permalink: "#41 (December 20, 2023): Complex Courtesies"
Seventeen degrees of bowing; any less, and you're just being rude to the cosmos.
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41: Complex Courtesies - December 20, 2023 (W)
Panel 1
[Pilcrow and the Asterism are in a closet in the Black Manor in their bird-headed humanoid forms of a crow and three-eyed flamingo. Pilcrow is wearing a mustard-colored suit with a red tie. The Asterism is wearing an oversized comfy sweater over blue leggings. There is a portal in the closet, the same one previously seen in #32: Closet Cosmos.]
Pilcrow: "To properly greet the Gh'ulra of Nebulon, one must initiate contact with precisely seventeen degrees of bowing inclination."
[Pilcrow bows exactly 17 degrees.]
Panel 2
Pilcrow (continuing): "Extend your hand, but not fully. Then, articulate a greeting in the lost language of Luridium, mind the dialect variations - very important."
[Pilcrow holds out his hand partially in example.]
Panel 3
Pilcrow: "Remember, mispronouncing the fifth syllable could inadvertently cause a dimensional rift. So, enunciate!"
Panel 4
The Asterism: "Could this possibly be more convoluted, Pilcrow?"
Pilcrow: "Well, there's also the optional third eyelid wink, but let's not get carried away."