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Rain Burn / Re: Rain Burn, page 439

« on: October 13, 2025, 10:54:05 pm »

Saida's turning into a real Genius Bruiser. Potent combination of brains and brawn there and not nearly so squishy as her original quetz body.

Good move here! At least you're out of the kill zone. Unfortunately, not leaving a distraction behind means their entire attention is now focused on the escapees fleeing the village. Pun cheerily intended: They ain't out of the woods yet.

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Rain Burn / Re: Rain Burn, page 438

« on: October 11, 2025, 10:49:09 am »

Kinda find it funny how Brand. The guy who wanted to Free the eggs from Quetz oppression. Is fine if they all burn to death. Like say what you want about the Guards. The town folk do not deserve to have their town burnt down.

This isn't even taking into consideration. That the Aves are not even a threat. Like their bound to run out of crossbow bolts eventually. And then what?

IMHO he did it to spite the Quetz, not because he particularly cared about the Aves. He enjoyed bullying them into committing high treason, or so he thought.

As for the villagers, who birdboxed Laputa in the first place? They did. And that makes them enemy support at this point, not innocent civilians. As I said, this is an enemy village now in Brand's thinking and he isn't wrong. Saida is so used to thinking of the Aves as part of her family, she forgets that their one and only loyalty is to Vetra-jou. She better get with the program quick, or she isn't going to be able to protect Brand for long.

Finally, Laputa certainly will have a ton of arrows for their Aves. If I were Relshen I'd make sure to have a supply chain ready to go, so they will never run out. And once they realize Dragon!Saida is a meat shield, they're going to flank them. Even a birdbrain like Relshen probably knows that many tactics. And so does Brand. The flames will prevent them from cleanly flanking their position, and trap them in a vice. Do they want to 1) Face a volcano dragon and an extremely angry quetz, 2) Burn alive, or 3) Retreat as fast as they can from that house.

Let them worry about putting the fire out. It gives Brand and Saida a clear shot out of there.

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Rain Burn / Re: Rain Burn, page 438

« on: October 10, 2025, 10:07:12 pm »

Relshen brings to mind a quote from Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, "Okay, so ten out of ten for style, but minus several million for good thinking, yeah?"

And he has the bad luck of dealing with Sir Brand when he is entirely out of fluffs to give. To him, this is an enemy village and he's not wrong. And Saida is worryingly slow in getting with the program.

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Rain Burn / Re: Rain Burn, page 437

« on: October 09, 2025, 09:02:22 am »

Less pure evil than absolutely amoral. He's a fallen zenko-kitsune. He had goals and the patience to carry them out, but his goals were twisted. And yes, his treatment of Roko, his own clanmate, was so dishonorable and so nasty that no other kitsune would want anything to do with him after that.

Prince Shock Jock does love his sister. He also was willing to blast her body to dust just because he thought the whole thing was sus, and missed the fact Suzucon was literally right in front of him. Then for an encore he racked up Quetz!Brand in a limit break attack. He ain't no prize either.

But back to the present. All that was about more than Brand could take. He seriously wants quetz blood now, but the Aves will have to do.

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Rain Burn / Re: Rain Burn, page 437

« on: October 09, 2025, 12:53:17 am »

Something stank about the whole setup that Vetra was working on and even Suzocon could see it, once they provided him with the missing piece of the puzzle. After that it was purely if they had a use or were of no account.

And the trio knows too. Brand is just plain fed up with this whole mess and was EAGER to fry some chicken. After what Prince Shock Jock did to him, can you blame him?

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Rain Burn / Re: Rain Burn, page 437

« on: October 07, 2025, 09:10:24 am »

This wretched bunch? Yes. It's one thing if they are being hospitable. Whole other thing when they bust in armed for bear and threaten to toss you all into the bowels of Laputa. THEY LET THE TANK GET INTO PLACE. They deserved just what they got.

"Okay. My turn."

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Rain Burn / Re: Rain Burn, page 437

« on: October 06, 2025, 11:17:04 pm »

I'd say Brand is well and truly pissed off at this point, and he's going to make every one of those Aves, up to and including Relshen, regret every last one of their life choices.

Pissing off the DPS in the party is generally a bad move. Especially when they got the tank up and in position.

Look! Brand is actually helping!

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Rain Burn / Re: Rain Burn, page 436

« on: October 04, 2025, 07:07:14 pm »

Well that might be the case, I say that he crushed them because first of all Dragon. Like the guy must way around a ton. So safe to assume if he sat on something. Well that something is going to be a pancake. That and on the next time we see them on page 49. They are being shoved face first into a flower pot. And only one of them appeared to be twitching.

That said i might be reading to much into this as its clearly was for a comedic bit. Regardless Brands body is a tank. I don't think if it gets shot it will matter.

Yeah, exactly. That's why my guess is that Saida is going to use her dragon body to save Relshen from his own troops (and get Roko off him before he gets barbequed).

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Rain Burn / Re: Rain Burn, page 436

« on: October 04, 2025, 06:51:24 pm »

Brand is an earth dragon. So his body is More or less a tank. Hell you can see it on page 37 deflecting spears and crossbows. I also think he Crushed a bunch of Aves to death on said page. It might hit Sadias body as i am not sure how Durable Quetz are. Regardless he left us on an cliff hanger. So you know someone is going to get shot.

He didn't crush anyone to death on that page. He was just sitting on them to restrain them. And he's never thought much of the slAves to begin with, possibly why he had no problem bullying the crap out of them as "Saida." Sitting on them was a very effective way to neutralize them without killing them!

My guess (such as it is) is that Dragon!Saida is panicking because the stray shot was headed right for Relshen's gizzard, and she didn't want to see him die like that. Wouldn't surprise me if she managed to intercept the arrow and save his life.

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Rain Burn / Re: Rain Burn, page 436

« on: October 03, 2025, 09:13:29 pm »

Talk about giving the majordomo a taste of her own medicine. Owch. Roko's enjoying Shock Jockey way, way too much.

You can't really blame Saida for freaking out, though. Who knows how long she and Relshen have known one another?

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Rain Burn / Re: Rain Burn, page 435

« on: October 02, 2025, 08:12:21 am »

Maybe so but the palace Ave guard attacked. That makes them fair game for whatever nastiness Roko is getting ready to unleash. They came in weapons drawn and armed.

Saida may not like it, but unless they want to end up Vetra's hot lunch, it's up to Roko.

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Rain Burn / Re: Rain Burn, page 435

« on: September 30, 2025, 09:25:37 am »

Welp. How did Laputa get there so fast!? That's the palace majordomo!

Something went wrong - very wrong. And Saida knew it, that's why she was trying to get them out quickly. Brand gave the game away before this night ever happened. His little bullying routine was witnessed by the herald.

And I be wrong again. Even worse than I thought! These aren't home grown. They're armed palace guards from Laputa.

Seems Roko has a plan, though. Or he's just so crazy that he's going to dump all over the Aves. This'll be interesting.

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Rain Burn / Re: Rain Burn, page 434

« on: September 29, 2025, 05:29:35 pm »

I just interpret it differently. Brand is not used to having power or having ANYONE listen to him. He noted how alluring it was to just order the Aves around and not worry about their feelings on the matter. But instead of musing how he'd love to keep doing it, he uses it to explain why the Quetz (not queltz; quetz, as in Quetzalcoatl) are such a bunch of psychos.

Its not a red flag so much as him trying to do a good deed the most expedient way possible and explain what's been going on. It wasn't malign, what he did. Just grossly under thought, half-baked and to the exact wrong audience. Saida should have told him sooner just who these Aves WERE. Now they are in deep poop, because Saida revealing herself will just get them handed over to Vetra FASTER.

They're still slAves. But the one they are bound to obey without question, their commander in chief, ain't erzatz Saida.

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Rain Burn / Re: Rain Burn, page 434

« on: September 27, 2025, 10:02:59 am »

Considering the speed at which they showed up, I'd say that they ran into a village that had a war flock in it. It took them exactly no time to arm up and attack after Brand got back. That's military discipline. It took just one word from the village elder to mobilize.

So. Brand asked the leader of what effectively amounted to a MILITARY BASE to commit high treason against their commander, and did so in a way that was about as convincing as a mime. How long before Laputa shows up now that they have the two of them pinned?

"Brand is helping" is gonna be on his tombstone at that rate. They ain't outrunning crossbow bolts.

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Rain Burn / Re: Rain Burn, page 433

« on: September 23, 2025, 07:42:53 pm »

If I were those Aves, I'd think some local kitsune was playing a nasty-underfluffies prank on me and get quite pissed off. They don't have the faintest idea of who that is. Only that it's not Princess Saida.

And the next call on the birdbox is going straight to Laputa. You might be right, Rman. This is gonna be fun... but not for our protagonists.