It´s the preparations that wear you down. Robe stitching, knife smithing and sharpening, memorizing dark magic spells, scrubbing skulls and sacrificial altars, picking poison herbs…after that, backstabbing people and/ or getting cut in half is recreation.
On a Gastonian highway, cold wind in my hair,
Warm smell of the blood rage, rising up through the air,
Up ahead in the distance, I saw a shimmering blight,
My head grew heavy and my sight grew dim,
I had to stop for the knife,
There they stood in the archway,
I heard the old town bell,
And I was thinking to myself,
This isn’t heaven, this is surely hell,
Then they lift up their steel blades, and they show me their way,
There were voices howling in my mind,
I thought I heard them say,
welcome to the Order of the Countless Limbs,
Such a lovely place,
Such a lovely face,
Plenty of blood in the Order of the Countless Limbs,
Any time of year, We can gut you here
Can´t say I´m surprised. Shame on you hooded soldier guys that you did not see it coming.
The last panel indicates that they recovered quickly from the surprise, though.
Where was the strip that showed these kickstarter or whatever they were characters? I’m curious about the gnome ranger type guy, and this two fisted crusader we’ve seen the past couple of strips.
The gnome ranger Rabbit is the authors’ own character.
All the reader-submitted characters are here: page one, two, three and four. They haven’t all been in the comic yet, and I’m not sure if they all will be.
Well no matter what you do if it’s dark work someone is going to try to stop you and so even if the work isn’t killing you have to kill to do the work.
Looks like re-berserkerated Byron has been busy.
I think here its more they where disguised cultists rather than villagers, rather than byron possessonating everyone
especially since they had these villagers here before byron got kidnapped and all
Plus, at least one of them just turned into a gnoll.
And no, I don’t think he is going to get better.
So, they each had a cloaking device, and all simultaneously de-cloaked!
Or, re-cloaked? Uncloaked their cloaks.? …help.
Overcloaked their CPUs, maybe.
They’re still wearing the cloaks, though.
At least they won’t get cold-cloaked by surprise…
“My, that escalated quickly.”
~I’ll give you 3 guesses, but many of you would probably only need 1.
Hey, should you not help your friends ?
I really like the concept of Astoria Troy
I CAST FIST
Gee, thanks!
NO! BEARDY HOOD GUY! YOU WERE MY FAVORITE HOOD GUY!
I look forward to the captains pick for each pages soundtrack. They are all ways so spot on.
Ironically, the dark work seems like light work to me. Few hours exercise and you’re done for the day.
That’s the saying, isn’t it? “Countless limbs make light work.”
BOOM
I second that BOOM.
*waits for dissent*
BOOM carried.
It´s the preparations that wear you down. Robe stitching, knife smithing and sharpening, memorizing dark magic spells, scrubbing skulls and sacrificial altars, picking poison herbs…after that, backstabbing people and/ or getting cut in half is recreation.
Let the raid commence. Dips for plate armor.
So if I got ice cream served in my plate armor, would that make it dippin’ dots…?
Now now….
Dark Work obviously means “Guiding you to the Light”
The electronic…Disco light….
True, ‘dark work’ doesn’t always have to mean ‘kill everybody.’
For example, I shout out ‘Let the Dark Work Begin!!’ when arriving to the office every Monday. It goes over a treat with my boss.
Is that you Jim?
Hey guys? I think those might be Cultists!
Now that’s just profiling. >:|
“If you’ve got a working sacrificial alter on top of a non-working sacrificial alter, you might be a cultist.”
“They stab it with their steely knives… but they just can’t kill the beast!”
On a Gastonian highway, cold wind in my hair,
Warm smell of the blood rage, rising up through the air,
Up ahead in the distance, I saw a shimmering blight,
My head grew heavy and my sight grew dim,
I had to stop for the knife,
There they stood in the archway,
I heard the old town bell,
And I was thinking to myself,
This isn’t heaven, this is surely hell,
Then they lift up their steel blades, and they show me their way,
There were voices howling in my mind,
I thought I heard them say,
welcome to the Order of the Countless Limbs,
Such a lovely place,
Such a lovely face,
Plenty of blood in the Order of the Countless Limbs,
Any time of year, We can gut you here
Ugh, that was harder than I thought.
I love you both.
LEFT SIDE! MANY CULTISTS! EVEN SIDE! NOW! HANDLE IT!
Why can’t “dark work” ever mean “bake cookies”?
Because the cookies would have to be dark to have any sense of meaning.
That means a minimum Cacao of 75%, and a high concentration of Molasses.
Basically, the kind of cookies you don’t take making lightly.
Semi-sweet Dark Chocolate Chips & you’re all set.
The happiest full-nelson.
It’s a lucky person who can enjoy his work so much.
“Swiggity Swooty, I’m comin for that Half-Elf Booty”
Wooh! All caught up! 4 hours past my bed time and a killer headache is the price I pay, but totally worth it.
Colonnus kicks cultist keister congenially.
Deluded dark dimwits doing devastating damage ?
Can´t say I´m surprised. Shame on you hooded soldier guys that you did not see it coming.
The last panel indicates that they recovered quickly from the surprise, though.
Indeed. That guy in the middle of the panel? The one turning a cultist into a spiral cut ham? Yeah, dibs on NOT fighting him.
Well, anybody can stab a couple of guys in the back. Face a bigger, better armed and skilled opponent who sees you coming? Not so much…
Colonnus seems to be enjoying this very much.
He always smiles. Always.
Boy, looks like it’s getting a little stabby in here
Tension is getting thick enough to cut with a sacrificial knife.
Where was the strip that showed these kickstarter or whatever they were characters? I’m curious about the gnome ranger type guy, and this two fisted crusader we’ve seen the past couple of strips.
The gnome ranger Rabbit is the authors’ own character.
All the reader-submitted characters are here: page one, two, three and four. They haven’t all been in the comic yet, and I’m not sure if they all will be.
NOT gonna lie, first time I read this I thought it said “order of the countless lambs” that took a double-take.
“LAMBS FOR THE SLAUGHTER!”
i read, “limbs for the slaughter”
The Violence of the Limbs, starring Anthony Hopkins as Brother Tom and… Jodie Foster as… Byron?
“A big cigar-smoking redhead tried to question me once.
I ate his stogie with some fava beans and a glass of lousy mead.”
BAAAAAAAAAAAAA!
Countless lambs? I’m gonna wind up falling asleep before I get too far…
Six men down in the first few seconds.
Bad form, that.
Light Work – Killing them with candy
Red Work – Killing them bloodily
Blue Work – Drowning them
Green Work – Gardening
Green Work – When they want you for the fertilizer…
Well no matter what you do if it’s dark work someone is going to try to stop you and so even if the work isn’t killing you have to kill to do the work.