Poorly Planned Comics: Blue Beta 2

3. The Orange Kingdom Strategy Guide

Ok, make sure you're listening cuz all I say now is CANON, iron soli- no that didn't make sense, stone hard CANON. And I want all of this put at the end of the next part or something and then we'll also do it in some strategy guide form or whatever the comic equivalent could be. All of this absolutely will just have to be worked around, that's just what's necessary if we're ever going to get this off the ground

Once upon a time, when there was still no time, when you couldn't even measure anything and if our equivalent of souls (because you gotta anchor narrative forces to SOMETHING with this kind of team) were to appear at that time, all they would see would be a crazy quest to fulfill vague hopes and vanity, somebody clinging onto their own sins, desperate to lose them and being foolish towards anything else, grabbing onto any bone life throws, swinging from passion to passion. In a river of life. And catching any bones that flow. Indeed, you might see any kind of thing that appears in the heart of the human soul after a thing is thought over for prolonged periods, coloring the rest of life, then let flow freely. Indeed my imitation was pitiful, dear reader (ok I'm not doing THAT, just this one time), for uhh I am a mere mortal. Then, you could comprehend all at once a vast space. So vastly profound with it's complexity that even if you couldn't gather any insight from that, after having such an experience not the last fool would keep from considering that in such a world, somewhere out there truly has to be a thing which utterly invalidates beyond doubt any meaning a character's life might have brought into that world.

It was year 1648 (which is 92 years after 1556, of course), the Orange Kingdom was ruled by his Majesty, King Auranticus the IV. The kingdom was indeed not in it's prime anymore, yet the Golden Age went on, bringing with it the gifts of art, sciency, poetry, architecture and decadent meta-narrative up-their-own "works" which simply followed the trend without any message, meaning or even basic writing skills (like, one of them has the literal AUTHOR go to hell and meet God who then tells him how much of a fan everyone is in there). The multiple big cities stood proud, and were the gems of the empire after the king's grand uncle, Mahmood the FuckGiver69 (also the Competent and then Ruling), had built brought to them many great palaces and temples. In those temples the implied devotees gathered and listened to the word of the revered duality of The Cartoonist and The Overbearing, with each child knowing of the cartoonist's name - Jack. The still young (but not for the reasons you'd think it is, that's really cool and planned to have a lot of meaning and stuff!) dynasty of Auranticus held a firm grip on power, with the king inheriting a vast number of serving characters who did not go to lesser lords but came with taxes and bookkeeping to the implied denizens (that's also a thing, promise it will be exciting so buy our subscription!) themselves. The king was as much a patron of arts and decadent writing for his entertainment as of the martial order, with even the low servants doing his bidding bringing the authority of both the law and the guard.

But this goes to paint a very misleading picture, for in the many years of the kingdom nothing could truly last. With each character seeking to devote more and more of the word count to themselves, trying to fulfill their own role in this vast but by no means all-encompassing land. With each king seeking to hold up to the last, to expand their lands and bring their order upon evermore implied characters. With the court constantly splitting the kingdom in three parts over who's ways of doing things are more hip. With great rulers building a powerful state, each time leaving their people to try and fail to maintain that prosperity

Yeah that didnt go in the way I wanted to do it really, first 2 were just right though just the idea being undeveloped (this all being part of the original idea nevertheless)