Well what can I say...Lugging and carring a corpses is hard..But someone has to do it right? :P
Correction on date - it's 16/9/06 (or /9/16/06 if you're a crazy AmericanCapitalist. Death to the Capitalist Pigdog swine! For the motherland!) ;)
I suspect the smell of rotting flesh will do that to you. As for the tinted windows, the purpose is now obviously clear. The windows were one-way tinted so that you can look out without being blinded or anything seeing in. Makes it very easy to keep an eye out when people think the place is really abandoned.
Interesting though... why would the fort have been abandoned in the first place?
Plus, I figured it wasn't a house. Too big and... since when do houses have a palisade wall and watchtowers?
Be good Sheridan side note...And I seriously didnt expect that would be less amount of bodies
Six updates in seven days. Amber FTW.
I hope he's got some powerful soap to get blood off of fur. It's annoying enough just with skin.
Heh, "now all I need is the handbag to complete the set," that line made me grin. Was anyone else mildly worried when they saw the Abel update pic?
Quote from: Boogeyman on September 15, 2006, 10:53:07 PM
Was anyone else mildly worried when they saw the Abel update pic?
Worried? As in how Boogey?
Quote from: Boogeyman on September 15, 2006, 10:53:07 PM
Heh, "now all I need is the handbag to complete the set," that line made me grin. Was anyone else mildly worried when they saw the Abel update pic?
Yes. I was a little "WHOAH! I thought things were teen rating, but now I'm not too sure! O_o" ...*cough*
...of course, that may or may not have been along the lines of what you were thinking...*piranins away* :mowninja
Quote from: FireKatKid on September 15, 2006, 10:52:52 PM
I hope he's got some powerful soap to get blood off of fur. It's annoying enough just with skin.
or our of your hair or up a nostril I swear one day I got home from work one day and there was some that had gotten in my ears
Quote from: Sheridan on September 15, 2006, 09:36:40 PM
Correction on date - it's 16/9/06 (or /9/16/06 if you're a crazy AmericanCapitalist. Death to the Capitalist Pigdog swine! For the motherland!) ;)
I suspect the smell of rotting flesh will do that to you. As for the tinted windows, the purpose is now obviously clear. The windows were one-way tinted so that you can look out without being blinded or anything seeing in. Makes it very easy to keep an eye out when people think the place is really abandoned.
Interesting though... why would the fort have been abandoned in the first place?
Plus, I figured it wasn't a house. Too big and... since when do houses have a palisade wall and watchtowers?
It takes at least 12 hours to begin rotting, even in a tropical heat.
Really nice facts there Zorro
actual rotting takes some time, but the smell can begin really fast depending on the conditions...
and I figure they must have had a hard time with the bodies, since the place was abandoned for some time, it's likely many of the bodies were already in rigor
Plus there is always the possible acceleration due to supernatural forces. Ghasts leave behind quite a stink if I remember correctly.
Quote from: Manawolf on September 16, 2006, 01:46:40 AM
Plus there is always the possible acceleration due to supernatural forces.
"The outward signs are that he died quite recently. He has this morning's newspaper, the tea in his flask is still hot, the mud on his boots is still wet.."
"Yes, yes. Get on with it, man!"
"The body is decomposing."
"
Already?"
-- Dr. Who, and if you recognise the episode, you win a cookie
Not much to add to this, really. It looks like the occupants somehow had advance warning of the attack. And what's Abel doing? I can hardly imagine they've let him wander off.
Maybe this is where Abel acquired his hemophobia (http://www.missmab.com/Comics/Vol_627.php)?
Quote from: Tapewolf on September 16, 2006, 03:45:17 AM
And what's Abel doing? I can hardly imagine they've let him wander off.
my guess is he's quitely vomiting in the bushes some where
This is mildly off topic, and not at all based on any evidance but while I was at work yesterday a scene kept popping into my head.
It would have been of today's comic, Abel, Xander, and Devin (odly theres a villian named that in a game I just picked up) standing in the ruined gate way of the fort. staring in horror as Cid was slaughtering the inhabitants. All traces of age gone, with outstreached cubi wings, the tenticals spearing haples victums. His missing eye buring brightly with magical fires as he swung a bloody axe in one hand and a broadsword in the other. He's raving as he tears into them about driving him and his boy off, forcing them to live with deamons, driving that poor girl to her death, screaming that none of them deserved to live because of the miserry they infliced on those around them. he then turns and spots Abel standing in the gate imobilised by the horror of it all. As cids eyes light on Abel the boy screams, turns, and runs. Cid recoils "but I did it to potect you..."
now that would mes up anybunny's childhood
Quote from: LionHeart on September 16, 2006, 04:10:44 AM
Maybe this is where Abel acquired his hemophobia (http://www.missmab.com/Comics/Vol_627.php)?
I still say it's caused by the gruesome death of someone close to him.
The scene what you wrote down perfectly fits in a better horror movie :kruger
But i missing Abel from this scene, he had been realy creped out, or he helped them to clean up that mess.
Ether way, seing Devin, he preaty much had a blood bath, and i guess Abel as well could have it, and is an perfect experiance to become hemophobic. I wondering Abels expression, at the gate, and after this work.
Well now...Im sure any grewsome death scene make anyone feel horrablie
Quote from: Ice4s on September 16, 2006, 04:43:10 AM
Either way, seeing Devin, he pretty much had a blood bath, and I guess Abel as well could have it, and is an perfect experience to become hemophobic.
Abel's spent 24 years in a medieval society - I highly doubt this is his first corpse. Besides I'm not sure just seeing a couple of corpses is going to have quite that profound an effect. Yeah, he's going to be a bit weird for a few days, weeks or months but the horror will fade in time. Xander is an example of this - he was quite happy to turn Abel into a corpse, if Devin hadn't stopped him.
No, unless Abel has a naturally squeamish disposition it's going to have to be something more
personal to give him a shock that would last for 370 years or more.
FKK: cold water works best. Female APF word.
I don't think seeing a corpse is enough to cause hemophobia. I was walking down the street one day and saw a guy who had been shot in the head and was lying on a puddle of his own blood and, yes, I was grossed out and a bit scared that whoever had shot him might still be around, but I still have no trouble seeing small wounds, or blood in tubes.
Quote from: Gabi on September 16, 2006, 08:40:17 AM
FKK: cold water works best. Female APF word.
I don't think seeing a corpse is enough to cause hemophobia. I was walking down the street one day and saw a guy who had been shot in the head and was lying on a puddle of his own blood and, yes, I was grossed out and a bit scared that whoever had shot him might still be around, but I still have no trouble seeing small wounds, or blood in tubes.
Water!? Who would wanna touch that stuff? D:
OT: I bet Abel's frolicking through the grass while they move the bodies. Somehow that image just popped into my mind. Probably because he almost seems like a little child when around Dev and Xan.
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Female APF word?
I am sure all people must learn Fire Kats wont touch water if even make them want to jump in it! ;)
I don't know. I'm not a doctor, but I heard that water is beneficial to health.
Oh, yes.
On the other hand, dihydrogen monoxide is a lethal substance that should be banned, that is used in the manufacturing industry as a replacement...
Don't believe me? just look at this site (http://www.dhmo.org/)!
Quote from: Gabi on September 16, 2006, 08:40:17 AM
FKK: cold water works best. Female APF word.
I don't think seeing a corpse is enough to cause hemophobia. I was walking down the street one day and saw a guy who had been shot in the head and was lying on a puddle of his own blood and, yes, I was grossed out and a bit scared that whoever had shot him might still be around, but I still have no trouble seeing small wounds, or blood in tubes.
O_o
Am I the only one who finds this creepy that she actually came upon a body? Did this actually happen?
Quote from: Tapewolf on September 16, 2006, 04:33:11 AM
Quote from: LionHeart on September 16, 2006, 04:10:44 AM
Maybe this is where Abel acquired his hemophobia (http://www.missmab.com/Comics/Vol_627.php)?
I still say it's caused by the gruesome death of someone close to him.
And I believe he cotracted his hemophobia at an earlier age, its not exactly like 'vertigo'
Quote from: Manawolf on September 16, 2006, 01:34:05 PM
Am I the only one who finds this creepy that she actually came upon a body? Did this actually happen?
I have no doubt it happened. Gabi lives in a big city, and it's not the safest of big cities, so the chances of her running across a body during normal wandering about is better than even, I'd say, over the course of a few years.
*shrug* people die. This is part of life in a world with other people. I'm not deliberately being callous, but you have to get over it and get on with your life, otherwise you're going to freeze up somewhere where someone else is pointing nasty things at you, and *you'll* join the body on the floor.
That's not to say you can't come to pieces later, when you're out of danger, but at the time, keeping it together is very useful...
Maybe I've just been lucky living in LA. Stick to the good neighborhoods, kept my nose clean, closest I came to a dead body was when a guy died of a heart attack across the street from the Boys and Girls Club of Santa Monica.
I seen a few bodies and mostly ones I didnt want to see...Mostly my reltives...:tired
Quote from: llearch n'n'daCorna on September 16, 2006, 01:31:28 PMOn the other hand, dihydrogen monoxide is a lethal substance that should be banned, that is used in the manufacturing industry as a replacement...
Colourless, tasteless and odourless! I can't think of any more sinister substance! :laugh
You know, some people develope phobias to things without any specific major traumatic instances of cantact with them. They don't nessesarily develope the same world shattering response to thier phobia as someone who has had trauma to reinforce it, but they'll still have problems, more so when they are taken by surprise.
Quote from: Reese Tora on September 16, 2006, 04:40:19 PM
You know, some people develop phobias to things without any specific major traumatic instances of cantact with them.
But that would be boring, and it wouldn't explain why Fa'lina had to 'adopt' Abel. >:3
That would be even more boring if Fa'lina adopt Abel such fast :P
Go go Amber, twist this story few more times! XD
Hmmm...Well Abel gets adopted at a late age too
Man the dead rotting corpses. I think Abel is in the bushes throwing up. He's have the hemophilla when he was young I believe. We will find out later how this has happened and my next question who want's pancakes?
*Charline meh* Adventurers, pheh! Show em a few dismembered of their own race and they get all barfy. *devours a freshly murdered being's liver* Mmmm... >:3
How evil...
How'd you like a creature that paralyzes you then sucks your organs out through it tube, and while doing so, broadcasts the taste with its mind!
I find Devin's blushing(?) amusing. Is that blushing?
--
Oh. That's not so bad. To eat organs, to have arachnids feed on you.
Shocking them at the point of actually feeding on them is too quick. What's fun is playing with someone, around and around, before outright killing them. It's so much more satisfying to bleed people dry of tears, blood and sweat. All it would take is getting them to do what is right. It is best that only after which you can resolve to crushing their limbs, and feeding on their last vestiges of life.
On a completely unrelated note-- I've seen The Wickerman, my idea of quality entertainment, that.
We talking classic WickerMan or the remake with Nicholas Cage?
Anyways, I just gotta add that you guys are kinda yicking me out with all this gory talk. Yeesh. I put a bit of blood in the comic and suddenly its a gore-fest in here.
Well that's what happens when you bring in corpses, then actually have the adventurers deal with burying them. I forget, did anyone mention the whole fact that dead people void their bowels? We've only seen it on South Park and Venture Brothers, and alluded to on Family Guy.
No, we haven't mentioned that yet.
Well, apart from you.
Quote from: Amber Panyko on September 17, 2006, 03:02:32 AM
Anyways, I just gotta add that you guys are kinda yicking me out with all this gory talk. Yeesh. I put a bit of blood in the comic and suddenly its a gore-fest in here.
give 'em a paperclip, they'll make a heavy machine gun with integrated flame and grenade thrower out of it :3
Quote from: Amber Panyko on September 17, 2006, 03:02:32 AM
Anyways, I just gotta add that you guys are kinda yicking me out with all this gory talk. Yeesh. I put a bit of blood in the comic and suddenly its a gore-fest in here.
Awww, we have to stop? Ah well. C'mon guys, we gotta bring this stuff back to the butcher shop.
Quote from: FireKatKid on September 16, 2006, 10:01:46 AM
Female APF word?
My word, KK. I'm the only female APF.
Yes, Mana, that actually happened (I'm not the kind of person who makes up stuff and tells it as if it were true). It was about 4 years ago, while I was walking to the acting school (I was taking acting classes back then).
Quote from: Amber Panyko on September 17, 2006, 03:02:32 AM
We talking classic WickerMan or the remake with Nicholas Cage?
The latter.
Would like to see the original.
Pity, though, finding the 1973 film here would be just as likely as pigs flying. Not many DVD/VCD/video stores offer anything older than a decade. They probably wouldn't understand that I would be after the old film either.
Anyway, back on topic -- shouldn't really focus on the corpses. They're corpses. Dead. As is and had been many others in a quasi-medieval world.
Indeed. Make sure they get cleaned up, put where they won't hurt anyone, pray for their souls, and look out for the living.
more or less in that order.
... no offense to anyone, mind. You're welcome to do more if you feel it necessary...
Quote from: Manawolf on September 17, 2006, 03:06:33 AM
Well that's what happens when you bring in corpses, then actually have the adventurers deal with burying them. I forget, did anyone mention the whole fact that dead people void their bowels? We've only seen it on South Park and Venture Brothers, and alluded to on Family Guy.
that's not entirely true....I heard the creative team behind jackass had their butt cheeks stapled together... and there are a few people like 'Major Payne that would have a problem releiving themselves when they passed on.
I see Ink has great taste in flicks
*Charline yawns* The Wicker Man? Ugh, I don't know why people consider that frightening. A bunch of morons seeking a human sacrifice to fuel their idiotic beliefs. And the police officer following around that girl, and finding alluring the antics of the hussy. Frankly, they would simply have annoyed me and I'd have ended up killing all of them. To me, it was merely another aggravating 70's movie. I hated the 70's... Charles was born then... nuff said.
*Charles* :<
I'm sure I'm going to sound like an idiot... but I don't get the comment about the handbag. Is this some reference I'm not getting?
fresh and dry corpses arent that icky to me, its the freshly decomposing ones that is an assault on the eys and the nose. Ive already had my first shock from a corpse when I was in the first or second grade when we came upon a guy who's head got ran over by a bus. Blood is no problem, its that yellow stuff that creeps me out.
For cripses sake that shot of Devin made me raise an eyebrow. Needless to say, I fell for Miss Amber's trap.
Quote from: Ink on September 17, 2006, 10:26:01 AM
Quote from: Amber Panyko on September 17, 2006, 03:02:32 AM
We talking classic WickerMan or the remake with Nicholas Cage?
The latter.
Would like to see the original.
Pity, though, finding the 1973 film here would be just as likely as pigs flying. Not many DVD/VCD/video stores offer anything older than a decade. They probably wouldn't understand that I would be after the old film either.
Anyway, back on topic -- shouldn't really focus on the corpses. They're corpses. Dead. As is and had been many others in a quasi-medieval world.
Look it up on the web I bet you find it there. Maybe I don't know there's a vid store called coconuts have all the vid's redone even back to the 40's and 50's.
Check out their website if they have one. What? no more icking blood and gore AWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW. But you have to admit we are talking about it and I got a fresh batch of pancakes and waffles for everybody. Who's Hungry? :)
Quote from: Shakal on September 17, 2006, 11:34:13 PM
I'm sure I'm going to sound like an idiot... but I don't get the comment about the handbag. Is this some reference I'm not getting?
I didn't get that one, either... :confused
Quote from: ShiningShadow on September 18, 2006, 07:27:51 AM
...I got a fresh batch of pancakes and waffles for everybody. Who's Hungry? :)
I'm in. Mmm, waffles. :)
Quote from: LionHeart on September 18, 2006, 07:49:22 AM
Quote from: Shakal on September 17, 2006, 11:34:13 PM
I'm sure I'm going to sound like an idiot... but I don't get the comment about the handbag. Is this some reference I'm not getting?
I didn't get that one, either... :confused
Hell + Handbag + Going there...
Quote from: Taross on September 19, 2006, 04:58:16 AM
Quote from: LionHeart on September 18, 2006, 07:49:22 AM
Quote from: Shakal on September 17, 2006, 11:34:13 PM
I'm sure I'm going to sound like an idiot... but I don't get the comment about the handbag. Is this some reference I'm not getting?
I'm pretty sure it's "going to hell in a handbasket", not handbag. >.>
I didn't get that one, either... :confused
Hell + Handbag + Going there...
Quote from: LionHeart on September 18, 2006, 07:49:22 AM
Quote from: Shakal on September 17, 2006, 11:34:13 PM
I'm sure I'm going to sound like an idiot... but I don't get the comment about the handbag. Is this some reference I'm not getting?
I didn't get that one, either... :confused
Its sorta like this :tohell
That'd be a handbasket, not a handbag. I think I said that in my above post but it's kinda not there for some inexplicable reason.
I figured it was more of a feminine joke
you know the hand bag has to match the shoes and out fit sort of thing
He looks like crap, he feels like crap, now he just needs to find the right handbag to match and he's good to go
I got the same impression TGH did.
really I thought that will do it oh well. Lets talk more about pancakes and waffles mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm........
A bit O.T., but I just found Abel in a cameo at http://th.pensandtales.com/ (in a slave market). :laugh
Egad! D: Nice pissed off look though :3
Yeah was this before he escpae and started on the abel arc as we see right now..........