http://www.furaffinity.net/view/2925308

This was random, I fail to detect relevance.

Dustmeat is a popular artist, anything she posts will generate hundreds of page-views and thus his link will get far more attention than it could ever deserve.

respect,playa.

Ha! Someone invented cinderblocks just so they can put Hester's cart on it. Industrious thieves they had then. You don't see that kind of ingenuity anymore.

Ancient Celtic cinderblocks FTW.

Delightfully humorous! Bravo.

And to forestall a Google meltdown, Hippocras or Hypocras is spiced wine, usually with cinnamon and honey.

Dang, it's a rough country...

Why do I get the impression she is "making the hippocras last longer" by peeing into the bottle?

I hope she gets to drink chalybeat sometime soon. It's supposed to be a tonic for the constitution and the nerves.

Humors? ... quite a lot of medical knowledge for an uneducated ex-Guild prostitute.

Yeah, I had to reread it a couple of times going why is she peeing in a bottle? Just to pick a nit, females did not travel alone.. ever. Females were considered property for the most part and if she traveled alone she was considered fair game and she would be low hanging fruit for any highway men and bandits.

Faaaaaaaaaaaaaantasy.

There also wasn't magic or anthro bunny rabbit hookers.

What hookers there were likely died of syphilis before reaching the age of twenty.

Now there WERE a few warrior women but they were surely not the chainmail bikini type.

Yeah, I know it's fantasy but women today are rather reluctant to travel alone (for good reason) imagine back in the middle ages when women disappeared without a trace every day. Joan d' Ark had to dress as a man just to be able to move around Europe and had an army to back her up. Few people died of syphilis in their twenties because it has a latent period of 10-30 years in most cases and syphilis came from the Americas so it didn't show up in Europe until 1494 or so.

Women traveling alone still disappear today, even in places you wouldn't consider particularly hazardous. Both of my sisters, who travel on business a good bit, have had dodgy experiences with airport "security."

When syphilis first arrived in Europe, I don't think its latent period was anything like 10-30 years - that was probably at a later point when the more toxic varieties had burned themselves out, leaving the comparatively "milder" varieties (that is, the ones that allowed their hosts to live long enough to reproduce) to inherit the world

Skeletons and a few mummified bodies bear evidence that syphilis was around BEFORE Columbus supposedly brought it from America. Outbreaks of the disease occured in armies (such as the French Plague). The body can't fight it. The disease may have evolved through 4 stages and the final evolution has the latent period. The 1st form was a skin disease or rash, but it evolved by the 3rd evolution into a virulent systematic disease. Mayhaps it wiped out genetic lines that could not accomodate it, OR, as you said, the malignant strains could not manage to spread before killing their hosts. Just like Ebola outbreaks ,run out of victims and Polio became a rare disease because so many potential victims were immunized.

The Black Death ceased to be a major threat to mankind when it wiped out the genetic lines that could not fight it.

Fixed

Yeah, I read that. Inns didn't cater to women, as they did not travel alone.

That sprite, at the start of Zander's wanderings, told her not to trust men: they loot beauty & innocence for their own purposes. Even today, they still do. The newspapers are full of rape, and all sorts of sexual liberties...

Fixed.

Great meadow & trees by the way. My favorite kind of scenery.

poor Hester, she parked her ass in a bad neighborhood.

Oh dear.

Am I reading this correctly, or did she just pee in the winebottle so it would "last longer"?

Fixed.

There's a little bit of New York city wherever (or whenever) you are.

Now that you amended the text I see what you actually meant by the original speech to begin with. It makes sense, but the context did it no favours XD

Love the idea. Poor Hester though.

Why did they jack the wheels... they didnt even spin!

Cart theft?

This looks like a job for a polite Cockney Gekko...

Great!

Reminds me of parts of San Antonio.


Fun stuff still.

Going by what others said...Hester pee'd in the bottle?

This makes me wonder... when were cinder blocks invented?

Right before this.

Judging by the dates of the comments, I fear that this is ANOTHER abandoned strip. I also fear that it promises the same frankness and coarseness of the Zander's Saga strip it is a spin-off of.

Oh wait! Yes you are right...this was abandoned. The reason is simple: JW Kennedy and I had a falling out. Hester is his character.