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Stealth had other ideas. She jumped in front of Riley and he tripped over her, a mess of flailing arms and legs. Whether it was right or not, Stealth had had enough of this entire situation and the game.
Chel ran faster than she thought she could and the pole seemed to become lighter with every step. She was fixated on Trasik’s back with knowledge that Riley had given her weeks ago. She just had to hit her once and Trasik was in the perfect angle, unless she moved.
“Speak! Answer—“ Trasik took delight in shaking Lexx’s head a little more, causing him more pain. Then, a sharp pain shook her body followed by a sickening sound of ripping flesh and cloth. A flood of warmth spread down her chest and she went rigid.
87 thoughts on “Day 24 Part 3”
centkin
NOW you did it…
Kyn
VICTORY!
MadMann135
I can only help but… smile.
Josh.C
Ouch!
Complications abound from the rules in this situation. Interfering with the game, breaking interplanetary law to kidnap a resident of an underdeveloped world, other possible accounts of kidnapping and attempted harm or murder. The list of infractions by all parties just screams of total mess.
I wonder if law enforcement and AD will look the other way and say, “Challenge? What Challenge? Murder? No,nono, she obviously slipped onto that spear.”
This is starting to sound like something no one is going to wants to touch. But will they?
Cyberbeta
Yeah, it’s gonna get touched. How is yet to be determined, but it looks like this is going to be the spark for the powderkeg of an intergalactic incident.
…And I just got the extremely scary thought of Chel becomming a Dice as punishment.
mysterygal790
They wouldn’t really turn Chel into a dice… would they? Wouldn’t that be a violation of some law?
The suspense is killing me!!! Please do an extra update… please? 🙂
theeyes
Um, wow. Chel may have just murdered someone on intergalactic television.
Hm, I wonder what the law will have to say about this. I mean, if this were Earth she’d be going down for murder-1. The rules obviously work differently in space–I mean, they allow child slavery and all–but given Trasik is part of a wealthy family, I’m sure they’ll end up with all the justice their money can buy.
Voyager
Murder in the First Degree requires that you planned it in advance. Getting kidnapped and having one of your friends beaten to a pulp and possibly enslaved in front of you does not rise to the level of advanced planning.
Given the context, in most western nations, this would be at worst murder 2, quite probably, justifiable homicide.
Now, where all that falls apart is the fact that she is not operating in a jurisdiction with anything even remotely like typical western law. So, all bets are off.
Hyratel
that … speaks with sickening and satisfying finality. so I guess that spear wasn’t just ceremonial. My personal guess is it was there for guards to deal with rampaging dice
Valdrax
Meh. It didn’t damage her brain, and they at least have magical healing nanotech for dice. I’m sure that with prompt action by the house staff, she can be brought back from nearly any level of other organ damage, though I’d bet on a long recovery time.
The_Rippy_One
You all assume there is something fatally stabbed here – for all we know, Littan’s keep their appendix equivalent where Chel stabbed her. Of course, it might also be where they keep their autonomic nerve cluster (the autopilot for keeping the heart beating, lungs breathing and digestive tract running), at which point Trasik is dead on impact…
I’m just saying, we don’t know enough about Littan biology to even guess at how fatal this wound is.
Timelords have two hearts…
Fyrehawk
On the contrary, Riley told Chel that even the nanites couldn’t repair brain damage, and the comic text clearly states that Chel was using the knowledge Riley gave her when she struck, I say the Biatch is no more! Yay!
P.S. Trasik isn’t the only rich one in the picture…. just sayin 🙂
Valdrax
Umm… Her head is fully visible in the image (with nothing impaled in it), and the text /also/ says that she heard the sound of tearing flesh and *cloth* and felt warmth running down her chest.
That’s pretty wishful thinking to pass all those cues and think she was stabbed in the brain based on just that one bit.
Fantasyfreako
Holy crap. I can’t imagine chel murdering someone. Bu on the other hand, people do do crazy things when the one they love is in danger.
The_Rippy_One
And crazier things when they get a psychic connection from said love containing “PAIN!”
Fyrehawk
Murder? Everyone keeps using that term, and I hardly see how it applies. Chel was KIDNAPPED and held against her will. Her friend comes to her rescue and is severely, and deliberately, grieviously injured trying to save her, you would have a hard time convincing a jury of manslaughter in this case. As for the law of the Corporations of Space, who knows, but they “looked the other way” as Chel was kidnapped, they may well “look the other way” for this incident. They have no authority over Chel, although they can still make life difficult for Lexx. 🙁
Valdrax
IANAL, but no, you wouldn’t have a hard time convicting of manslaughter. In fact, in many jurisdictions, this would count as premeditated murder given her intent in grabbing acquiring a weapon on the way to cross the distance.
Self defense and defense of another are generally only allowed as defenses (in American law), when the victim threatens the murderer with lethal or grievous bodily harm. Trasik is not threatening Chel with lethal harm; Trasik’s threat of lethal harm to Lexx is over at this point and was consented to by him in the first place. In many states, she wouldn’t even be allow to pull her hands off of him (i.e. commit battery) in his defense either unless she was physically attacking him.
With provocation legally insufficient to justify lethal response, Chel’s actions are an open and shut case in American law, at least.
Who knows what space law is like considering all the awfulness that the villains get away with? For that matter, does Chel even have any legal rights other than the right not to be a slave?
The_Rippy_One
@Valdrax: I agree with you 99%, by US law this would be pretty open and shut – except it would also be a trial by jury – and her lawyer’s best bet would be an temporary insanity plea, and then illustrate what Chel has been going through as relevant to her state of mind. Would it be enough to get the insanity defense justified…maybe – we have no precedent for psychic pain phenomenon…so…eh?But it would give the jury a taste of all the holy **** she’d gone through – and given the response on this board, do you think at least one jurist would declare not guilty out of sympathy? Trying the defendant, not the case, as the saying goes?
As to intergalactic law, Chel’s only “defense” is her citizenship to a protected world – not that we are entirely certain that there is a interstellar law against murder, or if there are any exceptions to it. Alien means completely other, after all. Some of them might consider this a completely normal mating display.
Anonymouse
Everybody seems to assume that Trasik has been killed … Please keep in mind that Trasik isn’t human, and that her Littan physiology could be different enough from human anatomy to render her heart in a different location. Coupled with the fact that I have no recollection of any indication that Chel has ever been trained in any martial art or warfare (excluding, of course, anything her dad may have taught her), it is highly unlikely that Chel did anything more damaging than cause a tension pneumothorax by traversing a lung (which, if left untreated, would drown Trasik in her own blood). This all still assumes that Trasik and other non-humans with sufficient funds would not outfit themselves with medical nano-machines to make themselves effectively immortal, which would probably respond to trauma immediately and start to heal her the moment the spear was removed (if not earlier, if they are particularly aggressive). The point I make here is, we don’t have enough information, and good enemies are too scarce a developed resource to throw away lightly (however much we may want them to go away).
admin
Oh, I’ll confirm we are indeed down one villain.
hariman
One down, 522 left to go.
OK. It might not be that many. But this IS a good start on clearing the field. 😉
O.B. Juan
Sure, she’d dead now. But remember this is Sci-Fi and hardly anyone ever STAYS dead. There are such things as time travel, cloning, duplicates from alternate dimensions, and the ever popular ‘evil twin’ (or in Trasik’s case, the NON-evil twin).
hariman
I’d hate to kill all those nightmares you wanted to have, but this is Tiff writing the story.
When she kills someone, they stay dead.
O.B. Juan
– breathes in helium-
“she’s not only merely dead, she’s really most sincerely dead”
– exhales –
NigraFelis
Chel looks to be too far away unless she throws the spear and I believe that would put Lexx in danger from that same spear.
Warpcorps
SCHLRRK!! Is one of the best bloody sound effects ever. Some other good ones are SKRREEEE!!!, SHOOSH!!!, KSSSS!!!, and GRRRRGLE!!!
I point to dead(or severely injured) Trasik and I point to the smile on my face. That is all.(unless of course Chel goes to prison. Then there will be a frown on my face.)
mysterygal790
Same here… 🙂 , 🙁 .
Fyre
Seeing how intergalatic law handles this will be interesting. Everyone watching knows that Trasik kidnapped Chel to force Lexx into a challenge. Doesn’t the kidnapped person have a right to attack her kidnapper in (cough) an escape attempt?
MadMann135
I said earlier…
“Technically, until Chel is off the property she is still kidnapped.”
She was kidnapped off the protected planet earth, right out of her home. The laws that were broken for that are astronomical (according to my understanding).
Traski’s karma is finally coming full circle.
Josh.C
If the law doesn’t swing that way there’s always it would be considered interference by fault of Traski.
It would be rather hilarious if Traski got disqualified by Lex’s guide, because Traski made it her responsibility to make sure Chel didn’t interfere.
hariman
I’m rather a bit surprised that nobody has posted a Wizard of Oz reference.
The unfortunate catch to this is that there’s still two formidable dice standing closer to Chel and Lexx than to anybody else.
They’re not out of the woods yet, but I think it will get better after it gets worse.
Hyratel
Obligatory.
Ding dong, the wicked witch is dead!
Hornet
As one being kidnapped. I’d say Chel has the right, no responsibility to do everthing thing in her power to get out of there.
QuantumInsanity
Ahh, so refreshing, the look on Trasiks face as a mere human girl plunges her spear into one of the few weak spots of the nearly invulnerable Littan. YAY! No more Trasik! No more Trasik! Tralalala la laaaa! But, Lexx lost and Chel is still kidnapped and interfered with the game. Oh yeah, and then there’s Chel’s Dad and Keith on Damian’s ship… when they find out about this will they let Chel stay with Lexx? will Lexx let her stay? Will she listen to either of them? (no way :p) I see lots of fun chaos in the future… Great stuff!
Ashley
I’m not sure I understand the surprise at Chell’s actions. She has already shown herself to be willing to harm others in defense of herself or those she cares about, (like her first meeting with Lexx…) and has been through a series of events that have been shown to make her less leary of the results of such actions, so it seems perfectly reasonable to me to expect her to try to kill Trasik. (even if she might regret it after the fact)
VW
Does anyone else think that maybe Lexx is the one that stabbed Trasik?
Gwenhwyvar
I second that montion. Chel is not close enough and the text does not say from which direction the stab came from.
mysterygal790
The blood splatter suggests that it was from behind her… however, I may be wrong. 😉
TylerGal
I feel bad for Riley. While Trasik was crazy and needed to go down, it’s still his sister.
admin
I’m surprised it took that many comments before someone remembered that.
Josh.C
Well to take it from there.
This is also family property as well. So there dad is most likely not far away either and let’s not forget that their are other brothers to think about.
This might shake up more then just Riley here.
centkin
Something tells me that would net huge ratings… I mean the fall of lexx and then trasik stabbed by the kidnapped human guide? This would make the last episode of MASH look like an episode of ice road truckers.
hariman
No, it would probably make the last episode of MASH look like an episode of AfterMASH. 😀
Then again, this IS an intergalactic series, so there’s probably a much bigger audience to start with.
reteo
One thing’s for certain. With action like this, people are going to be glued to their vids galaxy-wide.
DawnStar
Would that be enough for ADC to overlook this whole situation??? I hope so. But what about Riley and his family? He probably won’t want Chel tried for murder, but the rest of his family has been overlooking Lexx up to this point, so they’re probably not going to be very open to the fact that Lexx’s “human girlfriend” just killed their daughter/sibling. >.< Ah! And I thought $hit was hitting the fan last page!!!
hariman
There’s also the possibility of this calling attention to the ADC’s abuse of loopholes in the law. Not to mention Trasik’s abuse of the law.
Riley’s Dad is gonna be pissed though. If Riley weren’t already last in line for succession, he would be now!
Andi
Even after she grabbed the spear, I did not see that coming.
Mongoose
I like how dash triped riely
Fireshot
That’s Stealth silly.
Mongoose
sory forgot whos who
Abykale
Well this is going to be fun to explain to her dad and Keith when they get back to the ship . . .
I have no idea what the resolution of the legal issues will be, but I thought I’d point out that Trasik may have been telling the truth when she said she wasn’t the one who kidnapped Chel. It looks to me like the work of Andisel, especially since Chel’s kidnapper First looks suspiciously similar to the Sairah who spoke to the imprisoned Kane earlier (http://aliendice.com/blog/2006/08/03/08032006/).
Spooks
And with Trasik insisting that Lexx declare his defeat… I wonder if he hasn’t actually lost until he says he gives up- meaning he’s still in the game. Though I suppose that could have just been Trasik rubbing her victory in his face.
Abykale
Has Lexx officially become Trasik’s property? She didn’t succeed in tagging him, which I seem to remember a previous challenger trying to do. Assuming Lexx did officially lose to Trasik and she is killed, what becomes of him? Does ownership pass to her next-of-kin, or does the ADC get to do whatever they want with him? Not that I think anyone here plans to stick around to find out . . .
admin
He has to say he gives up.
Mongoose
staby punctur stab stab go chel go
Redlion
Pear shaped fails to cover the situation here. The pears have all been tossed into a blender. That blender has coughed up about 5 tons of caltrops. ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caltrop ) Nasty things, caltrops. I wouldn’t want to walk across a field of them.
Redlion
That being said, I like what has happened here. Couldn’t have happened to a more deserving waste of oxygen.
I love Trasik’s expression here. I love seeing it applied even more.
Arithel
Spent the last two days reading this and now i have to stop at such a situation? This is really not fair!
AlienDice is an amazing comic and I am really happy to have found it (even if its quite late…)
Fireshot
Well done Chel! Well DONE! Its about time someone gave that bitch what she deserved for all the pain and suffering she has caused people!
Ame
Hmmm just to throw a wrench into things, I’m gonna guess its Chel’s father that just killed Trasik.
Ryn
YAAYYY!!! I genuinely thought Chel wouldn’t have the guts to do the obvious. But…. What if Trasik has fast acting nanos?
Ryn
And I agree with several readers. I don’t think it was Chel.
Maybe it was Riley.
Mongoose
it could have ben riely didn’t you see him trip
O.B. Juan
The way she mistreats them, it could have been one of her own dice.
Elfguy
Well neither Chel nor Trasik are players in the game or dice, so presumably anything they do to each other has no effect on the game’s outcome one way or the other.
It is, however, attempted murder on any planet.
Mongoose
trasik is a player but not peice to be played like lex was
Elfguy
Well thats what I meant…Trasik owns dice, but isn’t a die herself like Lexx is.
Hey, if Lexx shares a name with a big world-blasting space bug (See the series “Lexx”) then maybe Chel will wind up wearing an orange jumpsuit and acting as a guiney Pig at Aperture Laboratories, testing the Aperture Science Hand-Held Portal Device?
centkin
A little more competent than “attempted.”
admin
I can be bribed into updating 5 times next week.
Eileen
Okay – my bribe is in. Sorry it isn’t more…