Yeet
And so, brave sire Kai and his guide Lilo start their journey to the temple of the goddess!
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At least the stairs are at a relatively shallow angle. Yes, there’s a lot of them, but they won’t be fighting gravity as hard as they would be otherwise. As long as they don’t try and SPRINT to the goddess, they should be fine. What has basketball done for Kai’s stamina so far?
Yeah, he can just take his time. Still, it’s a long climb xD
And now Kai sees the stairs
and he knows no-one cares
climbing them will take a week
and that’s if he’s not up a creek!
Travel on with Lilo,
your guide who’s in the know.
She’s happy to travel at least;
up the mountain that’s quite a beast.
Get going, Kai, don’t stop
until you get up top.
Your path is the one of Fire –
the Goddess is likely Kaya.
So brave Sir Kai has found his Guide
His guiding Light, we’ll hope she’s kind
Wise Lilo leads and helps decide
Well, the word ‘Eternal’ comes to mind
Up the stairway doth she decree
That’s the place to take your Quest
Follow, Sir Kai, Eternally
And say ‘Hi!’ to Po, who’s taking a rest
Atop the Mount your Goddess awaits
Watching you struggle, her Challenges facing
Granting wishes? Hah! Handing out Fates!
Be brave! Behave! It’s your Future she’s tracing!
The Dangers you brave, turn aside Her sting
Beguile her Sir Kai, with Chocolate on a String!
Darn it, where’s the upvote option???
Temple of Goddess
Atop the eternal stairs
Probably Kaya
Is it possible to tire yourself out in a dream? I think Kai is about to find out! Now the only question remains: is the staircase truly infinite through some spell, or is eternal merely a name? Only time (and Robin) will tell. The little “yeet” in the second panel is adorable, by the way. I love the expressions on Kai and “Lilo”’s faces. Excellent work as always Robin, especially when showing the grandeur of that stairwell. You really get a feel for the sheer scale of it. You’re an amazing artist, keep making your amazing comic, and as always, stay awesome!
Now how did that happen? I didn’t ask it to attach my comment here! Sorry!
It’s the eternal staircase not the infinite staircase, infinite refers to length of space, whereas eternal refer to length of time, the eternal staircase could be 5 steps and still be eternal, so long as it would still be there not changed in the least when the universe eneds.
We wore it out on -your- poetry!
( I can only do this occasionally. You seem to knock a fistful of ’em out of the park every week! 🙂 )
You can’t enjoy the view with an eternal elevator like you can with the eternal stairway. Didn’t you know that, Kai?
glass elevator. Dream big!
Ok, so I’ve dreamed of a big-ass glass elevator. It’s going to be harder to climb up the elevator wall to punch the floor buttons than it would’ve been to climb this stairway. Also, getting the right button will be difficult, because they’re all transparent. Sigh.
I’m dreaming of a Blackhawk helicopter with gunpods.
Big enough?
>:)
Shouldn’t you be dreaming of an -Apache- helicopter?? 😉
Ha ha.
Apaches are pure gunships, no passengers.
‘hawks can carry tons of stuff plus folks. Very flexible craft, Blackhawks.
This looks like a job for an eternal escalator!
I’ll settle for an eternal escalator, just so long as it is not stuck in Down.
Well, I have to say, this is one of the longest comment threads I’ve been a part of/started. XD The point I wanted to portray was that you have to enjoy all parts of the journey; the sights, the sounds, the smells, the sun on your skin, the wind in your hair… That kinda thing. But, I’m loving everyone’s ideas.
I doubt Kai is in it for the view xD
“To climb the 7,000 Steps again… I made the pilgrimage once, did you know that? Kaya’s House of Chocolate–er, the Goddess’ Temple, is a very peaceful place. Very… disconnected from the troubles of this world…”
A pilgrimage. That’s probably why all these temples seem to be in the hardest to reach places xD
*High Hrothgar flashback interferes* XD
At least the troll is weak to fire
Oh no xD
Stairway to heaven!!!
Jimmy Page, eat your heart out.
Luckily not highway to hell xD
Kai: Knew I should have dreamed me a pair of hiking boots instead of sandals! Also a coat ’cause it looks chilly up there.
*a long while later*
Kai: *Panting* Whew! Okay….. dream’s getting a little, little too real! How can my feet be this sore when I’m asleep?!
Hmm, wonder if he will take advantage of the dreaming :p
when you and
Well, Kai, It’s your dream!
It sure is xD
Kai can consider himself lucky that he won’t have to climb the mountain without stairs.
Yeah, he really should!
I mean TECHNICALLY, it IS just a name since it doesn’t actually go on eternally……. it just goes on for a really really really really really really long time. 😛
Long enough to feel like an eternity xD
Juuuust long enough to -feel- like an eternity, and then it…ends? 🙂
Funny that even in a drought, the vegetation is lush.
It’s not a drought, it’s a curse.
It’s also a dream.
I noticed that. I also don’t see any fields, so where are those crops that will fail if the drought continues? I also noticed that the crowd carries Kai and Lilo rather far downhill, even though they were right beside the beach a moment ago. Normally these inconsistencies would annoy me, but this is a dream, so it doesn’t need to be consistent. It’s still more coherent than my dreams usually are.
Technically, having a beach at the top of a hill isn’t impossible, just improbable. The main body of the island could be sunken below sea level (a la Netherlands), with the edges being high enough to prevent water flowing in but low enough to have a sandy shore.
OK, as long as the goddess makes the rainfall juuust right, so that the sunken region neither gets flooded, nor dries out, nor accumulates salt from the mountain.
It’s less effort to carry them downhill to the beginning of the Eternal Stairway than uphill to it. 😉
The downhill thing is more of an artistic license I took to show the distance rather than a real downhil. Since this is a dream about Kai going to the top of that mountain, I also didn’t plan for those fields to show up and to show the drought. We won’t be seeing them again anyway, so I drew a nice tropical island instead ^^
I say that it’s because of the dream, not because of my inconsistencies xD
Anyone else getting Snake Way vibes?
YES
What’s Snake Way?
It’s the 10,000-mile-long road Goku had to traverse to reach North Kai in the first season of Dragon Ball Z.
Definitely
Maybe a little :p
Uh oh, looking at that stairway is giving me Quest for Glory flashbacks…is the Goddess connected to Erasmus somehow? =P
Haha, no, she’s not connected to Erasmus xD
I heard of the Thousand Steps, but *manure*, That’s alot.
Manure xD
Nice one xD
In case of infernal fire, use the eternal stairway. Do not use the infinite elevator.
There’s a slide for emergencies xD
Now Kai, remember, this is a lucid dream. You can turn the stairs into a magic escalator if you want to.
Yes, Kai, rememeber … what, you already forgot?
So Lilo/Cleo has been condemned with Kai? That’s one hell of a reward for supposedly saving the village.
Aah, if it leads to snakey/dragony cuddles it’s probably ok.
It MIGHT be reward for KAI :-). Who is actually doing the saving, so …
Lilo is not one of the “Cool” kids, so she gets to be the one to lead the Dragon Warrior all.. the.. waaay… tooo…. theee……. toooooppp………….
.
Oddly enough, Lilo ends up enjoying the trip. 🙂
But he will never be the Dragon Warrior unless he loses two hundred pounds and brushes his teeth.
I’d settle for an eternal helicopter……
God just looking at all those stairs is giving me leg cramps, hopefully kai doesn’t have restless leg syndrome or his legs are gonna be sore when he wakes up. Lol
Slinky time!
Yaaaay Slinky! Race you to the top so we can start them dow… Oh mice!
Is it possible to tire yourself out in a dream? I think Kai is about to find out! Now the only question remains: is the staircase truly infinite through some spell, or is eternal merely a name? Only time (and Robin) will tell. The little “yeet” in the second panel is adorable, by the way. I love the expressions on Kai and “Lilo”’s faces. Excellent work as always Robin, especially when showing the grandeur of that stairwell. You really get a feel for the sheer scale of it. You’re an amazing artist, keep making your amazing comic, and as always, stay awesome!
Thanks Alpha 😀
I’m sure you can tire out in a dream if it calls for it. I can’t remember if I ever had it happen, though xD
The Yeet was an afterthought, but what an afterthought it was xD
Had a thought recently: what if the goddess is Katsumi, and this is her way of getting in contact with Kai?
Not gonna lie, that thought crossed my mind too. I personally don’t think so though.
There’s a lot more people since last time I was able to read this comic, kudos to you Kai 😛
Well, if his sister is the goddess and the goddess is at the end of those stairs, way up in the mountains surrounded by clouds, then, as usual, Kaya has her head in the clouds.
Take her chocolate away and they might turn into -rain- clouds! Now to figure a way to control just how -much- rain… 🙂
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=EwTZ2xpQwpA am I right?
[…inspired by Kai’s musings in Panel_#3]:
“AHOY, GODDESS!”
“WE ARE HERE TO DELIVER A FRESH BATCH OF TASTY, DELICIOUS MEMORIES!”
“HOW MUCH LONGER BEFORE YOU LIFT THE CURSE?”
There is, Kai, but you doesn’t want to hear the… “Music”, what played inside it, i am sure of that.