Chapter 3: Page 11
General Tosch finally makes a formal introduction to both Quinlan and the readership, ensuring that Quinlan will likely never forget the name. He probably could have figured it out by himself, but it takes more than a few seconds to collect your thoughts after waking up from shock-induced unconsciousness/finding a blade at your throat.
Quin’s probably not feeling too great about his recent promotion to the captaincy. In his defense, though, this sort of thing seems like exactly why one would want to keep out of regional politics.
I suppose the silver lining here is that Tosch has a way of getting right to the point. And while Clovis’ mood could skitter around and switch between happy/sad/angry/distracted at a moment’s notice, Tosch is a lot more focused. He enters a room knowing exactly what he wants, so we’ll have to wait and see just what it is he’s expecting out of this interrogation with our most unfortunate Captain Quinlan.
This week for guest art, I just HAD to show these pieces from Saraa Luna. There was some satisfaction among the Salmon Party last week that Tosch is… well, fluffy. He’s got a bit of fluff going on there, yes. Most of the Canid do, but Tosch, being a general, needs to take extra care in his appearance. Which leads us to perfect images like this:
Tosch is definitely the sort who takes pride in a well-manicured appearance, though he isn’t quite as obsessive as this image might suggest. Still, I can see it. I can see it oh-so-clearly.
And Saraa even graced us with a follow-up comic! Quinlan reacts:
Oh, poor Quin. You ARE still in jail, and you ARE still having a bad time. Flattery will get you nowhere!
Saraa, thank you SO MUCH for these amazing images. They are perpetual smile factories, as in every time I see them I grin like an idiot :)
Some last bits of Salmon Party news! You might remember that Elson Wong (aka Darkspeeds) did an awesome motion comic of Beyond the Western Deep chapters 1 and 2. Well, to celebrate the comic’s fifth anniversary, Elson is doing a YouTube Livestream with himself and members of the cast! I will try to make it there myself as well, so do swing on by and support this incredible fan work!
You can watch it today (Saturday) at 2pm PST by heading to Elson’s YouTube Channel when he starts the stream and then viewing it from there! You can also chat with one another and ask questions. It should be a lot of fun!
Tosch, that sword-poking isn’t going to help Quin’s wound any.
“Nothing will happen to him puppy, Since it’s already there is a wound that will not hurt him prick him again with sword, Please don’t panic, nothing will happen puppy.”
*pats on your shoulder*
~General Tosch
This pointed comment took point and is on point.
Hmmm
Tosch is looking decidedly less fluffy in this week’s page.
In fact, that first panel is pretty frikkin’ awesome. (Is that allowable Salmon Party language?) I think Quin is totally out of his league now, if he wasn’t before (which he probably was).
And Saraa’s Guest Art is Smile Factory material indeed. At least it has that effect on me, so I can only imagine how it must strike this comic’s creators. (And that first pic of hers actually lines up nicely with the upcoming chapter of my current Redwall novel, hopefully to be posted sometime this weekend. Royal furrierre, anyone?)
Also, Smile Factory would be a good band name.
Also also, I will sadly be unavailable for Elson’s live stream/movie night – babysitting duties followed by band practice. But I’ll be there in spirit! Maybe next time!
I think Quinlan might have been born out of his league with somone like Caldus for a grandpa. Our Quin is such a meek little guy.
Also: If a character in the comic can say “bugger” then I think you can safely get away with “frikkin”.
Yet more southpaws!
Aisling truly is a nation of lefties…er…physically rather than politically speaking.
Good observation! Clovis and Tosch are brothers, so if one of them is left-handed, the other stands a good chance of being so too.
Still, you’d think that Aisling would be a nation of Northpaws (I don’t think that that’s a word).
As a lefty myself, it’s neat to see some characters in BWD with the trait. Hopefully they all won’t be megalomaniacal genocidal warmongerers; only time will tell . . .
Actually I think Clovis was right handed meaning Tosch is by default the more sinister of the two… …ahem.
But if you look back at the pages set in Deltrada a whole boatload of the Canid are left handed. Could be a racial trait.
Aww bugger, sorry to hear you can’t make it Highwing. And woo! I know what it’s like to babysit… They can be quite a handful! Have fun looking after the little tyke and also to your band practice! Which instrument do you play may I ask?
No, I think he looks equally fluffy. It’s just a different kind of fluff…. murderfluff. (Though that may be his usual appearance, so perhaps I’m in the wrong after all).
Wing, I’m always impressed by your constant writing. If we had to create a post discussing Redwall fandom gothic, you’d be in it. “Highwing releases another Urthblood Saga chapter. You don’t know if it’s in the 3rd novel or the 100th. You will still read the next. And the next.”
Jokes aside, I miss having a tight-knit writing community. I haven’t been an active participant in any for a while. It’s harder to scrounge up motivation without one.
bad news: poor Quin
good news: fluffy Tosch
more bad news: Tosch is Not a Nice Man
*scrolls down* anyway…..
nice guest art, saraa! I definitely laughed at the follow up comic XD
forgot to add:
I sent a bunch of lines to the VA’s to do sometime ago. also, feel free to contact Elson if you have any requests!
Quinlan – “Maybe I’ll be able to respond better if you didn’t constantly stick your blade at my throat”
If there’s any other time for you to stand up and become the rad Captain everyone is counting on you to become…it would be now Quin.
Also I like to point out that Kobb’s teaser image on her tumblr showed that prison guard’s eye. Perhaps it was for the best to cover it with a speech bubble, because wow does he have a serious case of the evil eye.
Words cannot express at your choice of humor Saraa. I can already tell Tosch and the Salmon Party are going to have some “interesting” moments lol. And as awesome and exciting it is to have Elson Wong doing another live stream for the BWD dub! man I got be at work before 2:00pm so I wont be able to attend…Here’s wishing everybody else to have a good time though tomorrow :D
Ah blimey, for shame X_X Would have love to get your feedback and perspective on our discussions Veigue, but fear not – I’m sure there will be future opportunities to do so! Also, the show will be recorded and uploaded on my YT account so everyone can go back and check out what’s been missed. ^^
Enjoy your day at work! ;)
at the dark ages usually in war prisoners or not innocent prisoners were mostly tortuerd . . . well actually a lot of times. i hope that Quin and Dak get out of there alive now it’s got me thinking i wonder if someone or something is going to get them out there.
I think what’s keeping Quin and Dak alive at this moment, and what will assure their survival (since I don’t forsee any sudden rescue parties) is their diplomatic status. Despite the whole deal with Kenosh, Quin is still a captain of the Tamian Royal Guard and even Tosch knows you can’t just execute a high ranking envoy of your ally nation. That’s probably why he’s interrogating Quin and not Dak.
Speaking of, poor Dak. The only thing keeping him alive is probably his connection to Quin.
Well either Quin and Dakkan get out of there somehow or the rest of this comic turns into a 12 Angry Men-esque one room drama.
Okayyyyy… Sssss*Mhhmmmgh… Okay, so we know… we can supose, what nature we can expect to him – as someone previously wrote wisely – certainly This is someone who does not shy away from anything, he knows what he wants and can bestow literally over the dead bodies (Ermehn bodies) to his target ;-; And that is all what we can be sure now – YET – we can be sure that he is not so fluffy as we were supose in last week… ^^; (Sara – you won today all internet, I can’t stop laught with this small comic ^^; Really fantastic idea ^^ You are genius ^^ :D ) – And from myself I can say just more that he look as looks to me like a thoroughbred born murderer and persecutor, that does not have the impression no tears, asks, begings, prayers and blood persecuted / tortured and murdered people, and with stone face and cold blood personaliy order to kill or personaly murder Ermehn defenseless children, women and men, as if it were a normal thing in the world as breathing… He also looks like guys from dark History of my country during the last war – there was full of those bad nazi guys (a Gestaopo or SS-man) during the war, for example, the Amon Goeth from my Kraków, called “executioner of Kraków” – my home town, his shadowy figure you may know from the Oscar-winning film by Stephen Spielberg, “Schindler’s list” tells the story of what happened during the war in Kraków – General Tosh look for me already as this Nazi war criminal …*Humpf*… Huh, well and I supose that for Quinlan (I don’t know what happened with our poor Dakan :C ) comes hard days with his new friend, and comes hard days for all four kingdoms… :/
Aha, and one more thing guys – I have a question yet… About this today’s event… *huh* … Well… *eemmmm…* This is such new situation for me, I never take a part in such events… and I don’t know… Well I wanna ask, Can I take a part too in this event? And if I can, someone can explain me more what going on in such events? ^^; Alex? Rachel? Elson? Fourth, Sara, Shield? ^^; Anywone ^^; ?…
Don’t worry, anyone can join the event. He’s basically just playing the movie he made a couple months back with the cast and some guests and we’re all just commenting on the experience of working on the project and their thoughts on Beyond the Western Deep as a whole. All you have to do is go to Elson’s Youtube page here: https://www.youtube.com/user/ElsonDarkspeedsWong
He’ll have a link to the livestream when it starts, he has some time’s listed on the banner so you can see if any of them match your timezone. If not, you can find a website online that can calculate your timezone and find the time that matches any of the times given.
Ah, okay I understand, but it is kind like something that we write comments and asks online, and he answer for this? ^^;
Yeah, it’s like a chat box. The guests get to speak on the livestream, the rest of us communicate through comments
Ah ^^ That sounds cool ^^
Yup pretty much what Fruitso said (thanks mate!) ;)
I’m looking forward to catching up with my cast and the creators of the series as we did in Premier Night half-a-moon ago. It’d be lovely to be interacting with as many of you guys and gals on the channel – do send us questions, your theories, predictions for the future of the series. And of course do send us impressions to do – we’ll be in-character where requested! ;)
Well, huh… I was there for few moments and unfortuaently I don’t understand what is going on there, I don’t speak and I don’t understand english as well talk so fast ^^; So I go away unfortuaently, sorry I will stay there now just on Salmon Party ^^; *And I was feel shy when I come there on YT ^^; … Huh… Sorry for that Evan ^^;
Oh, this is bad. This is very, very bad. Tosch is not happy with our little cinnamon roll.
Not much else for me to say, really . . . except, of course, that I eagerly await next week’s page.
Oh, and I too will not be able to join in the festivities today. Maybe if I’d had more than 12 hours’ notice, I could rearrange my schedule.
Finally, I love your pictures, Saraa! Like always, of course. Personally, I prefer the one showing Tosch brushing his fur and looking fabulous.
Actually if you have a Twitter account do add me in Fourth Master – I’m always postin’ updates there and had announced this event a week ago on deviantART and Twitter (via @darkspeeds). ;)
Tosch needs to run a hair salon empire one day… X3
“. . . and if you’re not happy with the way your fur turned out, just tell the manager and we’ll put the stylist’s head on a pike at no extra charge to you!”
Okay, I snickered. Beautiful.
It’s odd, but I find myself wondering what Clovis and Tosch’s parents were like. Probably grumpy.
Haha ^///^ Perfect VarVar ^^ :D
Quin: *cringing* “That last part didn’t even rhyme!” *gets hit*
Alternate dialogue:
Quin: I’m the captain of the Tamian Royal Guard, on a diplomatic mission to Deltrada . . .
Tosch: You are part of the Rebel Alliance, and a traitor. Take him away!
Excited for the live stream today! I will definitely be there. I’m known as “BurningLanguages” on YouTube so look for me there, friends! I’ll have the same avatar as well.
As for poor Quin and our fluffy Tosch, yikes. :0 As I feared, Tosch seems to be *very* hostile and for a very good reason. It’s unfortunate that he seems to think Quin (and most likely Dak) had a hand in what happened. Misunderstandings and unbelief will be working against them, and I honestly don’t think that they will be believed.
I know that others think this as well – Quin and Dak will be sold as slaves in the Felis lands. I can’t remember the name of their nation right now. :P
It makes me sick inside to see this going down. Knowing that we can reach such a level of hostility is disheartening. This comic is inspiring by way of showing that anger and hatred, no matter how justified, can lead to things like this. Don’t misunderstand me, feeling such anger isn’t wrong, it is needed in fact. However, using it wrongly to fuel and escalate it even more will lead to a heart beyond feeling. To seeing others less than what they actually are. It isn’t right.
Getting really excited for what’s about to happen! :0
That would be the Kingdom of Kishar, capital city of Gair – I thank Janik for reminding me. :D
And sweet! Looking forward to having your company then Chandler!
Thanks darkspeeds for the info, and I also look forward to seeing you there!
I bet they are torturing poor Dakkan!
I was fearing that myself. Ugh, such a cruel and inhumane (weird to say due to the context, I know :P) thing. I *really* hope they aren’t taking out their anger for Kenosh on poor Dakkan, simply because they are father and son.
Well, looks like I have a new terrible favorite. You have to make do when your first one dies. This isn’t going well for Quin, but I bet it’s going even worse for Dakkan. At least Quin can plea that he had no knowledge with more success. Gorgeous lighting and art, as always, and writing that’s keeping us on our toes. C:
Unfortunately, I missed the movie. I hope it went well. I’ll be sure to add my comment later! Great job, Elson. I’m also glad that other people got a laugh out of my silly doodles. That’s the best part of drawing them.
Heya Saraa! We sure had a great time and it’s also recorded so you can look into it when it’s finally uploaded on my Youtube page (it’s still being processed atm). :D
Hope to see ya next time round and keep up with the drawings – adorable, amusing and awesome at the same time. ;)
Ahaha, awesome fan art Saraa!