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The Mansion of E - Tuesday , September 25 , 2007 [[Crossing Time Hall.]] / Rosemary: So.. / Sylvester: Yes? / Rosemary: "The scariest lady you've ever met"? / Hax, subvocally: Brilliant plan, going to Izchak. She's /much/ less dangerous now. / Camora, subvocally: Everyone with sense knows that he sells worthless / phizz. Someone /planted/ that thing there,...
The Mansion of E - Wednesday , September 26 , 2007 [[Crossing Time Hall.]] / Rosemary: But? / Sylvester: Even if you slowly chop me apart with the Can Opener, you'll always be #2 on the Scary List. / Rosemary: Because? / [[An outline of the Woman of Mystery being extra-specially scary to a young Sylvester.]] / Sylvester: You weren't around when I was a...
The Mansion of E - Thursday , September 27 , 2007 [[Leaving Time Hall.]] / Rosemary: Sylvester.. the Scary Lady? She i- / Sylvester: Just a second. / Sylvester: Camora! Where exactly are we going? / Camora and Hax: [Arguing subvocally] / [[They walk through an open archway. Above them, a Gnoll and a Troglodyte have a dramatic confrontation, while a Jibjib...
The Mansion of E - Friday , September 28 , 2007 [[Walking a Basement corridor.]] / Sylvester: Sorry. What was it you wanted to ask? / Rosemary: The Scary Lady.. she's not your mother, is she? Because you said she wasn't- / Sylvester: What? Oh. No. No no. She's.. / Sylvester: . . . / Sylvester: Not biologically. But, you know, she was always there. And...
The Mansion of E - Saturday , September 29 , 2007 [[An outline of Sylvester and Mortimer as children, eating at a long table with their sisters Lilith and Lenore also present.]] / Rosemary: So your parents were.. neglectful? / Sylvester: Depends on your definition of that word, I suppose. / Sylvester: They loved us. We had clothes on our back and food...
 
The Mansion of E - Sunday , September 30 , 2007 Narration: Sundays in SubShaft 44f / [[The zapping fork is turning off, and the Shaft is going dark. Cully and Chunner are lying on the floor.]] / Fork: sss / [[One last flicker of light.] / Fork: ss / [[Darkness.]] / Cully: sigh / Cully: "The hard part"? / Chunner: Waiting here in the dark.
The Mansion of E - Monday , October 1 , 2007 [[Outline of a young, scraggly-looking, Rosemary eating dinner with her Aunt Eva.]] / Sylvester: So how about you, Rosemary? / Rosemary: Huh? Oh. I had food in my stomach and clothes.. well, when I wanted to, I had clothes on my back.. / [[Outline of an older Rosemary and Eva messing around with locks.]] / Rosemary:...
The Mansion of E - Tuesday , October 2 , 2007 [[In the Basement. An outline of a young Rosemary wielding a toy sword and "confronting" Zeke, who attempts to "pacify" her.]] / Rosemary: And of course, on those rare occasions when Aunt Eva wasn't around, there was still Zeke.. / Sylvester: "Zake"? / Rosemary: He was her bodyguard, before she retired... / [[The...
The Mansion of E - Wednesday , October 3 , 2007 [[A corridor in the Basement.]] / Rosemary: The Gibber? / Sylvester: New one on me. / Camora: There. / [[Anathama the Gnoll stands to one side of a crudely-bricked-over entrance in the wall. One small square hole remains in the middle of the patch. The word GIBBER is written in Manglish above.]] / Sylvester,...
The Mansion of E - Thursday , October 4 , 2007 [[An outline/map depicting a cross-section of a portion of the Basement.]] / Sylvester: And behind the wall is..? / Camora: It was originally just an addition to Helignoll Hall. Helinew, I guess they called it. / Sylvester: Helignoll? / Camora: Gnolls and Helipaths live there mostly. /I/ live there, for...
 
The Mansion of E - Friday , October 5 , 2007 [[Near the Gibber.]] / Sylvester: What's this Breach you keep talking about? / Camora: grump. Altholen grew up hearing all those stupid old Finagler-stories about Magic.. / [[Outlines of Kaytid the Gnoll and Othar the Motihaul.]] / Camora: How "everyone could do it", not just one-offs like... Caytid and.....
The Mansion of E - Saturday , October 6 , 2007 [[Near The Gibber.]] / Sylvester: Wait.. by Sneech 'squeezings', I assume you mean.. material.. stolen out of a Sneech's den? Not literally- / Camora: All I know is it's phizz that comes from the zarking Sneeches. / [[Outline of Altholen the Gnoll setting up his equipment at the River of Fire.]] / Sylvester:...
The Mansion of E - Sunday , October 7 , 2007 Narration: Sundays In SubShaft 44f / [[The Shaft has gone completely dark. Cully and Chunner's voices come from the floor.]] / Cully:So.. sir, what did hitting that knob do, actually? / Chunner: Well, kid, it makes an alarm sound over in SubShaft 42c. / <> / Chunner: And then they, hopefully,...
The Mansion of E - Monday , October 8 , 2007 [[Near the Gibber.]] / Camora: You have a contribution, Anathama? / Anathama: "Your sires". Yes, Poor old Twitchel ment well, as finaglers usually do.. / Anathama: But Buccula and Choller? All they "contributed" to sealing the Breach was finally getting out of the way and letting Yurd and the rest of.....
The Mansion of E - Tuesday , October 9 , 2007 [[Near the Gibber.]] / Sylvester: So. Anathema, was it? I'm Sylvester, and that's Rosemary. We're forest Nomes. / Sylvester: Camora here, whom you appear to have already met, was kind / enough to agree to be our guide while we visit the bas.. you all. / Anathama: Yes. / [[An outline of a young Anathama...
 
The Mansion of E - Wednesday , October 10 , 2007 [[Near the Gibber.]] / Sylvester: So.. anyway. Can you two at least agree on /when/ exactly this Breach / happened? / Camora: It was seven years ago. / Anathama: Almost exactly. / [[Outline of Sylvester at his desk, watching in surprise as bits of fruit explode off the local branch of the Tree.]] / Sylvester:...
The Mansion of E - Thursday , October 11 , 2007 [[In the Basement, outside the Gibber's home. The graffiti on the wall is a list of local attractions, with pointing arrows. Sylvester listens to all this without contributing.]] / Camora: What did the Breach do up- / Rosemary: As fascinating as this is.. you /did/ just tell us to be quiet, Camora. Why? / Anathama...
The Mansion of E - Friday , October 12 , 2007 [[The Gibber's voice speaks from the hole in the patched-up wall.]] / Gibber: Come closer... / [[Rosemary and Sylvester watch nervously.]] / Gibber: No no no. / Gibber: Closer.. / [[The Gibber is a collection of sketchy faces floating in the darkness of the hole.]] / Gibber: That's better.. / Gibber: Our...
The Mansion of E - Saturday , October 13 , 2007 [[At the hole through which the Gibber speaks to passersby.]] / Rosemary: You know, I've just about had my fill of talking to demons. / Gibber: We are not demons. No no no. / Gibber: Demons come from far far away. / [[Outline of Edgar.]] / [[Outline of the Operator.]] / [[Basement map, with the Gibber...
The Mansion of E - Sunday , October 14 , 2007 Narration: A Milestone in SubsShaft 44f. / [[The shaft is black.]] / <> / [[The shaft is illuminated by a pair of antler-like devices which have dropped and shoot magic/electricity between their inward-turned points. Cully and Chunner peer up from below.]] / <> / [[The...
 
The Mansion of E - Monday, October 15, 2007 [[Sylvester and Rosemary look at the Gibber.]] / Sylvester: "The Gibber" is just a name. If you are not a demon, then what are you? / The Gibber: We are unique. We are contained. We are many. We are true-tellers. / [[The Gibber speaks from its hole in the wall.]] / Sylvester: .. none of which, respectfully,...
The Mansion of E - Tuesday, October 16, 2007 Rosemary: That's all you do? Tell the truth? / The Gibber: Yes yes yes. / Rosemary: Why is that so awful? / The Gibber: Lies sooth. The truth can cut even more sharply than your Can Opener. / Anathema: Indeed. You should have seen Camora here when they told her she was going to mate with Comshaw. / Camora:...
The Mansion of E - Wednesday , October 17 , 2007 [[Rosemary, Sylvester and CamoraHax are talking to "the Gibber" through a hole in the wall. Anathama the Gnoll is contributing to the conversation as well.]] / Anathama: Of course, I wasn't thrilled either. Comshaw should have mated with my grandwhelp. / Camora: But he didn't. And now your precious grandwhelp...
The Mansion of E - Thursday , October 18 , 2007 [[Looking into the Gibber's hole.]] / Rosemary, probably: If your knowing our names is supposed to impress us.. / The Gibber: We do not impress intentionally. / The Gibber: We do not threaten or warn or advise. We tell the truth. / [[Outline of Sylvester standing in front of the Mansion, holding a small...
The Mansion of E - Friday , October 19 , 2007 [[Sylvester at the Gibber's hole.]] / Sylvester: Fine. You know things. / [[The Gibber looks out.]] / Sylvester: Tell us your truth and we'll be on our zarking way. / The Gibber: Yes. / The Gibber: Yes. / The Gibber: Yes. / [[Rosemary listens.]] / The Gibber: Rosemary Ripley / The Gibber: What you stole is...
 
The Mansion of E - Saturday , October 20 , 2007 [[Anathama, Rosemary and Sylvester outside the Gibber.]] / Sylvester: So. That it? We done here? / [[The Gibber's viewing-hole is dark and silent.]] / [[Sylvester turns to go. Camora follows him.]] / Sylvester: Fine. Anathema, it's been real. / Anathama: Indeed. / Sylvester: Rosemary, Camora, we're leaving. / Rosemary:...
The Mansion of E - Sunday , October 21 , 2007 [[A version of Rosemary's confrontation with Edgar, as drawn by ComicGenesis cartoonist Jim North. Chauncy watches with interest, while Sylvester glares up from the floor., where Rosemary pushed him.]] / Narration: The Mansion of E / Narration: Rosemary vs. Edgar.
The Mansion of E - Monday , October 22 , 2007 [[Outside The Gibber. Rosemary looks back at Anathama the Gnoll.]] / Rosemary: You /are/ aware that the word "Anathema" means- / Anathama: As any member of the Spelling Guild will tell you, not when the E is replaced with a fourth A. / Rosemary: . . . / [[Rosemary turns to go.]] / Rosemary: Of course....
The Mansion of E - Tuesday , October 23 , 2007 [[Anathama the Gnoll stands alone in the corridor outside the Gibber.]] / Anathama: So. / Anathama: Do I stay here on duty, or do I go find Digger and tell him the zarking humans are back? / The Gibber: Anathama.. / Anathama: . . . / Anathama: I didn't expect you to actually /answer/ me. / The Gibber:...
The Mansion of E - Wednesday , October 24 , 2007 [[At the Gibber's viewing hole.]] / Anathama the Gnoll: You told me all my truths years ago. / The Gibber: Yes yes yes. / The Gibber: This is not your truth. / The Gibber: It is our truth. / Anathama: Your truth? But you /never/ start by- / The Gibber: Before we were never dying. / [[Anathama stares.]] / The...
 

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