But seriously, one thing I love about Rich’s storytelling is his ability to keep things moving despite the huge cast of characters…and sometimes that means staying with a group of characters just enough to establish a trajectory for their arc, then leaving the rest to the readers’ imagination.
If Rich decides to move on from Kassim and Fatinah, we can assume things really are as they seemed at the end of 3397. Fatinah is going to pull through (and not suddenly do a zombie chomp on Kassim.) How arduous and how complete her recovery will be are probably a mystery in-world as well as out. Her condition may be unprecedented, and even if not, the sudden changes to magic leave everything up in the air.
Vanessa’s healing will take time too. But we know Adina’s whole family will head for Umbril next to reclaim the city, free Tambid and Sahar, and — if they manage to connect the dots properly — tackle the mystery of how Kurassa lifted Sahar’s curse. Fatinah’s prognosis will be part of that story, and I imagine we’ll be seeing it fairly soon, if only because the ability, or lack thereof, to de-gorgonize people will impact so many other storylines.
Better to move on quickly once survival is established. There are a LOT of other characters that still need to be shown to have made it… or not. I am sure the story will return to Fatinah and the royal family of Umbril once who survived has been established. The gap will give her a chance to start healing, and we will likely get to see how that is progressing on the next pass. 🙂
Nah, more a case of ‘he can see something they won’t admit to’
And either he is going to have with it until they do, or he will just tell them straight up
Yes, but it seems that the dual crash sites aren’t very far from the battlefield. (Vachiritei didn’t seem to take long to run from the Osprey to the site of Fatinah’s fight with Kurassa, and Vanessa had already made her way from the Temple to the Osprey, unless she’d come across after the Kurassa fight (assuming that’s the back of her head we see with the other casters in 3380) but before the portal closed.
So it’s not unreasonable for Ryann to want to head over to the battlefield to look for Urzal *and for no other reason*.
What I meant was, we will get to see a few more of the ground troops
And Urzal is another of their friends Ryann wants to check up on nottocoverforwhatdidn’thappenhere 😉
Oh, and Ryann was with the ground forces, she knows how to swing a shovel 😀
That was the Osprey? Thought it was another ship, the Temple landed on a floating island and the Osprey near Elegrost Fields (is that the correct name?)
Which raises another question: is the dragon going to still be Forever?
Yeah, a bit confusing I know. With all the denouement stuff I need to get through I glossed over a lot of details that might seem important. First of all, some time has passed since the characters have started waking up (anyone notice that up to Turg they woke up in the order in which they were introduced in the original run?). They have set up a boat ferry service going back and forth between the Island of the Forever Dragon and the mainland near the Elegrost Fields. Travel back and forth isn’t instantaneous, but for story purposes, I’m not dwelling on the characters huddling anxiously on boats waiting and waiting and waiting while soldiers and volunteers paddle their guts out.
They’re also busy rounding and binding up Rannite survivors who haven’t escaped – which are mostly DM’s at this point. The undead army from Ruun just de-animated once Ranna was gone and the Gorgons who survived and woke up got the hell outa dodge (like Agaera) as soon as they could.
As for the "Island of the Forever Dragon", it’s a holdover name from a story I came up with (and ran in a campaign) from LOOOOOOONG ago. A Legend about a phoenix-like dragon that lives in the clouds for a hundred years, then goes ‘bad’ and starts raiding the people who live at the base of the tall mountain. A hero is selected before this starts to happen and they have to climb up to the top of the mountain and slay the Forever Dragon, which allows it’s solitary egg to hatch and the cycle begins again.
In YAFGC terms, the name holds, but the story itself is a legend. If it happened at all, it was in a distant past age, and something seems to have happened since to make the Forever Dragon (and the island population) extinct (Though I haven’t drawn it, there are archaeological remains of a civilization on the island around the base of the mountain.) True to both that old campaign and YAFGC, it’s also the secret location of Ch’Thier’s Celestial Tomb, hovering above the clouds as though placed to be guarded by the Dragon. Though in YAFGC, by the time Ch’Thier’s tomb got there the Dragon was already gone.
Oh, I thought they had already been reunited, when Meggs finally showed her beautiful eyes, and then did the streak escape
Which, again, is why I wasn’t counting them
Possibly Nelussa and Brandor? Oh, and don’t forget Eddy and Lewstrom. (Just kidding. But it was fun to imagine the horror on Eddy’s face at the thought.)
Yeah, Brandon and Kob make a great couple…but I can’t really see either of them as monogamous types.
Kob’s gonna want to spend quality time with minotaur ladies too, and if Brandon were to have a fling with a maybe-kind-of-probably-not-going-to-stone-him gorgon, I wager Kob’s reaction would be less "Why, you CAD! You BETRAYED ME!" and more "So, when you two are doing it, what do the snakes do? I mean, are they into it too, or bored, or just confused, or what?"
You know, I admit I’d pictured Brandon and Kob as a bit more "As time passes, there’s no one I’d rather be with, than you" about it, and kind of beelining straight to a younger version of the old-and-comfortable couple together. There’s a sort of "commonlaw forever-drinking-buddies" relationship vibe that I’ve seen in the wild, and I suspect these two are rocking, if there’s indeed a romance there. (And cards on the table, whether or not there is…I love the *idea* that there is. I’m so, so with you, T-Chall!)
When love blooms in a Rich Morris story, it is a thing of utter beauty. I celebrate it wherever I can find it (and, I suppose, quietly insinuate it elsewhere, sometimes, possibly extracanonically).
This is the true sunrise. Not romance specifically, in itself, mind you…but feeling, caring, coming together, in the face of something as horrible as Ranna and her Age of Shadows. I see moments like this, and it’s like watching wildflowers begin to poke up through scorched earth. Ranna’s age was as much a state of mind as a state of the union, and this…this is, as Craig Ferguson once described Doctor Who, "the triumph of intellect and romance over brute force and cynicism."
This is utterly, positively, completely my jam. This is the sunrise I needed, hoped for, held out for. It is beautiful, and the many colors and nuances of its dawn from the horizon are as beautiful as the night before it was dark and frightening.
As long as its fine with all participants, why not? It might even easing up some tension there… I dont’t even dare to start to think of all the possible fun they can have with a lovetriangle like that… … … Too late, I started thinking about it… >:D
I gotta thank you for moving the Ryann / Helen / Cypress love triangle away from jealousy and in a more healthy direction. I look forward to seeing them work things through.
There was an alchemical way to reverse petrification, with that salve the gnome made to be used on Lucas and Cadugan. It remains to be seen if things like that, that are not cast magic, might still work enough to do things like reverse petrifications. Then I think Beholders can also do that, but I don’t know if it only works when they are the ones that did the petrifying, or if it still works now, for that matter. I just remember Bob and Gren talking about unpetrifying someone for dinner…
When I first loaded this page, the browser window ended at the center of Helen’s left pupil in panel three. I left it that way for a few minutes, just because the tilted, googly eyes were hilarious in themselves, before scrolling down to see the context.
OK: both “Aww! ❤️” and “Oh, my… 😲”. Hopefully Helen and Ryann figure things out there, and work out some comfortable and domestic arrangement (and I mean that only slightly salaciously; mostly I just hope that they find happiness together instead of missing a wonderful opportunity in life).
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Lewstron still rocking the ding dong dressed in his bday suit, bell end and all.
No fair! I wanted to know what happened to poor blank-eyed Fatinah!
Man, give the poor lovers some privacy.
But seriously, one thing I love about Rich’s storytelling is his ability to keep things moving despite the huge cast of characters…and sometimes that means staying with a group of characters just enough to establish a trajectory for their arc, then leaving the rest to the readers’ imagination.
If Rich decides to move on from Kassim and Fatinah, we can assume things really are as they seemed at the end of 3397. Fatinah is going to pull through (and not suddenly do a zombie chomp on Kassim.) How arduous and how complete her recovery will be are probably a mystery in-world as well as out. Her condition may be unprecedented, and even if not, the sudden changes to magic leave everything up in the air.
Vanessa’s healing will take time too. But we know Adina’s whole family will head for Umbril next to reclaim the city, free Tambid and Sahar, and — if they manage to connect the dots properly — tackle the mystery of how Kurassa lifted Sahar’s curse. Fatinah’s prognosis will be part of that story, and I imagine we’ll be seeing it fairly soon, if only because the ability, or lack thereof, to de-gorgonize people will impact so many other storylines.
Better to move on quickly once survival is established. There are a LOT of other characters that still need to be shown to have made it… or not. I am sure the story will return to Fatinah and the royal family of Umbril once who survived has been established. The gap will give her a chance to start healing, and we will likely get to see how that is progressing on the next pass. 🙂
The face of "I was not planning a threesome but is ok"
Nah, more a case of ‘he can see something they won’t admit to’
And either he is going to have with it until they do, or he will just tell them straight up
Wasn’t Urzal with the fighters on the ground?
Yes, but it seems that the dual crash sites aren’t very far from the battlefield. (Vachiritei didn’t seem to take long to run from the Osprey to the site of Fatinah’s fight with Kurassa, and Vanessa had already made her way from the Temple to the Osprey, unless she’d come across after the Kurassa fight (assuming that’s the back of her head we see with the other casters in 3380) but before the portal closed.
So it’s not unreasonable for Ryann to want to head over to the battlefield to look for Urzal *and for no other reason*.
What I meant was, we will get to see a few more of the ground troops
And Urzal is another of their friends Ryann wants to check up on nottocoverforwhatdidn’thappenhere 😉
Oh, and Ryann was with the ground forces, she knows how to swing a shovel 😀
That was the Osprey? Thought it was another ship, the Temple landed on a floating island and the Osprey near Elegrost Fields (is that the correct name?)
Which raises another question: is the dragon going to still be Forever?
Yeah, a bit confusing I know. With all the denouement stuff I need to get through I glossed over a lot of details that might seem important. First of all, some time has passed since the characters have started waking up (anyone notice that up to Turg they woke up in the order in which they were introduced in the original run?). They have set up a boat ferry service going back and forth between the Island of the Forever Dragon and the mainland near the Elegrost Fields. Travel back and forth isn’t instantaneous, but for story purposes, I’m not dwelling on the characters huddling anxiously on boats waiting and waiting and waiting while soldiers and volunteers paddle their guts out.
They’re also busy rounding and binding up Rannite survivors who haven’t escaped – which are mostly DM’s at this point. The undead army from Ruun just de-animated once Ranna was gone and the Gorgons who survived and woke up got the hell outa dodge (like Agaera) as soon as they could.
As for the "Island of the Forever Dragon", it’s a holdover name from a story I came up with (and ran in a campaign) from LOOOOOOONG ago. A Legend about a phoenix-like dragon that lives in the clouds for a hundred years, then goes ‘bad’ and starts raiding the people who live at the base of the tall mountain. A hero is selected before this starts to happen and they have to climb up to the top of the mountain and slay the Forever Dragon, which allows it’s solitary egg to hatch and the cycle begins again.
In YAFGC terms, the name holds, but the story itself is a legend. If it happened at all, it was in a distant past age, and something seems to have happened since to make the Forever Dragon (and the island population) extinct (Though I haven’t drawn it, there are archaeological remains of a civilization on the island around the base of the mountain.) True to both that old campaign and YAFGC, it’s also the secret location of Ch’Thier’s Celestial Tomb, hovering above the clouds as though placed to be guarded by the Dragon. Though in YAFGC, by the time Ch’Thier’s tomb got there the Dragon was already gone.
Thank you for explaining
Had forgotten Agaera had been one of the early characters
> (anyone notice that up to Turg they woke up in the order in which they were introduced in the original run?)
Most of us noticed Bob and Gren, of course, but…
DAMN! That’s cool!
t!
> (anyone notice that up to Turg they woke up in the order in which they were introduced in the original run?)
I’d noticed that you began with Bob and Gren…but not the rest.
Thank you. That is, as t! observes, absolutely awesome.
Heartwarming to see moments like this.
And in the background, Cypress says so much without even saying a *word*.
Oh, Richard, you big, beautiful softie.
That’s what, three couples who’ve come together during this battle? Or am I forgetting any?
t!
Remind me who the first couple was again? Bob and Gren were already a couple
I believe t! meant they ‘came together’, that they had been separated and rejoined, even if their relationship was already pre-established.
Oh, I thought they had already been reunited, when Meggs finally showed her beautiful eyes, and then did the streak escape
Which, again, is why I wasn’t counting them
> I believe t! meant they ‘came together’
I meant in the sense of "discovering something heretofore unknown/unacknowledged."
1) Fatinah/Kassim
2) Helen/Ryann
3) Urzal/Velan – but I may be extrapolating. I am also a big softie.
t!
I was figuring Urzal/Velan should be counted in that! 🙂
Thank you, Urzal/Velan was the one I had forgotten, can remember that scene now
Lessee…. Bob & Gren, Kassim & Fatinah, Ryann & Helen… I mean Helen & Cypress… I mean Ryann & Cypress… & Helen… I mean… oh oh!!
Possibly Nelussa and Brandor? Oh, and don’t forget Eddy and Lewstrom. (Just kidding. But it was fun to imagine the horror on Eddy’s face at the thought.)
Better than even chance Nelussa also legged it, just to be on the safe side
I’m putting my bets on Brandor "Firehair" the Barbarian and Kob the Minotaur, mainly because of this: https://www.yafgc.net/comic/2478-time-passes/ 😉
And I hope I’m right. 😀
Yeah, Brandon and Kob make a great couple…but I can’t really see either of them as monogamous types.
Kob’s gonna want to spend quality time with minotaur ladies too, and if Brandon were to have a fling with a maybe-kind-of-probably-not-going-to-stone-him gorgon, I wager Kob’s reaction would be less "Why, you CAD! You BETRAYED ME!" and more "So, when you two are doing it, what do the snakes do? I mean, are they into it too, or bored, or just confused, or what?"
You know, I admit I’d pictured Brandon and Kob as a bit more "As time passes, there’s no one I’d rather be with, than you" about it, and kind of beelining straight to a younger version of the old-and-comfortable couple together. There’s a sort of "commonlaw forever-drinking-buddies" relationship vibe that I’ve seen in the wild, and I suspect these two are rocking, if there’s indeed a romance there. (And cards on the table, whether or not there is…I love the *idea* that there is. I’m so, so with you, T-Chall!)
> Ryann & Helen… I mean Helen & Cypress… I mean Ryann & Cypress… & Helen…
I can’t resist. Forgive me, Rich.
…I believe this line of speculation ends in a bright "Oh, my!"
> I can’t resist.
I am not convinced you tried very hard.
Nor should you have!
t!
> I am not convinced you tried very hard.
When love blooms in a Rich Morris story, it is a thing of utter beauty. I celebrate it wherever I can find it (and, I suppose, quietly insinuate it elsewhere, sometimes, possibly extracanonically).
This is the true sunrise. Not romance specifically, in itself, mind you…but feeling, caring, coming together, in the face of something as horrible as Ranna and her Age of Shadows. I see moments like this, and it’s like watching wildflowers begin to poke up through scorched earth. Ranna’s age was as much a state of mind as a state of the union, and this…this is, as Craig Ferguson once described Doctor Who, "the triumph of intellect and romance over brute force and cynicism."
This is utterly, positively, completely my jam. This is the sunrise I needed, hoped for, held out for. It is beautiful, and the many colors and nuances of its dawn from the horizon are as beautiful as the night before it was dark and frightening.
Thank you, Rich. I needed this. So much.
Rancourt, I wholeheartedly agree with you, let’s celebrate when love starts blooming.
Likewise, thank you for this, Rich.
Do Urzal and the nice young dragon-man she met on the battlefield count, or not yet?
"I mean Ryann & Cypress… & Helen"
As long as its fine with all participants, why not? It might even easing up some tension there… I dont’t even dare to start to think of all the possible fun they can have with a lovetriangle like that… … … Too late, I started thinking about it… >:D
I gotta thank you for moving the Ryann / Helen / Cypress love triangle away from jealousy and in a more healthy direction. I look forward to seeing them work things through.
And don’t forget Ardwin & poor petrified Sir Catianus! Still, in a war not everyone can get a happy ending.
There was an alchemical way to reverse petrification, with that salve the gnome made to be used on Lucas and Cadugan. It remains to be seen if things like that, that are not cast magic, might still work enough to do things like reverse petrifications. Then I think Beholders can also do that, but I don’t know if it only works when they are the ones that did the petrifying, or if it still works now, for that matter. I just remember Bob and Gren talking about unpetrifying someone for dinner…
That look in panel 7 is wonderful!
The look in panel three isn’t bad either 😀
I like that panel too.
When I first loaded this page, the browser window ended at the center of Helen’s left pupil in panel three. I left it that way for a few minutes, just because the tilted, googly eyes were hilarious in themselves, before scrolling down to see the context.
Is it me, or did it suddenly just get hot in here?
Why are the very prettiest girls *always* lesbians?
Because it’s a cliché to have them *all* ‘manly’ looking
Then again, they run the risk of being called "Lipstick Lesbians" if they are *too* pretty
You presume too much, Archangel. Many of them are likely bi.
(quietly starts chant in background) OT3… OT3…
OK: both “Aww! ❤️” and “Oh, my… 😲”. Hopefully Helen and Ryann figure things out there, and work out some comfortable and domestic arrangement (and I mean that only slightly salaciously; mostly I just hope that they find happiness together instead of missing a wonderful opportunity in life).
Well, that was unexpected! Previously it was both of them having the hots for Cypress. He certainly seems happy with this development though.