YoinkTober 2020 - Prompts & Grossling Challenge

[Jitter]

Wave, I think it serves him right! Hannu comes off as a nasty person (except for his relationship with Ville).

Annuil, more great works! You are very good with inks! And that Lalli breaks my heart

Lallicat, to me it feels like there’s a very long story arc somewhere at the back of my mind. I’m pretty sure also the Lalli&Emil @Toivosaari stories and vignettes are connected, because Lalli’s daughter and grandson were mentioned once by old man Reynir.

Don’t get me wrong, I don’t think the story “comes from the outside” but sometimes the inspiration feels like looking at a part of an already existing thing

[Annuil]

Okey, two more drawings and still no time! I will come and comment at some point!
Annoying:
https://1drv.ms/u/s!AsSnHPIBASO_tD8LyUlyMKstZFsm
Or, Emil who is annoyed with his hair getting tangled :'D

And “Hannu and Ville”:
https://1drv.ms/u/s!AsSnHPIBASO_tD4_EtEMViwLAqzF
(Aagh, I’ll have to practice more at drawing dogs!)

Also, thanks for the comments!

[wavewright62]

Like Annuil, I also am doing a dump 'n' run, will comment later.

Helpful - or not, as the case may be. The new recruit to the Cleansers heard that people desperately need glasses, so risked pillaging an optometrist (burnt off his eyebrows and part of his hair for his trouble) and grabbed a bunch of their stock. It was just frames, though.


(not Emil, just random characters)
Belive it or not, I did not realise until looking up the reference for the uniforms, that the crew's first adventure uniforms were Cleansers cast-offs!

[Jitter]

Useful

Year 2, somewhere in Saimaa. Kaino, Eino and Veeti are on a supply raid to an old house or summer cottage that was earlier pronounced empty by lack of reaction of baby Ensi.  Veeti is known to be immune, so he goes in first.

”Woohoo!”
”Veeti! What is it? Are you ok?”
“Oh yes! You can come in, the place is clear. And this time we hit the jackpot!”
“Ah, ok, yeah. We’re coming in.”
*krunts krants*
“Auugh! Help!”
“Oops. Watch out for the former inhabitant, their bones are in the front room.”
“Gee, son, thanks for the heads up!”
“Aw, come on guys, it’s just some old bones. How can you be so sensitive about these things?”

“Eino, I’m starting to worry about your son.”
“Hmm, yes, he’s just adjusting. The young adjust quickly.”
“Well, he definitely is adjusting to something. I’m not sure it’s all good.”
“It’s a huge pressure on him, having to go first every time! He’s still hardly a teenager.”
“Well, you are right. In this situation I suppose it’s useful. If he were terrified of everything, these runs would be much more dangerous.”
“We are very lucky indeed to have him, and Ensi’s talent of hearing the things from a distance!”

“Stop jabbering and come in here! ... Just look at this! These two cabinets are full of canned and dry food! And that’s not even all! The shed has many tools, including two axes! This is the best spot this month!”
“Oh wow, this guy must have been some crazy prepper! Look at all this stuff!
“...”
“Um, sorry Eino. Thanks for having been a crazy prepper. You were right, everyone else was wrong!”
“Still, this guy didn’t make it! We must be lucky too.”
“Ok ok start packing now! I’m not leaving a tin behind!”
“I’ll come back to get the rest when you go look at the tools.”
“Ok, thanks Kaino”

“Kaino, what the hell are you carrying?”
“Books.”
“Books! Why! You were supposed to get the rest of the food!”
“I did, it’s all in the bag.  But I’m taking these too.”
“What’s that huge one? It looks heavy.”
“It is, but we’ll squeeze it somewhere. It’s the Kalevala.”
“The Kalevala? Ok... *shees*”
“Don’t you shees me, kid. You may be the best adjusted to the current circumstances but you don’t know all things in the world.”
“And what’s the rest? Koiramäki, Vuotuinen ajantieto, puutarhakalenteri... what??”
”I had the feeling they might be useful. Puutarhakalenteri definitely is! And Koiramäki is for children, something ti read to Ensi in a few years.”
“Well, ok ok. But the Kalevala? And some old folklore sayings?”
“It’s a new world, Eino. You never know what you may need!”

Koiramäki is a series of children’s picture books about farm life, which includes actual advice with good illustrations on how a lot of things were done in the 1800’s. Vuotuinen ajantieto ”Knowledge of time for every year” is a basic work on Finnish folklore. Puutarhakalenteri, The Garden Calendar, is made for garden hobbyists and includes lots of advice on what to do when in the garden.

[Vulpes]

Wah, I haven't been here in a bit and all this great stuff is going on and what have I been doing??? Certainly nothing creative. No way to comment on it all, so I will just say that you are all very talented and I enjoyed every single contribution. So many wonderful interpretations of the prompts, lovely drawing and writing, a delightful way to spend an evening with a glass of wine. Many thanks to all! I'm looking forward to the rest of the month.

[Jitter]

Bridge

T for language - NEVER MIND the forum has corrected all of it

Year 0. Anywhere and everywhere.

"Fall back! Fall back to the bridge now! Everybody to me!"
"Oh s*** there's a third of the big ones! We can't hold!"
"Yes, fall back! Right now!!"

"Hey, where's the rest of you?"
"This is everyone we have left!"
"Oh duck. What about the girls?"
"None, I'm afraid."

"Ok, there's just five of us. There's no way we can hold even on the bridge. They'll have to detonate."
"She won't detonate when you are still here!"
"I'll make her. Just hold two more minutes, ok?"

"Listen, honey, you have to blow the bridge."
"No! I will not leave you guys stranded!"
"You must! Do exactly what I say! You have to do this! When the first of them reaches the signal point, you detonate. Is this clear?"
"I know how to do it but we are NOT leaving you there"
"You must! We can't hold the bridge. They'll swarm us and the village."
"No! No! Never!"
"No, well, don't worry. We'll... we'll get to the evac boat!"
"There's a boat?"
"Umm... yes... we hid it at the shore! Promise me you'll detonate!"
"Ok, but you promise me to make it to that boat!!"
"I love you! Make sure to clear out any small ones that may make it to your side!"

"Ok, this is it. She'll detonate when they reach the mark. Did the girls run out of ammo?"
"Oh s***... what? What about the girls? They're dead!"
"Do you think they had any ammo left!? Answer me!"
"Umm... well... Yes. They kept shooting right up to..."
"Ok. Listen. You and you, fall to the east, try to make it to the last position of the girls. Get their weapons and any ammo, and attack the horde from that side, ok? We'll take as many of them with us as we can."
"But... what about the boat?"
"There is no boat."
"No boat? But you just..."
"I had to do something so that she'll detonate. Now, towards east, you. The rest of you are with me!"

"Ok they are on the bridge now! Detonate exactly at mark!"
"Yes yes, clear the shrapnel zone now!!"

*KABOOOOMMMM*

"Hey, not bad! Two of the big ones are gone! Did you see that!... and... thank you honey. You did the right thing. I'm sorry."
"What are you talking about! Who is shooting? Why aren't you going for the boat!"
"There... there is no boat."
"What! You ducking bastard! Why did you... I would never..."
"That's exactly why. It had to be done. The bridge was the last line of defense."
"But... we can't... what are we going to do without you? What am I going to do without you?"
"Live. Protect the rest, when I can't anymore. I love you."
"I... I love you too. And I hate you for the rest of your life for the trick you just pulled!"
"Well, no worries, the rest of my life is very short. Take care of everyone. Live. Live for me. Promise me, my beloved!"
"I... I promise. I love you."

"Ok, now, this is it. We give them all we have. When out of ammo, go in with blades. This is the real s***. Let's do this!"
"For humankind!"
"For humankind! For humankiiiiiiind!"

End

[wavewright62]

*sobs in Finnish*

[Jitter]

This is very different than any of my other pieces, so any comments or suggestions are even more welcome than usually!

[wavewright62]

Okay, somewhat caught up!
I love the vignettes you've chosen for the prompts, Annuil.  As always, I love your inking style!  I think you did fine with the front-on view of Ville, can't quibble with that at all.
Jitter, you've delivered a brace of great material!  Ville's story is inspired dog-gerel, heh.  (And yes, the Forum has algorithms to alter certain words.) 
re the Bridge story, I can exactly see how sacrifices like that would have been made. The dialogue format suits a story like this, where knowing the details about exactly who's speaking when isn't really crucial.  As with so many, their names are lost, but they were heroes to the end. 
I'm not sure the dialogue format works quite as well in the Useful story, for the above reason, but I love Kaino's improvisation.  We see in canon that she likes puzzles, I can agree that she would value and know about the info in certain books.

I got a little echo of Harry Potter in Lallicat's 'All I wanted' story, but that may be because I'm currently giving the series a re-read.  Snorting at Professor Onni lecturing in Finnish, I love it.

I am working on Bridge, but as it features grosslings it's hard work for me.  It'll probably arrive out of sequence.

[thegreyarea]

I've been very busy and unable to properly see and comment recent contributions.

But let's go one step at a time (but not in any order )

Jitter, the "Bridge" is sad, but also great!
Using just dialogues, and no names, seems quite a challenge to write, however you made it really well.
It took me some time to realize how they could be talking to each other until I remembered that they would still have radios by that time! One grows used to a world almost without telecommunications reading this comic...
I also enjoyed the SFX (Kaboooommmm)

More comments (and hopefully contributions) soon. Butter Good!

[Grade E cat]

It's Tuesday for me, and I couldn't resist the Cat Hat prompt so soon after wrapping up my own take on human Kitty.

A second pair of ears

Many neighbors had heard of the little girl the expedition had found in the Silent World, and come to drop off some hand-me-downs. As Sigriður had offered to watch the little girl while her guardians went out to have a walk together, she ended up receiving them. Soon enough, there were so many clothes there was no way they would all fit in the travel bags they had, and Sigriður decided to have the little girl try them on to discard those that were already too small or so big she would take a while to grow into them. Summer clothes would need to fit her, winter clothes had more leeway. After sorting most of the clothes, she noticed that there were several scarves, winter hats, and pairs of mittens. The girl was going to only really need one of each. For the hat, there was immediate a consensus on the work of a particularly creative neighbor who had eventually needed to give in and make a bigger, identical one for her ever-growing child.

xxxx

Lalli stopped just sort of spitting out his warm milk when he saw what the little girl was wearing, and Emil actually did. Leave it to him to need to change clothes twice in one day, the first change being due to both of them getting rained on right after going up the mountain to enjoy the view. It took Lalli a while to process the fact that the little girl was wearing a wool hat almost the same color as her hair, long enough to cover her actual ears and decorated with surprisingly realistic fake cat ears. Iceland sure was a weird country.

[wavewright62]

Messing around with the brush pen while I was out travelling - so-so results, but I had fun.  That second one is supposed to be Trond and Bosse, that may not be clear.

[thegreyarea]

Grade E Cat, that's a nice origin story for the girl's hat! (love that part where Emil spits the milk)

Wave, I quite enjoy your results. They are so spontaneous! I bet you just sat down on some place and made them out of your mind, right?

And here's my little contribution with a slightly different approach...



Looks like our preferred female cat got herself a family, and Sigrun got company

(I tried to be spontaneous and quick here. Managed neither...)

[Jitter]

Hoo, great cat hats! And Cat, sweet story. A cats galore even!

Wave, your Trond is well recognizable, as are all the others!

Grey and Wave, thank you also for your comments on the stories! I think I’ll add a couple of descriptive sentences in the beginning of Useful, with that it’s probably manageable to work out who’s saying what. On Bridge I think the people have some sort of helmet comms Because it plays in my head in a a space marine type of style, like from Aliens or Starship Troopers. And the lead guy or squad leader or sarge or whatever is (played by) Ben Browder. Don’t ask, I don’t know why!

[Jitter]

Cat Hat

After sauna. Reynir is sitting in the ruined gazebo, enjoying the residual heat. It’s so good to be safe here in the Lehto, even if just for the night, after such a long and dangerous trek! This breather is probably welcome to everyone, but even more so to Reynir, who arguably is in the greatest risk. And! Not only did they find Onni, still in one piece, but Tuuri too!

Happy thoughts and sauna after effects combine pleasantly and soon Reynir is dozing off, leaning on one of the pillars. He dreams of meeting Onni. In the dream Onni is happy to see them. Happy to see him. He thanks them all for coming to help him and Tuuri (in the dream, everyone can see Tuuri and talk with her). Later, Onni finds Reynir and wants to talk about Reynir’s studies in the Academy and the galdrastafir he’s found useful. He also thanks Reynir specifically for being brave to come all the way here, into the heart of Silent World. “I had to come find you” dream-Reynir dares to say. “I’m glad you did. Very glad.” Dream-Onni wraps his arm around Reynir’s shoulders.

Reynir stirs and mutters sleepily “... Onni...” Wakes up, realizing it was a dream. Wakes up further, realizing Onni really is standing behind him, touching his hair. “Mm? Onni? What?”
“Auugh!” Onni starts and jumps backwards. “You are awake! Where is the cat!”
“What? Cat? You mean Kitty? I don’t understand.”
“I thought the cat was on your head, the way you carry her around like she was a hat! But that... thing is not the cat!”
“Oo, yeah, well... my hair gets wild in hot moisture. Or most of the time when it’s not braided.”
“Well, it’s ridiculous!”
“Sorry” Reynir feels like an idiot now.
“No, I’m sorry. My mistake. I shouldn’t have yelled at you. Or called your hair ridiculous. Now, where is the cat? And where’s Tuuri?” Muttering to himself Onni quickly retreats.

Did he really say something nice to me? Or am I still asleep? Reynir wonders, watching the other mage go.

Reynir’s cat hat galore:
http://sssscomic.com/comic2.php?page=305
http://sssscomic.com/comic2.php?page=307
http://sssscomic.com/comic2.php?page=317
http://sssscomic.com/comic2.php?page=318

Plus non-hat Kitty sweetness:
http://sssscomic.com/comic2.php?page=337
http://sssscomic.com/comic2.php?page=345
http://sssscomic.com/comic2.php?page=348