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Apr 302013

Niara wrote:

Katia: Break in excitedly, oblivious to anything else happening in your surroundings, to tell Gaius of how your own dreams Have spoken to you… sort of.

I’m pretty sure that dream-thief thing talked to me last night!

What, Gaius says.

You tell him that you were having a really bad nightmare like usual, and then all of a sudden these big, glowing letters appeared.

Big, glowing letters, he says.

Yeah! All lit up like one of those magicka-powered signs outside of a strip club. It was really weird; they basically just told me to stop being afraid.

Big, glowing letters appeared and told you to just stop being afraid, he says.

You nod. What do you think it could mean? Do… you think this somehow could be the cure to both our nightmares? Do you think…

In retrospect, you guess you could have worded that in a way that didn’t sound like complete bullshit.

> Katia: Follow captain

Kazerad

The suggestion thread will re-open in a little bit. When it does, let’s get some actual intelligent thoughts and actions in there. Katia needs it.
- Goldcat99
  
  Do we have to? I kinda like this being a crazy cat mage thing.
  - varsaigen
    
    It does have a nice flair to it, doesn’t it? 🙂
- cake
  
  you ask for too much.
  - Chell
    
    You liar.
    - GLaDOS
      
      Oh, it’s you. It’s been a long time.
- Dan
  
  Why would you want that?
- Relth
  
  Where do I sign up?!
  - Kaserad (not Kazerad)
    
    You just click register.
- Koravel
  
  This is best action. and i must be part of it. This is gettin srs here guys. super srs.
- egg brother
  
  well lets just face it kaz. no matter what, there will always be that one person to start another completly different conversation that is no way related to the topic at hand. just glad that it never was me.
  - Sheogorath
    
    No it was me
    - Haskill
      
      Sorry to bother you my lord, but shouldn’t you be looking into more…..urgent….matters at this time instead of posting random comments?
    - Haskill
      
      Sorry to bother you my lord, but shouldn’t you be looking into more…..urgent….matters at this time instead of posting random comments?
      
      It is that time of the era after all…..
Deimos

Welp, he’s an ass.
- BuulderJim
  
  Ok, NOW we kill him.
  - HoochieKookoo
    
    Gaius is going to be a companion, guys, and I DEFINITELY want to see Katia burnin’ bitches and Gaius cappin’ fools back-to-back. [“Bitches”, in the derogatory sense. I’d rather Sworddog escape Katia’s firey death-tickle.]
Eadeve

Looks like she could have used that old “amulet of silence there.”

In all seriousness, maybe she could try to link her magika (if she has any atm) to heighten her khajiit night vision to see ‘other things.’
- Toastfighter
  
  Now now, we’ve already caused her to lose sight in ONE eye doing silly things, she doesn’t need to be blind.
Thesis

Damn, that sandwich looks tasty-

…Oh. Okay then.
ArcaneMonkey

Damn, poor Gaius just payed out one of the most important moments of his life and now he just thinks he’s being mocked
- M
  
  Damn, I’m torn between that and Gaius being kind of a dick. I mean, Gaius already KNEW Katia’s not necessarily the brightest or most socially savvy.
  
  I guess as a BOLD MAN OF ACTION, opening up like this was hard for him to begin with. But cut the cat some slack!
  
  Really… come the fuck on… I hoped they’d be at least SORTA friends now.
  
  Well then… Katia’d better get off her ass, pursue, apologize if that sounded wrong but insist they talk more. She can’t let this lead go.
  - TreeScaled
    
    Yup, she’d better PUR-sue and a-PAW-logize, before she loses her last lead!
    - M
      
      She doesn’t want to roast the guy. 😉 But it would be better not to go all cat-atonic.
      - Kaze’aze
        
        These puns are so stale, starving children in Africa wouldn’t eat them.
      - Shard
        
        That was funny
krystalkitty

Well that was awfully rude of him.
Zance

Figures I catch up during an exciting tidbit. (sigh)
Name Required

we all know katia is poor, da hell did she get a sandvich from?
- Goldcat99
  
  She stole it?
Goldcat99

Noooo not katias sandwich!
- Ombragon
  
  nooooo, this man is a monster
ismit32

Katia: Apologise to Gaius if you offended him without meaning to, then ask if you could get Vaermina’s number that she gave him so you can contact her about your dreams. (since she wanted to know ANY new information Gaius learns so she should be interested in Katia’s dream talking to her)
- thlunderking
  
  Screw gaius, he kicked that food right out of her hand. Let him suffer some more nightmares. He kind of deserves it for being a judgmental prick. If he really wanted an answer that bad he would follow any lead. The fact that she knows his nightmares is one thing. He saw a dedric prince for gods sake, he can’t believe in floating letters? Well I guess he is a guard so he must know more than namira. We need the number for namira, gaius can rot.
  - ismit32
    
    Was just thinking that if she doesn’t apologise it might be unnecessarily difficult to get that number. Its not like she can defeat a fully trained guard. Not to mention all the guards would be after her even if she did manage to beat him, she IS trying to stay OUT of trouble.
Expresate

Oh, boooo. Come on, Kazerad. Why do you just so nonchalantly kill off the main character like that? That’s bad story telling. All this build up for some stupid “LOLNOPE” moment. You’re now literally worse than Hussie.

RIP Sandwich.

2013- 2013

Loving husband, father, foodstuff.
- Kazerad
  
  He’s not dead, he is just critically wounded! You can work together to resuscitate him once the commands thread gets reopened.
  - Expresate
    
    Well, maybe I will.
    
    “Your killing has been observed by forces unknown….”
    - A Nameless Adventurer
      
      Asotil: Suddenly appear out of nowhere, run up to Gaius and arrest that “criminal scum” for ruining a perfectly good sandwich….
      
      ….a crime punishable by death under Imperial law.
      - SkywardStrike
        
        Not even murder is punishable by death in Cyrodiil.
      - A Nameless Adventurer
        
        It’s not for murder, its for ruining a sandwich. While not every murder is punishable by death, ruining a sandwich is a capital offense.
        
        Pick pocketing and picking up objects that aren’t yours are also capital offenses, providing you can’t pay the fine….
  - Tormuse
    
    Reminds me of this comic:
    
    http://dilbert.com/strips/comic/2000-10-16/
- stupidjellyfish
  
  Kazerad has a lot of balls to do shit like this. That sandwich looked so fucking tasty.
  - tronn
    
    She’s a poor, starving girl who only got one bite of the sandwich, just enough to get the taste in her mouth, before it was thrown to the ground. Nice one!
    
    Also in sadder news,
    >Game world: fail to play ‘Cpt. Gaius has joined the party!’ music.
    - Dan
      
      I was rooting for a party music…
    - A Nameless Adventurer
      
      The sandvich also failed to join the party…..
    - Squeakyrawr
      
      That was very rude of him but she IS a cat after all. She could just eat the sandwich off of the ground, you know. She’s done worse things.
- L333t
  
  If the sandwich is a year old, I wouldn’t eat it…
Ransom

And thus did sandwich join Dimitri in the realm of dead characters. *sniff*
- Casey
  
  Dimitri is a necromancer dommit! I just know he’s got some cool thing going with a soil gem, a skeleton and a posthumous healing spell (And his undead cat).
  - Goldcat99
    
    Could we ask him to revive sandwitch?0
Kai

Katia: Well, you’re still hungry aren’t you? You aren’t gonna let a little dirt stop you from enjoying that sandwich are you!?
LordKebise

Katia, pick up your sandwich! Give him CPR! Mout-to-mouth! Anything!

P.S: If your sandwich dies, throw his corpse in Gaius’s face then punch that murderer in the balls!
LordKebise

Then get Gaius to help you get your stuff back.
nan

Katia: forget the incredibly satisfying but let’s face it probably imewginary sandwich and focus on the fellow ~~human~~ being: the one who just had a long privileged chat with the prince of dreams about his lifelong disturbing what were they oh yes DREAMS which are much like your own

Katia: be curious.
Ragnvaldr

And suddenly, I feel like eating a meaty sandwich. Rest in pieces Katia’s sandwich. ;_;
Shard

Where’d Katia get the sandwich?
- Unclever title
  
  Gaius mentioned Miss Lenka’s weekly barbecue before starting the story. My guess is that they stopped by for some free food during the middle of the story.
Thatguy

He will pay for that sandwich with his blood. Or his money, whichever is more easily exchanged for more food.
NoriMori

I’m…honestly not exactly sure what Gaius is so pissed about, or exactly how what Katia said sounded like complete bullshit, or was even worded badly… I guess there’s something I’m missing here…
- Alex
  
  Well, first off you have to remember that Gaius already dislikes her for possibly being a cultist. So chances are that if Katia says something that could be taken the wrong way, he probably will do that.
  After talking to her about how he’s been tortured by nightmares for years, and how not even the Prince of Nightmares knew why or how to stop them, she comes out and says “Oh hey I had one of those dreams too! In the dream, I saw these giant flaming letters telling me I should just stop being afraid! Do you think that could help you out?” He probably took that to mean that this insensitive cultist isn’t taking his pain at all seriously and is sarcastically telling him if he wants the nightmares to end he should just… stop being afraid of cultists. Keep in mind she already mocked him earlier for being scared of them.
  
  She should’ve said something like: “I think the creature in my nightmares tried to communicate… but it didn’t get very far before I woke up. It seemed like it was trying to calm me down… I don’t know why.” Pique his interest, don’t bring up the fact that the actual words it used sounded like a four-year-old’s, word it in a way that clearly shows you don’t understand this, either. That’s the way to go.
  - Sheogorath
    
    Too many words not enough cheese
    - A Nameless Adventurer
      
      Why are you back my Lord…
      
      …and where is the other you?
      - Sheogorath
        
        Oh, he’s here, and there, and a bit over there, in that tree, too, and… Hm… Where did the rest of him land, Haskill?
      - Haskill
        
        Yes my Lord?
    - LP
      
      You ran out of cheese-stuffed-entrails, didn’t you?
  - Shin-Bad
    
    *Like*
TheTurnipKing

Irrelevant. You speak the truth.

Stick close to Gaius. But stealthy, like. I don’t know why it gave him cultist dreams, but if I was going to take a guess, then it probably means to keep you two apart.

But he’s afraid of cultists, and you’re an ex-cultist. So you should definately stalk him stealthily from the shadows instead of simply telling him your reasoning, and save him the worry. There’s no way that could be misconstrued.
furnut

Katia needs to play the conversation wheel better =(
Tylor

May be Gaius got her this sandwich in the first place?
Fishing4Food

R.I.P Half eaten sandwich, may you rest in peace.
Elvenwonder

The sandwitch looked to me like barbecue, from Miss Lenka’s fire. I guess that means it actually is a cooking fire, and we can stop worrying.

So how does Gaius manage to walk away without moving his legs? Subtle, illegal, flying skills? Short-distance teleportation? I bet Katia could learn a lot from him.
- Alex
  
  A sand-witch? Burn her! Burn the witch with fire!
Jack

Katia can’t enjoy her sandwich.
M’aiq the Liar

Ma’iq thinks that perhaps katia should think more before she speaks. A wise Khajit once told Ma’iq: “By the Nine, do you ever shut up?” Ma’iq believes that these words apply well to your situation.
Nick

I did not get his reaction.
Andross

HA HA HA

YES

TIME FOR MORE DEPRESSION

SLUT CAT SLUT CAT SLUT CAT WHATCHA GONNA DO
Bluedragon

2nd frame – cute katia gulp noted, saved and copied to various places scattered about the internet for posterity. Wonder if I can hack together a 1/2/3 frame animation? It would be of such epic cuteness as to displace MLP forever!
- Vengeful Argonian
  
  Yes! Do it! Take out the pony menace once and for all!
  - Moonfire
    
    PONIES LIVE FOREVER!!!!
The Argonian

Am I the only one confused by the magicka powered sign?
heidtmare

Was that a McRib?!?
…I could really go for a McRib right now.
Maxtimot

Just noticed that Katia’s neck in the three first panels is a bit too long and thin. I know you’ve been drawing Vaermina’s protracted neck for weeks. But before we leave her, Katia looked like this: http://www.prequeladventure.com/this/story1365.gif
And now I can’t unsee the head placed just a little too far from the head. :/ Nice drawing though, I like it when she start to regain smile after all that (even for just half of the update).
MinebyNight

Mourn over loss of sandwich.
TenGoat

Gaius is a younger Sheogorath, it’s obvious.
DK3

Oh that Gaius, hes been probably mocked by so many ppl telling him that hes afraid of cultists (while hes denying it) that it couldn’t had been expected otherwise what he do to a lowfolk like her……………where she got that food from anyway?
Tylor

Pretty likely that Gaius gave her sandwich himself.
- Tylor
  
  Oops, forgot I already posted it. Disregard.
MrPeriwinkle

That sandwich

The sandwich was from Miss Lenka’s Barbecue. What a nice town giving out sandwiches weekly like that.
Dragon

Take a moment to reflect.

* Some deific being is meddling in dreams
* When you were sleeping in the church, something big, shiny, bright and cool was interceding.

… maybe one of the gods was helping? Speak to a priest, perhaps?

—

This is probably inadvisable, so you might want to find someone to do this with, to help you not flip out:
The book. The one you defaced; do you still have it?
There’s a supernatural horror out there, and you have been drinking to forget.
But what have you been thinking, worried about when drunk?
Maybe there are secrets.
If not, maybe you can use it the next time you think the bottle is the solution, to remind you that avoiding the terrors of the night often lead to your problems in the day.

—

Keep your good eye on the prize. The dancing competiton. You need to get some practice on; maybe checkout the competition. Decide on your dignified, wizardly dance. And if you can’t do dignified, get an atrocious fake beard and go for comedy undignified – after all, didn’t someone say laughter was a form of flattery?

—

Be the sandwich.
Gundrium

Alright, not to go off topic too much, but am I the only one thinking that the cat from Nah’s monologue is in fact; Either our good necromancer in a cat’s body, or perhaps his oldest animal familiar with a bit of him inside? Either way, I don’t see that cat finding Katia here unless it meant to, considering said cat never met out good Warrior-Mage before.

Also, ~~QUITE POSSIBLY THE WORSTIDEA I’VE EVER HAD~~ GREAT IDEA! how about we salvage the sandwich and eat it as we search for a way to counter-act ‘Her’ Potion to increase charm(Which is all that throat spray/ colonge thing could be.) and then confront the mage that I am having the increasing suspicion is the Cultist our good captain is scared piss-less by.

And thirdly, I would suggest we find the ‘Retard’ from yesterday, as I have come under the impression she is ‘our’ partner. The only thing that would make our job harder would be if it was our ‘TOTALLY NORMAL HUMAN BEING WITH THE ‘SKIN CONDITION’ AND A LIKE FOR RED’.

And while we’re on THAT Subject: Exactly HOW long have you been hearing… ‘Us’? This just does NOT seem all that healthy.

And finally:

How are the flowers in the flower pot?
D. G.

So wait, if Gaius’ story just sorta ended there, then how come SWORDDOG isn’t still following him around?
- 65534
  
  Probably Sworddog only follows Gaius when Gaius is off work. Or Sworddog now has a job of guarding the Vaermina’s orb.
Blezmo

It looks like Katia had poor social skills.
And how dis she get that sandwich?
- Tylor
  
  I think Gaius has poor social skills. Katia’s problem is that she has “anybody can walk all over me” look (and feel).
Tormuse

Katia should have said, “Don’t be reasonably apprehensive.”
Tobi2500

Guys! I just came up with a ~~stupid theory~~ a great theory, what if Dimitri is making the golden letters in an attempt to help Katia.Since he’s a necromancer he might become a ghost and interfere with her dreams to help her. My “evidence” is that the king-monster-thing was like WTF when the golden letters appeared, and if the entity behind the nightmares is causing them in the first place then why suddenly stop? I am assuming that the entity is being the King, and thats why it was so confused.
What do you think?
Tobi2500

Sorry about the epic fail…
Guys! I just came up with a ~~stupid theory~~ great theory, what if Dimitri is making the golden letters in an attempt to help Katia.Since he’s a necromancer he might become a ghost and interfere with her dreams to help her. My “evidence” is that the king-monster-thing was like WTF when the golden letters appeared, and if the entity behind the nightmares is causing them in the first place then why suddenly stop? I am assuming that the entity is being the King, and thats why it was so confused.
What do you think?
FelexBlake

Her Manwich!
Blemo

Does anyone notice that the gaurd outside the Mysterious Door on Oblivion: Shivering Isles is named Gaius?
That could mean something…
- Relth
  
  You mean he got relocated? I don’t know… What’s Gaius’s full name?
  - Tylor
    
    I looked up Gaius in wiki, and there are several of them across TES games. Gaius Prentus in Shivering Isles DLC and two different Gaiuses in Skyrim. None of them is “our” Gaius. He may be one of nameless guards, but nobody in Cyrodiil wear beards, so he either shaved, died, or was sent away to some reservation for people with facial hair.
    - Blemo
      
      Maybe Gaius Prentus shaved his beard.
      And either left Kvatch before it burned, or cowarded away while the other soldiers fought.
Relth

Either Gaius still doesn’t trust Kat, thinks she’s just being dumb (as usual, I have to admit) or HE JELLY OH!!!
Moo?

What the… How… Ummm… where did katia get the the SANDVICH?
- 65534
  
  The only way she could get a SANDVICH is from Heavy passing by — probably on his way from TF2 to Touhou.
zuke

don’t let that sandwhich kicking coot get the better of you explain what happened to him again but this time in better detail
just some one who loves this

i need to not watch game grumps as reading this what my thoughts look like this is comics but moving but jontron voice is reading the thx
just some one who loves this

be happy or a mugger with take your boots and be like “ow my feet i think i step in some glass now i’m bleeding”
just some one who loves this

http://www.yourepeat.com/watch?v=OFKUnfwBPTU here a some for you
Anonymous

…So you’re telling me that glowing letters in a dream that has floating stairs and a giant morphing shadow king makes is bullshit. Yeah, that’s reasonable.
Seeen

Apologize for sounding like you were mocking him and ask for the daedra’s number.
Tech

this is not a comment, it’s a SANDWICH! What would make you think otherwise?
- RampantSeaTurtles
  
  Do I have permission to eat it?
Kione

Hey Kazerad, I’m not sure if anyone has brought this up before but if they have, sorry >.<

I was wondering if Prequel had an IRC chatroom. I would love to chat with and get to know some of the people in this fandom, and I think it'd be a lot of fun having a bunch of us in the same place 🙂
- Tylor
  
  Seconded
- Kaserad (not Kazerad)
  
  http://unofficalprequelfandom.webs.com/
- tronn
  
  Just head over to /co/ after an update, there’s always a thread that usually lasts for two to three days.
  - Kione
    
    Yeah I guess that’s one way. I just find IRC networks a lot more fun, personally. I dunno, I figured one would work really well given the size of the Prequel fandom.
- Kazerad
  
  I don’t think one exists yet? I know there are a couple places on different forums that have discussion after updates, but I’m not sure the fandom is big enough or the comic updates enough to warrant a full time chatroom. Not to mention someone would have to moderate/take care of it.
Tylor

Hmm, interesting tidbit. In Daggerfall you only could summon Vaermina on Sun’s Height (July) 10th. And it was “month ago”.
Oblivion starts Last Seed (August) 27th. As we know that year is right (from Katia’s birthday and age), it is indeed mere days before Crisis.
Kaserad (not Kazerad)

hmmm I don’t see why my name was changed to “Not Kaserad”
I never claimed to be that Kaz guy, Im clearly Kaserad, not Kazerad.
( has a ‘s’, does not have a ‘z’ )
- Kazerad
  
  Here, I changed it in a different direction. Just trying to avoid confusion if possible!
  
  (nice email, by the way)
SuperGnome

Re-assemble the fallen sandwich! That was a perfectly good- Wait, where’d the sandwich come from!?
Low Ceiling

I say we conspire to set Gaius’ beard on fire. MAGIC fire.
DeepPix3l

Well… at least you have a lead now. Vaermina DID say something about wanting to hear if there was a voice in the dreams. A sign is kinda like a voice right? And, I’m sure she/he(IT?) would be interested is someone else was having similar dreams.
Perhaps Cultists may be your best bet in finding more answers at this point.
Tristan

I am really liking this so far. I hope you manage to update soon. 😀
(R.I.P Sandwich)
Nodzilla96

Anyone notice katia’s hair growing? It started out at fuzzy but now there are lines of hair. Maybe she will braid? Fan art ops all over this…
RogueSol

I’m new to this comic and it sunk its claws into me. (Pun intended) I’m also starting to develop a theory. Earlier in the story we saw the knave and king in a card deck. Granted normally kings are in almost every card deck I can think of but the knave is something I only saw in this story (or is Elder Scrolls) would there happen to be a cultist card by chance. If so then it’s probably a good start for clues.
- Kazerad
  
  Welcome, and I’m glad you enjoy the comic!
  
  As for the Knave, though, that’s actually just what Jacks were printed as up until the mid-19th century. Earlier English decks used the “Kn” abbreviation for Jacks/Knaves, and it was eventually changed to “J” in order to minimize confusion with Kings. I’m afraid that’s just one of those rare, inconsistent moments where the comic has some tiny bit of historical accuracy (possibly ruined immediately after when the cards are revealed to be laminated, a process that didn’t come around until the 1900s).
  - Nodzilla96
    
    Oh Kaz, being all detailed with 17th century history.
krazy khajiit

Poor katia. Never seems to catch a break.
oldfurr

Could you please put in a archive index or month to month pick-em & flick-em for this comic? I have just gotten back here after 3 months absence and do not have the time to screw off for 25 minutes to get back comic by comic by comic by comic by comic by comic by comic by comic by comic by comic by comic by comic by comic by comic by comic by comic by comic by comic by comic by comic by comic by comic by comic etc. etc. etc. etc. by freaking etc. to where I last viewed this comic.
Thank you
Oldfurr
Neptune

So he kicks her fucking sandwhich xD
dtlux14

“Yeah! All lit up like one of those magicka-powered signs outside of a
strip club. It was really weird; they basically just told me to stop
being afraid.” I don’t see how this doesn’t seem true. Also, he was mean to kick her sandwich, whatever it was.