I’d throw the ssi dude out and rearrange his memory to were all he knows is he was told to wait outside till the sheriff said it was cool to come in. I’d be seriously pissed off that any ssi asshole walked into my home w/o permission of any sort. Want to send rabid weasels after his tender bits….
“YOU haven’t been given permission to come in, and I don’t know you. Please Wait…”
“Hi Lois, who’s this guy hanging from the ceiling?”
never trust a g-man who acts like your friend. lots of precedent there.
aside from all that, has anyone ever seen this guy’s eyes? does he *have* eyes? what with the witch-burns and funny goggles, it seems like a relevant question.
and remember folks, always knock before entering a witch’s home… 😉
p.s. IIRC, melony, witches either can’t do mind tricks, or sera doesn’t know how. lots of *other* things to rearrange of course, but there doesn’t seem to any solid reason to do that, *yet*. better talk to lois first. based on her comments back at the speculum, she’s no more sympathetic to ssi than sera is. *lois* is on the level.
nothing wrong with enforcing basic manners in your own home, though. 😉
aw, jeez, i just noticed the kitty sprawled on the couch. that is just plain *adorable*. i’d think someone with sera’s artistic bent would just *have* to stop and sketch a nice detailed study before bothering with uninvited guests.
Uh-oh, the sheriff looks irritated. Watch out, SSI man … you don’t want to tangle with Lois McCreedy. o___o
So, I’m assuming that this is the same Merrick that led the raid when Sera was a teenager. In which case he’s not only being creepy and disingenuous, but outright lying. Tsk. The nerve, when she still has the bullet holes in her ceiling…
I think we should make a rule: don’t trust anyone who habitually wears gloves. >___>
Claire: Not necessarily true; I have a roleplay character that habitually wears gloves and she’s quite trustworthy. Of course, her excuse is an allergy to metals in a world where they haven’t invented paper money and she frequently has to use swords or daggers.
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Reading over that, I’m once again reminded that my nerdiness knows no bounds. XD
I looove the sleeping kitty on the couch. so cute! X3
Someone else said the dancing paint man explains a lot. I was also wondering about the dancing in the animated feature.
Merrick is gonna be…. interesting…. *twitch* this situation seems like if one of your teachers suddenly walked into your room. total freaking-out-ness. XP
you just *had* to mention something like that right after I loaned out my copy of WTtN, didn’t you?
but i *know* my purchased-directly-from-the-rack issues (all, what, 5 of them was it?) are around here *somewhere*… I think…
*grumble* but i guess i needed an excuse to sort my scattered sundry stuffs anyway…
p.s. Candy & Teim: remember, literature follows a whole different rulebook than things like roleplaying & reality – gloves have a very different meaning there. 😉
speaking of gloves, are we even sure this guy has hands? i mean seriously, here we have a sinister guy talking about his own eyes but never showing them! how suspicious is that? I bet he’s got witchburned stumps up his sleeves too! and why stop there?….
I was wondering… If Sera’s dream is made real by her witch powers, why didn’t Zoe see it when she entered the room to wake up Sera? Just askin’, no explanation needed, everything is still awesome..
Jooji: we don’t know how long Sera was asleep. Perhaps blue beastie already crept out, or perhaps blue beastie only ever existed in Sera’s nightmare (from the anxiety that something like that would happen if she fell asleep) …. we don’t know that every nightmare spellcasts a real-world counterpart…
I’m pretty sure, just for myself, that Skarsdayle’s Chester and this Chester are distinct people. Just cause I can’t see Skarsdayle getting friendly with anyone from SSI. Also the lack of witchburns, different hair and skin color, how Skarsdayle’s thing never actually spoke. Despite the seeming familiarity of those chompers. o___O And the weird coincidence of names.
“Come in here pretend to be a cop or something” — is there something missing or does Lois just have her own personal non-standard syntax? (: I love Lois either way, but just wondered.
Claire: No, there should be an “and” before “pretend” in Lois’ line up there. When I went to fix it a couple days ago I discovered I’d accidentally flattened and en-smallified the original page some time ago. Which means I’ll have to pretty much re-do the whole page before it’s published.
I’ve been meaning to patch up this lil jpeg in the meantime, but every time I look at it I just get depressed.
Hey… This makes me sound odd, but why don’t you guys come over to the forum and have a big ole debate about all of this. I’M NOT JUST SAYING THIS BECAUSE I’M A MODERATOR OH GOD IT’S SO EMPTY IN THERE!
Ahem, Hey Aaron, it must be cool seeing people trying to put everything together when you made it.
I love Merrick’s utter geekiness about Sera. It’s like someone meeting their idol after years of fangirling. He’s pretty much ZOMGing over her house. Also there was that geeky little wave he did in the Diner. I like this guy already, even if he is SSI.
wow, props from the ess-man for *me*? i’ve never felt so kewl b4 😉
i noticed lois’ missing “and” too but it scanned ok for me… i can imagine someone like her abbreviating her speech in ways like that somehow. perhaps just adding a li’l comma would make it clearer to readers. (i keep telling people i’d be a great proofreader but still no takers 🙁 )
regarding the “maddie/freddie” thing, i don’t think the one she dreamed the other time showed up in her room either – it was out in the woods eating hikers. apparently “dreamcast” (oops, that’s been taken hasn’t it?) stuff doesn’t neccessarily appear near the dreamer, i guess. and paint splatters on the floor are probably normal in sera’s room.
and finally, i could *definitely* believe skarsdayle having ssi agents in her pocket. tho it *is* a slight stretch to assume this chester = that chester. not the biggest stretch in SR so far, but still a stretch.
all i know for sure is that i would not trust chester merrick for all the pocky in the world.
I think I’d give that guy about five seconds to get the fuck out of my house before giving him another set of witch burns in a much less….convenient location.
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AWESOMENESS!!!
Merrick seems to be on the level.
I like this page.
Nerd Alert!
shake hands with the nice man from the government, sera…
Ok, this explains a lot. I was wondering what was dancing for Sera in your animated feature. And the blue paint…
O__o Uh…wow. That was awkward yet pretty cool.
Never knew Sera had governemant fanboys…
SSI… hmm… this is going to be good….
That guy is up to no good I tell you….
I’d throw the ssi dude out and rearrange his memory to were all he knows is he was told to wait outside till the sheriff said it was cool to come in. I’d be seriously pissed off that any ssi asshole walked into my home w/o permission of any sort. Want to send rabid weasels after his tender bits….
“YOU haven’t been given permission to come in, and I don’t know you. Please Wait…”
“Hi Lois, who’s this guy hanging from the ceiling?”
never trust a g-man who acts like your friend. lots of precedent there.
aside from all that, has anyone ever seen this guy’s eyes? does he *have* eyes? what with the witch-burns and funny goggles, it seems like a relevant question.
and remember folks, always knock before entering a witch’s home… 😉
p.s. IIRC, melony, witches either can’t do mind tricks, or sera doesn’t know how. lots of *other* things to rearrange of course, but there doesn’t seem to any solid reason to do that, *yet*. better talk to lois first. based on her comments back at the speculum, she’s no more sympathetic to ssi than sera is. *lois* is on the level.
nothing wrong with enforcing basic manners in your own home, though. 😉
Resembles a high ranking US official….Running for president…rhymes with tarak osama. nut suying anyting.
aw, jeez, i just noticed the kitty sprawled on the couch. that is just plain *adorable*. i’d think someone with sera’s artistic bent would just *have* to stop and sketch a nice detailed study before bothering with uninvited guests.
make an appointment or take a number, folks.
I think Sera should just pwn everyone and leave to the englands and have some tea with V … so they can funk the world!!!
I want a dancing paint-man >_>’
that ssi guy just showed up and i already have the violent urge to smack him.
Uh-oh, the sheriff looks irritated. Watch out, SSI man … you don’t want to tangle with Lois McCreedy. o___o
So, I’m assuming that this is the same Merrick that led the raid when Sera was a teenager. In which case he’s not only being creepy and disingenuous, but outright lying. Tsk. The nerve, when she still has the bullet holes in her ceiling…
I think we should make a rule: don’t trust anyone who habitually wears gloves. >___>
Wasn’t Merrick in this room before…..?
Wasn’t the creepy hissing guy who Skarsdale sicked on Rivet Hed also named Chester?
OOOOH people making connections! this is so cool!
Wait, wut?
Man, Chester was one creepy slave-assistant guy.
Claire: Not necessarily true; I have a roleplay character that habitually wears gloves and she’s quite trustworthy. Of course, her excuse is an allergy to metals in a world where they haven’t invented paper money and she frequently has to use swords or daggers.
…
Reading over that, I’m once again reminded that my nerdiness knows no bounds. XD
I looove the sleeping kitty on the couch. so cute! X3
Someone else said the dancing paint man explains a lot. I was also wondering about the dancing in the animated feature.
Merrick is gonna be…. interesting…. *twitch* this situation seems like if one of your teachers suddenly walked into your room. total freaking-out-ness. XP
Candy, I have a metal allergy, it means I have to wear silver instead of all the cheap gaudy jewellery I love so much. 🙁
Sphyrna Lewini: !)*&$&!@&!
you just *had* to mention something like that right after I loaned out my copy of WTtN, didn’t you?
but i *know* my purchased-directly-from-the-rack issues (all, what, 5 of them was it?) are around here *somewhere*… I think…
*grumble* but i guess i needed an excuse to sort my scattered sundry stuffs anyway…
p.s. Candy & Teim: remember, literature follows a whole different rulebook than things like roleplaying & reality – gloves have a very different meaning there. 😉
speaking of gloves, are we even sure this guy has hands? i mean seriously, here we have a sinister guy talking about his own eyes but never showing them! how suspicious is that? I bet he’s got witchburned stumps up his sleeves too! and why stop there?….
looking back at p.7 i notice that “merrick” was spelled “merrik” there… dunno if that was intentional and/or meaningful…
when i saw the name all i thot of was the exorcist.
and wasn’t skarsdayle’s chester rather paler? did have a similar grin tho…
i’ll shut up for a while now.
an’ i think he had hair too didn’t he?
shutting up begins now.
Thanks for catching the spelling mistake, alphatroll! Page 7 is all fixed.
I was wondering… If Sera’s dream is made real by her witch powers, why didn’t Zoe see it when she entered the room to wake up Sera? Just askin’, no explanation needed, everything is still awesome..
Jooji: we don’t know how long Sera was asleep. Perhaps blue beastie already crept out, or perhaps blue beastie only ever existed in Sera’s nightmare (from the anxiety that something like that would happen if she fell asleep) …. we don’t know that every nightmare spellcasts a real-world counterpart…
I’m pretty sure, just for myself, that Skarsdayle’s Chester and this Chester are distinct people. Just cause I can’t see Skarsdayle getting friendly with anyone from SSI. Also the lack of witchburns, different hair and skin color, how Skarsdayle’s thing never actually spoke. Despite the seeming familiarity of those chompers. o___O And the weird coincidence of names.
“Come in here pretend to be a cop or something” — is there something missing or does Lois just have her own personal non-standard syntax? (: I love Lois either way, but just wondered.
Though I suppose the giant blue paint smear over the floor points toward a real-life blue beastie ….. oh noes x____x
Yeah I mean I’m just askin’ my guess is that it probably just vanished as soon as Zoe opened the door… o_O
Claire: No, there should be an “and” before “pretend” in Lois’ line up there. When I went to fix it a couple days ago I discovered I’d accidentally flattened and en-smallified the original page some time ago. Which means I’ll have to pretty much re-do the whole page before it’s published.
I’ve been meaning to patch up this lil jpeg in the meantime, but every time I look at it I just get depressed.
Sob…
Hey… This makes me sound odd, but why don’t you guys come over to the forum and have a big ole debate about all of this. I’M NOT JUST SAYING THIS BECAUSE I’M A MODERATOR OH GOD IT’S SO EMPTY IN THERE!
Ahem, Hey Aaron, it must be cool seeing people trying to put everything together when you made it.
I love Merrick’s utter geekiness about Sera. It’s like someone meeting their idol after years of fangirling. He’s pretty much ZOMGing over her house. Also there was that geeky little wave he did in the Diner. I like this guy already, even if he is SSI.
wow, props from the ess-man for *me*? i’ve never felt so kewl b4 😉
i noticed lois’ missing “and” too but it scanned ok for me… i can imagine someone like her abbreviating her speech in ways like that somehow. perhaps just adding a li’l comma would make it clearer to readers. (i keep telling people i’d be a great proofreader but still no takers 🙁 )
regarding the “maddie/freddie” thing, i don’t think the one she dreamed the other time showed up in her room either – it was out in the woods eating hikers. apparently “dreamcast” (oops, that’s been taken hasn’t it?) stuff doesn’t neccessarily appear near the dreamer, i guess. and paint splatters on the floor are probably normal in sera’s room.
and finally, i could *definitely* believe skarsdayle having ssi agents in her pocket. tho it *is* a slight stretch to assume this chester = that chester. not the biggest stretch in SR so far, but still a stretch.
all i know for sure is that i would not trust chester merrick for all the pocky in the world.
GUH-DAAAYUM NIGGA AH GONE’ SLAP DAT PYUMP!!!1111
I am just kidding. I think the artwork is utterly fascinating.
Good job, Aaron Alexovich.
I think I’d give that guy about five seconds to get the fuck out of my house before giving him another set of witch burns in a much less….convenient location.
How does Merrick see?
I love how the cat is doin a little jig on the couch!! HA!
How does Chester see anyhow?? I’m just kind of re-reading this again. Is it the goggles?
“Hi! I’m from the government, and I’m here to help!”