Issue 20, Page 23
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1: Doctor Xijo lays unmoving on the bed of the medical ward. He’s hooked up to an IV and looks pale.
2: Vidali is sitting on the floor, holding the phone from the wall.
Vidali: Yes.
I think you should send it down. It’s the only way we know to stop it.
3: Dark tentacles extend from a doorframe, peeling open a pair of metal doors in the dark, another elevator shaft being infiltrated.
Vidali (off-panel): No, he… yes.
Yes. He’s entirely gone.
4: The elevator doors are pushed open by claws and tentacles, folded in half easily.
Vidali (off-panel): It’s all compromised. I locked down the exit but it’s only a matter of time until he gets out.
5: The black idol creature digs into the concrete walls and starts to ascend to the upper floors. It’s bigger than ever, with Julia’s mass in it, but still keeps its basic shape.
Vidali (off-panel): I mean, it… if it has Sedjet’s memories…
Anybody just internally screaming “OH SHIT, EVERYONE IS GONNA DIE!!!” but are also like “Hmmm, this actually seems like a better alternative to death” at the same time?
I don’t think I’m completely thinking that way. Personally, the whole situation, ever since Sedjet was changed, Julia said all of those things, then willingly stepped out of the room she was in, all of it… It makes me feel a little uneasy, how everyone is saying that they’re “themselves”, yet the way they do things is so different than when they were in their previous forms. How do you know when someone is, “themself”, when you’re simultaneously billions of seperate beings AND a single mass, each with seperate goals, thoughts, and feelings? It certainly makes me internally freak out, and hurts my brain.
I’d rather die, frankly.
Becoming part of something that only causes misery and death isn’t exactly appealing.
What misery and death are they causing? Besides trying to end their billion strong split personality problem?
This is just my opinion, but-
There is that whole Axis nations + dictators thing, from world war II, the command of:
You will all join us, you will become ONE PEOPLE…or one body, and if you try to STOP TGAT, we will- hunt you down, tear you limb from limb…or kill you.
Oh, AND all your FREEDOM and HUMAN RIGHTS will be taken away.
[…I’ll never agree to that plan, or to any similar plan. ]
Gotta agree with you on that, for multiple reasons. First off, I’m a wimpy mortal, so, by extension, I relate to other wimpy mortals, even if they’re a little different in minor ways. Secondly, while there may be evidence supporting the idea that everyone on this planet, is in reality TOWC in a more “natural” location, such as what happens in the absence of radiation, the idea that everyone is “meant” to become it, or that it is most definitely a good thing, is only one side of the argument. Granted, it has its supporting facts.
There’s always the other side though, the doubt and contradicting information. If the mask-cat seeks out and gets rid of TOWC, why hasn’t he, or something else, torched the planet? If each character is just an “alternate personality”, seperated from TOWC, and all of these other beings know it, why does, say, the noodle dragon from the other page, refer to certain characters by name? Why do they refer to each of them as individuals, if they supposedly aren’t?
I don’t think either side has all the information it needs, to fully prove its point, without a doubt.
… I’m still totally on team wimpy mortals though. WOO!!!
Oops.
I think I went all “let me talk about the worst possible theoretical nasties of the world”, or I went all “let me tell you about the big nasty stuff about ww2”, in my reply.
I’m sorry about that, Nobody.
I had a lot of [work + friends] stresses, yesterday.
I’ll try not to be all doom + gloom about my comments on The O. O. Black Dog. Oops. 😀
My thoughts:
1. The MIB mask cat, mentioned way back at the art show, that he would be keeping a close eye on Rhoda. Do we think he still is? By extension, is he seeing ANY OF THIS???
2. TOWC/Sedj potentially has knowledge galore on this place, this is baaad.
3. Haven’t seen huge changes to the main form… Yet.
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I… wow. This page is just depressing. You can all but hear the sheer hopelessness…