Intermission 9 Page 31
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“…Wh—”
“Shut up.”
“Kotaca…”
“In her last moments, she was in an oracle’s trance.”
“She named Ricki, warned me that you were about to enter the tent…”
“And apparently, she saw YOUR future as well.”
“And it made her happy.”
“Something you do in the future, or maybe even something you’ve already done, made her… happy.”
“In all the years I knew her, I could never do that.”
“…Do you know why goblins would go to an oracle to name their children?”
“Our names, our TRUE names, are prophetic. Destinies to be fulfilled.”
“From those true names we derive simpler ones for every day use.”
“The name “Kotaca” is derived from “Keeps The Clan Alive.””
“She remembered all of our history and knowledge, and passed it down to me.”
“Ricki’s true name is Rots In A Cage.”
“I can only tell her so many times that this life she’s choosing is dangerous. She already knows.”
“But she doesn’t know how it’s destined to end.”
“And… I can’t BRING myself to tell her THAT. To explain the future that was set in stone so soon after she was born.”
“Because MY name… is Last Of Her Kind.”
“Last channeler?”
“Last historian?”
“Last leader of our clan?”
“Last MEMBER of our clan…?”
“I brought so much despair to my teacher from the very first moment she laid eyes on me.”
“I don’t want to take Ricki’s smile away like I did hers.”
“So, no, Kamau. I’m not going to kill you.”
“If you want to die so badly, die making sure Ricki outlives me.”
“Die making my teacher happy.”
“And stay off of my balcony until you do.”
Getting ‘banned’ from the balcony is a good compromise but HOLY shit those are some messed up names.
I was so lost reading and pondering the purple lines that I missed two panels…
You delayed this page so you could have those panels in it, didn’t you?
“Rots In A Cage” Well, isn’t that exactly what Ricki already did?
https://dungeoneyes.com/dungeon-1-turn-0/
Also: New month, new voting: https://www.topwebcomics.com/vote/26944 (Of course, you do vote daily, but especially after the counter has been reset.)
So those times when we took lohk to a dungeon and she almost died… was because she was fighting against her destiny?
Lohk’s destiny is “last of her kind.” What “kind” means is up for interpretation, but there aren’t very many interpretations that would mean “dies early.”
I guess it would keep her from taking a student, so that argument could be made?
But for last leader of the clan – she already is, unless someone starts expanding the clan a lot. For last member of the clan, Ricki would have to die first.
Ricki already did that cage thing so it might be fine.
Huh, so goblin names are prophetic phrases in this world too? Nice tie-in to the Goblins comic, which is where (in the forums) I encountered LSN’s work for the first time.
Now we just need to keep Coccyx in good health until next October so we can take him to a dungeon!