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Dark Science #179 - Shadows of the Old War (Patreon)

Published:
2026-02-11 01:14:00
Imported:
2026-09

Content

Something something Kim's in quite a pickle...

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Dark Science #179 - Shadows of the Old War - Dresden Codak

Comments

Amy Veeres

What, and Ling's not? D:

Sn4ptr4n

Lore drop and oh my heart!

Torabi

Is that tube... Supposed to come out of there? That looked kind of painful!

Aaron J. Shay

It's pickles galore in this joint

aran

Sharing oxygen through emergency abdominal tube. Me and who

XF

yessss rip out Tubes from your body for your girlfriend to breathe from I mean uhh what I am very normal and enjoy normal lesbian date activities such as Board Game

Alex White

I'm really intrigued to see how this Stolas/Nephilopolis faction comes to more fully distinguish itself from the Dark Scientists as we start to learn more about what the actual leadership of the city has going on. I'm also wondering whether Radnar glommed onto Bogan during this mysterious Naglfar archeology trip. (And how things are going where Bogan got shot.)

dresdencodak

Well I'm glad you're intrigued because it's gonna get real nuts! Something that's kind of only been in the background so far is that the Dark Scientists don't actually run the city. They may have important positions and they certainly conspire, but they're strictly bound by certain rules and limitations. And many (if not all) of them have a pretty dim view of Nephilopolis itself!

William Cole

Yeah, I certainly picked up the Dark Scientists' somewhat antagonistic relationship with the city itself (including the references to a Treaty). I've been doing a lot of (baseless) speculating about whether we've already met the alter egos of any of the other Dark Scientists.

dresdencodak

Totally! And it's only mentioned in passing in DS #125, but despite having an ancient contract with "the highest scientific authority," Fortuna mentions to Balthazar that they don't have any knowledge of or control over how that authority is selected.

Maryalee

Kim is pickled? Hope she doesn't end on a sour note....

Alex White

I actually really like that we didn't have good info early on, as we followed Kim's perspective. Why would she know? To her, it was all just Nephilopolis at first; it's only after e.g. seeing the drop-offs and the Kusanagi house, meeting and talking to Marquis and the Leviathans, and experiencing the different ways Nephilopolis and the Dark Scientists try to sway/kill her, that she and we can start to distinguish the different threads that make up the uneasy truce keeping Nephilopolis ticking over. It's not quite the same philological approach Tolkien used, but it definitely feels authentic in the same way.

Hugh Eckert

Ammonia pickles would be bad.