because of you

SAVE EVERYBODY!

Crowbar

Temporarily turn the FINGERS body into power armor for the duke, preventing him from escaping permanently and protecting him from direct contact with the truth sayer. Bubble off a portion of ourselves into something small and fast and have it reestablish mental contact with Sydan now that the duke is distracted while the rest of us focus on the task at hand.

Warren (Stephen) Rose

The truthsayer is definitely not a moral character, but he has definitely saved us a bunch of times now without actually having to do so, so I vote to trust him at least while all our friends are dying, specially now that we are not sure how much longer any of them have

Hinner

on a side note- destroy the duke, or at least his mind or something. chuck is my favorite boy of the bunch and i woulda rioted in the streets had he been trimmed from the cast. playing with my emotions like that is a crime that can NOT go unpunished.

move along nothing to see here

I must thankyou to Thruthsayer for saving Chuck. He is cute and nice. I also agree that force will be necessary for dealing with the Archduke. I will admit that you wishing to defeat him with love does confuse me somewhat, but I’ll assume you mean that the fondations of love have already been placed or existed the whole time in Legion’s mind. And getting back to the real world is increasingly tempting. But you have been on quite the roll lately, TruthSayer, so I leave our next action to you.

Plague

You explained this better than me. I think when I mention an action I come off as way too judgy lol. But I wholeheartedly agree with you. I'm all for lewding the Duke as much as the next guy but not with Mr Evil right there. Especially when he wants to kill and fuck when we just want to free and fuck lol.

make the duke bottom for keth

move along nothing to see here

((Something I’m seriously wondering is whether the Fingers was genuinely reborn just now when we split them from us? That could have incredibly interesting results- like for example, how would they feel about the Voice/Truthsayer NOW, after being so thoroughly betrayed by someone they loved, or at least deeply cared for, someone they crossed over to find and who they waited for in Sagita for who KNOWS how long? I have to wonder what the Fingers would do/how they would react if they had their free will restored- assuming we didn’t ALREADY do that by accident when we remade them? I mean I’m sure they’d be just as dangerous to us and our friends as they were before, but compared to the Voice they almost seem like a happy alternative. Maybe I’m assuming too much, and the Fingers was truly and permanently erased when the Voice consumed them back in chapter 2, but idk... I might be reading into something that isn’t there, but the fact that they turn to face us slightly in the one panel there feels significant. That and the fact that we never once look over at them for the rest of this update afterward. On that note, did the Truthsayer somehow not notice the Fingers standing next to us? Or does it just not care? Anyway, interested to see if any of this gets answered next update!))

WorgenRouge

The Duke threatened our friends. Let the Truthsayer do what he wants and we'll watch. In the meantime we need to get them out of here now. Make a bargain with Legion with the Duke out of the way he'd be in charge, we suspect, their will be other meals for them, but only our group of friends.

BillBehr

YES, THIS!! This should be one of our main morals!

Neth Rusiki Azhti

When was it decided that the duke made the rules or he was the teacher? Just because a killer says they'll kill someone just because you tried to save them from him doesn't mean that trying to save them is wrong. The duke wasn't gonna let them all go, something had to be done or else he'd just drain them all of the truth. Besides thats he did do... All of this to the monster mash (y'know imprison them and drain them of their lifeforce, while using their lives and memories to cause more despair to them) and right now he's trying to run away alone, leaving his own demon kind behind to fend off the truthsayer. He's a shit.

Alucardsamsun

If we have to make a choice between doing what is horny and doing what is right, we should do what is right. Granted I think we can do both but that's what we should aim for.

Zwei

I'm actually for saving the Duke. He threatened Chuck entirely because we basically told him to do so via our actions - if he hadn't, it would've seemed like he /couldn't/ and he knows we know he can lie. He's been good on his word thus far as he knows that we can really mess him up - remember, he actively released two of our friends as a show of good faith, and we responded with a show of /bad/ faith. In addition, he's just proven that he can hurt our friends, so letting him 'get whats coming' means hurting one of our friends for a second time. Possibly irrevocably. Not to mention, the Truthsayer is definitely not our friend. He doesn't have our friend's interests at heart, he doesn't have /our/ best interests at heart. It's been proven that demons can feel gratitude and, well, 'feel things in general' - keeping the Duke at arm's reach is fine and understandable, but letting the Truthsayer at him is not a good idea for any of us. ...not to mention, at least three of our friends are right there watching us respond to a show of good faith with no kindness. I mean if we need a more sex-based reason, having the Duke /join/ our harem is a lot better than, uh, losing people in our harem because we're letting the Truthsayer manipulate us. We can punish him plenty, but /we/ should be doing that. Let's stop the Truthsayer. Now.

Garz

Also I love Legion holding Keth in that 4 to last panel

This is kinda driving me up a wall, but are you guys mad at the Duke for almost killing Chuck? He warned us... It's like getting mad at a cop for pulling you over for going at 80 on a 40 road. Or yelling at your parents for punishing you when they said don't take a cookie from the jar and you did.

So.. the Duke um not cool. Everything you just said while fearing for your life, not cool. Truth Dude is out and about. We now know their name is Anathema. We clarified that their a bad person, currently decapitated one dude and is stabbing another. And was just called the ENDER OF WORLDS. so yeah not cool. Our peeps are still in the Duke's hands. Using our voice, I want to make him free them all NOW. I get that you guys are thinking: Let's punish the Duke. But he literally said don't try anything funny, anddd we tried something funny. So he reacted accordingly to show he was serious, I'm not sure what else you guys expect him to do when he made a warning. I will never agree with evil embodied right there. With our voice tell the Duke to not get near the Truthsayer and wait for further instructions from us the patrons, don't want Truthsayer to do some fancy voice work and undo any of our commands. (Capitalize Patrons like TRUTHSAYER I want to feel special too.) When everyone gets free I want to give them the same treatment, command them to keep away from our confrontation with the Truthsayer with our voice. Let Keth tell them what happened or whatever. Reabsorb Fingers, we aren't following the Duke's plan just yet(?), he clearly isn't the best to help us make decisions. And I'm not letting the fucking Truthsayer have his way. Bashing their face is FUN to me. We might not get rid of them completely but it was better having them in us rather than their own entity, that I definitely don't want walking around.

Not trying to reply to all the comments here on this, but he said no using tricks or anything and we did.

He just said no tricks though. He was making a point.

Grabs his hand. You know what? Fuck it. This guy is on some real deus ex level shit and I don't REALLY think there is anything we can do to stop him considering he can literally take over our body whenever he feels like, and morph his body as much as he wants without even having the fingers. Just don't break all the toys in the toybox or any of our friends and we can have a "beautiful friendship". Keth and the rest, I'm sorry buds. Please don't watch this or get involved. We're better off just letting him enjoy himself a little bit instead of getting pissed off and carried away

Newt

I KNOW RIGHT! My god

I would suggest, perhaps a recap update might soon be in order. I've followed this story pretty intently from the start and even I'm getting a little confused by all the plot balls. Plus it is could help as a jumping on point for new readers who want to suggest things but are intimidated by the length/complexity of the story so far.

Crowbar

I still don't know what to do post, these are very difficult updates... However I feel like people just going with the Truthsayer plan out of spite aren't really thinking through the ramifications. He still has a proverbial gun to our friend's heads, and if you care about Keith, you'll know he'll be crushed if we kill the Duke. (Also, I was right, they were still much safer inside Voxotaur, now shapeshifting Truthsayer can stab em any time he feels like)

Crowbar

Have Keth take Harvey and Yang Zhao back through the door. They might be able to leave the web of lies from there and it has to be safer than here.

Penn Guinn

our goals have not changed: get rid of the VOICE and free our friends. going along with what the VOICE says is just playing into his hand. I dont think we should ruin or torture the Duke, but now that everything is a mess we can use our powers a bit more freely: we should use our VOICE power to tell the Duke to free our friends immediately and release them from the web of lies entirely, now that he has no leverage on us, thanks to our chaotic evil eldritch pal. our friends seem safe now that Monilius can't kill them by manipulating the web. THE MOST IMPORTANT THING WE DO is try and absorb or destroy the body that the VOICE is in. that is IMPERATIVE to our plan of destroying him. we need him inside us or as an omniscient voice, of sorts. secondly, what of our FINGER powers? they're in this second body that we can control right? he looks too bland. make him look like a wolf-ish version of our Voxotaur, so we can distinguish between the two. third, we could play along with what the VOICE says, and use our VOICE power to have him stand still and not run away, and maybe reveal what tricks he has up his sleeves as preparation to deal with us, have us dispose of those methods in the least harmful way, and then finally get close to him, with both our bodies, and maybe even POSSESS the Duke?!?! is that possible?! we have mind control and body control powers, so at the very least we could be a sort of cerberus taur creature, and just carry him around with us. in any case, now that we are in his body, we could search his memories for any interesting intel, such as info on the eldritch entities, the structure of his demon society and how to just free everyone in this simulated space. and now that we "are" the Duke, we could just control the liescape ourselves? we could just free our friends that way, if they were not already free. regardless, after we have our way with the Duke, we should let him free. not cause him any harm, and maybe even store him inside our FINGER Voxotaur like we did with Keth and Legion, so that the VOICE couldnt get to them. but lastly, the OTHER SUPER IMPORTANT STEP IN IMPRISONING THE VOICE is destroying our body, and going back to being a collection of omniscient voices, or at least get a mediator to be our eyes in this world, while we are ejected through the screen and break it. (these are a lot of suggestions, but the most important thing is that we GET RID OF THE VOICE by destroying the screen. that seems to be the most difficult task we have right now)

Neth Rusiki Azhti

Reabsorb the Fingers. Watch out for Legion, he might try something. And heck yeah lets freaking destroy the Duke (with love). But seriously, if we could not kill him it would be nice.

Hinner

I swear I thought we lost Chuck, one of my absolute favs besides Keth and Roro. My fucking heart. Anyway it’s definitely time for a kinky headless demon-cest orgy. I’d like one condition though. As much as I want to we really shouldn’t fuck Keth and/or our friends. It’ll trigger our pink screen and this is 100% what the Truthsayer wants. He’ll probably rip it out of our body and absorb it like he did FINGERS. Just hate fuck everyone else. P.S. Truthsayer is looking so good with that bod, beard, mask and mouth UGH

PK Persona

((Guys i think after the immediate danger passes, we need to destroy our own body, using the FINGERS. Without a united avatar it’s possible the VOICE will end up shattered again. We’d still have the FINGERS to deal with down the road, but that seems like the lesser of two evils.))

WorgenRouge

(Oh my god oh my God I'm so surprised! My plan it was used! And failed! But the truthsayer had our back! Fucking wow the rollercoaster that happened in my head... Welp time to fuck.) Voxotaur: Use your Voice on the duke, have a separate entity to look at his face as your play with him. DUke: COME UNDER MY CONTROL AND RELEASE THE REST OF THE MONSTER MASH. THEN… i want you awake. Want you to feel everything that we will do to you, dont worry, you surely will enjoy it.  Voxotour: Make the duke kiss your feet,kneeling at your ground,then make him lay on his back, like a puppy, and rub his under belly telling him he's a "good boy". Then, find his asshole. With your HANDS, make it swell and pucker with sensation, dripping wet. Suck it. Lick it, lapping the rim with your tongue. bite it. Make the Duke squirm from the pain and pleasure. Then, push your arm into the wet whole, making the duke moan even more. Find the g spot, the bundle of sensitive nerves,and attack it, no mercy. Punch at it, squeeze it inside his ass, class at it. Make the duke weep and beg with from the ecstasy that your brutal handing of his G-Stop gives him.  Voxotour: Pull on his G-spot. Stretch it with your HANDS and pull it through the ring of his anus. His G-stop is now his new tail and any slight touch to it will end an electric wave of euphoria, turning him into a drooling pudding of a man. Duke: Now become loyal to us and ONLY us and fre us all from this web of lies you’ve constructed.  Truthsayer: there are alot of things i want to do. I want the fuck this lying asshole senseless. I want to get the monsters freed. But honestly, right now, I really want to thank you and know you hear it. So thanks. Also i know you have a gore fetish but can we break even and not kill him, just really really really ruin him senseless? I wanna make him part of the pack too, I have a bit of a collector fetish. But do get creative, i do wonder how you work.

Alucardsamsun

It's time to make an important decision. One that requires wearing a good business suit. Let's put on our best suit-and-tie look, because if we're gonna fuck up, we might as well look good doing it.

AnotherMeekOne

Well VOICE, you might speak powerful “truths”, but you’re a pretty garbage liar. You have no idea what love is, and likely never will. You threaten our friends just by existing, and would snuff them out without a second thought. FINGERS THAT SHAPE, entrap this hideous form the Voice stole from us, reduce it to a stone statue, remove its mouth from its face, and remove its ability to shapeshift. In addition, from now on you are deaf to anything the true VOICE THAT COMMANDS says- verbally or through any other means. You can still hear us, but not him. HARVEY and YANG: None of this place is real. Nothing you have experienced in here is real. You both need to realize that and WAKE UP. DUKE: Let all of our friends go free immediately, then get out of our sight, we want nothing more to do with you. Pray you never cross our path again. MONILIUS AND LEGION HEAD: You are freed from the VOICE’s compulsions and alterations, but remain numb to pain. Legion should reabsorb his missing pieces. Monilius should unravel his web and release our friends.

WorgenRouge

Yeah, kind of hard to sympathize with this guy when he just tried to pull one over on us re: Chuck. Sorry, Duke, but it's time you show your son the love he's craving. Make it real slow and tender for him.

Shiny Skunk

Gotta say, Dukey, Mr. Puffy Lip here is kinda speaking my language. You're gonna have to do a HELL of a lot better accommodating me and mine if you don't want me to follow his lead, savvy?

Star Ringer

Voxotaur: You tried to destroy my friend. I tried to reason and help you in exchange for your assistance. You've brought this fate on yourself Duke

Kageichi