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Happy One Year Anniversary to It Keeps Right On a-Hurtin’!

(well not quite but there’s nothing wrong with celebrating a little early, right?)

Issue #1 of @ikroah came out June 15, 2020: a line-for-line adaptation of the opening cutscene of Fallout: New Vegas that I originally drew on a whim for practice, but then recontextualized as the launch issue of what has now become an honest-to-god webcomic. And one year later we’re already into the second volume of the series!

To celebrate, and to look back at all the issues from Volume 1 that I completed last year, I’ve made omake-style gag strips for every issue in The Death of Agnes Sands. These were super fun to put together and if I manage to stay on pace then you can absolutely look forward to omakes for Volume 2 at this time again next year. I don’t really get a chance to do comedy much in IKROAH itself, so this was a really fun exercise.

Also! A reminder that IKROAH is still in production, sorry for the prolonged hiatus everyone but some medical issues came up with a guest artist. The artist is okay, don’t worry! And IKROAH will be back on track soon enough. Sorry for the wait buts thanks for being patient everybody!

Also also! Credit where credit is due, @mcnostril did a similar comic about Doc Mitchell’s pushiness with the vault suit; to be honest I just wanted to draw Agnes going “nuhhhh” pathetically like that. And the third omake is a remake of a joke from Regular Show. This one.

[sixleggedboar]

Watching my partner blow himself up as Soap in Fallout: New Vegas only further progresses the brainrot.

Also, why the fuck does the slurping sound in this game sound so… cute.

[sleights-of-hand]

moe centaur :-)

More centaur?? You want More Centaur??? Well okay!!

[delafiseaseses]

"I want you to witness the fate of the town of Nipton, to memorize every detail."

OK, Vulpes, how about a memorise a very particular detail. That you speak out of your arse when you claim "Each clutched his ticket, hoping it would set him free. Each did nothing, even when "loved ones" were dragged away to be killed." what's this then, Inculta?

[an ash pile and a dead wastelander next to a laser rifle]

[the Ash Pile's inventory contains a set of Legion Recruit Armour and a machete]

Looks to me like you didn't clean up the fight fully. I imagine that if we were to have arrived later what's left of your man woulda been sweeped up and the Wastelander would have a mine under him.

[another angle of the dead Wastelander, showing the Laser Rifle and a Lottery Ticket]

The man has a lotto ticket next to him as well. Which does raise some questions. Was he handed the ticket and then pulled out the Rifle? Did they leave it next to him to mock him? Was this actually some kind of trial by combat "prize"? If the last one, why is he dead inspite of killing a Legion Recruit?

We will never know, the dead can't talk and Vulpes has his story. I don't think this is how Vulpes wanted us to see this man or the Legion Ash Pile.

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I do have some other observations. Do you notice that the 1st and 2nd place winners, Oliver Swanick and Boxcares, are both Powder Gangers. In fact, literally every non-Legion survivor of this event weren't Nipton Locals? They're literally all Powder Gangers. The two enslaved guys in 'Booted'. The crucified men?

[4 images vertically of crucified Powder Gangers]

Powder Gangers. All the survivors of Nipton were Powder Gangers. You may think "So what? The people of Nipton got unlucky." but you know what I think? I think this is too convienient.

Vulpes says "Nipton was a wicked place, debased and corrupt. It served all comers, so long as they paid. Profligate troops, Powder Gangers, men of the Legion such as myself - the people here didn't care. It was a town of whores. For a pittance, the town agreed to lead those it had sheltered into a trap. Only when I sprang it did they realize they were caught inside it, too." notice what he's doing there: he's claiming the entire town was in on him and Mayor Steyns plot. A claim like that, if true, could be used against Nipton in some people's minds.

One of the only other accounts of Nipton are Ghost's which are "Nipton wasn't the most friendly town, but..." and "Town was a shithole, asking to be burned. Just not by Legion. Nobody deserves that." which... no town is 'asking to be burned', Ghost. That second quote is part of her saying she had no friends in Nipton. I doubt she actually personally knew anyone in Nipton. Just the fact Steyn served Gangers and NCR and maybe she met someone unkind there once or somethin'.

And, yeah, Mayor Joseph B. Steyn was an arsehole. But y'wanna know somethin' about Steyn? He was New Californian, a Hubber, from The Hub. His prostitutes, Rosie and Sylvia, were probably from there or somewhere in New California too. And you know what he says happened in his terminal when he heard the plan? "I didn't have to think a moment about Mr. Fox's proposition before accepting it. All I have to do is convince the Powders to kidnap the NCR troops at night. When both groups are in town, the Legion boys will scoop everyone up. Ha!" he didn't consult the town about this plan beforehand. He also, rather constantly, displays a desire to leave Nipton and go back to California after exploiting Nipton as much as he could. That was Steyn's care for the town.

Only 1 Nipton Townsperson gets an account of anythin': Tony the Tinker. His single terminal entry shows him to be... a bit of a creep. But he explicitly is avoided by other people in town, especially women (also his Mister Gutseys got one of the Legion Recruits, which is funny).

But I've lost the point I was making. I don't think the fact all the Nipton townspeople are dead is a coincidence. Just like how I don't think that all the NCR just happened to be killed and left in Nipton Hotel is a coincidence.

I think the lotto was rigged.

Think about it, Boxcars even says that when Steyn's number came up they "burned him alive on a pile of tires." he never mentions anyone else getting that treatment.

Vulpes Inculta lied about the towns complicitness, at best there were fine with prostitution that played both sides of the Ganger-NCR conflict (the shopkeepers of the town gave Steyn 15% of their profits from trade with patrons of that service). Does Westside deserve to burn because of the Casa Madrid? Does Freeside because of the Atomic Wrangler? Fuck no.

But if a Nipton townsperson lived, they could share their story. We could see the truth. Nipton was a town, like any other. At worst their crime was electing Steyn (but we have no idea how their elections even worked).

1st prize, 2nd prize. That'd be a loose end, a story that could contradict the "Evil place that should be burned" narrative. The game was rigged from the start. Vulpes Inculta is a liar. Of course he is... he's a literal spymaster.

(also I highly doubt a woman was ever gonna be allowed to 'win' such a thing with Legion ideology)

So, let us remember the town of Nipton, as best as we can. Not as Vulpes saw it, or the NCR saw it, but as a place that had people in it we never got to know. Next time your in Nipton Town Hall, moving the bodies to avoid the landmines of this specifically set up scene by the Legion. Think about the Wastelanders, as they are called, and the part of the Wasteland they called home.

[fnvminorcharacterpoll]

FNV Minor Character Poll - Round 3-A, Day 1

Left: Old Ben, a Freeside resident with a very diverse resume. —"I was stripped of my casino apartment and all of my belongings and booted back into Freeside. From there I didn't have a lot of career options, as my rep was destroyed. So, the escort job sort of fell into my lap, no pun intended."

Right: Ghost, an NCR Ranger stationed at the Mojave Outpost. —"Listen - I don't want you getting killed for this, so if you head [to Nipton] and run into trouble, I'm asking for eyes and ears, not your life. All right?"

Designated cheerleaders were not available for this match-up.

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[asimplefairfolk]

playing fallout new vegas. i can feel myself physically becoming sick as i stare at this minor character who will probably never appear again after the quest she sent me on . fuck you besthesda

[ghosts0ul3333]

My two favorite lesbians

[fallout-lou-begas]

it's very funny picking up new vegas after a decade plus of not playing it and absorbing so much through osmosis because various friends of mine are obsessed with it in different ways.

yes.... i know this man... this is bastard

[bacchuschucklefuck]

this has been a roller coaster of a design journey but finally I can present you: class swap artificer!adaine and rogue!fabian

[kidcore-nostalgia]

[fallout-lou-begas]

no greater pain in my heart than a Ranger Ghost companion mod finally being uploaded to the FNV Nexus today and it being extremely extremely mid

[rookie-catgirl]

This quote is Cassidy’s whole character in a nutshell and it’s great

"Yeah, her name's... Ghost or something... fucking scary . . .ooooh. . ."

-Rose of Sharon Cassidy

[coolchevistianofficialsite]

Kiff Takes Over The Disney Channel (2024) Directed by Gino Guzzardo and Benjamin Siemon

[dailyrioranger]

Day 4: part two of ranger with songs :D the chattering lack of common sense reference this time

[faggotmox]

the thing abt this whole mess is that it holds strong to the tenets of the blackpool combat club. primarily the concept that iron sharpens iron, that the bcc infighting is different.

for mox this is a moment to strengthen himself. to put the dragon down. he doesn't want to hurt this friend, he's begged bryan to not take this path. but in the end it's mox's responsibility to put down the lame horse. it'll make him stronger. for someone so closely loyal like mox, when he bonds with someone it's deep. to have to break that bond for the better of them both is a hard act for mox.

for claudio this is a time where under any means necessary he has to show yuta the true of matters. what's at hand. doing what's necessary has broken down their relationship. claudio is sacrificing himself, the hurt of having to harm yuta, so that yuta can grow stronger. additionally Claudio is also doing something similar to mox in the sense of having to sacrifice his loyalty, his love, & time with bryan to help end his career. incredibly tough thing to do to your friend.

for bryan this is the time that solidifies his legacy. in a lot of ways he knows he has to be this guy for them to band together against, just like regal. providing the fires to forge something new. breaking himself down to sharpen the others.

& finally for yuta this is the moment. this is what forged in combat means. mox & claudio have declared war on bryan, vice versa. despite all yuta had been through, that was just the training. the boot camp if you'll excuse the military metaphor. this is the war. this is where he becomes the wrestler he is meant to be, forged in the combat of his faction. a war created for yuta to teach him the things regal talked abt & preached, a war build to create suffering & strife in yuta so that he can become stronger.

iron sharpens iron. forged in combat. be real. step up or get stepped on. all of these things are in the current story. everything their faction has embodied since day one is being used in the bcc civil war. it's all culminating.

[fnvminorcharacterpoll]

oh so ranger ghost lost? ranger ghost got knocked out? ranger ghost doesn't advance in the tournament anymore? that's ok. that's ok i'm fine that's ok i'll just update the bracket i'll just crosss out her name and remove her fromm thtgh mtotfm and i'kfghjfm