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Chapter 28 – Page 4

on December 20, 2013
Chapter: Chapter 28
└ Tags: Don Gobligno, Gondolessa, Harky, Iver, Karmakat, Madam Arfa
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  1. Moe Lane
    Moe Lane
    December 20, 2013, 12:11 am | # | Reply

    She should have rolled a blunt, there.

    • Chris
      Chris
      December 20, 2013, 11:32 am | # | Reply

      Cat’s Meow

      • Moe Lane
        Moe Lane
        December 21, 2013, 7:50 am | # | Reply

        Nah, it would have meant that they would have been listening to theories from the grassy gnoll.

        • Panthaaron
          Panthaaron
          December 21, 2013, 10:15 pm | # | Reply

          You should be stoned for that.

  2. Runic
    Runic
    December 20, 2013, 12:24 am | # | Reply

    I wonder if these cat people used the magic of thunder…

    • Dotcom
      Dotcom
      December 20, 2013, 12:34 am | # | Reply

      Or phallic growing swords. What was the deal with that in the 80s?

      • Vladimir Zhivanevskaya
        Vladimir Zhivanevskaya
        December 20, 2013, 12:48 am | # | Reply

        I think this is set in the 80s, unless I’m mistaken and that’s some other white substance she’s inhaling through her nostril.

        Props to the guilded age team for your first subliminal drug campaign–though I have to say it’s taking an unusual direction :P

        • Syhkane
          Syhkane
          December 23, 2013, 9:13 pm | # | Reply

          Those are just the spots on her hands.

  3. Dotcom
    Dotcom
    December 20, 2013, 12:33 am | # | Reply

    Mufasa!

    • Smallfoot
      Smallfoot
      December 20, 2013, 4:07 am | # | Reply

      *shiver*
      Oooooh!
      Say it again!

      • Dotcom
        Dotcom
        December 20, 2013, 7:05 am | # | Reply

        Mu-fasa!

        • Darchias
          Darchias
          December 20, 2013, 9:13 am | # | Reply

          Mufasa Mufasa Mufasa!

          • Jokerlope
            Jokerlope
            December 20, 2013, 10:40 am | # | Reply

            wow, I haven’t seen that movie since I was seven and I still read that in the appropriate voices.

            • CapnRis
              CapnRis
              December 20, 2013, 2:53 pm | # | Reply

              Complete with maddening Ed laughter.

            • Tachyon
              Tachyon
              December 20, 2013, 3:42 pm | # | Reply

              Makin’ me wish I could upvote comments, this whole thread deserves it.

            • mrknifey
              mrknifey
              December 21, 2013, 9:59 am | # | Reply

              yeah something about whoopy g’s voice just made that role:D

          • phyre
            phyre
            December 21, 2013, 8:20 pm | # | Reply

            I am surrounded by idiots. -_-

  4. Tim
    Tim
    December 20, 2013, 12:46 am | # | Reply

    From a different world you say.

    • Wolff
      Wolff
      December 20, 2013, 10:26 am | # | Reply

      Sepia cat is sepia

  5. Kokuten
    Kokuten
    December 20, 2013, 12:49 am | # | Reply

    I’m feline this clawrchitecture, right meow.

    Cats.

    • Bardsdoitbetter
      Bardsdoitbetter
      December 20, 2013, 2:02 am | # | Reply

      The structure isn’t purr-fect, but they must’ve been kitten when they said it’d be cat-astrophe.

  6. Thirteen
    Thirteen
    December 20, 2013, 12:53 am | # | Reply

    Then, everything changed when the Gnoll Nation attacked.

    • Dorje Sylas
      Dorje Sylas
      December 20, 2013, 6:56 pm | # | Reply

      Karmakat, the last hair bender.

      • Robtimus
        Robtimus
        December 22, 2013, 11:42 am | # | Reply

        HA! Awesome.

  7. Ishmael
    Ishmael
    December 20, 2013, 1:29 am | # | Reply

    “His body seeded with a creature not of this world. Like you, Harky.”

    Oh shit.

    • Thinker
      Thinker
      December 20, 2013, 3:44 am | # | Reply

      …Harky is Best? Or one of the Himunculi…?

      • Thinker
        Thinker
        December 20, 2013, 3:44 am | # | Reply

        Err, Homunculi

        • Guesticus
          Guesticus
          December 20, 2013, 8:46 am | # | Reply

          ‘One’? Did HR Huffnpuff dispose of more than one nosy employee?

          • Téléphone banane
            Téléphone banane
            December 20, 2013, 3:13 pm | # | Reply

            What does Harky have to do with Ferris’ murder ?

            • Thinker
              Thinker
              December 20, 2013, 6:19 pm | # | Reply

              ‘By a being not of this world’ – if i remember correctly we saw HR send at least 2 Homunculi into the game. So I figured maybe Harky was somehow conmected to this… Despite appearing before em.

              • Guesticus
                Guesticus
                December 21, 2013, 8:34 am | # | Reply

                When did he send 2? We saw him send one made from the blood of Ferris’ arm, when did he send another?

              • Téléphone banane
                Téléphone banane
                December 24, 2013, 6:16 am | # | Reply

                Harky “came into existence” in the game way before Ferris’ death. So the two can’t be possibly connected.

    • Woif
      Woif
      December 20, 2013, 9:12 am | # | Reply

      doesn’t he have the one fire god inside of him, or it’s power at least?

      • Devin
        Devin
        December 20, 2013, 9:45 am | # | Reply

        Yes

  8. Bloodvork
    Bloodvork
    December 20, 2013, 1:35 am | # | Reply

    Frigg – “Heh, ‘His body was seeded’.”

  9. Bardsdoitbetter
    Bardsdoitbetter
    December 20, 2013, 2:00 am | # | Reply

    “Karma! KARma! KARMAKAT! HOOOOOOOOO!”

  10. PainfulBuggery
    PainfulBuggery
    December 20, 2013, 2:01 am | # | Reply

    Ancient Spirits of Evil, transform this decayed form to Mumm-Ra The Ever-Living!

  11. Jake
    Jake
    December 20, 2013, 2:50 am | # | Reply

    That party of a strong-hearted leader, cocky swordsman, sneaky rogue, giant tank, quirky scientist and mystic archer are probably going to have a lot of wacky adventures together!

    • Helianthus
      Helianthus
      December 20, 2013, 7:04 am | # | Reply

      I have seen a party like this before, cannot remember where.

      *mistakenly click on the ‘First chapter’ button*

      Oh.
      Well, the Rogue and the Tank will come later, along with a few spellcasters and a light bruiser, but…

      • Vladimir Zhivanevskaya
        Vladimir Zhivanevskaya
        December 21, 2013, 10:40 am | # | Reply

        You are mistaken–it is the cocky swordsman who comes later, the tank is already there.

  12. WriterX
    WriterX
    December 20, 2013, 3:44 am | # | Reply

    Wait, if I understand correctly… Madam Arfa wants to get rid of the Cat People? That is what I understood (since, you know, Gnolls always want to hunt, new Race for Players per chance?)

    • Messenger
      Messenger
      December 20, 2013, 3:52 am | # | Reply

      She’s talking history, meaning the gnolls *got rid* (past tense) of the Cat People.

      • Guesticus
        Guesticus
        December 20, 2013, 8:50 am | # | Reply

        Yes, she is snorting history, they wanted to have cat-skin loinclothes, but Karmakat put a giant hairball in the works

        • Valdrax
          Valdrax
          December 20, 2013, 10:26 am | # | Reply

          On that note, I wonder whose jawbone she’s wearing on her head.

      • Téléphone banane
        Téléphone banane
        December 20, 2013, 3:16 pm | # | Reply

        “She’s talking history, meaning the gnolls *got rid* (past tense) of the Cat People.”
        She might as well mean that they tried to extinct the Cat Nation, but were royally thwarted by Karmakat and crew.

  13. Messenger
    Messenger
    December 20, 2013, 4:00 am | # | Reply

    Hm. She reminds me of Magatha Grimtotem from WoW (although I doubt she’s ambitious, self-serving and treacherous).

    • Guesticus
      Guesticus
      December 20, 2013, 8:51 am | # | Reply

      Who? Arfa or Magatha?

      • Messenger
        Messenger
        December 20, 2013, 11:17 am | # | Reply

        Lol. Arfa. The ambitious, self-serving and treacherous ones on this council are Gobligno and Iver.

  14. That Guy
    That Guy
    December 20, 2013, 5:15 am | # | Reply

    Gorvern?

    • Mujaki
      Mujaki
      December 20, 2013, 7:24 am | # | Reply

      It is, how jou say, the acxzent. Jou must remembre to put the emphasis on the chhorect seelahble.

    • seggs
      seggs
      December 21, 2013, 11:44 pm | # | Reply

      Govern? I hardly knowern!

  15. AeonsShadow
    AeonsShadow
    December 20, 2013, 5:47 am | # | Reply

    KarmaKat….. sounds like the name of a GAME avatar…. who knows…..

  16. MonkeyMadness
    MonkeyMadness
    December 20, 2013, 6:17 am | # | Reply

    I CAN HAZ CAN OF WHUPASS?

    • Marchosias
      Marchosias
      December 20, 2013, 3:24 pm | # | Reply

      No. Down, boy.

  17. Nathanyel
    Nathanyel
    December 20, 2013, 6:37 am | # | Reply

    Even if she hadn’t said “not of this world”, it would’ve been clear that “Karmakat” could only be a player-chosen name :D

    • Nathanyel
      Nathanyel
      December 20, 2013, 6:38 am | # | Reply

      …and now I realized this is a backer :P Sorry.

      • Logos
        Logos
        December 21, 2013, 3:51 pm | # | Reply

        Still makes sense.

        • Karmakat
          Karmakat
          December 21, 2013, 6:02 pm | # | Reply

          my name has more meaning than JUST player chosen… it’s even part of a novel and other stuff …

          • Guesticus
            Guesticus
            December 22, 2013, 5:37 am | # | Reply

            Is it okay to pronounce your name as “Karmak-at” rather than the obvious “Karma-kat”?

            • Karmakat
              Karmakat
              December 23, 2013, 4:57 pm | # | Reply

              generally, sorry to say, it’s the obvious one.
              it’s all about “karma will bite you in the ass”

              • SotiCoto
                SotiCoto
                February 19, 2014, 12:07 pm | # | Reply

                I’d love to read the transcript of the conversation your character’s parents had when they decided to name him that.

  18. Helianthus
    Helianthus
    December 20, 2013, 6:49 am | # | Reply

    His body seeded with a creature not of this world

    In-universe, this could have plenty of meaning (demon possession, two souls sharing the same body, trans-dimensional reincarnation…).
    But since we are given more and more clues that HR’s fictional universe has become as real as our universe (well, as much real as a bunch of electrons in a MMO server could be), I think the 4th wall, already well battered, just exploded in a myriad pieces. They know we are here on the other side.

    Like you, Harky

    Well, that settles any doubt about Harky being a very special NPC. Following the second hypothesis above, he seems to be a full-fledged PC.
    Now, the trick question. Does he know it? Aside from those having a WOC at hand (wise old crone – you need one in any story), does any PC in this universe know his/her body has been “seeded” by someone from outside?
    Or did the players’ egos have been permanently subsumed into their avatars’ identities? If so, no wonder HR has troubles recovering them. Not much left to grab to haul them back…

    • Guesticus
      Guesticus
      December 20, 2013, 8:53 am | # | Reply

      Just like the ‘real world’: you only get a glimpse at the truth when your shell is sleeping

      • Téléphone banane
        Téléphone banane
        December 20, 2013, 3:23 pm | # | Reply

        “Just like the ‘real world’: you only get a glimpse at the truth when your shell is sleeping”

        I once dreamt I was a vampire. Then I woke up. And saw I was a full-blooded human, and that vampires don’t exist.

        So the “real world” is the Real World. Don’t mistake fantasy with reality.

        • Guesticus
          Guesticus
          December 21, 2013, 8:36 am | # | Reply

          Yes, but how can you be sure that you are not a vampire dreaming that they are cattle? Hmmm?

          • mrknifey
            mrknifey
            December 21, 2013, 10:13 am | # | Reply

            This is the type of existentialist argument that gets fun. You cannot prove anything beyond your own existence; since everything else is filtered through your own mind, it could be purely created by yourself.

            • Guesticus
              Guesticus
              December 22, 2013, 5:40 am | # | Reply

              Zack Tilly!

              Can be quite brain-numbing to try and figure out how ‘this world is just a game’ could be feasible, largely by attemtping to figure out who you encounter (or simply hear) are ‘PCs’ and who are ‘NPCs’ (and that includes family and yourself)

              • Téléphone banane
                Téléphone banane
                December 24, 2013, 6:23 am | # | Reply

                “figure out how ‘this world is just a game’ could be feasible”

                Wow. Looks like dividing by zero, to me. :-S

            • Téléphone banane
              Téléphone banane
              December 24, 2013, 6:22 am | # | Reply

              Everything else is a pure creation of your mind, then ?
              How about you slam a foot in a piece of furniture. The pain will be very real.
              I can prove manything in this real world. I could prove it all, if I had enough time.
              Now, concerning what is beyond this world … that’s a new ball game.

          • Téléphone banane
            Téléphone banane
            December 24, 2013, 6:19 am | # | Reply

            HOw can I be sure I’m not a vampire ? I can eat garlic, I enjoy sunlight, I have no reaction in front of christian crosses or holy water and I don’t have have overgrown canine teeth. :-)
            Plus, I don’t drink blood. :-3

    • Ian
      Ian
      December 20, 2013, 2:03 pm | # | Reply

      I’m pretty sure the being of the other world is Tectonicus, in Harky’s case. I think Harky is essentialy KoA’s Big Bad, or a raid boss, but because of the game/universe being created with Arcanometry, he and the other NPC bosses have taken on more actual personality and agency. Same with the boss cultist (though he might be developing an even more acute AI awareness…)

      I agree that the PCs don’t know that they’re playing a game. I don’t think they’re conscious of anything outside the world of the game. But with how bizarre the world of Kingdoms of Arkerra functions, I’m not discounting that Harky and all the rest are just NPC bosses.

  19. Aleister Crow
    Aleister Crow
    December 20, 2013, 7:52 am | # | Reply

    Madam Arfa will never forget about Karmakat… after all, that’s his jawbone she’s wearing on her head.

    • Téléphone banane
      Téléphone banane
      December 20, 2013, 3:25 pm | # | Reply

      “that’s his jawbone she’s wearing on her head.”
      Well, you sound very sure. Have you checked ?

  20. DALEK
    DALEK
    December 20, 2013, 8:20 am | # | Reply

    Those windows on the caste gate. Nice touch.

    • Guesticus
      Guesticus
      December 20, 2013, 8:56 am | # | Reply

      Yeah, the Kitty Kastle is kute! Not just the windows, but note how the top stone (forget what’s proper name is) in the gate makes it look like a kitty-nose

      • CapnRis
        CapnRis
        December 20, 2013, 2:52 pm | # | Reply

        Keystone. The one that supports the arch.

        • mrknifey
          mrknifey
          December 21, 2013, 10:14 am | # | Reply

          Kittystone.

          • Guesticus
            Guesticus
            December 22, 2013, 5:40 am | # | Reply

            Yup, in this case, it would be the kittystone :D

  21. ahdok
    ahdok
    December 20, 2013, 8:38 am | # | Reply

    and now, a brief paws in the narrative.

  22. Guesticus
    Guesticus
    December 20, 2013, 8:58 am | # | Reply

    Of course Eagle Boy is nervous holding that bone, he probably recognizes it as being avian

    • Ian
      Ian
      December 20, 2013, 1:50 pm | # | Reply

      I don’t think it’s Avian (would have had to be a massive Avian!) Looks like a bone from a major limb; femur of one of the saurian-type beasties around, most likely.

      I think he’s just taking umbrage that this old crone is making him (a general) carry her walking stick.

      • Guesticus
        Guesticus
        December 21, 2013, 8:38 am | # | Reply

        Actually, the supposedly extinct Moa had a thigh bone that would be a match, not to mention the Haasts Eagle (possibly the largest bird of prey in the world, who just happened to snack on Moa)

        • Anvildude
          Anvildude
          December 22, 2013, 10:40 pm | # | Reply

          Well, it happened to snack on 6 foot tall, bipedal creatures.

          Sometimes Moa, sometimes the Humans that wandered around the place.

          Yeah. There was an Eagle who ate people. Sleep well…

          • Téléphone banane
            Téléphone banane
            December 24, 2013, 6:25 am | # | Reply

            ” it happened to snack on 6 foot tall, bipedal creatures”

            “sometimes the Humans that wandered around the place”

            “Yeah. There was an Eagle who ate people”

            O_o Where did you read that ?

  23. Chris
    Chris
    December 20, 2013, 11:15 am | # | Reply

    Quickly! Fetch me my Yarn Ball Of Sparkly Wonder! It is their only weakness!

  24. DeePseudonym
    DeePseudonym
    December 20, 2013, 3:46 pm | # | Reply

    Is it just me or does the Gate of KittyKastle have a distinctly “GrumpyCat” air about it?

    • Runic
      Runic
      December 20, 2013, 6:40 pm | # | Reply

      Maybe the Gnolls attempted to take on Lolcats themselves? No wonder it was so hard for them. Forgotten magicks indeed.

  25. Jean-Luc
    Jean-Luc
    December 20, 2013, 5:55 pm | # | Reply

    Those feline adventurers seem really interesting, the little guy with goggle is especially cute. Wouldn’t mind reading a story about them.

    • CapnRis
      CapnRis
      December 20, 2013, 11:08 pm | # | Reply

      I think you’re about to.

      • Jean-Luc
        Jean-Luc
        December 21, 2013, 3:32 am | # | Reply

        For some reason I thought they’d just end up being background for this page and not be part of the overall story but you’re probably right.

  26. Zippideedoodah
    Zippideedoodah
    December 20, 2013, 8:41 pm | # | Reply

    Are we going to get a boy’s band of 4 turtle martial artists as well ?

    • Phil
      Flo
      December 21, 2013, 9:58 am | # | Reply

      Well… as long as nobody objects.

      • Guesticus
        Guesticus
        December 22, 2013, 5:45 am | # | Reply

        Maybe not turtles, but maybe something similar, like the cajun frogs they had in the original tv series fromt he 80s or 90s (back when Splinter evolved from a human into a rat, and not from a rat)

  27. Anonymouse
    Anonymouse
    December 21, 2013, 7:53 am | # | Reply

    Oh shit, here comes the Khajits

    • Guesticus
      Guesticus
      December 21, 2013, 8:40 am | # | Reply

      Nah, the Vhar Shir has returned!

    • SotiCoto
      SotiCoto
      February 19, 2014, 12:09 pm | # | Reply

      You insult the Khajiiti people by comparing them to this ill-thought rabble.

  28. Bribri
    Bribri
    December 21, 2013, 9:14 am | # | Reply

    So….We going to find a lost continent of these guys next expansion? Probably going to be a Gastonia race so they actually have something fuzzy, while they introduce a tenth kind of elf to join the World’s Rebellion so there’s actually something pretty over there.

    • Kammon
      Kammon
      January 3, 2014, 3:13 pm | # | Reply

      Hmm. Sky, Wood and Shit elves are alligned to Gastonia.

      …Winter elves don’t have a facton yet, do they? Looks like they’re going Harky…

  29. XMinusOne
    XMinusOne
    December 21, 2013, 4:31 pm | # | Reply

    The cat’s in the courtyard,
    With his band of fighters,
    I, for one,
    Wouldn’t take on those blighters.

  30. seggs
    seggs
    December 21, 2013, 11:52 pm | # | Reply

    There’s a few theories regarding the jaw bone on her head. It looks like a kobold jaw to me.

    • Guesticus
      Guesticus
      December 22, 2013, 5:48 am | # | Reply

      Which raises the question: what sort of kobold? The vaguely-lizard type? Or the more non-lizard type?

  31. Denita TwoDragons
    Denita TwoDragons
    December 22, 2013, 3:39 pm | # | Reply

    A powder-snorting hyena matriarch. Wait, you spied on my family in the Eighties, didn’t you…

    (For the record, she got better. :-D)

  32. Connie
    Connie
    December 22, 2013, 5:31 pm | # | Reply

    This made me wonder if the Catfolk were an original race concept that had to be scrapped at the last minute and replaced with something else due to fear of offending Hurricane’s audience bases overseas…

  33. Aaron Bourque
    Aaron Bourque
    December 23, 2013, 5:30 pm | # | Reply

    Karma karma karma karma karmakatmelion

    NO ONE ELSE DID IT YOU FORCED ME TO DO IT

  34. zero
    zero
    December 24, 2013, 6:18 am | # | Reply

    Hoooooooooooooo!

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