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The Mansion of E - Friday , November 13 , 2009 [[Outline of a Shibolithian desertscape, with a Human and Pale waving at each other.]] / Rosemary: But we get along with the Pales in Shibolith. / Sylvester: We do now. / [[Outline of a Human town near a much-larger Pale Fort.]] / Sylvester: Back then.. who knows. Details are hazy. / Sylvester: In the end,...
The Mansion of E - Saturday , November 14 , 2009 [[Outline of Sylvester's mother dealing with a Human shopkeeper, while his sister Lilith carries a large pile of packages.]] / Rosemary: I don't understand. / Sylvester: Language.. Human language at least.. isn't fixed. It shifts over time and distance. / Sylvester: Mom wrote from Agrada, she and Lil could...
The Mansion of E - Sunday , November 15 , 2009 Narration: Sundays In SubShaft 44f / [[Spheres are falling from above. These are larger than previously, colored white, and <> off the three large "boulders" that have landed. The impact leaves a ring on the boulders. Cully watches all of this, while Chunner and Crud are lying on the floor.]] / [[Larger...
The Mansion of E - Monday , November 16 , 2009 [[Leaving the River of Fire.]] / Sylvester: But of course, as fascinating as this all is, it's not immediately relevant. / Rosemary: What, we don't have any Haroons living around here? / Sylvester: . . . / Rosemary: Oh come on! I was /joking!/ / Sylvester: Relax. We don't have any real Haroons around. But...
The Mansion of E - Tuesday , November 17 , 2009 [[Outline of Sylvester giving instructions to Ilsa and the Woman of Mystery; the latter woman is wearing a maid's outfit.]] / Rosemary: If her mother was a Haroon, of course this Ilsa's gonna be "strange"! / Sylvester: No. / Sylvester: Very much unlike a Haroon, she was composed and efficient. But she was...
 
The Mansion of E - Wednesday , November 18 , 2009 [[Climbing away from the River of Fire, towards the Great Chasm.]] / Rosemary: So, are there any other of your old servants still lurking about? / Sylvester: None worth mentioning. Well, except Schmedley. The butler. But you met him when Mortimer brought you here. / [[Outlne of Mortimer and Rosemary...
The Mansion of E - Thursday , November 19 , 2009 [[Climbing away from the River of Fire.]] / Rosemary: So.. your family used to have lots of servants? / Sylvester: urg. It's one of the reasons we lost all our money. *Paying* all these idiots to... / [[Outline of string-measurer instructing his son.]] / Sylvester: We had.. there was a *hereditary position*...
The Mansion of E - Friday , November 20 , 2009 [[Leaving the River of Fire.]] / Rosemary: But still. When you get rich again, you're going hire back the string-measurers, aren't you? / Sylvester: No. That's ancient history, and getting moldier and more decrepit by the day. / Rosemary: Fine. Just a new housekeeper, then. And a cook. And some Shovellers...
The Mansion of E - Saturday , November 21 , 2009 [[On the stairs between the River of Fire and the Great Chasm.]] / Sylvester: Rosemary.. no offense.. but.. what do you know about making large amounts of money? / Rosemary: Not a thing! But, again, Sylvester, look at this.. /treasure box/ you're living in! / [[A view of the tunnel they are climbing,...
The Mansion of E - Sunday , November 22 , 2009 Narration: Sundays In SubShaft 44f / [[Multicolored spheres rain down from above. Cully holds onto his hat as the three purple "boulders" which dropped previously all make loud and worrying noises.]] / Cully: AAAIIEE! / <> / [[More spheres rain down. Cully cracks an eye. The tops of the...
 
The Mansion of E - Monday , November 23 , 2009 [[An outline of a city-scene: a man dealing with a female sparkwire operator in her booth, as young boy hawks newspapers or something similar.]] / Sylvester: Job? Well, maybe, but if I could just go to Glome.. the Provincial capital? I could get copies of the Times eight times faster. And ditto the Sparklines...
The Mansion of E - Tuesday , November 24 , 2009 [[Climbing away from the River of Fire.]] / Rosemary: ..You think there are secret messages hidden in the Times. / Sylvester: Literal codes? No. Although, now that you mention it, I wouldn't be surprised if that had happened at some point. / Sylvester: Lesson #1: Pretty much everything printed in the...
The Mansion of E - Wednesday , November 25 , 2009 [[Outline of a spear-carrying soldier guarding a portrait of a smiling man with a large Y on his chest.]] / Sylvester: ... I may have to back up a step here. Do you know who is currently king of our fair country? / Rosemary: ?..Yancy. Yancy the 2nd. Did he die or something? I've been.. I'm not really...
The Mansion of E - Thursday , November 26 , 2009 [[Rosemary and Sylvester climb up away from the River of Fire.]] / Sylvester: Anyway- / Rosemary: You're /really/ an Earl? I mean, officially and everything? / Sylvester: My name is Listed in the Tome. Your point? / Rosemary: It's just.. you're in line to become King? / [[An outline of "King Sylvester"...
The Mansion of E - Friday , November 27 , 2009 [[Outline of Rosemary and Sylvester looking up at a solid block.]] / Sylvester: I can't become "Head Bureaucrat", because there is no such thing. / Sylvester: To hicks like us out in the sticks, The Bureaucracy may appear as a.. solid menacing.. I don't know.. / Rosemary: Glacier? / Sylvester: You've heard...
 
The Mansion of E - Saturday , November 28 , 2009 [[Climbing stairs between the River of Fire and the Great Chasm.]] / Sylvester: Which brings us back to the Times. / Sylvester: The factions all constantly push their various agendas in the paper, each using its favorite pet reporter. / Sylvester: As a reader, the trick is learn these connections. / [[Map...
The Mansion of E - Sunday , November 29 , 2009 Narration: Sundays in SubShaft 44f / [[Cully and Chunner look up at the pod-tops which are now protecting them. Falling objects <> off of the covers.]] / <> / [[The Gnolls looks some more. The <> grow more frequent.]] / [[And more frequent still.]] / Cully: Are those things.....
The Mansion of E - Sunday , November 29 , 2009 Narration: Sundays in SubShaft 44f / [[Cully and Chunner look up at the pod-tops which are now protecting them. Falling objects <> off of the covers.]] / <> / [[The Gnolls looks some more. The <> grow more frequent.]] / [[And more frequent still.]] / Cully: Are those things.....
The Mansion of E - Monday , November 30 , 2009 [[Outline of Baldy on Caravan duty, with a couple of spear-carriers lurking behind a rise.]] / Rosemary: Problems. You're talking about the Western bandit attacks. And the Erewhonians. / Sylvester: Yup. Another Times rule: when all the Official Sources say something's not that bad.. it's probably pretty...
The Mansion of E - Tuesday , December 1 , 2009 [[Climbing stairs towards the Great Chasm.]] / Sylvester: But anyway. We're again getting away from matters of more immediate concern. / Rosemary: Right. / [[They climb some more.]] / Sylvester: . . . / Rosemary: . . . / Sylvester: The big Outfits.. Telemon, FizzCo, Ficklegruber.. they influence the Times,...
The Mansion of E - Wednesday , December 2 , 2009 [[Leaving the River of Fire. All the panels are outlines. This is a map of the countries just to the south of "Mansionland".]] / Sylvester: Ah, Blefuscu. What do you already know about them? / Rosemary: Not much. Um. I can find it on a map. Which is why I asked. / Rosemary: We trade with them a lot. The...
 
The Mansion of E - Thursday , December 3 , 2009 [[Climbing stairs towards the River of Fire. The spinning light overhead breaks up.]] / Sylvester: And when I say everybody.. Short version, if things go really wrong, everyone north of /Zandu/ could get dragged in. / Sylvester: Except the Niblungians, of course. They're too busy fighting /each other/...
The Mansion of E - Friday , December 4 , 2009 [[Climbing stairs towards the Great Chasm.]] / Sylvester: Coming to a landing. Watch your step. / Rosemary: I do have a more immediate question. Not about landings. / Sylvester: Yes? / Rosemary: You were saying before.. we actually have rooms down here that.. look like every.. climate? in the World? / [[Collection...
The Mansion of E - Saturday , December 5 , 2009 [[Climbing away from the River of Fire.]] / Rosemary: You don't sound too broken up about the Mansion not having any Wendigoes. / Sylvester: Of course I'm not. / Sylvester: Everything I've ever read about them, unless you count those Willy books, says they're vicious little buggers. / Sylvester: Or maybe...
The Mansion of E - Sunday , December 6 , 2009 Narration: Sundays In SubShaft 44f / [[The pod-tops stand above the Gnolls, protecting them from the objects which continually <> off. Crud peeks out from his pod.]] / Cully: Have you had these before? / Chunner: No, Kid. This is something new. / Crud: For us. I'm fairly sure these are what Cunskite...
The Mansion of E - Monday , December 7 , 2009 [[Climbing the stairs away from the River of Fire. A large sign reads WARNING LIGHTS GOING OUT.]] / Rosemary: So, you wanna have kids some day? / Sylvester: I do not intend to be the one who ends my family's line of sucession after 23 generations. / Rosemary: . . . / Rosemary: That's.. not really a "yes",...
 
The Mansion of E - Tuesday , December 8 , 2009 [[Approaching the Great Chasm.]] / Sylvester: What about you? You want to have children? / Rosemary: if.. when.. the right hetguy and the right place come along, sure. But right now.. I chew my stiflebloom each month. / [[Outline showing one small and one large stiflebloom bush.]] / Rosemary: ...You do...
The Mansion of E - Wednesday , December 9 , 2009 [[Climbing away from the River of Fire.]] / Rosemary: You actually witnessed, first-hand, stiflebloom not working? / Sylvester: Look, Rosemary, I don't know how it is Out West, but here.. a lot of women don't like men even /talking/ about this. / Sylvester: ..and I have to choose my battles carefully....
The Mansion of E - Thursday , December 10 , 2009 [[Climbing towards the Great Chasm.]] / Rosemary: ..not that it matters, really... / Sylvester: Hmm? / Rosemary: I.. sorta tend to scare men off. / Sylvester: /Nno!/ / Sylvester: What about ol' Baldy back there? He looked like he had hair on his chest. Metaphorically. / [[Outline of a day on the Caravan,...
The Mansion of E - Friday , December 11 , 2009 [[Climbing the stairway up from the River of Fire, approaching the Great Chasm.]] / Sylvester: Getting close to the exit. Any more unrelated questions? / Rosemary: ..Helipaths. You said something about "where they came from"? / [[Outline of a Panegate showing a purple-tinged world beyond; a tree-like...
The Mansion of E - Saturday , December 12 , 2009 [[A map of the Known World, the Specific Ocean, and a sketchy portion of the Far Eastern Shore.]] / Rosemary: So, you?re saying that Helipaths normally hang out down in the Deep / Jungles, or.. or in the Far East or something? / Sylvester: Maybe. Who knows what?s beyond the Far Eastern Shore? We had just...
 

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