152479205>Cope was so convinced he'd be hated she warned readers before he appeared...you need remember 4chan is merely a portion of her fan base she has tumblr users too reading
>>152479474You may not like him but that's what peak men written by horny women looks like
>>152479890I just need him to suffer some horrifically traumatic personal setback and I’ll warm up to him. I’m sure Tree won’t be entirely below-the-navel-gazing the whole way through. That’s my Cope.
>>152479474Glad I'm not the only one with Tree Fatigue.
>>152479595There’s got to be a cheap source of green dye for so many of the working poor to be wearing it. Historically you could make cheap green dye with plantlife but it didn’t hold colour long.
YOU just killed a man, actually several men and a child, for money and justified it to yourself as for the ultimate betterment of your people. DO YOU>set up a social fund to help those in poverty, provide banking services and invest in promising local industries>buy thousands of cooked potatoes
