permalink: "#26 (November 15, 2023): Psychic Spam"
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."