More formspring whackiness when Duane is asked about scrivening:
Duane: The reading and writing of correspondence and the duplication of legal documents are my chief occupations. Now and then there is a spot of translation work but that blackguard Josef Barnaby lured most of my clients away when he disparaged the quality of my Continental as "prosaic and tediously Aldish."
Sette: He were right. We get back home though and you pay me and I'll get some lads together and we'll shave his dogs and egg his shop.
Formspring hilarity continues! During the break between chapters 7 and 8, the Duane & Sette formspring was changed to just Duane, back when he was still alive. One determined individual immediately jumpedon the chanceto propose to Duane's brother through him, and it became something of a Running Gag. It is intensely amusing to see Duane at first make an attempt at politeness, before slowly descending into deadpanfury as the proposals become more extreme.
Duane: "Thieves and whores. Disgraceful." Sette: "So's your face."
"I saw your play!" Even better is that if you look in the upper right of the screen outside the page border you can actually see Knock flying away after being punted by Uaid.
He's dead aroused. I wouldn't look him direct in the face or he's like t'set on your keen squid hat with his manly passions. Now hurry, we need a soundproof room 'cause he's gonna be loud!
Duane, after going after Sette in his attack zombie mode and being restrained by the...'apparatus' of the love hotel, comes back to himself just in time to be smacked in the face with a tentacle. His expression has to be seen to be believed.
"Time has conditioned me against joy and adorable children."
And, when they're discussing why Rahm has spent so much time observing 'The Happy Tentacle', a handy Brain in a Jar murmurs "Collate the boobies."
When a prostitute in Stockyard's brothel is rude and condescending towards Sette, Sette retaliates by biting part of her finger off. Duane gently commands her to spit the finger out and catches it in a handkerchief, as if she's a toddler who's eaten something she shouldn't have. And then he hands it back to the prostitute, asking her to excuse Sette's behaviour because "Boo has nerves."
Knock-Me-Down loves it, though. And expresses it in heart-shaped speech bubbles.
Toby: "Didn't she drop a pulley on your head?"
Knock: "I had it coming."
Then, when confronting Stockyard, Sette whispers to Duane to make her 'tall and glorious'. Duane's response is to flick a finger so she suddenly standing on a glowing green box. Probably not quite what she had in mind, Duane...
Sette interrupts the Deadly Nevergreen's song and dance number (culminating with one worker getting uncomfortably close to Duane) with a hail of thrown bottles and brandishes two more threateningly.
Sette: Get your breasts away from me employee! He ain't here for love!
They try again later, brushing off his protests that he's a married man and a cleric. In fact...
After Dawn, an employee of the Deadly Nevergreen, hustles Duane upstairs, the next we hear of him is a prostitute bursting out of his room, horrified and refusing to participate in whatever 'unnatural' activities are going on within, despite the brothel being obviously equipped to deal with... esoteric tastes. Behold how he treats the two stalwart employees who remained inside.
Made all the more so when he uses them tactically to kill a wright. The other two run for it the instant a group of grinning, winged, neon-glowing butt pymarics start to float towards them. Quigley's menacing stare is priceless.
Duane, Quigley and Toma discussing how to tackle the silver:
When Duane's nature is revealed to Toma and Quigley, they immediately disregard the pressing threat in order to engage in I Knew It! with each other and theorize that he's a mindless plod under someone else's control while Duane is standing right there. Eventually he gets fed up and uses pymary to knock their heads together.
Quigley: ...This makes sense. No legitimate human could be such a prancing twat- Duane: 'Legitimate?!' Plat, shall I legitimately drop you from another cliff?!
The introduction of new Black-Tongue character and Bastion's self-appointed rival... Darkest Paul.
When Quigley finds out that Matty isn't going to be in the holiday pageant, he immediately overreacts and demands to see the manager, never mind that Matty's only not in it because he didn't ask to be.
"Horrific! Dire! Nail-biting! I hope it gets worse!"
When Alds are attacking the secret bunker under the mayoral manor of Port Morstoben and trying to kill Queen Sonorie, some of the weapons they use are pymaric grenades. Ufal, panicking, smacks one into the corridor outside — where the High Priestess of Cresce, apparently unaware of the pure chaos going on inside the chamber, is praying to Tirna to assuage her wrath. She and her acolytes are promptly blown to bits.
Sette's bird lectures make a comeback. Once more Duane and Sette find themselves in the Khert and Duane bemoans their situation, calling on Lady Ilganyag by her given name. Hearing this makes Sette (and the comic) pause for a moment before delivering this exchange.
definitely count.Duane: I question your upbringing.
