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Tora Steals Things Volume 3: Contract Complete

A Guild Wars 2 fan comic/novel

Ebook out now! Checkout here

Completing the Tora Steals Things series, here is the final book: Contract Complete! As the final book, our titular sylvari thief returns to goofier antics: joining golem tournaments, getting caught by pirates, crashing ritzy human noble parties, and taking on a job to steal back a strange amulet. 

It’s not all fun and games though, Tora struggles with unemployment and homelessness throughout, and many of his adventures bring new and old unforeseen troubles. How can he join a golem tournament when he’s banned from Rata Sum? He’s saved from pirates by Blu Funk, but who’ll save him from her? How can he keep a low profile at the noble party when he won’t stop making a show of himself? And can he get back the amulet of Bolli before its hidden past endangers everyone? 

He just wanted to pay rent—what’s a simple thief to do?

Volume 3: Contract Complete features:

Standard Edition features: 86 comic pages, 89 pages of illustrated prose, and 4 pages of extra art pieces.

Deluxe Edition features: all of the above, along with 9 pages of concept and design work/notes, author commentary throughout, and 24 pages summarizing all the unused content I had originally planned for the series!

If you’re familiar with Tora Steals Things, you may be surprised to hear this is the last book. The series ended with the episode Amulet Of Bolli, which was one of the most ambitious stories I made for it. I didn’t originally intend for it to end here however, and had planned to continue the series for roughly 16 more stories/jokes. While I still feel I made the right decision in ending it here, I wanted to let those of you curious on what was left to have the option to see for yourself. Thus, the deluxe version of book 3 has summaries for every last idea I originally intended to make.

If you’re not familiar with Tora Steals Things, and you’re a fan of Guild Wars 2 with an interest in reading stories within the world of Tyria unrelated to the Commander, this may be up your alley. Consider reading Volume 1: Swift and Steady first or checking out the official website: www.ToraStealsThings.com

Did you miss volume 1 and 2? They’re available for purchase here

Highly recommend reading Volume 1 and 2 before Volume 3 as, although the many episodes are relatively stand-alone, they do heavily reference past stories and characters.

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The End Of Tora Steals Things: A GW2 Fan Comic/Novel

Hey! So with the end of Amulet Of Bolli having gone up on Dec. 23rd, 2023, it's time to talk bout something I've been putting off for awhile now.

You read the title, let's get into it: The End Of Tora Steals Things.

Amulet Of Bolli is the last story I will make for Tora Steals Things. That's it. There's no more. It's ending there as I move forward with Apocalypse Child (which launched on Dec. 21st at apocalypsechildcomic.com!).

So why is it ending?

Those of you who've watched my streams probably already knew this as I've been talking about it ending for awhile now. Hell, many of you may have figured out it was singing its swan song when I first announced Apocalypse Child, or changed the update schedule to once every two weeks, or changed it to a webnovel format... Many of you probably knew it was dying before I was willing to admit it myself.

Truthfully, I have roughly 16 or so stories left for Tora Steals Things, and I really wanted to make them all. TST means a lot to me: it taught me how to make comics and it brought me joy during some of the hardest moments of my life. I'm honestly so touched that so many people read and enjoyed it over the years. You guys made it worth it, you really did.

However, TST has long lived past its due date, and this last story proved that to me. Amulet Of Bolli Part Two took six months to write--six months where I had no time to edit past a first draft, could not build a decent buffer, and had no time to work on writing for Apoclaypse Child. Did it take less time than it would have as a comic? Yes, absolutely, but it still took far more time and energy than what it's currently worth. It exhausted me to my limit to make.

I don't know what else to say, really--I burned out on TST years ago but just kept pushing. I'm sad I couldn't complete it the way I wanted to, sure, but I can't tell you how relieved I am to finally allow myself to stop working on it.

For those last 16-ish stories, they're now available in written summaries as bonus material for the deluxe edition of the third and final e-book for Tora Steals Things. I hope that will satisfy those of you curious over where the story was gonna go, had I kept making it.

On that note, the last e-book collecting the last of the comics and prose for TST is out and available for purchase: Volume 3--Contract Complete which you can pick up here.

What's next?

As my focus moves onto Apocalypse Child, the Patreon for Tora Steals Things has been made to re-focus on that as well. I'm still keeping all the previous rewards for TST available on that Patreon. In the future, time-willing, I may collect those rewards to sell in digital bundles alongside the e-books so that those of you interested in just the Tora Steals Things sketch pages, scripts, thumbnails, and so forth, can just buy it instead of signing up for the Patreon. I'm also considering doing a live Q&A stream for the ending of TST near the end of the month. Might not do it. Depends on interest, really.

If this is something that interests you, I'll be sure to update this space or my twitter (@GriffinSBNorth) if and when anything happens.

All that said, I wanna just like, thank those of you who read my work all this time. Tora Steals Things was always a bit out there as a fan project and it means the world to me that so many of you loved my hot mess of a plant thief and all his friends.

Really, truly, thank you.

And please, feel free to ask me questions if you have any.

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New update of Tora Steals Things, a Guild Wars 2 webcomic/novel, is up!

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It’s TORA TUESDAY! We're working on book 3's insert today. This'll likely be the last Tora Tuesday I do (probably? I think I've got one more image to do but I may have that done before the next Tora Tuesday so it's highly likely this is the last). Come on by if you don't wanna miss the last TST stream!

The stream is up! Come hang out with me as I work on Tora Steals Things!

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It’s TORA TUESDAY!

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New update of Tora Steals Things, a Guild Wars 2 webcomic/novel, is up!

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It’s TORA TUESDAY!

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New update of Tora Steals Things, a Guild Wars 2 webcomic/novel, is up!

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It’s TORA TUESDAY!

The stream is up! Come hang out with me as I work on Tora Steals Things!

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New update of Tora Steals Things, a Guild Wars 2 webcomic/novel, is up!

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It’s TORA TUESDAY!

The stream is up! Come hang out with me as I work on Tora Steals Things!

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New update of Tora Steals Things, a Guild Wars 2 comic/novel, is up!

ıllıllı NEW READER? START HERE! ıllıllı

░▒▓█ GET THE E-BOOK HERE! █▓▒░

Reblog to help support the comic!

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The stream is up! Come hang out with me as I work on Tora Steals Things!

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Tora Steals Things Volume 2: I’m Wilting

A Guild Wars 2 fan comic/novel

Ebook out now! Checkout here

Tora never wanted to see the woods of his saplinghood, Caledon Forest, for the rest of his life. Yet now he’s back, by demand of the Order of Whispers, on a job meant to justify his membership with them. The job is easy enough—rob a village of angry hylek to get back some vital documents. The real issue is how long he’s required to stay to do it—a month at minimum. Making matters worse, there’s an old friend-now-enemy, Warden Terin Dellis, relentlessly hunting him, and a dangerous acquaintance from his past drawing unwanted attention to him. Can he manage to lay low for an entire month, escape the demons of his past, do the job and get out? Or will things go awry when three young saplings enter the scene?

Volume 2: I’m Wilting explores the tragic origins of our titular thief and how he became the thief he is today. It tells the story of Tora’s journey joining a corrupt thieves’ guild, losing his best friend, and escaping his guild as it violently tears itself apart.

Standard Edition features: 80 comic pages, 10 illustrated short stories, and 4 pages of extra art done for the comic over the years 2018-2020

Deluxe Edition features: all of the above, along with 17 pages of concept and design work/notes, an 18 page preview of the upcoming original webcomic Apocalypse Child, and author commentary throughout

If you’re familiar with Tora Steals Things, you’ll know it as a series of comedic and fun stories. Volume 2 is the dark horse of the series, containing the darkest stories in the work. It contains depictions of emotional and physical abuse, depression, violence, death, and heavy suggestions of SA.

If you’re not familiar with Tora Steals Things, and you’re a fan of Guild Wars 2 with an interest in reading stories within the world of Tyria unrelated to the Commander, this may be up your alley. Consider reading Volume 1: Swift and Steady first or checking out the official website: www.ToraStealsThings.com

Did you miss volume 1? It’s available for purchase here

Highly recommend reading Volume 1 before Volume 2 as the story Terin and The Three Saplings leads directly into the stories of this one.

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