Yay! A new BattleGate page!
One of the web comics I read, BattleGate has a new page up. Life had the artist delayed, but it looks like it's going active again.
Short version of the basic story: Marcko was sure his future was set for good things, he'd been serving as a military guard officer at a penal mining camp and soon he would have his promotion to captain; which would allow him to move on to better things. This was enough to let him keep his cool when one of the trouble making prisoners, Hugo, appeared before him. Hugo's a bit of an oddity, having been sent to the camp when he was merely eleven years old. Even odder no one's willing to say why Hugo was sent to this prison camp. Just in case Marcko might have overdosed on happy anticipation his commanding officer informs him he has one final assignment before being promoted. The King himself has order a parole for Hugo. Marcko simply needs to take the boy around on a journey and keep track of Hugo's behavior. If the boy behaves in two years Marcko gets his promotion and Hugo goes free. If Hugo doesn't show a reduction in trouble making who knows just what fate will befall him, but Marcko can wave goodbye to his hopes for his career.
Of course complications do set in, but for that you'll want to read the actual comic.
Short version of the basic story: Marcko was sure his future was set for good things, he'd been serving as a military guard officer at a penal mining camp and soon he would have his promotion to captain; which would allow him to move on to better things. This was enough to let him keep his cool when one of the trouble making prisoners, Hugo, appeared before him. Hugo's a bit of an oddity, having been sent to the camp when he was merely eleven years old. Even odder no one's willing to say why Hugo was sent to this prison camp. Just in case Marcko might have overdosed on happy anticipation his commanding officer informs him he has one final assignment before being promoted. The King himself has order a parole for Hugo. Marcko simply needs to take the boy around on a journey and keep track of Hugo's behavior. If the boy behaves in two years Marcko gets his promotion and Hugo goes free. If Hugo doesn't show a reduction in trouble making who knows just what fate will befall him, but Marcko can wave goodbye to his hopes for his career.
Of course complications do set in, but for that you'll want to read the actual comic.