I am so tardy in my reply to this latest chapter that I might have actually set a new record.
I'll never gripe about timing! The Deeto's commentary is a much reveled-in pleasure and worth any wait! Thanks so much for writing, my friend! It's deeply appreciated… I know how overwhelmingly busy you are, and your dedication to the Community is prized all the more highly for it!
In fact I'm sort of noticing a pattern in my replies to this outstanding series. Every chapter gets me more and more enraptured...and thus warrants a more thorough reply...and in waiting for a more thorough reply...more and more time passes...until it gets almost absurd. LOL.
Ha ha! I understand completely and often find myself in the same difficulty: wishing to do a valued submission justice, but never seeming to have adequate leisure. To be fair, this Low Roads chapter has only been out a couple of weeks and any reply would be well within the window of reasonableness. I, on the other hand, have let months elapse before responding to a given thread, which borders on necromancy. If anyone had a right to gripe, it sure wouldn't be me! Though a gripe would be short-sighted indeed… this reply serves as a nice bump-up, which is always a welcome courtesy!
The latest installment is awesome, LR. I love Charity.
Thank you very much for saying so, both for the general praise and for singling out Charity! It hasn't been implicitly stated so, but Charity is the key character I'd planned to introduce in Bliss Harbor (with no disrespect to Chastity… she'll have her own distinct story arc to fulfill). As sort of the local skeptic (not being enthralled with fetish concerns in a tale devoted to it), I hope that her outsider perspective will provide useful counterpoint to the general spirit of delirious hedonism. She'll have lots to do in upcoming Chapter 27; much will occur to confirm her personality and outlook.
Like so many others, I love the bat.
I'm so pleased that you do! I had hoped he'd go over well! It was high time for Mercy to begin to experience the weight of real responsibility, and a pet is the first taste of it most of us get. However, this guy is more than capable of looking after himself; confronting his desires will likely be more challenging than seeing to his needs! Both will learn much from one another as their relationship develops.
I love the action-focused approach. I think this chapter represents the least amount of actual written text I can remember ever seeing in a Low Roads installment. And although I would usually lament the lack of more beautiful prose - I find the fast-paced scenes and flowing panels to be an absolute delight.
Thanks once again! You're certainly right about the non-didactic approach in this chapter; it was a rather deliberate decision to attempt a more frisky rhythm, with less reliance on the heavy exposition I tend to love (with the exception of the girls gassing on and on in the Crystal Marina to foreshadow their trip to Pandataria; well, there's got to be
some measure of internal pacing). Action scenes, as you know so well (your "Bounce Chix" tales, true to their moniker, are jammed to the plimsoll line with wondrous manic slapstick!), are tremendous fun to concoct and realize! If I can convey any amount of that enjoyment, it's effort well spent!
It's such a pleasure to read your work. Would that I could have replied sooner. but please understand it was your virtues that kept me at bay.
I pine for more.
B
Pleasure deferred is pleasure enhanced, good sir! Little as I'd ever wish to keep our Community's own Robin Hood distant, anticipation boosts my satisfaction to the same I'd experience on a longed-after holiday! The crafty Deeto wears many guises… Santa Deeto (the elfin Spirit of Generosity) is one we all love large!
no no, not at all... it was a pleasure to make my way through the story and get to know the characters
That's tremendously gratifying for me, Detritus! It's the sort of dedicated story interest I always long for this series to have!
i meant to say this in my first reply but i was a little strapped for time to find the pages to which i wanted to refer - there is a part in chapter 8 where Mayor Allgoode shows Sherif Mew his room full of tickling curios.... that room is one of my favourite ever things i have seen depicted.. i very much admire the way you capture such delighted revelry in tickling in quite reduced detail... the damsel chained to a post being tickled by a dragon... someone locked in a trunk being tickled by mice.. the totem pole.. the naked lady "running away" from an unseen tickler just out of the panel but obviously delighting in her predicament.. i long to visit that room and spend a day perusing the mayor's collection
Wow! That's a really thorough appraisal, so many small background bits you site! I'm terribly grateful and I salute your astute eye for detail! Allgoode's fetish museum (his by inheritance, once his wife disappeared) is rather a distillation of the more insubstantial collections most of us tickle fanatics tend to have put together in digital (or in other venues we can readily guard from outside snooping) form. His locked doors are more of a giveaway than our passwords and flash storage devices tend to be, but there's also a trade-up in the tactile nature of the artifacts. Frankly, the bounty is wasted on Allgoode, who's too goody-two-shoes to appreciate it. For him, it serves principally as a moldering memorial to his lost love (though even he couldn't fail to appreciate its material estimability).
it's true, i do like my tickling to take place in a remote and exotic location, or a fey inhabited parallel universe, where calls for help and frenzied laughter will not result in release (except in isobel's case... tickling always brings her release, but of a different kind)
The most sought-after kind, of course!
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oh my goodness, of course you can feature isobel and abigail in your story, i would love to see them at the mercy of the inhabitants (and especially the flora and fauna) of Tabor County - they are with me now and are reading this post too... isobel is quite weak with excitement at the thought of such a plight
Delighted to hear you say so! It would be an extreme honor for me to host your lovely ladies; they couldn't be more welcome! I have an idea for them which could be implemented a couple of chapters from now (Chapter 28 would afford an ideal opportunity); I'll send you a PM soon with full details so as to obtain your input and your approval!
