I mean they have a point. What's stopping you from getting killed by a tacit caster or a crescian behind a rock
>>154269305OUT CLAWS, NO PAUSE!You can tell Cope loved writing Thackery. Bitchwits is such a good insult.
>>154269305My man is about to eat some spectacular shit.
>>154269305I approve of Vlad's attempt to cheat though it falls short of true Sharteshanian jive. This kid could have been level 2 dumb mook by now in New Tawhoque.
Tirna still copping strays
>>154269420I still don't see it as cheating, sure it's a sign of being very in tune with the Khert if you can read the lines, but having some insight as to what an opponent is saying surely is worth knowing
>>154269305I lol'd. You can feel the energy draining out of him.
>>154269484Reading lips can be situationally useful, but in the far more likely case where you can't hear or see what's being cast you need these fundamentals to survive a direct fight, let alone a sneak attack. Remember, just earlier in the day another Lion was severely injured because he wasn't able to read a line in time.
>>154269305when will ash stop the RELENTLESS bullying
Here’s how Vlad can still win.
Website comment:>VLAD! VLAD! VLAD! VLAD!>~AshleyPatreon comment:>See, this is what happens when you try to cheat Ssael's Way, aspirant. The khert's gonna cook ya.>Are we taking bets on Vlad's success? Seems like an easy enough exercise.
>>154269305pretty sure we had to take my childhood dog to the vet when he got Bejart
You can tell Ashley really enjoys drawing the faces here.
Didn't we have a lip reader in older chapters? This sounded lie a good trick to know if anything.
Out claws, no pause may be the goofiest catchphrase I've ever heard. Especially because pause sounds like paws.
>>154269305If you kill Duane before these guys apparently they have special dialogue. Excited to finally see it.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_LhnFBUGK8E
>>154269305Red's the Geffie colour in Alderode, right?
>>154272049Seems so.Y'know, I'd thought I remembered that red was associated with Gefendur soldiers in general, but looking back at the fight scenes in CH13, almost all the Crescian forces are wearing blue. Seems only officers get red there.It's interesting. Red does contrast nicely with Ssaelit green; iirc Ashley stated that was her primary motivation with putting Geffies in red, since it'll make 'em stand out more during civil war fight scenes. I wonder what that means symbolically in-universe. Red's associated most with Tirna. Fraternal Geffies are said to downplay the female Twins, but I wonder if there's an exception made for the trickster Goddess.
>>154272436I just think it's cute the instructors are doing a little bit of roleplaying.
WWATS?
>>154272584You know what.
>>154269484It's a good skill, but demonstrably not a replacement for what's being taught. Never cheat the fundementals, that way vibe casting lies.
>>154269721I think its telling that the guy trying to go with reading lips has a mangled lip to begin with
>>154273248I think it's nice nobody's being a dick about the harelip. I know we already glaze the author a lot ITT but these are very convincingly written teenage boys: the relentless competition and mocking but without real hard feelings, the stupid in-jokes, I've seen these kids a million times.
>>154272754It's gotta be just worse than feeling the line. You have to be able to see the opponent's lips and know the exact language they're using, sure for the latter mostly any wright'll have an inkling of the Tainish but there's bound to be room to miss something. The duel in the back of vol 3 is nicely illustrative: Harehaenun is so fast at casting you can barely understand him even when you hear it - and that's just a recognised thing about the top tier of Aldish duelists, the "lordly lips" - and even though Duane knows exactly what he's going for spellwise there's not a whole lot he can do about it in the moment.I didn't love that story setting out Duane's whole duelling career as a single match but it was otherwise pretty good, and retrospectively I suppose it just makes Matty an even bigger dueling nerd than he already comes across as in part 1.
>>154273248It's a harelip, likely congenital. It's more telling that no one has given this lad the relatively simple surgery to correct the harelip and that the army doesn't care to fix. Even if that harelip was khert inherited, Vlad's in a much better position than vinegar boy.
>>154271596>my soul is not readyOh, that line was a direct Vagrant Story reference
>>154274004I can't wait for someone to drop "I am the reinforcements." What a cool game.
Front Silver instructor guy looks older too, so is it possible Bejart and Sarjik, in this universe too, were Duane's attendants? They could have been doing this job for 10+ years.
>>154273968There was an author Q&A on that and the answer was something about Unsounded medtech not being our medtech, so infection control is really easy but other techniques are not as advanced. But I think that does kinda ignore the main problem with correcting a cleft palate historically has been infection control. Humans have been doing this specific surgery for 1800 years or something. But not in Kasslyne.
>>154269305Every single one of these boys is gonna die but they are so charming.
>>154274104Naturally. All of us will eventually die.
>>154272049It could be that Tirna is more popular in Alderode>>154272436And Yerta is more popular in Cresce
>>154274497He means die from an exploding plat.
>>154274713>he thinks he's not going to die from an exploding plat
>>154274713Let us hope the deaths will be instantaneous. Though now I'm wondering: could they not breed better suicideplats? Make them develop hardened organs that can serve as shrapnel or such.
>>154274801You could just give them a lot of piercings.
>>154274801Coppers are already breeding custom plats so I wouldn't put it past them.
>>154269305You telling me this dipshits have a 50/50 chance of passing anyway?
>>154275158This is the hardest exam the Ssaelit mind can devise. And more than 70% of them still fail.
>>154270605What are you gonna think if Vlad passes this and Will fails?
>>154275158They still gotta hit that target up there so I imagine that will filter out the ones who get lucky.
>>154275158No. To my understanding it's>Read the khert lines in the first place>Identify which spell is the attack (trainers will likely switch it up with each student)>Successfully catch it, possibly with core technique if no appropriate spellburn is available>Redirect it to the targetAll within a handful of seconds. There's multiple important tasks you can potentially fail at, so you can't pass without a proper understanding of the fundamentals. It's actually a pretty decent training exercise, all things considered.
>>154276644I want Vlad to just barely succeed and get the guys really cheering. Love the camaraderie.
>>154277517>I want Vlad to just barely succeed and get the guys really cheeringIdeally it'll be Vlad cheering at succeeding, and the lads cheering at him succeeding and the silly glamour on him
I hope Vlad fails and dies, personally.
>>154273301>>154273968Its not a dig at Vlad's harelip, but rather noting that the guy with a lip problem is having a problem with his proposed lip solution
>>154277912Rude
What happened to the tall pink lady with the large breasts?
>>154274044Wasn't that just Keon's arrival to the beach torture party after Hetr requested reinforcements?
>>154281180Litriya Shrine 1 and 2 bookending the war flashback is probably the highlight of the whole Unsounded part 1 for me. It’s so good.
>>154271524It's almost certainly meant to be, since it's probably a reference to the lions associated with Ssael, and so it's saying they're "unsheathing" their claws and will not strike with the paws. Or something.
>>154273352>know the exact language they're usingWhich will always be Tainish, since that's the only language that works on the khert. Unless you're a tacit caster, but even then you might have to "think" in Tainish.
>>154282810Yeah but we know there’s a difference between learning the minimum Tainish to cast spells and having a full knowledge of it. And we know khert hackers make shortcuts.
>>154282810>but even then you might have to "think" in TainishThere's no "might", the Khert only responds to Old Tainish. Duane has a comprehensive knowledge of the language because he needs it to cast, otherwise he could have been an immensely powerful caster from birth, possibly casting accidentally.
>>154278667She continues to bouncy boobily in Cresce while our boy Gizz spills his spaghetti.
>>154284594we're going to get a front row seat to the spaghetti spillingright now ole Brawny Leg is gussying himself up for his foolproof plan to win his lady-smooch
