8/10/2012 [DMFA #1329] - Moar flashback! Doodly-doodly-doodly…

[KiloFoxx]

is it possible Fa'Llina meant Dan overreacting or otherwise going out of control in that month?

also just wondering, are there any 'Cubi clans with a Chaos affinity?

[Lying Foo]

Okay, I'm having to wonder just how stupid Nitemyst is.  (And I'm hoping I got the right name.)  The Phoenix culture is not based on relaying information.  It is based on obscuring it.  Even though what they say is technically true, deriving a useful truth is virtually impossible.

If this were true, they'd be out of business.  Clearly adventurers do get useful information from their riddles, since they do keep coming, albeit reluctantly, and if it's a matter of course to check with them whether lost adventurers are alive, "the life of Destania has ended" has got to be pretty much the upper limit for their obfuscation.  Nitemyst's only mistake here is not considering the fact that there's almost guaranteed to be "some other Lost Lake Cubi floating about somewhere."

[Pvblivs]

Remember "the star that shines withers the rose of midnight."  That was the response given first.  Teasing something useful out of that is not within reason.  And Pyroduck never did find his ball.  Plus, I'm not even sure if the Phoenixes care whether they get business or not.  But this comic really leads me to believe that useful information is not what you are going to get from them.

[Lying Foo]

But the riddle with the ball wasn't really that hard.  And I don't think "the Star that shines withers the rose of midnight" was the end of it, just the point where Aary said "screw this."

[AmigaDragon]

(Although I am kind of holding out hope for an explanation of a friggin' dragon at SAIA.)

Ambaargh mentioned in the forum somewhere, it's a mythos, not a dragon. Sorry I've not got the interest in looking up the link, but it might be referenced in the wiki...

This makes me wonder... Has Pyro ever been to SAIA, and for how long? Just living there or taking classes? Do non-cubi ever take classes there? We already know non-cubi teach at SAIA.

Okay, The Phoenix culture is not based on relaying information.  It is based on obscuring it.  Even though what they say is technically true, deriving a useful truth is virtually impossible.

If this were true, they'd be out of business.  Clearly adventurers do get useful information from their riddles, since they do keep coming, albeit reluctantly, and if it's a matter of course to check with them whether lost adventurers are alive, "the life of Destania has ended" has got to be pretty much the upper limit for their obfuscation.

When truth is obscured, you can glean the truth out of what you hear, or misunderstand and miss the hidden truth. I still  maintain though that if it sounds like the phoenix oracles are giving plain answers, they might not be truthful.

[Kuzma Volkov]

Hmm just wondering now. Dan is sorta responsible in a sense for dealing with DP. What if Merl ran into DP and Regina? Would it then be sort of said that Dan was responsible for his death? I mean he did fail at stopping his revival and ended up having a pleasant night with his sister...

[icarus]

How about one of my Cubi designs from this pic (unfinished). I don't have a fursona or anything but I love these gals. They're supposed to have backwings but I haven't put them in yet (pixel art takes a really long time).

does that one have a flower tail? and the one with the batwings and the bowl cut looks wicked cute. i think i might pick her. yes.

[supermike]

http://www.missmab.com/Comics/Vol_1265.php

We're at chapter 30! I'm not sure if this has been brought up already, but I just noticed it :p

Logically the only person capable of producing a gun is Jyrras.  He had those auto-turrets and has been stuck doing research to avoid the press.

[e_voyager]

http://www.missmab.com/Comics/Vol_1265.php

We're at chapter 30! I'm not sure if this has been brought up already, but I just noticed it :p

Logically the only person capable of producing a gun is Jyrras.  He had those auto-turrets and has been stuck doing research to avoid the press.

actually i think guns were invent before Jyrrias but i think he mastered the building of the gun if not the use of them. remember he's a good shot as well he tranquilized Dan form a roof top from who knows how far away.,

[Nino]

How about one of my Cubi designs from this pic (unfinished). I don't have a fursona or anything but I love these gals. They're supposed to have backwings but I haven't put them in yet (pixel art takes a really long time).

does that one have a flower tail? and the one with the batwings and the bowl cut looks wicked cute. i think i might pick her. yes.

Yes! It is supposed to be a mythos Cubi. Whether there are actually Mythos that look like that I didn't care :p

The bowl cut one is my favorite, so that sounds awesome :D

[Ignuus66]

http://www.missmab.com/Comics/Vol_1265.php

We're at chapter 30! I'm not sure if this has been brought up already, but I just noticed it :p

Logically the only person capable of producing a gun is Jyrras.  He had those auto-turrets and has been stuck doing research to avoid the press.

actually i think guns were invent before Jyrrias but i think he mastered the building of the gun if not the use of them. remember he's a good shot as well he tranquilized Dan form a roof top from who knows how far away.,

As mab put it:
the non-jyrras guns are (I think) muskets and flintlocks, and are viewed as an oddity and not really a weapon, as they were not viewed as a good way of killing creatures, and thus were not developed into the weapons that could actually do some damage. (I have to add that the only reason guns became widespread on Earth is because they require much less training than bows to be used effectively, but before the early 1700-s, they were worse than bows in a well trained archer's hands.)

[e_voyager]

that still lends credence to Jyrass mastering building the gun. also what kind of rifle did he use to take down Dan at the beach anyway? was it one of his own?

[Ignuus66]

that still lends credence to Jyrass mastering building the gun. also what kind of rifle did he use to take down Dan at the beach anyway? was it one of his own?

that was a tranquilizer rifle, which uses compressed air to throw out a non-lethal needle which injects sleeping drugs into the target. Also that was the "non-canon" area, soI wouldnt count anything that happened there to be canon.

[e_voyager]

wait are you saying that the beach story arch was non cannon? i admit that whole bill gates computer camp thing is a bit out there but for the entire arc to be non cannon yet referred to by so many later comics is confusing.  heck twinks a cow named Lorenda and get me to the church make direct references to what happened back then as did unwilling and Abel

[Tapewolf]

wait are you saying that the beach story arch was non cannon? i admit that whole bill gates computer camp thing is a bit out there but for the entire arc to be non cannon yet referred to by so many later comics is confusing.

I think Amber's treating those as "It happened, but it might not have happened quite as presented"

[e_voyager]

ah like mab saying i'm being plot convenient to ary that one time. we don't know what she said exactly but we know she said something the instantly convinced her to drop the subject and it's up to our imagination to fill in the rest?

[Tapewolf]

ah like mab saying i'm being plot convenient to ary that one time. we don't know what she said exactly but we know she said something the instantly convinced her to drop the subject and it's up to our imagination to fill in the rest?

http://clockworkmansion.com/forum/index.php/topic,9105.msg364669.html#msg364669
...the last paragraph is the relevant one.

[Nino]

wait are you saying that the beach story arch was non cannon? i admit that whole bill gates computer camp thing is a bit out there but for the entire arc to be non cannon yet referred to by so many later comics is confusing.  heck twinks a cow named Lorenda and get me to the church make direct references to what happened back then as did unwilling and Abel

So wait, what you're saying is that the start of sentences, proper pronouns, story arc titles, and both the first and last name of Bill Gates don't get caps, but character names do? Also, I think that story arch was non-cannon. Maybe you think it would be better with a cannon, but it's sort of a small arch, so I don't know if it would support it well.

[e_voyager]

Thanks tape it was an enlightening link

blame spell checker nino. i rarely deal with the grammar side of thing but when i do i try to follow the most basic rules. when i use spell checker it will something cap a name like Abel but not one like bill. Lorenda was a wild card. i think i added it to the Google spell check dictionary years ago.

i also found this link saying killed may leave room for interpretation believe it or not.