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Webcomic Rogues of Clwyd-Rhan: A friend of mine once refered to the heron as an airborne cow. And with ... Maghreid: Well, call me old-fashioned, but I feel it's expected of me. / Maghreid: It worked on the Shrinekeeper, anyway. Did you get anywhere with him? / Isolde: What's that to you? / Maghreid: Never mind that. He all but confessed to me that he was making an example of the ... half-human. / Isolde:...
Webcomic Rogues of Clwyd-Rhan: So... what about that size-changing spell? Is it real, or an illusion? [[Jodoque and P'séaigg looking at the sky]] / Jodoque: That must be her, on the heron... / P'séaigg: Hmm. / Jodoque: I 'preciate how you've made yourself human-sized. Thanks. / P'séaigg: Beats having to look up. / Jodoque: I can't help wondering how that works, though. is it an illusion, or do you really...
Webcomic Rogues of Clwyd-Rhan: So... what about that size-changing spell? Is it real, or an illusion? [[Jodoque and P'séaigg stand in the street of the Gnomian capital, looking at the sky.]] / Jodoque: That must be her, on the heron... / P'séaigg: Hmm. / Jodoque: I 'preciate how you've made yourself human-sized. Thanks. / P'séaigg: Beats having to look up... / Jodoque: I can't help wondering how that...
Webcomic Rogues of Clwyd-Rhan: P'Séaigg waxes eloquent on the subject of Parliament. Norla prefers a ... Norla: The same system that once brought Kel's gang here? / P'Séaigg: That was before my time. / Norla: The one next to Assembly Hall? / P'Séaigg: Oh, yes. / P'Séaigg: It's the most powerful transporter we've got, and no wonder. / It draws all its power from Parliament. / P'Séaigg: Parliament, where schemes...
Webcomic Rogues of Clwyd-Rhan: P'Séaigg waxes eloquent on the subject of Parliament. Norla prefers a ... Norla: The same system that once brought Kel's gang here? / P'séaigg: That was before my time. / Norla: The one next to assembly hall? / P'séaigg: Oh, yes. / P'séaigg: It's the most powerful transporter we've got, and no wonder. It draws all its power from Parliament. / P'séaigg: Parliament, where schemes...
Webcomic Rogues of Clwyd-Rhan: There is a point at which any mature person will be yearning for mommie. ... Kel: I'm glad you came. They're torturing me with endless paperwork. / Kel: But you know who I'd really like to see? Our mom! / Norla: Don't you think it'd be a bad time to see her now? Can't it wait until you're out of jail? / Kel: Yeah, but... I'd really like to hear the sound of her voice again......
Webcomic Rogues of Clwyd-Rhan: Actually, there is a faerie called 'bundle of laughs'. She's not related ... Norla: She is alive... / Norla: And I've been following her career with great interest. / Jodoque: You mean you're not on speaking terms. / P'Séaigg: Give the human some rolled-up leaves to smoke! / [[Jodoque speaks off-panel.]] / Jodoque: Your ex-boyfriend from the army hates you and you're not on...
 
Webcomic Rogues of Clwyd-Rhan: Stedr som návnes Corvey. Det'r vídevej, og det gír en urgammelt kirken ... Norla: I took the Rite a month after Kel did. I'm older but as a full-blooded faerie I didn't grow up as fast. And I wasn't quite as eager. / [[Norla speaks off-panel. Kel smiles at her thoughtfully.]] / Norla: But when you ended up going before me, that hurt my pride a bit. So I asked for an even tougher...
Webcomic Rogues of Clwyd-Rhan: Norla starts her first steps towards enlightenment. But what kind of enlightenment? ... [[Norla narrates. Younger-Norla looks at the insides of a box.]] / Norla: Like Kel, I had to deal with the problem of finding food. The church had a promising box full of baked goods, but an inner voice told me it would be unwise to use them. / [[Norla narrates. Younger-Norla sweeps the church ceiling.]] / Norla:...
Webcomic Rogues of Clwyd-Rhan: ...ut non declinet cor meum in verba malitiae, ad excsandas excusationes ... [[Norla narrates. Younger-Norla watches the churchgoers enter.]] / Norla: Four days into my service, humans crowded into the building for a ritual. As they would do every week after that. / [[Norla narrates. Father Ansgar is holding Mass.]] / Norla: The priest-human spoke a lot of words in Latin, which...
Webcomic Rogues of Clwyd-Rhan: Working at the church stirs up a strange desire in Norla's heart. But ... Norla: Once I started piecing together what I could about this cult, a lot of it seemed bizarre. A lot of it was about suffering, pain, guilt and sacrifice... / Norla: But it was for this faith that they'd stopped bashing one another's heads in. I found out that it was for this faith that they bought...
Webcomic Rogues of Clwyd-Rhan: In your darkest hour, you can always count on your feathered, eyeball-fetishising ... [[Norla narrates. Younger-Norla sits in a ditch crying.]] / Norla: I hid in a ditch outside the church yard and lay awake crying all day... / Younger-Norla: Why? -Sob- I thought - sob- for everyone... / Younger-Norla: Why not? Why not me? / [[Norla speaks off-panel. Kel and Jodoque listen.]] / Norla:...
 
Webcomic Rogues of Clwyd-Rhan: Corvej church, home of the Gripping Sheilas. [[Norla narrates. Younger-Norla is woken up by Arthur the crow, bearing a scroll.]] / Norla: ...And another month before the answer turned up. / Arthur: Ahem. / [[Norla narrates. Younger-Norla reads the scroll.]] / Norla: ...A scroll of lengthy instructions on how to clean and restore the paintings. / [[Norla...
Webcomic Rogues of Clwyd-Rhan: Our priest is a little more political than he seemed at first. Norla: You see, this priest had been working in the cold lands of the north to convert the heathens. He'd seen some pretty strange things there. / [[Norla narrates. Father Ansgar talks to Younger-Norla.]] / Norla: So now that he was over the original shock, he could talk to me. / [[Norla speaks off-panel....
Webcomic Rogues of Clwyd-Rhan: The final days of Norla's Rite of Serfdom. But will her magic be killed ... [[Norla narrates. Father Ansgar introduces Younger-Norla, now wrapped in a blanket, to a group of children.]] / Norla: Help came in the form of some Norse kids from the church's school. They'd been born heathens and weren't spooked by the sight of a live faerie. / Kangra: Human helpers? That's... bending...
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Webcomic Rogues of Clwyd-Rhan: It's not every day that P'Séaigg gets a friendly invitation... [[Outside the House of Parliament. The Ritual Priest speaks from inside the building.]] / Priest: Ooh... I've got a cracker coming up for you lot! / P'Séaigg: I'm surprised. We passed through Congress Hall and all we saw was a weird committee debate about cheese imports. / [[P'Séaigg speaks off-panel.]] / P'Séaigg:...
 
Webcomic Rogues of Clwyd-Rhan: In which the Master of Rituals gets to count down to zero and say [[P'Séaigg lies on the slab.]] / Priest: We can dispense with the props, I think. / Assistant: Aww... / [[The Transporter Ritual Priest speaks off-panel. Jodoque and Norla look one another in the eye.]] / Priest: Five... four... ooh, power's building up nicely! / [[The Transporter Ritual Priest speaks...
Webcomic Rogues of Clwyd-Rhan: The one occasion where P'Séaigg says [[P'Séaigg sits up on the slab, examining his chest. The Transporter Ritual Priest wipes his dagger.]] / Priest: That's it. Don't worry, it'll heal overnight. / P'Séaigg: Will it scar? / Priest: No. / P'Séaigg: Too bad. / Assistant: Say, I've still got some energy left in the system. Would you like me...
Webcomic Rogues of Clwyd-Rhan: Don't worry, I won't do their dialogue in Gaelic like I threatened to. [[P'Séaigg materialises, in small form, in an old neighbourhood. Houses built for humans have been painted over with elaborate decorations and their doors adapted for faerie-sized inhabitants. Naked faeries populate the street and the air.]] / <> / [[Inside the Sinn Fae building. A male faerie...
Webcomic Rogues of Clwyd-Rhan: P'Séaigg likes ordering people around... *these* characters aren't so ... P'Séaigg: Listen up, you two. I'll be in my office and want to be left alone. Don't let anyone in, OK? / Abúi: Sure, honey! / Abú Hey! You earthbound? / P'Séaigg: <> / [[P'Séaigg flies off..]] / Desk Clerk: Abúi, how many times do I have to tell you not to insult our- / Abúi: Ah, pogue mahone,...
Webcomic Rogues of Clwyd-Rhan: Poof! Poof! Crack! Rustle! Ding! Ding!
Sheer bloody poetry, I tells ...
[[Jodoque materialises in a forest.]] / <> / [[Norla materialises in another forest, in the middle of a small stone circle. She is faerie-sized and immediately takes flight.]] / <> / [[Jodoque sinks into the ground.]] / <> / [[Norla gets caught in a net.]] / <> / [[Jodoque...
 
Webcomic Rogues of Clwyd-Rhan: For Norla, trouble comes with flame-red hair and a scientific bent. Jodoque ... [[In Krakatoa's house, a crystal ball relays the ringing of the bell. Krakatoa looks up.]] / <> / [[Krakatoa rushes outside, putting on a cape.]] / Krakatoa: Hot diggety! / [[Jodoque awakes in the dark. A croaky voice speaks in runes. The voice belongs to a dhouard.]] / Jodoque: Mmmmmhh... ohmyhead... / 1....
Webcomic Rogues of Clwyd-Rhan: Norla does not take kindly to being held in the nets. However, her skillz ... [[Norla takes another swipe at Krakatoa.]] / <> / Krakatoa: Goodness! Is that supposed to be scary? / [[Norla transforms into a tentacled abomination.]] / [[Norla transforms into a serpent.]] / Krakatoa; Oh please! I hunted demons as a hobby while at Wittenberg! / Krakatoa: ...An institute from...
Webcomic Rogues of Clwyd-Rhan: The Douard makes a Vincent Price-style entry. [[Jodoque talks to one of the Dhouard voices.]] / Jodoque: Voice? / 1. Dhouard: [[Runes]] Yes? / Jodoque: Is the blindfold really necessary? / 1. Dhouard: You not wearing foldblind. / [[Silence. Darkness.]] / Jodoque: Oh. / 1. Dhouard: Slave, lighten candle. / [[A candle is lit. A monstrous face emerges...
Webcomic Rogues of Clwyd-Rhan: If it was Kel she was holding captive, they'd be fighting in their underwear ... [[Krakatoa walks home carrying Norla in the net.]] / Krakatoa: Woo hoo! I can't wait! / Norla [[thinks]]: To get me out of this net? Neither can I! / [[Krakatoa sticks Norla in a cage.]] / Krakatoa: It's for this dissertation I'm writing, see? "Physiology and magic among the fae". Don't bite! / [[Krakatoa...
Webcomic Rogues of Clwyd-Rhan: Introducing... the Douards, who have got Jodoque hanging from the wall ... [[Krakatoa blinks.]] / [[Jodoque blinks. He is revealed to be in chains.]] / 1. Dhouard: Are you not awed, elf? Are you not shocked and awed? / 1. Dhouard: Strike we not fear into your wee weak elf heart? Hanh? / Jodoque: Well, you've knocked me on the head, clapped me in irons and are now overacting...
 
Webcomic Rogues of Clwyd-Rhan: Jodoque's fearless honesty here may be the result of a bad concussion. ... 1. Dhouard: Were we to sing songs and bear blooms, the sight of us ought still to make you squirm in fear, elf! / [[Jodoque speaks off-panel. The Dhouard slave looks at him thoughtfully.]] / Jodoque: Hey, I don't like judging people by their looks, okay? After all, I'm no oil painting myself, so... / 2....
Webcomic Rogues of Clwyd-Rhan: Those Douards may well be the saddest creatures in the Gnomian Republi... 2. Dhouard: Give me robe now, and fetch whip. / 1. Dhouard: Yes, yes. / 2. Dhouard: Forgive my brother. He get carried on a way. / [[The Second Dhouard speaks off-panel.]] / 2. Dhouard: He better suited for slave role. But such is our deal... / Jodoque [[thinks]]: I'm in the clutches of loonies! Really...
Webcomic Rogues of Clwyd-Rhan: Meanwhile, in the Kra vs. Norla situation, the page has turned into knotwork. ... [[Norla spits defiance at Krakatoa from inside her cage.]] / Norla: So... witch... how do you feel now? Huh? / Norla: Disoriented? Good! Lost... and seasick! This is Waylay Dust. Unless you get an antidote, you'll be lost in your own home forever ! So! Are you gonna open that cage? / Krakatoa: I-I must...
Webcomic Rogues of Clwyd-Rhan: Norla and Krakatoa are about to move themselves into what is known in ... [[In her excitement, Norla touches the iron bars.]] / Norla: Kel? How do you know Kel? Speak, wo-YIE! / Krakatoa: She's a good friend of mine. Antidote? / Norla: Key? Open this cage, then we'll talk. / Krakatoa: The key's on my desk! How can I find my desk in this condition? / Norla: You're leaning...
Webcomic Rogues of Clwyd-Rhan: Ah! That explains it. He's just stuck in his old habit....which is mot... [[The Dhouards lead Jodoque down a corridor.]] / 2. Dhouard: You mouth is very big, elf slave! / Jodoque: Sorry. It's the jestering gave me that bad habit. / 2. Dhouard: The what? / Jodoque: The jestering. I used to get paid to tell a King the truth for his amusement. / 2. Dhouard: Ha! Elven Kings use...
 

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