Nah.
What fangs? An ordinary human such as yourself doesn’t have fangs, silly! The very thought of such a thing is preposterous, offensive, and utterly unsubstantiated.
You’d love to check out that rich, bloody scent that popped up all of a sudden…
… but you’re busy playing a game called “don’t leave the tree’s shadow”. You love this game, so much that you’re gonna keep playing until nightfall. The rules say you’re not allowed to leave the tree’s shadow unless you’ve recently drank something red, such as red herring juice… or even blood. And since you don’t see any red herring juice around here, you guess you’ve got to drink some blood.
You spot a kitten full of blood crossing the lawn a short distance away. You quickly grab some grape jelly out of your grocery bag and attempt to lure the creature toward you.
It glances at you briefly, then turns and keeps walking. Which is weird, since cats love jelly.
At least you’re pretty sure that’s cats you’re thinking of.
Disclaimer, guys: don’t actually feed cats jelly. I think grapes are poisonous to them.
It is pretty fucking sad when you have to explain stuff like this to people.
Oh crap. Do, uh, say, Tigers, count, too?
… I’m never getting back into that zoo again, am I?
It’s easy to not know these things where you hold yourself to better rules like “don’t feed the dog any of your own food. No, him being cute is not a good reason to give him your scraps, and you don’t want to teach him to beg.”
Only thing I knew to especially keep pets away from was chocolate but as stated above I don’t particularly let them near any foodstuffs that’s not marketed to their species.
Yeah the dog and cat food they eat is probably best for them. After all, their natural prey in the wild would have been corn, rice, cardboard starch, turnip paste, cow bones, gravel, and pig anuses.
Nutrition!
I usually feed my cat cut up fish
Cheaper and better
We actually allow our dogs to have small amounts of chocolate along with various other foods. As this is a Chef’s household, our animals eat quite well. The trick is to balance generosity with giving in to begging. If you don’t want them to beg, teach them not to, but that’s no guarantee if you’re having something they really, REALLY want.
By the way, our dogs are fairly large, so a small taste of chocolate isn’t going to kill them. It speeds up their heart a little, so if you’re not planning on getting their hearts beating with running or playing, a taste isn’t a bad thing.
I can’t tell if you’re talking about cats or dogs here, but I’ll just posit that cats can’t eat plants. They are carnivores, plants are bad for them, they can’t digest them properly.
Dogs, on the other hand, probably ate all that.
Grapes can cause renal damage (and failure) in both dogs and cats.
Think smart, kids.
Poor Katia, I wonder if she knows… We must keep her away from this ignorant savage!
Khajhiit can eat grapes, they have the same sort of digestive system as man and mer.
Well, yeah, how else are you gonna drink that wine? Die?
so do raisins, and wi– oh god.. no wonder she fucked a skeleton….
dued! fuck what she wants to feed it, how did we miss it! a kitten, with a soul jem, with neting around it and a letter! looks like D got out ok!
You could run really quickly to the delicious smell, sip a little, and thus be not bothered by the sun at all anymore!
Shame you can’t hear me, this being just the comments section and not the actual suggestion thread.
“The rules say you’re not allowed to leave the tree’s shadow unless you’ve recently drank something red,”
Drink your shoe!
Oh man, this was so obviously! How she didnt got it!?
If she does that, what’d differ her from Marceline?
This is not Adventure Time, dude. She can’t suck the color red, I think.
Adventure Time, come on & grab your friends, and come to very distant lands…
With Katia the cat and ASOTIL the hu-man
The fun will never end, it’s Adventure Time!
Oh man. Red shoes? Fangs? Incredible hair?
Could this be Prequel’s Vriska we’re looking at?
OH BOY HERE WE FUCKIN’ GO
OBJECTION
I SAW A FANG
“Red Herring Juice”
OH I SEE WHAT YOU DID THERE
I SEE IT
i don’t see. please explain
Wish I could explain it better than merely copy-pasting this from wiki but as a non-native speaker I would propably manage to confuse you even more, so…:
“A red herring is a figurative expression in which a clue or piece of information is or is intended to be misleading, or distracting from the actual question.”
So, the Juice was there to distract from the other choice and gave a seemingly possible alternative
which wasn`t an alternative at all.
Yeah, it’s a figure of speech mainly used by writers though to through the reader of track.
a “red herring” is a false goal. Its usually a look alike designed to trick people into thinking that it is the thing that their searching for.
In this case, it could be the red juice of a herring, or the juice of a red herring. Either way, the joke is that it is a distraction from fixating on blood
No, I think this entire plot Arc is going to be a Red Herring
ahh… i can’t believe i didn’t see that. ty pplz
Wouldn’t herring juice basically be fish blood, anyway?
^You’re missing the point
Double. Flippin’. Facepalm. The entire thing was a red herring to set you peeps off track from what’s REALLY going on. Which is nothing.
So, her name is nah?
My day; you have just made it.
nah.
Is that… is that a Welkynd stone?
Yes it is, a welkynd stone and something else I can’t quite make out (maybe a candlestick?)
Now why a cat would have an ancient stone used for recovering magicka tied to their back is beyond me.
That’s obviously not a cat but a khajiit that shrunk itself using magic.
There are khajiit that look identical to housecats. The appearance is based off of the phases of the moons.
Close enough.
A cat is fine too
You just made my day.
Rare House Khajiit.
Its probably the scrolls the necromancer had.
Dmitri’s cats play with Welkynd stones…………. :O
mr. scruffles!! if that was the name. perhaps that is the note dmitri was going to send!
PLEASE TELL ME THAT CAT IS BAERALORN WITH DMITRI’S LETTER.
PLEASE.
I thought Baeralorn was a lot older and more scraggly, and black
Also without Dmitri’s magic, there’s nothing keeping him animated unless it was a long-term spell
It could be one of his other cats, though. But I still find it fairly implausible and coincidental.
Baeralorn is the high elf, Scruffles is Dmitri’s undead cat
Ok, my bad just read back and it wasn’t Dmitri’s cat.
WOAH WOAH
WAIT
THAT GEM IS FROM DMITRI’S LAB
HOOOOOLD THE PHONE
AND THAT CAT COULD POSSIBLY BE MR. SCRUFFLE
KAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAZ
http://sadpanda.us/images/823625-R95D5IM.png
I HAVE HOPE AGAIN.
403 forbidden…
Nope. Error 100. GOOGLE CHROOOOOME
Firefox = Win
Internet explorer win.
I can see it.
Opera win
That’s a welkynd stone, kind of common in Aylied ruins (which Dmitri and his “friends” were holed up in.
There are a few in the general area of Kvatch but it is strange to see both a cat and a welkynd stone together.
Yah normally a wakley stone can’t stand being near a cat.
http://www.prequeladventure.com/2011/05/414/ <-Baeralorn, first appearance.
OK WHOOPS, NOW I’M SAD.
wait, did we ever see bearalorn? i thought we just heard dmitri saying that he would deliver it when he comes back.
but i can always hope that the scroll is for katia.
Baeralorn is an elf..
http://www.uesp.net/wiki/Oblivion:Baeralorn
Buuttttt, Dmitri’s kitty running about with a note and a welkynd stone is definitely a good sign… if it doesn’t get eaten by nice normal human lady
Holy Fo’shizzle that cat has a welkynd stone and a note! DMITRI, ARE YOU ALIVE SOMEHOW?!
What if Dmitri IS the cat? As in, he found a way to bind his soul to the cat as he died?
Some necromancers become liches. Dmitri? He becomes a cat.
The other necromancers are going to think he has a cat thing… xD
ahhh, i see what you did there..
That would be so incredibly fuc&ed up, therefore absolutely hysterical.
Cats have nine lives, right? So what if the feline in question already lost one or two, so Dmitri just slid into the empty slot?
I think maybe a human life would take up a couple cat lives. Seven of them? So maybe you’d have to find a cat that had been into a LOT of close scrapes but wasn’t yet QUITE dead.
The Scruffmeister. He’s dead, period. Dmitri’s a necromancer? If that even worked AT ALL, then why the hell not?
Does this mean the perfectly normal human female’s name is now “Nah”?
Congradulations Catcat, your single comment here, when reposted in the suggestion thread, has been adopted by most forum members.
This perfectly normal human female’s name is now Nah in the eyes of the suggestion board.
I thought the first one to mention this made my day. You made my day again. ಧ_ಧ
Nah, this didn’t make your day. It made your year.
I find your comment to be true.
So, lets take stock here. Katia Fucking Managan was just seen rappelling down into a well containing vicious slaughterfish. Then suddenly we switch characters to a [PERFECTLY NORMAL HUMAN] in the vicinity who smells fresh blood. See where this is going? Either Katia is dead or injured, or she managed to kill the slaughterfish. I sincerely hope it’s the latter….
Actually… you might remember that Katia had Criminal Blood on the back of her belt prior to her leaving Asotil. Soaked in, probably, but all she did was turn it inside out…
Plus the tiny smear of blood left on our poor fallen party member, the Ball Gag.
May he rest in peace.
Getting wet could’ve made the blood smell again…
Honestly given the inspiration for this comic you’re kind of being extremely dense if you expect all scene transitions to fit together linearly. Time paradox doesn’t (yet?) feature so strongly here but still. If anything she should be smelling something else and it just happens to line up with an event we expected to produce some gushing wounds.
“Honestly given the inspiration for this comic”
You mean Oblivion?
“you’re kind of being extremely dense if you expect all scene transitions to fit together linearly.”
Oblivion was pretty linear.
Pretty sure he means MSPA.
No, he means Oblivion.
The Elder Scrolls does not give a fuck about how you think causality should work. Daggerfall has nine mutually exclusive endings? TES just picked one and moved on, right? Fuck that – they’re all canon!
If you think reality is fixed like that then you don’t know anything about the elder scrolls.
I like Warp in the West. You should read it sometime.
Um, no, he means MSPA. This comic was originally in their forums, and it’s based on the style of MSPA, particularly Homestuck.
> Mysterious not-vampire lady: Your name is Helena Rosenthal, and you shall search your bag for something more enticing for the kitty.
…Where have I heard that name bef-
By the nine, was that a Crysis reference?
Whoa, did not notice that. Entirely unintentional. XD
YOU! YES, YOU! I CAN’T BELIEVE YOU!
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Brohoof!
Brohoof.
Brohoof
Brohoof /][\
DAT COMPLETELY NORMAL HUMAN SMILE CUT-OUT!
Do regular house-cats appear in any of the Elder Scrolls games?
No, but technically yes?
No, to the extent that you never see any cats in the games (maybe Daggerfall?) But they exist, yes. Housecats are around and not uncommon lore-wise. Skyrim has a book called “Cats of Skyrim” that is not about Khajiit, but rather the author looking into normal housecats in the province – and insulting the shit out of the few khajiit he meets by assuming they all should know.
Also, there are the Alfiq Khajiit which look exactly like normal housecats, but are just as intelligent as Suthay-Raht and are believed to be adapt mages. And I’m so hoping that’s what we might be seeing here.
Wait, what? “Cats of Skyrim” only talked about Sabrecats and Snowy Sabrecats. It never talked about normal housecats.
I think the most convincing evidence in favor of the domestic cat in Skyrim is while playing as a Khajiit, bandits will should “My friend once had a cat like you, I killed it too”
Didn’t it? *looks again*
Man, my memory is completely shot. I’ve put 320 hours into that game, and I swear that was what the book was about. I need to stop drinking so much while playing and pretending it’s skooma. Sam Guevenne isn’t the only quest I don’t remember…
Wouldn’t a better skooma simulation be meth or something?
(Most epic Skyrim reference I have seen/heard all day)
Actually, it was their cousin’s cat. Damn those bandits, they keep trying to turn me into a rug. ಧ_ಧ
*adept
FUCK!
They appeared in Daggerfall.
“don’t leave the tree’s shadow”’s has just so many darn rules.
oh my god I don’t want to like her because I’m terrified of what might happen but
I think I really like her aaaahhhhhh
I’m too gunshy now to fall in love with a new character.
Oh crap, I hope this doesn’t mean Katia just got eaten or horribly injured by slaughterfish. I hope that if someone is bleeding nearby it’s either not Katia or it’s not serious, or both. D:
Are you sure you’re not a vampire
Woah. Things just got REALLY interesting.
Are you sure you’re not a vampire?
……I give her 10 pages before she gets killed by the Orc. At most.
I’m guessing not even double digits.
Depends on if she’s going to maybe possibly become friends with Katia. Help her out of the well in exchange for some slaughterfish blood? Won’t live for five pages. Try to suck the blood out of the already wounded khajiit girl trying to flee the vicious fish and feeling incredibly humiliated? Becomes a recurring enemy and foil.
Pardon me perfectly normal Human Female, but you seem to have a sharp fang like piece of food hanging from your mouth. It’s funny, but it almost makes you look like a Vampire.
O.o Katia is so going to get stuck in that wall due to her rope snapping, and she is so going to get bit by a slaugtherfish so she bleeds but then she will manage to crawl up a bit and keep in the well just above the water, and she is so not going to be able to crawl to the top because of her injury, and she is so going to be stuck there without anyone inquiring about her until night time, and that perfectly normal human is so going to smell the blood and approach the well putting Katia between a slaugtherfish and a perfectly normal human… I can see it happen now… but the cat… Dimitry… maybe the orc… who will come to her aid!
At least I can be glad that so far in life my foresight has sucked, so nothing like that will happen. Everything will be just okay
Miss, as much as I dislike the vampires I ran into in Vvardenfel, if you can prove that you are not one of the rather… unsavory members of your kind, I will do all I can to help you. Also; I would be most obliged if you would ensure that the small kitten makes its way to the well so that Katia can receive some well-needed bucking-up.
Thank you,
Nerevar Reborn.
Break off a branch from the tree and try to lure the kitty over to you. You know, to see if he has any “Kitty-Juice”.
DAT HOMESTUCK REFERENCE
Use your totally not vampiric charm to attract a human male
Dude, hobo vampire either has the crappiest stitch pants ever, or those are actually tear-away legs… for… activities that require bare knees at a moment’s notice?
Horrible innuendo supposition thread: GO!
Those aren’t tear away legs… The legs are the only part that DON’T tear away.
I know, that was terrible. But I didn’t have a lot to go on.
Hah, I like that explanation!
So should we suppose she was an intern at the Mage’s Guild, and they supplied her “uniform”? :O
Perfectly normal human female, Get Corn, lure humans… For red drink
Perfectly Normal Human Female: Shout “HEY, KOOL AID!” with reckless abandon.
OH YEAAAAAAAAAAH
That’ll get you some red drink for sure
>Enter Name: Lilith Fasett?
I think this is one of my favorite installments yet! What can I say, I love cheeky vampires.
Welkytten returns!
Yes. :I
The vampire was based on Squiggles, one of the many artists who made the art for the Prequel flash. Check out her adventure here: http://www.mspaforums.com/showthread.php?37864-Convergence
I feel the need to point out that the resemblance is purely visual. I’m not sure if Squiggles would appreciate what I’m actually doing with the character…
(luckily, she has no say in the matter. That’s what you guys get for drawing characters that look like yourselves)
And what are you doing? She’s adorable and perfectly safe playing a fun game of “don’t leave the tree’s shadow” while contemplating delicious red herring juice. Nope, nothing terrible going to happen with that. Perfectly fine and dandy, mm hm. Rock on, strange doppelganger Squigglepire, rock on. You just keep doing your thing and enjoy whatever amount of life, or undeath, you got left to the fullest. :3
(Totes not really caring what you do with the character, I’m not complaining.
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Kaz, this is your shot for artistic license! Do something REALLY crazy with this character!
oooh my fav fangy gal
ooh u made her cuter here with those eyes
vitam is a good name :3
She is still super cute.
I can’t get over it!
Need some red drink so we can go visit Katia.
She’s actually likeable now. Before, She seemed like.. well. creepy. Yes, she’s still creepy, but now we see she is also a troubled character. Wonder if katia and this creepy vampire lady could make some deal.. you know, katia gets her blood from her eye of fear / night eye thing, she pays her, everyone’s happy. So many possibilities! Can’t wait for a new page.
Or perhaps, some blood from a realy angry fish stuck in a well?
Remember that she’s playing “Don’t leave the shadow of the tree” until sundown.
Oh, hello, Alice Kardisa, been a long time since we last met.
My guess is that the cat is an Alqif, one of the types of Khajiit who’s appearance is a normal house cat but still attains the keen intelligence as everyone else, meaning they can cast spells like everyone else as seen in the book “Mixed Unit Tactics” creating his purpose for his Welkynd Stone
That’s My Guess.
Let’s go with the more touching route and say that it’s one of Dmitri’s cats and it’s on a mission to deliver his message and the stone to Katia at all costs.
It’s on a mission from the gods.
But it’s not a mission from the gods until Knights of the Nine.
And between you and I, it is very possible that Katia may become a part of the coming crisis.
Yes, I know about it. The wheel on its side becomes an I.
Between you and me, thank you very much.
Don’t you talk to me about grammar. I can change the rules any time I please. However, I will concede to you about my mistake.
Are you talkin’ to me? Are you talkin’ to me? Well there’s no-one else here. Who the —- do you think you’re talkin’ to, if you ain’t talkin’ to me?
You amuse me, I like you. Though your strange outburst puzzles me. You are the only person I am talking to, how could you think otherwise?
Well, I had just watched Taxi Driver and I had to quote that to somebody. hehe
So how many chapters until the Orc kills this potentially interesting new character?
how often is there an update?
>Perfectly normal young woman with jelly: Your name is Clara Feng, and you pull some catnip out of your bag to attract the blood filled kitten to come play with you behind the nice tree where no one can see you
Sweet jesus, I love this bint already XD
>> Hey, Mrs. Normal – this is why you need to carry an umbrella. You can just pretend its a portable shadow. ALL the crafty dames have umbrellas, afterall.
Hey, I’ve finally caught up with everything, I gotta admit, this is pretty fun to read, plus the fact I think its pretty clever how everyone can interact and help out Katia and anyone else we get to control.
I’m looking forward to seeing more of this. =D
That game is fun.
“don’t leave the tree’s shadow” game. it takes about 15 hours long though…but boy oh boy is it so fun. 8P mostly i do it behind another person’s shadow…pain in the butt but at least you never leave the shadow. ^^ lol. well…the tree’s shadow…yah i did…BUT ANY SHADOW COUNTS! X<
Madelaine Marmalade lol
I love this adventure, just started reading like a week ago, can’t wait for more updates!
Darn this perfectly normal human female is so hot. Hope she woldn’t die like that faggot-necromancer.
MEANWHILE in the well…
what is the vampires name, is it really Nah
I hadn’t checked back in a couple of days, so when I saw that the latest page was called ENTER NAME I assumed that Katia had died a horrible death in the well.
I guess she still might have.
Also, Nah should scout around for some shadows she can use to slink away in. I’m pretty sure that doesn’t count at cheating at Shadowgame.
It’s possible that Katia has been chewed to a bloody pulp, and her only hope of survival is to be turned into a vampire. DUN DUN DUN! :O
I will LOL if Nah looks down the well, and it appears to be the color of fruit punch. Or maybe, more appropriately… Sangria? ;D
Name? Nadia Angelicia Haden
Reasoning: Nah has gotten several votes, but it sounds like a nickname rather than a true name. So maybe she says Nah to suggestions she come out and play in the sun. Or it may be short… for Nadia. Or it may be her initials, N.A.H.
And the name can be translated as “Not one of the angels, nor bright, but hopeful” [whether that she can become either or both, or that she can fool herself or others that she is, we shall see.]
As to her current choice, using her shopping bag to capture shadow/shade sounds like it might be within the rules/protect her enough to allow her to check that smell.
Do you have an inventory? The Khajiit from earlier had one.
Is I’m the only one who noticed that she is cute?
a-Any young female who is not clearly hideous qualifies as cute.
b-Several other posters have suggested she is above the average.
c-Since we have not seen her react with anyone who wants to measure her cuteness, we are subject to a large range of error due to dealing with cartoon art.
d-She is dead.
Vampire
gosh i wish i had something useful to say, other than the fact that you have gained a reader, and that i see a redish-purplish object in her bag, though even if it were liquid i doubt that would be close enough to red
Talia Damara.
I’m not going to put this in the commands thread but here is what I see happening, in this order:
Nah entices cat and sucks all the blood out of it
Nah takes the stone and note from the cat
Nah reads the note, feels bad, then goes to give the stone/note to Katia but while looking for her Gro-upp comes along in the dead of night and kills her and takes the stone
If this happens Kaz will be losing a reader, not that I’m anyone important, but I’m just saying.
Wait patiently, you detect the scent of a cat nearby too, or… A Katia.
I know this isnt the place to post suggestions.
that is why I’m posting to suggest to someone to suggest on the suggestion forum…
NAYRU
so if you would so kindly GO AND DO IT!
(please forgive my sudden bursts of royal voices)
HOLY CRAP i just realised its dmitri’s cat!
I was about to say that and as I did I saw your comment, but yeah, they have (presumably) the same Welkynd stone… http://www.prequeladventure.com/this/story646.gif
Now would be a great time for Katia to find the kitty, huddled up under a shelter to keep dry.