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September Poll #1

Shoulder Angel Nanase and Shoulder Devil Nanase!

Can vote for more than one

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Classicalness continues.

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As previously mentioned, I am cheating the heck of character positioning to show everyone's faces. The first panel of this comic is defying all known laws of our universe...

Possible Future Q&A

There MIGHT be a Q&A two weeks after Balance is over, and it is ending quite soon! Friday, in fact!

I need to know what questions I'd be answering by a week from Friday, however, and whether I have enough that people want answered that I can work with, so...

If you have a Q&A appropriate question, please, ...

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Classy!

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I'm not assuming everyone reading this is an expert of RolePlaying Game tropes, so there will be brief summaries of what these classes are, and why YOU should care.

This is especial...

End of month poll candidates

Can vote for more than one

Order got a little odd because I was originally plotting fewer options and there’s no easy order change option ^^;

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Seriously close to beginning.

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YOU'RE WELCOME, readers who would've gotten confused by four new names.

Also, you're welcome, ME, who didn't want to keep track of those, either.

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Soon-to-be Game Time! 

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Rich: "Ah yes, I see. Nanase, the true expert, is concerned about Ellen's improvisational skills. Mm-hm. Yes. I have correctly assessed her skill level."

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Experience.

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That's quite the assumption, Rich. You're literally in a story written by someone who mostly knows about these types of players second-hand.

I didn't think of Nanase acting too ...

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The Ultimate Consequence

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This was quite the gamble on Nanase's part. Some guys are into that.

I wanted Nanase to stand up for Ellen, but I was concerned about it coming off as physically th...

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A friendly chat.

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This is what I originally planned for the previous comic, but Nanase would have said Rich's name in a (now cut) first panel.

It turns out I barely fit what I wanted in thre...

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Who is Nanase?

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I'd originally planned for Nanase to simply walk over to Rich, and start talking without any narration.

After the previous comic, however, I realized that I only had an idea ...

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Plotting and scheming... Probably.

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Edit - "Your" to "You're"

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Rich is awkward around women.

You probably deduced that already.

What you might not have known is that he's EXTRA aw...

Milestone Image Schedule

I've decided I don't intend to have a milestone image / sketchbook this week, and I'm not sure what I'm going to do next week.

I want to focus on getting Balance back to three pages per week, and then taking a proper break once it's over, which will be relatively soon.

I'm playing things a bit by ear at the moment...

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Angry Devil

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I don't think anyone's guessed what Ellen has in mind, which, for once, I was actually concerned about someone doing.

This was mostly due to the lack of foreshadowing (GASP!),...

Accidental FV5

While it was rare, the accidental casting of spells by Ellen as the result of a sudden sneeze could still occur.

Weirdly, this was more common when Diane was around, and that's not meant sarcastically. Ellen had no intention of accidentally zapping Diane, and there was no outside reason why Ellen would be more prone to ...

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Not Nervous Nanase!

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I used to avoid putting nervous sweat drops in characters hair, as I felt people would interpret it as trying too hard to "be anime".

The thing is, the nervous sweat dro...

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Friendly!

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How dare she be friendly.

But yes, it's important to keep in mind that, while George CAN be helpful, he's ALSO, well... George.

August End of Month Poll #2

Sarah has wound up in a curvy way, and unbeknownst to the unaware person in the foreground, they’re to blame.

Can't vote for more than one because I made a mistake

UPDATE: At some point, Patreon changed "can vote for more than one" from the default to something you have to manually choo...

August End of Month Poll #1

Uninhibited Susan practicing close physical contact with Elliot...

Can vote for more than one

Schedule Delay (After Friday's Story Page)

Next Story comic (after Friday's) - Wednesday, August 31st

Next EGSNP - Thursday, September 1st

Next Milestone / Sketchbook - Saturday, September 3rd

There are two reasons for this. 

The first is that a personal matter that will affect my work sch...

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Conditions.

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What do you mean nerds don't have time to be experts on absolutely every nerdy interest available?

Surely they all know how to play every Table Top RPG, board game, card game, a...

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Whose RPG is it anyway?

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For the sake of pacing and simplicity, this story glosses over the option to simply not do anything resembling acting. A player could simply say things like "I ask about t...

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Perfectly Fine!

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I would argue that Nanase is TECHNICALLY lying by masking how she feels here.

I mean, as in I would argue that here, in this commentary.

I would not actually argue tha...

Rumors of Nanase

Frequent rumors of Ellen and Grace being together made Nanase irrationally jealous.

Not of people thinking Ellen and Grace were together, but that there weren't a bunch of rumors about her dating someone.

The relatively rational response to dealing with this irrational desire would have been to be more obvious wit...

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Shocking revelation!

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But she's fine at cooking, the ultimate "look, a flaw" option.

I don't feel like I have to defend Nanase being really good at a lot of stuff, but that doesn't mean I'm ...

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George the expert.

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Nanase is HYPED!

George is enough of a loner that I wasn't big on the idea of him having a lot of firsthand experience actually playing the game.

From my own firsth...

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How will you even?!

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- And this is why it was important that George wasn't working today

I wonder if anyone wo...

Squirrel Camelia

Since becoming friends with Grace, Camelia has started having recurring dreams about being... SOMETHING at school.

She wasn't exactly sure what. The tail immediately made her think of a squirrel, but very little else did. She had pronounced canines instead of exaggerated incisors, and her ears were strangely large for ...

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Challenger Remorse.

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I considered writing "oh, they just didn't hear any part of that exchange. In which voices got raised. In a relatively empty comic shop."

Yeah, no, that was not a privat...

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Dude.

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I knew it was important to show Larry's response to all this, and to get it exactly right.

I don't know about you, but I think I nailed it.