The Lookouts are long gone now, eating candy apples and boasting of their prowess, but would Hannah actually want to meet them in her current...situation? They're not the brightest or most flexible guys around.
Also, treerannosaurus rex.
They'd behave mostly like children. As in, mystified by and and gawky regarding Hannah's condition.
The adult is just the adult and probably wouldn't do much because it's not his business either. His job is training the boys, not assaulting lost and confused girls. Flowerheaditis or no.
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The creature seems a bit sad, a bit angry. Methinks this is the sort of creature she will vow to protect. Sort of like, she was afraid to enter the forest, but now she is discovering her calling and her desire to protect the inhabitants of the Eyrewood will overcome her fear of what might befall her.
This bestiary, would it have rhymes accompanying the illustrations?
The Holkinisms.
Good idea
I don't think that aspect is something we specifically asked for, but with the world of the Eyrewood so infused with song and rhyme, I imagine they would include that sort of thing if they ever made a book like this.
In the print Lookouts comic each issue has a page showing a set of merit badges and the skills needed to earn them. It's great world building stuff and each of those pages has a short relevant poem too.
I know they didn't write and draw those print comics, but if they were to make a bestiary, I imagine they might take a a similar approach.
I think Jerry will latch on to any excuse to write new poems
This bestiary, would it have rhymes accompanying the illustrations?
The Holkinisms.
Good idea
I don't think that aspect is something we specifically asked for, but with the world of the Eyrewood so infused with song and rhyme, I imagine they would include that sort of thing if they ever made a book like this.
In the print Lookouts comic each issue has a page showing a set of merit badges and the skills needed to earn them. It's great world building stuff and each of those pages has a short relevant poem too.
I know they didn't write and draw those print comics, but if they were to make a bestiary, I imagine they might take a a similar approach.
I think Jerry will latch on to any excuse to write new poems
At any rate, I want to see more junk from Jerry.
Jerry, if you are reading this, write the damn book.
If Mike is reading this, punch Jerry in the nuts and then tell him to write the damn book.
13. Finally, a series of suggestions for Pins that people want to know if you will be making in the future. Yes, No, or an approximate year will do. Few of us can afford all of these coming out at once, plus it’s nice to have something to look forward to.
... [snipped out the other pin suggestions]
k. An Eyrewood Bestiary set featuring the monsters of the Lookouts world. I would also love them to make an actual book with pictures and ecologies (Personal note, this is another Jerry project that would go down a storm. I’m already seeing a battered, leather-bound tome 3/4-inch thick, 7-8 inches high and 5-6 inches wide, designed to be carried in a pocket for easy access. Sketches of the beasts done in the old D&D style where you get the impression rather than something accurate. Maybe even empty spaces, and we could bring it to PAX for you to sketch in. Unique book for everyone.)
Thanks for the awesome suggestions I'll put all of these down in my pin idea sketchbook! So he basically went Yoink!
I just can't get over the art in this series. Looking back at the origins of PA, it's just...amazing. So beautiful.
On a side note, a work I had this interesting image of the Daughters, one girl standing in front of her family, shouting at an offscreen figure, "Answer me this, am I being called, or taken?!" For added depth, her flowers are Eucalyptus, as one of the evolutionary adaptations of it is it's flammable leaves.
Yes, I often get VERY bored at work.
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I love this page a lot. Seeing the aftermath of the Lookouts escaping is kind of neat. Now Hanna has to deal with the angered and hurt beast on her own. That's kind of the whole idea, though. She has to deal with everything alone. The one person who could have helped her scared her something fierce and she ran. Sought help from some others, and received none.
I hope she helps it. It seems like it's seen better days.
I feel their goal was to set the creature on fire until their torch got rained on.
I believe you're right. That plan is seems either horrible, or heroic and clever; depending on which side you're on.
I want to see the Lookouts side of this story where the Lookouts find a terrified, and badly injured, traveler near their village, and the traveler tells the Elders of how his whole caravan was slaughtered by this herbaceous horror a fortnight past and how he feared it was still hunting him.
Then I want to read the back-story where this gentle gypsum awoke to find that her children, mere saplings, had been cut down by a band of marauding humans; how she followed the scent of their burning bodies to the camp; and how one of the cowards managed to slip away as she tearfully laid the remains of her children to rest under a bed of human compost.
Then I want THAT back-story where said humans were refugees fleeing for their lives after their village had earned the Mother's wrath for some perceived slight whose origin was never made clear to the them,
And how the Elders of that village had burned a budding daughter (and her parents) for they feared it would bring the Mothers down upon them.
And on and on in a delicious cycle of fear, misunderstanding, and violence reaching back to the dawn of this strange little world.
Another setting question:
The Lookouts apparently have names for the different roles in whatever tag team thing they've got going on. Are the "Cobbler" and the "Prince" merely anachronisms, or are these actual things that exist in this world?
Another setting question:
The Lookouts apparently have names for the different roles in whatever tag team thing they've got going on. Are the "Cobbler" and the "Prince" merely anachronisms, or are these actual things that exist in this world?
I think it's safe to say someone makes the shoes. It does not seem like much of a stretch to think that a prince or princes do exist or have existed at some point in the Lookouts world too.
Another setting question:
The Lookouts apparently have names for the different roles in whatever tag team thing they've got going on. Are the "Cobbler" and the "Prince" merely anachronisms, or are these actual things that exist in this world?
Aegeri is spot on.
In fact, the references to the Prince of Rabbits, the Tinker, the Farmer and the Jester in A Boy Must Learn are expanded upon in the print comic. In the Lookouts Handbook section of Issue 5 of the print comic, it talks about the foundations of being a Lookout. "Foundations: Tactics Badges - The learning of tactics and communication through parable". It says the most famous teaching parables are "the adventures of the clever Prince of Rabbits and his coterie - the Farmer, the Tinker and the Jester. These tales prepare the Lookout to receive information in the mythic, universal language of story".
I don't think I've heard of "The Cobbler" before though. Another of the Prince's friends, perhaps? There are surely lots of parables and stories in this world.
I'm aware the the names are for the different roles in a team, what I'm questioning is whether things like farmers, princes and cobblers are anachronistic given that the huts portrayed in "A Boy Must Learn" makes me think that such specialized professions are non-existent?
Where do they get textiles? Why aren't they all just draped in animal hides? Does this imply that there's just some unusual fantasy equivalent to cotton or wool? Or does this imply that there are, actually, in fact, textile workers somewhere?
I'm pretty sure when presented with swords, complex textiles, references to cobblers and princes and kings, and so on, if your two choices are "all of the advanced stuff comes magically from somewhere and the references to cobblers and so on are pure anachronism and pretty much only the huts are authentic" and "the huts are simply what works for that particular part of that particular village for whatever reason and all the rest of the stuff is not very weird" I would go for option 2.
...a...are you really asking if there's farmers and cobblers in the Lookouts universe?
Of course there are. The Eyrewood is a magical environment, but it's not a medieval Jetsons where you just will things into existence. For every Lookout, there's probably a dozen boys who are learning their father's trade instead of gallivanting off in the woods with an eyepatched stranger.
...a...are you really asking if there's farmers and cobblers in the Lookouts universe?
Of course there are. The Eyrewood is a magical environment, but it's not a medieval Jetsons where you just will things into existence. For every Lookout, there's probably a dozen boys who are learning their father's trade instead of gallivanting off in the woods with an eyepatched stranger.
Yes. Because I want to know if they genuinely are anachronisms and they're living in a subsistence level economy or if there's something more.
The former because it might amuse me greatly to know that they get their iron from sifting for iron filings in sand or that steel is particularly valuable. Or if it's made of some weird ceramic or carved from a horn or something.
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They'd behave mostly like children. As in, mystified by and and gawky regarding Hannah's condition.
The adult is just the adult and probably wouldn't do much because it's not his business either. His job is training the boys, not assaulting lost and confused girls. Flowerheaditis or no.
Fifth, it's sitting down on its haunches. It looks like it's tired of being target practice.
Maybe it just moved its head.
Good idea
I don't think that aspect is something we specifically asked for, but with the world of the Eyrewood so infused with song and rhyme, I imagine they would include that sort of thing if they ever made a book like this.
In the print Lookouts comic each issue has a page showing a set of merit badges and the skills needed to earn them. It's great world building stuff and each of those pages has a short relevant poem too.
I know they didn't write and draw those print comics, but if they were to make a bestiary, I imagine they might take a a similar approach.
I think Jerry will latch on to any excuse to write new poems
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At any rate, I want to see more junk from Jerry.
Jerry, if you are reading this, write the damn book.
If Mike is reading this, punch Jerry in the nuts and then tell him to write the damn book.
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On a side note, a work I had this interesting image of the Daughters, one girl standing in front of her family, shouting at an offscreen figure, "Answer me this, am I being called, or taken?!" For added depth, her flowers are Eucalyptus, as one of the evolutionary adaptations of it is it's flammable leaves.
Yes, I often get VERY bored at work.
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I hope she helps it. It seems like it's seen better days.
If so, it's seems kind of silly of them to leave those around.
I want to see the Lookouts side of this story where the Lookouts find a terrified, and badly injured, traveler near their village, and the traveler tells the Elders of how his whole caravan was slaughtered by this herbaceous horror a fortnight past and how he feared it was still hunting him.
Then I want to read the back-story where this gentle gypsum awoke to find that her children, mere saplings, had been cut down by a band of marauding humans; how she followed the scent of their burning bodies to the camp; and how one of the cowards managed to slip away as she tearfully laid the remains of her children to rest under a bed of human compost.
Then I want THAT back-story where said humans were refugees fleeing for their lives after their village had earned the Mother's wrath for some perceived slight whose origin was never made clear to the them,
And how the Elders of that village had burned a budding daughter (and her parents) for they feared it would bring the Mothers down upon them.
And on and on in a delicious cycle of fear, misunderstanding, and violence reaching back to the dawn of this strange little world.
The Lookouts apparently have names for the different roles in whatever tag team thing they've got going on. Are the "Cobbler" and the "Prince" merely anachronisms, or are these actual things that exist in this world?
Aegeri is spot on.
In fact, the references to the Prince of Rabbits, the Tinker, the Farmer and the Jester in A Boy Must Learn are expanded upon in the print comic. In the Lookouts Handbook section of Issue 5 of the print comic, it talks about the foundations of being a Lookout. "Foundations: Tactics Badges - The learning of tactics and communication through parable". It says the most famous teaching parables are "the adventures of the clever Prince of Rabbits and his coterie - the Farmer, the Tinker and the Jester. These tales prepare the Lookout to receive information in the mythic, universal language of story".
I don't think I've heard of "The Cobbler" before though. Another of the Prince's friends, perhaps? There are surely lots of parables and stories in this world.
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Where do they get textiles? Why aren't they all just draped in animal hides? Does this imply that there's just some unusual fantasy equivalent to cotton or wool? Or does this imply that there are, actually, in fact, textile workers somewhere?
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Of course there are. The Eyrewood is a magical environment, but it's not a medieval Jetsons where you just will things into existence. For every Lookout, there's probably a dozen boys who are learning their father's trade instead of gallivanting off in the woods with an eyepatched stranger.
Yes. Because I want to know if they genuinely are anachronisms and they're living in a subsistence level economy or if there's something more.
The former because it might amuse me greatly to know that they get their iron from sifting for iron filings in sand or that steel is particularly valuable. Or if it's made of some weird ceramic or carved from a horn or something.
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