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[scriver]

Is that a... A Death Star klik?

[Jimmy]

KLIK!

[Arx]

Thunt has an inconvenient combination of an obsessive, perfectionist personality and the attention span of a six-year-old.

New update coming soon, apparently.

[Xantalos]

Well then.

[Sheb]

I must admit I cracked at smile at the nazi smarties riding chocolate tanks.

[Tiruin]

Re-reading it up...I figured out what was bugging me about Kore ._.
He's...the saddest paladin ever (not sad = emotion, but sad as in... )
How is he still Lawful Good again?

[Arx]

Everything there is to know about Kliks, from the Goblins forums:

Spoiler: Quote blocks ahoy! (click to show/hide)

I'm posting bits of klik info on Twitter, etc. I figured I may as well post it here, instead of ripping off the forum regulars.

I've known for years, that when I got to this point in the story, most of the info on the klik species would just be given out. There's some stuff I won't go into, but really I'll explain most of the stuff about the species. As usual, no actual character stats until later on and I'm not giving specific info on any of the kliks shown recently. Just species info.

I know you folks all probably know this already, but let's just be thorough...

Kliks
5 types

1. Metallic
Various types of metal. This can also be certain rock-like metals as well as kliks made specifically out of rusted iron ore, etc.
2. Energy
Fire, electricity, certain forms of magical energy... even things like mechanical energy
3. Organic
Organic is a very vague word to describe these guys. Various types of flesh, wood, leaf matter... could be a klik made of dense muscle, bone, insect legs, hair... there's one made of spider webbing in the big klik panel. That's an organic.
4. Temporal
These guys I'm not saying much about. But they're partially made of "time". There are different types, but the basic idea is that they exist in 3 to 6 moments of time at once, thus the echoed imagery. A temporal might know what you're going to do a few seconds before you do it, because it's partly existing a few seconds in the future and is already experiencing it. I know, I know... this'd create a TON of paradoxes! Well it just so happens that temporal kliks siphon paradoxes out of time-space and convert them into energy that powers/heals them. Yes, they eat paradoxes.
5. Fluid
Water, blood (yes, this could technically be organic), oil, alcohol...

Each klik's positive and negative is something from one of the 5 types. (Our) Klik's positive was metal and negative was organic (blood). The green-klik's positive was organic (blood) and negative was energy (certain types of magical energy). Sometimes a pos or neg is very vague (like klik eating metal. ANY metal) and sometimes it's very specific. Kinda the "luck of the draw" for this species.

Each klik has certain other abilities as well. There are lots of exceptions to this, but most metallics, for instance can shape change. But there are other abilities that metallics can end up with instead. I'll go into the common and uncommon abilities of other kliks soon.

Oh, and yes. A klik can end up with its own type as its negative (ie. like if our Klik's negative was metal). It's rare. When it happens, that klik becomes something else... something dark. Something that knows only pain.

Kloks
Those are the big, more complex looking guys.

This gets a little... complex. There's no way to explain it all properly here, without typing a massive wall of text and even then there'd be some- "um... what? How does that even work?" But the over simplified version is...

Kliks can choose to bond into one being. This process needs 3 kliks minimum and although there's no maximum, there are dangers with bonding too many klik into a klok. 4 is the most common number, but it's sometimes done with up to 7. After that, things can go... bad. Properties from the kliks bond together to create a unique klok. For instance, if 4 metallic kliks bonded, it'd be a totally metal klok with kick-ass metallic abilities, but nothing else. If 2 fluid kliks and 2 organic kliks bonded, you could potentially end up with something gross if the organics were flesh, but something all foresty if the organics were tree-like.

Kloks don't heal the same way kliks do (you can see scratches on the klok who caught Forgath), but they have only a fraction of a reaction to the negatives of the bonded kliks and gain neato abilities with the combined positives. So Kloks are more powerful, smarter (combined intelligence of the bonded kliks), etc. But the process completely merges the personalities into one personality. No multiple minds or anything like that. They completely and irreversibly become one, single entity.

Tics
Really little guys

Tics are very different than kliks and kloks in certain ways. They are not baby kliks and they will never evolve or become kliks. They're necessary for the species to survive. I'll explain more about them later.

Fluid kliks burn a LOT of energy to hold themselves together, without dripping away or evaporating due to dry air, etc (I'll get into evaporating due to heat in a bit). However, fluid kliks usually have a very easy time finding food, as a fluid's positive is commonly a fluid. For instance, a water klik often has water as a positive which is pretty damn easy to find. Thus, they can afford the cost of needing so much energy.

Fluid kliks are more easily damaged or killed than most other kliks, under the right conditions. Hit a fluid klik with a blunt weapon and not only does it do extra damage, but they have a chance of losing a part of themselves as liquid splashes out and away. And while something like a metallic klik gains a scrape or gash as a wound, a fluid klik does not. Instead, they tend to drip or splatter (similar to bleeding damage in a humanoid), losing their form until healed by a positive. However, fluids are completely immune to slashing/stabbing attacks such as swords, axes or arrows.

Every fluid klik leans toward cold or heat. This is not based on the type of liquid that the fluid klik is made of. One water klik can lean toward heat, while another water klik can lean toward cold. So what does this mean?

A fluid klik that leans toward heat does not take damage from non-magical heat. They can be heated up to boiling and even (liquid type permitting) evaporated into a gas and still function, unharmed. And yes, the fluid klik can operate with the properties of a gas until condensation naturally returns the klik back to its liquid state. However, a heat tending fluid klik can take cold damage and is automatically killed if frozen solid.

A fluid klik that leans toward cold does not take damage from non-magical cold. If they begin to freeze (reacting as the liquid they're made of, normally would under those conditions), they feel no ill effects or loss of movement or abilities. If the fluid klik is exposed to enough cold to freeze it solid, it continues to suffer no loss of movement. In frozen form, the fluid klik gains any advantages or abilities that being solid ice might provide. When the fluid klik naturally melts, it returns to its liquid form with no ill effects. The cold tending fluid klik does take heat damage and is automatically killed if boiled away or evaporated via heat.

There is no record of a fluid klik capable of leaning toward both heat and cold.

This is some excellent information. Would they be able to sense what "our" Klik did if said Klik hadn't gotten splattered by Junior?

I can't answer that one (spoilers).

Would the Kliks immediately attack Junior knowing it for what it was, on sight?

Well, they can tell each others' types on sight. I can't directly answer your question, though (spoilers).

Do Kloks bond the same way as Kliks do (as in Dies' exposition when they were first bonding), giving something some of its essence for a new Klok?

Nope. Kloks can't make more kloks. They can only be created by kliks merging together. Kloks do have abilities that kliks don't have though. They're a lot more powerful.

Do the Temporal Kliks eat bad Wish spells? That's a perfect excuse to say "nothing happens"...

Potentially, they could, but the moment of the wish being made would have to fall into the temporal klik's time-existence and be caught before it slipped away into the past. Also, the wish would have to be the direct cause of a time paradox, so it's pretty unlikely.

I wonder what would happen if a Water Klik merged with a Water Elemental... (I'm now envisioning a water klik in the ocean... naturally invisible!)

I admit, I have not considered the water elemental scenario. And yes, you called it! A fluid klik emerged in a liquid visually matching its body is invisible! \o/

Reformatting that was painful.

[Phmcw]

Re-reading it up...I figured out what was bugging me about Kore ._.
He's...the saddest paladin ever (not sad = emotion, but sad as in... )
How is he still Lawful Good again?

He probably have no idea that he's doing bad things. Or is doing good thing in his own moral system (say he can see the future and kill anyone that will do evil at any time).

[Xantalos]

He's not killing them, since their souls don't go to the afterlife but get bonded to his skin.

[Tiruin]

He's not killing them, since their souls don't go to the afterlife but get bonded to his skin.

Not that, I mean like his understanding of how evil works.

[Xantalos]

Oh, if anyone here donated to that card game thing he was making: long story short, e guy he was making it with ran off with the money or something, so Thunt's gonna do every kickstarter rewards thing himself and complete it in a rudimentary fashion on his own.
I admire the effort, but I forsee burnout in his future.

[kaian-a-coel]

Whelp, here goes the webcomic for the next nine months.

[Jimmy]

Pretty much the crowdfunding model in a nutshell.

[Knit tie]

So, somebody stole all the kickstarter money?

[Arx]

Thunt was running a Kickstarter to pay a game company to make the game. Thunt is/was a good friend of the guy running the game company, so he was okay with the whole arrangement. The guy then started making ominous posts about selling the company or somesuch, then disappeared. Thunt can't contact him.