Neotopia part 3: Meet the Krossians

[q99]

In Part 2 of our series, Nalyn, double of the Grand Duchess, was kidnapped by a shadowy wraith.



Brought by the wraith, a sorcerous 'Defiler', Nalyn is taken to the person in charge, Ghul.





They allow it. They're *evil*, they aren't *rude*!

Nalyn immediately takes advantage of this break to, after going to the bathroom, blow an emergency hatch and escape the only place she can: Outside!




Wait, Nalyn, are you sure you thought this through? They're called *sky* ships for a reason!

I guess that's what you get for hiring a stunt-double. Stupid stunt-double.




That bit at the end is a spell-bomb from her brownie friend. Her friends are also awesome, but they aren't stunt-doubles so I'm not going to give them much coverage.




They successfully parachute down to their ship, and return home. But there is a problem- Krossos tried to kidnap the Grand Duchess. Prince Atkorm chews Nalyn out for not going with enough guard- not even he knows it wasn't Nydia, presumably the part about her kicking ass and taking names while clinging to the side of a float ship was left out- but in any case, this violates like a hundred treaties.




The war is on.




Part 2
Part 1


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Creator: Ron Espinosa
Publisher: Antarctic Press
Title: Neotopia

Comments

[yaseen101]

Granted this is only a few snippets of the story but isn't this a bit too soon for a war?

[q99]

Oh, there was a lot of stuff in between. Demands for reparations (rejected), a heart to heart with Nalyn and the King (she likes to pretend he's her real father), various character discuss the situation, and so on.

Krossos and Mathenia haven't been friends for quite awhile.

Comic wise, this is about the end of issue three btw.

[yaseen101]

Oh. Though three issues is still a bit too soon in my books though. I would have liked to see more of the world before the war. That said, I'm still intrigued by this series, I love the art style and it's not every day you see a female character who isn't as thin as a railway*.


*irony time: I'm as thin as a railway

[q99]

If you want to see the world, you won't be disappointed by Neotopia.

[yaseen101]

I will try my best to check it out. :)

[psychopathicus_rex]

Wait, so - who knows that she's not really the Grand Duchess? Does anyone besides the Duchess herself know? I mean, her friends keep calling her 'your highness'; it seems that the rescue effort is because people think she's the Duchess, she can evidently fool the king - just how far does this deception reach? I mean, you'd think that once the real Duchess, nasty little brat that she is, got word that she had supposedly been kidnapped, she'd say 'oh, that's just my stunt double; you needn't bother rescuing HER, she's not me'.

[q99]

Not all that many do. She knows, the Duchess knows, the Duchess's direct servants know and can tell them apart. The King knows there *is* a double, but seems to mistake Nalyn for Nydia. Some of the guards know. The teachers either don't know or have been convinced the one they normally deal with is Nydia, because.. . to Nydia, that's sorta the point, y'know? Get out of the annoying stuff.

Of the rescue crew, the human only met Nalyn recently and has no way of knowing, and Marro the elf guard isn't yet in the know. They're just the people who were on the Intrepid Explorer, the ship she was natched from, and hit before things got too far. The Brownie should know, as does the ship's navigator (not in scans), but they're loyal to Nalyn not Nydia anyway.

-I mean, you'd think that once the real Duchess, nasty little brat that she is, got word that she had supposedly been kidnapped, she'd say 'oh, that's just my stunt double; you needn't bother rescuing HER, she's not me'. -

If the Krossian plot had worked, I'm pretty sure that's exactly what would've happened to Stunt Double (though with some regret- the king and Prince Atkorm seem to like her) so the country could avoid being blackmailed. But better still to rescue her and not let it slip that there's a double at all, y'know?

[psychopathicus_rex]

Ah, OK. I smell future shenanigans a-brewin'.