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| The Mansion of E - Wednesday , January 23 , 2008 | [[Sylvester, Rosemary and CamoraHax pass by the door of Skibble's place.]]
/ Camora, thinking: maybe.. just maybe.. if I'm lucky..
/ Hax, thinking: Maybe what? / [[The spy-panel in the door slides open, and Cerbis the Gnol's eyes peer out.]]
/ < http://mansionofe.comicgenesis.com/d/20080123.html |
| The Mansion of E - Thursday , January 24 , 2008 | [[Outside Skibble's place. Cerbis the Gnoll is behind the door, looking through a slit.]]
/ Camora: We don't want anything, Cerbis.
/ Cerbis: Don't gimme that. Nobody comes over here 'less they want something. / [[Rosemary and Sylvester observe.]]
/ Camora: *Fine*. I *want* to show these two forest Nomes that aurilnode.
/ Sylvester: Then we're going to go see the Great Riddler. / [[Cerbis holds forth a coin-shaped object with a string tied around it; Camora eyes it suspiciously.]]
/ Cerbis: Oh ho! So you're wanting *this*! http://mansionofe.comicgenesis.com/d/20080124.html |
| The Mansion of E - Friday , January 25 , 2008 | [[Outside Skibble's place. Camora eyes the coin-like object Cerbis the Gnoll is displaying.]]
/ Camora: And what's that supposed to be?
/ Cerbis: Never talked to the Great Riddler, eh?
/ Cerbis: The Summoner ain't gonna work 'less you put /this/ in it. / Rosemary: Why does it have a string tied around it?
/ Cerbis: So you can pull it back outa the Summoner. / [[Sylvester half-smiles.]]
/ Cerbis: Ain't like we have a whole bucketfull [sic] of these things lyin' around. http://mansionofe.comicgenesis.com/d/20080125.html |
| The Mansion of E - Saturday , January 26 , 2008 | [[Outside Skibble's place. Cerbis the Gnoll looks through the door's spy-slot.]]
/ Sylvester: I assume that there's a /metaphorical/ string attached to this offer as well?
/ Cerbis: eh?
/ Sylvester: You want something in return for our use of the token. / Cerbis: Oh. Course. You'd owe Skibble a /favor./
/ Sylvester: Right. Thank you, but for now at least we'll pass. Good day.
/ Cerbis: Suit yourself. I'm easy. / [[Sylvester moves on.]]
/ Sylvester: Now, about this aurilnode..
/ Camora: "Easy"? Since /when?/
/ Cerbis: Heh. "String attached'. Hafta remember that one. http://mansionofe.comicgenesis.com/d/20080126.html |
| The Mansion of E - Sunday , January 27 , 2008 | Narration: Sunday Near SubShaft 44f
/ [[Cully finds himself facing two female Gnolls, Dandilli, who is near his age, and Dipsoma, who is older. Water drips from a tube into a tub, and a branch of the Tree grows in the background.]]
/ Cully: What do you want?
/ Dandilli: Well now, Slick, I think you know the answer to- / [[A small prong drops into view from above.]]
/ < http://mansionofe.comicgenesis.com/d/20080127.html |
| The Mansion of E - Monday , January 28 , 2008 | [[At the Aurilnode outside Skibble's place.]]
/ Camora: How these work-
/ Sylvester: No, actually, let me guess. / [[A closeup of the Aurilnode's control panel.]]
/ Sylvester: Each of these things has a.. name or code or something.. ah, yes. I see it there.
/ Sylvester: And you enter that code with these buttons... knobs.. whatever.. / [[Closeup of the 'Nodes earpiece sitting on its holder.]]
/ Sylvester: The target 'node makes a noise..
/ Sylvester: ..and you talk and listen to the person who answers using these things...?
/ Camora: . . .
/ Camora: ..right. http://mansionofe.comicgenesis.com/d/20080128.html |
| The Mansion of E - Tuesday , January 29 , 2008 | [[Outside Skibble's place.]]
/ Rosemary: How did you know all that?
/ Sylvester: sigh. Rosemary, up top, before the Crash, we didn't just have Sparkwires. We had aurilnodes. / [[An outline of Sylvester's unmanned desk.]]
/ Sylvester: Or the same idea. They were made out of metal, and called 'telephones'.
/ Sylvester: There's one still sitting on the e- my desk. Just doesn't work anymore.
/ Camora: Before the /what/? http://mansionofe.comicgenesis.com/d/20080129.html |
| The Mansion of E - Wednesday , January 30 , 2008 | [[Outside Skibble's Place.]]
/ Sylvester: "Before the Crash." You said something earlier, stories about everybody
/ using magic?
/ Camora: Yyyes? / [[Outline of a tower on a hill poking its tips into a wide rainbow-ribbon of magic, and beaming out waves from its side.]]
/ Sylvester: They're based on truth. Magic used to flow through the world in torrents, not the Trickles we have today.
/ Sylvester: And those torrents, those 'Waylines', could be tapped. / [[Outline of a witch blasting a non-witch who is repelling the attack with a small hand-held "shield".]]
/ Sylvester: Not everybody could directly use the resulting power..
/ Sylvester: But many could, and there were tools for the rest.. http://mansionofe.comicgenesis.com/d/20080130.html |
| The Mansion of E - Thursday , January 31 , 2008 | [[Outline of a magic rebroadcasting station being destroyed in the Crash.]]
/ Camora: Even supposing I believe /any/ of this, what does it have to do with-
/ Sylvester: One day.. without warning.. a huge extra blast of magic ..well. Crashed.. through the system. Through the world. / [[Outline of a non-Witch, holding up her damaged hand where her magical device blew up, and looking at the remains of a witch on the ground.]]
/ Sylvester: Most of those magic-powered tools, they died, or blew up. Or both. And the real magic-users.. most of them did the same. / Sylvester: And afterwards.. the Laylines collapsed down to almost nothing.
/ Sylvester: Almost. There's still /some/ magic here and there. Robots. A few tools.
/ Sylvester: The River of Fire. http://mansionofe.comicgenesis.com/d/20080131.html |
| The Mansion of E - Friday , February 1 , 2008 | [[Near Skibble's place.]]
/ Camora: What /about/ the River of Fire?
/ Sylvester: Eh? Oh. Let me put it this way. To both of you. / Sylvester: This Altholen fellow. He was a Gnoll, like you?
/ Camora: Biologically? Yes.
/ Sylvester: Whatever his mental status... in broadest terms, what he was evidently attempting.. wasn't crazy. / Rosemary: Then why did you say you were so worried about that story?
/ Sylvester: There is no way he could have failed so /spectacularly/ without.. help.
/ Sylvester: And now these aurilnodes.. that just makes it all worse. http://mansionofe.comicgenesis.com/d/20080201.html |
| The Mansion of E - Saturday , February 2 , 2008 | [[Outside Skibble's place. Rosemary points at the GBOL overhead.]]
/ Rosemary: Why are aurilwhatzits any worse than those GBOL things?
/ Sylvester: GBOLs are simply bioluminescents feeding off a nutrient source provided by the Tree. Yes, setting the system up was /clever/.. / [[Sylvester indicates the nearby aurilnode.]]
/ Sylvester: But this! Taking sound, changing it into electricity or Brush-knows-what, passing it through vines..
/ Sylvester: It's a whole higher /order/ of creation! / Sylvester: It's something that you'd only find in a /Sneech den/.
/ Camora: Sneech?! Auril wasn't a /Sneech/! He got the statue and everything! http://mansionofe.comicgenesis.com/d/20080202.html |
| The Mansion of E - Sunday , February 3 , 2008 | Narration: Sundays In SubShaft 44f.
/ [[The Shaft is black. Only Chunner and Crud's eyes can be seen.]] / < http://mansionofe.comicgenesis.com/d/20080203.html |
| The Mansion of E - Monday , February 4 , 2008 | [[In the Basement, outside Skibble's Place. Rosemary listens to the conversation.]]
/ Sylvester: So Auril's dead?
/ Camora: Yes. He died right around when I was born.
/ Sylvester: Was he another Gnoll?
/ Camora: No, a Helipath.
/ Sylvester: Did he have any contact with Sneeches?
/ Camora: Of course he never visited the Sneeches! / Sylvester: Not "visit". You claim Altholen used Sneech "squeezings".How about Auril?
/ Camora: Absolutely not! Auril was brilliant! And /sane!/
/ Sylvester: Uh /huh/. / [[An outline of Sylvester at the University, watching as a bearded professor tosses something into a large smoking pot hanging over a fire.]]
/ Camora: What's that supposed to mean?
/ Sylvester: It's been my experience that the more brilliance you pour in, the less and less room there is for conventional "sanity". http://mansionofe.comicgenesis.com/d/20080204.html |
| The Mansion of E - Tuesday , February 5 , 2008 | [[Outside Skibble's place.]]
/ Rosemary: Smart people are crazy? You're sorta punching yourself in the face there.
/ Sylvester: No. Or, yes, I am highly intelligent. But what we speak here of here is /genius/. / [[Outline of Rufus getting splashed after he pries open some kind of pipe-cover.]]
/ Sylvester: My youngest brother Rufus, he flirts with it. And he flirts every day with the danger of.. well, getting punched in the face.
/ Sylvester: Both by the people around him, and by reality as a whole.. http://mansionofe.comicgenesis.com/d/20080205.html |
| The Mansion of E - Wednesday , February 6 , 2008 | [[Outside Skibble's place.]]
/ Sylvester: My point is.. both of you. Who do /you/ know, whom you'd say is the smartest, the most talented and... visionary?
/ Camora: . . . Telic, I guess.
/ Rosemary: Edwird. / Sylvester: OK. And, total honesty here, would you call this person "normal"?
/ Rosemary: In the winter, he'd take a hatchet out to the pond and go "ice swimming" to "improve his circulation."
/ Camora: He operates on himself. / Sylvester: So. Auril was a genius. And at some point in creating those nodes, he used material or knowledge from Sneeches.
/ Sylvester: Which makes me want to get out of here all the more. We're off to see the Riddler.
/ Camora, thinking: ''Get out of here''? http://mansionofe.comicgenesis.com/d/20080206.html |
| The Mansion of E - Thursday , February 7 , 2008 | [[Rosemary, Sylvester and CamoraHax are leaving the Gibber and headed towards the Riddle Grotto. Camora start to speak to Rosemary.]]
/ Camora: --!
/ Hax, thinking: WAIT! / [[The rest of this conversation is conducted mentally.]]
/ Camora: /What?/
/ Hax: You're going to ask what he meant by "get out of here".
/ Camora: Of course I am! If all this time they've just been trying to get back to the /forest../ / Camora: ..I can take them to the Council's fratzing tunnel and be done with it!
/ Hax: You need to consider this very carefully... http://mansionofe.comicgenesis.com/d/20080207.html |
| The Mansion of E - Friday , February 8 , 2008 | [[Heading towards the Riddle Grotto. Following Sylvester and Rosemary, Camora and Hax talk subvocally.]]
/ Hax: Even if these two do just want to leave the Basement, and don't know about the forest tunnel..
/ Camora: I don't-
/ Hax: You've seen how dangerous they are. Do you want to give them an easy way to get back down here? / [[An outline of CamoraHax looking at a stylized vision of what lies ahead.]]
/ Hax: And if they are trying to get past the Riddle Grotto, what's beyond it? Danger upon danger.
/ Hax: Which is what we were aiming for when we entered into this partnership, yes? / Hax: And you're curious. You've never seen the "Great Riddler", and you might never get another relatively safe chance.
/ Camora: ... Fine. I don't know why I'm listening to you, but we'll wait. For a while. http://mansionofe.comicgenesis.com/d/20080208.html |
| The Mansion of E - Saturday , February 9 , 2008 | [[Heading for the Riddle Grotto.]]
/ Rosemary: So.. how many "littermates" /do/ you have? You, Mortimer, "Lenore", "Rufus"...
/ Sylvester: At last count there are six of us.
/ Rosemary: - - - / Sylvester: No need to ask about /you/. You're an only child if I ever met one.
/ Rosemary: My folks got pregnant with me on their honeymoon. They died
/ when I was six months old. / [[Outline of a young Rosemary and her Aunt Eva visiting her parents' grave markers. Rosemary is more interested in a flutterby.]]
/ Sylvester: ..I'm sorry.
/ Rosemary: shrug. I wish I could have met them. But I didn't, and I had a /great/ time growing up with Aunt Eva and Zeke.
/ Rosemary: What I really envy.. someone like you.. is those five brothers and sisters.. http://mansionofe.comicgenesis.com/d/20080209.html |
| The Mansion of E - Sunday , February 10 , 2008 | Narration: Sundays in SubShaft 44f
/ [[Clive the Boogieman has appeared in the Shaft, joining Chunner and Crud; they and the entire shaft are stained purple.]]
/ Chunner: Crud, this is not a new guy. This is Clive. You've met him before. / Chunner: Several times. / Chunner: He in fact comes here every 4.2 days.
/ Crud: Welcome to SubShaft 44f!
/ [[Clive waves.]] http://mansionofe.comicgenesis.com/d/20080210.html |
| The Mansion of E - Monday , February 11 , 2008 | [[In the Basement, leaving Skibble's Place.]]
/ Rosemary: And I suppose /you'd/ prefer to be an only child?
/ Sylvester: What? Zark no! Growing up here alone? That would have been awful! / [[An outline of a young Lenore and Sylvester eying each other in the family classroom.]]
/ Rosemary: Even with Lenore the money-grubbing weasel?
/ Sylvester: Even Lenore. Challenge. Motivation. She offered far better training for the University than our poor old tutor did. / Sylvester: And even beyond that... you might never be in a position to truly understand this..
/ Sylvester: I don't like Lenore, and I will only trust her in all the wrong ways.
/ Sylvester: But she is my sister, and I love her. http://mansionofe.comicgenesis.com/d/20080211.html |
| The Mansion of E - Tuesday , February 12 , 2008 | [[En route to the Riddle Grotto.]]
/ Rosemary:You love your evil sister, and hate things about your not-evil brothers?
/ Sylvester: I said you wouldn't understand. / [[Rosemary looks back at Camora.]]
/ Rosemary: Do /you/ understand that?
/ Camora: No. My littermate is a worthless phizzer whose sole redeeming characteristic is that I never ever see him anymore. http://mansionofe.comicgenesis.com/d/20080212.html |
| The Mansion of E - Wednesday , February 13 , 2008 | [[En route to the Riddle Grotto.]]
/ Rosemary: So..
/ Rosemary: What's the story with this Skibble person anyway?
/ Camora: Where to begin? / [[They and Sylvester walk out of view. Whisp the Troglodyte pokes her head into the panel from behind. Camora's voice fades away.]]
/ Camora: I guess you could say he got his real start as a gemhunter, but even before that he made a name for himself in the Games, when he won the
/ Stacking Cup off of old Jengo. Total upset, and everybody was really surprised.. http://mansionofe.comicgenesis.com/d/20080213.html |
| The Mansion of E - Thursday , February 14 , 2008 | Narration: On The Way To A Drop-Point
/ [[Sprocket and Flange walk through the Basement. Smoke float past. Fighting noises can be heard throughout.]]
/ Sprocket: Looks and sounds like we might be getting some more work the next few days...
/ Flange: Regrettably, it would appear so. / Sprocket: sniff. I smell Sina. She must be around somewhere.
/ Flange: I shall have to take your word for that. / [[Sprocket walks in silence.]] / Sprocket: . . .
/ Sprocket: I wonder if she's.. all right.
/ Flange: Again, regrettably, I cannot help you there. http://mansionofe.comicgenesis.com/d/20080214.html |
| The Mansion of E - Friday , February 15 , 2008 | [[Somewhere down in the Basement]]
/ Narration: Shona.
/ Shona, thinking: Thank the Brush. We all made it back alive, Comshaw didn't get
/ to stick his snout into things, and Mr Nevus was obviously interested in my report on the Frog-Demon and all those tall Nomes..
/ Someone off-panel: !!? / < http://mansionofe.comicgenesis.com/d/20080215.html |
| The Mansion of E - Saturday , February 16 , 2008 | Narration: Nevus
/ [[Nevus rides in Mimsy the Gnoll's hair, as Frag and Blem the Gnoll fight off attackers. Two Gobules fight in the background. Smoke floats everywhere.]]
/ Nevus: I can't help but notice, Frag, that we have not yet reached Crescent Hall,
/ much less my office..
/ Frag: Sorry sir! Workin' on it, sir! Keep yer head outta sight, sir! http://mansionofe.comicgenesis.com/d/20080216.html |
| The Mansion of E - Sunday , February 17 , 2008 | Narration: Sundays In SubShaft 44f.
/ [[Clive the Boogieman has joined Chunner and Crud in the shaft.]]
/ Chunner: So, Clive, what is it this time?
/ Crud: Oh dear.. I sense something.. it's as if some sinister outside contagion is altering the standard nature of reality!
/ {{Created when the strip-creator was sick, and so cut short from the usual three-panels-on-Sunday format.}} http://mansionofe.comicgenesis.com/d/20080217.html |
| The Mansion of E - Monday , February 18 , 2008 | [[Somewhere in the Basement, near Root Hall. As she meets Agita, Flibbergib the Eyebolt rides in a sort of saddle/basket on the head of an unnamed Gobule. Behind them is a graffiti-defaced wall marked with the stenciled warning DO NOT DEFACE WALL WITH GRAFFITI.]]
/ Flibbergib: Miss Agita! Thank the Brush you're all right! ..You are..?
/ Agita: Yes, Flibbergib, I'm fine.
/ Fibbergib: Was your trip successful?
/ Agita: That would depend on your point of view. What are /you/ doing upRooted?
/ Fibbergib: Mr. Foolscap sent us out to /warn/ you! It's been awful! Fighting everywhere, and those horrible /Weirders/ in the Skritchpods are-
/ Agita: Yes yes. A memorable day, and it is not yet over. We must both Root ourselves at once. We have reports to await, implications to mull..
/ Agita: Mouths to sterilize.
/ Fibbergib: um.. all right.. http://mansionofe.comicgenesis.com/d/20080218.html |
| The Mansion of E - Tuesday , February 19 , 2008 | [[Skoil the Gnoll lies trampled in the passageway to the Forest. Giuttle and Capper the Gobules are marching down the corridor.]]
/ Skoil: uhh.. / < http://mansionofe.comicgenesis.com/d/20080219.html |
| The Mansion of E - Wednesday, February 20, 2008 | [[A still-smoldering Rhid is being chased by Kronk. On the wall behind Rhid, along with an arrow, is written in Manglish: GREAT CHASM DONT FALL IN]]
/ Rhid, thinking: desperate times.. which desperate measure? http://mansionofe.comicgenesis.com/d/20080220.html |
| The Mansion of E - Thursday , February 21 , 2008 | [[SuperRock is climbing the side of an enormous stalactite.]]
/ Narration: Deep In The Hot Zone
/ < http://mansionofe.comicgenesis.com/d/20080221.html |
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