permalink: "#48 (January 5, 2024): Headhunter"
When your friend's head is always in the clouds, but today more than usual.
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48: Headhunter - January 5, 2024 (F)
Panel 1
[Pilcrow and the Asterism are in a study in the Black Manor in their bird-headed humanoid forms of a crow and three-eyed flamingo. Pilcrow is wearing a light blue button-up shirt and mustard-colored slacks, holding a strange object that looks like a hemisphere with eyes and tentacles coming out of it. (A b'naala.) The Asterism is wearing a gray sleeveless gown, and her neck is stretched out of the room somewhere else.]
Pilcrow: "Asterism, I was pondering my prior b'naala mishap and was wondering if-"
[Pilcrow sees that the Asterism's body is sitting in a chair, but her neck extends outside of the room.]
Pilcrow: "Oh. I see you've wandered off and left your body behind again. sigh. Hold this while I find you."
[He hands her the b'naala.]
Panel 2
[Pilcrow searches through the library and up a very long set of stairs. The Asterism's neck keeps stretching through the rooms.]
Pilcrow: "Asterism? Are you up here?"
Panel 3
[Pilcrow searches through a cosmic landscape before returning to search the manor's attic, following the increasingly longer trail of the Asterism's stretched out neck.]
Pilcrow: "This is getting absurd. Seriously?"
Panel 4
[The Pilcrow has found the Asterism's head above the roof of the manor, where he can finally talk to her. He has switched to his form of an ordinary crow.]
Pilcrow: "Asterism, there you are!"
The Asterism: "Ah, my constant colleague and companion, what aid can I render this eve?"
Pilcrow (perplexed): "I... I... damn. I don't remember."