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>Ahh, here’s the real mover and shaker. A lot of people liked the King - and he’s entertaining enough - but he has as much power in Sharteshane as a toaster in a blackout.

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what's with all the niggers?

The king is fucking great.

sun exposure produces melanin, so people are dark around the equator and way up North where there's endless months of sun and night.
also holy shit you could break bottle caps off in that bitches eye sockets, fucking Duane without the glamor has less bone definition

Seems to me that the King and Beadman aren't really in disagreement. The King already told her that Sharteshane won't ally with Cresce for no reason. Now Beadman is asking her to give them one.

Hey when you have no power, but can't be easily removed then you can say whatever you want without fear

yeah but he's not half-naked and playing with a Stratego sex doll

>King and Beadman aren't really in disagreement
What if they are actual mutual friends

I wonder if we'll get any naughty art of the construct? Her ass really is extremely large, you could do a lot with that.

I'm imagining getting a cutaway panel WAY too many chapters from now of the king suddenly cheering in victory.

like clock work.

Now that you said that it won't happen

>And what do *you* want in *your* coffee, Lord Beadman?
I take it black.
...
Oh no, I said that out loud, didn't I?

>Ya want someone t'pass the sugar, ya must first pass the cream.

I'm getting some Deep South drawl going on here with Jab Beadman and his folksy sayings.

I like how even the rich polite Shartes have fairly crude aphorisms. Like that's just how people talk in Sharteshane.

It's urban London, isn't that obvious?

Panel 5 shows that Rilursa is, uh, no slouch herself.

It'd certainly make Beadman's job of manipulating him easier.

I think normally it'd be harder for a friend to take advantage of a friend but I expect attitudes about that sort of thing to generally differ somewhat in Sharteshane.

Yeah, but the construct's got a big fat bubble butt, Rilursa's ass is just wide.

So what will Beadman ask for in payment? Gold seems too simple and some kind of diplomatic promise or trade agreement isn’t really Sharteshane’s style.

They all have the same baseline vulgarity, but the rich ones just dress it up a little.

A captain of industry like him is probably interested in broader things than just immediate profit, if Cresce weren't a command economy I would think he would demand a royal charter to operate in their borders, but with that off the table maybe there's something Cresce controls that he wants. Access to rare materials for example, or perhaps control over trade routes. Basically something on that level would have be at stake I think.

Ashley said the closest she imagines of kasslyne accents are something like

Alds-Slavic
Crescians-American (vague as that)
Shartes-English

>"to pass [her] his cream, sugar."

>urban London
as opposed to rural london?

She’s got some good definition

Just needs a chance to show her skill with it

I suppose so. Britain’s about the size that relatively short distance from the main town a new regional dialect could pop up

Fuck this intrigue shit. Lets go back to the king and his AI waifu.
Porn comic spin-off by chochi when?

Ok wait is this country a Plutocracy? If theses guys the capitalists were are the commies?

>were are the commies?
We already met them.

Ah, so THAT'S why they sent her.

Cresce is the commies.

So Duane sounds like he should be dancing to hardbass?

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What does Beadman even want in the first place. Sharteshane is already winning the peace through industrial growth while Alderode and Cresce are bleeding eachother out. Beadman may well be the most powerful man in Kasslyne right now, upholding the status quo should be in his interest.

Unless he seriously thinks he can make Alderode and Cresce destroy one another and have Sharteshane businessmen rule the ashes.

I think that while Sharteshane gave Alderode a bloody nose at sea, it's not even remotely comparable to either of the two superpowers in all out war.

There's no way Beadman or any other powerful Sharte wants Cresce or Alderode to be destroyed, or to stop fucking with eachother. Being able to play both sides and make money off of everyone is too valuable. Remember the silver came from Beadman

One of the biggest perks of owning your own country (after no one fucking with you) is being able to pocket country-sized bribes.

Money isn't power, it's an effective conduit for power but they're not the same. Beadman is going to ask for something that will give him leverage either politically or militarily. The man knows he has the material to create superweapons and the implications of that can't have passed him by.

The question is how much money can Sharteshane make off Cresce's and Alderode's populations if they are both totalitarian societies which Shartes aren't even allowed to enter. If Beadman believes that he can better exploit the populations of either country by helping their regimes destroy one another then that's one motive for the silver.
I don't think the richest man in the world wants more money, he has already won that game. It struck me as really weird at first that Beadman would allow his resources to be wasted on a game-playing A.I but I guess there is some symbolism there.
Alderode and Cresce are both at the brink of civil war between competing factions while Beadman alone effectively controls Sharteshane. He can't beat them in an old fashioned war, but he's in a perfect situation to help them collapse.

I feel like the silver is a unique situation with Delicieus knowledge being required to create and control it. Beadman may be ruthless but I don't think he's seriously considering mass-producing superweapons, we don't even know if they have enough silver for that.

And to complete the analogy, the communists are petition for help from the capitalists from the invading isolated militarists who may or may not be fascist

Canonically, Duane has quite a classy Slavic accent

>classy
>slavic accent
Pick one.

Didn't tolkien imagine his elven languages with slavic accents?

You can set a train schedule with its beat.

>Shartshane's balls are too big for her handbag
/ourguy/

>I feel like the silver is a unique situation with Delicieus knowledge being required to create and control it.
The man's got uranium, he just needs a scientist who can refine it (to use nukes as an analogy) and we know the Queen is connected to the black tongues through snake bro.
>Beadman may be ruthless but I don't think he's seriously considering mass-producing superweapons, we don't even know if they have enough silver for that.
I can guaran-fucking-tee that's exactly what Beadman is considering. Either to sell them to both sides and help destabilize the situation even further or to build them for himself and play king of the mountain.

I don't think it's that easy, my interpretation would be that Deliceu used his unique knowledge of the human soul to connect the childrens organs with the silver.

If Beadman even suggests that there are more silver weapons coming along Cresce is going to pin Ethelmik on Sharteshane and launch a crusade.

Not to mention we already know the silver in play is about to hit another Cresce city that's being visited by the Queen during one of the holiest religious Gefendur festivities. If Beadman gets implicated in that it may already be over for him.

Beadman is a businessman, not a warlord. If Deliceu approaches him with a deal for silver in exchange for mayhem he's going to accept it, but he's not going to get involved himself. He's already reached the top of his country through capitalism, he's not going to risk military confrontations when he already knows how to win without them.

>It struck me as really weird at first that Beadman would allow his resources to be wasted on a game-playing A.I
Have you seen the weird things we make in our world? Hell, I would buy one if I could. Beadman sells everything from dog food to First Silver, so why not luxury pymarics as well?

Problem is that Cresce is already getting resources stretched by the border attacks from Alderode

They’d be straight fucked fighting on two fronts, and the Alds would probably push full out if they saw that opening

How large can the market for luxury pymarics truly be in Sharteshane, there has to be more profitable applications for inventing a computer. It almost feels as if Beadman wants to demonstrate that warfare is so far beneath him he can build a construct that's better at war-games than any human general alive.
The Sharteshane government is too afraid of their Gefendur zealots to even declare war on Alderode. If they tried to fight an actual Gefendur country without a casus belli they would get overthrown without Cresce having to lift a finger.

>It almost feels as if Beadman wants to demonstrate that warfare is so far beneath him he can build a construct that's better at war-games than any human general alive.

It'd be pretty silly to try to do that by beating a figurehead buffoon.

English is also pretty vague. By the looks of the place though, Cockney and Estuary accents are probably most common. Slavic is too, but since i don't speak the tongue, I can't tell slavic accents apart very well.

Though now I'm going to try and imagine Sette speaking in a Somerset accent and see if it don't just ruin her whole character.

fuuuuuuuuuuck, how much do I have to pay for a Rilursa and Jab veiled-disdainfuck comic

I feel like you guys debating where Beadman fits into this are forgetting that other than the Sharteshanian Kleptocracy and the Crescian Queen that there are other forces at work.

Namely, Ruckmearhkha, Lady Ilganyag, and the Vits Council. While Ruck may be braindraining the Crescian Queen's Copper Boytoy he doesn't seem like the kind of being to just let some puffed up Femdom Commie order him around (especially a spider paw, at that). And we still have no idea what the fuck the Lady is up to. And the Vits Council just giving a copper to the Crescian Queen seems out of character.

We've only got like, an eighth of the puzzle.

so far I see

>Lizard, Bell, Jab (sort of), and an as of yet unrevealed Aldish party

>Queen Sonorie, ruck, and the black tongues

And there's Winnalis who seems to be moving away towards his own things since Juste