Song of the Eastern Sands: Page 09
Oh no! BUSTED! Looks like the plan’s unraveling pretty quickly — but Beck’s nowhere to be found, and neither Asha nor Rook are in the tent! Then again, neither is the chest they were trying to open! That merchant looks a little shocked, to be sure!
I don’t have much of a long post for you today, but I did want to take an opportunity to wish all of our readers a very Merry Christmas and a happy holiday! To help celebrate the holidays, Jerijune decided to assemble together a piece with regulars from the Western Deep cast and members of the “Salmon Party” — the unofficial (but still mostly official) name for our wonderful, amazing, incredible commenting readership! Check this thing out (highly recommend you click for more detail)!
It’s Christmas awesomeness at its most awesome! Though to be clear, the traditional Christmas Eve dinner on display here is Noche Buena, a tradition in the Philippines (from where Jerijune hails) that involves tons of food, family members, and friends.
The characters from left to right are:
Brea (VarVau)
Dago (Jakub)
Rook
Jerijune (Jerijune)
Ashworth (Darkspeeds)
Asha
Dakkan
Quinlan
Kenosh
Hardin
Beck
Fourth Master’s character (no name atm)
Theo
Enerus (Saraa Luna)
Charrgaff’s character (no name atm)
I LOVE how this turned out, Jerijune! Thank you so much for this incredible Christmas gift to us and all readers of Beyond the Western Deep!
Waitaminute . . . what just happened?
I suppose we shall find out soon enough.
Hope everyone had a nice Christmas!
I will write a little more tomorrow, when I’m conscious again.
I think what happened was, in order to distract the shopkeeper from the theft in progress in his tent, Beck decided to steal the amber jewel she was keeping on his table.
Yes, that is much clearer now to my no longer sleep-deprived brain.
Woohoo! Another awesome page! :D
I hope everyone had fun during the holidays! Aaaand new year’s is just around the corner… I wonder how that one’s gonna turn out…
Great finished picture, Jerijune. The colors are what sells it!
Thanks!
Thanks, Vau! That’s 4 days of work (and several Christmas parties and dinners in between!) And I made sure I stuck to the descriptions of each characters!
Plus I made sure Beck’s face isn’t nightmare fuel
Gone like the wind baby! Into the night!
…..well…not really.
So going with how it’s Christmas and everything, Am I to assume that jerijune’s piece here is a replication of a BWD themed “Last Supper”?
“Verily I say onto you. On this very night, one of you will completely mess everything up!”
*Kenosh slowly leaves the table*
I love it! and I wish everyone a Merry Christmas!!
Well, almost every Noche Buena dinner kinda looks like the “Last Supper” (from the right angle, depending on your position in the table) but with more stuff going on… **ahem**inter-relative drama**ahem**
That’s how it goes in the ones I attend– There’s always at least one moment in my family’s Noche Buenas where the entire scene looks like something based on a Leonardo da Vinci painting. That’s where I (partially) got the idea for the characters’ positions in the piece
I can’t tell if what Beck did was stupid or noble.
But seeing how the tent was already empty, meaning they already took the chest and the fact that no one knows the connection between Beck and the tent thieves yet, I’m going to say: stupid
Well, think: carrying a big chest like that, Asha and Rook aren’t going to be moving very fast. Beck is giving them enough time to get around a couple corners so the merchant can’t find them. Also, the crowd is looking at Beck running, so no one will notice the other two sneaking a chest out of the back of the merchant’s tent.
I suppose that’s true, though Beck now has to find a way to avoid the crowd with all the attention she’s attracting. Also if she plans on staying around, she better pray no one recognizes or remembers her. Though that might be hard because her mouth is unmistakable
It looks like the locals aren’t making the heist any easier. And I suspect Rook just got impatient and walked out with the whole chest!
That giant dinner scene is too cool! Everyone looks like they’re having a good time…except for uh…Kenosh and Enerus. But that is to be expected.
Fairly good backup plan. Can’t unlock it? Steal the whole thing and unlock it later.
What?! This splendid page has stalled at a mere 17 comments? For shame! Well, I shall do *my* part to boost that total a smidgen before the next page goes up!
Love the poses and expressions on this page – although Beck sure did make one quick getaway, didn’t she? Unless that Tamian merchant spent an inordinate amount of time pulling back that flap and reacting to the absence of the chest there.
Great quasi-Christmas pic by Jerijune too! What a great fan base this comic has! Although that’s old news by now, isn’t it?
Nothing old about the year, though. Happy 2016, everyone!
This page is fantastic. I love how everything flows quickly together- I’ll bet Beck snatched the necklace and took off before he’d even finished turning his back.
I’m curious to find out whether it was this particular merchant chosen to have a bad time or if he was plucked from the masses. At least a little planning went into it, I imagine.
I love the way the last panel plays out. The crowd’s in an uproar, which appears to be par for the course of the Nessa crew, and the merchant realizes his superior haggling skills have come to naught. The lighting really accents the feeling of everything happening in a snap-shotted moment- I love it.