Once again dropping some casual mad lore and world building I take it ?

nice !

A World Building sounds like a pretty big building!

Clever response.

Massive brain moment

Yes.

That sounds like something a yinglet would say lol

PFt that's nothing, try making a dyson sphere - a whole solar system building!

World Building is what 41st-century archaeologists are going to think we called UN Headquarters.

>: O

This wordplay has too much power

.....Can I ship them?

but Ran is already married to science...

Well he might need to do some experiments~ hehe

The story takes place in a free port city; any and all ships are accepted

This is the best reply ever ;3

Oh we are def going there :p

Were we in fact here all along??

why i kinda suspect Ran to say:"We are going exactly where all of that is going to Happen"

i.e. "on this continent"

rann is scary but he gets stuff done. much like Pythagorean

That guy didn't really discover anything, all he ever came up with was a buncha theories!!

actually i was referring to the Pythagorean in something positive

It's almost like Ran is hinting that the source of the technology had no "earthly" origins and perhaps was introduced to that world.

Like if humans crash landed on the planet and settled there.

that... does add up.

wait a minute...

Ah, the "fantasy but it's secretly Sci-Fi twist", a bit rarer of a twist.

Buuuut it's not as creative as people thing, sci-fi has basically replaced fantasy anyway since most people just do Swords and Horses fantasy anyway. You want people living in sentient buildings and casting pleasure spells to disable their opponents you gotta go to sci-fi now.

i had some friends who constantly used the "magic is just science" stick, but i like to keep them separate(so you can mix the two)

Actually, I remember (I am 63) Science Fiction sections at libraries and book stores becoming Fantasy and Science-Fiction-Franchises sections for all practical purposes.

I remember that as well, I'm 32 but things happen slower in Red states.

Well by that logic, if someone crashlanded on a planet, they probably wouldn't have settled elsewhere

Alternate Theory: Yinglets have a hivemind that makes them more intelligent in large numbers and they were the advanced civilization that crashed, scattering them across the surface of the planet so badly they they're all too dumb now to regroup

This is why the leaders of large colonies seem so much more competent than the random yinglets running around in small groups.

...that... actually almost makes sense...

im with the they were genetically engineered with a bunch of the other creature on this plant by human colonist and the rock is a byproduct of said genetically engineered

I did a story once where they were smarter (and longer lived and less ADHD) with a small population of "defective" yinglets. But the defectives ones had an resistance to a nasty plague and ended up the total population. Kinda like Malaria and Sickle Cell Anemia to the Nth degree.

He raises some interesting questions...

Yeah but you know what else rises?

Bread, and penises

Yinglets have nothing to do with one and everything to do with the other.

Awww Ran has found a new best friend/collegue/pet.

Yeah, the old one's all used up

Ran forgets that even those who agree with his way of thinking aren't into everything he is.

It's tough for neurodivergent folks :P

But perhaps they could be MADE TO BE

DAAAN-GER-OUS Questions and a set of young minds eager for answers. (Knowing Wink.)

(Knowing smile)

(Sign language)

Dropping world lore and showing us a casually smart character with some actual common sense? Yeah this is what I needed. Like grind it up, cut it, and snort straight up the nose.

Ahh crap I was carrying too much lore at once, I must've dropped some

Like, I dunno, powdered rockhopper brains?

What's the DEAAAAAAAAAAL with Antiquities, amirite fellas?

Best I can do is $150

Ohhh... The rare kind of smart :o intelligent and curious but doesn't have the drive and connections or means to amount to much without outside interference. Reminds me of the only person to constantly exceed 300 in iq tests. He did very little with his life and did menial labour to pay for his lifestyle and wrote one or two books about his obscure hobby.


Having such a person come upon a opportunity to make a difference that actually interests them can lead to all kinds of awesome scenarios! I can't wait to see more of them 💓

Sounds like a proper nerd all right!

But alas, all of the ancient cities are underground- And were built by Yinglets, who are in actuality the resurgence of an Elder Race.

Somehow.

The best part would be if they realized the Yinglet society fell apart not due to some calamity but just, like, a lack of road maintenance and their failing public educational system. Like, they just got too up their own asses politically to make sure basic necessities were being met and the society collapsed under the weight of dumb yings.

Before the collapse

The most popular movie in the nation was called "Ass"

And that's all it was

for ninety minutes.

Idiocracy if the people responsible were actually the people who'd be responsible, the capitalists!

They once ruled the stars, but grew too powerful. The galactic oyster suppliers were the ones to initiate the revolution

Uh-oh. He said something smart in front of Ran. I think it's fair to say that Ran isn't the kind of person you want the attention of, positive or negative.

Unless you're into that sort of thing

Oh very neat conversation.

Neat and tidy!

Calling it. :P the humans are decedents of colonists.
It would explain the lack of ruins, and how they forgot how to make what they once had. Or those that planed the colony poorly planed the bootstrap phase..

They had the technology required to literally lift themselves up by their bootstraps

That weird starscape always appearing in the comic might be some of the remnants of the colony ship after it's disastrous trip.

Valsaria has said the Great Veil is a normal nebula.

...When a webcomic character has more common sense than some of your acquaintances on that „ancient civilizations“ nonsense.

Well there are some pretty smart webcomic characters and some pretty dumb realpeople!

My theory that this is a fallen interstellar colony just got some reinforcement.

If that's true then where did all the stells go!

This may probably seem somewhat irrelevant, but now I'm wondering how far back human civilization on this world can be traced, and how far back human evolution can be traced. I also wonder the same for all the other races, but mostly for different reasons.

Yinglets are probably native, since there is a nonsapient species (lesser yinglets) present, like chimpanzees on Earth.

I figured as much. I'm very curious to see whether humans are as well, and also curious about the other various intelligent species here. For humans at least I'm almost certain they're originally non-native. After the most recent pages I'm also curious about the Baxxid, because they seem so different to everyone and everything else, but they also seem to have pretty sizable settlements and a a pretty well developed culture.

Thats some good questions to ask as well. And some good points made too. Even if we say nuked ourselves into oblivion, there would be things left, some of thoes things would last thousands and thousands of years. Heck, look at the roman roads, or the peramids, or other such things. Something would be left to be found.

Well Ran, any indication that the area we are finding the relics in were under water during the time they were deposited in the soil? That might have something to do with the dispersal.

Zat Zhing looked like it had been submerged for a few thousand years...

Waaait a minute, this is just worldbuilding hidden as funny dialogue!
There were older and more advanced societies!?
I love the sneak attack lore

Sneak attacks are important in turning the tides of battles, which affects the outcome of the Lore War

Just so you know... I ended up making a Yinglet cleric in 5e. Cleric of "The God of shiny things", keeps forgetting the name of his god but loves him so damn much the god still bestows powers on the little idiot. The party has declared him the 'best thing ever' and once considered burning a city to the ground for not letting him in for being a yinglet.

All of this is fantastic

Certainly gives the crowd with the theory that "the Traveling Moon is actually an artificial satellite seeding the planet" some support.

If it's a satellite then it sure isn't broadcasting any good TV

Since noone seems to have any TVs how do you know?

You post here? Yay!!! +watch

I post here!!

But the platypus

IS a legend

Eskavon: *currently evaluating if getting to know this man will put his life at risk*

And if so, for how much

Erich von Räniken... Yes, everything was built by space aliens -- us!

I wonder if Ran has a touch of Asperger's...

Ran's got a touch of scienceburgers

You know the guy is putting up some good points great now I'm interested in this worlds history

Summary: a lotta stuff happened

I like this guy, he's neither too crazy nor is he addled by all the lead they're drinking out of. Just an honest dude.

Oh no, Ran found a Special Friend.

I’m not saying it’s aliens, but... it’s aliens...

So humans traveled to this world, brought stuff with them, but never made any major cities? Interesting. Must not have been enough people to form a self-sufficient civilization and after the generations they forgot where they came from.

At least, that's my guess. It's basically what happens to a lot in Stargate~

Well if there was indeed a golden age that also contained magic (which does seem hinted at) then likely the 'foot prints' they are looking for are in Extradimensional Spaces created by wizard / Craftsmen. I've always imagined there was a brave one that wandered out to go explore the 'savages that broke contact' likely due to a war I would think, likely from an aspect wizards overlooked in life that caused strife. That or it was so perfect living within these extradimensional cities it was a fight for some to get in and that caused the mishap that made them leave.

But picturing a wizard generations later coming to this world to see what had become of the 'savages' could be an interesting side story, better if they develop a desire to help as they fight the need to remain 'impartial'

I imagine most people seem like savages to a proper wizard!

XD thaaats for sure.

"Your homeless you say? One moment" [chants in unknown gibberish as a small cabin appears] "There you go, one home. Have a nice day."

XD pretty sure I did something similar in a Pathfinder game

Ran is your man for exposition~

W8 its not because they look like rocks and hop!?

I'm not saying yinglets are aliens... but they're aliens.
*tiny ying in fishbowl helmet with raygun, pewpew*

That line of thinking sounds like how the use of causality is supposed to work without leaping to actually unfounded theories.

Also, I find it fascinating that either Ran has no concept of "normal", or that nothing to him comes off as abnormal. He has and can show empathy at the very least, but if he ever stops to think that what he does or strange might come off as odd to people, he doesn't show it.

Spacefaring aliens (possibly ancient ancestors of the modern human. or yinglet.) arrived in orbit or landed, their ships got fucked to pieces and rained a bunch of bullshit all over the planet.

https://i.pinimg.com/originals/0b/3.....99e8250462.jpg

If the humans did come to this world on a colony ship. I sort of suspect the weird starscape that always gets mentioned in this story might be half the ship the humans came on.

According to Val the Great Veil is a normal nebula.

Ran has a playmate!

He goes through them so fast.

I'm really starting to like Ran and this new guy. Humans don't really fit in with the local biology of this world and that nifty nebula in the night sky sure hints that it is a world way the heck away from Sol / Earth. I've been postulating a Human Colony that failed - technology loss and they have been reduced to that low tech society

It is my theory too is that this world once was really advanced. HOWEVER there was some sort of cataclysmic event, a shift so to say.
What used to be ocean is now land and vice versa.
This is why there's no ruins of the old civilization. They're all underwater now.

Come on, who doesn't smell like burnt hair every now and then? Squares, that's who.

The indrel is tethered to the ground during the experiments...does that mean the indrel floats like a balloon?

In case she goes psycho she cannot hurt/kill anyone.

Ran seeks the greatest of treasures, KNOWLEDGE!

Not to mention Lucifer was an angel...

I thought they hopped from rock to rock. Or maybe over rocks. Or maybe they WERE rocks that hopped. Or perhaps it was like stone soup, except with beer, and they were the ones that brought the hops? Or, I know! -They have nothing to do with rocks or hopping at all, they're just called that, and nobody has any idea why...

Don't mind me; I'm just gonna fave and reply to this page like it hasn't been a month since I last did that.

This reply isn't going to make sense to anyone just scanning through the comments, but that's because I talk directly to the author of the submission since they'll be notified of my comment. so he'll understand the context (assuming he remembers me), but now I'm just typing in third person to myself.

I'll just be edging out of here.
No sudden moves...