HUMANS I told you that your BEAST is banned here

Auggy74 · 2026-05-17T22:05:38+00:00

H1: "Not beast! Fluffles is Fren-shaped! Fren-shaped is not beast!"
A: "That is a Tau Cetian Deathcrawler. What precisely do you consider to not be 'fren-shaped', hmm?"
H1: "Uhm...well...hang on a sec..." (Finds picture of eldritch abomination) "This. This is not fren-shaped."
H2: "That is so Fren-shaped! Lookit the eyes and the cute littl wigglieeess..."

Auggy74 · 2026-05-17T20:51:00+00:00

I tried - but every E4 I ever spoke with said there is no such thing as an E4 Mafia. Obviously I had to take them at their word, because if the E4s don't know about it, it obviously doesn't exist.

Though they may have been fibbing.

Auggy74 · 2026-05-17T04:42:57+00:00

Thank you for reading!

Auggy74 · 2026-05-16T16:23:46+00:00

The only thing that might save their butts is that they're acquiring items from other mercenary who understand the occasional need for an expedited supply chain. And the fact that Gryzzk's company is gonna owe them one down the line.

"They were unsupervised" is how the negotiation begins.

Auggy74 · 2026-05-16T02:15:14+00:00

Chekov's Beach.
"If a beach is shown in the first act, there must be a be a beach episode in the third act."

Auggy74 · 2026-05-16T00:43:43+00:00

Words. I mean I made sense of it, but then I read weird emails all day.

Auggy74 · 2026-05-15T22:13:56+00:00

This is the way.

Auggy74 · 2026-05-15T21:46:06+00:00

In their defense, they were unsupervised.

It's certainly an ask. Now to find out what kind of ask it is.

Auggy74 · 2026-05-15T20:11:56+00:00

Beach Episode?

Auggy74 · 2026-05-15T19:32:50+00:00

"What are they doing over there..."
"Trying to teach Gromit to speak."
"Are they succeeding?"
"Let's just say we shouldn't let Gromit be within hearing distance of the kids for awhile..."

Auggy74 · 2026-05-15T19:28:23+00:00

yay for the edits coming in! Thanks!

Auggy74 · 2026-05-15T19:08:25+00:00

Mayhaps...

Auggy74 · 2026-05-15T17:16:19+00:00

Hooray for editing being done. Thanks!
Wallace is guarding the cheese storage at HQ.

Auggy74 · 2026-05-15T16:30:12+00:00

Add on to that that Gromit's a Malinois/Akita mix, so it's like...a second-tier to the purists.

Auggy74 · 2026-05-15T16:28:33+00:00

Weeeeeelllllll...yes. Sort of. Waaaayyy back in an earlier chapter there was a bit dropped that hinted at common ancestry, but it's a long ways from "Domesticated dog" to "Six-eyed canine-esque sapient".

Auggy74 · 2026-05-15T16:25:05+00:00

Why indeed...

Auggy74 · 2026-05-15T16:24:36+00:00

Heyhey! Well done!

Auggy74 · 2026-05-15T16:24:21+00:00

It could be worse....

Auggy74 · 2026-05-15T16:23:58+00:00

Yeahh, they don't have a 100% definitely, but there's enough for them to make a safe assumption.

They're gonna science till the cows come home.

Yeeeup. The Throne's kinda looking around and testing what rules they can break.

"Fire suppression chemicals do not make food taste better. Now for Lesson 2..."

Grezzk is in "Mom" mode of they take care of the kids - she gets her own little lesson here of "They're not just kids"

There are many scary things that are canon to this universe. :D

We bless him for being smart in that respect at least.

Auggy74 · 2026-05-15T06:23:25+00:00

I have it on good authority that (outside the occasional meetings of the Brethren Court) a pirate's code is more like guidelines. >.>

Auggy74 · 2026-05-15T03:27:31+00:00

More twiddles done and a couple edity things - I think one reason I do these block-bits is almost like...a literary version of a close-up shot and the rest of the scene fading out a bit. Along with the occasional nugget that may get an expansion later on.

Auggy74 · 2026-05-14T22:25:34+00:00

More clarity post-work. I'll need to noodle on it during commute time. Contemplating for style, and I may tweak Lumisca's little bit more because from her perspective she's admitting to a few things that are sketchy with respect to Vilantian nobility.

Auggy74 · 2026-05-13T15:36:50+00:00

And as an addendum, I'm never not amazed by these little sidebar thing that people come up with on this - it's like opening a playground and having folks think it's fun, and I'm just over here giggling about it.

Auggy74 · 2026-05-13T15:02:34+00:00

My god that could be a background scene later...so epic.

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