Now it's Mr.bones he needs to get off the ride
>>152798215"I sure am glad I directly contributed to saving Queen Sonorie's life" - what Duane Adelier is probably thinking right now
Important question: Is Mr. Giz pronounced with a soft G?
>>152798259Funny enough if there's any potential for a deus ex machina here it's from Queen Sonorie. He still has to have that tea anyway, as the prophecy foretold.
>>152798215Of course Nora is sweet on the chick dipped in pink
>>152798215God damn he's going to go full demi lich before this is over
I saw that Ashley.
>>152798215no dick to throw into the pain blaster. shame
>>152798215Being a skeleton doesn't seem so bad I dunno. I think Sette was just being a big baby about this whole thing. I mean, Jivi was just being a big baby about this whole thing. Duane is fine, look at him. He's chillin'.
>>152798521Look, he's smiling!
>>152798387?
>>152798215so is it a talking mask she's got, a shut the fuck up mask, or a a horrors-beyond-my-comprehension mask
>>152798215>Flirting with a dark skinned womanShit. She's Bastion.
>>152798323I don't see how he gets out of here otherwise. Even if he escapes he needs a whole new body.
>Site comment:>Oh, the bitter sting of rejection~>Patreon comment:>His legs were pretty smashed up so they simply threw them out. The rest is in rough shape and Duane chewed his lips off and his tongue out so he wouldn't go spilling any Aldish intelligence, but his ability to keep secrets may be drawing to a close.>At least, looking on the bright side, Nora mostly doesn't know what questions to ask.
Lips and tongue nonwithstanding, I've a feeling Duane's gonna be real quiet for real long after they spring him from this science fair.I hope Erm survives and gathers enough intel to make the Shadow to Duane's Sonic, that would be a fierce turn of events deep into book 2
>>152798837Oh, shit. Yeah she probably is huh?
>>152798837>>152798974>Looks annoyed as everyone gets it wrong>Shares the correct answer as a question to avoid suspicionWas anyone making theories about this when the prologue first dropped that I missed completely or is this a new thing?
>>152798215and of course, she's a FFFFAAAAGGG
>>152798215I don't like the look of that mask in the last panel
>>152798972Surely he's at the point where this kind of torture is just more of the same shit
>>152798895>Duane chewed his lips off and his tongue out so he wouldn't go spilling any Aldish intelligence,BASED
>>152798323>He still has to have that tea anywayFool, how's he gonna drink it without lips? He's just a skeleton now, it would roll off his fake lungs and right through his pelvis onto the floor.
Building a new and improved control mask?
>>152799096https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BthNjd_jUl4
>>152798895HardcoreI wonder which one of their legs he's going to tear off and graft onto himself?
>>152799121Well we know Nora is safe because otherwise he'd be built like Lanky Kong.
>>152798837Both Shartes are flirting with her. It seems to be a coastal predilection.
>>152799348What we have here is your classic triangleMr. Jizz likes Nora, Nora likes Donnavieve, and Donnavieve is in love with whatever that probably terrifying pymaric contraption is that's just off screen and is about to be placed on Duane
She’s GAY???>>152799011Yes, it was discussed pretty much immediately.
Nerdy girls are as helpless as anyone else before the tall big titty redhead necromancer gf.
>>152798837Does seem very Bastion-coded in those last two panels.
>>152798215Is that a new gimp mask for Duane?
I wondered from the term ‘subsumation bolt’ in the last page if plods were basically working on similar principles to the field spreader, maybe not in exact mechanics but in terms of registering to the khert ‘all this X and Y is now Z’. That appears to be kinda true with the recent Q&A, where the khert is being cheated into applying lots of interactions it ordinarily would not in plods.
>>152798215If the Bastion sayers are correct I'll be quite surprised, I couldn't imagine that man having this level of self control with these bunglers fucking with not just one of his toys but his death cure itself.
>>152798972Even if Nora and her team were smart enough to copy Duane (which they are not, hence the foreign advisors), they don't have a primary component (a tacit caster).>>152799044Torture stays fresh. Your body has a pretty much endless capacity to suffer when in skilled hands, and the ability to make use of pure agony probably makes it even worse.
>>152799657Also they’re bypassing all the means of torture and just moving straight to the ends with the liquid pain stuff.
>>152798972Shadow to Duane’s Sonic is a great way to put it and I too would love to see this.>>152799657Discussed ITT before but it doesn’t sound like tacit always means innate, so there may be some non-innate tacits around who have just never realised it. It’s not impossible, would be kind of useless (whole point is having a plod who CAN cast, to the Crescians) but would be proof of concept.
>>152799380I think it is something to force him to speak. It looks like Erm is holding the jaw part or something.
Duane being here sadly provides a lot of justification to the Crescian war effort, because it absolutely looks like here’s a new Aldish superweapon, so I dunno if the meeting with the queen is gonna provide any salvation. We know they can’t turn every dead Plat into a technically perfect wright but if Cresce even thinks that’s possible, they have to strike first.
>>152799702Being innate is irrelevant, they can just rite whoever it is.Plus, it's easy to check for tacitness by checking the extra spinal port.
>>152799726Maybe the mystery machine will allow them to look at his memories directly and discover it isn't the case.
>>152799726Debriefing their prisoners and speaking to her two chosen agents should tell Sonorie that that's not the case. An Aldish superweapon intervening to prevent the decapitation of the Crescian state is laughable to believe.
>>152799807Sure but they know, plod programming-wise, Duane’s shit’s all retarded and he talks like a fag.
>>152799807>An Aldish superweapon intervening to prevent the decapitation of the Crescian state is laughable to believe.That Aldish superweapon went rogue and has been roaming the land unrestricted for years before Captain Sava (then Toma) discovered the monstrosity and cunningly manipulated it into defending the country it was made to destroy. You are a traitor and a (Yerta, forgive me) Aldish sympathizer if you can't see the truth.
>>152799822>ut they know, plod programming-wise, Duane’s shit’s all retarded and he talks like a fagWhy blame it on the programming? That's just how alds are.
>>152798689People guessed Duane's new look would come from wearing Dorkest Paul's corpse like a suit, but it might be from the new face so graciously provided by his host.No wonder Bastion complemented it. Dude's got terrible taste in men.
>>152798215lads, I don't think duane's doing so good.
>>152798837He does that, does he.
>>152800262Hell be fine.
>>152800262He's having a blast.
>>152798837We've read his comments about bedding aldish castes, but now I want to read Bastion's grading after bedding different nationalities.
>>152800314I guess I had it all wrong
remind me, why does head bitch have an explosive collar
>>152798215are the applying pain needles directly to his nerve stemswhy
>>152800455probably why important people stock cyanide pills- i imagine Nora could trigger it in a desperate moment, or it could be triggered remotely, likely by Sonorie herself
>>152800513nah it's probably her fetish
>>152800507Why not ?
>>152800675Hmm.Fair, it's cope's comic after all.
>>152800507>>152800945they're probably trying to get the ghosts out of him
>>152800969Aren't the ghosts basically pushed out when Duane comes back? Much like Boo frightened off the pain eels trying to get into his butt back in the Nevergreen
>>152801262haha yeah they're just doing it for the heck of it. Shh.
>>152801262They're not pushed out, they just fall quiet because Duane is there to control the body instead. Once he's gone, the ghosts take over. A ghost infection as bad as his takes along time to build up- pymarics dont get haunted right away, it's an over time thing
>>152799839That is absolutely not the report Captain Sava would've given to the Queen.
>>152800262He just let Boo know he'll be OK. Would Duane lie to Boo?
>>152799839The absolute piles of first houndshit geffies come up with, I swear.Also your gods are dead, gelding.
>>152799011Ah, I think I can see the pottery setupBastion in disguise is waiting for a moment when he can be alone with Duane to set the control bolt, since he's too scared of Duane to approach him without the bindings and his pymary sealedBastions secret late night tweaking will coincide with Sette and the gang breaking Duane out, and take advantage of Bastion discretely turning off some security measures. Bastion will get yet another series of horrible back scars from one of Duane's daughters while he's distracted working on his plodBonus points: Sette's magic claws let the residual poison from the Ruckknife out, and while the Creaseans lose Duane they gain experimental memory goo filled with secrets
All this talk about ghost haunting did make me think: with enough practice could Sette learn to pull out (or command) ghosts from a haunted pymaric without affecting the spell work? It would be a boon to Duane, and she could set up a legit business and leave her rogue days behind. She would be the only one capable of it, so she could transition to white collar crime and charge exorbitant fees
>>152801740Bastion WOULD release his goo in the zombie room, wouldn't he.
>>152801670he *will* be okay.
