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The Out-Of-Placers #365 (Patreon)

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2026-08-15 02:56:17
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2026-09
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Kass' ultimate move

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Valargent

*Vibrates in anticipation*

Super Shanko

Gonna schmooze like nobody has ever schmoozed before.

PuddleJumper378

Finally Kass has a chance to employ a powerful technique!

ArcadeDragon

"I am going to sell you on every upgrade and service on this used car, you fucking tool, and you're going to think it was your idea." *salesman-no-jutsu*

Avi Brandier

Ohh, Kassen's still got it in force! I've been looking forward to zhis

Andrew Denton

Panel 2: oh, that is definitely fear sweat.

Vet

The game is on. And the master steps up. (Oh this is gonna be good.)

Chrysalis

Kass once more about to prove that, in spite of everything, he is actually the right man for this job. This is gonna be GOOD

Fox Starwing

Seriouzly, zhe sheer noive of zhis guy. Zhe absolute gall.

Fen Longpaw

*prepares to take notes* this is the skill I have most needed to add to my quiver of arrows

Lőrinc Del Motte

Yeah! Go tell that hidebound busybody where to stick it! (Diplomatically, of course).

Simon Signal

I wonder how Kass is gonna sell poor Narklet on house Ivenmoth. Upselling the trade potential of market access versus a seeming stalling of enclave expansion to the north? Also dang that's a long shell tooth. Someone get him a file.

Simon Signal

They're gonna get a "good friends" price on some beetles with a suspicious level of leg rot.

Vicroc4

Oh, right. I almost forgot Kass was the son of a merchant. This is going to be... entertaining.

Thorin N. Tatge

My own answer would have been: "Well, that's a point of view. You're Narklet, yes? Thank you for your perspective! Protection is balanced against independence. The more protected one is, the less independence and freedom she gets to enjoy. And I was brought up to relish my independence - it means a lot to me! So I've learned to get by with less protection than most... and as it happens, that's the way I like it. As for the idea of a female yinglet who's not part of an enclave undoing generations of progress... well, that's simply not true! I'm not the only one. There are many female yinglets outside of enclaves, in the South. Where I come from." Oops, I would think at that point - I've overplayed my hand. Well, eff it. "I could tell you stories about them," I would continue.

JIngle

Here I was hoping for a "You may test that assumption at your own convenience" but I think this will be better, someone is about to reevaluate their personal beliefs

Ryusui

tfw you're your own Stand

FunGuy

"You're absolutely right! I simply must insert myself into our enclave hierarchy immediately. In order to do so, it would be most wise for me to remain in my given position as a diplomat Yinglet who might continue to promote relations between our enclave and the humans around us which may help to continue our social progression. If I were to simply abandon my position right now I would jeopardize our position in the human court and join the matriarchy as an unskilled junior in Yinglet matters! It would be best for me to continue my learning in my present position so that I might appreciate the enclave system as I grow into it. After all, I am the one best studied in human interactions. It makes sense if you think about it. The best way for me to be inside our enclave is to remain outside of at the present time! You follow, right? Right. I knew as intelligent Yinglet as you would see common sense." (The age old trick of spitting out paradoxical nonsense and as the smaller mind struggles to follow acting like they understand and are smart for doing so. The enforcer will never see it coming)

PyroVulpes

lol, yes! I was about to say, Kass is channeling his inner JoJo there!

John C Butler

I've been looking forward to this. Vislet is nervous as Hell here because pretty much every time she's really talked to Kass up to this point, Kass has been vulnerable, off balance and kind of out of it. But by this point the Officer Diplomat has had a chance to get their metaphorical feet under them. And this is the sort of thing Kassen trained for. And, to possibly beat a the dead tiplod, the only Yinglet older than Kass in the Enclave, Chronologically speaking, is Figgens. Even Vislet is younger than Kassen. Narklet isn't going to know what hit him.

That Harper Gal

HECK yeah Kass, flex those merchant muscles! Generations of your ancestors are cheering you on in this moment! They're a little confused by the yinglet thing and the girl thing, but that's of secondary importance compared with THE SCHMOOZE!

kurogetsui

Kass bout to hit that nat 20 persuasion check

Nulgar

Narklet won't even know what hit him.

Dokterkokter69

I'm really glad Kass finally manifested a stand. It's the only thing that could save him from the hyper specific Araki situations ahead.

Vicroc4

The merchant's ultimate skill: Bullshittery.

Matthew Vandiver

Oh no, Kass, even in your mind you're speaking like a yinglet There's no going back!

Finvaara

Oh that is a battle stance right there. I cannot wait to see Kassem finally have a problem he feels genuinely equipped to DEAL with. I'm on the edge of my seat over here.

Raan

yes! that's the spirit! Behold, the power of Kass when he is not actively going through a psychological breakdown!

ContaTM

Offering rates and deals like you wouldn't believe!

Fetchbunny

Nah dawg. You got to use those feminine wilds on him.

Dinomannick

I so want to see Kass in human form so that he can go a full 110% into schmoozing form.

Judge nitsuj

Val you're writing is impeccable as always and the final panel a cherry on top. You can see hear in kass' internal monologue the shifting of gears to an old format he hasn't had to use seriously in a while

Golnor

Alright, I got a +3 from charisma, five skill ranks gives me +5, skill focus gives me another +3, my Ivenmoth Officer's Uniform gives me a +2 competence bonus to social skills, my background gives me a free re-roll on diplomacy checks once per day, and my racial heritage (which you let me keep the mental bits) gives me advantage on the first diplomacy check of the day. I got this.

Vicroc4

It's nice to see him confident about something, too. This is a man that has exactly the skills he needs for this situation, and everything else has temporarily faded to the background lol

Vicroc4

Vizlet has never seen Kass using the skills he learned as a child, back when he was human, so she has no idea what is coming lol

CoraBlue

Who's that human? Oh, right. 😂

Stormy Dragon

Merchant Cracks His Knuckles is Kass's Stand

Alex Krastel

Kass is a good enough negotiator that he definitely knows that's part of his arsenal

ComicTF

The infamous ability of shop attendants to read people and de-escalate situations. You want to get good at politics? Work a public-facing job in a service industry.

Sad Dragon

Kass and her stand 『Kass』

Sad Dragon

Gonna create a new shmoovement

John C Butler

Don't forget the "So Pretty Lady" bonus Kass gets for dealing with Yinglets whoch os at least a +2 circumtance bonus.

Super Shanko

The Diplomat’s New Schmoove.

Lucas

I love this gloriously silly comic.

Lucas

Not band-namey enough... Knuckle Crack Merchant? Cashier's Judgement?

Chrysalis

Exactly! So much of the story has been him doing surprisingly well at things he never could have prepared for, it's great to see him actually knowing that he's ready for something.

Roscuro

Very excited to see this part of Kass.

valsalia

Turns out Kass accidentally just sold Lopin

valsalia

Status effect: Is Yinglet -20 on all rolls

valsalia

Gotta tap into that, generate some electricity

valsalia

It's the Force Ghost of his manhood

valsalia

Right """""man""""" for the job

valsalia

No that makes too much sense

valsalia

That's actually Kass' stunt double

valsalia

Surprise twist, what hits him is Kass' fist

valsalia

Yinglets can sweat, but only performatively

valsalia

Vizlet's right there, he could lean on Vizlet

valsalia

Nat 1's are a possibility even for epic-level characters!

valsalia

The word schmooze comes from the Yiddish word shmuesn (to chat), which derives from the Hebrew word shmues (idle talk or chat), ultimately rooted in the Hebrew shemu'oth meaning "news" or "rumor". It first appeared in written English in the late 1890s.

valsalia

He woulda been a pretty good one himself if he wasn't conscripted!

valsalia

Narklet, bound to the hides

valsalia

The human body contains both nerves and gall!

valsalia

As the old saying goes, "The blab is mightier than the cut"

valsalia

Haha, thanks! Most of what's happening in this arc has been planned for a looong time

valsalia

Or at least sidelining it temporarily

valsalia

Kass is in the advanced levels thanks to his upbringing, at "Private company salesman treating a client to a nice dinner to get his company's product adopted by local government" levels

valsalia

Nobody remembers that schmuck

valsalia

Just starts kicking tables over

Roscuro

Gooooood

valsalia

"I'll give you twenny bucks if you lay off the religion thing"

Vet

Then Vizlet and her horde of yinglets will shortly move to the Ivanmoth encampment. Good, bad either way we all get entertained!

valsalia

"Whoops, locked my keys inside"

valsalia

I actually, accidentally slipped in a couple of "zh" syllables into the thought-speech before I caught em :V

valsalia

Diplomacy, gotta keep things smoooove

valsalia

He should just dangle some clams in front of 'im

Sad Dragon

Not better, just not as bad

That Harper Gal

The language of my people! I really do need to brush up on my Yiddish

markoatonc

Let zhe Schmoozing begin!

jordan

Is Kass going to have her friends disappear the pompous ratbird? In a way that can be plausibly viewed as an "accident"?

Vicroc4

Now he has the opportunity to put those skills to use.

Vicroc4

-20 on all rolls involving species that aren't Yinglets

Vicroc4

Quote-unquote "man." It's okay, Kass, you're still a man to me.

Vicroc4

It's really fun to see Kass confident all of a sudden lol

Vicroc4

Ah, the old Picard move. We're not quite at 'defending the Federation from aliens that want to destroy it' levels yet.

Valargent

Oh no *Furs Puff up all over from the static* If you touch me, Lighting shall strike...

Vicroc4

I have to admit I didn't recognize Human!Kassen at first.

Vicroc4

He's gonna make Narklet an offer he cannot refuse.

Judge nitsuj

To be fair this is one of the few time his old merchant background was relevant besides his ability to read and write

Brendon Freshner

Honestly, given the setting revealed so far, if any character is going to pull out an actual, anacronistic firearm at this point, it's going to be the Salvager Patriarch, Narklet.

John C Butler

Let's Get Down to business to Shmooze the Yings!

John C Butler

Ah! But a natural one is not an automatic failure during a skill check!

John C Butler

More Picard than Worf, then. Or maybe Harcourt Fenton Mudd.