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| The Mansion of E - Wednesday , October 14 , 2009 | [[On a landing, heading up the Great Chasm. An advertisement for Uncle Bob's place is in the background. Overhead float mysterious spiral-shaped lights.]]
/ Sylvester: But anyway. These lights. Whatever they are. Before, you had to sorta careful about- ... / [[He jerks his gaze away.]]
/ Sylvester: Whoa. Yeah. Even worse than before. / [[He turns to Rosemary, who is still staring up.]]
/ Sylvester: Rosemary! You don't want to look directly at them; they might- / [[She's off flying in the mental ozone..]]
/ Sylvester: do that.
/ Rosemary: wheee!
/ Sylvester: Well. Now we have *two* things we will never ever tell Lenore about.
/ Rosemary: neverever! / {{Lenore is Sylvester's sister. The other thing was nearly-addictive treefruit.}} http://mansionofe.comicgenesis.com/d/20091014.html |
| The Mansion of E - Thursday , October 15 , 2009 | [[Climbing away from the River of Fire. Rosemary has been entranced by overhead spiral-lights. Sylvester waves his hand in her face.]]
/ Sylvester: Rosemary! Hey!
/ Sylvester: Don't ever look at the lights in this tunnel! / [[Rosemary snaps out of it, raises the Can Opener back into position.]]
/ Rosemary: Yes. Of course.
/ Rosemary: ...What were we talking about again? / [[Sylvester turns to go.]]
/ Sylvester: Hammerspace Corporation Poke-Kits.
/ [[Rosemary holds her Poke-Kit up.]]
/ Rosemary: Ah, yes. Handy little things, aren't they?
/ Sylvester: Couldn't say. Our family had one, but it disappeared years ago. http://mansionofe.comicgenesis.com/d/20091015.html |
| The Mansion of E - Friday , October 16 , 2009 | [[Climbing between the River of Fire and the Great Chasm. Rosemary holds up her Poke Kit.]]
/ Sylvester: Always heard that Hammerspace made quality products. Poke Kits still work, even after the Crash?
/ Rosemary: Yes. Doesn't work /as well/, I guess. There's just room "inside" for.. a few small items. / Sylvester: Beats carrying a purse around. ..If you've ever used a purse.
/ Rosemary: Aunt Eva used to make me carry one when we went to- / [[The Can-Opener disappears into the Poke Kit.]]
/ Rosemary: . . .
/ Rosemary: . . .Temple. http://mansionofe.comicgenesis.com/d/20091016.html |
| The Mansion of E - Saturday , October 17 , 2009 | [[Climbing away from the River of Fire.]]
/ Rosemary: AARRRGH! / [[Sylvester turns back to her. She is holding her Poke Kit openly in her hand.]]
/ Sylvester: What? What is it?
/ Rosemary: The.. the Can-Opener fits inside the Poke-Kit! / [[Rosemary brings the Can Opener back into view.]]
/ Sylvester: ... And.. that's a problem.
/ Rosemary: Yes! There was never remotely enough room before! / Sylvester: Ah. Once again, I suspect, welcome to the Mansion of E..
/ Sylvester: Or more accurately, welcome to the local Magic-Trickle.. http://mansionofe.comicgenesis.com/d/20091017.html |
| The Mansion of E - Sunday , October 18 , 2009 | Narration: Sundays in SubShaft 44f
/ [[Chunner is near the floor. Crud is further down, out of sight.]]
/ Cully: You actually said, /sir/, that wearing helmets was now mandatory!
/ Chunner: Did I? Well, something must have distracted me after that. / [[Chunner looks down.]]
/ Cully: You were d- we were staring at you. Sir.
/ Chunner: There. You see? Made me self-conscious and I changed my mind. / [[Chunner gets up, and puts his own helmet back on, just as three more spheres drop from the ceiling; two of them < http://mansionofe.comicgenesis.com/d/20091018.html |
| The Mansion of E - Monday , October 19 , 2009 | [[Between the River of Fire and the Great Chasm. Rosemary holds up her Poke Kit.]]
/ Sylvester: Remember how we talked about trickle-points...
/ Rosemary: And I said I've been on them before. There's a huge one under the SAR. The Poke-Kit never did this! / Sylvester: Uh huh. That's a feature of this one. It tends to make magical gadgets work better.
/ Rosemary: Like the Crash never even happened? / [[Outline depicting the folk heroes mentioned below.]]
/ Sylvester: Oh no. You won't be able to carry around a whole library/arsenel like.. do they tell Readman and Billsmith stories out West?
/ Rosemary: Oh, yes. Zeke knew dozens of them. http://mansionofe.comicgenesis.com/d/20091019.html |
| The Mansion of E - Tuesday , October 20 , 2009 | [[In the Basement, climbing away from the River of Fire. Rosemary is displaying her Hammerspace Poke-Kit]]
/ Sylvester: The Poke-Kit should continue to function better as long as you stay near the Mansion.
/ Rosemary: Define "near".
/ Sylvester: You'll be able to go as far as the village. Beyond that..
/ Rosemary: I'm not risking it. What if it.. swallows.. the Can-Opener. / [[Outline of the fictional characters Readman and Billsmith standing on a tropical beach, surrounded by the books and other objects which have come spilling out of their Poke-Kits.]]
/ Sylvester: Didn't Zeke ever tell you Readman and Billsmith Go To Aruba? Poke-Kits spit stuff out if they enter a low-magic area.
/ Rosemary: I'm not trusting my luck to an old story-
/ Sylvester: It's also in the PK instruction book. Which we /didn't/ lose. Another item for your reading list?
/ Rosemary: ... Yes. OK. http://mansionofe.comicgenesis.com/d/20091020.html |
| The Mansion of E - Wednesday , October 21 , 2009 | [[Climbing away from the River of Fire.]]
/ Rosemary: So.. the Mansion is right on top of the Magic-Trickle?
/ Sylvester: As far as you or I are concerned, yes.
/ Rosemary: As opposed to.. who?
/ Sylvester: Relevant Authories [sic] have claimed that the actual center is closer to the Spike. / [[Outline of the Mansion with the Spike in the background. On one of the Mansion's towers, a vision of a siege-pot blooms.]]
/ Rosemary: ..The same Spike in the forest that Spatchcock was going on about?
/ Sylvester: Yes. It's-
/ Rosemary: I think I saw it this morning, from the tower.
/ Sylvester: Oh. Right. Sorry I didn't point it out. Someone impulsively distracted me.
/ Rosemary: That was rude. Point them out, and I'll punch 'em for you. http://mansionofe.comicgenesis.com/d/20091021.html |
| The Mansion of E - Thursday , October 22 , 2009 | [[Between the River of Fire and the Great Chasm.]]
/ Rosemary: So which of the Earls of E built the Spike? It was you, wasn't it?
/ Sylvester: None of them. Us. Like the Mansion, it was here when we arrived. / Rosemary: So you don't know who built it?
/ Sylvester: What do you mean, of course we.. Oh. Right. You're from Out West. You might not-
/ Rosemary: WHO? / [[Outline of an Ettin magically floating a slab of building material into place.]]
/ Sylvester: It was the Ettins, Rosemary.
/ Sylvester: That script of theirs is plastered all over it.
/ Sylvester: And it's made from those interlocking slabs of "durasteel" they used on everything.. http://mansionofe.comicgenesis.com/d/20091022.html |
| The Mansion of E - Friday , October 23 , 2009 | [[On the stairs between the River of Fire and the Great Chasm. A large sign on the wall warns of stairs and entrancing lights.]]
/ Rosemary: What does my being a Westerner have to do with anything?
/ Sylvester: Just, there aren't any Ettin artifacts out there. ..Right? / [[Map of what is now a western portion of "Mansionland", marked with dots. A skull and crossbones indicates the Infernal Engine.]]
/ Rosemary: Well.. right. I guess.
/ Sylvester: That's because it was mostly Sneech territory.
/ Sylvester: They had colonies all along.. under.. the Ridgebacks and the Enginetails / [[Outline of southern part of the country, now divided into Human provinces and labeled.]]
/ Rosemary: Sneeches!? The Sneeches are all down in Wirtvale!
/ Sylvester: That's where the the /survivors/ now live, yes. http://mansionofe.comicgenesis.com/d/20091023.html |
| The Mansion of E - Saturday , October 24 , 2009 | [[Climbing away from the River of Fire.]]
/ Rosemary: The Sneeches are "survivors"? Survivors of what?
/ Sylvester: mm. If a disinterested observer arrived from, oh, the Moon-
/ Rosemary: Are you being hypothetical here, or are there actually people living- / [[Outline of an Ettin rocketship blasting off towards the Moon.]]
/ Sylvester: Someone back in WorldDawn built all those Rings and Squares and Sankofites up there. And later on the Ettins sent at least one "void-ship" to investigate them.
/ Sylvester: But yes. If a hypothetical visitor asked you what happened in the end to the Ettins.. what would you tell hir? / [[Outline of the launching facility being destroyed at some later date.]]
/ Rosemary: They all died. In a war or something.
/ Sylvester: um hum. A war with the Sneeches. http://mansionofe.comicgenesis.com/d/20091024.html |
| The Mansion of E - Sunday , October 25 , 2009 | Narration: Sundays In SubShaft 44f.
/ [[With a < http://mansionofe.comicgenesis.com/d/20091025.html |
| The Mansion of E - Monday , October 26 , 2009 | [[Climbing between the River of Fire and the Great Chasm.]]
/ Rosemary: Why.. why I have never heard about this before?
/ Sylvester: I subscribe to the theory that people.. Humans at least.. simply don't like to think about it. / [[Outline of a jet flying across the sky, with the moon and night sky overhead. The sea is below, and under that, a submarine approaches a collection of organic-looking towers.]]
/ Sylvester: Like I said, the Ettins went to the Moon.
/ Sylvester: They built airships that somehow flew without using liftgas.
/ Sylvester: Submerger-boats that could carry ambassadors to the Ichyoids. / [[Outline of a collection of species looking a large jagged cavern mouth.]]
/ Sylvester: And now.. we.. and the Motihauls and the Gobules and all the rest.. share a world with the creatures that destroyed them. http://mansionofe.comicgenesis.com/d/20091026.html |
| The Mansion of E - Tuesday , October 27 , 2009 | [[Climbing away from the River of Fire.]]
/ Rosemary: I knew Sneeches were dangerous, but.. if they are so all-powerful then why do they skulk around in-
/ Sylvester: I never said it was /easy/. / [[Outline of mountains being hit with some sort of massive vibrations.]]
/ Sylvester: The reason, probably, you never heard about all those Ridgeback Sneech colonies is that they're mostly /gone/. / [[Outline of a scene of general destruction.]]
/ Sylvester: The evidence is, the Sneeches came within a hairsbreath of being rendered extinct along with their enemy. As bad as The Crash. maybe worse.
/ Rosemary: Leaving the survivors skulking around in caves in Wirtvale?
/ Sylvester: Broadly, yes. http://mansionofe.comicgenesis.com/d/20091027.html |
| The Mansion of E - Wednesday , October 28 , 2009 | [[Under the spinning lights, Rosemary and Sylvester climb stairs between the River of Fire and the Great Chasm.]]
/ Sylvester: . . .
/ Rosemary: . . . / Rosemary: So, basically, we're about to go annoy an entire colony of grumpy bitter xenophobes who could kill not just us, but everyone in the entire country?
/ Sylvester: No no. Just the entire province. I imagine Aunt Eva and Zeke are safe.
/ Rosemary: Oh. OK Then! http://mansionofe.comicgenesis.com/d/20091028.html |
| The Mansion of E - Thursday , October 29 , 2009 | [[Rosemary and Sylvester leave the River of Fire, discussing Sneeches. An outline of a Human harvesting a growth from a Sneech-den, with an observer (also Human) taking notes]]
/ Sylvester: I should say.. we're not walking into a certain death trap here. Down in Wirtvale, there's a whole industry...
/ Rosemary: Filching goodies from Sneech dens. I know. Hack N' Slash talked about it, because people hire them to.. ahem..
/ Sylvester: Hack and Slash.
/ Rosemary: And Edwird had a copy of Minkeybeen's book. Um. Sylvester Minkeybeen. Following The Sneechmen, if he wrote more than one. / [[Outline of Minkeybeen and another Human getting into serious trouble in a Sneechden.]]
/ Sylvester: Nope. Just the one!
/ Rosemary: But, as I think we discussed this morning, there are different types of Sneeches..
/ Sylvester: Yep. Something my namesake learned to his presumed regret, while working on the sequel. http://mansionofe.comicgenesis.com/d/20091029.html |
| The Mansion of E - Friday , October 30 , 2009 | [[Climbing stairs between the River of Fire and the Great Chasm.]]
/ Sylvester: We won't reach the Sneech colony just yet, but still.. in case you find yourself there.. without me.
/ Rosemary: Yes.
/ Sylvester: So. / Sylvester: Alabastar Sneeches. They are better than some, because they are.. consistent.
/ Sylvester: There are rules. Unspoken, had to learned by trial and error, but still, if you stick to them, seven times out eight, you'll be all right.
/ Sylvester: Number one: there is a clear main path through the colony. Stay on it at all times, and /keep moving/. / Sylvester: If you're lucky, you won't even see any.. locals. If you do, don't make eye contact, don't speak to them.
/ Sylvester: Don't touch /anything/. Unless.. and this is a big unless.. one of the Sneeches /actively/ gives you something.
/ Rosemary: That happens?
/ Sylvester: Yes. Especially if it's.. been a long time since any Humans have visited. http://mansionofe.comicgenesis.com/d/20091030.html |
| The Mansion of E - Saturday , October 31 , 2009 | Rosemary: And what sort of.. treats.. do the Sneeches hand out?
/ Sylvester: It varies wildly. Philbert got an amusing party trick.
/ [[Outline of Philbert using his Sneech-device to spell HAPPY HALLOWEEN in light.]] / Sylvester: Audra's.. gift.. whatever it was.. ended up costing her a *hand*. All she's ever quoted as saying is "it was worth it."
/ [[Outline of Audra emerging from her Sneech-walk with her hand glowing.]] http://mansionofe.comicgenesis.com/d/20091031.html |
| The Mansion of E - Sunday , November 1 , 2009 | Narration: Sundays In SubShaft 44f
/ [[Every panel, there is a < http://mansionofe.comicgenesis.com/d/20091101.html |
| The Mansion of E - Monday , November 2 , 2009 | [[Outline of University-graduate Sylvester entering the Mansion's Sneech den with a torch.]]
/ Rosemary: So.. what, the Earls all spent time hanging out in the Sneech colony?
/ Sylvester: No. Early on, it became part of the.. anointment ceremony.. for the new Earl-to-be to walk through the colony. Alone. / [[Outline of Sylvester emerging at the other end of the den, where Omega the Oracle and his Uncle Sylvester are waiting.]]
/ Rosemary: . . . What did the Sneeches give-
/ Sylvester: Nothing. I didn't even see one.
/ Sylvester: And please note, I am not complaining or feeling slighted in any way. http://mansionofe.comicgenesis.com/d/20091102.html |
| The Mansion of E - Tuesday , November 3 , 2009 | [[Outline of a Sneech's hand giving a triangular object to a worried Human male.]]
/ {{It looks like the Triforce from the Zelda series of computer games.}}
/ Sylvester: There are, of course, guidelines for dealing with Sneech "gifts". First off, you're going to have to take It, whatever It is.
/ Sylvester: The Sneech will.. insist. / [[Outline of the man gingerly carrying the triangle away from the Sneech den.]]
/ Sylvester: However.. once you get out of eyeshot, it's marginally safe to throw It away.
/ Rosemary: ..They say Sneeches have good eyesight.
/ Sylvester: Yes. If It's not.. burning a hole in your hand.. it's /safer/ to wait until you leave the colony, /then/ throw it away. / [[Outline of the triangle being put via mechanical arm with a collection of objects: a symbol monkey, a Ichyoid statuette, and a small flower in a pot.]]
/ Sylvester: If you absolutely have to keep It, you should at least store It in the Quiet Room. http://mansionofe.comicgenesis.com/d/20091103.html |
| The Mansion of E - Wednesday , November 4 , 2009 | [[Climbing away from the River of Fire.]]
/ Sylvester: ..Annnd you don't know what the Quiet Room is. I really need to show you around upstairs one of these days.
/ Sylvester: Heh. The Spindizzies are going to /love/ you.
/ Rosemary: . . . / [[Outline of a Human operating a machine-arm which extends out of sight off the edge of the panel.]]
/ Sylvester: But anyway. The Quiet Room is a.. gap.. in the Mansion's structure, in which magic-powered items... keep quiet.
/ Sylvester: And so yes, you don't want to take your Poke Kit in there. Or yourself. It's.. really quiet. http://mansionofe.comicgenesis.com/d/20091104.html |
| The Mansion of E - Thursday , November 5 , 2009 | [[Climbing between the River of Fire and the Great Chasm.]]
/ Rosemary: And where is this Quiet Room?
/ Sylvester: If I'm not around to show you, go find Amos. Or Nellie.
/ Rosemary: Not the Scary Lady?
/ Sylvester: Who? Oh. No. She might react- No. Amos or Nellie. Tell them.. / Sylvester: Heh. Tell them I said that Omega would have really really hated you. And after that.. do whatever you can to help Mortimer.
/ Rosemary: Fine.
/ Rosemary: Is that description something for me to be proud of?
/ Sylvester: I at least intend it as a compliment, but right now, let's stick to Sneeches. http://mansionofe.comicgenesis.com/d/20091105.html |
| The Mansion of E - Friday , November 6 , 2009 | [[Climbing stairs between the River of Fire and the Great Chasm.]]
/ Rosemary: Fine again. I have a Sneech question. If this was "Ettin territory", why do you.. we.. even have a colony of Sneeches here?
/ Sylvester: sigh. The same reason we have Motihauls and Troglodytes and.. Pales. There's a small Pale fort, in the forest, hundreds of miles from any desert. / [[Outline of the Pale's Camp in the Forest of E.]]
/ Rosemary: ...Just one fort? What do Pales do, when they don't have other forts to fight with?
/ Sylvester: The Nexus seems to keep them busy, but I regret I lack any details.
/ Sylvester: To answer your original question. The Ettins collected them, brought them all here. It was sort of a.. / [[Outline of a Pale behind bars in the Chamber of Extreme Aridity, while a Sneech's hand gets zapped by a watching Ettin.]]
/ Sylvester: Ah, zark. Let's not mince words. It was a zoo. The Ettins kept their fellow sentients locked up in a zarking zoo.
/ Sylvester: Except the Sneeches. They were evidently more like.. Prisoners of war.
/ Sylvester: Research subjects. http://mansionofe.comicgenesis.com/d/20091106.html |
| The Mansion of E - Saturday , November 7 , 2009 | [[A map of the portion of the Basement near the Riddle Grotto, with arrows pointing towards various off-panel locations.]]
/ Rosemary: So.. where was this Ettin zoo located?
/ Sylvester: Eh? Down here in the Basement, of course.
/ Sylvester: And no, we didn't get terribly near it today. / [[A map of the Ettin's zoo, as it was when it was set up.]]
/ Sylvester: Even now, most of the.. displays still function automatically. Camora mentioned them. Whatisface's "Crocogator Pit."
/ Rosemary: "Nubby", I believe.
/ Sylvester: Right. That has to be the Motihaul swamp. And the "Chamber of Extreme Aridity". The Pales. http://mansionofe.comicgenesis.com/d/20091107.html |
| The Mansion of E - Sunday , November 8 , 2009 | Narration: Sundays In SubShaft 44f
/ [[Spheres are falling from above with a < http://mansionofe.comicgenesis.com/d/20091108.html |
| The Mansion of E - Monday , November 9 , 2009 | [[Outline of a Pale emerging from a broken-open hole, witnessed by a male Motihaul and an Ooze. A Helipath is overhead.]]
/ Rosemary: But you just said the Pales are out in the forest.
/ Sylvester: Like all the other species, after the Ettins were gone, they eventually got out of their exhibit. Started roaming the Basement. / [[Outline of Pales climbing a broken-looking shaft towards red light above.]]
/ Sylvester: Then, after the Crash, we Humans were essentially gone, and they left the Basement all together. Settled in the ruins of Eetown.
/ Rosemary: Why?
/ Sylvester: The romantic in me likes to think they needed to be under the open sky., but for all I /know/, the others drove them out. http://mansionofe.comicgenesis.com/d/20091109.html |
| The Mansion of E - Tuesday , November 10 , 2009 | [[Outline of some Humans hiking across a possibly-tropical landscape.]]
/ Rosemary: And I suppose you're going to try and tell me your ancestors broke out of the Human exhibit in the zoo, and took over the Mansion?
/ Sylvester: Oh no. We came the hard way, like most everyone else. The long generational Trek from the Deep Jungles of the south. / [[An Ettin makes figures in the air, which an Eyebolt transcribes. The Ettin also tosses a bit of garbage to a Gobule.]]
/ Sylvester: There /was/ no Human exhibit. Also, evidently, none for the Eyebolts, Gobules or Gnolls.
/ Sylvester: The first two, they were doing what they do now. Working as clerks, I guess, and garbagemen. Critters. / [[Two Gnolls are feeding on scraps as some sort of sphere comes flying in, spewing something.]]
/ {{It's some kind of pest-killing device.}}
/ Sylvester: The Gnolls were vermin. As near as we can tell. Even low-level Ettin records are fragmentary and difficult to translate at the best of times.
/ Rosemary: So we Humans were /special/, huh?
/ Sylvester: ...Never once have researchers turned up even the slightest
/ mention of Humans in Ettin records. Take that how you will. http://mansionofe.comicgenesis.com/d/20091110.html |
| The Mansion of E - Wednesday , November 11 , 2009 | [[Climbing away from the River of Fire, towards the Great Chasm.]]
/ Rosemary: Did you learn all this about Ettins and Sneeches at the University?
/ Sylvester: Yes. The E family scholarship limited me to the "prudent and reasonable" , but if I had had a free choice.. I would have become an archeologist. / [[Outline of Humans landing a small boat on a pillared shore.]]
/ Sylvester: In a truly perfect world.. I would have maybe gone off to Abalone with Nimue. They are, were, doing fascinating work out there.
/ Rosemary: They're pretty sure now that's where we Humans came into the country, across the Sea of Shells on rafts from Tiranog. http://mansionofe.comicgenesis.com/d/20091111.html |
| The Mansion of E - Thursday , November 12 , 2009 | [[A map of part of southern "Mansionland", with the country of Thekla to the south.]]
/ Rosemary: So those Shibolithians who always go on about having the oldest settlements in the country are lying? I'm shocked.
/ Sylvester: Heh. Well. Yes and no. Do you really want to go into details about all this?
/ Rosemary: We're going into detail about /everything/. / [[Outline of a Human male crawling across a desert meeting two Pales.]]
/ Sylvester: OK. Yes, Humans also made it across the desert on foot, from what is now Thekla.
/ Sylvester: But the climate was evidently different. The desert was even worse than it is now. And the Pales were already in residence. http://mansionofe.comicgenesis.com/d/20091112.html |
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