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The Mansion of E - Wednesday, December 8, 2004 [[This is a collection of non-plot "filler", some of it by guest artists.]] / [[Rosemary and Sylvester, as they might appear on the TV program South Park, by Arthur Levesque.]] / [[A sketch of Comshaw by McDuffies.]] / [[Rosemary, Sylvester and Mortimer, as "Micro Heroes".]]
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The Mansion of E - Thursday, December 9, 2004 {{Part of the story of the Nome War, as told by Umboz to his daughter Vezza.}} / Umboz: It all started with... The War. / [[Scene of some Nome and Gnoll forces closing in on each other, with wreckage and explosions in the background]]
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The Mansion of E - Friday, December 10, 2004 {{Part of the story of the Nome War, as told by Umboz to his daughter Vezza.}} / Vezza: What's a war? I hear people use that word, but no one ever explains stuff to me. / Umboz: It's a big raid. The biggest ever. Instead of just a few folks attacking a village, /everyone/ goes. / Umboz: Weed doesn't get harvested. / [[Pictured: a surprized Nome in mining attire.]] / Umboz: T-Squids don't get coaxed. / Umboz: And lots of people die. / [[Pictured: a snuffed-out candle and a pickaxe lying on the ground, next to a missed arrow; on the background, fire burns next to an untended mine cart, out of which an arrow juts out, too.]] / Vezza: Die? Forever? You mean.. like Ma did? / Umboz: Yes. Just like your Ma.
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The Mansion of E - Saturday, December 11, 2004 {{Part of the story of the Nome War, as told by Umboz to his daughter Vezza. First use in the strip of black silhouettes for flashbacks }} / Vezza: But... Ma didn't die in the war, did she? / Umboz: No. That was later. / [[Pictured: Umboz mourning at his wife's grave.]] / Umboz: The War was in your greatgrandpa's day. He told me about it, when I was your age. / [[Pictured: Said greatgrandpa, ranting at a young Umboz.]] / Umboz: Heh. Til your Grandma Bayala made him stop. / Umboz: Before the war, most of us Nomes lived underground. / Umboz: Hard to believe, but we were miners. Worked with metal and rocks. / [[Pictured: Three nomes in mining attire, walking and singing "HE HO, HE HO, it's off to dig we go..."]] / Umboz: But there's only so much space in the world, and it started getting crowded. / [[Pictured: The last of the previous three nomes, glancing behind his back, only to see a Gnoll glancing back at him.]] / Umboz: And there were the gnolls.
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The Mansion of E - Sunday, December 12, 2004 {{Part of the story of the Nome War, as told by Umboz to his daughter Vezza.}} / Vezza: So the Gnolls attacked us and started the war? Everyone always says how bad they are- / [[Pictured: A Gnoll, grinning maniacally with his claws in the air.]] / Umboz: I wish it were that simple. / Umboz: I've talked to Gnolls. They're just people, like everyone else. / [[Pictured: A Gnoll and Umboz peacefully meeting in the forest.]] / Umboz: Kinda dumb, though. / Vezza: You've talked to Gnolls? But, Paw! That's- / Umboz: Illegal? Yes. I never told you because.. Vezza, I love you more than anything in the world, but you can't keep a secret. / [[Pictured: Vezza happily explaining something to Umboz.]] / Vezza: HEY!! I can too! You'll see! I'll never tell anyone! / Umboz: It doesn't matter now, sweetie. / [[Pictured: An angry Mayor Koyeeb.]]
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The Mansion of E - Monday, December 13, 2004 {{Part of the story of the Nome War, as told by Umboz to his daughter Vezza.}} / Umboz: But whatever Gnolls are like, there were too many of them, and too many of us. And tempers began to fray. / [[Pictured: A Nome miner arguing a Gnoll, as a second Gnoll tries to seperate them.]] / Umboz: Then there were the OTHER species. Are and were a lot of 'em down there underground. Umboz: Some were smart enoug to just stay out of it... / [[Pictured: A Ghast, watching, as curses emanate from off-panel.]] / Umboz: But others... / Vezza: They were stupid? / [[Pictured: A Motihaul selling some sort of an explosive to a cautious-looking Nome. An Ooze watches the two from behind a rock.]] / Umboz: You pile enough cleverness, it can turn into stupidity real fast. / Umboz: And they piled it, all right, and tangled themselves up in it, two stinking mounds up to the sky. / Umboz: And in the end, all it took was a single spark... / [[Pictured: The lit wick of a bomb.]]
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The Mansion of E - Tuesday, December 14, 2004 {{Part of the story of the Nome War, as told by Umboz to his daughter Vezza.}} / Umboz: The spark that started it all was an explosion... a big fire... in one of our mines. / [[Pictured: Said explosion.]] / Umboz: The Nome leaders said the Gnolls did it. And lauched an attack. / [[Pictured: The Nome king watches from the ramparts as troops march to war.]] / Umboz: So really, WE started the war. / Vezza: But DID the Gnolls burn the mine? / Umboz: No one knows. The few true witnesses were lost in the war. / [[Pictured: Burial mounds, two marked by five-pronged spires, and one with a Nomish helm hanging at the end of a pole.]] / {{The spires are a symbol of Brush, the main deity in the comic's world.}} / Umboz: But my grandpa.. he later claimed he spoke to one of them as he was dying. / Umboz: And he said that the witness swore it wasn't Gnolls at all, but a huge insane monster. / Umboz: Or demon. / [[Pictured: A humanoid creature, with wildly flaying hair, glowing red eyes, and a sinister grin.]] / {{SPOILER ALERT: / This being later turns out to have been / Mortimer in his teen years.}}
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The Mansion of E - Wednesday, December 15, 2004 {{Part of the story of the Nome War, as told by Umboz to his daughter Vezza.}} / Vezza: What's a demon? / Umboz: Powerful and evil creatures that come from /under/ the world. Or so they say. / [[Pictured: Assorted demons, all red-eyed, grinning, and immersed in fire.One of them is possibly Edgar.]] / Vezza: Those big things that Uncle Frotz and the other harvesters see at the edge of the world? / Umboz: Nnno... Something different. More dangerous. There aren't any in the forest, but there's at least one of them down underground. / [[Pictured: The Operator, grinning. Someone's cursing off-panel.]] / Umboz: But even though he was alive back then, I don't think he was the one who started the fire. / Vezza: Why not? / Umboz: He's trapped inside a magical box. He couldn't get to the mine. / [[Pictured: The Operator, pushing in annoyance at the elevator car's walls. The square tapestry wavers and stretches beyond the elevator, filling the whole panel.]] / Umboz: On the other hand, it's true that being confined didn't stop him from.. contributing... to the war after it started... / [[Pictured: A devious-looking Nome warrior being handed a pulsating skull-shaped thingie from the Operator.]]
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The Mansion of E - Thursday, December 16, 2004 {{Part of the story of the Nome War, as told by Umboz to his daughter Vezza.}} / Vezza: Paw? Did the Box-Demon cause us Nomes to lose the war? / Umboz: No, he just helped- / Umboz: You figure out we lost, huh? / [[Pictured: The earlier Nome warrior eagerly showcasing the pulsating skull thingy he got from the Operator to other troops.]] / Vezza: You said this was a sad story. So that means we lost. / [[Pictured: An explosion engulfs the previous scene. A demon's face can be seen in its midst.]] / Umboz: It would have been a sad story even if we had won, Vezza. / Umboz: But yes, you're right. / [[Pictured: A Nome warrior fleeing for his life. A pile of his fallen comrades lies between him and approaching Gnolls.]] / Umboz: We lost.
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The Mansion of E - Friday, December 17, 2004 {{Part of the story of the Nome War, as told by Umboz to his daughter Vezza.}} / Vezza: But /how/ did we lose the war, when Gnolls are so weak and dumb? / Umboz: Yes, Vezza, we Nomes have more physical strength... / [[Pictured: A muscular Nome lifting two boulders in each hand, while a weedy-looking Gnoll struggles to lift even two small stones. In the background, there's a faint picture of scales tipping to the Nome's side.]] / Umboz: ...but there's also quickness and agility. / [[Pictured: A smarter-looking Gnoll, a Poker judging by his cane, juggling three pebbles with one hand and balancing a pile of four others by one finger of his other hand]] / Umboz: And they say the smart gnolls all live underground. / Umboz: And I believe it. / Umboz: Because the we [sic] lost the war due to /leadership/. / Umboz: Each side had a 'General', someone who runs a war like a Mayor runs a village. / Umboz: While we were stuck with Zabern... / [[Pictured: A long-bearded Nome, weighing small figurines in his hands]] / Umboz: The Gnolls had /Compline/. / [[Pictured: A menacing-looking Gnome with one ear and numerous scars.]]
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The Mansion of E - Saturday, December 18, 2004 {{Part of the story of the Nome War, as told by Umboz to his daughter Vezza.}} / Vezza: Why was Compline so special? / Umboz: Unlike Zabern, who /inherited/ his post... / [[Pictured: Young Zabern receiving the crown from a High Priest at the time of his father's death.]] / Umboz: Compline grew up rough, in the "Fringes". / Umboz: (Which is like living near the Spike here in forest...) / Umboz: Then, while still a whelp, he was in a bad accident. / [[Pictured: A rectangular object with two tentacles falling over on a young Compline.]] / Umboz: Everyone thought he was going to die, but somehow he survived. / [[Pictured: Compline, all patched up, is returned to his mother. A Healer watches in the background.]] / Umboz: Not only survived.. But went on to become very successful in all things he did. / [[Pictured: Compline, stacking glowing caltrop-like objects (glowgems). A crystal-ball-like object can be seen in the background.]] / Umboz: But then it became clear that the War was coming, and some of the other Gnolls begged him to take charge. / Umboz: He was hesitent. / [[Pictured: Compline stands at a stong railing, while another Gnoll pleads with him.]] / Umboz: It was Caytid who finally convinced him that he had to do it. / Vezza: Who's Caytid? / Umboz: Compline's mate. She was almost as remarkable as him... / [[Pictured: Caytid, a long-haired female Gnoll.]]
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The Mansion of E - Sunday, December 19, 2004 {{Part of the story of the Nome War, as told by Umboz to his daughter Vezza.}} / Umboz: Oddly, while /everyone/ knew Compline's story, Caytid kept to the shadows. / [[Pictured: Compline appears before troops, who chant his name. Caytid lurks in the background.]] / Umboz: But even we Nomes learned a few things.. / Umboz: The Biggest was.. / Umboz: I guess I need to explain about magic first. / Vezza: I know what magic is, Paw. / Umboz: But do you know that we Nomes, and the Gnolls, used to be able to /do/ magic? / [[Pictured: A Nome magician zapping a Giant Spyder.]] / Vezza: We did? / Umboz: Yes. Not just tree-warping. We could do all sorts of wonderful things. / Umboz: But then, somehow, we all lost it. It just... faded away. / [[Pictured: A Gnoll shockedly staring at a diminishing bolt of magic, as Tree-Squid tentacles close in on him.]] / Umboz: Caytid.. she could use magic. Not as well as the old Magickers could, but it worked for her. / Umboz: She was the first in a long time, and, for now, the last. / [[Pictured: Caytid telekineting a mace off the hand of a Nome warrior.]]
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The Mansion of E - Monday, December 20, 2004 {{Part of the story of the Nome War, as told by Umboz to his daughter Vezza.}} / Umboz: But while her magic was useful, it wasn't Caytid's truly vital contribution to the war... / [[Pictured: A Nome warrior brushing away Caytid's attempt to disarm him.]] / Umboz: That honor goes to her bringing the other female Gnolls into the fight... / [[Pictured: Caytid motions a finger at the Nome, and a volley of arrows hones in on him.]]
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The Mansion of E - Tuesday, December 21, 2004 {{Part of the story of the Nome War, as told by Umboz to his daughter Vezza.}} / Vezza: Girl Gnolls fought in the War? / Umboz: /You/ are not fighting in any war, Vezza, but yes... Compline, and Caytid, were better leaders than Zabern because they were innovaters [sic]. / [[Pictured: Zaberne, at a strategy-table, shooing away a Nomish inventor/promoter with a periscope]] / Vezza: Inno-what? / Umboz: That means they were willing to try new ideas and new ways of doing things. / [[Pictured: A Gnoll warrior, hiding behind a rock and using a periscope to get a view of the battlefield. Another Gnoll warrior is loading a large sling behind him.]] / Umboz: As you said, we Nomes are bigger and stronger than Gnolls, and Compline needed more troops. Neither side wanted the 'girls' fighting... / [[Pictured: A Nome warrior telling his wife to stay in the kitchen.]] / Umboz: But Caytid argued that Compline had no choice. / Umboz: So they compromised, which is another thing that a good leader knows when to do. / Umboz: And they trained the girl Gnolls to be archers. / [[Pictured: Two gnolls: a male handing a bow to a grinning female.]]
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The Mansion of E - Wednesday, December 22, 2004 {{Umboz is narrating a history of the Nome War}} / [[A male Gnoll attacks while a female shoots an arrow.]] / Vezza: Why was making the Gnoll girls into archers a compromise? / Umboz: They stood behind the attacking males and shot at us Nomes over the males' heads. / [[A Gnoll jumps on a Nome from behind as a third Gnoll lays on the ground.]] / Umboz: So while it was still dangerous... unlike the male Gnolls, they weren't involved in the actual fighting. / [[Two male and one female Gnoll observe a pile of dead Nomes.]] / Umboz: When there was any actual fighting... / Vezza: Huh? / Umboz: Some of the female Gnolls proved to be very.. enthusiastic.
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The Mansion of E - Thursday, December 23, 2004 {{Part of the story of the Nome War, as told by Umboz to his daughter Vezza.}} / Umboz: But anyway. The war. / Umboz: Both sides did terrible things, that I'm just not going to talk about now. / [[Pictured: Burning Oozes, one of them already dead. A Nome warrior with a torch stands in the background.]] / Umboz: But overall... / Umboz: A series of fights decided who controlled the important.. um.. / Umboz: we'd call them "clearings" here in the forest. / [[Pictured: A Nome warrior hiding from an explosion between a boulder and an artificial tree-like structure.]] / ((This will eventually be revealed to be a large clock/fountain}} / Umboz: A few of these fights we Nomes won. / Umboz: Like the first "Battle of the Bridges" / [[Pictured: Nomes attacking & driving Gnolls away from a series of bridges.]] / Umboz: But all victories proved to be temporary... / [[Pictured: The same two bridges. Gnolls are driving the Nomes away with artillery support.]] / Umboz: And we were pushed south, and up, and up, and up...
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The Mansion of E - Friday, December 24, 2004 {{Part of the story of the Nome War, as told by Umboz to his daughter Vezza.}} / Umboz: And so, finally, except for a handful that was given refuge by other species.. / [[Pictured: a female Motihaul sneaking a Nome mother and her child to safety from Gnoll warriors.]] / Umboz: ... the surviving Nomes were driven from the underground. / Umboz: Fortunately, a few of us already lived here in the forest, and proved willing to help my grandfather, and the other escapees. / [[Pictured: Umboz' grandfather, pretty roughed-up, approaches a female forest Nome (his future wife).]] / Umboz: Not that Compline gave them much choice. / Umboz: Zabern was dead, and the Nomish army broken.. / [[Pictured: Compline, looking determined.]] / Umboz: But he wasn't a Gnoll to leave a job three-quarters done. / Umboz: It might have been the end of all of us, except for two things. / Umboz: First, we received more help from an unexpected source. / [[Pictured: The two Nomes from panel 2, both now wearing armor, are greeted by a Flagpale.]]
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The Mansion of E - Saturday , December 25 , 2004 [[Santa Gnoll poses next to a Christmas tree with his sack of presents and his enormous candy cane.]] / Narration: Merry Christmas from Santa Gnoll and everyone else at the Mansion of E.
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The Mansion of E - Sunday, December 26, 2004 {{Part of the story of the Nome War, as told by Umboz to his daughter Vezza.}} / Vezza: The Pales helped us? Why? / Umboz: Hard to tell sometimes why a Pale does anything. / Umboz: But it seems they were worried that the Gnolls were getting too strong. / [[Pictured: A Pale, symbolically weighing a Gnoll and Nome in either hand.]] / Umboz: Whatever their reason, they are tough fighters, and with them on our side the war stalemated, and mighta dragged on for /weeks/. / [[Pictured: An entrenched battlefield, with Gnolls on one side, and Nomes and Pales on the other. A few projectiles are half-hartedly exchanged.]] / Umboz: But then, there was the second thing I mentioned. / [[Pictured: A Gnoll and a Nome warrior, getting ready to brawl]] / [[...the scene starts dimming...]] / Vezza: Paw? What happened? / [[The scene is pitch black now, save for the eye whites of the two warriors.]] / Umboz: The Sneeches happened.
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The Mansion of E - Monday, December 27, 2004 {{Part of the story of the Nome War, as told by Umboz to his daughter Vezza.}} / Vezza: Sneeches? What did *they* do? / Umboz: They came out of their dens. / Vezza: But everyone says Sneeches never *ever* come out- / [[Pictured: Nothing but black.]] / Umboz: Like Caytid's magic, it was the first and last time. / [[The picture starts to zoom out, to reveal two black ellipses on a white background.]] / Vezza: But what did they DO? / [[By now now see that the picture is of the skull of a Nome stripped white of all flesh; unlike humans, Nome ears have some bones in them.]] / Umboz: I don't know. That was one thing your great-grandpa would never talk about. / Umboz: But whatever it was.. Remeber how I said Gnolls are people? / Vezza: Yes.. / [[The picture zooms out even further, to show the skull surrounded by white, teeth-like appendages.]] / Umboz: Well, so are Pales, and Saurs, and.. maybe even T-Squids... / {{And so are Giant Spyders, but they're seen as too utterly alien by the Nomes to be considered as such.}} / Umboz: Sneeches... Sneeches aren't people.
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The Mansion of E - Tuesday, December 28, 2004 {{Part of the story of the Nome War, as told by Umboz to his daughter Vezza.}} / Vezza: But Paw.. if you don't know what the Sneeches did.. what happened to everyone else? / [[Pictured: Umboz has picked up a stick]] / Umboz: It's easier to show you... / Umboz: Say this is the underground, [[he draws an oval]] with the Great Chasm dividing it into two unequal parts. / Umboz: All the old paths to the forest were and are up here [[in the middle of the smaller part]], and that's where the fighting had moved. / Umboz: And the sneech colony was here, more or less. [[At the far end of the smaller part.]] / Umboz: When they came out, whyever they came... / Umboz: They did this. [[He draws a large arrow thru the smaller side of the underground.]] Right into the front lines of the war. / Umboz: And so... People on both sides fled. Wherever they could / [[Pictured: A mixed group of Nome and Gnoll warriors retreat, looking scared]]
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The Mansion of E - Wednesday, December 29, 2004 [[A very worried Gnoll talks to a Trog, a Helipath and a Gobule.]] / Umboz, narrating: Bad news like Sneeches travels fast. / [[A Nome adds a boulder to a pile.]] / Umboz, narrating: All they could do here in the forest was plug up the tunnels with boulders. / [[A bridge over the Great Chasm. Small sparks are visible]] / Umboz, narrating: But down underground.. they could and did take more drastic action. / [[The bridge blows up.]] / Vezza, narrating: Drastic? / Umboz, narrating: They destroyed the bridges which crossed the Great Chasm.
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The Mansion of E - Thursday, December 30, 2004 {{Part of the story of the Nome War, as told by Umboz to his daughter Vezza.}} / Vezza: What's so /drastic/ about cutting down a bridge? / [[Pictured: A small ropebridge between two trees. A Nome hangs out on one of them.]] / Umboz: These weren't like the treebridges we weave, Vezza. / Umboz: Grandpaw said they were huge, and made all out of stone. / [[Pictured: One of the Earls of past (Ludwig) supervizing the installment of the final piece of a bridge.]] / [[Close-up on Ludwig. He is envisioned as being demonic.]] / {{Which is at best a wild exaggeration.}} / Umboz: Made by *humans.* / Vezza: Humans? But humans aren't.. / Umboz: Aren't real? They at least /were/. And I think they still /are/.
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The Mansion of E - Friday, December 31, 2004 {{Part of the story of the Nome War, as told by Umboz to his daughter Vezza.}} / Umboz: But we're getting off the subject again. The bridges were all destroyed... / [[Pictured: A Gnoll archer, sitting on what formerly constituted the base of a bridge.]] / Vezza: Paw? What's wrong? / Umboz: Just a point I'm not real clear on, Sweetie. / Umboz: I say all the bridges were gone, but now, today, there is /one/ bridge across the Great Chasm. / [[Pictured: The bridge. A lone Pale is approaching with trade goods. At the bridge's base, an Ichyoid and a Gnoll seated in a fortified "desk" await next to large torches. There are two bowls with something growing in them in front of the two.]] / Umboz: The Pales use it sometimes, when they want to trade down underground. / Umboz: I've never seen it, and don't know if the undergrounders risked leaving an old one standing, or somehow built a new one later on... / Umboz: Either way, the Sneeches never came across the Chasm. / Umboz: Or into the forest. / Umboz: And so the war was over. / [[Pictured: Umboz's grandfather casts aside his helm and accepts a pointy hat.]] / Umboz: But to this day, no one dares live on the Sneech side of the Chasm. / Umboz: And the forest and the underground have been almost totally cut off from each other. / [[Pictured: A panel divided in half with a black crack, with a cavern on one and forest on the other side.]]
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The Mansion of E - Saturday , January 1 , 2005 [[A portrait of Rosemary being heroic and Sylvester cowering, by Will Ritter of the Keenspace/ComicGenesis webcomic Thatguy.]]
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The Mansion of E - Sunday, January 2, 2005 {{Part of the story of the Nome War, as told by Umboz to his daughter Vezza.}} / Vezza: But if the Sneeches live between us and this Chasm thingy now, how do the pales get down to trade? / [[Pictured: Another panel divided by a black crack. On the left is a Motihaul holding a glowgem; on the right, a Pale holding a plant.]] / Umboz: The Sneeches DO something on their side of the Chasm, but they still LIVE just in their old original colony. Or that's how it seems, anyway. / Umboz: The Pales unplug one of the tunnels, and try to sneak thru the smallest, tightest spaces they can find... / [[Pictured: A Pale doing just this, pushing a pot of exotic plants along]] / Umboz: Sometimes it works, and they come back with glowgems, and other.. goodies.. from the underground. / [[Pictured: A Pale, carrying a glowgem and a sack, arrives to two others, who are visibly bappy.]] / Umboz: And sometimes... / Vezza: It doesn't work? / Umboz: Yes. / [[Pictured: Two Pales wait in the night, looking as hopeless as you can without any facial features.]]
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The Mansion of E - Monday, January 3, 2005 Umboz: But anyway. All of that brings us *finally* to your original question. / Vezza: My original question. / [[She thinks about this.]] / Vezza: Oh right. Why's the Mayor Mayor when he's a big pootyhead? / Umboz: A very good question.
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The Mansion of E - Tuesday , January 4 , 2005 [[Umboz details the Nome War to Vezza; outlines throughout. Compline examines one of Zabern's models. Zabern's crown lies on the nearby table.]] / Umboz: Zabern was killed when the Gnolls overran his headquarters. / [[Gizgum being crowned in a very ad-hoc ceremony in the forest.]] / Umboz: His brother, Gizgum, escaped to the forest and was made the Nomes new leader. / [[Gizgum tosses away his crown, even as he gives orders.]] / Umboz: Luckily, he was smarter than Zabern, or more scared. He made a lot of changes. / [[Gizgum talking to a Pale.]] / Umboz: He married the daughter of the forest Nomes' old chief, and worked closely with the Pales. Even learned some of their lingo. / {{Note that Pales don't actually speak; Umboz probably doesn't exactly understand what was involved here.}} / [[Tinsot wearing a horned crown, yelling at a Pale who is stalking away.]] / Umboz: But maybe he was a better *leader* than a *father*.. because when his son Tinsot later inherited the post of Mayor, he took after his long-dead uncle / [[Koyeeb being crowned by a very nervous priest.]] / Umboz: And then Tinsot died.. unexpectedly.. and *his* son Koyeeb was waiting..
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The Mansion of E - Wednesday, January 5, 2005 Vezza: So, the Mayor is Mayor only cuz Zabern was his.. / Umboz: Greatuncle. Yes. / Vezza: That's.. that's stoopid! / Umboz: Yes. It is. / Vezza, angry: But.. why doesn?t everyone else see that? / Umboz: Heh. That?s the big problem with being squid-coaxers like we are. / Vezza: Huh? / [[Outline of Umboz sitting alone in forest, getting idea.]] / Umboz: Everyone else, even Uncle Frotz, keeps too busy. We wait out there in the forest all day. Gives a Nome waaay too much time to think about things.
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The Mansion of E - Thursday , January 6 , 2005 [[Umboz and Vezza the Nomes hide and talk in the forest of E.]] / Vezza: So.. is that why the Mayor wanted you to attack the Gnolls? Cuz you think too much? / Umboz: It must be. I didn't do anything. I just *talked*. I didn't think anyone / was even listening... / [[Outline of the Killer Tree crashing to earth.]] / Umboz: Sweetie.. you probably already figured this out, but I didn't kill that tree. And I don't know who did, or how. But the message that lured me there, and that mob, turning up out of nowhere... / [[Outline of Mayor Koyeeb lurking in his guarded tree.]] / Umboz: And the Mayor! In person! He never leaves his home-tree! They must've been planning this for *days*. / [[Umboz touches Vezza's head.]] / Umboz: I'm so sorry, Vezza. / Vezza: For what? / Umboz: For everything. / Umboz: I didn't see how bad things must really be, if the Mayor is this scared. I should have kept my mouth shut. / [[Outline of his wife's grave.]] / Umboz: I should have given you a real hometree. I should have re-married after your Ma died.
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