Ch01-015
Added 2026-02-09 05:04:21 +0000 UTC
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We did see Durlyne back in chapter 7, too, with Duane's murder, but I never pulled the camera this far back. And neither did Duane, he lived where he lived. Overall though, place is huge!
Ashley
2026-02-09 18:51:28 +0000 UTCSure, they could have escaped, but a hitman who leaves witnesses behind won't be a hitman for long...
Rob N
2026-02-09 18:33:37 +0000 UTCConflicted about Jaer and Tree here; almost any other circumstance, I'd admire how Jaer still finished their job despite personal disgust. Once I said to friends arguing about a hypothetical crime one was daydreaming about, "No matter how much you disagree, you should always help with the getaway." Except for how it was literally child murder and they could've escaped without doing it. And yet.. smidge of respect anyway, with the part of my mind that just loves solidarity and camaraderie between criminals. (Though I believe our own real criminal demi-monde despises people who hurt kids as the lowest of the low.)
Josh
2026-02-09 16:53:41 +0000 UTCAshley, I remember reading something you wrote or said in an interview to the general tune of "Why does everything think Unsounded is pseudo-medieval? I guess that's what I get for beginning the story in the wilderness." Gotta say, when I only had the first few chapters for reference, I wouldn"t have expected the world to contain this rad funky dystopian steampunk-adjacent Blade Runner-lookin' megalopolis.
Josh
2026-02-09 16:37:12 +0000 UTCIt's some kind of food stall, I just can't decide what they sell :D
Ashley
2026-02-09 16:33:43 +0000 UTCI didn't think I needed to make the point on EVERY figure :) Better to save a giant shocked crowd scene for a higher impact moment.
Ashley
2026-02-09 16:33:10 +0000 UTCThat's a great line of thinking, I just would never want to appropriate the word ghetto. It'll be important to remember that ghers are also divided by class, in addition to caste. Duane grew up in a very rough working class ghers that only admitted blue collar labourers and primitive craftsmen, and as a boy was apprenticed to carry on after his father in that regard. When his prospects brightened, he married to the much higher class ghers of financiers, clergy, officers, and fine craftsmen. Now that lower class ghers wasn't doing much to bolster its members' success but Duane's adult ghers was very protective, exclusionary, and high pressure in a different way. And the two ghers - even though they are both Soud - were not on the best of terms. One is considered peasants, the other is considered toffs.
Ashley
2026-02-09 16:32:03 +0000 UTCThe return of goblins to the comic! Even if only as a decorative lantern
PotentPinion
2026-02-09 16:05:56 +0000 UTCInteresting. Looks like they are breathing out DammaSmell
Flyfly
2026-02-09 16:05:46 +0000 UTCBoy, that's one way to ruin your day!
Spider
2026-02-09 15:18:57 +0000 UTCSo, I'm curious. It seems like only some of the Bronze are picking up on our duo. Is that related to the varying lifespans/khert connection of the Bronze caste? Or are some of these people just not paying attention?
Benjamin
2026-02-09 11:16:27 +0000 UTCIn that regard, is it correct to understand a ghers as a kind of inverse ghetto? Or like a ghetto union or commune? An ethnically homogeneous group pooling their resources, policing themselves and providing social services to members and engaging in commerce with outside groups but still technically formed by the prejudices and social/economic pressures placed on that ethnic group. Like a Soud ghers would be much more like a historical ghetto than say a Jet ghers but obviously it's not quite 1:1, as a Jet ghers might perhaps be more interested in pooling and maintaining Jet-created prosperity in Jet hands, more like a gated community rather than for protection?
Mister Scarecrow
2026-02-09 07:50:27 +0000 UTCYeah, probably down here to visit one of the cheaper clothiers or rug shops. It's nice to get their money but no one's going to invite them out for a drink :)
Ashley
2026-02-09 07:01:05 +0000 UTCWow, that appartment building(?) across the canal is huuuge! That really drives home that Durlyne is a real metropolis. Also, Bronze Ghers with two Jets smugly walzing through, I presume?
Reed Copperstrand
2026-02-09 06:50:18 +0000 UTCI hope those vliegeng are city-trained.
Ak-demiker
2026-02-09 06:45:37 +0000 UTCThat's the Temple of Song, very important, you can see it from all over :D
Ashley
2026-02-09 05:48:52 +0000 UTCAre ominous towers stretching to the heavens just the standard for large, Kasslynian cities?
Ben Dennard
2026-02-09 05:40:29 +0000 UTCYou know what's worse than being a child murderer? Being a whiny baby child murderer.
Jeremy Ball
2026-02-09 05:28:24 +0000 UTC
