I hope you enjoyed it.
I'll see you soon with the release :D
Italiano:
English:
-pirates like you've never seen'em before!
Showing posts with label chapter 9. Show all posts
Showing posts with label chapter 9. Show all posts
Wednesday, January 12, 2011
Wes and Kes Special - page 6
This marks the end of our Special.
I hope you enjoyed it.
I'll see you soon with the release :D
Italiano:
I hope you enjoyed it.
I'll see you soon with the release :D
Italiano:
Tuesday, January 11, 2011
Sunday, January 09, 2011
Saturday, January 08, 2011
Wes and Kes Special - page 2
English:
Italian:
Also... stay tuned. This afternoon, after I am done with work, I will upload a nice fan art from a new crewmemeber! *_*
Friday, January 07, 2011
Chapter 9 Final Curiosities
Here's our final chunk of curiosities related to chapter 9.
I know the structure of this chapter left some of you puzzled... but one of the reasons why it is called "midsummer night dream" is that most of it won't make sense now... but it will later.
Think of it as a pond... I threw a pebble in it... wait for the ripples to spread across the surface and when they are gone you'll see a different reflection in the water.
In this chapter a certain amount of things happen and they feel unreal... Lio does not catch Foxy's love confession... Pifo doesn't catch Quoque's, Castalia doesn't realize Kane is confessing too... and there are also many epiphanies.
Kane has an actual dream... like all dreams it has weird colors! Or better yet... they feel like they are in color but they might be in black and white and our brain tricks us to believe that things are colored. Can we really be sure that what we see is what we see in dreams? Because most of the times things make so much sense when you dream them and then you wake up and think: that was wacko!
Places feel like actual places but they are not and you are actor and spectator at the same time. This is one of those dreams where you see bridges and water... A bridge is always there when we are not certain about our future. Some people manage to cross the bridge in their dreams, because they are not scared of their future but a lot of people, all of sudden, find themselves in the water and in the water they have to deal with their fears.
I often find sharks in my water - it's linked to how angry I am about stuff, usually.
Kane finds some kind of mermaid or fairy who looks very much like Castalia and pulls him through his dream.
For a second his mind gets sucked into the past... probably trying to figure why and where everything begun.
But if he tells his doctor that he has too look at his future not at his past... then he has to believe his own words... hence his subconscious suggest: let's not go there. Let's move ahead.
What happens next is one of those dreams were things seem to make sense but they don't. The tense of the verbs and time is not quite here and now, nor there and then, not in the future either. But apparently Kane has a peaceful place where he goes at night and that is Badia and his grandpa's house. He keeps re-living a certain night, the night the only guidance in his life left him to deal with crap all by himself... and he cannot let him go. So even though the grandpa is dead he keeps going back to him and asks him questions.
Only this time, sinking in the water with the mermaid/fairy, he saw Castalia so he is there to break free and say: I will disobey, I will trust someone.
Now, remember that grandpa Cosimo is the one who left a scar on Kane's back to remind him he should never turn his back on anyone...
Clearly the boy took his word literally, and the scar helps him remember too, but he did not figure out one thing: if his grandpa died of old age, in his bed... it's because he trusted someone, he trusted Kane.
In this dream trust transitions from grandpa to Castalia. Kane is a sailor, after all, he just picked a new Polar Star. He needs something steady and unchanging to pick a direction and follow it. His grandfather was that something... until Castalia shows up and he can finally move ahead, out of that place of jaded emotions that kept him away from free choices and serene sleep.
Definitely his heart is the first thing to show him he is still alive and human.
The dream seals the deal.
The next thing to come back to life is his body.
It's as if the heart had started pumping blood back into a system that had belonged to a golem, doing things because that's who he was and had no choice but being who he was.
Now for Kane has come a time where he can stop telling people how to live their lives and get to live his own.
So he sings. Even though he said he could not. He sings and does not care. He sings.
Sorry, the song is something I made up, not an actual Neapolitan song.
I can finally answer some of the questions I could not talk about in the famous "crappy post". Sometimes I wish I could answer to your questions but if I do I give the story away and that's a major spoiler.
So you have to be patient and wait for the story to unfold and trust the story...
The question was: do they wipe after they poop?
I said "no" back then.
But the answer is: no, they use stones or wash.
Three stones or stones in odd number because there are Muslims on board of Kane's ship.
The habit of washing after going to the toilet (using a bidet - that Wikipedia says to be very common in France but I never saw one when I was living there... in fact most Italians have a mystical crisis when they go abroad and cannot find a bidet because we do wipe and wash, wipe alone is not enough...) most likely comes from the sharia which says that you must wash your anus after pooping or use stones. (and I made this veeeery simple but let's just leave it a that)
Is Kane Foxy's new dad? XDDD
No.
No matter what the boy still has a stronger attachment to the doctor.
He spent most of his time in sick bay talking to him and getting cured with fake medicines, before Lio showed up... and hence, sorry Wes, you are still the daddy.
But kids have to go their ways and the doc will do anything to have him cured.
Keep on trying Wes!
What is Kane doing with his hand? He is saying "3"!
Counting with fingers is very different around the World... take the Chinese way to count with fingers... in Singapore what they use for 7 it's a 5.
This is how you count in Japan.
In Italy you use the thumb, index and medium to say "3". When my mom went to New York the first time... she ordered 3 coffees for 5 days and always got 2 because the tender could not see and count her thumb. On the 6th day she saw someone else using index, middle and ring finger and finally figured out: in the U.s. they count differently.
It's kind of nice to look at it too... as I imagine Amil to be the cute, little, chubby thumb under two big brothers.
So did you figure out why he shouted: "you bad brother" to Josh... and why he said that Kane had a brother that could be Pifo's interest "if you like the type"? He wasn't really pushing his beloved in his big brother's arms! He was trying to figure out a way to confess. Amil is very shy and also... not very good at communications as the language barrier is still pretty big for him.
And... does it finally make sense why Kane has 15 year old boy (going on 16 XDD) as a cook? A cook on Balthasar's ship is someone you must trust with your own life. Blood brothers are cool but your little brother is better XDDD.
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as for the order of the events: here goes the Memento cut.
Pifo vs Josh
Pifo is kissed straight
Pifo and Quoque
Pifo gets confused and Rose cannot help
Foxy visits Lio
Pifo begins distributing corn
Kane and Castalia's first conversation
Pifo gives corn to the doc
Wes and Kes dinner
Josh and Kane's conversation
Pifo gives corn to Castalia
Cat and Calista's grapnel adventure
Pifo gives corn to Cat and Callista
Kane confesses to Castalia
Lio and Foxy do stuff and Foxy confesses his love
The doctor in Hell
Cassandra searches the room and read the journal
Castalia wakes up but Kane doesn't
Kane has a dream and is awakened by Giovannino
Lio and Foxy return on the Alidivento
Cat, Foxy and Wes go pee
Kane shows up
Pifo is still in trance
Wes and Kane talk to Pifo
Pifo is kissed gay again
Pifo starts the morning gymnastics
Pea returns, Callista cries
The pirates get ready
Cat talks to Callista (so page 35 is the last one in chronological order).
Why Deda? Because it can be done...
I am still fixing stuff in this chapter - my work is keeping me away from life (I have started this post about 6 hours ago) and some things work better in the Italian version because of the existence of a certain verb called Imperfetto that helps keeping time transition a bit more blurry... (I am changing both versions to a more definitive time-line keeping the Inception b.s. to the minimum XDD)
Isn't that the best? You can write stories on post-its and move the post-its around :D
It's fun!
That and... I'm an evil pirate!
I know the structure of this chapter left some of you puzzled... but one of the reasons why it is called "midsummer night dream" is that most of it won't make sense now... but it will later.
Think of it as a pond... I threw a pebble in it... wait for the ripples to spread across the surface and when they are gone you'll see a different reflection in the water.
In this chapter a certain amount of things happen and they feel unreal... Lio does not catch Foxy's love confession... Pifo doesn't catch Quoque's, Castalia doesn't realize Kane is confessing too... and there are also many epiphanies.
Kane has an actual dream... like all dreams it has weird colors! Or better yet... they feel like they are in color but they might be in black and white and our brain tricks us to believe that things are colored. Can we really be sure that what we see is what we see in dreams? Because most of the times things make so much sense when you dream them and then you wake up and think: that was wacko!Places feel like actual places but they are not and you are actor and spectator at the same time. This is one of those dreams where you see bridges and water... A bridge is always there when we are not certain about our future. Some people manage to cross the bridge in their dreams, because they are not scared of their future but a lot of people, all of sudden, find themselves in the water and in the water they have to deal with their fears.
I often find sharks in my water - it's linked to how angry I am about stuff, usually.
Kane finds some kind of mermaid or fairy who looks very much like Castalia and pulls him through his dream.
For a second his mind gets sucked into the past... probably trying to figure why and where everything begun.But if he tells his doctor that he has too look at his future not at his past... then he has to believe his own words... hence his subconscious suggest: let's not go there. Let's move ahead.
What happens next is one of those dreams were things seem to make sense but they don't. The tense of the verbs and time is not quite here and now, nor there and then, not in the future either. But apparently Kane has a peaceful place where he goes at night and that is Badia and his grandpa's house. He keeps re-living a certain night, the night the only guidance in his life left him to deal with crap all by himself... and he cannot let him go. So even though the grandpa is dead he keeps going back to him and asks him questions.
Only this time, sinking in the water with the mermaid/fairy, he saw Castalia so he is there to break free and say: I will disobey, I will trust someone.
Now, remember that grandpa Cosimo is the one who left a scar on Kane's back to remind him he should never turn his back on anyone...
Clearly the boy took his word literally, and the scar helps him remember too, but he did not figure out one thing: if his grandpa died of old age, in his bed... it's because he trusted someone, he trusted Kane.
In this dream trust transitions from grandpa to Castalia. Kane is a sailor, after all, he just picked a new Polar Star. He needs something steady and unchanging to pick a direction and follow it. His grandfather was that something... until Castalia shows up and he can finally move ahead, out of that place of jaded emotions that kept him away from free choices and serene sleep.
Definitely his heart is the first thing to show him he is still alive and human.The dream seals the deal.
The next thing to come back to life is his body.
It's as if the heart had started pumping blood back into a system that had belonged to a golem, doing things because that's who he was and had no choice but being who he was.
Now for Kane has come a time where he can stop telling people how to live their lives and get to live his own.
So he sings. Even though he said he could not. He sings and does not care. He sings.Sorry, the song is something I made up, not an actual Neapolitan song.
I can finally answer some of the questions I could not talk about in the famous "crappy post". Sometimes I wish I could answer to your questions but if I do I give the story away and that's a major spoiler.So you have to be patient and wait for the story to unfold and trust the story...
The question was: do they wipe after they poop?
I said "no" back then.
But the answer is: no, they use stones or wash.
Three stones or stones in odd number because there are Muslims on board of Kane's ship.
The habit of washing after going to the toilet (using a bidet - that Wikipedia says to be very common in France but I never saw one when I was living there... in fact most Italians have a mystical crisis when they go abroad and cannot find a bidet because we do wipe and wash, wipe alone is not enough...) most likely comes from the sharia which says that you must wash your anus after pooping or use stones. (and I made this veeeery simple but let's just leave it a that)
Is Kane Foxy's new dad? XDDDNo.
No matter what the boy still has a stronger attachment to the doctor.
He spent most of his time in sick bay talking to him and getting cured with fake medicines, before Lio showed up... and hence, sorry Wes, you are still the daddy.
But kids have to go their ways and the doc will do anything to have him cured.
Keep on trying Wes!
What is Kane doing with his hand? He is saying "3"!Counting with fingers is very different around the World... take the Chinese way to count with fingers... in Singapore what they use for 7 it's a 5.
This is how you count in Japan.
In Italy you use the thumb, index and medium to say "3". When my mom went to New York the first time... she ordered 3 coffees for 5 days and always got 2 because the tender could not see and count her thumb. On the 6th day she saw someone else using index, middle and ring finger and finally figured out: in the U.s. they count differently.
It's kind of nice to look at it too... as I imagine Amil to be the cute, little, chubby thumb under two big brothers.
So did you figure out why he shouted: "you bad brother" to Josh... and why he said that Kane had a brother that could be Pifo's interest "if you like the type"? He wasn't really pushing his beloved in his big brother's arms! He was trying to figure out a way to confess. Amil is very shy and also... not very good at communications as the language barrier is still pretty big for him.
And... does it finally make sense why Kane has 15 year old boy (going on 16 XDD) as a cook? A cook on Balthasar's ship is someone you must trust with your own life. Blood brothers are cool but your little brother is better XDDD.
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as for the order of the events: here goes the Memento cut.
Pifo vs Josh
Pifo is kissed straight
Pifo and Quoque
Pifo gets confused and Rose cannot help
Foxy visits Lio
Pifo begins distributing corn
Kane and Castalia's first conversation
Pifo gives corn to the doc
Wes and Kes dinner
Josh and Kane's conversation
Pifo gives corn to Castalia
Cat and Calista's grapnel adventure
Pifo gives corn to Cat and Callista
Kane confesses to Castalia
Lio and Foxy do stuff and Foxy confesses his love
The doctor in Hell
Cassandra searches the room and read the journal
Castalia wakes up but Kane doesn't
Kane has a dream and is awakened by Giovannino
Lio and Foxy return on the Alidivento
Cat, Foxy and Wes go pee
Kane shows up
Pifo is still in trance
Wes and Kane talk to Pifo
Pifo is kissed gay again
Pifo starts the morning gymnastics
Pea returns, Callista cries
The pirates get ready
Cat talks to Callista (so page 35 is the last one in chronological order).
Why Deda? Because it can be done...
I am still fixing stuff in this chapter - my work is keeping me away from life (I have started this post about 6 hours ago) and some things work better in the Italian version because of the existence of a certain verb called Imperfetto that helps keeping time transition a bit more blurry... (I am changing both versions to a more definitive time-line keeping the Inception b.s. to the minimum XDD)
Isn't that the best? You can write stories on post-its and move the post-its around :D
It's fun!
That and... I'm an evil pirate!
Thursday, January 06, 2011
The Pirate Balthasar - Chapter 9 END
Finally Chapter 9 comes to and end... but we have a 7 pages special coming our way... and it will keep us company until the next release! :D
Tuesday, December 28, 2010
Chapter 9 C - Curiosities
This part of the chapter focused more on behavior and responses.
At this point the girls have been on board almost two months and things are developing really fast.
I keep telling how much shorter life was so... even if we keep saying that today life is fast... it actually is slower. We get married in our thirties... work until we are 60... go to school until we are 22... in short we may rush through our daily life but we can take our time to make big decisions.
Don't be surprised that Romeo and Juliet fall in love in one night... life is short and time cannot be wasted.
Cassandra did something naughty naughty. She knows the truth about the doctor and that's all we need to know. I am not going to talk about his past until the comic is over and then I'll do the special about how the guys met. Right now we need to know that it was probably bad but he won't talk about it.
Castalia went through a lot in one night.
The XVII century was already very smelly, filthy and sticky (things will get worse in the XVIII century when people starts to cover stuff up with make up and perfumes - instead of taking a bath!). Bad odors... kind of disappeared from our lives after WWII, but before that (even though the transition between wars was not that bad)... the World was a stinky place, full of dirty people. How could people fall in love and be intimate with a smelly partner?
At this point the girls have been on board almost two months and things are developing really fast.
I keep telling how much shorter life was so... even if we keep saying that today life is fast... it actually is slower. We get married in our thirties... work until we are 60... go to school until we are 22... in short we may rush through our daily life but we can take our time to make big decisions.
Don't be surprised that Romeo and Juliet fall in love in one night... life is short and time cannot be wasted.
Cassandra did something naughty naughty. She knows the truth about the doctor and that's all we need to know. I am not going to talk about his past until the comic is over and then I'll do the special about how the guys met. Right now we need to know that it was probably bad but he won't talk about it.
Castalia went through a lot in one night.Clearly she knew from the start that she was not "the chosen one" and everything happens for a reason.
She tried very hard to make the man change his mind. When she doesn't try hard... that's when she succeed and she doesn't even know it. She was brave enough to listen to the whole conversation and confront the man right away... that's what makes her special, right?
But that's the kind of girl she is... unafraid of truth and she does not like to beat about the bush either.
Kane who, in a way, was always honest to her and never put a mask on because he does wear one... finally decided to come clean and stop hiding what he was hiding.
In the end she bites him, yeah, that bite is worth more than a thousand kisses and those are tears of relief in her eyes.
The XVII century was already very smelly, filthy and sticky (things will get worse in the XVIII century when people starts to cover stuff up with make up and perfumes - instead of taking a bath!). Bad odors... kind of disappeared from our lives after WWII, but before that (even though the transition between wars was not that bad)... the World was a stinky place, full of dirty people. How could people fall in love and be intimate with a smelly partner?Well, let me tell you... everybody was stinky and so nobody noticed.
The very least you could think of, at this moment, is that the itchy chin really is nothing compared to the smell of sweat and the foul breath people have in the morning. Plus it's not like Kane might have soft skin... it's rough and "baked" in the sun. His hands are definitely covered by calluses and are pretty rough too.
But this is the first time Castalia wakes up with him and finds out his sleeping habits. He is completely defenseless and seems to be exhausted. Plus... he doesn't really wake up, does he? He just randomly answer to her questions in his sleep but kinda turn around and... snoooooooores back into slumber.
She really likes that!
Monday, December 27, 2010
The Pirate Balthasar - Chapter 9 C
Alright, me hearties... as usual you can either click on the title of the post to reach Smack Jeeves and read from the last bookmarked page since last update (and this time I timed it right so there's no page left out).
Or you can go ahead and use the flash reader which, apparently, has been improved like a lot (since Issu wrote an email about the improvement and seemed so proud about it).
So here's the update! Enjoy!
Or you can go ahead and use the flash reader which, apparently, has been improved like a lot (since Issu wrote an email about the improvement and seemed so proud about it).
So here's the update! Enjoy!
Wednesday, December 08, 2010
Chapter 9 curiosities
Galleria Melonella is a caterpillar that feeds on honeycomb: they are like fat white caterpillars with a brown head. They are used in the pet industry... if you own a lizard... because they are very fat and have high caloric content. They apparently taste sweet.Don't ask me how Kane figured out he could breed and feed them to the pet. He probably figured out they are easy to breed and maggots are too small. (there a smaller version of this insect and it grows inside of flour bags).
Eventually if he gets across a cricket or a fly he would catch it too. Variety in a pet's diet, is always good and makes them healthy.
Apparently Fickle likes them a lot, he must have a sweet tooth.
What do you girls call your Red Harpies?Mine are called the cherries... that's because if you eat too many cherries you get stomach ache and... also... of course... cherries are red.
So see... by the fact the girls are approaching their period we know that a month has almost gone by since chapter 5. Wow!
With that sentence Lio is saying to things: 1) Foxy must pull out ^^" (sorry, kinda brutal) 2) she is not for intercourse during those days!
A pirate boarding... ooooh.I always wanted to try one of those...
Actually the grapnel, attached to a rope, were more used to pull the ships together.... it stabilized the boarding.
I wonder when in movies they started showing pirates flying around attached to a grapnel... how big must a grapnel be to hold a pirate?
so, duh, sorry for making fun of that but a grapnel might hold Cat, since he is a short boy... but two of them? I wonder.... we shall see.
Apuleius... guess the story she is referring to?Of course it's another story about kidnapping: Love and Psyche.
The Metamorphoses of Apuleius also known as The Golden Ass (pf course she got the animal right but felt bad about the world ass)... follows the adventures of this guy, Lucius, who gets transformed into an ass (actually he does it himself LOL so he's kind of an ass). During his journey, filled with adventure, he gets to listen to some tales as well... one of which is the story of Cupid and Psyche, contained in book 4.
At one point of the story Psyche, kidnapped by Eros, Love or Cupid - the dude with the wings!!! - and whom she has married without even knowing his face... is kinda convinced by her sisters to spy on him during his sleep.
"Yo, girl, what if he is a monster?" They say... so she does spy on him, even though he told her not to, and even though he treats her nice and gave her a beautiful house and beautiful things... she spies on him! But the oil from the lamp drops and burn him on the shoulder and he wakes up and flies away.
Supposedly it's a story about trust. If you like him and he is nice to you... does it matter who he truly is?
Yes, it does! Are we joking? This is a tale about women's obedience and submission and devotion!
True love my ass! Do you know this dude? What if he is a serial killer? Why should you just trust someone blindly... just because you love him?
But the whole conversation between Kane and Castalia, here... is about trust. He found a delicate way to ask her to trust him and she answered that she wants to be trusted in return. Do they jump in the water without knowing if it's cold or hot? No, they are feeling the temperature.
Let's see if it rises.
Monday, December 06, 2010
The Pirate Balthasar - Chapter 9
For the Smack Jeeves readers: the chapter on SmackJeeves has been updated only halfway... that's because from Volume 3 onward (due to the fact that I don't know if I will ever run out of space - but it looks like I am pretty close)... I will only upload one or two pages per day.
If you cannot wait a few hours... here's the release on Issuu! :D
Smack Jeeves usually updates in the morning (for me, Singapore time 7 a.m.). If all goes well the rest of the chapter will be up in about 10 hours and hopefully... there is no space issue like I fear.
As usual you click on the link and it will take you to the beginning of the update :D
Wednesday, December 01, 2010
A midsummer night dream!
I am 8 pages into the release... 2 already rendered.These first pages will open the third volume and so we shall so all our main characters as the midsummer night dream begins...
A couple of pages each... as an intro... development in the second release and closure in the third part! :D
It should be quite interesting...
And remember... it will be corn season! è_é Corn rocks!
Tuesday, November 09, 2010
Chapter 9 - Cover
I didn't have anything to show you, today... since tomorrow is release day and I am still working on stuff... (files keep breaking apart, sooo tiring).I was saving this for later but I hate to go without a post for the day so.... here's the probable cover for chapter 9... probable because I am still undecided on certain colors but the basic drawing should be the same.
Some things are kicking in as we approach rites of passages and I didn't know how to warn you so... I put a message in the cover... for some websites nipples are too sexy and need a mature content filter.
Apparently male butts are okay though.
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