not only a lot of ppls days,
but, one solely has just been sadly broken with his own mental state..
:( feels for the bro

If the training (or lack thereof) that Kalgkur got is typical, I'm surprised (and skeptical) that this hasn't happened before.

I'm also surprised that the Trademaster didn't take this into consideration when assigning Baxxids as guards.

Guards who can butcher people by accident are a problem.

Thief lost his arm (and got his guts spilled in one motion) just like the ancient law dictates.

Nell is just the awe-struck how swiftly was the law delivered

aethelred said:
If the training (or lack thereof) that Kalgkur got is typical, I'm surprised (and skeptical) that this hasn't happened before.

I'm also surprised that the Trademaster didn't take this into consideration when assigning Baxxids as guards.

Guards who can butcher people by accident are a problem.

It was addressed a few pages ago. It was initially a problem. But thieves wised up. This is just a combination of it's been so long since the last incident, and this particular thief was That stupid.

It's all the thiefs fault anyways. He tried to steal infront of a guard.

Ohhhh that’s…..that’s……thassalotta blood. Ummmm………Now I’m kinda worried about Kalgkur. I think the punishment any judicial body gives him is gonna pale in comparison to the one he gives himself.

She looks surprised, but not terribly afraid. Since she's been watching him for a long time she probably knows he's typically really shy and awkward.

lmao rip that bozo packwatch

hopefully everything goes well for kalgkur

hiddenoracle said:
Ohhhh that’s…..that’s……thassalotta blood. Ummmm………Now I’m kinda worried about Kalgkur. I think the punishment any judicial body gives him is gonna pale in comparison to the one he gives himself.

I doubt Kalgkur is in trouble with the Trademaster--the latter doesn't seem the type to care overmuch about the life of a petty - and stupid - thief. He's much more concerned with relations with the Baxxid.

Now, Kalgkur might be in trouble with his kin for showing humans how deadly Baxxid can be, but given how wise the Baxxid generally are, I don't know that they'd punish him beyond the guilt and shame he already feels.

Which is to say, I agree with you.

aethelred said:
If the training (or lack thereof) that Kalgkur got is typical, I'm surprised (and skeptical) that this hasn't happened before.

Have there been any baxxid in the guard rotation in the past, though? So far we've only seen one non-human guard, and while she's visibly bigger than the rest of the crowd, she's still humanoid, so not completely out of the norm for human team training.

imagoober said:
Have there been any baxxid in the guard rotation in the past, though?

I suspect so.

chestercat said:
I suspect so.

Yeah, I realized I goofed about 5 minutes after posting, but couldn't correct it in time.

aethelred said:
I doubt Kalgkur is in trouble with the Trademaster--the latter doesn't seem the type to care overmuch about the life of a petty - and stupid - thief. He's much more concerned with relations with the Baxxid.

Now, Kalgkur might be in trouble with his kin for showing humans how deadly Baxxid can be, but given how wise the Baxxid generally are, I don't know that they'd punish him beyond the guilt and shame he already feels.

Which is to say, I agree with you.

He is very concerned about their relations, but he’s also concerned about the perceived action taken on disturbances. This was a punishment grand in name as he said. Since this is a market, I consider he would have preferred less open violence. Merchants first reaction may not be that a thief was slain but a “dangerous nonhuman attacking humans”; violence likely doesn’t ever happen here so everyone is in a state of shock.
Trademaster also deals with things quietly.

As for Baxxid punishments, group shaming is extremely effective. He shall be shamed for 7 days, an unprecedented punishment!

bluemoonstruckwolf said:
He is very concerned about their relations, but he’s also concerned about the perceived action taken on disturbances. This was a punishment grand in name as he said. Since this is a market, I consider he would have preferred less open violence. Merchants first reaction may not be that a thief was slain but a “dangerous nonhuman attacking humans”; violence likely doesn’t ever happen here so everyone is in a state of shock.
Trademaster also deals with things quietly.

As for Baxxid punishments, group shaming is extremely effective. He shall be shamed for 7 days, an unprecedented punishment!

Kalgkur will shame himself for far longer than seven days.

The Trademaster does indeed prefer quiet solutions, which is why I think he'll just move the Baxxid guards for a while until everything blows over. Though he's a sneaky bastard, so who knows.

Please, Nell
Do not look at me in such a way
It hurts
It hurts

It's evident that Kalgkur's been around humans enough to know how to read their facial expressions. I imagine the first words to come out of her mouth following this incident are going to shape his attitude toward it.

Whatever she says, I imagine he's going to have a lot of questions to answer.

imagoober said:
Yeah, I realized I goofed about 5 minutes after posting, but couldn't correct it in time.

Worse, the Guardmaster is in this strip (panel 3), so I don't really have an excuse for dropping the ball like that. :p

Please be understanding... please be understanding...

She looks shocked! But at what? Something tells me Kalgkur went through a colour change hm...Perhaps love struck has caught her gaze.

covargo said:
She looks shocked! But at what? Something tells me Kalgkur went through a colour change hm...Perhaps love struck has caught her gaze.

She is shocked by the sudden bifurcation of a guy in front of her and the tidal wave of blood that erupted from him?

tarkovkinto said:
She is shocked by the sudden bifurcation of a guy in front of her and the tidal wave of blood that erupted from him?

Read it in a different way.

kts said:
It's all the thiefs fault anyways. He tried to steal infront of a guard.

prolly not fair that he died just for stealing something

Man got scopped in front of her with a thing she just held in her hands. That will cause some trauma and bad thoughts around them..

It'll be fine. All he did was correct a <despised life error> anyway.