Ssael is so cool isn't he
>>154240945Those dorks in the bottom panels are so dead aren't they.
Ssael is one of the coolest concepts in this comic. Ssael fhikemun rish!
>>154240945>drinking poison>when your lads are so shite that you threaten suicide even though you are ssaelithehe
What's with all the lower castes?
>>154241223There's no upper or lower castes in Alderode.
>>154241249Take the red pill.
>>154241249>There's no upper or lower castes in Alderode.0.1 sooper secret mega copperbux has been deposited into your account.
>Will out pyramied by a tacit caster 20 minutes prior>"just learn to read lips, bro"
>>154240945Cope had some fun with this one
What's with all the silvers?And why are they so gormless and inbred?
>>154241482Is the claim that silvers are a balance between pymaric strength and having the longevity to be worth training just cover for turning the Temple of Song into a bussy buffet?
Well, Jay, what did you think about "The Red Cost"?
>>154241417We desperately need Spellmaster Adelier to whip these idiots back into shape.
Website comment:>Time for your drills, you feckless shitbags!>~AshleyPatreon comment:>Stop trying to cheat, you little turd. Get inspired like Will!
>>154240945These Silvers definitely look like they can carry the burden of an entire faith.
Final villain reveal.
>>154241101they're dorksthey're gonna be fine
>>154242074I think it SUCKS, Mike!
>>154242074did jay actually get some kind of cameo or was it just rich and mike
>>154242576Jay is Murkoph.
>>154242778jay is ssael???
>>154240945Willheim? WILLHEIM?
>>154242814Aldish names are so fucked up.
>>154242576Jay is Ruffles.
>>154242814"Ahhhhh-AAGH!"
>>154240945Ventriloquism is an arcane skill.
>>154242576Ashley designed a character based on Jay, but it got cut.
>>154243098Very nice work anon
They look like a bunch of inbred nerds.
>>154240945I feel like we’re gonna see that statue toppled.
>>154243307Yes dude, they’re Aldish, we know.
>>154242074what would the Unsounded version of Rich Evans be
>>154243350we saw him crying and throwing some rocks at some cave bats during a spelljam
>>154243350Claggart's good friend, Rich Evans, has already been seen. And eaten. By a salt lizard.
>>154243934Also, note that Evans is a silver. Because he gives Cope... the horn.
>>154243934I guess it’s true. Ashley hates Jay. I did wonder why whenever she retweets RLM stuff Jay is completely edited out of the video.
>>154243953Jay's a whiny manbaby.
>>154240945Thackery was definitely not cut out for this job. I still love his owl-ass outfit.>>154242814A true name crime.
>>154240945
>>154244087how could you, cope.
>>154241417To be fair, tacit casters are so exceedingly rare that the vast majority of people could live their entire lives without encountering one so it would be a bit overkill to prepare for such a possibility
>>154247181I think Ashley has said that, counting Duane, there are a single digit number of tacit casters in existence on Kasslyne.
>>154247181I do think Mikaila shows how stupid the Aldish gender segregation is, at least among wrights. I can understanding not sending women off to war to be soldiers but Mikaila is literally another potential Duane Adelier and you're just telling her to sit and be pretty, it's so fucking stupid. As is the fact nobody gives a shit about a tacit bloodline (3 tacit casters in 4 generations) in Soud because it's Soud. The Alds are so cool but they're so, so retarded.
>>154247221Cases like Mikaila are exactly why the Third Option system exists. Alderode does have the means to make use of useful women, they just require them to demonstrate obedience and loyalty to the state by giving up their gender in exchange for the chance to be useful.
No update Monday because Ash needs time to edit the upcoming KS books, right? Do we know if we're skipping every Monday for a while or is it just going to be the odd update here and there?
>>154247251I wonder who the first Third Option was.
>>154247221Well, they also did merc Duane Adelier purely because he rocked the boat too much despite being a brilliant spellwright and very skilled in combat pymary and I imagine Mikaila is starting to follow her father's footsteps in that regard.
>>154247350The entire 'kill this guy then bring him back so he can say he talked to god' plan makes me deeply worried about the IQ average of the entire temple of song.
I was pleasantly surprised to see Cope putting up some youtube videos. Kind of a different vibe to her work in Unsounded but I like it:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jsTW3YV-VBY
>>154247372I thought that was more just Lemon's cope and the powers that be simply wanted to get rid of an upstart rabble rouser that didn't know his place.
>>154247251Miki's community isn't going to let her have the Third Option when birthrates are going down the shitter.
>>154247221>>154247251And Ashley has said in tumblr asks that Mikaila refuses to do Third Option- which doubly shows the stupidity of Aldish gender segregation I think. Just let her be a girl and do this shit. But nope, then you can't control women and their bodies.
>>154247413>>154247418I know Aldish and Kasslynian genetics aren't exactly normal, but tacit genes being more commonly expressed in women would be the funniest shit.
>>154247418If she's not willing to conform to the rules of society by committing to presenting as male going forward, that shows that her ambition and desire isn't to serve the nation first and foremost.It's part of the point of the system, I think, it filters out those who aren't dedicated enough to their skills/the country to give up their current life.The only "issue" with this function is ftm people, but I imagine those are very rare in Alderode.
>>154247442Ashley has stated that it's "common" in the Alderode family because it's a rare soul-mutation caused by exposure to Farcyte which is inherited by blood.
>>154247400I'm pretty sure there's more to this than we know because Lemon's understanding of the plot does seem unbearably stupid, but I don't think they just killed Duane for the hell of it either. We know:>Bastion wanted to test his research>Lemon thought he was going to get to punch god>Argenti I would speculate was on-board for the immortality>Shadwe ?????They didn't end up executing the Weeping Plague plan afterwards so I don't think Duane was bumped off just for being a dissenting voice.>>154247445Third Optioning her does also mean she's not going to have more tacit kids, but of course the Aldish answer to that is, OK get married and have dozens of children and maybe some of them will be tacit boys instead then.
To be entirely honest, being tacit is not as big of a deal as y'all are making it out to be, and Mikaila just isn't skilled enough to really shift any scales when it comes to her martial prowess.
>>154247506Even from just the trick we saw with Will I think Mikaila appears incredibly skilled for an untrained wright. Way more than I was expecting.
>>154247489Tacit casting is weird where it can be passed down through family lines but I don't think you can really increase the number of tacit casters by pumping out kids since there numbers stay about the same so it might have something to do with soul reincarnation.
>>154247506Miki wasn't allowed to have any formal training. Imagine if she was actually allowed to learn properly like Duane.
>>154247625But would she study as hard as Duane? She's not a nerd like he is.
>>154247625Sarthos managed to get approved for Third Option despite growing up a woman, presumably by studying pymary books and journals and demonstrating her ability to contribute meaningfully to research as a student.
>>154247549>it might have something to do with soul reincarnation.Would anything prevent a soul from reincarnating earlier in the timeline or simultaneously? While I doubt it, Duane and Mikaila might have the same soul.
>>154247647Women are allowed to learn trivial pymary, like making pretty lights and stuff. Sarthos was a student at a woman's pymary school before she went Third Option iirc.
>>154247733As the Buddha says, Duane x Murkoph is the same thing as Mikaila x Tree. This is called enlightenment.
>>154247647There's probably a lot of women who could contribute meaningfully but never will because having to become a man to do so is obviously a pretty horrible choice to be forced to make.
>>154247445> If she's not willing to conform to the rules of society by committing to presenting as male going forward, that shows that her ambition and desire isn't to serve the nation first and foremost.Wrong? She just wants to serve the nation as HERSELF, not someone she isn't and never was>It's part of the point of the system, I think, it filters out those who aren't dedicated enough to their skills/the country to give up their current life.>The only "issue" with this function is ftm people, but I imagine those are very rare in Alderode.Bro the issue as a whole is Alderode being controlling and limiting to its citizens? Don't buy into Aldish fascist nonsense, that is not where this story is going
>>154247919Right, she puts her own identity above that of the nation.>Don't buy intoI'm speaking from the viewpoint of Alderode. This is the only sensible way to discuss whether a particular policy is silly or not, you have to look at it with the goal of the system in mind.
>>154247221Duane isn't "the greatest wright in centuries" because he's a tacit caster, though. He's the greatest wright in centuries because he's a motivated, dedicated pyamry nerd with a strong formal education and a metric ton of real life experience, there's no guarantee that his daughter would share those same characteristics just because she's also a tacit caster. From what little we know of Simon, for example, he is very explicitly NOT Duane Adelier.>>154247372To be fair to the Temple that shit unironically worked. Not the meeting Ssael part but it DID bring him back
>>154247646I mean it's hard to say because so much of her personality has been shaped by her wanting to do something she wasn't allowed to as a woman.
>Unsounded threads went from being the most active overnight and 404'd by the next morning unless it was a big update to active the next dayIs this because we were teenagers in 2010 and over 30 now?
>>154247961>To be fair to the TempleTo be less fair to the temple, if the plan had actually gone through as intended, Bastion would have stolen Duane away for himself and his experiments, making him a mindless puppet only able to talk when he lets him, and vivisected for research. Even if he did meet Ssael, he would not have returned as a prophet.
>>154248047While that is true, I do think that there are some parts that are core to her and wouldn't change and that not being a book nerd is one of those. So while she would be more skilled with proper training, she wouldn't be casting between grains of sand tier.
>>154248100This board and the entire site is dying. Threads last longer and less of them are made.
>>154248100Unsounded threads are still relatively popular considering their regularity, it's just that /co/ and 4chan in general has been hemorrhaging posters for a while now so the niche subjects have suffered.
>>154248222Duane wasn't casting between grains of sand tier while he was alive either, that's undead hax, not having a heartbeat or moving blood to disrupt movement or relying on imprecise nerve impulses and muscle fibers, as well as purity of focus from not relying on a meat hosted mind. Human Duane was an extremely skilled and knowledgeable wright but that's the kind of thing you can't just learn.
>>154247646>>154248222A lot of her current skill comes from studying by herself off Duane's old books and writing. That shows an intense level of drive and discipline stemming from a love of Pymary.If Duane lived, I doubt he'd allow her to join the military but she'd no doubt have a stronger understanding of core technique, Old Tainish, and other more formal skills. As is, Ashley stated she's very reliant on spellburns.
>>154247388brutal
>>154249772Not being a nerd doesn't mean you don't enjoy learning things. Being a nerd is about getting into the nitty gitty of a subject matter. It's like enjoying learning how to code and coding and leaving it at that versus enjoying reading technical documents about how a programming language works. The former doesn't make you a nerd while the latter does.As I see it, Duane is a nerd and Miki is not.
>>154247388https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v2dgNNevPCAoh lord
>>154250271He’s very old and his brain has been severely damaged by alcohol and bad movies. Please, leave him alone.
>>154250205Clear misunderstanding of the geek/nerd/dork trichotomy. Duane and Miki are both nerds, but Duane is also a dork.
>>154250344Whaaaat?
>>154250363>Clear misunderstanding of the geek/nerd/dork trichotomy.No I'm not misunderstanding the trichotomy. Nothing I've described is even like geek or dork. So the trichotomy is irrelevant. We are disagreeing solely over how studious you have to be to be a nerd. You have a much lower requirement than I do.
>>154248462Yeah, the sites become too hard to post on. I rarely bother now, due to all the hoops you have to jump through just to post some throwaway remark.
