noot noot

I can hear this post and it's beautiful

Yay! Little guy makes it. :D

I remember it was Dee trying to let them let the 'cargo' go and negotiate a peaceful way out.

Yeah, but Lamb probably would have had none of that.

Prinny dood!

Dood!

(*hums a tune*)

Red panda, red panda...
Cleanses the slavers and rends them apart...

Okay, nah, can't get it to scan to the tune. Darn.

I somehow knew he'd survive this

He was too cute to die

Given what we have seen of Dee so far I really have to wonder how he got mixed up with slavers in the first place?

Wrong place, wrong time?

"Join us, or become ... merchandise" sort of deal?

Was more thinking "join or die" seeing as the only slaves we've seen are girls..

On this trip, yes. But one trip is not representative of all trips.

Very happy to be wrong when I was fairly sure the little guy was dead.

I seriously doubt Fen would struggle much dragging a single body.

Especially given how little would’ve been left after Lamb was done with them!

Tamusa is quite large :p

Being a bear, no doubt quite heavy too. As in a fair ole % of a ton..

not to mention she used a whole lot of energy phasing through rock, making a wall with spike to push them out of the cave and keep them out for Lamb. Running close to empty probably doesn't help moving all that weight.

This would best explain it.

Nice. While no slaver deserves to get off Scott free, some such people are in bad situations themselves where the only way to survive is to do the despicable. Especially when it isn’t actually illegal.
Given a choice, I think he’ll do more with his life. He deserves a chance at redemption.

For his sakes I hope he makes the best of said chance because none of these girls feel like giving him a second one if he messes this one up.

He lives! now the question is, for how long.

Oh, he's probably going to live a while.

He may regret living, but he'll be alive.

that's a fair way to put things, well, beats getting ripped to pieces by Lamb

Heh, they'll make sure to drum into his head that, even if he was a compassionate slaver, he was still a slaver.

yeah, but it's still a better fate than literally everyone else, particularly that one dude that Lamb basically butchered his arm off, talk about a painful way to go.

I think a small problem with that statement is that he might not be a slaver. If he was just a mercenary who was hired and didn't know what he was being hired for...

Even worse, when he got in to the situation, he might not have been able to get out of it, he clearly can't do magic and how do you run away from a chick with a gun? Argue with a guy three times your size? Fight against superior numbers?

Best you can do is hold your tongue and try to make the best of the situation you're in. Also based on Jay's reaction (The guy who got choked out by a chain) I think the two got stuck between a rock and a hard place.

We'll see what his situation is, I hope.

Oh, and run away from him? You wait until they're asleep and slit their throats. or put a crossbow bolt in the back of their head.

Yay! Lil guy made it through, I had a feeling he would. Also, that deathstare from Lamb XD its like "Im watchin you...."

So none of the slavers survived except for the penguin. I would say that comes pretty handy for him. He now can become a Slave Hunter :D I am Pengman

Dee is a heck of a lucky Pingu. ^^;

Also wonder what this special thing could be?

wait page 500?? holy crap... its funny as at the start just seemed like your above average porn comic.. now its blossomed into a huge 500 story with so much to it.. hats off to you then

I’d say letting the little guy live was special enough, lmao.

ROFL

Don't think the one arm bandit made it

And nothing of value was lost.

Yay! ^w^

You know, it's strange. I admit I don't know the range of people that would take up the employment as a slaver. But this bird didn't seem to have the mentality for it. Either this is their first stint at it or something else is going on.

Still, they are lucky. I guess they managed to score enough karma points to not meet Lamb's very sharp point.

Oh that was one of the freed slaves that vouched for him. Okay, cool. :D

It is amazing what a little water can do. She cleaned up quickly and dried even quicker! :)

Yay Pengy gets to live. He seemed to be the only one with any kind of conscience.

Also grats on 500 pages.

How has he been helping? :v

Given the panther's reaction? Probably finding ways to keep Tamusa from, ah, abusing the 'cargo'.

"People aren't cargo, mate..."

Providing them proper levels of food and water, medical care, etc.

Good Pingu! \o3o/

That explains why he tried to get Lillie to release Jay by talking calmly to her

He's a good-ish boi then. :P

You know, considering his attitude during this whole arc, it seems rather odd that he would seek employment with a bunch of slavers.

Makes me wonder if he was tricked, forced or had ulterior motives for being with this group and was relizing he took a job that was a bit over his head.

Pessimist time!

Was it altruistic, or just good business? An underfed / injured / ill slave doesn't fetch as good a price, as the buyer would have to spend extra time and money nursing them back into a serviceable state for training.

Also, as the 'reasonable one', he could talk down the girls if they sought to flee. By Tamusa being the 'bad guy', his worst becomes the threat of what'll happen if they try to flee and he re-captures them.

That's the power of being good kids!

Told you to check the bodies. I knowed someone may be in bad shape, but still breathing.

Congrats on reaching page 500! Also, congrats to Dee for getting to live at least one more day. Just goes to show: if you stick up for the underdog, the underdog will stick up for you.

Poor little birb, I'm glad he got to live. Hoping he's really a nice boi. :3

I'm not gonna go back and count, especially if your estimate is correct, so I'm just gonna assume it is.
Which means; congrats on reaching 500 pages! That's one heck of an achievement for any comic to reach! Happy for you! <3

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Dee is extremely lucky that one of the former slaves was able to vouch for him. Because Morgan didn't want to save lives, she wanted to kill slavers.

She also probably have more weight in her opinion because the current groups is very likely not the first she saw Penguin Dude helping. And since Tamusa very likely did to her the same he did to Lamb years before, he also was probably the only one in the crew who didn't abused her (so much he even tried to dialogue with her when she started strangling Jay, the big bird dude, instead of getting violent with her as I think any other member of Tamusa's crew would do).

Congrats on 500! :D

Wow I can hardly believe I been reading this for 500 pages.

THE PENGU LIVES ;v;

Skipper, “ Kowalski! Status report!”
Kowalski, “It appears we’ve been speared, and the bodies are being taken of, sir.”
Skipper, “For now… we’re safe for now. Alright Private, here’s your chance to prove your self… private?”
Kowalski, “He didn’t make it, sir. The bear fell on him while the woman was stab-happy.”

I don't see that Ignin mage anywhere. I'm guessing she didn't survive having her arm severed at the shoulder (and possibly some blast injuries to her lungs from Lamb's exploding dagger move) for long. Either that, or she managed to run off while the boss was getting his comeuppance.

If you're talking about the long-haired cat, then that was a dude. I think he'd be labeled as "the pretty one"

My bad

Short of him cauterizing his wound (an extremely painful thing, BTW, that would probably have sent him into shock), he would have been bleeding a clear trail. Not to mention there were witnesses... the girls saw him.

Yeah, he wasn't getting away from anyone.

Exploding dagger looked like it may have shredded the mage's heart in addition to the lung damage; even if not they probably bled out pretty quickly..

The major vessels of the heart travel leftwards. Even without perforation of the pericardium, there's still the aorta and its branches - the left and right common carotids (feeding the head and especially the brain), the right and left subclavian (arms and upper torso), and the descending aorta to feed the lower torso and legs.

Cutting those open close to the source tends to be on the fatal side.

Probably in one of the body bags. Probably the one fen is dragging considering the black tail looking thing poking out of it

An act of mercy is an excellent way to celebrate the milestone.

Tried to get the slaves set free.
Tried to talk Lillie out of strangling a dude to death instead of using his crossbow.
Spoke against his boss at risk of his own bodily harm.
Probably the only Slaver there working towards something positive.
There's a chance for redemption there. I'd love to hear his story.
Probably something along the lines of:
Tamusa: "You're cute. You work for me now."
Dee: "Wait... What? Don't I get a say in this?"
Tamusa: "Nope."

this seems like the most plausible scenario, especially given Dee's ... Unintimidating Stature.

No Cronos he.

Awww

i really like the way you draw bird characters

they're just so funny

Dee lives long enough to give us false hope, then he is going to get super murdered.

Every day you post more of this is special

Dood? Dooood!

That pengu be like...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9FLRHejWAo8

PINGYPONG LIVES! (*pingypongs is what the young daughter of a friend used to call penguins)

Yay! He's just a lil' guy!

Oh Kovu in that situation would sooo love to walk by and just mention "these girls look overdressed" ... but I fear that could be bolt last words if I see Lamps look...

Congrats on 500 pages!
To 500 more!

Was low-key hoping the sassy black cat made it with just loosing an arm, though I guess even though she was pointing out the ridiculousness of the whole thing, she's still guilty of going a long with it. NootNoot there just did a better job of being like-able.

To be fair, the cute penguin is special enough

Dee be so very lucky. ^^

What the name of the woman who saved him.

A couple of week, can't wait. ^^

At least that shows she is thinking clearer. Also Dee better buy a lottery ticket with that luck.

I think it's good that the penguin was left alive.

But please explain to me, isn't he just as guilty as the other slave traders, even though he treated the slaves well?

It's not just about slave trading, but the additional rape, beating, killing, generally treating people like shit..

Thanks for the information.

Actually if my count is right, this is page 504. How do I know? Uhh... I kind of have every page saved on my computer ':D Anyway, very impressive work. I didn't think years ago this comic would be still going in 2023 when I stumbled upon it randomly. Keep on doing great work!

I don't count splash pages and the like, of which there are like 4.

Oh, that explains the difference ^^

Lucky indeed...

And congrats on the 500 page milestone!

Well if I can play devil's advocate here.

Actions have consequences of a sort right? Could be nothing happens but also could be those slavers knew people who liked them and would cause a lot more problems for protagonists or others surrounding the freed slaves. I'm reminded back at the page where melisa told fen to assist in the first place. Seeing as panda girl handled things I'm left wondering if its something more brutal as a bigger threat or underground social economic underlying issues.

POMPF is the word you want when a penguin lands on his butt

Oh my fucking god is that pingu adorable....
More of him pleeeeeese!

And holy moly... 500 Pages.
I cant belive im here since Day one and its incredible how you keep going.
You made so many of my days with your comic... gave me so many things to think about.
Thank you feretta, thank you so much!