Such lovely festivities.
Unsounded
124 soldiers to go through today and you're doing them three at a time? horrid efficiency
The point isn't efficiency, the point is spectacle
that ahego Bell
peak comedy
124 soldiers
three at a time
oh no someone is probably going to be executed all alone :(
could be putting on different executions, and ones later in the day will kill more at a time. Or they're just the highest ranking soldiers left so they're getting special treatment.
That lone one is probably going to be Bell at the end
Website comment:
I love drawing really environmental pages like this, where you hopefully get a sense of place: the crowd crushing towards the execution spectacle, the smell of food being served, the pushing and shoving to find a place to see what’s going on.
-Ashley
Patreon comment:
'Fraid General Bell isn't being fondly remembered. This is a good page to see in high res though. Some things to note: Lots of people. City is still far from completely rebuilt. There's a memorial space around the flayed bones of one of the attacking vliegeng. Common people do not get the same fancy spread as the nobles. Twin girl cookies with a dried softi flower for a mild buzz. Splash of goat blood smeared on the traitors, marking them for Tirna. She'll ensure they reincarnate somewhere foul.
In that case the count would be 123.5.
Which half?
Twin girl cookies with a dried softi flower for a mild buzz
Has Ash ever expanded on softi flowers? Since they're used in rituals they could be regulated, but if not do people keep a few pots of softi plants for personal use?
Gods I can't wait to put the cheerful frolicking cannibals of Cresce behind us and move the story to the gloomy, angsty edgelord dystopia of GLORIOUS ALDERODE
The one with the head
you know that half of them are cannibals too, right? Actually more than half since the weeping plague hit the Ssaelit.
I thought the Aldish Gefendur didn't do twin sacrifice? Maybe my brain fabricated that.
They do. They also have a reputation for kidnapping Ssaelit twins. Iirc Ssaelit tend to make their twins look different or send one to live with other relatives to avoid it.
Is Kima pronounced kee-muh or ky-muh? I've been saying kee-muh in my head
In another post she says that people just don't tend to use it recreationally due the toxicity.
memorial for the deceased immediately adjacent to the Climb the Vliegeng Skeleton attraction
these guys sure know how to have a good time
The blood face paint that hearkens to ye olde sacrifices and/or Tirna is interesting
Who did it better?
It's a miracle it's taken this long for Alderode to break into civil war
I'd take celebratory mass execution holiday over humdrum everyday mass execution any day of the week
Cresce wins by virtue of pomp and aesthetics alone.
For comparison, what an actual special execution looks like.
Well, I'm not gonna say there's no cookies being handed out at the Aldish death festival, but I'm not seeing any. Cresce remains the victor for now.
Cresce put up two pymary jumbo screens so people far away can watch.
no lsd cookies
no food stalls
no jungle gyms
no drinks
no funny vulgar cartoons
no Ufal
yawn city
In another post she says that people just don't tend to use it recreationally due the toxicity.
Yeah, I'm pretty sure she mentioned that the sacrifices are killed through forced Softi overdose.
Which also probably makes their flesh a bit hallucinogenic too
yeah, true on both counts
Seeing how tight the rope are hanging around the soldiers necks, looks like they'll be getting the slow choke instead of a neck snap. Very cruel
Look, I'm not going to lie, for a moment I thought they were selling pymarics sextoys of Rapesnake
pymarics sextoys of Rapesnake
Say wha? Beadman, we have a future bestseller here!
lol but really Ruck would be incensed
Yeah, there doesn’t look to be much room for them to drop. Makes sense, the Queen wants it to be a spectacle, not quick and clean.
Cresce does it fancier, with pomp and festivities and a panoply of color. It’s all about ritual and symbolism, marking the damned for Tirna. It’s supposed to be a show, but not a gory one.
Alderode does it bloodier, like a cat that plays with its food. They torture the damned to death in gory fashion, including disembowling someone while alive, then show off the bloody heads like it’s a prized pumpkin at the fair. They revel in the edginess.
Two different styles. Both equally valid in their own way. Personally, I prefer Cresce’s. Probably smells better and promises good food.
decades in the future Ruckmearhkha is dead and forgotten, but the extra large Ruck is still Bad Vliegeng's best seller
Someone's been reading history of public executions and why UK stopped doing them. People in cities started treating them like carnivals so the whole point of scaring people straight lost its meaning.
Counting the loops on the noose, you're probably right. Goddamn.
I bet my left arm it's Petr
People forget a lot of things are different in modern society compared to even just its own predecessors a mere two centuries before hand. How often do you think that criminal punishment used to not just include public execution, but public flogging? People locked up and perhaps even whipped in the public square, for everyone to see? Where humiliation, not just pain, was considered an important factor in justice?
There was a fundamental shift in how western society considered its members that moved even the harshest punishments away from that kind of almost participatory public display. Not just an increasing rejection of naked cruelty, but an increasing rejection of public ritual meant to reinforced a debasement of a person and their "inherent" human rights.
Things could be so much worse for people and they don't even realize it.
You mean Hetr? He died already. His soul is a fart in the wind.
Petr is the guy whos arm Duane sliced off in chapter 2
Somebody already guessed it in the notes before you
Aw fuck, is Keon done for? I think Ashley previously mentioned a scene of him getting tortured by his wife, but that might've been cut when books 2 and 3 got crunched together. Or maybe it's still on, but he'll be getting some public torture
RIP crab hands, you were a fuckhead. I wonder if his wife is gonna watch.
IIRC those aren't executions but them disposing of plague dead right?
That would be insanely stupid. Why would they import plage-dead from the next province and burn them in a big display in the city?
Definitely executions. The 'V' their robes form probably marks them as Vits inquisitors