Pilcrow & The Asterism

A webcomic about the unsettling corridors of a manor where cosmic enigmas and mundane musings collide.

The manor is the one place where 'timeshare' is probably literal.

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26: Psychic Spam - November 15, 2023 (W)

Panel 1:

[Pilcrow and the Asterism are in a parlor in the Black Manor. They are in their bird-headed humanoid forms as a crow and three-eyed flamingo. The Asterism is holding a book and sitting down in a chair, and Pilcrow is walking up to her. A telepathic message appears to the Asterism, speaking into her mind.]

Message: "Fathom infinity! Trade us the marvels of your mind for the majesty of a galaxy!"

The Asterism: "Oh, what's this? A bewildering burst of psychic blather, boldly offering an exchange of my cogitative creations for a celestial cluster!"

Panel 2:

Pilcrow: "That, my friend, is a thought-stealing ruse cloaked in the guise of a galactic grant."

The Asterism: "Imagine the panorama, Pilcrow! A grand galaxy greeting us from our own genteel gallery."

Panel 3:

The Asterism: "They suggest it's a temporal timeshare, tantalizing for a transcendental getaway!"

Pilcrow: "Timeshare? More like time-sink. And vacation from what? Our endless existence?"

Panel 4:

The Asterism: "I could certainly cherish a celestial change..."

Pilcrow: "And yet, let us not expand our dominion to things that require a cosmic mortgage."