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Don’t forget…this weekend, I’ll be at GMX in Nashville! Come say hi!
I did a new painting yesterday.
Another 3 hour watercolor sketch!
There’s more on Ebay here…
Please check them out…
I’m having a lot of fun…and plan on doing several more.
Scott
While I think the scratches are cool, I hope the blacksmiths added an extra layer of interior metal to reinforce the compromised structure of the awesome outside. (I’m thinking about this too much.) Thanks for the awesome comic!
Good thought. Perhaps the blacksmiths filled the claw-mark grooves with a transparent epoxy resin to give it strength and retain panache!
That was my same exact first thought!
Oh, Scott – you’ve fallen into the trap of using a capital letter to imply or emphasise importance: the noun “blacksmiths”, as you’ve used it in the letter, only gets a capital if it starts a sentence. E.G. “Blacksmiths have worked tirelessly …” otherwise it is lower-case “… our blacksmiths …”, however, your use of the capital K in “King of Dreamland” is correct as it is a title. If the letter had said “… as the king, you are expected …” you’d use a lower-case k.
Apart from all that, keep up the excellent work, I’ve followed you from the beginning of this impressive series and look forward to enjoying much more of your impressive craftsmanship.
Armour with a ‘u’? I thought you were from the States (I get some comments from my US friends when I write stabilise etc).
And I second Greg, thanks for putting this awesome graphic novel on the web! I visit this site every day. Like it a LOT!
I’m wondering why they don’t have other clothing for him to wear while his armor is being repaired.
Magic…plain and simple.
🙂
Actually…it wasn’t ME that fell to that gramatical blunder…
…it was ARVAMAS!
🙂
Thank you.
I DO spell Armor without the u. I am from the states.
But…I figured Arvamas is more “cultured” than I.
SO he’d use the “u”
My understanding is…the armor (magical armor) is the ONLY thing that will always be there for him when he comes to Dreamland.
Otherwise…normal clothes would just drop off when he disappears.
Nice, looks like those blacksmiths did a good job! ^_^
And what you don’t see behind Alex’s hand is “P.P.S. Nastajia fought and argued but I made her acknowledge that you simply can’t walk around in your undies no matter what lovely behind you possess.”
“My understanding is…the armor (magical armor) is the ONLY thing that will always be there for him when he comes to Dreamland.
Otherwise…normal clothes would just drop off when he disappears.”
So how does he have the underwear? Is he a Mormon?
Also, any suit of plate would include an arming jacket (gambeson) to which the pieces of the plate attach.
Put on your shirt, gambeson, trous, coif, and boots. Then your squire straps the cuirass (breastplate) (and backplate if present) on. Then you attach the fauld to the cuirass (strips or maille to protect the groin, hangs from the cuirass). Then you put on your greaves (plate that covers the front and back of the lower legs, as well as the top of the feet). These are strapped onto a belt, essentially a garter. Then rerebraces and vambraces (upper and lower armguards) connected by the cowter (elbow joint plates). These hook into the cuirass and backplate, and are covered by the pauldrons (shoulder guards). Then put on your gorget (collar, goes around the neck. This flares out and down.) and next your gloves. Then your gauntlets go over the gloves. Finally, your helm goes on. You are now wearing full plate. Under that is a layer of padded cloth that both serves as armour against arrows and keeps the plate from pinching skin. If you want to see why that’s important, find your local SCA group and offer to put on a set without the gambeson and coif. Then have them hit you and see how well it absorbs impacts without the padding. Wait for the laughter to subside, thank them, and patch your cuts up.
I simplified the above a bit. “strap it on” tends to require at least 1 extra person, often more. It’s well-articulated stuff, you can get up if you fall down, but it’s still hot, heavy, and very annoying to put on OR take off. I’ve made enough of it, worn enough of it, and helped enough medics get the injured out of it to know.
The clothes he wears in the real world are projected to his dream state.
I was referring to any clothes he might wear in dreamland.
They would fall to the ground where he stood before waking up.
He would have to get dressed again upon entering dreamland each night.
Magic…plain and simple.
😀
I’d also reinforce the edges of the cuts. But filling them with a different allow would still be best: our wise mature King would still have his claw marks to show off, and the armour itself would have much more structural integrity.
I already see it crack open when some giant foe or a heavy side blow squeezes it. Must be a plot thing; smithy’s QA would cry bloody murder otherwise.
I’ve often wondered why, if he knows this, he doesn’t at least wear shorts over his boxers (and potentially a light shirt) to bed. The shorts shouldn’t add much (if any) discomfort, and would add a lot more modesty. Also, even if they would fall off when he woke up, it still would be nice to at least outfit him a little bit while he was there, but not wearing armor.
Hahahahha! I like it! Although, I have to admit, Arvamas’ wording, “prance about in your undergarments” made me lol. Not just the saying either, really laughing out loud. Good job once again, Scott. That’s just what I’d expect from his character.
…seriously? Although I see where you could get that comment, being a Mormon does not have anything to do with boxers appearing in Alex’s dream. Trust me, I know, being one myself. 😛
Although, I’m pretty sure Scott mentioned this phenomenon before, when Alex first got back to dreamland.
Yep, found it 😀
http://thedreamlandchronicles.com/the-dreamland-chronicles/chapter-02/page-55/
http://thedreamlandchronicles.com/the-dreamland-chronicles/chapter-02/page-77/
the first one is when it’s first mentioned, and the second is when Alex answers it for myself.
“..to prance about…” is a small tribute to Tolkien’s “Prancing Pony Inn”?
Well, in that case I see no problem in giving him a robe to don while they fixed his armor?
“No, we can’t give you anything to wear, because it would get DIRTY when it drops to the floor when you wake up! And you’d have to put it BACK ON (Good Grief!) once you come back to Dreamland!”
?????? X-D ??????
So being cultured means using the Canadian spelling? I never knew Canada was so upper crust. ^,^
My thoughts exactly!
I don’t think so. Prancing is just a work like any other. Less used maybe, but still just a word. Also, I’ve seen specific discussion pages on some pages, but I’ve also seen mention of a forum. Is there a forum somewhere, and if so, where?
I’m sure as soon as Alex thinks of that….
Oh wait… It IS Alex we’re talking about huh?
Maybe Dan would suggest it at some point.
Canadians use UK spelling too? Never knew that.
Thanks Lunaroki, for learning me something new 🙂
Boy, people take things on the internet WAY to seriously. It’s a comic, have fun with it and don’t nit-pick it to death. Why do some people have to be so retentive? It doesn’t show everyone else that a person is intellectual, just shows they are retentive.
Actually, it’s called English. One of the more petty founding fathers went thru the language and changed the spelling so as to not be like the British. We Canucks use a hybrid spelling system, for instance, we don’t use gaol, or tyre. Well, not now. Still see Gaol on some old prison signs. One is near the city I live in. Also, the ‘u’ indicates a subtlety in enunciation most can’t be bothered with, and the fact English is heavily influenced by French after it became the court language (the Court spoke only French for near 200 yrs)after William of Normandy killed the last true English king, Harold, at the Battle of Hastings.
Leaving those scratches could come back to bite him in the butt. One well-placed arrow/dagger/sword/weapon of mass destruction…
And maybe Elvish is like German in that all the nouns are capitalized–and he just did it by force of habit?
Ahhh, I love this comic. And even though I only found it just last December, it feels so nostalgic… maybe because, growing up, my dreams were like Alex’s… everything kept growing up with me within the dreams, and they remembered me when I returned after however long it took to dream that particular dream again. I’m not ashamed to admit I miss my friends, my adventures, even the dangers I encountered from my ‘Dream World’… *Loses himself in a happy daydream* KEEP UP THE AWESOME WORK!!!!
My Texan friend called it ‘Queen’s English’ to avoid confusion.
Coincidentally, she’s a Choctaw, and she’s given me a medicine bag. 8)
🙂
Thank you Ogre!
Welcome to Dreamland!
Rendering………………….
……….still rendering…………
……should be ready in the morning.
+1
“… However the scratches contain a powerful curse. While this will save me time and trouble in casting the curse I was organizing myself, it is not one to my liking and I may have to resurrect you after your fall to privately administer my own – loose ends and Elvish OCD, you understand.”
No, the King requested that the scratches be left. The armorsmiths left them untouched. They have not been reinforced, they are now a major structural weakness. This also means, with the right leverage, Nicodemus could get the smiths to build *him* a magical suit of armor.
Hmm, I have been trying to read the note. But i have some big trouble with it. Can someone please write it done. thanks in many times.
Alexander,
Being that it is not proper
for the King of Dreamland
to prance about in his
undergarments… our
Blacksmiths have worked
tirelessly through the night
to clean and repair your
armour
Arvamas
(backside)
PS: The scratches on the
front of the chest plate
were left untouched,
per your request.
(There you go)
thanks
Never trust viziers, chancellors, chamberlains, and other such court functionaries!
😉
Alex: Arvamas, I DO NOT prance!
Arvamas: You’re human. All humans appear to be prancing to me. Of course, you are the only adult human I’ve ever met …
😉
They are official palace blacksmiths, so capital B Blacksmiths. As opposed to those other smiths who just yodel depressive lyrics