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Chapter: Conversations in Ash
Location: Salamanca
Comics of the Week – Feb 16
Fantasy adventures abound this week as travelling bards and wizards for hire make their own destinies!
Court of Roses is a fantasy LGBTQ-friendly fantasy tale following a ragtag troupe of bards formed by their mutual friend, a charismatic–if often drunk–bagpiper, Merlow the Rose, and who knows, mayhaps they’ll solve a murder mystery together! Updates Mondays and Thursdays!
Ingress Adventuring Company – Saving the world is a pretty big deal, but what do you do once you’re done and no one needs you anymore? Maybe you relive the glory days by starting up a one-man adventuring party to gather mystical artifacts for people who may or may not pay you. For Toivo Kissa, that’s exactly what you do.
↓ Transcript
6 Panels.
Panel 1,2:
Dária rubs her gloved hands together, nervously. The missing finger on her right hand is very clear.
Dária: I need to talk to you... About the mission.
Steffano (off panel): Do we have to do this now? Fine, go on.
Panel 3:
Steffano's back, from Dária's perspective.
Dária: The success probabilities, they were...
Steffano: Low, yes. It was a Special Operations mission after all.
Dária: So low the Computer warned against it?
Panel 4:
Dária in the background, with her hands in a fist. Steffano is in the foreground, but his expression is not visible.
Dária (cont): We're not Special Operations either, Steffano. They sent us... They sent us to die.
Steffano: Ah. How do you know of this?
Panel 5,6:
Dária stares at the floor, then up, shocked.
Dária: I overheard my mother-
Panel 1,2:
Dária rubs her gloved hands together, nervously. The missing finger on her right hand is very clear.
Dária: I need to talk to you... About the mission.
Steffano (off panel): Do we have to do this now? Fine, go on.
Panel 3:
Steffano's back, from Dária's perspective.
Dária: The success probabilities, they were...
Steffano: Low, yes. It was a Special Operations mission after all.
Dária: So low the Computer warned against it?
Panel 4:
Dária in the background, with her hands in a fist. Steffano is in the foreground, but his expression is not visible.
Dária (cont): We're not Special Operations either, Steffano. They sent us... They sent us to die.
Steffano: Ah. How do you know of this?
Panel 5,6:
Dária stares at the floor, then up, shocked.
Dária: I overheard my mother-
Ooofff;;; why is Steffano being so stiff like that? Does he have a problem with Daria maybe?
Family tension, they’re mostly family rivals, after all … and he may not like women more generally than we already know.
As for disposable heirs, you should see the first scene (set in France) in the classic Quebecois film, Black Robe, with the mother celebrating her Jesuit son going off to be a martyr amongst the savages of the land of my birth, her Britannic Majesty’s chilliest Dominion.
I love Daria sm…..
I just discovered this comic. Thank you for your work! I find it intriguing that a Portuguese artist is writing a story where the Portuguese are mysterious antagonists, and I look forward to seeing this knot come untangled.