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Re: Dominic Deegan: Oracle for Hire, MK XXI - Death is not Maltak
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Originally Posted by
Kris Strife
Well, you do have to properly apply said violence. I'm not sure anyone in the Deegan verse would be able to figure that out.
I think you fail to understand. There's no such thing as "improperly applied violence." There's just "not applying enough violence to the situation."
If the explosion is big enough, it will hit your target.
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Re: Dominic Deegan: Oracle for Hire, MK XXI - Death is not Maltak
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Originally Posted by
St. Salieri
Very true. And yet, there remain unsolved issues (namely, Who is the Crone?)
Eh, I'm more interested to know who Mysterion is.
Good god, I don't know whether to hope someone catches the reference or hope nobody does.
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Re: Dominic Deegan: Oracle for Hire, MK XXI - Death is not Maltak
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Originally Posted by
Frogwarrior
Eh, I'm more interested to know who Mysterion is.
Good god, I don't know whether to hope someone catches the reference or hope nobody does.
South Park?
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Re: Dominic Deegan: Oracle for Hire, MK XXI - Death is not Maltak
New comic.
Aw, Dom and Luna.
Aw, Hukthak and Azazia...?
Aw, Stonewater and Grench...?
(*Okay, got those two backwards. Now that I see the huk thak in the fourth panel. Learn to draw different Orcs, Mookie!)
Why are Melna's fingers black?
I guess that's Suyan painting...
Thank god (who has nothing to do with this) that the OC wears a different color robe. I know who that one is.
Just climb the damn mountain already, Kiya.
Why was this strip made? Why was it a Friday strip? Wasn't Mookie trying to wrap this up and move ON?
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Re: Dominic Deegan: Oracle for Hire, MK XXI - Death is not Maltak
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Originally Posted by
Humbug
Sane people are a rarity in Dominia it seems. Mookie loves his bipolar people. :smalltongue:
Don't get Magic: the Gathering mixed up in this >:|
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Re: Dominic Deegan: Oracle for Hire, MK XXI - Death is not Maltak
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Originally Posted by Mookies Newspost
A sign of things to come for these orcs of Maltak?
I hope that I'm mistaken, but for me this sounds like an impending "Maltak revisited" somewhere down the road...
I'm going to be sick now. Violently so.
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Re: Dominic Deegan: Oracle for Hire, MK XXI - Death is not Maltak
So it wasn't just me who spent ages playing "Guess which orc is that". I didn't figure out Azazia because I could only recognise her from her cloak. It's eerie how hard it is to figure it out.
What is that fifth panel meant to represent? Has Melna cracked completely and is slaughtering everyone in their sleep? :smallconfused:
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Re: Dominic Deegan: Oracle for Hire, MK XXI - Death is not Maltak
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Originally Posted by
Trazoi
Has Melna cracked completely and is slaughtering everyone in their sleep? :smallconfused:
This was pretty much my reaction as well.
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Re: Dominic Deegan: Oracle for Hire, MK XXI - Death is not Maltak
Heyall,
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Originally Posted by
Trazoi
So it wasn't just me who spent ages playing "Guess which orc is that". I didn't figure out Azazia because I could only recognise her from her cloak. It's eerie how hard it is to figure it out.
At least non Orc characters wear clothes that help distinguish them from everyone else. I doubt I could tell Stonewater apart from Huk Thak if it weren't for that feather he's always wearing.
Still, I've come to accept that Mookie doesn't feel comfortable experimenting with faces. And no, adding fangs and cyclops eyes doesn't count as "experimenting".
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Originally Posted by
Trazoi
What is that fifth panel meant to represent? Has Melna cracked completely and is slaughtering everyone in their sleep? :smallconfused:
One can only hope. Then maybe there would be a chance of leaving Maltak before February.
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Re: Dominic Deegan: Oracle for Hire, MK XXI - Death is not Maltak
I was wondering: has Grench had a single line of dialogue this entire arc? Granted, she was imprisoned for most of it, but has she done anything except be a token Distressed Damsel?
Now that I think about it, why did we need Huk Thak and Azazia in this arc? Couldn't Stonewater and Grench have filled their roles?
I realize that would have eliminated the whole 'Sanctuary is made of people' subplot, and it was Grench's imprisonment that spurred the Razghala into attacking the Bikta, but couldn't we have come up with some other pretext for the big battle?
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Re: Dominic Deegan: Oracle for Hire, MK XXI - Death is not Maltak
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Originally Posted by
M84
Heyall,
At least non Orc characters wear clothes that help distinguish them from everyone else. I doubt I could tell Stonewater apart from Huk Thak if it weren't for that feather he's always wearing.
Have you forgotten Stonewater's explanation already? It's all about the hair! Specifically- Stonewater has those silly chin..cheek..umm.. facial-ponytail things. Hukthak has no facial hair. And Azazia is blond (at least for now) while Grench has dark hair, so they're *clearly* different people at least until Mookie forgets which one he's supposed to be drawing.
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Re: Dominic Deegan: Oracle for Hire, MK XXI - Death is not Maltak
Grench is supposed to have pink hair, though.
I never really understood why he drew it like the standard "dark hair filling."
Nothing else about the strip worth mentioning, I think...
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Re: Dominic Deegan: Oracle for Hire, MK XXI - Death is not Maltak
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Originally Posted by
Face Of Evil
Now that I think about it, why did we need Huk Thak and Azazia in this arc?
Because we needed to find out who he is, and why he wants to kill Melna.
OH WAIT! :smallannoyed:
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Re: Dominic Deegan: Oracle for Hire, MK XXI - Death is not Maltak
Wasn't Kiya a ditz already from the start? It's been a while but before she and the chief son run away she was fooling around with him in the bushes. That was part of their sins (why she must die)
So there was no character change.
Panel 5: Sins of the crone mothers visited on waif Melna.
Resolution: Melna wants to be chief instead and passes crone-stains to Kiya, because come-on! She deserve it and she's the best choice out there, right?
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Re: Dominic Deegan: Oracle for Hire, MK XXI - Death is not Maltak
Is that Kiya in panel 8? I really don't know.
And I wouldn't have known who the orc couples were if peopel hadn't said. I mean, I could guess that one of them was Stonewater and Grench, but the other was a mystery. And I still don't know which couple is doing some groping in panel 3 or boning in panel 4.
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Re: Dominic Deegan: Oracle for Hire, MK XXI - Death is not Maltak
Why is OC wearing a dress? Is he the new Crone?
Is that Suyan in panel 6?
Why did Grench's hair change colour?
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Re: Dominic Deegan: Oracle for Hire, MK XXI - Death is not Maltak
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Originally Posted by
Penquin47
New comic.
Aw, Dom and Luna.
Aw, Hukthak and Azazia...?
Aw, Stonewater and Grench...?
No no no. "Eew" is spelled with an "e" at the beginning. An "e."
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Re: Dominic Deegan: Oracle for Hire, MK XXI - Death is not Maltak
This will be the first draft of the comprehensive history of the Deeganverse. It's getting late, so I'll only be posting the Farian segment.
Farian History:
OR
How Raf MaLiksh Made Elves Interesting:Spoiler
Show
After the Battle of Wild Edge, the first Elven Seer foresaw that reverence of nature, respecting the Shalif, and communing with the dryads would preserve the elven race as a people, both against the chaos of the plane-wide upheaval and into the distant future. This movement wasn't universally accepted, however, as many believed that an understanding of magic was critical to prevent another Wild Edge cataclysm. Over the millenia, power would regularly change hands between the wood elves and high elves, typically if fending off the latest Callanian raid went sour. It wouldn't be until the rise of Raf Maliksh that the cycle would be broken.
Raf Maliksh was a notably ambitious elf who wanted to be sure that his nature-worshipping cousins would never reclaim power from him. While history notes his having defiled that which they held sacred, he also put a long-term end to Callanian invasions into Faria by offering to hire out elven tutors to the Callanian nobility to teach them various arts, including magic. The rebellions of the wood elves against Raf's blasphemies lead to him making an Acibek, which his kindred normally reserved as a weapon of last resort to fend of the Callanians. The Acibek rebelled, however, and joined Sae LaMindra in a coalition effort to overthrow Raf Maliksh.
The war was long as bloody, but the rebels were able to gain allies as time passed. Raf's association with the necromancer Helixa allowed him to extend the lives of his elite Aliak assassin generals, but it also drew the attention of an enemy that had once been close to Helixa: Rillian, the first necromancer. It was with his help that he was able to convince the orcs to aid in the rebellion, due to his having studied under the nakta masters of the Kelsheen. This, combined with the aid of the Nagasta that was prompted by a green dragon, was the turning point that would eventually bring about the fall of Raf MaLiksh's empire. As an act of revenge, Raf MaLiksh had Helixa curse the orcs with stunted longevity, shortening their elven lifespans to less than that of a human. Many orcs died on the spot, and in an act of desperation Acibek and Rillian collected all the innocent souls that had died in that fateful moment to create the Sylvan Oracle, who would act to oversee the preservation of nature on the continent.
During the next several centuries, peace eventually settled on Faria. The war had so throroughly devastated the elves that favored the arcane over nature, both demographically and politically, that the wild elves have maintained power to this day. Eventually, the high elves would be assimilated back into the main of the elven race, with the only remains of their culture being the mundane arts of craftsmanship and music. With the exception of the occasional rogue infernomancer, Callanian attacks also stopped as the arcane arts of the elves that motivated the invasions had become less than what the Callanians had come to possess through pillaging and tutors. It wasn't until the Storm of Souls that war returned to Faria, and eventually ended with the final fall of Raf MaLiksh.
After that, a status quo settled on Faria. With some gentle persuasion from the high elven minority, the elves restored Raf's singular good idea of hiring out tutors to foreign lands, teaching magic, swordplay, and music to the humans and spellwolves that would pay for their services.
I'm working under the assumption that the world looks roughly like this:
Continent A:
{table]|Winter Archipelago|
|Callan|Semash
Nagastralia|Faria|Maltak[/table]
Continent B:
The Wild Edge
Missing Stuff:
Old Tucklebruck Island is a midway between the two continents, going southwest from Nagastralia across the equator. Yes, only two continents. It's the Deeganverse.
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Re: Dominic Deegan: Oracle for Hire, MK XXI - Death is not Maltak
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Originally Posted by
Penquin47
Why are Melna's fingers black?
Look carefully - she's reapplying the black stripes into her own hair.
Clearly, having committed a brutal murder and upset the delicate social structure of the Doma Tribe, she's no longer even a bit traumatised about them killing her parents, splattering her with their blood and then forcing her into a Win/Rape situation.
This is closure, Dominion-style. :smallconfused:
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Originally Posted by
Oracle_Hunter
Don't you remember that Dominic
doesn't have his Second Sight. . . unless it's plot-relevant :smalltongue:
Seriously, Mookie never explains how fake-weed was supposed to restore Dominic's Second Sight. Like Spark, I too
demand an explanation :smallannoyed:
I still maintain my previous theory: This is NOT the real Dominic, but is instead an illusion or construct controlled by him and sent to do mundane errands while the real Lord Dominus tries to lure Rillian/Celesto/Snuggly out of hiding.
Every time he gets a vision and it's accurate? The clone has successfully managed to channel a small part of it's Prime's power (or has been sent the vision by the REAL Dominus who actually got it).
Every time he scrys when he shouldn't be able to? The Clone is making stuff up to maintain appearences. After all, everyone else thinks it IS Dominic, so how/why would they even think to check the facts for themselves?
Everytime he gets a vision and it's inaccurate? It's just a Clone. It is fallible, unlike the real Lord Dominius who currently has more important things to deal with. Like, for example, nap-time, or reading a newspaper.
If you want to imagine that the Clone has been around since the middle of the Round The World Arc (that is, Dominus learned Brian's true identity early on and switched himself out while no one was looking in the middle of the Cruise) then it explains quite a lot of plot-holes that have occurred since.....
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Re: Dominic Deegan: Oracle for Hire, MK XXI - Death is not Maltak
Who are those gremlins in panel two and what kind of mischief are they up to to grin like that?
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Originally Posted by
Trazoi
What is that fifth panel meant to represent? Has Melna cracked completely and is slaughtering everyone in their sleep? :smallconfused:
Obviously, sensing that the end of the arc is near, she tries to speed things up by generating a critical amount of closure.
Or maybe she's dyeing her hair.
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Originally Posted by
Face Of Evil
I was wondering: has Grench had a single line of dialogue this entire arc?
Yes. :smallamused:
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Re: Dominic Deegan: Oracle for Hire, MK XXI - Death is not Maltak
Oh hey, random proto-porn. I can get behind that. From a better artist. :smallsmile:
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Re: Dominic Deegan: Oracle for Hire, MK XXI - Death is not Maltak
There are many ways to conceal nudity if one doesn't wish to be explict about it, but Mookie chooses conveniently places strands of hair. Real professionalism and dedication.
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Re: Dominic Deegan: Oracle for Hire, MK XXI - Death is not Maltak
Actually surprising twist: Dominic becomes the new crone. He and Reinholdt have to live with each other for the rest of their lives.
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Re: Dominic Deegan: Oracle for Hire, MK XXI - Death is not Maltak
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Originally Posted by
T-O-E
Actually surprising twist: Dominic becomes the new crone. He and Reinholdt have to live with each other for the rest of their lives.
And it will be a buddy cop movie, just like Siggy and Celesto. Exept they're cruising through Maltak in the mountain, Miami Vice style. :smallbiggrin:
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Re: Dominic Deegan: Oracle for Hire, MK XXI - Death is not Maltak
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Originally Posted by
Tackyhillbillu
I think you fail to understand. There's no such thing as "improperly applied violence." There's just "not applying enough violence to the situation."
If the explosion is big enough, it will hit your target.
While massive amounts of violence can also solve the problem, it takes a lot more time and effort that way.
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Re: Dominic Deegan: Oracle for Hire, MK XXI - Death is not Maltak
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Originally Posted by
Kris Strife
While massive amounts of violence can also solve the problem, it takes a lot more time and effort that way.
You know what solves that problem?
MOAR VIOLENCE!
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Re: Dominic Deegan: Oracle for Hire, MK XXI - Death is not Maltak
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Originally Posted by
Wraith
I still maintain my previous theory: This is NOT the real Dominic, but is instead an illusion or construct controlled by him and sent to do mundane errands while the real Lord Dominus tries to lure Rillian/Celesto/Snuggly out of hiding.
Every time he gets a vision and it's accurate? The clone has successfully managed to channel a small part of it's Prime's power (or has been sent the vision by the REAL Dominus who actually got it).
Every time he scrys when he shouldn't be able to? The Clone is making stuff up to maintain appearences. After all, everyone else thinks it IS Dominic, so how/why would they even think to check the facts for themselves?
Everytime he gets a vision and it's inaccurate? It's just a Clone. It is fallible, unlike the real Lord Dominius who currently has more important things to deal with. Like, for example, nap-time, or reading a newspaper.
If you want to imagine that the Clone has been around since the middle of the Round The World Arc (that is, Dominus learned Brian's true identity early on and switched himself out while no one was looking in the middle of the Cruise) then it explains quite a lot of plot-holes that have occurred since.....
I reject this theory on philosophical, ethical, moral, and religious grounds. Because it means it wasn't the real Dominic that got punched in the balls.
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Re: Dominic Deegan: Oracle for Hire, MK XXI - Death is not Maltak
Second Draft, now with four-armed freaks and little people. Also: Melna is putting her hair dye back in, which had washed out.
Farian History:
OR
How Raf MaLiksh Made Elves Interesting:Spoiler
Show
After the Battle of Wild Edge, the first Elven Seer foresaw that reverence of nature, respecting the Shalif, and communing with the dryads would preserve the elven race as a people, both against the chaos of the plane-wide upheaval and into the distant future. This movement wasn't universally accepted, however, as many believed that an understanding of magic was critical to prevent another Wild Edge cataclysm. Over the millenia, power would regularly change hands between the wood elves and high elves, typically if fending off the latest Callanian raid went sour. It wouldn't be until the rise of Raf Maliksh that the cycle would be broken.
Raf Maliksh was a notably ambitious elf who wanted to be sure that his nature-worshipping cousins would never reclaim power from him. While history notes his having defiled that which they held sacred, he also put a long-term end to Callanian invasions into Faria by offering to hire out elven tutors to the Callanian nobility to teach them various arts, including magic. The rebellions of the wood elves against Raf's blasphemies lead to him making an Acibek, which his kindred normally reserved as a weapon of last resort to fend of the Callanians. The Acibek rebelled, however, and joined Sae LaMindra in a coalition effort to overthrow Raf Maliksh.
The war was long as bloody, but the rebels were able to gain allies as time passed. Raf's association with the necromancer Helixa allowed him to extend the lives of his elite Aliak assassin generals, but it also drew the attention of an enemy that had once been close to Helixa: Rillian, the first necromancer. It was with his help that he was able to convince the orcs to aid in the rebellion, due to his having studied under the nakta masters of the Kelsheen. This, combined with the aid of the Nagasta that was prompted by a green dragon, was the turning point that would eventually bring about the fall of Raf MaLiksh's empire. As an act of revenge, Raf MaLiksh had Helixa curse the orcs with stunted longevity, shortening their elven lifespans to less than that of a human. Many orcs died on the spot, and in an act of desperation Acibek and Rillian collected all the innocent souls that had died in that fateful moment to create the Sylvan Oracle, who would act to oversee the preservation of nature on the continent.
During the next several centuries, peace eventually settled on Faria. The war had so throroughly devastated the elves that favored the arcane over nature, both demographically and politically, that the wild elves have maintained power to this day. Eventually, the high elves would be assimilated back into the main of the elven race, with the only remains of their culture being the mundane arts of craftsmanship and music. With the exception of the occasional rogue infernomancer, Callanian attacks also stopped as the arcane arts of the elves that motivated the invasions had become less than what the Callanians had come to possess through pillaging and tutors. It wasn't until the Storm of Souls that war returned to Faria, and eventually ended with the final fall of Raf MaLiksh.
After that, a status quo settled on Faria. With some gentle persuasion from the high elven minority, the elves restored Raf's singular good idea of hiring out tutors to foreign lands, teaching magic, swordplay, and music to the humans and spellwolves that would pay for their services.
Nagastralian History
OR
Callan Learns not to F*** with Dragons:Spoiler
Show
The Nagastralians were one of two races brought into being by the Battle of Wild Edge, when a clutch of eggs from a blue dragon and green dragon were warped and corrupted by the terrible magic being wielded in the epic battle. The blue mother was warped beyond recognition and sapience, but the green father lingered as a guardian for his crippled children. With the aid of the time magic dragons used to regulate their longevity, a modest civilization was born upon the coasts of the continent where the Wild Edge had been torn away.
It was due to this time magic that it would be several generations after the Battle of Wild Edge before the first Nagastralian seer emmerged. The seer's vision saw the truth of how their race came to be, most signifigantly the sacrifices and suffering their draconic parents endured to ensure their survival. In order to preserve their sacrifice, and thus the reverence his people had for dragons, the first seer began the Nagastralian tradition of storytelling. Seeing that his people had learned to stand on their own, the green dragon finally put the time magic at ease so that he himself could get some rest, accelerating the passage of time for himself so he could skip to the next major event concerning his people.
Less than a century later, the first and last Callanian invasion of Nagastralia began. Not yet skilled in the arts of magic, the crusade depended heavily on the Royal Knights and Sacred Knights supported by Luanian priestesses. As if tactics depending on heavy infantry in an aquatic environment weren't bad enough, the combination of Nagastralian martial arts and time magic was enough so that a single warrior could drown an entire regiment. Recognized as noncombatants, only the priestesses survived what would be known as the swiftest and most effecient massacre in history.
When the Acibek was formed, the green dragon returned to Nagastralia. He explained how the Farian tyrant planned to conquer all the world, and that his offspring must aid the rebel elves if they were to succeed. After the war turned to the favor of the rebels with further aid from the orcs, the Nagastralians quietly returned to their shores to live out their lives in peace, letting the rest of the world worry itself over outside concerns.
The History of Olde Tucklebruck Island
OR
As It Turns Out, Seers Can Screw Up:Spoiler
Show
After the Battle of Wild Edge, the small folk were reeling. A modest segment of their populace had been severed from the rest of the world to an island, and those that remained on the mainland were steadily mutating into what would become hobgoblins. Unlike most races, the small folks were gifted with two seers.
Old Man Tuck had a vision showing the ill fate that would befall his coastal kin and the prosperity of his people. The women of the shores were being manhandled by drunken humans, the populace was forced to endure all sorts of abuse, and the people of the mountain were the only ones to remain free of such oppression by the big folk.
By contrast, the Visionary Orion foresaw an age of prosperity and commerce for his people, while the mountain dwellers languished: The big folk came with money spent on the crafts and drinks of the small folk, those that appreciated their hard work would share stories with them over a fine amber ale, while the mountain dwellers would become universally reviled as violently isolationist.
Both stories spread like wildfire, and families shifted according to their preferred fate. The halflings of the coast openned their ports for commerce, which was soon readily had with the Semashi explorers who sought the beauty of the world. When the Callanians invaded, their plans of violence were stopped short by the offer of beer. After a few hours, the relationship became rather clear: The halflings would be trade partners, but you shouldn't handle their women if you want to keep your face.
After some talks, the Callanian crusade decided to press inland to the mountains. The halflings warned them about their cousins, whom the winds of the Wild Edge had mutated high on Old Tuck to fit their feral and offputting culture. Having already faced many of the worlds horrors, the crusade pressed on. The battles that followed were pitched and fierce, and the technically victorious survivors would return home to strongly discourage further attacks on the Mountain of Battering Balls. Whether the name comes from dwarven rolling rock traps or their hand-to-hand combat techniques remains uncertain, and likely varies from soldier to soldier.
The dwarves, assuming that their cousins had been wiped out by the invaders, went down the mountain to assess the slaughter. Finding the halflings had welcomed the invaders as guests, the dwarves became mad with drunken rage and started a brawl that would last for three days, partly do to the healing freely provided by the Luanian mission to the more peaceful of the two races. When talking finally resumed, the dwarves returned to their mountain to fortify it against pillaging big folk and backstabbing halflings.
Over the centuries, conflicts would continue to stir the pot on Olde Tucklebruck Island. Violence would break out when a dwarven watch tower would be built on a halfling barley field when the tower meerly overlooked the field, or a beer quality contest hosted by the halflings would be accused of racial favoritism, overlooking the fact that the dwarves made their beers for alcohol content over taste. Through it all, though, the island remained peaceful and at arm's length from the rest of the world.
I'm working under the assumption that the world looks roughly like this:
Continent A:
{table]|Winter Archipelago|
|Callan|Semash
Nagastralia|Faria|Maltak[/table]
Continent B:
The Wild Edge
Missing Stuff:
Old Tucklebruck Island is a midway between the two continents, going southwest from Nagastralia across the equator. Yes, only two continents. It's the Deeganverse.
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Re: Dominic Deegan: Oracle for Hire, MK XXI - Death is not Maltak
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Originally Posted by
Ganurath
Also: Melna is putting her hair dye back in, which had washed out.
Oh. I thought she was becoming a Shintula.
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Re: Dominic Deegan: Oracle for Hire, MK XXI - Death is not Maltak
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Originally Posted by
Frogwarrior
And I wouldn't have known who the orc couples were if peopel hadn't said. I mean, I could guess that one of them was Stonewater and Grench, but the other was a mystery. And I still don't know which couple is doing some groping in panel 3 or boning in panel 4.
My first thought on looking at Panel 4 was, Wait, why is Luna sleeping with Huk Thak?