I only just now realized Then's facial markings look like Naruto's.
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I wanted Then's stealth effect to be subdued and hard to notice because I hate it when stealth effects are portrayed in media by methods that are visible to the viewer's naked eye. Also so he wasn't noticed too early. :P
I just like the idea of smacking an invisible person.
Just another little post-meeting confrontation. -EDIT- Made some post-update changes to the strip, to fix a little wonky anatomy and make the stealth-agent-i-tentatively-refer-to-as-Waldo a bit easier to see since he was TOO stealthy on this color of backdrop.
Going in Trunch's head-space is weird.
I settled the issue of what to use for names for all the background parents by referring to them in the script collectively as Angry PTA Assembly.
Biggest jumpingest eyebrows yet.
I figure the wall of text expo-speak deserves to be placed in front of a gigantic literal wall. 😉
The writer of the Dawngate Chronicles, as part of Waystone Game's "sharing all of our behind the scenes stuff since the game is being shut down" shared a PDF file with the community that showed his scripts for all of the Dawngate Chronicles strips to date. Reading his scripts and how he described things for his artist really inspired me and I decided to give that a go for myself. Up until now I've worked out the dialogue for each strip on-the-fly from my outlines and the notes I've written down for key story points, but for this one I wrote it out in a proper script format before drawing. It really helped a lot.
For the record, the proper pronunciations are Jin’Sorai, Tel’Dora, and Mor’Kama. Todd was close, kinda.
Some readers may recall a previous Secret Commentary where I mentioned the word "kransa" in the "kransa bi cholek" cuss word Selkie's thrown out intermittently meant "teeth". "Teeth and Scales" is the translation of the entire phrase. It's an invective, a dire insult, and very very rude to say; it's also a fairly common "anger phrase", comparable to the F-Word in English. It references a darker member of the Sarnothi spirit pantheon, Kehl Nin Fa Tho. He's associated with doom and destruction and takes the form of a school of spectral trout with translucent ribs violet eyes and rending teeth.
Avery Brown's a CIA agent, he knows bad lies and flimsy excuses well.
We can rule shoes, ships, sealing wax, cabbages, kings, and boiling seas from the discussion; pig wings may be up for grabs. -edited because I mis-remembered the line-
Dialogue from panel 5 excised for brevity: Brown: ...You KNOW I mean Selkie. Be more subtle about phishing for information, Todd. It would have gone along with other dialogue/body language intended to imply Todd was trying to covertly find out information about the sarnothi. Again, cut for brevity.
