>It's a go to the website episodeJust can't be done with screenshots
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>>152561117Well it's no Skid Row It will do
>>152561102Actually moving so far to use Plods as sex dolls is a little farther than I thought anyone in the setting would do.
>>152561127I wonder if the bird will show up again?
>>152561098>robbing the man while he's stunned on the groundPfft, shouldn't have relaxed in bronze gher
>>152561153An aspect of her is living in murkoph
I cannot begin to fathom what horrid venereal diseases have been wrought by the Geffies actually practicing necrophilia by way of Plod whores.
>>152561098>Just can't be done with screenshotsTo be honest, you're cheating yourself of you skip out for the singing bits.
>>152561098>>152561102>>152561109>>152561117>>152561127Is Alderode one big musical? Does the Dammakhert give you the ability to sing along to a song someone else is making up on the spot?
>>152561102>>152561109>plod whoresThese have got to be super cheap. They're cornering the market by tanking the prices!Also>mentioning R*g*r F**-H*ll*ck while everyone is having funBros, why are pissmops like this? Why do they have to ruin the vibes every time?
>>152561117>Some one fair, some another;>They look the same burnt blackGoes hard.
>>152561117The Yellow Sale, what does it mean?
Is it overrated?
>>152561213>>152561233Reminder that Duane is dry enough to physically harm water women. Along side looking like a corps I don't see why you would do this. Especially when pymerics can look like pic related. Eve as the cheap option sure there has to be some limits.
>>152561233It's not a Soud thing, it's a geffie thing.
>>152561175Sette'd approve, though robbing paladins would made be beyond even a Sharte's moral lines.
>>152561213Luckily for Kasslyne's necrophiliac population, they've long know the spell to obliterate bacteria and viruses. Worry free corpse fucking, you'd think the author had a thing for it.
>>152561289There's gotta be lube, though you might have to carry your own or pay extra.
>>152561289Perhaps it was originally devised as an easy way to make cash off drunk Shartes.
>>152561213"Crotch rot", "Dick worms" and "the grey cum stank".No cure.
Damn, Geffies really ruined this city.
>>152561127>random plat children living deep down in bronze territoryVery interesting.
>>152561289that's not a default plod thing though, that's duane's pymary at work maintaining dessication to preserve himself
>>152561225They might actually be in tune with each other because of it. They can already sense emotions.
>>152561225>>152561820>Ssael and the king were theater kids
>>152561649We can probably infer that the basics of desiccation and preservation are known to most Plod handlers, if only to increase the longevity of their wares. The question is, do many of them care to do that as frequently as Duane?The followup question is, does your average corpse fucker prefer the texture of dusty jerky, or cold squirming wet pulp?
>>152561283The French know that there's a time for voting and a time for setting cars on fire.
>>152561935There's likely a few tiers of plod whore. I imagine the freshest ones cost the most, and surely there's a pymaric to warm up whatever hole you're going to be fucking to better emulate the living thing. As the plods age and become jerky and the handler preserves them as long as possible, the price becomes cheaper. >The question is, do many of them care to do that as frequently as Duane?Depends on supply and upkeep cost. Ssaleits are pissed so I wonder how smooth plod acquisition and manufacturing actually is. >The followup question is, does your average corpse fucker prefer the texture of dusty jerky, or cold squirming wet pulp?Most people gotta favor the latter because the former would hurt your dick, but you know there must be deviant mummyfuckers out there.
I’m finding this quite hard going desu. I feel like violence in part 1 was mostly treated seriously? This is definitely more stage-y, like the characters are not acting realistically but as if it’s an opera. The prologue had a bit more weight to what was happening in it.
>>152561141It's probably just an onahole pymaric replacing the rotted-off part.
>>152561127Probable tittybird spotted.
>>152561175At least he’s alive.
>>152562116The Gefendur probably turned them out just to offend the Ssaelit.
>>152562121Ashley's definitely being a bit indulgent with her love of music here, but I think the intention here is to illustrate how bad shit's gotten in Durlyne. Domestic terrorism is an almost daily occurrence, to the point it's normalized for much of the populace. The only thing they can agree on anymore is that Roger Foi-Hellick ashes should be mixed with pig dung.
>>152561127>fully queer folkThey’re GAY??
>>152562116>Most people gotta favor the latter because the former would hurt your dick, but you know there must be deviant mummyfuckers out there.Every fiber of my being wants to say you're wrong, but realistically the maggots are probably quite stimulating.
>>152562149Yeah, I guess personally I’m never that into music in a comic either, even where there’s a known meter. But I do get the impression we’re going to have Tree singing a lot.
>>152562159Why wouldn't they be, in such a comfy, happy place full of music?
>work for a guy who makes you murder children and plays wonderwall every 5 minutesJaer… had a hard life
What’s with all the primadonna guitarists?
>>152561141Duane was basically fully fleshed in the early stages. There’s probably a class of people who’d get off just from the depravity.
>>152561102>Plod sex toysfucking alds man
>>152561127>>152561645It’s not just plats, probably just the kids of whoever’s working. I wonder if the red glove guy surrounded by red crows has some kind of Druid thing going on.
>>152561127Cute furry lizards
>>152562116Does this post indicate that Cope finally figured out how to convince the captcha she's human?
>>152562208It's a crescian invention.
>>152561098>warming up by the corpsefirejesus christ cope
Nary's right, any man who can start his own musical numbers needs that ability taken away.
>>152562186kek
>>152562121Alds are freaky aliens so I'm expecting this whole book to be a lot weirder now that she's reeled people in with the relatively more grounded setting of the first one.
Last night I dreamt that tittybird was keeping the weeping plague babies to pull souls out of the reincarnation cycle and force a hard reset of reality.
>>152562720eat less before bed. I don't think even ash would be able to interpret that.
>>152562615The new arrow captcha is not friendly to shape rotators.
>>152562720>>152562724Resetting reality with plague babies sound like the sort of madness cooked up by that wretch, Roger Foi-Hellick.
>>152561102>plodstitutesI'm sickened but curious>>152561127Is that a Copper sewer hobo bird keeper? Are those birds natural or are they spelled to be that color?
>>152562760Is figured he was wearing gloves but you’re right, could be a copper.
>>152562840The red seems too bright for a copper, could also be dyed.
So this is one alternative way of living Alderode could have, a kind of Freetown Christiana where no trade is illegal and the castes all live together. With the protective influence of Tree & pals it might be kind of like a ghers for the ghersless.
Alderode's so cold that the pigs and chickens are hairy. And here we see even the lizard cat-substitutes are hairy.
>>152562864That makes them cuter thoughbeit.
>>152561127I'm guessing it's a repurposed black tongue lair.
Website comment:>Lots of pages today, make sure you keep clicking forward ‘til you’re back here!>~AshleyPatreon comment:>There are some extra bells and whistles if you read these on the site~https://www.casualvillain.com/Unsounded/TheRedCost/comic/ch01/ch01_020.html>The Court is where the Tannery is, and where Jaer and Tree lay their heads. It's not exactly the safest place in town (especially if you're an outsider), but it's somewhere all that crap in the rest of the city - the bullshit terrorism, the feuding knights, the plods, the caste bickering, even what the Tannery does when it's not dealing with hides - are not allowed. Or at least not on Tree's watch. The Court is home.
Just caught up with the Red Cost. Was it confirmed that Tree Murkoph is the same as Mad Murkoph?I mean, is it atemporal fuckery, or Tree is descendant?Also, what the fuck is the Alderode's society? I mean, on one hand it is portrayed as Mind Control Police State, on the other hand not only people can seemingly bomb churches with impunity, but also no one does anything when geffies get gutted in return.I mean, you'd think the state would be concerned with self-preservation, but someone can just vote to take people's rights? Like, surely someone would see the rapid sectarian violence and holy wards from a mile away, right?It's just that I understand killing all pissmops, but there are other castes among Ssaelits.Also, why the fuck are plats of all people bomb churches? Judging by everyone's reaction it's a common occurrence. Don't plats have their own problems with separatist movement and being child soldiers?
>>152562989The Court/Tannery won't suvive the book.
>>152563565Oh gods, are they underage?
>>152563532No one is taking rights away by voting, they are voting to deregulate plod labour and Ssaelit rage is due to religious reasons. Regarding terrorism, Dammakhert stings need true names of the perps to work or something and can't be used willy nilly or people start breaking the hubs.
>>152563532Alderode is a failed polity turned into a democracy. Aldish-Aristotle is rolling in his urn.
>>152563532Plats probably make excellent suicide bombers for Gefendur cause since the Aldish belief is that they're close to being admitted to heaven and they won't have long to live anyway.
>>152563532No it's not confirmed that Tree is Murkoph. I assume he's a decendant. They have the same name.Alderode as we are just starting to see it in this chapter is not the same as it was when Duane was alive 6-7 years ago. There's internal strife, probably worse than when red homo man was having his rebellion.The thing with the vote is, the Ssaelit have been decimated by the weeping plague, so literally their votes mean nothing. Geffies outnumber them so much.
>>152563708Dammakhert stings are also organised by Vits council which if it is now majority Gefendur is unlikely to be too interested in persecuting pro-Gefendur terrorists.>>152563768I think it is the same. Everything we’re seeing on the page was basically laid out as the probable future in the flashback to Duane’s time as Motadwe.
>>152564049Meant for >>152563801
>>152564049How the fuck do you say its "the same" when in the same sentence you say "the probable future" from Duane's time.It's not the same as it was. Shit is worse. Shrine's weren't being bombed by suicidal plats in Duane's alive time. We've hardly seen anything, yet clearly we can already see it's worse.
>>152561322Poking at the etalarche is absolutely a Soud thing.
>>152564206Because it is the same. It’s the same country and everyone with a sufficiently high PoV could see this coming. We’ve just curetted a bit of skin and fat off the top of Alderode to reveal the precariously taut tendon that has always been lying beneath. Alderode has always been destined to explode. It’s a pressure cooker. We have a society fractured along at least three axes: caste, religion and wealth, any one of which could have lead to civil war. As it happens religion snapped first.
>>152563532I think only Cresce and maybe Ulestry has any kind of day-to-day police service in the Peaceguard and the city guards seemingly modelled off them. In Sharteshane and it seems in Alderode the religious militants police the common order. Wealthy people probably hire their own private guards.>>152564407The fact the curse doesn’t go away doesn’t bode well for undoing whatever Nora has planned.
>>152564475>The fact the curse doesn’t go away doesn’t bode well for undoing whatever Nora has plannedEspecially ill for the Soud. If they're immune to the Dammakhert, they're a loose end, and I can imagine a few ways an unethetical scientist with a civilization soanking berserk button could employ to tie it off. Especially since she's convinced Alds aren't people.
>>152564475It's some crazy stuff. Plus I'm pretty sure Matty and the kids in the update were born after Roger was cursed. So it seems the status effect is just inflicted upon everyone upon birth.
Next fanfiction contest: sex tourism diary of a soldier deployed to the post-collapse relief effort in Alderode? Detailed accounts of banging utterly miserable war-traumatised members of every caste for the price of a few potatoes? Just the worst shit you’ve ever read, completely radioactive to the fandom?
>>152564565God. Think the kids born after reports of his death wii be the same?
>>152564448Destined to explode is not the same as actively exploding. You don't live in the khert, anon. Time flows linearly out here.
>>152563532>Don't plats have their own problems with separatist movement and being child soldiers?gee why would people come to have a problem with these things
>>152561645I'm pretty sure those are silver children. Ssealites are either gold, jet or silver.
>>152565364Silvers have brown skin.
Bastion was talking about bedding plods when he was doing his own musical number in Juste, something about musicals makes Ash horny for zombies
>>152565465The Nevergreen musical had whores trying to seduce Duane too. More subtle, but we're onto you Cope.
>we’re on to youI don’t think the author is trying to hide their lust for the undead anon.>fuck autocorrect
>>152564551The Ssaelit and thereby the Soud are doomed outside of the non-annexed true Tains for that reason. Queen Sonorie, even with her sockpuppet not-Pope, doesn't have enough pull to get "live and let live with the man-worshiping heretics" passed. Not unless she's willing to open some throats, I bet.
>>152565788That’s why Will was right and the Ssaelit should have gone for blood as soon as the Gefendur tried to rebalance the council. But hard to do that when your own rich citizens secretly want the plod law passed. And Sonorie might have been able to hold her nose and support the Aldish Gefendur in that situation too. They had a bad hand and played it badly.
>>152565886>They had a bad hand and played it badly.tbf I question how they could they have played it any other way since tittybird pulled strings to make this happen. If Will had any real chance of putting that plan through, a blacktongue would have cut him down.
>>152562760A dovecot is a keeping place for pigeons, so that’s presumably Donier and those are his birds.
>>152566198The bright side is she's in much less shape to do...whatever she's planning to do with the Soud & general Ssaelit whose respawns she's blocking.
>>152565788The only way for Soud to survive is for Lemuel to go to Khert and beat up Ssael in a Final Fantasy boss battle before rewriting the world.
>>152566692>Soud gets mad about the afterlife and beats up God over it
>>152566692The Soud might survive if someone like Lem gets ahold of Nora's mind control weapon and turns all of the remaining Alds into suicidal berserkers aimed at Cresce. They wouldn't win, but it'd put annexation off the table for a bit.
None of this is going to happen.
>>152566771>How do we ensure our people survive?>Let's have 90% of the country bum rush Cresce in a kamikaze attack and hope for the bestAnon I beg you to think why even Vits was hesitant to put the curse on even one person every few centuries.
ROGER FOI-FUCKING-HELLICK
>>152566987THAT SIMPERING WORM! EVEN THE WORMS THAT GNAW ON HIS ACCURSED CARCASS MUST GAG AT THE SIGHT!
>>152562015Feels like every other country riots better than Americans. Why are we so bad at it
Can anyone tell me what this Foi Hellick guy actually did? Nobody seems to know.
>>152561645Children? That's a young adult right there
>>152566198Look I get Sessine was manipulating everything behind the scenes but if you only have time to make one play, choosing “Christ 2.0” as that play is just moronic.
>>152567187>Caused an Aldish civil war>Aided Cresce in its plot against Alderode>Married the Bitch-Queen Sonorie>Colluded with the Black Tongues>Caused a poor potato harvest this year>Responsible for the assassination of a certain Soud clergyman>Had unnatural relations with a Senet Beast>Had unnatural relations with a hound>Had unnatural relations with a plod>Created and regularly indulged in the services of plod prostitutes>Devastated Ethelmik>Causing the current domestic terrorism and civil unrest in Alderode>Gave Bastion the schematics for the Pymaric to zombify Duane>Instigated the Two-toe uprising>Assisted in Delicieu's pain research>Blinded Matty>Cut off Captain Toma's arm>Led the Red Berry Boys in an organ harvesting ring>Best friends with Starfish>Personally murdered Pantoffel, Knock-me-down, Quigley, Uaid, and Cara>Created the silver weapon>Placed a weapons development facility underneath a shrine full of children>Strangled Sette offscreen on Khette's behalf>Released Murkoph from the Khert>Created the Weeping Plague>Attempted to use the First Soul to bring Ilganyag outside the Khert>May or may not be plotting from his spot in Hell to become the Anti-Ssael and make the laws of reality infinitely more miserable for humanity
>>152566831Alds aren't "our people," and if the Creshits don't genocide the Soud, Aldish Gefendur definitely will.
>>152561127>tiddybird ornamentOminous!
>>152567187The actual thing he did was act as the popular figurehead for a Crescian-backed Aldish civil war involving a major powerful Copper family attempting to secede. This was towards the long-term goal of getting his family killed (maybe, they did die, and he kinda fucking hated them) and toppling the Aldish state. To this end, he was working with a senet beast who claimed to know a weak point in the Aldish system that Alderode's enemies could exploit. That's the badly-designed etelarche curse, which can force an overwhelming compulsion towards hate in the non-Soud of Alderode and - presumably - be re-worked to other purposes (such as forcing all the Aldish to simply lie down and let Cresce take over). To this end, Roger let himself be targeted by the curse, so an efheby could drink his altered soul, so his soul could be examined and worked towards Aldish downfall.But the plan's kinda screwed now. The Black Tongues (vastly more skilled than their Crescian peers) are largely dead. Roger's soul has been swallowed. And the efheby in question is now Cresce's enemy, and Sonorie's most specifically. He also has gotten it into his head to hijack the plan to make Alderode worship him as a god-king, instead. And having devoured Prakhuta and all his pymaric knowledge, he may have the know-how to get the ball rolling on that idea.
>>152562208There are people willing to pay good money for that sort of thing!
>>152563801>No it's not confirmed that Tree is Murkoph. I assume he's a decendant. They have the same name.I suspect it's the same guy due to the khert's time fuckery. No proof yet. The first chapter of the second book has only just started though, so plenty of time.
>>152567823We’d have to cut a few inches off Tree to make him Murkoph, no? There was some mention about Tree having an estranged brother. But the way Sessine talked, Murkoph is *old*.
>>152567675>such as forcing all the Aldish to simply lie down and let Cresce take overI this is outwith the bounds of what reverse-engineering the Etalarche curse could achieve. It’s unlikely to be a full cypher to the minds and souls of the entire dammakhert. I expect them to be able to change the target coordinates, and that would be enough to destroy Alderode.
>>152567675>he may have the know-how to get the ball rolling on that idea.I wonder who Ruck will convince to work with him. They'd have to be gifted at pymary but also willing to make a rapesnake god king. I bet the end result will be a hodgepodge of mostly Shartes (It shall be ingrained in every Ald that the Sharte is his friend.)
>>152567542>servicesAll I see are rumors.
>>152568141I think he could make anyone his servant if he had some time to chew on them. He has a complete map of the human soul now. He can just eat up the parts that would resist.
>>152568180How horrifying
>>152561127Black Tongue Hideout?
>>152568158Why don't you believe it? You some kinda Roger sympathizer?
>>152565364Aside from having already seen a rare few Ssaelit plats in Duane's backstory, Leaf is a Gefendur who's hanging out with them so there's no particular reason these need to be all Ssaelit anyway. On top of that, this is outside the Gehrs, so it's basically a lawless shantytown anyway. If there's anywhere in Durlyne you're likely to find either a Ssaelit Plat or a Gefendur hanging out, it's in a place like this.
>>152561098>>152561102>>152561109>>152561117okay the music shit has started to annoy me. please don't tell me i have to wait a decade for this shit to stop.
>>152570599I hope it keeps going to annoy you specifically
>>152570599You're about 80 years too late to complain about music being a big part of fantasy fiction
>>152562508not that cute
>>152567823Cope hinted previously that Murkoph was alive a long time ago, and was a bad man. Serial raper/murderer. This was just hints though, it's entirely possible she changed her mind, although I hope not. I don't want Murkoph to be the same guy.
>>152570599What if only Duane is allowed to sing?
>>152571522Sessine claimed Murkoph was the one to warn her about humans. Plus while the memories of all time are in khert the physical beings seem to be locked to what is the present. Also I feel like Murk's intro definitely fits the serial killer backstory more than the contract killer one. If this doesn't scream murderous cannibal I don't know what would
>>152570830>>152570834go fuck yourself, this shit horrible.
>>152571522I don't recall that, but Murkoph the meta-character is/was the sort of individual. Whether that goes for the Murkoph we see in story is another thing. The fact that Tree looks so much like him, and once Murkoph's sane his behavior seems to tie him even more closely to Tree, would seem to imply some weird khert time/reincarnation nonsense, though even given what we've seen of Sette that seems unlikely too. Guess we'll just have to see.
jesus christ
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>>152563801I believe Tree is Mad Murkoph’s twin, not descendant.
>>152571522>>152571635>Murkoph rapes a woman and splits her almost in half>Sessine swoons The company you keep, eh?
>>152572527Those are just table stakes for a girl like that, anon. The creation of a sadistic god, no doubt.
>>152572164Girl knows what she likes.After reading MADK, I can't blame her too much.
>>152563801>I assume he's a decendant.>>152572477>>I believe Tree is Mad Murkoph’s twin, not descendant.Do we know for sure that Murkoph is from an older time? The Khert is timeless, he could be who Tree becomes.
>>152574321Possibly, but we can presume he has some weird older time-y-ness to him, as Tittybird mentions they were trapped/separated by his insanity by some third party. Unless we're going to get fully time loopy here, we can assume that whatever "gods" exist or some other group in the past are responsible for their current state, which implies something in the past itself. That, and how if it was the future of the comic, I feel like she'd have put it all very differently.Hard to know for sure, yet.
>>152575576I wonder what you would end up with if you took a senet beast and smushed it and cut off all the parts you couldn’t fit into a human soul. We basically know now that the soul is the mind and occupies a kind of information space that you can remove and transfer things done. Ever since Tittybird’s speech I’ve been wondering if Murkoph just looks human.
>write an incredibly bloody, morally grey comic>have an adorable voice that sounds 20 years younger than you actually areMANY such cases!https://unsoundedcomic.tumblr.com/post/809192575571476480/what-tune-should-we-be-singing-trees-ballad-to
>The culinary related Q&A'sI always like seeing these, since I get fixated on fantasy cuisine when it's detailed
>>152567542Roger was Ashley the entire time?
>>152572164what the fuck
