The Young Protectors: Double-Cross Chapter Two—Page 30

March 6, 2020 Alex Woolfson 48 Comments

Puny cannon.

Please note: These are work-in-progress colors. Vero should get me the final colors soon.

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So!

So! Spooky finally gets to blow off a little steam—by smashing a cannon to pieces! What will the robed magic user have to say about that? Is defeating them just that easy? And if so, will Spooky finally be able to reunite Ambrosia with her beloved brother?

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Comments From The Young Protectors Community

Nate says:
March 4, 2020
I guess that cannon was… derailed.
YEAHHH!!!
KendallPB says:
March 5, 2020
That’s no guy!
w_period_r_period_cl says:
March 5, 2020
Follow my lead? What? With a broom? That’s a chick baby!
alexwoolfson says:
March 6, 2020
KendallPB:
That’s no guy!
Then who is it?
dave.fragments.dc says:
March 6, 2020
KendallPB:
That’s no guy!
She’s wearing high heels, too
edit: WAIT! my bifocals are magically malfunctioning about high heels but that definitely isn’t a guy, definitely and defiantly not a guy
JujYFru1T says:
March 7, 2020
Spooks: Follow my lead! proceeds with maximum pwnage
uhhhh what’s next exactly? well she’s-- i mean?? i dunno but i think???-- she’s only pinned by the badass laser not knocked out, it seems, so maybe Mitch will follow up with something to prevent escape/use of baddie magic.
although. you’d think with decent magic skills one wouldn’t need an entire cannon as backup… i am but a muggle, however.
w_period_r_period_cl says:
March 7, 2020
LOL! I caught the face and missed the bloody shoes!
w_period_r_period_cl says:
March 7, 2020
Surprising how selective that green beam was, eh? Cannon go “boom”. Woman? Oh hell no. You need to drop her in the sun for that! Nothing else is strong enough!
dswxyz says:
March 8, 2020
I’m guessing this woman is a completely new character who was setting a trap for someone else. Since the brother and the girl aren’t here, hopefully our heroes will remember to ask this woman (with all due politeness) where they might be. Could be yet another church but I see no reason (as yet) why crazy schemes have to be at a church. They might instead be in a deserted amusement park, or a spooky swamp, or in a tapped-out gold mine, of in a haunted Victorian mansion, or any number of other locations where Scooby and the gang try to solve a mystery.
alexwoolfson says:
March 13, 2020
JujYFru1T:
although. you’d think with decent magic skills one wouldn’t need an entire cannon as backup…
It is a… curious choice, no?
w_period_r_period_cl:
Surprising how selective that green beam was, eh?
Teen Spooky doesn’t have all the control. But he does have some extraordinary control…
dswxyz:
I’m guessing this woman is a completely new character who was setting a trap for someone else.
Interesting. We shall soon see…

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I see a high heel in panel three!

That’s some explosion!

Once again I get “This page does not exist or is private” when click the “You can comment on this page over at the Community site here” link on the new page.

This is a different error than you reported on the previous page, Klaus. Are you saying when you click that phrase in my note above, you aren’t taken to the Page 30 topic at the Community site? Because when I just clicked it, it worked for me.

Yes I am. I thought the two errors where related.

Hmm. I’m not seeing that error.

Can you verify that you are logged in at the Community site?

Is anyone else encountering this error?

I went to the last page. There was the blurred image with a button in the center, as usual. I pressed this button, and got the usual buttons. I clicked on the accept button (I think that is what it says). Now when I go to the last page, I see the new page. I take it that that means that I am logged in. When I click the “You can comment on this page over at the Community site here” link, I get to https://community.amwcomics.com/t/the-young-protectors-double-cross-chapter-two-page-31/459, which says “Oops! That page doesn’t exist or is private.”, and shows two lists of links to earlier pages. The latest is page 30, which was not there yesterday.

It can see how it could be confusing, but there are actually three different sites you can log into to look at my pages.

1) This site (my “webcomic site”) which has the webcomics.yaoi911.com domain name.

2) The Community site which has the community.amwcomics.com domain name.

3) And, of course, patreon.com which has the patreon.com domain name (and which I have no ownership of whatsoever).

To access locked pages for a site, you need to be logged into that site.

When you clicked on the button on the blurred image of this site (my webcomic site), and clicked accept, it logged you into this site. (You can tell you are logged in here because there is a black admin bar that appears up top that you could use to log out if you wanted to.)

If you are trying to find Page 31 (the current Patreon-only preview page) on the Community site, you’ll need to be logged in there.

If you are logged out at the Community site, you’ll see a blue Log In box in the upper right on that site, and if you use that button to log in with Patreon (or with your Patreon email address), it should unlock any categories that are Patreon-only over there.

The short answer is that I think you might not be logged into the Community site.

Let me know if you’re logged into the Community site (community.amwcomics.com). If not, try logging in with your Patreon account and let me know if that fixes the problem.

There is neither a log in nor a log out button. At the top right, there is a blue Young Protectors button. Under that there is the header I quote above. Under that two lists, Popular and Recent, each ending with a “more” button. And at the Bottom “Search this site”.
Clicking the Young Protectors button takes to a page that has a red circkle with a K at the top rigt. Mousing over this shows my name, which I take as an indication that I am indeed logged in. Next to this is a menu button. Neither this menu, nor the page itself, has a log in or log out button anywhere.

OK. That definitely sounds like you are logged in to the Community site. And as long as you are logged in with your Patreon account (or the same email as your Patreon account), you shouldn’t have any issues.

So when you go to this link, you still get that error? Even when you clear the cache of your browser?

https://community.amwcomics.com/t/the-young-protectors-double-cross-chapter-two-page-31/459

Yes.

Hmm. I’m sorry to hear that you’re running into a road-block here. Other folks have been able to get to and comment on that page, so I don’t think it’s a system-wide error.

Maybe try logging out of the Community site and logging back in with your Patreon account?

You can log out by clicking that circle with a K you mentioned in the upper right, then clicking your name. That should give you a drop-down menu which includes a Log Out option. Alternatively, clicking shift-z twice should also log you out.

Then you can log back in with Patreon.

Hopefully that will fix things. Please let me know. Thanks!

That did not change anything. Also, unlike yesterday, clicking “Unlock it now” on the blured page just takes me back to the blurred image. I do not get the Patreon accept button. This happened before I logged out. Ctrl-F5 does not help.

Thank you, Klaus. That’s helpful.

I have another guess about what might be happening.

Go to your Patreon account on patreon.com and check to see what reward level you’ve chosen to support me with.

Patreon has this confusing “feature” where the reward level you choose can be different (i.e. less) than the amount you pledge. For example, you could pledge $10/month but still choose the $3/month reward level (or no reward at all.)

I can only grant access to locked rewards to patrons based on the reward level they chose, not the amount they are actually pledging. Access to locked pages here and at the Community site is for the $5+ Patrons reward level and above.

Could you please check to make sure that your reward level matches the amount you are pledging to me?

Because looking at your membership on Patreon, I don’t think that’s what I’m seeing…

When I click on your name, I get to a page where there is a menu for choosing tier near the top. When I close the $10 tier, I get two “Join now for $5” buttons for each item on the page. Clickuog one of those does not give me the option to choose another level. Nor does it make the “join now for $5” buttons go away. I found a page where my tier was shown, but now I can’t find it. It said $0, and offered me the posibility to set it to $3. This after I had clicked the “join for $5” button.

Edited: I tried clicking on some of the less promising buttons, and one of them led to a page where I could set my level to $10. I can now comment. I cn still not see the newest page on the main site.

OK. Good. I think we might have found the source of the problem, and at least part of the solution. I’m now also seeing the correct reward tier selected for your account. 🙂

Do you have any idea why the reward tier might have gotten changed in the first place?

Glad to hear that you now have full access to the Community site. In terms of not seeing the Preview page here on this webcomic site, please try logging out and then logging back into this webcomic site with your Patreon account, just in case something needs to get updated here. (You should be able to log out using your name in the right part of the black bar above.)

Try that, then try the refresh options I suggest at the Patreon Rewards FAQ, just to make sure it’s not a browser cache issue

http://amwcomics.com/patreon-rewards/

and let’s see if that solves this last problem and lets you see the preview page.

Thank you for your patience with this. It hadn’t occurred to me that a reward tier mismatch might cause this kind of problem. It makes me wonder if other patrons might have encountered this too.

It should have occured to me sooner. 29 February I had a similar problem, and solved it by changing my pledge level back to what it was supposed to be. I don’t know how I could have forgotten already.

I’m very glad we figured it out. If someone else runs into a similar situation, I’ll know to have them check this.

Is this happening on its own? Is there some bug in Patreon that is changing your reward tier without your knowledge?

I have done nothing to change it.

Understood. If it’s not too much trouble, please reach out to Patreon support and let them know this is happening:

https://support.patreon.com/hc/en-us

I will also reach out to my contacts at Patreon. Obviously, a malicious bug like this needs to be addressed quickly. Hopefully, hearing from us both will get them to act sooner so this won’t happen again.

Are you able to access the Preview Page here on the webcomic site yet?

I will. I can not see the preview on this site on my home computer or my work computer. I have not yet tried you logging out suggestion again since updating my pledge level, though.

Thank you, Klaus. Please let me know if logging out and logging back in here makes any difference. Fingers crossed.

Delete me.

Cannon go bye-bye.

Still: 100 points for style, bothering to provide proper historical artillery!

Proper? That’s pretty Napoleonic era artillery for whenever this is supposed to be? I’m not expecting an RPG or 105mm recoilless gun, but I’m also presuming that it was basically a magical construct rather actual cannon. Otherwise, Spooky’s etheric magic bolts of force would have set off the gunpowder necessary??
Plus, no high heels, but the markedly heavy lipstick; rather pyramidal, under the robes, breast area bulge; and facial delineation do seem to indicate that?

Looks like they took an actual historical cannon and spelled it up!

Well, I hope that fulfilled Spooky’s need for mindless superhero violence.

That said, I’m intrigued by the force bolt he used on the cannon. I see a lot of flying parts being flung all over the place, but not a lot of damage to either the surrounding church or the robed cultist standing right next to it. I’m thinking a force bolt designed to expend all of its kinetic energy on the thing that its specifically aimed at, but with no transmission of explosive force through shockwaves in the air, etc. It would seem that for all his posturing about wanting to start a fight, Spooky is careful about his collateral damage.

I don’t think that’s the brother…unless magic does free sex changes.

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Whoa, it can’t be that easy. The only heartbeat in the building? What about the grounds? Could there be some kind of magical cloaking thing going on where everyone else’s presence is hidden from Mitch’s senses? Then again, they didn’t know Mitch was around supposedly, and maybe Spooky would’ve already noticed if that was the case.

Still, what would one loan villain be doing just standing there doing nothing but pointing a cannon at the front door? Seems kind of a weird thing to do for no reason, and if the villain is busy doing that then who is busy villain-ing? There has to be more of a reason that the magic user is there than just to randomly invade an abandoned church and keep anybody from coming in. Maybe nobody’s there now, but possibly they will be. I don’t know, it just seems like such a weird thing to do!

Also, unless Ambrosia lied (which is possible), they were also supposed to be rescuing a kidnapped child. If there are no other heartbeats in the building and this is the only villain, where is she?

There’s definitely gonna be more to it. If it weren’t for the fact that Mitch said his senses didn’t pick up anybody else, I would think they just walked into an ambush.

I’m really looking forward to Wednesday’s installment! I need to know what they ask this magic user and if they get any answers!

Well, what we know is there’s only one villain with a heartbeat….!

Very good points. It does seem like they’ve disrupted a carefully staged ambush, doesn’t it.

FWIW the script plays cagey with the ‘Lavender Magic User’ by repeatedly using the neutral pronoun “their”.

Now, for my part I’ve successfully been making willpower rolls and not looking at the preview pages for a number of weeks now, and can only go on guesswork as to what will be revealed on Wednesday. But I would like to point out that there’s no reason that a dude who’s been driven psychotically insane by magic use can’t also wear high heels and have full kissable lips (or at least wear lipstick). Just sayin’.

Hello Campers,
Who is the robed figure?
Who will ask the next pertinent question: Why is that cannon here?

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