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🕑 Added 2024-12-23 04:17:29 +0000 UTCTwo pages today!
Poor First Jacaranda - you played a very brief but crucial role in our tale. Perhaps the latest Jacaranda is still out there alive, somewhere, if Lady Ilganyag is to be believed.
And Lady Ilganyag? Well. That's not gonna buff out quick.
Who do you reckon that is up on the cliff? We know who Duane thinks it is, of course.
A merry Christmas to everyone this week! I'll be spending it at my desk getting work done. Might order Chinese on Wednesday if my local place is open, but did most of my family stuff this weekend. Woo, the Frummagem inspirational coffers have been refilled from that! Good luck with your brood :)
Comments
Alight
I see a few crows hiding close to Duane, meaning the Big Mamma Crow still assuredly has at least a few parts of herself left. Sneaky sneaky.
Josh
Awesome, that's how I think of her too! I even meant to capitalize it but forgot. Ok, glad to see I can still occasionally grok nicknames.
Ashley
You must journey into Discord, Josh, and investigate this matter. I call her "First Sette," myself :)
Flyfly
Well, we needed a name for this character. Khette, as in Khert-Sette is the one that stuck around. (also I am proud to say that I am the originator of this name lmao)
Josh
Why does everyone call the first Sette Khette again? Like, "Khert Sette"?
Capsandnumbers
I thought she could have the first soul if she killed Sette F?
Duke BG
I would prefer to explain what I mean using images, but there's no attaching images to patreon comments. So I guess here goes... On page 111 we see the first!Sette silhouette, it's a round head on a round body with thin legs and a tail. The body looks like fur texture-wise. On the next page 112 we see that she kinda has a round metal(?) plate on her back that defines most of that round silhouette. There's fur (more hair? I like calling it mane) behind that and on the sides. It feels metal because that "criss-cross" pattern is typical for the metal flooring in industrial setting – the anti-slip ribbing. There's two clamps(?) around her neck, maybe that's how the round metal plate is attached to her. Or rather how she is attached to it – I understood it from the comic that the humans who cut open the right half of first!Sette were doing it while securing her to a metal plate like that. And she's wearing it kinda proudly. She looks like that on page 161 too, for example. The round plate seems to be rigid, not folding around her. So I called it a "shield". Another great silhouette on 168. Page 169 the plate is seen well again. And page 170 was last time we saw the Settes until now.
Luuuuuuu
Mane, one might say
Acob Acob
Brutal cliffhanger (or maybe cliffstander?), on top of brutal... everything. I guess our Christmas present is consistency 😅
Luuuuuuu
I mean, also - remember the last time she saw Duane; that wasn't a happy parting.
Flyfly
Sette or Khette... Discernment complicated. Silhouette is closer to Khette, but also aura seems to imply First Soul, which - unless we've been lied to - she can't have even if she won her fight. It is not impossible for Sette to have lost some hair and clothes during the fight though. Looks wise I lean Khette. Actions also make it inconclusive. Sette has the most understandable reasons to nuke Sessine (duh) and Jac (traitor who led her to die) while avoiding nuking Duane. Khette's reasoning might be to not let Jac warn Duane, and to use Duane as a portal, and I guess maybe she has literally no care for Sessine if she got First Soul anyway somehow. Actions-wise I lean Sette. One last deet is that if this is indeed our Sette, I don't think she'd react to seeing Duane again like this? Though this is a pure vibe thing. I imagine more of a reaction rather than ominously looking and leaving. So I guess I am leaning Khette overall. Weird.
Matthew Hawley
They're probably talking about the black criss-crossy thing First Sette was wearing on her back. Part of her cape?
Ashley
It's Murkoph :)
czytanie
I can't believe no one has commented on the figure lurking nearby while Duane has his latest crisis. I assumed that was Murkoph but actually it looks too slick for that guy. ....?
Duke BG
Hmm
Ashley
Hmm, round shield?
Ashley
Yeah, she took out some of the scenery when she did that.
Luuuuuuu
The white coated guys look like dead and dying squishes... :( with a few bites taken out
Ladile
Soooo...how much bad juju energy is generated when you murder another version of yourself? Guess we're about to find out!
Reed Copperstrand
Okay, wow. It looks a bit like that ripped a hole into of the Khert floor. Not sure though. Poor Jac and poor squishes. :`(
Mek
Also, I refused to believe that Khette won.
Mek
Illanyang can't be dead from just this that seems really anticlimatic. Also what are the new white coated guys supposed to represent?
Gally
Awww, Ashley! You got us fratricide! Merry Xmas to you too!
L Anon
Sad that the minute Jac actually tries to step in and help, he gets absolutely nuked from existence. Maybe he was wiser to be a scaredy cat.
Duke BG
The silhouette lacks the round "shield" of the first Sette and the long hair of our Sette. So either it's a third Sette or some amalgamation has occurred.
CD
Damn. Okay. You're right, there was no way I could have guessed the turn these pages took. Well then. Well. Hmmm. Get egg rolls! :D
StLOrca (pronounced Ess Tee Ell Orca)
You know, I’m not sure “alive” and “dead” have the same meaning to us as to Lady Ilganyag. Magic of that magnitude and complexity makes weird shit happen.
StLOrca (pronounced Ess Tee Ell Orca)
Oh, my—is that…hope…on Duane’s face!?
Luuuuuuu
Majestic.
Ashley
First Jacaranda is dead for the purposes of this story. We won't ever see him again. I mean, not meaningfully. He's out of our tale. But we know that these twins keep being born, so we could find another iteration of the kitty in the future, somewhere. Lady Ilganyag is tricky. Any senet that still exists these days must be ludicrously difficult to kill.
Rainwalker
Oh, and happy holidays Ashley!
grim
oh we are on some Frieza shit now! merry Christmas, may your egg rolls be crispy <3
Rainwalker
You know I was *just* about to go to bed when I read these and now I’m wide awake. In a way I hope lady I is dead, because if she’s not, well, that’ll be a horrid existence for a very, very long time. And poor Jac. But Sette! What became of Sette!!
Luuuuuuu
Oh, I'm sure Sette will be there for that. ...which Sette though do you mean?
Ashley
Happy Holidays, jaaama! :D
Ashley
Merry Christmas, Gracie! :D
Ashley
It's his curse to be hated by his twin. So it goes.
Michael Stakely
Poor Jacaranda; first he made himself a traitor to one Sette by not talking when he should have and then a traitor to another Sette by talking when he should have. Same result no matter whether it's one Sette up there, the other up there, or some combination thereof.
jaaama
AAAAHH WHAAT NOO! JAC NOO!! WHAT DID KHETTE-- DID SHE DO IT?? where's our Sette? Hurry THE FUCK UP Duane!!!! Is Jac gone for good?? Did Khette kill her brother?? *Rips off own hair, wails in the corner* ......anyway, happy holidays to all!
GracieV
Well then.....Merry Christmas!
Rebecca L
I'm positive Sette's making it out of this since Nary's going to Alderode and all, that would be an odd turn if Sette weren't there for that, but man, I have no idea how!
Plucky Pariah
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
Luuuuuuu
Don't worry, I'm sure First Sette who just nuked her mom and bro without hesitation was very gentle with Frummagem Sette
Renee
I see no paws and no claws on that hand. Also I did not like seeing those squishes all white and going belly up
PantheraTigeris
Yeah that ☝️
Rifter
Damn I was thinking we were taking an awful long time for Duane to beat Lady I considering Sette was already being garrotted last time we saw her. This ain't looking good. And the poor squishes!
Ashley
Not even a Sette can destroy ghosts, so Jac could reform at some point. Of course he might not want to. It's hard to get squishes and eels to come together again, and even Jac has his share of eels. With enough time, many things are possible in the khert though, so who can definitively say~
Plucky Pariah
I swear to Ssael, our Sette better be safe and sound up there.
Ashley
Bird and cat asplode
The Clag
WHAT
Madison
W-will... Will Jacaranda reform...? Like to like...? Or is he split up forever now? Also uh oh! Uh oh Duane! That's Khette up there! She may have Sette's body- the First Soul... But if Sette is like Khette now... does that mean she could take it back???? HMmmmmm
Nikaleles
jaysus chraist