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Of Books and Barbarians
An OotS-styled comic about a not-so standard orc and her adventures across a fantasy land that has many traits we fantasy fans may find familiar. Join us while we follow the adventures of Kagra as she is wrapped up in things that no amount of reading can truly prepare her for.
This story is not written with any game-system in mind.
Currently has a random and irregular update schedule.
Comic Archive
(To be updated as more strips are posted in the thread.)
Fanart:
By Keveak:
Fan-works encouraged! More sections will be added to the OP as I need them. Enjoy!
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Ohh, it's finally up!
Strip 3
Should bring 'em out once a week or maybe twice if I have enough of a buffer, starting from today. So I guess today's gonna be my update day. :smalltongue:
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Very very nice. And you are able to pull of the high detail/high quality OotS art as well. Lots of detail drawn on your characters, with differing design choices, while still being able to tell what they are wearing.
Keep this up. :smalltongue:
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Thanks!
I'm a few comics ahead at this point and one or two of them are not quite as good looking as I'd like, but hopefully I can come into my own with this. It's been a looooong time since I've used the OotS style seriously. :smalltongue:
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Yes! I've been waiting for this. Subscribed.
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I second that.
Made me giggle aloud, and the colors don't hurt my eyes, so it's all good.
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I. like. this. now. subscribed. thread.
I'd like to see more of this, if possible.
current standing:
:smallwink: :smallwink: :smallwink: :smallwink: :smallsigh:
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DOOOOOOOOOOOOM!
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Where did she get that teddy bear in the first place?
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Is she an orc or a goblin?
I wonder why this remind me
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Onmund of Skyrim since Onmund is a Nord Mage who got kicked out of the family of Warriors.
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I'm surprised to see you actually doing something in a Oots style, Bright. I don't normally read fan comics, but I suppose I'll have to keep an eye on this. :smalltongue:
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Thats nice!
i like this style.
Lets see where this will go.....
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Andre
Where did she get that teddy bear in the first place?
The store.
*fondly regards new DLB comic*
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*stares the moron with the book*
You're handing over a book that should never be opened. To a librarian. Who has just finished admitting she wants to read it.
I just found the idiot ball i lost last week.
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Just looked at #3 again, minor nitpick - if Kagra is shouting too, should maybe an "Aaahh!" or something be in there, perhaps in small letters?
My friends and I can't wait to see how this goes.
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Originally Posted by
Andre
Where did she get that teddy bear in the first place?
kagra get bear to kill
helps teach orc family values
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Originally Posted by
V'icternus
kagra get bear to kill
helps teach orc family values
Thanks, I now know that she's a smart orc.
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V'icternus
kagra get bear to kill
helps teach orc family values
Makes sense. That would explain why teddy bear had the 'x' as its eyes.
Nice art, by the way. And oh, you elves. Ever the jerks.
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Strip 5
Double update, because these ones looked fairly content-light in my backlog.
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Lucky it wasn't bitten off, Kagra.
...Also, am I the first person who thought "Y'know, she should tape a wire into that and use it to power a reading light with clean green energy that's also necromantic purple energy?"
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At least the guy with the hood wasn't daft enough to give her the key to that lock, though we kinda believed he was, in a way...
@Doorhandle: you're probably alone in that thought, but being first is what separated the genius from the inspired:smallwink:
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I love this man's hat.
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It is not a good sign when the proprietor of an emporium of all things weird says that.
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Dat sword!
probably fake.
Fezs are cool. thats his hat. its cool.
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super dark33
Fezs are cool.
EGADS! One cannot simply comprehend how correct you are, Superdark.
Anyway,I used to do that with my first cursed artifact, the wizard identifying it, however, said "Glarkinzooks!!!" or something... funny how dumb it is that at LV.17 party like us still has it's magic magic item identification at the mercy of a lv.3 mage guild clerk...:smallfrown:
I assume there are many more exclamations like that to come(like dooooooooooooooom and egads?)
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Prince Zahn
EGADS! One cannot simply comprehend how correct you are, Superdark.
No one can.
Just ask the guys and structred games.
Also join the structred games!
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Strip 7
Whoops, forgot it was update day. Here's the comic for today.
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I somehow doubt that such a book will be so easy to destroy.
Anyone got disjunction prepared?
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Nice strength check!
Considering he sells and perhaps crafts magic items for a living he just might live through that...:smallwink:
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Elemental
I somehow doubt that such a book will be so easy to destroy.
Anyone got disjunction prepared?
This disjunction should be empowerd, enlarged, maximized, and casted by ten 20 level wizards who trained their whole lives for that task.
*i think, can darklord bright tell us more?*
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The main character (orc librarian) is a barbarian class! I though she's a bard or something that can read!
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I'm surprised at you people. The magic and skill system here is clearly something other than 3.5.
In fact... *peers closely* I do believe DLB has caught the Skyrims.
Still, I laugh so freaking hard when the dresser crashed through the wall. Kagra definitely learned something from her orcish parents.
Keep up that great work Bright.
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Awesome. This.
More please!
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Slii Arhem
I'm surprised at you people. The magic and skill system here is clearly something other than 3.5.
I'm not, this story so far hasn't brought-up not once*:
- Breaking of the fourth wall.
- Cheap shots at die rolls.
- Jokes about skill/feat investment.
- Other parodied mechanics usually accompanying most OOTS-style comics(at least in the beginning)
*-not saying that these aren't enjoyable now and then.
And yet it's approaching it's 10th strip without one hint of any game system while still being very amusing... maybe this is another charm to the comic...
That's how I interpret it, anyway.
So I'll ask: -Bright, is this something that just happened to be so, or are you really avoiding these things deliberately, have you taken-on the challenge of leaving an OOTS-style comic free of mechanics?
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I find that basing a comic around a specific system burns itself out very quickly. There are only so many jokes you can make, right? Sooner or later the story is going to have to stand up on its own anyway, so I don't really tie myself down to a system when I write. Even if I write in the confines of a game-world, I try not to worry about mechanics.
It wasn't really deliberate, though, since I didn't sit down and say "How can I avoid talking about DnD?" :smalltongue: But I naturally don't do that sort of thing anyway, so in the end I may as well have.
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Also, wow. Li-barbarians work out.
*Note to self: if I ever get into a fight with a libarian, try to run them over with a car first. ...Granted, thats my first move for any combat...*
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You just shouldn't get into a fight with a librarian after preparing to destroy a book.
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Updated a little late last time, so nobody will mind if I update a little early. It's a couple hours into update day for me anyway.
Strip 8
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I like it. Although it surprises me that you went back to OotS style, Brighty.
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Ah, the facepalm - a necessary tool for every paladin's companion. :smallbiggrin:
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Subscribed instantly. As a note, the first two links don't seem to load when I click them, but the others do.
Gotta love this... the humor is really solid. Just wish I could see the first two comics.
How often do you update?
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Ah, the dreaded "cutaway to something different to extend a cliffhanger for another week" technique. The most deadly weapon in the webcomic writer's arsenal.
Still, new characters! Hopefully recurring ones. Can't wait to see where this goes.
@Sam: This is a once weekly comic, more or less.
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Yeah.
I wonder what crime smells like... maybe rancid bacon?
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Looks amazing, Bright! Certainly will be following this. :smallsmile:
Now back to waiting in anticipation, and not trying to destroy books in front of librarians. ._.
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SamBurke
Subscribed instantly. As a note, the first two links don't seem to load when I click them, but the others do.
Gotta love this... the humor is really solid. Just wish I could see the first two comics.
How often do you update?
Thanks! I update once a week, on the same day if I can help it. It's mostly to give me time to actually make new comics.
I don't myself have any issues with the first two comic links, but I re-uploaded them just in case.
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'Smells like crime?' "Smells like crime?
Really? I mean, really. That line stinks.
YEEEEEEEAAAAAAAARGHDON'THURTME!
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Thanks, I can see them now.
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I have a sudden feeling that those paladins, or knights, or whatever, are very incompetent.
Probably just Sir Zann, Eric seems like the suffering sidekick type.
Also, looks like they need sewing done, interesting touch.
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Here's today's update.
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I continue to LOVE the visual gags!
The guy's just sitting there, conducting an interview with someone trapped under heavy shards of his own shop.
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Darklord Bright
Strip 9
Here's today's update.
Confirmed! Kagra's an orc librarian.
Why is she obsessed with the book even though it's evil.
P.S- Is it possible for Paladin to fell in love with an Orc?
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t209
Is it possible for a Paladin to fall in love with an Orc?
If he's lonely,demented, and/or adventure-ish enough, yes.:smalltongue:
If you think about it - It's also counts if the guy playing the paladin is like that, <_<.
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Prince Zahn
If he's lonely,demented, and/or adventure-ish enough, yes.:smalltongue:
If you think about it - It's also counts if the guy playing the paladin is like that, <_<.
What if the Orc is in good alignment?
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Prince Zahn
If he's lonely,demented, and/or adventure-ish enough, yes.:smalltongue:
If you think about it - It's also counts if the guy playing the paladin is like that, <_<.
Or if the paladin's an Orc too :smalltongue:
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HalfTangible
Or if the paladin's an Orc too :smalltongue:
What, five internet minutes since this started, and shipping is already happening?:smallamused:
*wipes away tear* This comic will go places.
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Why is she obsessed with the book even though it's evil.
Well, dose she know? Do orcs have cautionary tales against that sort of thing? Do they need them? I mean, aside from the obvious outlier they don't seem to veiw books that well in general, so they proabaly don't have warnings against specific books.
..Hell, they might get people they don't like to read accursed tomes, in a hillariously cruel sort of fratboy hazing. :smallbiggrin:
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Doorhandle
Well, dose she know? Do orcs have cautionary tales against that sort of thing? Do they need them? I mean, aside from the obvious outlier they don't seem to veiw books that well in general, so they proabaly don't have warnings against specific books.
..Hell, they might get people they don't like to read accursed tomes, in a hillariously cruel sort of fratboy hazing. :smallbiggrin:
I mean the guy who brought it call it evil. The shopkeeper call it evil. If they were saying it, I would stay away from the book.
P.S- I even wrote a story about a human paladin who married an orc (Good aligned) and had a child with her (Well, Before this comic and 6 months ago). Well, the orcs were kinda in greyscale morality in my story (Some good, some evil, and some neutral)
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Today's update.
Strip 10
Strip 11
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Now, Drum rolls for Story time!
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Love the WHUMP face. And the face in the panel right after it.
Actually, I really like her facial expressions throughout. Very well drawn. :smallsmile:
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I guess part of it would be an unwillingness for to accept what she can't do, due to being both and Orc and a Libarian, but even so, I'm kinda on the bigot's side on this one. Some things are only to be poked at a safe distance.
Also a fan of the expressions. Though the arms are kinda stiff.