Ooooh. What could this mean?

Everything all at once

WAT DO ZHE SHAPES MEAN?!?!

I'm assuming this is the merchant Kal has a crush on.

Context on page #130. =)

It's time to start a weird religion

Kalgkur is going to run into the female sculpter he has a crush on iam guessing

Now we'll get to see how good baxxid are with flirting

Literally run into, with a crash and a clatter and a tangling of limbs, and Kalgkur will protectively hold them close when they fall to keep them safe, and the sculpter will be reluctant to let go afterward, and oh no romance movie now

From this, I actually envisioned an Edward Scissorhands type scenario where when he catches her, although he means well, only ends up cutting her.

As long as it's a calculated mathematical series of procedures, he'll be just fine!

This is... what??? Val what are you doing

Plot. Plot thriving in ever so suble ways

I have no

---

clue what is going on.

Its so entertaining to watch

Yessss it iis~ <3

Val has me so on the edge of my seat I think I fell off around page 92

May i help you up then?

I am crawling forward with my enthusiasm, it reached the point where i found a french translation of valsalias comics and followed zhese to aid my broken french <3

Same here actually. I've been learning French slowly. I know really really basic phrases but that's it

Until Ukrainian war there was a good Russian one.

Thank you for informing me about this. I am not (yet?) Good with any russian basic. else this might be interesting to me.

Val’s main site has a link

Goin' southwest

You have your compass?

Is that a good thing or a bad thing?

Yes.

I agree.

"Shiny"

Ominous

A wide field of vision and a lack of pupils does sound useful as a guard, though oooo we might see ol kalgkur's cruuuush, and maybe also a scene from a baxxid vision pov.

Mmmmmmm. Somethings gonna happen

A meet-cute and a romantic comedy

So a baxxid's greatest asset is basically the panopticon effect?

Oh noes! The most sinister of all directions! <ó\/Ò>

Aaargh, the second big cliffhanger of the week! First Loki maybe breaks the universe, now this!

If you guys want some context for the last panel, it was on this page: https://www.furaffinity.net/view/37507929

Someone tell that guy to stop fiddling with the strangely shaped glowstick, it's scaring the Baxxids

Hey if you don't want your sticks to glow then you're in the wrong town buddy

Must've had a bad flying experience once. I personally won't fly Delta for the same reason.

>:V

That's where the richest families traditionally come from. Everyone's heard of Southwest Heirlines.

(badum tish)

Out! Now!

Shame on you!

AAAAAA

A wide range of vision and no pupils AKA security camera AKA baby monitor.

When your job is to make the best security camera impression

at first i thought he was gonna ask em to kill the bug XD

I think you could add "two meters tall bug people with giant blades for arms" to the list of reasons why Baxxid are great thief deterrents.

Shivers [Medium: Success]

IT'S EXACTLY THAT

Love the way extrasensory perceptions are handled in DE - this immediately made me think of the game :3

Hmmmmm...

"You're a great deterrent because your eyes make you look Constantly Vigilant" is so much gentler than "You're a great deterrent because you're Huge and Armor Plated and have Bone Swords for Hands."

I wonder if our new human friend here is just instinctively tactful, or if this sort of phrasing is in the Ivenmoth handbook under "So You Have To Break In A Nervous Baxxid Security Temp".

I suspect a little from column A, a little from column B

Huh....interesting, I don't recall Ran's handbook mentioning that baxxid's don't have pupils.

Hmmm.

South-West weakness!

Ooh this’ll be interesting! *grabs popcorn*

i hope they go to a chipotle

But southwest lies a real fancy lamp! And we haven't invented electricity yet!!

lol he fails on his first easy day of the job because distracted by crush

we don't talk about that direction!
https://youtu.be/Cp1KBKL2v6Y?si=g_o56WIRLHbqqgW0

Yaaay hel get to see the girl he likes :D

Hopefully she’s not sick today and he can watch her impart her will on the metal~

I don't blame him. I'm not a fan of the southwest either.

It's pretty cool(!), a long as you enjoy dying from extreme heat.

What a skillful blending of background... and lore.

Ominous.

the stage, is set...
now for the performance.

gold fingers is a tag

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SouthWEST??!! Oh no!!

....weird sounds?

The trinket-maker is looking a lot more like a magician. Val, you liar! 😡

In all seriousness, however, why is that when things go bad people say “it’s gone South,” but when things go well no one says “it’s gone North”?

And then, what the fuck does "Southwest" mean?