permalink: "#14 (October 18, 2023): Portal Panic"
Casual curiosity in the face of potential cosmic collapse is a mood.
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14: Portal Panic - October 18, 2023 (W)
Panel 1a
[The Asterism and Pilcrow are sitting in a room in the Black Manor, in their anthropomorphic selves as flamingo and crow humanoids. Pilcrow is holding a b'naala, a strange object that looks like a tan hemisphere with eyes and tentacles sticking out of its top.]
Pilcrow: "Hmm."
The B'naala: "BLORP."
Panel 1b
[With a "bzaaat!" a portal forms between them.]
Pilcrow: "Well, that's not supposed to happen."
The Asterism: "A wormhole woven within our walls? Pilcrow, this is a perplexing new pinnacle of your prowess!"
Panel 2
[Objects are being spit out of the portal. A cup of tea. Hats. A Roman centurion helmet. A horse head rubber mask. A dinosaur bone.]
Pilcrow: "Perhaps you fancy a Roman helmet? Seems comfy."
The Asterism: "Focus, Pilcrow! This swirling, sinister, space-time split isn't some spectacle!"
Panel 3
[The two are now floating into the air towards the portal. Pilcrow is holding up the b'naala trying to make it do something.]
Pilcrow (focused): "If the angles of a hexadexachoron align with the spectral incantations of the old tomes, we might manipulate the spatial threads..."
The Asterism (frantic): "Skies and stars! We're being whisked within a whirlwind of wayward epochs!"
Panel 4:
[The wormhole stops abruptly, dropping them to the ground. Pilcrow picks up the dinosaur bone from the floor.]
Pilcrow (pondering): "Ooh! I wonder if I could eBay a dinosaur bone..."