DISTRESSED DAMSELS: "Undercover Wenches in Trouble," pt. 2 of 3 (Patreon)

(Part one of this story fragment can be checked out here.)

Per your votes in a recent Patreon poll, here's part 2 (of 3) of a commissioned DiD short story in proto-Empowered format, drawn for a generous friend who appreciated not only my earlier con sketches of a wench-ified Kei and Yuri, but also my depiction of a young Red Monika from back-up stories I wrote and drew twenty-odd years ago for Joe Madureira's comic Battle Chasers. 

Quick notes on the story (okay, "story") pages:

p.1: As seen in panels 1 and 3, this was a time of seriously twisty torsos, judging by Yuri's "Escher girl" poses. (Then again, this story was never intended to be published, so I might've just said, "Ehh, screw it, nobody but the commissionee's ever gonna see this.")

p.2: Stealthy Wench Kei ahoy!

p.3: Panel 3: Jeez, watch it with the swordplay, pseudo-Monika! (Then again, this is a story in which she's wildly hyper-competent for distress-inducing purposes, so no biggeh, I guess.)

So, yes, technically at least, this is a fan-comic crossover of sorts between Dirty Pair and Battle Chasers! Howeva, this is a severely non-canonical crossover, as my versions of Kei and Yuri would normally make mincemeat out of poor Monika if she tried anything like this. (Insert your own No-Prize rationalizations here!) Perhaps whatever arcane magic landed the girls as undercover serving wenches in Monika's milieu also stripped them of all their fighting skills and ultra-tech gear, leaving them just as pre-damseled as the similarly hapless Hushed Half-Elf?

In addition to the story pages above, note the attached pair of older con sketches, which I'll blither about in brief:

I suspect that this this con sketch and its clearly dire scenario predates the "story," but probably not by much. My apologies for posting a crappy 72dpi jpg of the piece (the other jpegs are a superior 120dpi), but that's all I could dig up today; if I can secure a higher-res version from the fella who owns the original sketch, I'll (re)post it here.

And finally, a recently unearthed con sketch of Pirate Shasti distressing the wenched-up pseudo-Angels:

Interestingly enough (IMHO), this must have been drawn very early on in my artistic transition to what I've dubbed "minimal nasal indication," judging by Wench Kei's rather awkward, uh, "pig nose." Had to do it, though, as by 1999-2000, the previous form of nose structure I was drawing on my female characters had become weirdly distorted and wholly non-viable. (More on this issue in a future post, needless to say.)

NEXT WEEK: Will pseudo-Kei wind up distressed by femme-domme-y pseudo-Monika? (What do you think, in a commissioned DiD story?) 

TOMORROW: Time for another excerpt from the Twitter-format prose experiment I Am Empowered!