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ELotH Comic:Vampyre Puppy Pyre

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Vampyre Puppy Pyre

Summary

The issue begins with Horizon, Twilight, and Deldon in the midst of intense combat with the soldiers of Hijinki. Deep in the Undercity, protected by peasant Warriors, is Crisis, concentrating on a ritual of calling to attract Quilpo. The enemies are sent sprawling, and the three rest.

Meanwhile, I'den has been inducted into the Surgeon's Guild, for she hasn't been associated with her companions. She learns quite a lot about the upper strata of Hijinki, and supplies her friends with information about what goes on "up top." After a surgery worked on a powerful member of the Overarch Parlaiment, she's rewarded with a "night on the town" in addition to resources. During the opulant dinner, she overhears the Overarchs' plans for the undercity... and flees, soon after discovering the plans.

In the undercity, the plans have already taken hold: Vampyres have infested the undercity, spearing up pet dogs and building a vampyre pyre of puppy meat in the center. The leader of the vampyres is Riptide, a blue-armor-clad son-of-a-bitch who decimates the undercity, conquering the three active heroes and disrupting Crisis's ritual.

I'den reaches the undercity too late, and is cornered by Riptide in an alleyway. He stabs her in the gut and drains her blood, before leaving her, heavily injured, to rot.

As winter falls on Hijinkis, the heroes are at their lowest point imaginable. Twilight watches the sick-colored skies and lights a cigarette, "letting the ash drift to the wind like a quiet prayer."

Notes

The change in direction for this episode was so servere that fan reaction was almost unanimously negative, violent, and directed straight at Annonymous Miranda's head. It is well-known that she had to wear her General Defense Dynamics Standard Issue Employee Protection Shell whenever she left her home, to protect from the hellstorm of thrown vegetables, insults, and .22 shots. Eventually the heat died down and the new direction was accepted whole-heartedly (except for a tiny portion edged off by a close-call crossbow bolt on Miranda's side).

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