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Overside (Webcomic)
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Overside is a fictional world created by Evan Dahm, which serves as a setting for his various webcomics.Overside is a flat world populated by a wide, colorful variety of beasts and intelligent species. Interestingly, the standard assortment of fantasy races is completely absent. For that matter, so are humans: the inhabitants of Overside are all either some species of Cartoon Creature, or Mechanical Lifeforms.The stories set in Overside include three long comics and several short stories: | |
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Alternative Calendar | |
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Alternative Calendar: Overside years were only about 5 months Earth-time... until Dahm decided that was too complicated and set the years back to the normal length. | |
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Adventure-Friendly World | |
Overside (Webcomic) / int_1e75509c | comment |
Adventure-Friendly World: Boy, is it ever! An indeterminate number of strange, fantastical creatures who are constantly meeting, merging, or competing with each other, with plenty of ancient legends, relics, and ruined empires from the days of yore to go around (some of which get rebuilt and repopulated by successor empires which later collapse and leave new ruins on top of the old ones...) Overside is a world that is made for tale-telling. | |
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The Constant | |
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The Constant: The three quasi-immortal Searchers (The One Electronic, Calabash and Golgo) all die in Rice Boy, but since the other stories are set before it, they still figure in many of the stories. | |
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A.I. Is a Crapshoot | |
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A.I. Is a Crapshoot: In "The Thinker", a woodland nation sacrifices everything to literally create an artificial intelligence out of wooden cogs. It responds to this dedication by ordering the last surviving attendant to resign and give its duties to The One Electronic, which causes this loyal servant to cross the Despair Event Horizon and crawl into the desert to die. | |
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Full-Circle Revolution | |
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Full-Circle Revolution: An extremely drawn-out example. In "The Tusks of Wusterim", the Frog-men are the slaves of an empire. By the time of Rice Boy, many centuries later, they formed an empire of their own. | |
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Place Worse Than Death | |
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Place Worse Than Death: Surya. The similarity of this name to Siberia should tell you all you need to know. | |
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Loads and Loads of Races | |
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Loads and Loads of Races: The wiki names and describes Blackbirds, Dimmons, Fin-Folk, Fluters, Frog-Men, Gaundts, Gorrkans, Hornèds, Ice-Striders, Machine Men, Rhed, Sahtans, Shade-Kin, Sirpah, Trills, and War-Men. There are also the unnamed inhabitants of Seen and Taragi, and the mysterious White Formless. Most of these have named characters in the comics. | |
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Flat World | |
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Flat World: It's a disk with two sides, each with continents and seas. | |
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Mechanical Lifeforms | |
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Mechanical Lifeforms: Machine Men. According to the creation story in Order of Tales they have been created as soldiers to Take Over the World by the four proto-machine men. | |
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Conlang | |
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Conlang: A few, complete with scripts. | |
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Overside (Webcomic) / int_ac781948 | type |
Cartoon Creature | |
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Cartoon Creature: Nearly everyone. | |
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Finger-Snap Lighter | |
Overside (Webcomic) / int_db9032ab | comment |
Finger-Snap Lighter: T.O.E., the Searcher with a never explained power to make sparks with a finger snap, uses this power for lighting his pipe and anything he needs to set on fire. | |
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Slave Race | |
Overside (Webcomic) / int_e0309d03 | comment |
Slave Race: The Frogs were slaves in the Wusterim Empire, until they revolted. The Sahtans outright enslave the War Men. Every other non-Sahtan is relegated to serfdom. | |
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Theme Naming | |
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Theme Naming: Hornéd characters are named after grammatical features. | |
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Adventure-Friendly World / int_bafdcf82 | |
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Ambiguous Robots / int_bafdcf82 | |
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Artificial Script / int_bafdcf82 | |
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Conlang / int_bafdcf82 | |
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Constructed World / int_bafdcf82 | |
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Fantastic Drug / int_bafdcf82 | |
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Finger-Snap Lighter / int_bafdcf82 | |
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New Weird / int_bafdcf82 | |
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Pieces of God / int_bafdcf82 | |
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Place Worse Than Death / int_bafdcf82 | |
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Slave Liberation / int_bafdcf82 | |
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Slave Race / int_bafdcf82 | |
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The Exile / int_bafdcf82 |
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