I would start with a gasp but that would severly undermine the effect this latest installment has had upon me, my friend. So let me just settle with a full on faint.
*Faints then gets up.*
Hehe, I never one to be bested for eloquence but having read some of the previous statements and reports, I will be hard pressed to do so. Still, try I will, and in doing so I shall hope to conjure up a response of such word-skill as to be deemed worthy of such soul tingling enticement.
Your eloquence, Feathers, is a delight and has never been anything less! Your words have been a great reward to me, and continue to be! Demons are silver-tongued beyond mortal ken; how much more may we expect from a Demon Lord! Hope you weren't standing during the faint, by the way; it would distress me terribly if you risked concussion on my account!
Well 20 chapters in and it has to be said that this piece gathers irresistible momentum with each installment. You do tickle our interests sir, stirring our imagination, and on a purely personal aspect you inspire. There are such treats in this latest piece that one finds oneself in a state of tonic immobilisation, if you will forgive the aquatic term. Your pages leave one so excited and so eager to be a part of the story, that I find myself almost stuck. Heheh. If none of that made sense, I apologise. The state of my writing may well support the entirely intoxicating effect your work has had on me.
I knew the "tonic" treatment worked on sharks... I shouldn't be surprised to learn it effects Demon Monarchs as well! Very nice of you, your comment about momentum... I very much want this series to create momentum, which it critically needs if reader interest is to be maintained throughout the many-months gap I take to produce new material. It encourages me greatly too when you express your eagerness to feel yourself involved in the story! That's a tremendously gratifying sentiment... I experience that same sort of personal connection with those entertainments I've liked the best! One tries to replicate such success, of course, as fully as one can manage. The advantage of extended storytelling is that it allows you to lavish attention on character and plot complexity that shorter forms don't permit. If the Low Roads series fails, it won't be for want of opportunity!
The dialogue continues to impress, friend. It is a wonderful mix of the gothic and the fantastic; the daring trips into delicate and rarer language continue to be hotspots of intrigue. The language you use exaggerates the effect of the drawings, making it more special. I particularly enjoy the parlay between her Guard-Demon and the three sultry searchees - wonderful. Hehe. Even at the very beginning when the desired effect is not to tease but explore darker emotion, you weave it out wonderfully.
Thanks so much, Feathers! As I've likely mentioned before, the script... word usage in particular... is of highest priority for my storytelling! The illustrations might survive being rough around the edges... plot and language need to be as sharp as I can possibly make 'em! It's wonderfully encouraging to me that you focus on the language, not simply because it needs to be vivid, but because scripting always turns out to be the most fun, satisfying part of the process! Everything that follows lives or dies by the written realization of the concept... if that's poorly expressed, little else matters much.
Very pleased indeed that you found special pleasure in the Demon/Fox Sisters banter! I was trying my utmost to duplicate the lighthearted grace-in-the-face-of-crisis tone Kitchenaut had created for "Avian Oddity"... if one invites the Foxes to visit, one owes them that courtesy! The pink demon, as a cheerful scatterbrain, was a neatly fitting foil for the ladies. Despite his aggressiveness and bondage technique, it's hard to say, exactly, who was using whom!
AS for the story....wow. I must confess that in following your tale, I find myself flooded with thoughts and ideas of my own. The scenes were Angie is practicing her skill were mouth watering. I love the idea that such wonderful treats are life paths and even heavily sought after skills. Wonderful shots of her tickling the feet, and the back. I was particularly chuffed with how you drew the hands and the crook of the fingers. Excellent work!
Cootchi Kon and Fire Hopper were also a wonderful addition. I adore the idea of tickle fighting as a daemonic form of authority. No prizes for guessing why that appeals to me. Heheh. Mercy's look of almost irritated suspicion on p19 lingers in the mind, as such expressions are not easily captured. Well done!!!
Thank you very much! Mercy does get into a snit easily, so I
better know how to capture that!
Indeed, I'd expect Feathers to feel a strong kinship for contending super-entities! He himself has employed these submission tactics to such grand effect in his own engrossing adventures! I was most grateful to be able to borrow Toymasters' arresting creations for this sequence; I hope I've done them the justice they deserve!
I'm most gratified you appreicated Angie/Fiona's training session, particularly for the underlying social options it represents! Working the tickling fetish into a story (especially a long one, in which the act must occur over and over) can prove deadeningly repetitive without a host of frameworks to give it variety. Turning it into a discipline and an avenue for increased ability is a notion I likely adapted from my sf reading. The Lensmen, Nul-A and Dune stories all exploit similar themes; applying it to tickling seemed a natural, fruitful extension.
And as for the Guard Demon and those three women...gulp. I love the idea, really, it made me giggle aloud and blush. And I love it when art does that. I gather Mercy is disappointed at his behaviour, but speaking as a daemon myself I would have been more disappointed if he had not taken such an opportunity. Hehe. The tentacle tickling was delicous and I was not too dazed to note the appreciation present in each of them as he was conducting his search. Wonderful. Just wonderful.
You demons are a lusty lot! Happy to hear that your pinkish brethren did your breed proud! The license did rather extend itself further than is normal for the Low Roads... one can only imagine the shenanigans if Mercy hadn't proved a pill and spoiled the fun! As for Mercy... well, she may be less hidebound and more of an experimenter than her sister, but she's still the product of a staid, repressed society. However genuinely POed she was at her partner for blowing her off (metaphorically, I mean... that wasn't a reference to the raspberries!), she definitely would have been shocked and embarrassed by this unrestrained randiness under any circumstances! The Fox Sisters are liberated souls, comparatively free of sensual hang-us; the demon, using an artificial body, can exercise his thrill-hunger without consequence. Heady company for a naive kitten girl who's only just learning how to fly!
I truly cannot say enough good things about this. I apologise for not posting earlier. You have inspired me, whether I post or not.
Thank you!!!
Your words are most welcome anytime, my friend! And you honor me when you say I supply inspiration! I hope my output will always do its part to entertain and enrich our Community! That will always be my aim!
