@Mallory
I noticed that, which does imply that the phantasm is carrying a bit of Heusten with it. Green seems to be saying that Heusten is very dead (instead of just transformed) so maybe the phantasm acts like an echo of the person who becomes it. Similar but distorted to some degree and possibly becoming more distorted as it travels further from the source.
46900: Fuz - Thursday, May 8 2025 - 1:44 PM
I'm sorry, who was Heusten?
This comic would benefit from a "characters" page.
46901: damn - Thursday, May 8 2025 - 8:20 PM
poor housten, offscreen deaths are nasty. hope that foxy can evade becoming the next melted face.
I'm quite confused at how those diferent races relate:
-elves
-spirits of pandemonium
-ghouls
-tobi's group
-and now phantasms.
46902: Skean - Thursday, May 8 2025 - 9:23 PM
@Fuz
Heusten is another competitor. He'd been introduced as an "honest cop" originally. When he was able to question people in the elimination rounds before he only asked if they were guilty of any serious crimes like murder before choosing to spare them. He later when alone with Green and Three revealed himself as a Valance spy operating to protect the crown and looking to root out and kill someone supplying anti-royal forces with goods that he traced to the death game and expressed a willingness to die if needed for his mission.
In the maze a faceless apparition of him was encountered which originally assumed was just another hallucination caused by the maze but instead seems to be one of these recently discussed Phantasms and that it seems Heusten was transformed into that while in the maze.
46903: Gagamehl - Thursday, May 8 2025 - 10:15 PM
You could either follow the comments of the others, because a few guys posted a link to him, or you follow this one:
https://www.neorice.com/hoh_tobi_2300
Its the middle age white guy with glasses and a black beard.
Dang, green seems cooler right now
Heusten... has a problem.
So that thing was Heusten after all? I still remember how nonchalant he was about stepping in black water.
Yup, flood the entire mine with black liquid and the only 'survivor' would be three, Tobi and Levin. Because he's Levin and apparently immortal.
https://www.neorice.com/hoh_tobi_4102
Is where the phantasm showed up since people were confused.
The phantasm wanted to kill people who might work against Valiance, including the unjust king Tobi. So a ghoul might actually die here!
Also interesting is that Heusten was surprised the golem helped “him in particular”
https://www.neorice.com/hoh_tobi_2300
Where as Green's experiments were casual crimes against humanity, Smile's experiment are competitive crimes against humanity.
@Silver
Could be most people don't understand the immediate lethality of black water.
https://www.neorice.com/hoh_tobi_2308
Three knew Heusten would corrupt into a Phantasm.
@Mallory
I noticed that, which does imply that the phantasm is carrying a bit of Heusten with it. Green seems to be saying that Heusten is very dead (instead of just transformed) so maybe the phantasm acts like an echo of the person who becomes it. Similar but distorted to some degree and possibly becoming more distorted as it travels further from the source.
I'm sorry, who was Heusten?
This comic would benefit from a "characters" page.
poor housten, offscreen deaths are nasty. hope that foxy can evade becoming the next melted face.
I'm quite confused at how those diferent races relate:
-elves
-spirits of pandemonium
-ghouls
-tobi's group
-and now phantasms.
@Fuz
Heusten is another competitor. He'd been introduced as an "honest cop" originally. When he was able to question people in the elimination rounds before he only asked if they were guilty of any serious crimes like murder before choosing to spare them. He later when alone with Green and Three revealed himself as a Valance spy operating to protect the crown and looking to root out and kill someone supplying anti-royal forces with goods that he traced to the death game and expressed a willingness to die if needed for his mission.
In the maze a faceless apparition of him was encountered which originally assumed was just another hallucination caused by the maze but instead seems to be one of these recently discussed Phantasms and that it seems Heusten was transformed into that while in the maze.
You could either follow the comments of the others, because a few guys posted a link to him, or you follow this one:
https://www.neorice.com/hoh_tobi_2300
Its the middle age white guy with glasses and a black beard.