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Smooth work there, Miss Frummagem.

You know, I must have written this scene a dozen times. It was always either too explicit, or too vague. I'm still not sure I struck the correct balance.

Sette's obviously *moved* Duane's thoughts - or his heart, if you like - but to what extent and with what amount of success is...

15_72

Well, that's handy. Bad news for us though. Sette has possibly taken control of the plot.

15_71

Unexpected Bastion!

It's one thing to use that amulet to drive nighttime Duane around - that's not really Duane at all - but attempting to use it to influence him during the day because he's not acting in a way that's convenient to your plan to hide away from the world with your new friends and put on a pageant... that'...

15_70

Zombie puking blood aside (next page is worst) this exchange is great to me because it's a complete inversion of the argument they had in the third chapter, when Duane was the one who threatened to leave. Even later, in their confrontation in the toy shop, it was still Sette who made Duane promise not to abandon her.

Bu...

15_69

Duane battles back his ketchup addiction while Sette is immediately defensive. Friends are a weakness.

15_68

That penultimate panel was *very* satisfying to draw. There's been a lot of very good discussion about Mistress Lori over in the site's comment section, but I don't think there's any good argument to be made that Duane is acting heroically here. Of course he has a righteous cause, but he's letting his own hatred and hunger sw...

15_67

Lori recovered her composure - at least enough to decide she's not going to betray her Majesty's secrets to some stinking Aldish monster. Now what, Mr. Adelier? Torture?

15_66

The lizard kids are all right! Maybe not so much for the physical stuff, but clever enough to dig through Lori's safe while Duane is uh, interrogating her. What do you reckon that is they found?

15_65

Presumably that snatched piece of paper was the letter we got to read a few pages ago. Duane will happily fill in the blanks and decide this is a massive Crescian plot that he can now single-handedly undo.

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Imagine how scary this would be! Lucky timing with the safe, but this isn't at all what the lizards had in mind. Kids who sharpen their grandma's soup spoons and talk like edgelords about killing little girls in their sleep often tend to flinch at the first hint of decisive action.

15_63

Duane looks so awkward in Quigley's clothing. The shirt's both too short in the arms for him, and too loose in the torso. Quigley's burning all of this if the corpse ever tries to return it.

Our hero is terribly infested today - in body and in mind. Beetles in his body and miserable doubts on his mind.

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We've seen these "Anti-Pymary" barriers before, notably back in Ethelmik where the Crescian army was using one to block off their construct storage. Since a wright has to know the name of a Material in order to cast on it, Anti-Pymary barriers work by obfuscating their construction, often being made of a melange of different ...

15_61

I tried to keep this scene pretty short and sweet - I've noticed a lot of people don't have much patience for poor Jivi :)

Keeping it real though, this is the kind of stuff I love the best. Little emotional breakthroughs, little conversations between kids trying to figure things out. I know some comic makers trudge thro...

15_60

Sara stands prepared to harshly judge this boy she just met a few days ago. Give her a reason to think you're cute again, Jivi!

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Matty has not been blind to how Jivi's isolated himself from everyone. He sees more than most, even with only a beanbag for eyes!

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I wonder what Jivi asked Yerta for? With his bosun's pipe clasped in his hands, even?

Maybe just Sette's slow death~

15_57

Ah, the sweet intoxication of a kindred spirit. Sette hasn't had a friend her own age in a long, long time.

I've been writing Sette for aeons, and it's interesting the kinds of people she connects with. She doesn't do well with weak-willed people - her instinct is to dominate them, and then they never earn her respect. ...

15_56

Sharteshanians aren't used to such casual acts of mercy. Sette expected this girl to tell her to suck it up, get over herself, and keep walking - not do anything as simple or as kind as suggest an alternate route. It's a pretty tiny thing but she's a little dumbfounded.

Sette was scared of the skulls when they first arr...

15_55

Quigley will be a lot more fun if we get him drunk. He's feeling pretty blue. Working on Uaid inevitably makes him think of Vienne - and the emotions there aren't all entirely what you might expect. The inadequacy is almost worse than the grief.

15_54

Quigley had a good time, once. It was terrible.

How d'you reckon Duane teaching Siya how to craft glamours will go? Put your money down now, folks, on which end of Sette he starts eating first for daring to suggest such a course of events.

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"You look very cute today!"

Uaid's always been the most difficult character to draw. Not only because there's so much machinery layout to keep track of, but fitting him in the frame with tiny humans requires a lot of weird angles. It was a relief to have him symmetrical again though. I had a five year old post-it note o...

15_52

Uaid and Matty's Very Good Day. Uaid needs a giant pirate eye patch!

15_51

And we're back! Thanks for giving me those few weeks to fluff the buffer; I felt free to spend the time paying extra loving attention to an upcoming panel of Duane's bared teeth when he attempts to take a bite out of someone. Also went back and animated a panel on the next page. The kids are going down to see Quigley and Uaid...

Unsounded Live Trivia on Discord

So it seems like the best compromise to start our trivia game is 20:00 GMT - that's 4pm EST, this coming Saturday!

Again, it'll be a twenty question round of Unsounded trivia, with a break in the middle. In-comic lore only. First person to correctly answer each question...

Live Unsounded Trivia Match!

Hey guys! This Saturday, I'm going to host a twenty question round of Unsounded trivia on Discord. The winner can choose between either having their dog featured as a rideable giant mount in the comic, or designing and naming their own two-toe avatar.

I'm trying to figure out what time on Saturday would be best though. ...

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Here's a tricky-trick for you: Duane's met the author of that letter before in the comic.

With that, I need to take a few weeks to make up for those multiple page updates last month. Thanks for bearing with me - it makes for a better comic in the long run, I promise :)

When we get back, we'll see what trouble Quig...

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Agent Keon. You might recall him from the razing of the Crescian city of Ethelmik. He killed Toma and Elka's little friend Elan and then blew the city up, which left his hands split in two and his face raw and scarred. He's probably the most deadly of General Bell's stalwarts, motivated almost purely by love of pymary and a d...

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Two more pages, then I'll have to take a little posting hiatus so I can make up for the earlier page dumps. I wish I could say that quarantine has been good for my output but it's the complete opposite for some reason. I salute anyone who's managed to be really productive at work in spite of Things.

I loved finally draw...

15_47

I like that Toma admits he wilfully and deliberately stayed away, and doesn't try to make an excuse. He really did put his own discomfort with his marriage ahead of his responsibility to be there for his daughter. Does he deserve to be kept away from her afterwards? Absolutely not, but he'd accepted the consequence as inevita...

Elka Fix! (nsfw)

I had thought this was on here! Old cheesecake. Elka/Quigley or Elka/Toma? I know the latter is my preference but variety is nice.