Truly the Alds are the only thing standing between the continent and peaceSay what you will about alds you do see them doing this I'm only evil because of my enemies bullshit Nora and queen are selling
>>156111116>do I meant don't
>>156111116What's the significance of the upskirt? Pinky packing some kind of concealed weapon?
>>156111116Damn, pink-Shart will never get caught lacking.
>>156111116That's a lot of heat Pinky is packing above and below.
>>156111295I mean there's like a dozen spring-loaded claw blades hiding up there. You do realize that's not normal for even a Sharte, yeah?
>>156111116Ah, the dindu spiel
>>156111116Pinkie reminds me of those shoplifting prevention training videos where you watch women hide and hold all sorts of objects underneath a long skirt. Shartes always gotta sharte.
Not only does Nora bring multiple foreign nationals, including Shartes, inside without any vetting or oversight, they don't even get a weapon pat down. Pinky smuggled in a dozen fucking spring-loaded claw blades.I don't care what else you think, Nora deserves whatever's coming in the next few pages. I fucking warned you about OPSEC like two pages ago.
>>156111349Hey man, given the state of Sharteshane it wouldn't surprise me if self-defense pyramics were standard issue for women who wanted to protect their chastity, like lady derringers.
>>156111116>you looked at ME like the VILLAINsays the woman who was caught red handed torturing babies.
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>>156111391That's the best part, she can do whatever atrocities she "needs" and has the alds to blame for it.If Alderode self destructs, Cresce's gonna have to find another patsy to blame for its evils, quick. Or they may suffer the curse of introspection.
I was thinking those were maggots in Sette's nose.
It's honestly a little sad that Nora can't even use his name.
>>156111448>If Alderode self destructs, Cresce's gonna have to find another patsy to blame for its evils, quick. I'll take New Souderode for 200 useless Crescian fake-monies, Alex.
Brawny Leg, look quick! You're going to miss the hammering!
>>156111116So Pinky is a big centipede in disguise. At last I finally get it.
>>156111116I'd make a prediction that the moment Alderode falls, the rest of the continent unites against Cresce. Peace is a lie.
What if Pink works for Nary. He is a Sharte, he has some level of connections, he is knows what Duane is, and getting Duane to alderode was part of his deal. Beadman wasn't really in on the Duane deal, he supplied the silver. If wanted he could have went for him when he wasn't in a secure government facility.
>>156111501It always seemed to me that Cresce would end up beefing with Sharteshane just from how opposed their cultures are in terms of greed/money.
>>156111116Giz wishes his balls were Duanes neck right now
>>156111659I doubt it, as Nary seems to believe in Sette to get the job done and he's busy with other things. Plus Sette would probably recognize her. The fact though that she hasn't seen Sette yet might matter, though. Maybe something will come of that once she spots the tail.
>>156111475You think?
>>156111704Their beef is more in terms of an emerging power struggle. Cresce demands Sharteshane to submit to its long established domination while Sharteshane is starting to refuse as it gains more and more influence over the continent. Greed has some part in it, but Beadman's goal of have Cresce open for business was about more than money.
Dwayne has been pretty cheeky lately.
>>156111475she's needing to block her smell of the magic
>>156111116>all she had me do at LitriyaYou were literally just supposed to build some ogre mechs and maybe install some pymaric defenses. The rest was all you, girl.
>>156111638Makes sense. This comic already has a bird version of a centaur, time for a centipede variety!
10 legs....a lotsa vaganias....
>>156111116I was just thinking Nora's acting like a jealous ex taking out her frustration of getting dumped on the new fling.
>>156112557they just can't resist racist white men....
>>156112319Seems more likely it's the parfume she would need to block. She opened the crate with it, so she would be right next to it
>>156112667nah she's said how she fucking hates the smell of magic
>>156111349No I thought all women had those.
>>156112667Simplest explanation is that it's both, although I'm not sure it's possible to prevent her pymary-smelling by physically blocking her nose, since pymary exists on the level of the khert, whose lines penetrate through those plugs with ease.
>>156112463If she hadn’t tortured up the storm, would the Crescian project have survived? The Aldish would have attacked earlier, before Duane or Keon were there.
>>156112730The ogres had already left by the times the Alds arrived. That part of the project, at least, would have survived.
That Nora crying panel is from Pinky ganking her.
Struggling to deal with everyone at the secret Crescian facility having swallowed idiot pills to get to this point desu. I get you don't want to waste too much time on set-up but like, there wasn't even a body search before these guys met the queen? Nobody vetted them? Crescians just lose all intelligence when they can't use their breath system?
>>156112940Nora probably intended to do Pinky body search herself
>>156111380>Beadman's Better Ball Buster>"The conveniently discrete pressure pymaric guaranteed* to make the the most rude of unwanted male attention never have the chance to try again!">*Beadman Inc. is NOT responsible for unwanted activation during consensual encounters. Buyer assumes all responsibilities for genital misfortune.
>>156111941>Nary seems to believe in Sette to get the job doneThat is not exactly the read I got. Rather, he is resigned to either her failure or success, with either being their own justification. Failure is failure and success is success. It's telling the only thing Nary actually got out of this was getting in with Beadman for a better slice of the pie and this is completely unrelated to her actual job in delivering Duane somewhere. A task which is now basically beyond pointless given everything we know. And even if it wasn't, everything Sette is doing is basically "whatever" to him. It was a job he put her on for a patron, and he cares not a wit for its success or failure because he's already received payment.
>>156111116Good thing Claggarts not around to see this, he'd have a fit.
>>156112729Simplest explanation is that it's the giant crate of perfume she opened, you dense twats.
She's still human right? those legs look like fancy weapons. Hired assassin maybe? Or did she just experiment on herself?
>>156113448He legs look perfectly normal, the blades are probably just attached to a harness she's wearing.
>>156112838I dont want it to be true but it seems that's where it's heading. Nora did some sketch shit but I don't see any alternatives, and I really can't blame her for thinking what she does of Alds after watching Vamp suddenly turn on Roger like that. Compunded by the orphan rape squads.I hope she just gets her face smushed in some pastries and has to go on a long vacation.
>>156112838I think you might be right and Nora dies right here. It wouldn't make sense for Duane or Swarm to kill her but a betrayal by Pinkie would be suitably pathetic in both senses of the word.
>>156113532>I don't see any alternativesShe found a way to make literal screams of agony useful. Once you discover that you can't NOT torture.
>>156113420Nah, it's probably the second crate of khert fire she's about to open
>>156113532>a long vacationTo the front lines where she can prove she's effective against more than pre-bound grieving fathers
>>156111659>>156111941Nary already got what he wanted, the introduction to Beadman, and Bastion is nowhere to be found. I'm fairly sure Nary has washed his hands of the whole business at this point.
>>156113448>>156113495my eyes are so dogshit that until reading these posts I didn't even see her legs I thought her lower body was a pymaric construct and that the blades were her legs
>>156112940It does stretch credulity a bit that current room occupants were not searched by security for the Queen's visit. Maybe Nora had just that much clout and trust, but holy shit, I'd fire the guy who made that assumption.
>>156114053They could pick two of the guest engineers to stay in the room and they decided to keep the Shartes. They deserve whatever happens next.
>>156111659Nary is Beadman's underling, he's not going to brazenly undermine his plans right after getting added to his crew.
>>156111391>>156111448I've said it before but Nora is unironically one of the best characters in the comic specifically because of this shit
>>156113819day's not over yet, she could still be a shambling nightmare
>>156113448Can't wait for her missile tits.
>>156114450Eh, we have plenty of aelf-righteous hypocrites in this comic, and most of the rest are either hot or ugly in a cool way. Bumps her rather down the list for me. If I want a deluded baby torturer of pedigree, I've got Sessine.
You know, I wonder which of the girls at the Nevergreen handled men of Brawny Leg's tastes.
>>156113532>>156112838I think so, but I have a feeling Duane is going to save her after getting loose. Though she probably deserves a patented Aldish culture backhand.>>156113295I see Nary's response to Beadman saying he sold his daughter for a referral as "she's got this." and Nary has been shown to care about Sette in his abusive crime-lord way. Failure's definitely on the table, as any venture is, but "if she truly takes after me, she'll finish the job and be fine." Except Sette's gotten this far by not being just like her da.
>>156111116why did the original Alds even tolerate creating artificial subspecies of humans?clearly they should've had the foresight that it's a terrible idea and would lead the country to strife in the future.
>>156115673I also believe Nora isn't going to die. She's going to live, remain her awful self, and seethe forever.
>>156115673He even left her that message in the letters to stockyard>Frummagems don't leave a job half finished
>>156115721>why did the original Alds even tolerate creating artificial subspecies of humans?Either the situation was unstable enough for people to consider their descendants becoming artificial abominations the lesser evil, or the first king and co. must have been godtier orators.
>>156111116Crece is really not selling me on their security protocols here. Not only did they put their regent within skullfucking range of a wrathful cybernetic lich, but two street urchins infiltrated the lab with a (smoke) bomb, and now we’ve got the Sharte lady with a bustle literally made of swords.Someone better get fired/executed for this goatfuck of a situation
>>156114097I bet they didn't even leave small items out for them to steal. Downright rude.
>>156116655Yeah they did.
>>156112940looks almost like a clandestine op, nora was left alone to set the whole thing up, ergo ecclusively pymaric barriers instead of guards and no opsec measures. she was likely banking on everyone thinking its a plod until proven wrong so who tf would steal a plod?
>>156117844which means sonorie mudt be really overworked to no antivipate nora having no opsec, t least how i interpret it.low priority lab, engineer in charge of everything, extraordinary visit on a super tight schedule
>>156116106sessine wanted dyane in alderode? i guess thats rge future duane saw, but wh- ah right sette or khette can literally mind control him
>>156115673>but even he don't sport with efhebyHeh.
>>156117594That screwdriver will come into play soon.
>>156114219Unless he hired her through an intermediary as a deniable agent.Of course, there's the less likely but valid culprit Bastion. He's not above hiring Shartes.
>>156115673>I think so, but I have a feeling Duane is going to save her after getting looseSomehow, Brawny Leg is going to save her.Duane will absolutely pass up on killing her though and she will know it.
