Whistler 2019/11/26(Tue)17:47 No. 131506 ID: e5e15e
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Higher Res of pictured cards.

>>131506
Okay three card readings are usually past/present/future, right?

First hand:
The Moon, with a touch of Hanged Man.
The Star, with a touch of The Fool.
The Sun, with a touch of Two of Pentacles.
Moon is fear, madness, imagination, illusion, animal nature. Hanged Man involves gaining a new perspective due to misfortune, but also involves sacrifice and a "rest" of some kind. So the past of this hand involves mental troubles that gave them a new perspective on things but also slowed down their life(or someone else's?).
The Star is just all round positive stuff. Hope, healing, etc. The Fool is symbolic of beginning a journey or learning or embracing your own mistakes. So the person is learning to heal and move on.
The Sun is a card involving greatness, wisdom, and becoming your own person. Two of Pentacles is about being flexible and fun.
So the future of this person is bright and free.
I think this is Fingers' hand.

Second hand:
The Magician? Also looks a bit like The World in that there's symbols in every corner, but only the Sun and Moon. There's the crown in there which could refer to any of the royal cards or just imply royalty.
The Tower.
This hand seems to tell the story of someone who gained lots of power and authority but it's coming crashing down. We've got no clues as to what happens next. Sounds like the guy we saw get executed, tbh, in which case there would be no third card since the dude's dead and has no future. This is also the side of the table where the dealer is, and nobody else is there except ghosts, one of which is digging at the spot where the third card should be. So yeah, a dead guy.

Third hand:
Death.
Death means drastic change, either positive or negative. So a significant change in the past is all we've got here.
Looks like the protagonist's hand. I wonder what the blood is about?

Oh, I forgot to go into further detail on the second hand's cards.
The Magician is about action and power, The World is accomplishment, achieving your dreams etc.
The Tower symbolizes a great and sudden disaster or explosive revelation. It is generally seen as the most negative card in the deck, worse than Death or The Devil.

Also I can't help but notice the protagonist is tied to the table by a spider's web. Fate.
Not sure what the heart symbol and hand drawing are about, but eyes seem to be associated with justice in this setting so that further solidifies that hand's owner being Redkho.

Whistler 2019/12/01(Sun)13:40 No. 131525 ID: e5e15e
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That's a really interesting and in-depth analysis! Here's a bonus Asher.

Since this is here now, I just wanted to chime in and say that I enjoy this quest! The world-building and artwork has been pretty darn enjoyable so far and I'm looking forward to see where this will go.

I'm gonna link this here for convenience.
https://questden.org/kusaba/questdis/res/97324.html#131200

Whistler 2019/12/22(Sun)08:43 No. 131700 ID: 470289
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>>131527
Thanks! I hope I can give you something consistently interesting to read.

I want to inform people I'm not sure if GD will be updating over the holidays. Lots of commitments, so I can't promise anything. Afterwards we will try to get back on the one a week schedule though.

>>131700
Ma'am with a bunch of youngins?

Whistler 2019/12/26(Thu)19:30 No. 131750 ID: 470289
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>>131741
Junkyard with a bunch of youngins!

She's frustrated the sketch doesn't show off her guns properly.

Hey I mirrored this quest on MSPFA here, all the updates together. So that's a thing. https://mspfa.com/?s=33028&p=1

I want to ask, what recognizable species are going to appear in this quest? Is that a spoiler? There's Slissa, obviously, but what others are there going to be? And is this meant to be in some way canon to the quests these species originate from?

Whistler 2020/02/03(Mon)12:38 No. 131996 ID: 509e5e
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Thanks for the mirroring!

A lot more recognizable species are planned for this quest, but saying which specific ones would probably veer into spoiler territory. I will say that any species is up for inclusion, as long as the creator gives me permission to use them.

The inclusion of species from other quests is in no way canon to the respective quests. I am writing The God Damned to be a self-contained, though it will have a few questden references and easter eggs.

>>/quest/955562
Asher used the F word?

Now she's no longer a pure waifu. RIP.

Whistler 2020/05/08(Fri)16:01 No. 132774 ID: 470289
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There was a stream recently, and some art came from it. Here's the canon art.

Whistler 2020/05/08(Fri)16:01 No. 132775 ID: 470289
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Here's the 'I wish it was canon' art

Whistler 2020/05/08(Fri)16:03 No. 132776 ID: 470289
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And here's the 'definitely 100% no takebacksies it's totally canon' art.

Whistler 2020/05/26(Tue)22:59 No. 132972 ID: 470289
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>>132969
So Chast's weird mini-story is done. Not totally sure I was able to convey what I wanted with it, but it was probably worth experimenting with. So, if you had any feedback on it, feel free to post it here, and I can answer some non-spoilery ooc questions if anything was confusing.

Probably going to keep doing stuff like this, assuming everyone didn't hate it. Maybe there will be more interactivity based on the questions, if I can swing it. But GD's setting has a lot of stories, and asking questions in ITQ will help you uncover some of them and maybe give context to world Asher is trying to survive in. Not every question will lead to these mini-stories, or even most, but some will. Whether it's characters or groups that have only been mentioned or seen, established characters in the story proper, or just total shots in the dark (like asking a random miner about lightstones). Maybe you'll hit on something.

I found it interesting, Graphy's been doing some nice bit of work keeping these going, so my thanks and compliments on that! Feels a bit weird to do 'IC' mini-arcs in ITQ, but if people are okay with it I can see it being a cool addition from time to time - though you might want to telegraph it a bit more clearly when you're doing it. An alternative could be just keeping them here in your own discussion thread.

And save some work for the actual thread, mind!

Anyway, as the person behind the most Chast-questions, I have to say after the first follow-up I began feeling like there were increasingly 'appropriate' lead-ins and was pleasantly surprised when they kept getting responses. "Did it?" was me going "Yeah, this practically writes itself." I could probably have gone off-script or for a curve ball, but I quite wanted to see down what rabbit hole Chast's story would be going (did not disappoint).

A bit surprised so few others jumped in at the end there, actually. I was getting worried I was pushing my luck by keeping asking for responses!

As for OOC questions:

I think it's strongly implied, but is that Dendshi, Crag and Droop swingin' in the third-to-last image? Running away did them no favors, huh.

Does any of the new, twisted, faces in the final picture come with names attached? Or detached, I ain't picky.

And that's it! I don't want to be spoiled on too many mysteries yet, what with Butthead showing up in the main Quest thread. Needless to say I think you've successfully foreshadowed that some Serious Shit can go down in the GD-verse, and that there's more to scratch beneath the surface for Asher and crew.

>>132981
>I don't want to be spoiled on too many mysteries yet, what with Butthead showing up in the main Quest thread.
Wait, what?! ...Shit, that was him "floating" through the ceiling of the room. Well, that means things could get very exciting if the rest of those who were with Butthead who seemed to be powers are about.

Whistler 2020/05/29(Fri)18:50 No. 133006 ID: 470289
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>You might want to telegraph it a bit more clearly when you're doing it. An alternative could be just keeping them here in your own discussion thread.
Good idea, and it might give this thread a bit more life. Maybe something like linking ITQ questions that prompt an interlude back to the thread, and then continuing here? I also want them to be more interactive than Chast's was, though probably not to the extent the Main Thread is. I'll probably be thinking about some kind of middle-ground where those curveballs you thought of would be encouraged.

Also thank you for so many Chast-questions! I probably would have been stubborn and not continued without those prompts, so it's very much appreciated.


>Is that Dendshi, Crag and Droop swingin' in the third-to-last image?
That's the implication, yes, though the Main thread does a bit more than imply it.

>Does any of the new, twisted, faces in the final picture come with names attached?
Nope. If people want to give them toiler names I'll probably just use those. Otherwise I'll just wait until the very last minute and throw something together like usual.

>Questions
You're welcome!

>Main thread does more than imply
My turn to "Wait, what?!"

Man, I didn't connect that particular bit! Chast's segment is WAY more present (/future?) time than I thought it was. The whole age discussion with butthead threw me, I think. I thought this was something more ye olden timey!

>Toiler Names
One of 'em's definitely a Twigs.

Whistler 2020/06/03(Wed)23:20 No. 133068 ID: e5e15e
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Twigs it is!

Also I have a lot of GD extra stuff I should probably start posting here because I am a dumbass and will probably lose them if I don't. Like this pic! I almost lost it! Because I am a dumbass!

Anyway I guess someone's taken an interest in the Silverlock lankies for some reason. Don't know why, they're just lankies.

"incredible craftmanship"? I suppose that means laprines started as artificial life forms. Or maybe the lankies came about by genemods.

>>133068
>"Teeth of a obligate carnivore, diet of a grain peasant. Laprines. Go figure."
If they have the physical capabilities they do with a diet so ill-suited to what their teeth say they ought to have, it really makes you wonder how much more capable they'd be with a proper diet. One given from even before birth, to their pregnant mother, until adulthood.

Whistler 2020/06/06(Sat)22:07 No. 133095 ID: e5e15e
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Some early sketches of the style of clothes sticklers would wear.

I think we immediately forgot to implement this once sticklers actually showed up.

Whistler 2020/06/09(Tue)22:04 No. 133130 ID: e5e15e
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Hey I made a patreon.

https://www.patreon.com/megido

Still gotta fix it up, but if you want to help me out it's there as a tip jar.

Thanks.

>>133095
Haha, whoops.

>>133130
$'d

Decided to try and do vignettes for the patreon (https://www.patreon.com/megido). I'll be putting a few in this thread as I feel they're relevant.

Also no update this week unfortunately, so hopefully this suffices.


Asher opened three bundles and dropped his small loaf of bread into one, his jerky into another, and the dried fruit he could already taste in the last. It was a kindness his first Asher had done for him, though he only realized it a later. He had kept it up once he got the job, even if it left him hungry a few nights. With his good hand he wrapped the bundles back up carefully.

His destination was the beds that ashers generations before him had crammed in some empty space near the flues, crawling through rocky tunnels and skipping across almost too hot metal grates on the shortest path there. It annoyed the hell out of him that there wasn’t a central place for every asher to sleep, but he knew how rare unused space was in their home. You did the best you could, and that meant he would be spending tonight hungry and crawling all over the place.

There were plenty of empty cots in the alcove once he arrived, with Marin was already sleeping on her personal hammock and Lunk was rubbing himself down with balm for his shift being the exceptions. Them and the new kid who was pretending to sleep in one of the bunks. He lifted one of the bundles and Lunk, in acknowledgement, lightly kicked the kid’s bunk to wake her up for her dinner.

___________________

“You know, in the right light your fur looks almost blue.” Ma’am says. “How about that? Blue. We don’t have any colors in this dorm, and it rolls off the tongue.”

“I’m Asher.” She answers again, not looking up from the carrot she’s peeling, slowly and carefully. The girl had only finished six in the quarter hour since she had started. Maybe emptying the kitchen so she and Asher could talk alone was a bad idea. Dinner would be late at this speed. She’d just have to work faster then, and try a different

“You don’t have to be. You can always change.” Ma’am tries for the last time.

Asher pauses, but only for a second.

“I’m Asher.”

___________________

“You got a name yet?” A small shrug answered him.

“Eh.” He copies her shrug. “Don’t worry about it, they come when they come. How high can you count, kid?”

“Six.” She mumbles through a stuffed mouth.

“You’re gonna learn how to count to at least a hundred down here. Timing’s important. They don’t wait for you to move before they stoke the fires, so ya gotta be outta the way by then. And always stick by another asher. If you get lost down here, we’ll be finding you in a year all crispy.”

“Okay.” He didn’t hear much fear in her voice. So, he took the glove off his bad hand revealing the cracked and melted skin. The kid froze in the middle of tearing off a hunk of bread and stared at it with her face twisted in revulsion. But she didn’t puke. Which meant they wouldn’t need to train it out of her.

“Every asher gets burned. But burns don’t kill you. Getting lost will. And when we find you after that this here,” Asher waved his hand for emphasis. “Is your whole body. So be careful. I ain’t lost a single asher in my time and don’t you dare make yourself the fuckin’ first.”

___________________

Asher, which Ma’am supposes will stick, stays in her corner with her bowl of soup already empty on the floor in front of her. She nibbles on her wrap and stares at the other toiler children eating and playing. Ma’am has been stealing glances at her while breaking up fights and stopping Mash from throwing her soup all over the walls.

“Go bother the new girl.” Ma’am whispers into Mash’s ear.

“And ya won’t stop me?” She asks, gnawing on a wooden spoon.

“Have at it.” Ma’am hopes she won’t regret this as a grin splits the little gremlins face and she rushes off.

___________________

Asher stood up, not bothering to dust off the ash he had sat in. The kid was still eating, but Marin had woken up and was already moving into his place to answer questions and show her how to get ready for her first shift. She’d learn more on the job tomorrow. Besides, he didn’t have all night. There were still two more kids who needed dinner.

___________________

Mash hadn’t managed to cause any bleeding to clean up or bruises to bandage, so Ma’am was satisfied. The children were sleeping now. Some in piles, others half hanging off their cots, and Ma’am couldn’t tell Asher apart from any of them while she was sleeping.

It was a start.

Whistler 2020/07/22(Wed)19:34 No. 133494 ID: 470289
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So, pretty obviously due to the last few weeks without an update, GD is on hiatus for at least another month, possibly longer. There's no real feasible way around it unfortunately. Hopefully we'll be back in swing sooner rather than later, but I can't make any promises.

Sorry.

>>133494
'salright.

This quest is my favourite on the site right now! I love how you are encouraged to learn the history and terminology of the setting through context as the story progresses!

One thing I haven't been able to quite figure out, though, since it's not touched upon much:
How do the Slissas fit within the society's caste system? What roles do they have and why do some of them live there?

>>134666
They seem like diggers and mining engineers/experts. I believe it was said/implied somewhere that they are recent(-ish?) immigrants and that fewer toilers die in the mines ever since they arrived.

Most of that might be from ITQ answers, actually. Have you seen those?

Oh, yes, but it didn't paint the full picture on their situation.

Oh, yes, but it didn't paint the full picture on their situation.

Whistler 2021/02/22(Mon)21:31 No. 134904 ID: 470289
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So, I'm going to try to update more, and keep on that CONTENT grind, but here's a thing I commissioned from https://twitter.com/amaryllis_no. Three girls on their grind.

>>134704
Also thanks for your interest. I want to reveal the context surrounding the slissas more organically in story (unless I end up doing it in ITQ I guess), but yeah the above guy is accurate.

Quite excited to know you'll be coming back to the story with a vengeance!

Also, really beautiful watercolor there! The link to the author's Twitter appears mispelled, though.

>>134904
Hey, niiiice.

Update's being worked on, but here's a short story to maybe hold you over if you are into neumono stuff.

https://www.patreon.com/posts/fire-neumono-48106679

Whistler 2021/11/02(Tue)14:27 No. 136437 ID: c28a23
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Hey. GD should hopefully be back to a consistent schedule (weekly is the goal). I want to thank slowpoke for his work during the... not a haitus exactly but a slowdown. Hope that this next section of the story entertains people. Been anticipating it for a while myself.

It's Xerin time now.

Christmas really DOES come earlier and earlier every year!

Whistler 2021/11/18(Thu)21:02 No. 136497 ID: 8fae7e
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Another journal page from someone with a queer interest in the Silverlock laprines.

>>136497
Very intriguing.

>Looks like the protagonist hand. I wonder what the blood is about.

You know, in retrospect....

>>136516
And look who seems to be holding all the cards.

>>131507
>>136520
Well if this post is somewhat right it won't be for long.

Also, if the card reading was right it suggests the third character might be Chast as it seems to fit what we've been shown of him. Given the misfortune of being in the mines allowed him to find those weird glowing rocks that seemed to change his perspective. At least, I would count that as a change in perspective and a new start.

>>136646
Hell, the symbolism of the last panel in that story with "We're going up." and a light coming from the top almost seems exactly like a reference to the second card.

>And look who seems to be holding all the cards.

*GAAAAAASP* Of course! It was in plain sight this whole time:
Whistler and Graphie!
How could I have been so blind!

Anyhow, I wonder what that spider weaving its web on Asher's hand means.

Stickler?! Oh, man!

Escapees in the mine
Got the guards swinging from side to side
Side-side to side.
Their goal's a gruesome one:
Trying to get the Diamonds tonight-night-night
Diamonds tonight.

Heads up!
You sneak at church, turn around and look up.
A horned chick takes your buddy.
Oh, hey, it's you again.
Saw you back there using my Eyes, Eyes, Eyes
Using my Eyes.

'Cause, baby, tonight
The Lankies thinking they deserve rights again (rights again-ain)
'Cause, baby, tonight
The Mongers be hiring mercs through ill-gotten gains.
They now have guns, guns, guns and some bombs, bombs
These merchant Dons sure are tons of fun!
'Cause, baby, tonight
Our god is gonna turn nine blind eyes again! (Damn eyes again-ain)

Whether trash, ore, or scraps
Digging ain't safe for your kind, kind, kind
Safe for your kind.
Nice Toiler hand you have
Shame it's meant for the mine, mine, mine
Dealt to be mine.

Going up!
You know you are screwed as soon as you are a grown up.
Bethel time, don't be tardy.
As you are sitting there
Keepers teach, but you're still wondering "Why, why, why?"
"Why-why-why-I?"

'Cause, baby, tonight
The Silver-tongued aim for fortune and fame.
'Cause, baby, tonight
You gotta Steel yourself and endure the pain. (endure the pain-ain)
Light on, on your shining stone, stone
And hope you'll one day see the sun.
'Cause, baby, tonight
The sticklers just caught us fingerless and damned.

(Fellas, it's time. Ha, ha!)
-"Round 'em Diamonds, make 'em Diam-gone.
Get supplies. Free every Lanky."
-"Hired blades up and ready to go,
Mongers second? I don't think so!"
-"Don't take the pills and gain the Sight
Make those who wronged me see who's right."
-"Lost my friend, my hand, and blight!
I just want to survive the night."
Rotten all the way through.
Take their revenge, That's what they're gonna do.
People are psychos. baby, what else is new?
At least that bunny's got a nice tatoo. Hit it.

'Cause, baby, tonight
The dung is really going to hit the fan.
(Win with your wits, or lose by the sword)
Yeah, baby, tonight
Think your words carefully and slow. (It's on)
Take your revenge! (Woo) Oh-oh, oh-oh!
So fight, fight, discuss and write, write
Good End or Strife, Strife, just don't make it trite. (Woo)

'Cause, baby, tonight
Everybody is corrupt, abused or insane.
Yeah. baby, that's right
Choose wisely 'cause you can't try again. (there's no replay-ay)
All join, join, join in the fun, fun
in this here world where all things go wrong.
'Cause, baby, tonight
All bets are off, let silent gods be damned!

>>136864
Wow. Never expected someone would make song lyrics. Is there a particular tune this goes with?

It's a spoof of "Revenge" by CaptainSparklez, which is itself a spoof of "DJ got us fallin in love" by Usher.

Forgot to say, was planning to laying down a shorter, more direct version on Xerin, but I wasn't sure if the other suggestors would aprove of just messing with him that hard.

Hey, guys and gals, how should we proceed with suggesting things to Xerin?

Do we help him in his plan? Do we try to sway into a more empathetic disposition? Do we attempt to sabotage him and get him ousted as a heretic? Do we just fill with head with shitposts?

Only by working together can we hope to save and/or destroy Silverlock!

I don't think there's any way to change Xerin's mind about anything.

Whistler 2022/04/06(Wed)09:01 No. 137345 ID: a36647
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Quite rude, to be honest.

>>137345
But quite the attention to detail.

>>137345
>"why are they the military?"
Obedience and lack of empathy, I'd bet.

Silly Zealot 2022/07/25(Mon)03:28 No. 137735 ID: 10a721
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Just leaving this here real quick...

Silly Zealot 2022/12/26(Mon)16:14 No. 138854 ID: b90810
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I hope you had great fun in the holidays this year and enjoy the ones about to come!