This is one of those ideas I wish I could take credit for but ultimately can not; I knew I wanted Cookie in, but I wasn’t sure how. My initial plans largely had him as a case of amusing futility with him charging in only to be swatted aside. A friend of mine however remarked why make a fight out of him – he’s the ship’s cook, take a spin on that instead.
So I did.
Update 20′th September: Well, it seems the AC adapter for my laptop (which also doubles as my primary workstation) decided it’s had enough and died in a most unspectacular fashion. The good news is that I’ve already reported the fault, gotten reply that “it happens” and have been told that it’ll be passed on to HP so they can send a replacement. The bad news is that this’ll most likely take in the least a week, possibly several, during which said workstation will effectively lie inert and unstartable. So, until I get a replacement adapter, Beyond the Tree is effectively on hold.
Hopefully it won’t be much more than a week, but I don’t really have any way of either telling or influencing how quickly it’ll happen.
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ok i can honestly say i didnt see that coming…but it is awesome and perfect…
XD id so love if he is trying to make them food now…
Also, you just made a quote that shall pass into history
“Its a FISH! You cant trust it!”
Win :)
You know what would be hella funny? If Cookie ended up joining them and Tiny used him as a mount.
I’ve always wondered tho… Who the hell employs a friggin fish as a cook?? Seriously! Seems like a cooking fish would be an oxymoron to me.
lol, the idea of cookie traveling with the group would be funny, attempting to figure out how to communicate with him, the regular run ins with murloc hunters, lol
I always imagined he kept trying to serve up sea-weed.
Or trying to serve other humans as a soup.
It’s got a gun! /panic
lmao, “Its a fish! You cant trust it!” most epic line I’ve ever heard XD
Eeee! So cute!
It’s weird seeing murlocs rendered with such resolution, though. And brilliant colors.
Two things jump into my mind, reading this:
1: I’ll be sad if this arc doesn’t end with someone taking home leftovers in an aluminum foil swan.
2: OMG, that poor murloc :( dude has no purpose or drive in life, except to cook food and serve it to a crew. But now the crew is dead. What’s going to become of Cookie? He’s going to spend his days, cooking food, and throwing it out, wondering why no one is coming around to eat it.
Hugs for Cookie!
Reminds me of Kryton.
Aww. He’s nice and seems a bit frightened: hiding behind the cooking pot. I suppose he’s trying to say “I’m just the cook don;t kill me…here see, try some soup!”. And he has a kitty :D !
Areen’s behaviour is apropos.
Look at his smile in the last panel.
It hurts.
It’s a servant of the dark lord Cthullu, he is going to summon him with the contents of the cauldron, kill it quick!
My bad, Daggoth makes more sense.
Ph’nglui mglw’nafh Cookiethulhu Dm’lyeh wgah’nagl fhtagn.
I’a! I’a!
Ooh the nightmare’s I’ll have for weeks…thank you haha.
I think Nhani was a murloc in a past life… xD
Pray she was a Murloc, if she’s what I think she was in her previous life….I dont wanna go life in Innsmouth….
This page made me lol :D
I.. Can’t… Stop… LAUGHING! Best scene ever! Please Nhani, make a fill post just with tiny and cookie with the qoute “Its a fish, you cant trust it!”
Beside that, please please please please please MAKE COOKIE JOIN THE CREW! I BEEEG YOU! /beg /peon!
rofl made my day this.. well nearly.. apart from VC dying i cant say i will ever forgive you again! :(
Unfortunately, much like Areen I find little to no sympathy for those who willingly support and/or endorse evil.
Besides, I’m quite sure you’ve slaughtered him wholesale many times over with far less noble intent. You speak of a forgiveness that is no longer yours to give.
But that’s alright – the Light forgives; even if it must be posthumously.
I actually dont play WoW, but apart from that you are absolutly correct :)
its human to fail, to forgive is divine..
I can translate murloc. What is about to say is “Gnome goes in pot”, or possibly “It rubs the condiments on its skin, or it gets the ladle again.”
Cookie is alive! and he’s making carrots for his bunny-army of doom!
he is going to boil the poor cat :(
or maybe throw it after them :)
That Murloc has never been cuter.
Well, this is… fishy.
Right, so I had a somewhat unspectacular computer failure of a sort – see updated page commentary. It’s rather annoying, since I kind of need that computer for far more than just keeping Beyond the Tree up to date, but silently glaring at the broken AC adapter won’t really accomplish much of anything. For now it’s really just a waiting game to see how long it takes the combination of the local IT people and HP to get me a replacement part.
Here’s to hoping it’ll happen swiftly.
congrats on your spiffy new paper weight! :D
Yeah, it sucks when things just give out like that. A few months back my mobo died on me; I had to spend a week living off a little 8″ netbook. :(
Maybe you’ll get lucky, and you’ll live one county over from the shipping warehouse.
Sorry to hear that, hope you get a replacement soon though. Sometimes the shop owners can be slow to get parts, especialy if it’s still in guarrantee so they have to give it to you for free, but if there’s money involved you’d have gotten it the day before it broke even.
If I’m correct in assuming you’re talking about a power brick for a laptop, Nhani, there are a number of generic power supplies available as off-the-shelf replacements for most modern laptops. _Here’s an example. They usually come with interchangeable tips to fit a wide range of voltages and plug types. Unless your broken power supply is being replaced for free through a warranty, you may want to look into these, as they can be cheaper, faster, and/or easier to obtain than a replacement from the manufacturer. Just make sure your laptop model or series is listed on the box or in the accompanying sheet/booklet/specs, and you’re golden.
Cookie:[Murlocean] Carrot? *grins*
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BWAHAHAHA – oh dear, that has to be the most hillarious turn of events in BtT history ever! I can’t wait to see the expression on their faces in the next page. ;D
Captain Cookie.
’nuff said.
OH god cookie you just make me LoL at most point ty nhani.
Hahaha…COOKIE! I find it thoroughly amusing how it’s practically impossible for either group to understand one another and yet for some reason a few are trying. What’s even better is that it seems Cookie is trying to serve food to the group. It’s weird, considering the past run-ins with Murlocs. I’ve actually yet to see many aggressive Murlocs. Curious ones, but not aggressive until pressed upon. As an example, look back on when Tiny was grabbed by one. All that time they could’ve had to eat her and they were more wondering what the heck it was!
“I am king of the sea, not a queen like Aquaman…” …yeah, that song got into my head at some point.
While at it, Te’len totally needs to get her model update A.S.A.P.
Growing amount of close-ups on her face make her look silly, especially when compared to Hani’s model.
It’s on the plan – I actually have a work in progress model going that’s largely waiting for me to decide on how to solve certain things (such as the sleeves) and figuring out certain details before being completed. There’s a few things I want to change with Te’len’s model; some to prevent clipping, some simply added adornments.
To a point I’ve been hoping I could update the whole night elven cast in one go since the most recent models I have use a new eye type, but at this rate that might not be feasible. I might have to do a render test showing characters with the different eye types side by side to see what it looks like.
I just saw I missed seeing the siamese cat sitting near his feet first 2 times I looked at the comic. Sneaky, sneaky… carrot eating… siamese cat…
IT’S A TRAP!
I really hope Areen knows it’s a murloc. There’s no way she wouldn’t, being from the EK. Have the elves not been to the shores of Kalimdor (such as Ashenvale or Darkshore) since the rise of the murlocs from the sea?
They have.
Guess they don’t really like them, after what they did to Teronis.
Hmm. Beta spoilers ahead.
“Captain” Cookie is now the final boss of regular Deadmines. He hops in a cauldron and throws food around, some of it buffs you, some of it debuffs you. Using a buff food removes the debuff food’s effect. I guess they should have listened to Tiny and killed him right away.
Don’t eat it, Areen! It’s a DoT!
Damm, sorry to hear about your computer there Nhani :S.
However, the dedicated few(thousands) will await patiently for your return :) have no fear ^^
Did you know when making this one that Cookie was the only returning boss in Deadmines?
If not, */golfclap*
If so…. */bigger golfclap*
And if you don’t care that Cookie is still there and actually enjoy the comic as a comic… */smack*
I think you should make some notice of Edwins daughter.
Just my 0.05$
Cheers
She should be quite rich right now.
have vanessa (little girl right now) go over to the dead body of edwin vancleef and start planning to kill them
Runn Tum Tuber? :p http://www.wowhead.com/item=18255
At least it’s not Last week mammoth, or Bad Clams.
Also, for the AC adapter, I also use laptops and one fried on me. You can buy universal ones at an electronics shop. Since your computer is an HP, it has more chance of working than with mine, which was a piece of crap from Dell (what they say about Dell IS true, they do shitty stuff. Low quality hardware, and it eventually wears off way faster, I’d rather build my own PC, way less expensive, and you know you have good stuff in it).
Check it out if you think you’ll be out for too long. AC adapters suck.
hi been reading your comics for a while now great work :) hope you get you computer fixed soon cant wait for the next page :D see you soon!
~Griffindor