Well there you have it, poor little Ulric is Attez and will go one to become Cwen's father. This was my whole reason for doing time travel here, to show in brief Lord Attez's origin story. Tune in next chapter for the odd couple of Attez & Riddly!
FYI as always we'll be taking a week off between chapters and there will only be one update next week on wednesday. I hope you've enjoyed chapter 7.
Next update will be a long rant as I look back on two years of doing Cwen!
Corad: While that is true, I usually don't have time to burn like that and where I live the closest game store is 40 minutes away. I never have enough time to just hang out like that. At least not with my current employment.
Jonko: Interview feedback yay! I've been dying to get some of that. Thanks Jonko. The new cover will be up on next tuesday, I hope it is worth the wait.
Just read the interview and it was pretty awesome hearing both of you answer all the questions a lot of us had!
An animated Cwen would be awesome (dreams...). I'm also excited about the new siblings you guys spoke of, I wonder if this will be the one that actually likes hats!??? And now I'm biting my nails waiting for the new chapter cover because you got me excited!
taltamir: Well that is why I bring up Guild Wars 2 and Star Trek Online. Both so far seem to be doing their own things and keeping away from WoW clonage. As for ST while I’m skeptical of the away missions (a historical weak point for ST games) the fleet combat looks good, the ability to make your own alien is interesting as the mechanic of improving your crew rather than getting new armor and weapons sounds like a good one. Not much is known about Guild Wars 2 other then the introduction of multiple PC races and the very free range of movement they’ve been working on but based on Guild Wars 1 I’m fairly confident in the developers. GW starts off a mess of original ideas and was very well refined by Nightfall which is my favorite game in the series. Further certain classes like the Dervish were amazing in how much of a different take they were normal. I’ve yet to see another game which gives you and AoE focused Self buffing Melee class or for that matter advanced teleportation like the Assassin had. I’m trusting the GW teams to continue their trend of refined and improved game play with GW2 and just keep my fingers crossed they don’t dumb my favorite game elements from #1 in their attempt to make GW2 more main stream.
I've also heard some good things about Champions Online but I haven't looked into the game yet myself. I kind of burnt out on CoH some time ago so I'm not ready to get into a new Super Hero MMO and probably won't be for a while.
Lilithmae: Thank you! I’m glad to have you along for this wild ride. The great thing about web comics is that there is no penalty for arriving late.
'Evil twisted sociopath',huh? He clearly hasn't met my ex sister-in-law...
Nice twist,btw;it got a genuine 'Motherfuck!' reaction outta me. Thought,now that I read back,it does seem rather like it should've been obvious.
I've thoroughly enjoyed this comic so far and can't wait for the next chapter. To think I procrastinated reading this for so long after I came across it;shame on me!
Taltamir: It doesn't matter why, all that matters is that things have gone to hell to the point I just can't enjoy them anymore. Really we've know ever since he got full creative control the GL is only as good as his co-creators.
Terrabyter: Well I was talking about the comics not the games. I have heard but so far I've been really unimpressed with the info they've released for it. This is just me but there is no way a Sith should be fighting a trooper on any sort of even footing. Besides who really wants to play a trooper. I mean bounty hunter I get but you would need to be on the level of the imperial guard to be on par with a Jedi. Then again I'm pretty bias at this point and I know it is a bit early to judge but right now I've got a lot more hope for Guild Wars of Star Trek.
to be fair, the intial star wars scripts by george lucas sucked even more than his modern stuff... the director made some pretty significant modifications...
Once he was famous and rich enough to have full creative control.... well, we saw what happened...
But there are some analysis of the original scripts and how bad they would have sucked online if you care to search for it.
Legolas: Well be prepared to die a lot if you are playing hard core 1st edition. 1st edition is more brutal then Dethklok. 2nd edition is better particularly given the huge wealth of info that is freely available or extreamly cheeply like the spell compendiums giving you tons of material to easily supliment into your game.
I'm not much interested in anything Star Wars these days except KotR and Legacy. The new star wars cartoon and crap fest novels have slammed that door close pretty hard. Once KotR and Legacy end I'm probably washing my head of Star Wars for good. I'm just so sick of Lucas screwing up a good tihng more and more.
Serenity is great but the material for it is very limited. Be prepared to home brew a lot of stuff for it.
It will be a sad day for me when I can find nobody to RPG with...
I still have to try first and second edition, but so far I am liking 3.5 just about the best.
I'm curious to see what they did with the Star Wars RPG, My sorces have told me that they made it a mix of both 3.5 and 4th edition... I think it has promise.
Serenity definately seems like an interesting RPG... I'll have to try it out. Best of luck to you finding a new group. After all, they are everywhere... scattered to the 7 winds.
Oh no! It's full color! I think I might just start turning my color off when I come to this page.
Not really.
Not that I had a lot of theories or anything (I tend to just let the stories unfold in front of me) but I really didn't see that coming. Then again, I guess I can picture Ulric tossing cats...
Corad: One in the same I'm afraid. In the quasi cannon that is 3PF the only character able to travel through time was the Govenator however doing so unmade the faberic of the universe.
Legolos299: Naturally I prefer my own home brewed game based on the Serenity RPG rules. I made a simple and advanced version for my brother and Amy to play. If I have to choose from the normal lists then I like 3rd edition the best using a wide range of additional rules like the 5 Rings or Psionic handbooks. Although I don't think the idea behind 4th edition, that being simplifying and speeding up combat, was a bad one I don't care for their execution and 2nd edition always seemed a little clunky with some rules like the fighter extended 18 strength. Plus the modular leveling system for 3rd really allowed you to explore some very unique characters. I actually posted some home brewed stuff on 3.5 edition over at the Order of the Stick forum before my D&D group fell apart. T_T (I am still in RPG withdrawl from that and my Magic the Gathering group getting scattered to the wind.)
Indeed. I'm very excited to see what you have planeed for attez after reading that. Too bad you don't hvae high enough stats for a fantasy world... I'm pretty sure that your intelegence would do fine along with Charisma. Probably Wisdom too.
Not sure If you've been asked by me yet, but what version of D&D do you prefur?
Eoraptor: Well all things considered the CQ cast is still fairly small. It have less then 20 named characters in its cast so far.
MagickLorelai: Thank you.
taltamir: His full name is indeed Ulric Attez. Aside from a few details that summery is 95% correct. You'll have to forgive me if I don't clear up those finer points right this moment though. By the time Riddly and Cwen meet back up the timeline should be roughly clear as well as a few other details.
Also yes those tenticles are rather sweet really.
Satanic_Hamster: To all females of the world I'd like to make it clear am not associated with this statment.
Squirrel Master: Yep like Sarah said we'll be seeing full color pages every once in while from now on. About one per chapter.
Andore Mordre: Haha thanks! I hope to get that reaction a few more times as things develop.
BlkKnight: Yes but where did she get the crazy eye mark from?
Amysmom: Thank you.
korosu: Huzzah!
JustNoPoint: Well if you want a spoiler look for my interview on The Xcentrikz this weekend. It would have been up today but I asked them to delay it so I could make some last minute changes.
Legolos229: Father of Sven, Trel and Cwen anyway. Riddly isn't related to the Attez line hence why his last name is Lancer. Riddly's father is Kraid Lancer whom briefly appeared in the Author's Note Story "The Planet of Hats" back a few chapters. Blue hair has special meaning a fact carried over from my defunct sprite comic 3PF.
Elaine: You can still like Ulric, he just is going to do horrible things from time to time.
Kaeoz Crimson: Yes that was supposed to be a little hint about Ulric and as far as I know you are the only one to say anything about it too.
The more I look back at this, the more sense it makes... also explains why he was such a good shot with Cwen when he tossed her off! ... and explains his... (Hatred... no that's not the right word...) Tradition of tossing kids.
@taltamir: You can't forget Blatently abuses temporal Majiks!
Another awesome chapter ending :-) Looking forward to chapter 8 and to your rant as they are always enjoyable. I really like the coloring especially the last panel.
Eoraptor, Ulric was about to die when he tried to escape into the future, instead he dragged riddly from the far far future to his time, who saved his life. He then inadvetedly shrinks ulric's boss into a toddler. Ulric gets rid of her in her weakened state, blames the whole fiasco on her, and claims credit for saving the day (probably taking over her position), 10 years later he whisks riddley into his current timeline from 10 years prior; at this point he looks less nerdish and more ragged and attez like in appearance, he is also already womanizing, he is also doing evil experiements. After taking a sample from riddley, he whisks him forward X years again, this time he looks fully like lord attez. I wonder if his full name is ulric attez, or if he just changed his name.
This whole this is still Y years before cwen is born... for all we know thousands of years... what we DO know for a fact is that attez is an immortal with control over time. He accelerates time in his magic flying castle, he whisks people back and forth in time, etc etc... Part of his godlike powers.
wait a minute... isn't that lord attez, aka cwens father?
Also, looking at the time travel guy at various ages... mmm, I think he is lord attez! HOLY CRAP!
Riddley got wisked back in time to meet cwens father when he was just young and still weak and not not immortal at all...
Oh yeah, this is the first full color page I did for CQ (I'm going to try to keep doing one a chapter)! Too bad the gray walls don't do a whole lot for it...darn lab backgrounds. XP
Ya know, I think I just noticed that, so far, aside from Cwen, all the hot girls in the comic are evil... TV Tropes must be right... "Evil is sexy"
And I'm was bit confused as to how Ulric was Atteze, but then again, I am easily confused lately, so that's on me, not on your two. went back and reread the previous dozen comics and figured it out though. So now I think I get it, just don't quiz me on it.
