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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?
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.