Café de Nuit

Bandwagon! Jump on the parkour bandwagon!

Someone had a thread a while back... hold on...

http://www.fraternityofshadows.com/foru ... php?t=4584&

There we go. Solutions included Bartitsu and good old fashioned English boxing-your-face-in, but I added parkour to that already impressive retinue, even though its
-anachronistic
-French, not English
-based off non-Western martial arts anyway

It's also becoming popular so no one's allowed to like it anymore. Well, how was I to know?

This might give some inkling of Fred's class. Or maybe it's doesn't.

Parkour is cool. Who cares if it's anarchronistic? Ravenloft is definitely not Earth, so you shouldn't feel bound by Earth's history.

Not to mention it is hardly the first, nor the most egregious anachronism in Ravenloft.

On a side note, I'd say that this argues against Frederik being some kind of Monk, and more towards.... hrm.... scout?

The pacing of the story is fine for me to read. I've seen some people try to quantify it down to do X Y Z in every panel, or accomplish XYZ in a segment, but however you choose to write and draw it is ultimately up to you.

Most of it boils down to I guess 3 things for every installment.

*Plot advancement (in some way)
*Character or inter-character development
*Revealing/explaining the past

For example in your most recent panel you have Fred leaving (Plot advancement), Santine's name (Character development), and Fred's 'parkour' (explaining the past).

Of course theres obviously a lot more to it than that, but I find pacing works out on its own as long as you try and stick to a generic pattern.

Semi-obscure martial arts FTW!

Is it bad that I'm mentally constructing a society of Kartakan capoeira practitioners, now? Too bad alignment restrictions hamstring bard/monk multiclassing...

So now that everyone has commented that the pacing is fine, you should know that the pacing is going to get all wonky for a while - much like how movies that overuse cgi inevitably suck, my attempts to punch up the individual panels left some issues with the layout as a whole. Please stand by...

o.0

Important Gun Safety Tip: Don't put your finger on the trigger unless you intend to fire the gun (or you want to re-enact the scene from Pulp Fiction)!

Important Fact One! Frederik seems to have Ethereal Empathy, or possibly Ghostsight.

Important Fact Two! Something really, really freaky is going on!

Holy evil purple eyes, Batman!

Ethereal Empathy for the win.

And yeah, glowing purple eyes is almost never a good thing.

DocBeard wrote:Ethereal Empathy for the win.

And yeah, glowing purple eyes is almost never a good thing.

Not for that guy with the gun. I predict one splattered minion.
It must suck to have 1hp.

I was originally thinking feytouched/fey origins [or a monstrous humanoid] but I couldnt come up with the explanation for purple eyes. He looks rather feral in that last frame.

It could just be 'the artist likes purple', admittedly.

Well, as I recall purple is a natural, albeit rare, eye color (and I think it actually shows up in the appearance tables periodically).

So I think the emphasis here is more "Glowing eyes" than "Glowing purple eyes", since we don't know if Fred would have differently glowing eyes if he happened to have a different eye color.

That said, I stand by my "Something really, really freaky is going on" comment.

His eyes in the color pic from this thread's first post are quite dark, but there seems to be a hint of deep violet to them. Certainly, his eyes aren't anywhere near that bright of a shade, in the portrait.