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| The Mansion of E - Tuesday , November 28 , 2006 | [[In the former basement of the Eetown World O' Pots.]]
/ Rufus: What do you mean, you don't like the cloakring?
/ Mortimer: I dunno. I just don't. And why are you worried about magic snooping anyway? Magic doesn't work anymore. / [[The Woman of Mystery and the Operator zapping a bit of magic at each other. She looks angry or suspicious, he grins.]]
/ Rufus: Yes it does, Mortimer.
/ Rufus: While the 'Nodes all blew up in the Crash, and the Leylines are all "dead", there are still trickles coming up. The Mansion still operates. Robots still work. And ..people.. with enough skill are still magicians. http://mansionofe.comicgenesis.com/d/20061128.html |
| The Mansion of E - Wednesday , November 29 , 2006 | [[An outline of the Woman of Mystery's hand hovering over her "scrystone."]]
/ Mortimer: You think you're being watched by The Operator, or..
/ Rufus: Our beloved great-aunt? She does possess a functioning scrystone, so it's certainly /possible/...
/ Rufus: ..but no, they are not the ones I'm worried about. / [[An outline of Rufus having tea with the WoM.]]
/ Mortimer: You've gone snooping in her /things/?
/ Rufus: /You're/ the expert lockpick, Mortimer. I've just /talked/ to her. It can be nerve-wracking, but when she's in the mood, she's as good an infosource as Sylvester.
/ Rufus: Zark. What am I saying? She's even /better/. http://mansionofe.comicgenesis.com/d/20061129.html |
| The Mansion of E - Thursday , November 30 , 2006 | [[In the former basement of the Eetown World O' Pots. At the cloakring.]]
/ Mortimer: But then who /do/ you think is watching y-
/ Rufus, walkng away: Not until we're well inside the 'ring. / [[Mortimer stares after him.]] / [[The cloakring.]] / [[Mortimer sticks his hand into its field of influence.]] / [[He waves his hand.]] / [[He's crossed over the perimeter and is inside, carrying his sack of fleebs.]]
/ Mortimer, thinking: still don't like it. http://mansionofe.comicgenesis.com/d/20061130.html |
| The Mansion of E - Friday , December 1 , 2006 | [[In the basement of the former Eetown World O' Pots.]]
/ Rufus: Anyway. If you're wondering why I'm wearing these gloves..
/ Mortimer: Well, actually, I- / [[Rufus looks down a corridor crowded with a variety of objects. Among them, two large candle-shape tapers, connected at the tip. A spool of wire or cable. A cabinet labelled CALIGARI 2000. A box labelled JONES/LURY Co. Dehydrated Tribbles 50 gross. A larger box whose label is mostly obscured: TANGERINE TREES MARMALADE. An object resembling a Gelatinous Cube from Dungeons and Dragons. In the distance is something resembling an oversized snowglobe.]]
/ Rufus: Before the Crash, the WoP people took that slogan of theirs, "Everything you need", /very/ seriously.
/ Rufus: Don't touch /anything/. http://mansionofe.comicgenesis.com/d/20061201.html |
| The Mansion of E - Saturday , December 2 , 2006 | [[In the former basement of the Eetown World O' Pots.]]
/ Mortimer: I learned my lesson about touching; I had to crawl through that stupid storeroom to get in here.
/ Rufus: Really. / [[A collection of fist-sized globes sitting on a nearby box.]]
/ Rufus: Wow! Look, Mortimer! Highly collectable Zoinkglobes! / [[Mortimer looks where Rufus is pointing.]] / Mortimer: Just cuz you and Sylvester are smarter than me doesn't mean I'm a /total/ idiot.
/ Rufus: I'm actually beginning to think you may be right. http://mansionofe.comicgenesis.com/d/20061202.html |
| The Mansion of E - Sunday , December 3 , 2006 | [[A depiction of the daguerreotype which Rosemary carries with her: a picture taken at her second birthday has her being held by her Aunt Eva. Rosemary has her foot in her mouth. Eva poses with a pitchfork in her other hand. They both wear party hats. In the background is a fence and an apple tree.]]
/ {{A tribute to the real-life passing of the woman who was the inspiration for Aunt Eva's name.}} http://mansionofe.comicgenesis.com/d/20061203.html |
| The Mansion of E - Monday , December 4 , 2006 | [[In the former basement of the Eetown World O' Pots. Mortimer and Rufus walk along a corridor lined with various strange objects: a multiarmed machine, a box that radiates blackness, labelled UMBRAHOUSE BRAND/ ONE (1) BOX OF BLACKNESS/ GRUETOWN WIRTVALE YL, and last a large arch with a downward-pointing "antenna" which creates a gap in the comic, revealing the blue which normally frames each panel. The arch is labelled C&A GAPOMATIC]]
/ ((The last is a reference to the webcomic Casey and Andy.}}
/ Rufus: Before the Crash, many of these items were loaded on airships and shot across the ocean to the colonies on the Far Eastern Shore.
/ Rufus: Why they needed them over there, I can't begin to say.
/ Rufus: Mind the gap. http://mansionofe.comicgenesis.com/d/20061204.html |
| The Mansion of E - Tuesday , December 5 , 2006 | [[In the basement of the former Eetown World O' Pots. Mortimer and Rufus are walking along a corridor. Lined up against the wall are various items. One is a large complicated-looking machine, labeled HULADYNE which has a squash-like "puddling" clamped into it.]]
/ Mortimer: Why is that Wubblepudding there?
/ Rufus: I'll tell you later.
/ {{A reference to the film Buckaroo Banzai}} http://mansionofe.comicgenesis.com/d/20061205.html |
| The Mansion of E - Wednesday , December 6 , 2006 | [[In the former basement of the Eetown World o' Pots, Mortimer and Rufus walk past a large pile of emergency rations, packaged by the "Eternia" company. The flavors include soylent gray, cram, waybread, fliuff, doombee, leftovers. mustgoes, dinojibjib, sasquatch, gargleblaster, lima beans, victory fluff, and choc. frog. The lima bean package has been ripped open.]]
/ Mortimer: Ooh! I know, no touching, but still, /lima beans!/
/ Rufus: You can't touch them because they're /mine./ / {{"Doombees" were at the time a running gag on the Comic Genesis user-forums.}} http://mansionofe.comicgenesis.com/d/20061206.html |
| The Mansion of E - Thursday , December 7 , 2006 | [[In the former basement of the Eetown World O' Pots. Mortimer and Rufus walk past a large crate which leaks ominous fumes and is labelled "1001 really bad ideas".]]
/ Mortimer: Don't most folks already have a lifetime supply of those?
/ Rufus: Well, come December, Sylvester will be looking for a Brushtival gift for Lenore.. http://mansionofe.comicgenesis.com/d/20061207.html |
| The Mansion of E - Friday, December 8, 2006 | [[In the basement of the destroyed World O' Pots]]
/ Rufus: Now -this- I can explain, because I had Shopbot install it here by my door. Just in case. / [[A large shot of a set "demon trap", which strongly resembles a large glass wine bottle.]]
/ Rufus, from off-panel: It's a MerrinCorp "Imp-Class" Demontrap. State of the art, the day the Crash hit.
/ Rufus: The Operator could eat it for lunch, probably literally, but for more.. minor.. nuisances, it works a treat.
/ Rufus: Or at least, all the old accounts say. http://mansionofe.comicgenesis.com/d/20061208.html |
| The Mansion of E - Friday, December 8, 2006 | [[In the basement of the destroyed World O' Pots]]
/ Rufus: Now -this- I can explain, because I had Shopbot install it here by my door. Just in case. / [[A large shot of a set "demon trap", which strongly resembles a large glass wine bottle.]]
/ Rufus, from off-panel: It's a MerrinCorp "Imp-Class" Demontrap. State of the art, the day the Crash hit.
/ Rufus: The Operator could eat it for lunch, probably literally, but for more.. minor.. nuisances, it works a treat.
/ Rufus: Or at least, all the old accounts say. http://mansionofe.comicgenesis.com/d/20061208.html |
| The Mansion of E - Saturday , December 9 , 2006 | [[In the former basement of the Eetown World O' Pots.]]
/ Rufus: What's wrong now?
/ Mortimer: Well.. to start with, how does that thing fit in here? It's too tall! / [[A close-up of the "cork" on the Demon Trap.]]
/ Rufus: Oh, yes. I had to install a ceiling extender.
/ Mortimer: Ceiling.. OK, Rufus, now I /know/ you're making fun of me. / [[An outline of an empty Human hand, extended.]]
/ Rufus: No. Really! The Hammerspace people made them.
/ Mortimer: Who?
/ Rufus: The Hammerspace Company. Down in Wirtwam. You know.. / [[The hand is now holding a hammer.]]
/ Rufus: They made those magic "Poke-Kits". Gave travellers extra-dimensional storage space.
/ Rufus: Wish I could have found one of those down here.. http://mansionofe.comicgenesis.com/d/20061209.html |
| The Mansion of E - Sunday, December 10, 2006 | [[Sundays in SubShaft 44f...]]
/ Cully: Something's coming.
/ < http://mansionofe.comicgenesis.com/d/20061210.html |
| The Mansion of E - Monday , December 11 , 2006 | [[In the former basement of the Eetown World O' Pots.]]
/ Mortimer: Oh, right! Poke-kits! Frowgler gave one to Roshambo once, to transport the Eye of Argon through the Yellow Fingers!
/ Rufus: Who to what where? / [[An outline of the in-universe comic-strip character Roshambo the Warrior Beetle, posing heroically on a cliff with a shield and a glowing sword.
/ Mortimer: Roshambo the Warrior Beetle! The greatest comic strip ever! ... You know. In the Times.
/ Rufus: Oh. Right. / {{Yellow Fingers is a reference to an old-timey joke about an advertising slogan, from back in the days when people owned phone books. Get off my lawn.}} / [[An outline of the 'fictional' version of Frowgler the Horned Frog, wearing a stereotypical wizard hat.]]
/ Mortimer: Roshambo battles the evil Arax's army of Troopers, while Frowgler's a magic demon-frog. Even though he has his own mysterious agenda, he helps-
/ Rufus: Thank you, Mortimer. I now know everything about Roshambo that
/ I will ever need. http://mansionofe.comicgenesis.com/d/20061211.html |
| The Mansion of E - Tuesday , December 12 , 2006 | [[In the former basement of the Eetown World O' Pots.]]
/ Rufus: Anyway. You said "to start with". What else is wrong?
/ Mortimer: OK. That "demon-trap" is the silliest thing I've ever seen! And.. And this is /me/ saying that! / [[Close-up of the glowing bait in the demon-trap.]]
/ Rufus: Yes. Well. It was just a sidenote, but I read about this in Lobcock's book.
/ Mortimer: Book?
/ Rufus: 'The Thricklefork Demon Massacre.' Maybe not as well known as Roshambo, but it sold quite a few copies in its day. / [[Outline of a wizard displaying a drawing of a demon-trap prototype.]]
/ Rufus: When the MerrinCorp wizards designed the thing, they somehow determined that the most effective shape was a bulb with a tapered stem. / [[Outline of a marketing-type displaying a drawing a wine bottle.]]
/ Rufus: And.. the trap fills with a fluid rather like Brushwine when it is sprung..
/ Rufus: ..and the company marketing department inevitably got involved.. http://mansionofe.comicgenesis.com/d/20061212.html |
| The Mansion of E - Wednesday , December 13 , 2006 | [[In the former basemet of the Eetown World O' Pots.]]
/ Mortimer: All right. Maybe the trap works, despite how it looks. But...
/ Rufus: Yes? / Mortimer: You really think this... person watching you is some *other* demon? Not the Operator..
/ Rufus: That's the problem. I just don't know. / [[Rufus touches the trap's fluid-tank.]]
/ Rufus: And I also don't know this thing will work. It started right up when I turned it on, but it's been rotting down in this wretched place for *fifty years*. But as I said.. just in case. I'm *trying* to be prepared for anything. / Rufus: Any other questions?
/ Mortimer: . . . Where's Thricklefork?
/ Rufus: Florin Province. The demons were summoned by an idiot at the Royal Academy of Magic. http://mansionofe.comicgenesis.com/d/20061213.html |
| The Mansion of E - Thursday , December 14 , 2006 | [[In the former basement of the Eetown World O' Pots. Mortimer and Rufus stand before a closed door which has the word SUPERVISOR above it. To one side is a demon-trap. To the other, a large device sporting a mechanical fist at the end of a long lever. It is labelled BIGBY 423-A. Wires run from this into a lock-panel beside the door.]]
/ {{Bigby is a reference to hand-themed magic spells used in Dungeons & Dragons.}}
/ Rufus: So. Here we are. Home not-so-sweet home.
/ Mortimer: um..
/ Rufus: Don't worry. That works fine, /and/ I only turn it on when I go to sleep. http://mansionofe.comicgenesis.com/d/20061214.html |
| The Mansion of E - Friday , December 15 , 2006 | [[In the former basement of the Eetown World O' Pots, at the front door to Rufus's quarters.]]
/ Mortimer, pointing: Um.. Rufus, I may not know about demontraps, but I do know those Bigby /fist/-traps, and-
/ Rufus, walking out of sight: No, really, it's fine. / Mortimer: It's /not!/ The ones in the Mansion all have those faulty hair-triggers, and they always- / < http://mansionofe.comicgenesis.com/d/20061215.html |
| The Mansion of E - Saturday , December 16 , 2006 | [[The front door to Rufus's hideout, seen from inside. Rufus and Mortimer are on the other side, and their voices can be heard. An egg-like object sits on stand. A sketch of a robot can just be seen tacked to the wall.]]
/ Rufus: Give me a hand here, would you...
/ Mortimer: Um.. OK.. / Mortimer, probably: Oof.
/ Rufus: OK, right..
/ Mortimer, probably: Urg,
/ Rufus: There. I think- / < http://mansionofe.comicgenesis.com/d/20061216.html |
| The Mansion of E - Sunday , December 17 , 2006 | [[The door of Rufus's hideout, as seen from inside.]]
/ Rufus, beyond door: OK, fine. /Enough/ of this.
/ << THUMP BANG BEEP>> / [[The door slides open. Rufus is standing, Mortimer peering around the edge.]]
/ < http://mansionofe.comicgenesis.com/d/20061217.html |
| The Mansion of E - Monday , December 18 , 2006 | [[Inside Rufus's hideout.]]
/ Rufus: Before we start, there's a water closet over there, if you want to use it.
/ Mortimer: Water.. Do you mean a bathroom? / [[An open door, leading into darkness. A Human hand is just visible inside, but neither of them notice it.]] / [[The hand is gone. A flutterby flies out of the door.]]
/ Rufus: No. No, it's definitely a water /closet/. http://mansionofe.comicgenesis.com/d/20061218.html |
| The Mansion of E - Tuesday , December 19 , 2006 | [[Inside Rufus's hideout.]]
/ Mortimer: I don't need a bathroom, Rufus. Please just give me the message for Sylvester.
/ Rufus: There's a shower. Of sorts. Uses rainwater. / [[Pinned to the wall behind Rufus is a sketch of Hector the robot's head.]]
/ Mortimer: A shower?
/ Rufus: Mortimer, you smell like.. what /is/ that you smell like? / Mortimer: Oh, let's see. Spyderwebs. Pitdirt. Sphagnum dust. Fifty-year-old Sploo. And.. / Mortimer: No, wait. I was going to say yummysticks, but looks like the Sploo has eaten them.
/ [[Rufus facepalms.]]
/ Rufus: Sphagnum dust?! Oh, Mortimer.. http://mansionofe.comicgenesis.com/d/20061219.html |
| The Mansion of E - Wednesday , December 20 , 2006 | [[Inside Rufus's quarters in the basement of the former World O Pots.]]
/ Rufus: You're right. Let's get on with this. ..As I said before, unlike some people, I pay attention.
/ Mortimer: Huh? / [[An outline of a hooded figure pushing a wheeled cart under a starry sky; sitting on the cart are two boxes labeled MOE WINE and LUGNUTS.]]
/ Rufus: /And so./ in the last year or so, I noticed strange covert comings and goings from the Mansion. Deliveries arriving in the dead of night. Things being /carted away/ in the dead of night. http://mansionofe.comicgenesis.com/d/20061220.html |
| The Mansion of E - Thursday , December 21 , 2006 | [[An outline of a stylized Basement, with various species represented: Helipath, Gnoll, Motihaul, Ghast.]]
/ Mortimer: You think someone in the /basement/ is-
/ Rufus: No, Mortimer. The basement is cut off from all this.
/ Rufus: In fact, it's noticible [sic] how completely cut off it is.. / [[Outline of the Humans who live in the Mansion.]]
/ Mortimer: But then-
/ Rufus: And no, it's not Uncle Frederick, or either of the Grubbs, or Schmedley, or Arthur- / [[Outline of the Weirdo peering at the stylized Basement of above.]]
/ Mortimer: "Arthur?"
/ Rufus: The Weirdo. That's his real name. It is true he's been snooping around a lot.
/ Rufus: ..I wish I could trust him enough to compare notes with him.. http://mansionofe.comicgenesis.com/d/20061221.html |
| The Mansion of E - Friday , December 22 , 2006 | [[Rufus's quarters in the former World O' Pots basement.]]
/ Rufus: So. After many months of snooping, this is what I have learned, and what you need to tell Sylvester: living somewhere high up in the Mansion, *not* the Basement, is a man named "Mr. Hand." / [[Behind Rufus, Eunice stealthily emerges from the water closet, holding a glowing object in her hand.]]
/ Mortimer: "Hand"? But tha-
/ Rufus: But indeed. I say "man", *but*.. I don't know what he is. Human. Demon. Something else entirely. http://mansionofe.comicgenesis.com/d/20061222.html |
| The Mansion of E - Saturday , December 23 , 2006 | [[Inside Rufus's hideout.]]
/ Mortimer: What does "Mr. Hand" look like, that you can't tell if he's human?
/ Rufus: I haven't actually seen him. Yet. / [[Outline of Rufus leaning out of a hatch, examining clothes piled in a bin.]]
/ Mortimer: But then how-
/ Rufus: I've managed to hear his voice. See some of the clothes he wears. He's.. humanish. / [[Outline of the Operator being sealed in the Elevator by a hand extending into the frame.]]
/ Rufus: On the other hand, the evidence also strongly suggests he was the
/ wizard who sealed the Operator inside the Elevator.
/ Mortimer: But that was.. 70 years ago! And the stories say that wizard was /old./ / [[A closeup of the sketch of Hector the robot which is tacked to the wall.]]
/ Rufus: Closer to 80 years. So yeah.
/ Rufus: And he's got a functioning robot. A genuine Ettin-built bipedal robot, not a Factor E-knockoff Shopbot or Guardinator.
/ Rufus: It (him?) I've actually seen. http://mansionofe.comicgenesis.com/d/20061223.html |
| The Mansion of E - Sunday , December 24 , 2006 | [[Inside Rufus's hideout.]]
/ Mortimer: But what is Mr. Hand /doing?/
/ Rufus: I th-
/ Eunice: All right. That's enough. / [[Mortimer gets blasted with electricity from off panel.]]
/ < http://mansionofe.comicgenesis.com/d/20061224.html |
| The Mansion of E - Monday , December 25 , 2006 | [[Secret Santa art from Andrey Pissantchev of the web-comic Annihilicious, depicting a very dedicated Santa climbing down a chimney inside the Mansion.]] http://mansionofe.comicgenesis.com/d/20061225.html |
| The Mansion of E - Tuesday , December 26 , 2006 | [[Inside Rufus's hideout.]]
/ Eunice: His hearing all that was counterproductive.
/ Rufus: /You killed my brother!/
/ Eunice: He'll be fine in a couple of hours. / [[Mortimer lying on the ground.]]
/ Eunice: . . .
/ Eunice: ...apart from a headache. And still being Mortimer. / Rufus: All these years. You've been working for him all along.
/ Eunice: Who? Mr. Hand? I know it's hard, Rufus, you being a man, /and/ a member of your particular family..
/ Eunice: ..but try not to be too stupid. / Eunice: I work for someone /far/ more important. Just like the Stouts, and Threnody, and everybody else down in the village.
/ Eunice: /Just like you./ http://mansionofe.comicgenesis.com/d/20061226.html |
| The Mansion of E - Wednesday , December 27 , 2006 | [[Inside Rufus's hideout.]]
/ Rufus: I don't work for anyone. And Mr. Hand is-
/ Eunice: /Forget Hand!/ He is a senile old fool, and his day is nearly done. / Rufus: Get out.
/ Eunice: I want nothing more than to get out of this putrid hole. But you /are/ coming with me. / Rufus: /Get out./
/ Eunice: Because our.. /boss/ is waiting. And he has what you most crave.
/ Rufus: . . . which is?
/ Eunice: Answers. / Eunice: Answers about Mr. Hand, if you absolutely insist. Answers about nearly
/ everything. / Eunice: We'll haul Mortimer as far as the surface. But then.. Rufus of E, It's time to go meet God. http://mansionofe.comicgenesis.com/d/20061227.html |
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