9/23/2024
Due to family medical issues, Requiem is on indefinite hiatus.
An elderly family member of ours took a bad fall on Labor Day night, and we’ve been dealing with the aftermath ever since. Hopefully, things will get sorted out, but as of right now, doing a daily comic is not something my schedule can allow.
Sorry to have this happen, but as everyone knows, real life comes first….and at least we don’t have too many running storylines on the backburner.
Dana McAllen is a member of the urban exploration association that is currently investigating remnants of the worlds previous civilization. She initially made her debut in the Tunnelrunners side comic. She has been Ian's closest friend since early childhood, and is still his closest confidant.
Thorondor “Ian” Caladharas is the 18 year old heir to one of the first of the Merchant Houses. An intelligent, independent teenager; Ian has a tendency towards irreverence and and frustration. In all honesty, he doesn’t care what his grandfather says he is heir to, he just wants to have a normal life. Or at least as normal a one as possible. (As my skills improved I made some revamps to this characters appearance to reflect aging and such as well. The top picture is how he is currently modeled. )
Julia Wells, significant other of Ian Caladharas. Julia co runs the Wells Hotel in Erech’s Clocktower District. For those people who have rpg’d in this world: The Wells Hotel is now known as Cytheron’s. Julia and Ian tied the knot in the City of Greyrest in the Crossing Territories.
Ian… was telling an uninvited, unknown, armed and aggressive individual exactly who you are the best move? The guy is here to do violence to someone. Occam’s Razor (or this culture’s equivalent)narrows the target to a few individuals. Even if others are starting to react and backup is on the way…
Still, nice to see Ian has been keeping up exploring his new abilities, probably with a situation like this in mind.
Anyway, there’s another good reason for that line: “Everyone knows” that the upper echelons of the Houses have access to all sorts of top secret laboratories and technology that no one else has ever heard of, so Ian must have been using some kind of personal defense gadget to shock his wrist…
Ian’s doesn’t need to worry about telling the guy who he is. He’s got martial arts training and magical powers!
Plus, he’s got a James Bond outfit. A principle rule of action movies is that in a fist fight, anyone fighting in a stiff tux is going to own anyone fighing in loose-fitting leather.
Still, nice to see Ian has been keeping up exploring his new abilities, probably with a situation like this in mind.
Anyway, there’s another good reason for that line: “Everyone knows” that the upper echelons of the Houses have access to all sorts of top secret laboratories and technology that no one else has ever heard of, so Ian must have been using some kind of personal defense gadget to shock his wrist…
Misdirection is a good thing.
Ian handled himself well – and what a great line!
Besides, he asked what he was, not who. So he might already know anyhow. 🙂
Plus, he’s got a James Bond outfit. A principle rule of action movies is that in a fist fight, anyone fighting in a stiff tux is going to own anyone fighing in loose-fitting leather.
I know. I figured that for once, I would indulge in a cliche 😉