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Hi all!
What a week. Huh?
Hope you’ve enjoyed it.
Thank you for your patience with the delays in updates.
I was able to get each page out each day. But not at the normal midnight time.
THanks for your understanding.
Have a wonderful weekend.
Scott
Oh, great. Nicodemus is about to reveal a bigger evil than both him and the wraiths, isn’t he?
oh noes! now is the part where he says he killed/ate her parents. Oh Nic when will you learn elves are for looking at not eating, silly dragon.
That would certainly be one way to lengthen the plot. But it wouldn’t explain/condone Nic’s actions over the past years.
It didn’t work in Albion why would it work in Dreamland?
Oh dear…I’m almost afraid to know. However, I’ll be waiting eagerly all weekend to find out what’s up at the same time.
Wonderful as always!
Or maybe… her parents made him do it from the beginning! D:
Hey everyone! Let’s petition Scott to produce 7 days a week!
Argh… gotta wait a whole weekend to find out!?!?!?!?
Its not so much that as they don’t have much meat on them.
Well done Scott, well done!
Especially in the face of sick little ones, whom I hope are much better and ready to get outside on a great weekend!
Looking forward to Monday!! … Ugh, wait a minute, what did I just say? 😉
It’s times like this that I’m glad I have a time machine. Time to read ahead!
New slogan for ya Scott… “The Dreamland Chronicles…. a reason to look forward to Mondays”
🙂
Dun dun duh!
Your parents were quite tasty… basted with sweet hickory sauce and slow roasted over an open flame. PERFECT Elven BBQ!! Time to add some HUMAN to the menu!!
I’m TURRIBLE!! I know, I know… I *hope* ol’ Nic didn’t EAT them, but he might have had something horrible happen to them none the less. Sure sounds that way…
Ever see an elven chick pull the wings off a dragon? It might just happen… depending on Nic’s next words.
Oh, forgot to mention… Alex seems to be “floating” in the 2nd panel… perhaps a bit more shadow under him? I see it behind him, but the others have darker shadows directly below them. Just a suggestion ^.^
HO boy… this isn’t going to be pleasant for at leased one character…
Whats funny is, ive been trying to get my bf to read this for years now. He kept refusing based on the artwork of all this. He doesnt like this type of comic artwork. A couple of weeks ago he was excited about something and when I asked him what he was saying he found this really funny new comic he found. It was Dreamland Chronicles, I said its about time. Now hes trying to get caught up and gets mad at me when I show him some of the pages he hasnt gotten to. Way to go Scott, congrats.
Eep!! Well, what? What?! What is it, Nic, what is it?!?!?!?
As much as I anxiously await updates, weekends are good to have 🙂 Have a good weekend, and to the youngling: Get well soon!
Maybe the breaking of the tablets somehow resulted in the elven royals’ deaths. Or will if the heroes don’t act fast.
Just finished the archives, this is pretty awesome.
I also love that I spotted a few people I already know in the comments!
:waves at TekServer and JakesDad:
Oh no! Her parents are dead!
You know Scott, it is positively scandalous that you did not update at midnight. Of course you never did in the first place, as midnight is at best a flexible concept. Midnight where?
My 2 cents for a guy with an intercontinental audience: always update at midnight, just specify the place. For instance, assume you are a couple hours late:
“In Honour of our Hawaian readers, here at exactly midnight the new page”.
Or if you are really much delayed:
“Our European readers got the midnight update today” (gives you ca 16h breathing time – just ignore this puny “date line” in the pacific)
😀
Gah, what a cliff hanger! You do this on purpose don’t you?! 😮
*sigh* Hasn’t Nas ever done a jigsaw puzzle? (I mean, I can imagine that Alex hasn’t, but seriously?) Grab a dustpan, kids.
That, or it’s: “Thank you, Princess! But our hero’s in another castle!”
I still can’t believe they aren’t all roasted.
@Strike_Rehyi: Welcome! 🙂
Please share with us!
I think I know whats going on. That isn’t the real tablet, and Nic is going to tell her her parents are dead and they really aren’t. To much suspense! Monday, come quickly! 🙂
Can you time-machine-ify me a screenshot?
: O)
seems like everyone here is convinced nic meant something horrible has happened to her parents…
my first impression upon reading this page was that nic meant “this war/tablet finding exercise isn’t just about finding your parents… this is about dreamland’s future. dreamland can collapse. completely. in the next 10min. then you can forget about finding your parents.” something like that =3
am i alone in this? ^^;;
Nastajia’s expression in the third panel; I hope it took you a long time to create, Scott, because I think it is the most ‘human’ expression of all – made me sniffle. 🙁
ALSO – if you don’t make this right at some point…. I will never click on an advert again!!
Hmm. I wouldn’t jump to conclusions. Old Nick has turned out to be wrong on quite a few things. He may not know as much as he THINKS he does.
Okay, how about this? Nicodemus is really a loyal servant of the King of the Elves. The Wraiths kidnapped the King and Queen, and are blackmailing Nicodemus to commit his treasonous acts in taking over Dreamland. Nic is not permitted to tell anyone upon threat of death to the King and Queen. Nic believed that with the Sword in his possession he could defeat the Wraiths and free Anastajia’s parents. He now fears when the Wraiths learn of his defeat they will destroy the King and Queen.
Nancy says if I am right she is never talking to me again.
If that is true Nicodemus must be one hell of a sleeper agent if that got past the entirity of the Elven royal household.
I’m just trying to decipher that expression. Smugness? Last laugh? Whatever it is it ain’t promising.
On a similar note was Nastajia always that tall? She towers over Alex…
I have a baaad feeling abouut this. I’m thinking that the pile of burnt rubble isn’t the tablet at all, but what’s left of Nastajia’s parents (and maybe the previous Dwarf king, etc.), i.e. what Nic so crypically refered to as “what you came here to find”. I hope I’m wrong.
Nick, you’re confusing the heck out of me. Alex just rubbed his victory in your face; Felicity was mouthy; Bognok declares he’s no longer your ally and supports the idea of a human king; all of your greatest enemies are in the room, and you show sadness for the fate of Nastajia’s parents, people you never got along with.
Tash: You killed my father?!?
Nic: No, *I* am your father.
Taji: No… that’s not true! That’s impossible!
Nic: Search your feelings. You know it to be true.
Taji: NOOOOOOOOO!
Nicodemus ate Nastajia’s parents with fava beans and a nice chianti.
did nic kill nast’s parents? i hope not. 🙁
Aw… bad dragon! No cliffhanger-ey speeches allowed!
Yeah!
Here comes the part where he SOMEHOW ropes humanity into being the villain.
Oh Nic, you gadfly!
I bet you that tablet says that the hidden isle of Seraphopolis where the fabled Guardians reside is an Island of Dreamland inside of the nightmare realm. The tablet also said how to enter the nightmare realm.
Only that you’ll like the story. 😉
Sorry, no data besides mental can be transfered, and I really don’t want to tinker with what works!
That’s not sadness. Nick is loving being able to rub bad news in. Kind of like the emperor in Star Wars saying “I’m afraid the energy shield will be quite operational when your friends arrive.” He wasn’t afraid, and Nick isn’t sad or afraid either. HE CAN FLY OUT OF THERE. He has his way of escape, all he’s doing is winning the mental battle while loosing the physical one. Nick is pretty good at turning things into not a total loss.
While that may sound interesting, it is, in fact, impossible: Nicodemus commited his traitorous acts with his takeover of Dreamland back in the days of King Arthur, while he later visited the Elven king and queen, in Alex’s time.
Not a chance.
Scott’s darn near killing himself to bring us five comics a week. I, for one, will vigorously defend his right to have his weekends off to spend time with his wonderful family.
Hey, welcome back! Where ya been?
I’m still waiting for Nic to squash them – unless he has some diabolical plan still up his sleeve – er, scales.
5 days a week updating a very HIGH QUALITY comic. (gotta agree with you Tek, gotta agree with you every inch of the way)
Young Wayne, you need to drink a smoothie and wait in line with a grin… like the rest of us! 😀
After reading this one… I swear, Scott. You eat cliffhangers for breakfast! I MEAN COME OOOOOON… 😛
Pleasantries aside, I kneeew it. Tutor to Julius Caesar, Arthur Pendragon, Cleopatra… come on, the guy has done his homework, my homework, your homework AND knocked out cold the teacher!
Beings of inmense power are often aware of many events in simultaneously different levels. Me thinks Big Red Scally One is this kind of power player. Yet how powerful he really is, I don’t know.
*fastens his seatbelt*
Ok Mr. Sava, I’m ready: bring on the thunder!
LOL
Or they could just ask the sword what it knows….
Yes princess, those parents of yours made lovely hotdogs. You elves are just the right size for a proper dragon-style hotdog.
Nic’s quite right though. Who brought war, death and destruction to dreamland? The human.
Noooo! I’ve caught up with the story. 🙁 Finished reading the archives. I want to read more! Lol.
NIC LOOKS TOO DAMN SMUG! MUST PUNCH SMUG FACE RAWR
Far more tragic? Nic killed Nasti’s parents and mixed their ashes with the remains of the tablet..just to be nasty..
as would i he going thru alot problems let the man have his rest
worse…. they may have done this to prevent her from following her and are trapped in the nightmare zone
ack i meant to say from her following them^
nico you dont ever want to say FAR worse..
with 5 people that want to ventilate your hide for what you did to astoria and think you should die where you standing at the moment.
I was gonna say, Nic’s taking all these people entering the treasury pretty well
We get around 18 to 20 frames per week. Packaging them in pages of 3 frames should not take any longer than pages of 4 frames.
I think the 4 frames per page looks good. It is Saturday and I was able to read 8 frames. 🙂 You could get a full set of 20 if you wait a week.
I suppose you’re right.
But what did the Dragon bring to his rule?
– Appeasement of the Nightmare Realm
– Kidnapping and terrorizing children
– Piracy (and not the fun Hollywood kind)
– Secrets, lies, and manipulation
– And who knows how much murder and mayhem hidden in the shadows
Yeah, war’s not looking so bad by comparison …
😉
For some reason I have trouble reading that expression on his face.
I am really enjoying how throughout the last several panels Nasti and the dwarf have walked in the room completely ignoring Nicodemos. It’s like the biggest slap in the face ever. And it’s awesome. 🙂
i don’t know id be a little careful if there was a dragon in the room with me. but then that dwarf did bash him across the side of his city and o well about the tablet they can just ask the sword I’m sure one king at one time went to the guardians lands / secret what not place I’m guessing island or underground.
by the way thank you for the awesome webcomic i just caught up with the rest of the story. litteraly couldnt stop tile i got to the end. keep up the good work and enjoy the rest of your weekend !
Get ready for another Princess Bride twist.
Not all the birds are in yet. He’s got to be waiting for Orion the Centaur and Pistacio of the Fairies. Then… one breath to crisp them all, one breath to bake them.
Oh my!
I think I see what has happened too, sadly.
OMG … Nic IS her father. 😛
What? WHAT?
You’re leaving us with a cliffhanger like that?
That’s not faaaaaaaaair~! :C
Man, this comic is rad. I finally caught up the other day and I just can’t get over how awesome it is. c:
Welcome, fellow Dreamer!
“Your parents… have become WRAITHS!”
I suspect that TekServer has never been stomped on by a centaur or beaten to death with a dwarf’s hammer.
Just haven’t had much to say on Zap! I’ve been liking posts but not commenting on pages.
No, I can’t say that I have.
I can say, however, that I would cheerfully kill or die to keep children out of the hands of such monstrosities as the pirates and the Nightmare Realm denizens. That’s not something Nick can say, and no amount of justification will ever make that right.
(Sorry, but I have a serious problem with people who will forgive any atrocity because they think war would be worse. Sometimes war IS the lesser evil. And that’s all I’ll say on that, because if I go further this will devolve into a discussion of politics and/or current events in the “real” world, and I come here to get away from those things … )
😉
Well said, Tek. 🙂
your good
Nicodemus: “I’m afraid it’s much more tragic than that, princess. They were to be the main course.”
Nastajia: “You ate my parents?!”
Nicodemus: “No…unfortunately I burnt them into inedibility. That is the sole tragedy.”
Like what? Azathoth?