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"Things fall apart. The center cannot hold. Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world. The blood-dimmed tide is loosed..." And Ana slinks toward Alderode to be born.

Everything goes off the rails sooner or later. The trick is to build new ones faster than the players realize.

Professor Harmless

Very well put, RJ!

Duke BG

8 made me lol. I swear it's not true though! Mechanics are to blame for the nakedness, I promise :) The next few pages clarify things further, and then Sette and Duane should throw things for a loop after that. The end of the first part of the story is looming, and Lady Ilganyag will have to involve herself more directly if she doesn't want all this to run right off the rails.

Ashley

So....lot's of exposition here. 1. For those of us hoping Lady wasn't clearly behind the silver that's gone, though she claims to bloo hoo hoo hate doing it. 2. But not enough to take crap from Bastion. 3. In other news, Bastion will now give crap to ANYBODY, even Lady I, although he would probably still shag her but that's not saying much. 4. Bastion never really understood what was going on and it looks like Prakhuta never really did either. It retrospect now it looks like Ruck doesn't CARE what going on, he just wants his next meal. With variety so he doesn't get bored obviously. 5. So the Lady is the only one that really knows and cares what's going on. It looks like she *believes* she's doing the Right Thing™ although Bastion doubts that involves his well being. 6. I really like the timing of the reveals here: These are events hinted about or referred to since the beginning but the reveals in this section feel perfect. Not too extra but not trivial either. The reveals feel perfect, satisfying. It doesn't feel like there's meaningless MacGuffin anywhere, it feels like everything is consistent and fits. 8. I think Lady Ilganyag just likes her men naked and she made offsetting require it not the other way around but maybe that's just me.

I love this use of red.

School of Night