177 – Welcoming Committee
Sorry this took so long again!
Not exact translation but she said *”Good evening darlings!”. They’re using one of the other dialects in the Philippines, which I have no idea how to speak, though I can sort of understand it even with the main dialect of the country with the help of dictionaries and Google Translate.
Combined two words that mean “cover, shield, protect… or maybe hide, secret/hidden” + “moon, or moonlit” to come up with Hinabulanon, so it’s something like Hidden Moon Village (what is this, Naruto? haha).
Dunno if it follows proper naming conventions, but it sounds cool enough to me. “Isog” means “brave” and seeing that she’s based on Polt the Kobold, I think something like that would be fitting for a warrior/guard. Could also call her “Ido” for dog. in the end it doesn’t matter that much, and Fishmeistercod (the suggester) went for Isog anyway.
The new guards here based on Skye and Nikky’s suggestions. Sorry Nikky, couldn’t make her that short for storytelling reasons!
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Transcript
[Back to reality - Hinabulanon Village]
Isog: Ma-ayong gab-i mga inday! (Good evening darlings!)
Guard A: Halt you...! Oh it's just Isog.
Guard B: Oi oi, what's this?
Guard B: Found some husbands out there for yourself didn't you?
Guard A: Can I have one please?
Isog: ...fiiine.
Cruz: At least buy me dinner first.
Keith: hey.
Guard A: Haha! Well guests, just be on your best behaviour and you'll find no problems with your stay!
Guard B: I'll be your dinner~ ...I'm winking if you can't tell.
Isog: come in, come in!
She said, “I’ll be your dinner.” Soes that mean she wants to be ‘eaten’?
😏
(starting to wonder how many smug faces I’m gonna have to make)
Dinner? Oh yeah they haven’t eat before the moon thing. But still, it’s a cult maybe they serve posiblee— HUMMAANNNN MEAAATTT!!!
She’s talking about a different kind of meal 😏
Oh ok? I was watching anime without sleeping today
Edit : Just want to insert some joke that’s all
I don’t know baby, I’m reaaaally hungry~
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DInner dinner… hmmm all the juicy foods. 😛
But to be more serious imho its a tad too dark, especially the last panel.
Do the cultists all have darkvision? Seems a bit strange to have no torches at the front gate.
Your shading still looks absolutely fabolous no matter what.
Thanks. Yeah, I’ve been worried if it’s a little too dark for you guys. It’s tricky depicting night and darkness: don’t want it too dark or else you guys won’t see anything, don’t want it too bright or else it stops looking like dark/night and you’ll miss out on some impressive effects brought by shadows.
Buuut, I think I’ll slightly tone down on the darkness for the next pages though…
And yeah, they can see in the dark, which I was gonna mention in the next couple of pages. A nice little benefit of worshipping a moon goddess. :p
Poor Keith though, can’t see a thing with not being able to see the moon, and thus moonlight.
Zero comments? This cannot be allowed to stand!
Seriously though, nice job with the shadows in panel 4. You obviously put a lot of work into it and it looks great!
Thanks! Yeah, but shading was the easy part, drawing the whole thing on the other hand…. Oh well, it’s all to get better in the end!