Families/Cемьи 13
Page 13 of voting incentive story Families/Cемьи is now available! And so is a link to all the previous pages.
SPOILERS AHEAD – read the update first before reading what I’ve written below.
Here we have it… the appearance of the Q’Arth demons. These vile and evil beasts have now been unleashed on Moscow by the Charnel Pit Six cultists… and their number will only continue to grow as they suck the life force from every and all living things they can skewer and kill with their spine barb.
Many thanks to everyone who has voted this last month… Magellan made it as high as #41 at one point during the last week of May, which I reckon is a sterling effort!
Next update: MONDAY 8 June… Duty.
Gad! Those things are so awful😬 Where did you get the idea for their visual? They look a bit beefier than they did back in History…
This has to be many minutes after the ritual debacle, as we see nine of the demons in the picture. What was the explosion that alerted them to the horror? Are we going to learn more about the Q’arth, like whether they are sapient or not?
The vote say it’s at #32 now
Start of the month is always a bit volatile… it can go from #900 to #9 with only 9 votes! Currently at #27, which is awesome although I don’t expect it will last.
It’s pretty much just after the explosion… they don’t waste any time with the killing, for every human killed another Q’Arth makes it through the portal, so you can imagine their number will increase rapidly. As for the look of them… at the time, I was trying to come up with something horrific and I reckon I did it!
Ah… It wasn’t clear to me how they respawned. I had gotten the idea that they were just appearing out of the portal in groups of six at ever shortening intervals.
That’s mostly right, they ever shortening intervals is only because it is based on the number of people killed by the demons. BTW, just because you can only see nine here doesn’t mean there isn’t another three around somewhere.
History #4, http://magellanverse.com/comic/red-2/ sort of throws your one Q’Arth for each death into a bit of chaos.
Over 100 of them responsible for 17,000 deaths. well, technically 17 thousand IS over 100… but then it says over half a million to the sting of 400 Q’Arth. Where’d the other 16,600 of them go?
From the history, I presumed that the portal was spawning 6 more every so often. In fact, the next page outright says that. “The nest was a mystical rift through which the Q’Arth emerged into our earthly realm – by then, at a rate of six at a time every two minutes.”
Obviously, the more humans killed, the faster the portal operates. More soul energy means the doorway can cycle faster.
I wonder what would have happened if those had been set loose on the RARG.
Classic “Who’d win?” conundrum! 😁 They’d probably shake manipulating appendages and join forces against Earth: Magellan, only for one to stab the other in the back when victory was within their grasp😂
Yeah the numbers from History look a little wonky, but I won’t sweat that detail – at least, not while the backstory is ongoing. 😉
This is all true – I would blame Force Magellan, since they’re the narrators of that particular clip… (runs away)
It’s Hoodoo… you know how those witches are (also runs away)
Clearly a very unreliable narrator!
They look a little beefier than I remember them appearing in previous representations.
Makes them seem more human, honestly, which makes it -more- unnerving, frankly.
So . . . good change, if it’s even a change and not just my own perception playing tricks on me.
Do you really need the translation brackets for “AIIIEEE?” Do screams of pain and terror sound different in Russian?
<It was a joke…> 🙂
Your artistic evolution means the Q’Arth not only look beefier, as people have mentioned, but also just overall more detailed. They were already scary, but they’ve become more horrifying.