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-- (Gwynn kneeling on the ground and crying small bits of paper as the reality of her sacrifice sinks in...) -- (Zoë running for her life...) -- Lady Tomb (aka Tombsy; aka Cynthia; holding the Book of E-ville): You all know who I am. You all know why we are here. | Tonight, beneath the moon and stars, *you will bear witness to the release of the Bug! /The end-demon!/ (Flanking Tombsy is Lacey's host, looking sad, Wilcott Wilden (aka Riff's Dad); and Chilus (aka Meander), looking skeptical) -- Comic Title: THE IMMORTAL KING | THE RITUAL -- Demons: (*) ***CHEER!*** (*) ***YAY!*** | The End Demon! | **PoopyPants!** | Yeah, the Poop in the Pants! -- Lady Tomb: And with his release.., *the next extinction event! Humanity will be /wiped from the Earth/ and we will pick the bones clean of what remains! -- Demons: ***YEAH! WOO-HOO!*** Squid demon: Who's "we?" Satanish-looking demon: Isn't Lady Tomb mortal? One-eyed female demon: I can see her picking bones clean though! That mortal scares me. | Flag | ||||
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-- (Torg gestures as if introducing someone or something...) -- (The demons look both annoyed and puzzled...) -- Lady Tomb (aka Tombsy; aka Cynthia): **?** Wilcott Wilden (aka Riff's Dad): **?** Chilus/Meander (appearing a bit bemused): **?** -- Torg: /psst,/ Sam, that's your cue. -- Torg: Sam? Where's Sam!?! Well this is embarrassing. (Vampires begin to appear around Torg...) -- Lady Tomb: *I'm sorry, Torg! You're a little too far away for us to hear you! Urja (forming from a mist): He was trying to communicate it was a mistake to side with the Strakoi in the vampire war when they hold no sway here. -- Lady Tomb (appearing a bit discombobulated): "Vampire War?" -- Shadefather Cantemire: ...No... -- Lady Tomb (grabbing for her dagger): Who *are* you?!? Urja (reaching for Lady Tomb's cloak): I am General Urja of the Samsirkail, and when you involved the Strakoi in your machinations... -- Urja: *You all sealed your fate!* (Urja grabs Lady Tomb by the throat with one hand and snatches her cloak off and uses it to entangle Lady Tomb's dagger as she thrusts it at Urja; other vampires leap in for the attack as a startled Wilcott pulls out a gun) === NOTE: Ref links will be available the next comic or two. | Flag | ||||
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Demons: **YEAH!** -- Chilus/Meander (still on stage, but away from the melee): *No wait, my beloved demons!* Let's see how these human "allies" of ours fend for *themselves!* -- Chilus/Meander: *Set back in your seats and enjoy the show!* Demon (with curly horns and an Aylee-like mouth): *Haw-haw! Betrayal against the humans, that was Chilus' play the whole time!* Squid-faced demon: Of course it was! Female cyclops (wearing cross earrings): Then why are the demons closest to Chilus out there fighting and we're being told to sit down and shut up in the bleachers? -- Wilcott Wilden (aka Riff's dad; firing a gun at the vampires): I know a little of vampires! /Hopefully enough!/ <**BLAM!**> <**BLAM!**> Wilcott: *Break the beams into sharp wood, Skip!* <*KRIK*> -- (Urja is now fighting Jzaxil, who has wrapped itself strategically around her; Wilcott is still firing his gun off panel; Skip manages to break a beam; Lady Tomb (aka Tombsy; aka Cynthia) is doing a spell and about to throw her dagger) <**BLAM!**> <*KRAK*> -- (Lady Tomb throws her dagger at something off panel, while Wilcott continues to fire his gun off panel; Lacey's human host is surrounded by two vampires, one that has her by her right arm, and the other that has her by the throat) Lacey's human: No.. This can't... I must...? /*Lacey?!?*/ <BLAM!> <THROW!> | Flag | ||||
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-- (Urja's wound is manifested throughout her underlings) Female vampire: *ARGH!* Male vampire (being squeezed by Skippy): *YERHHG* -- Wilcott Wilden (aka Riff's dad): She's the *Master!* Kill *her* and all the vampires /*die!*/ Focus on /*her!*/ -- (Skippy stakes the vampire he was squeezing and turns to focus on Urja, as Jzaxil, Wilcott, and Lady Tomb already have) Lady Tomb (aka Tombsy; aka Cynthia; starting a magic spell): Yes we shall. -- Female vampire (back with Sam, Torg, & Zoë): *Owie!* So, my King, rumor is you have a /library card?/ Sam: The library card proves that I'm /literal./ Female vampire: "Literate." -- Sam: Litter/eight?/ I'm litter-*nine* baby! Female vampire (holding her head): It hurts so bad! Torg: Where's Gwynn? Zoë: The Book... It /got her./ -- Zoë: But we're going to get her /back./ === NOTE: Ref: When a Vrykolakas (in _the ref example, Menelaus_ <https://archives.sluggy.com/book.php?chapter=68#2016-03-17>) is harmed or destroyed, their _underlings_ <https://archives.sluggy.com/book.php?chapter=68#2016-03-18> suffer the same fate. | Flag | ||||
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Wilcott Wilden (watching Urja mist away): Thanks, Skip! Lady Tomb (aka Tombsy; aka Cynthia): /Aw!/ The coward 'mists' away and flees. -- Lady Tomb (off panel): Look! She can't maintain the mist form! She barely got thirty feet! All her vampire allies seem to be fleeing as well! Looks like it is /*her*/ "fate that is sealed!" *Stay on her!* -- Lacy Tomb (as Urja mists again): We have to stake her before she makes the treeline Wilcott! -- Torg: First step to getting Gwynn back is to get The Book, and us, away from this ritual as soon as possible. Look! -- (A lady vamp snags The Book of E-ville from the podium and runs away holding up the Book like a trophy) <***SNAG!***> <**RUN AWAY!**> <***VAMP SPEED!**> -- Chthulu-like demon: *Hey!* One of them vamps is taking off with the *Book!* Ball-cap-wearing demon: Like that misty one's a distraction of something! Curly-horned demon (getting up to move and encountering a magic shield): *Enough of this. I'm sick of sitting around! /Get them! Hey?!?/* Female cyclops demon: /*What?*/ I can't get past this... invisible /wall? *What the heaven?*/ (A magic ward surrounds the demons) | Flag | ||||
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Sharon (off panel): *'Magus Interitus Infundibulum'* is a mouthful but it's basically a *magic funnel.* | There's a *'sacrificial hopper'* that converts 'the sacrifice' into immense energy and condenses it into the *convergence circle,*... | ...releasing it to create a magical effect at the end point. | The convergence circle contains the intent of the spell, and is what your friend's trapped in now. -- Riff: So it funnels energy into "Big Magic". Why isn't it used all the time? Lacey/Aylee: Hey guys? -- Sharon: It's a secret kept from most scholars and demons alike. Riff: How do *you* know of it? Sharon: None of your business. -- Riff: Why do demons dislike the symbol? Sharon: Demons are the usual target. Even if they don't know what it is, they hate it. Lacey/Aylee: /*Guys!*/ -- Sharon: And for some reason Cynthia Tomb has this 'magic funnel' permanently etched into the ceiling of her back room. We should figure out what it does. Lacey (manifesting)/Aylee: /*Listen!*/ I've got *things* to do! /*You've*/ got things to do. Why don't you just break the ward and let me out... -- Lacey (fully manifested)/Aylee: *..before I slit Aylee's throat and you helplessly watch her bleed out and die!* | Once she's dead I can start negotiating for my release in earnest, and no doubt you /*will*/ release me. I will have lost /nothing/ and you will have lost a friend. -- Lacey (starting to slit Aylee's throat with a claw on her finger): Do you believe me? -- Riff: Wow, am I, like, /so glad/ Torg's not here. Torg would give *everything* to protect this alien form you're in. This human-eating potential-world-ending form. -- Riff (assertively): Where as [sic: should be "Whereas"] I'll give *everything* to make *you* suffer for doing it. Do you believe /*me?*/ -- Sharon (pointing up to the runes trapping Lacey): Oh hey, that one /does/ look like the runic sigil for demon-suffering! Riff: Hold on, I think Bun-Bun'd want in on this! Lacey/Aylee: I surrender. </Pause flashback> | Flag | ||||
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-- (Olebelle shreds one of the ferret wings with her claows as another winged 'baby' demon flies in to help; Bun-Bun has leapt off of Frog, his switchblade at the ready...) -- Gwynn (inside the Book): If what the Bug said was true, Farahn doesn't grant power, he gate-keeps it /unless he's distracted.../ | I know this Book! Can I...? -- Gwynn (trying to release Kira): /Yes,/ it's /working!/ Gwynn: Come on, Kira! -- Kiki/Ozzid (hugging Torg and Zoë with their wings): *Torg! /Zoë!/* Zoë: Kiki! *Thank God* you're OK! -- Aylee (running up with the Book): Kiki! Kiki/Ozzid: Aylee? You look different and cool! Aylee: You too! -- (Chad lands blade first into the ground; Frog crashes to the ground as well, breaking the remaining parts of the ferret wings) <**THUD**> Torg (taking the Book from Aylee): Chaz! Zoë: Frog! Frog: /Spine!/ -- Torg: Alrighty! We got the Book! We are out of here... Kiki/Ozzid (snatching the Book from Torg): This Book doesn't go /here!/ <**SNAG!**> === NOTE: Ref: _Panel 4_ <https://archives.sluggy.com/book.php?chapter=73#2022-10-28>. | Flag | ||||
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<**BOOT!**> <***KA-SPROING!***> -- (Kira manifests into a large snakelike human, with a snake's tongue, a circle of sharp horns on her head like a crown, and her glasses; the covers of her (three hearts) book are fastened to each of her forearms and she is loosely wrapped by a large chain) Kira: ****HSSSSSSSSSS!**** -- Lady Tomb (aka Tombsy; aka Cynthia): Eff this day! -- Wilcott Wilden (aka Riff's dad): /Can it be?/ -- Wilcott: *Kira?!?* -- Kira: Wilcott! As I live and breathe! Sort of! -- (Kira grabs Wilcott by wrapping a chain around him) <***SNAG!***> === NOTE: Ref:When Wilcott _last saw Kira_ <https://archives.sluggy.com/book.php?chapter=73#2021-12-10>... And last _spoke to her_ <https://archives.sluggy.com/book.php?chapter=73#2021-12-14>.... | Flag | ||||
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-- Kira: You pull a gun on me? All I ever wanted to do was love you! *How many more friends of yours do I need to kill to get you to /notice me?/* Olebelle (in the background; being chased by Bun-Bun riding on a butterfly demon): HALP! -- Riff (aiming his inflatable sniper rifle; whispering): Hold on, Dad... -- Wilcott: /"Kill"...?/ Kira: Butler-Ernest, old man Toombsy [sic: should be "Tombsy"],... I was gunning for Lorna... Does this /hurt/? -- Lady Tomb (aka Tombsy; aka Cynthia; enraged; building up a powerful ball of energy): *YOU, ...you killed my father!* -- Kira: /*Hey! Quit it!*/ (Lady Tomb's energy ball blasts the book cover shielding Kira's right forearm and is deflected; Riff's laser beam hits Kira's left thumb, causing her to drop Wilcott) Olebelle (in the background; being chased by Bun-Bun riding on a butterfly demon): HALP! (Meanwhile, the emissary and his guards have paused the ritual; mesmerized by Kira's giant presence) === NOTE: Ref:_Butler-Ernest_ <https://archives.sluggy.com/book.php?chapter=73#2021-12-08>, Old Man Toombsy [sic: should be "Tombsy"]_ <https://archives.sluggy.com/book.php?chapter=73#2021-11-30>. | Flag | ||||
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-- (Sam and Torg did not reach the Book in time and Sam is blown back from the heat of the blast; Torg shields himself with his arms) -- (Chilus/Meander looks on without emotion, her arms crossed in front of her; Agent N'aaaw gives a big toothy grin and throws her arms up in triumph; Skip looks on with either regret (for Wilcott's sacrifice?) or with concern) -- (Lady Tomb (aka Tombsy; aka Cynthia) basks in triumph and looks on with anticipation) -- (Aylee, Zoë, and Frog are horrified) -- (Riff reacts in anger and grabs the chain that had held him as if to charge; just as Kiki/Ozzid come in for a landing behind him) | Flag | ||||
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Olebelle: /*YEE-HAW!*/ Kiki/Ozzid: /*NEAT!*/ (Chilus/Meander faces K'Z'K with her arms crossed in front of her; King Farahn - in human form again - stares at his hands in shock; Lady Tomb clasps her hands in delight; Sam is behind Lady Tomb; Riff is behind Sam and holds the remote in his hand) Paper Gwynn (to herself): The Book? /My magic?/ -- K'Z'K: ***I'M FR....[blocked by Farahn's speech bubble] Farahn: ‹I'M FREE AT LAST!*› * Translated from the language of Mohkahdun -- Gwynn (transforming herself to human form; to herself): I still have some left! -- Farahn (having been picked up by K'Z'K): ‹UNHAND ME FOUL BUG, FOR I AM THE IMMORTAL KING OF MANKIND!› K'Z'K: WOW, you cook for Seven Thousand Years and pop out /just as stupid/ as when you started, huh, ROOMIE? Lady Tomb (aka Cynthia Tombsy): *ALL HAIL THE END DEMON POOPY PANTS!* -- (K'Z'K appears annoyed) -- K'Z'K (getting into Gwynn's face): I Bet you thought it was FUNNY to change my truename to "POOPY-PANTS", huh, Gwynn? -- K'Z'K (starting to reach for Gwynn): Whats really going to be funny is watching your expression as I rain destruction down on EVERYTHING you've /ever *known.*/ Lady Tomb: Grant me *godhood* that I might rain down *destruction* by your side. -- K'Z'K: Grant you what now? -- Digbot Shoddie Suit: DFA Activating... | Targeting... | Synthetic Hybrid Optimal Destruction Digbot Infantry Exoskeleton | Loadout: Dimensional Flux Agitator (The DFA crosshair is just slightly to the right of K'Z'K) === NOTE: Ref: _Poopy Pants_ <https://archives.sluggy.com/book.php?chapter=65#2014-06-06> | _Synthetic Hybrid Destruction Digbot Infantry Exoskeleton_ <https://archives.sluggy.com/book.php?chapter=70#2017-01-30>. | Flag | ||||
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Chilus/Meander: With Wilcott gone, you're a real /"team player"/, Skip. *Great Destroyer Poopy Pants,* despite expecting resistance to the ritual, it has succeeded as I planned. Lady Tomb (aka Cynthia Tombsy): As /*(*)I(*)*/ planned. -- K'Z'K (still holding King Farahn): HOLD ON, one Suck-up at a time. We'll start with the Mortal here. And can you make it QUICK. I have various vengeances to enact. Is it "vengeances" or "vengeanci"? -- Gwynn (gathering up the scattered pages of the Book of E-ville): There must be a useful spell somewhere in this....? -- Lady Tomb: "Vengeance" is always a singular persuit [sic: should be "pursuit"]. Oh mighty end demon! At the end of the sixth spark you granted *godhood* to the last to survive. -- Lady Tomb: One was your agent in the seventh. Chilus/Meander: How did you know about /*that?*/ Lady Tomb: I shall be your agent *in the eighth!* -- Olebelle (ripping through the inflatable hoverbike with her claws): *Fear mah claows!* <***POP***> -- Olebelle: Ah exploded a *flying motorcycle!* My claows are */terrifying indeed/ y'all!* (As the hoverbike deflates, Zoë and Aylee plummet to the ground) === NOTE: Ref: It would appear Lady Tomb is associating _something_ <https://archives.sluggy.com/book.php?chapter=73#2021-04-09> to the pillar of reality formerly called Kozoaku. | Flag | ||||
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Lady Tomb (aka Cynthia Tombsy; spell energy building up in her fists): That was always your problem, Chilus. Content to sit back and watch, waiting for your time to betray our master! Whereas I will show our master where my loyalty lies with my /*actions!*/ -- K'Z'K (as Bun-Bun leaps at him): A Bet, Bun-Bun? OH I DO love a Game! What's the Wager? <**POING**> -- Lady Tomb (directing her spell energy): The master wants to kill a rabbit? Easier when it's in a *snare!* -- Bun-Bun: Well for starters... <*****yoink!*****> Bun-Bun (caught in the energy lasso and dropping his switchblade): Damn. -- K'Z'K (angrily approaching Lady Tomb with one limb transformed into a sledgehammer): /*What*/ are you DOING? /*Why*/ are you getting in the way of my FUN?!? Lady Tomb: But... -- <***BASH!***> <***BASH!***> <***BASH!***> K'Z'K (as he pounds - and liquefies - Lady Tomb to death): How could I EVER let you be my "Agent of the 8th" when you /*don't even know how to keep out of my way?!?*/ <***BASH!***> <***BASH!***> <***BASH!***> === NOTE: Ref: _Love a Game_ <https://archives.sluggy.com/book.php?chapter=22#2001-02-09>. | Flag | ||||
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Girl #1: I'm walking home. Girl #2: Me too. *Worst sleep over /ever!/* What was that /"magic" crap/ about? -- Girl #1: Hey, Cindy's been through a lot. Maybe that's why she's weird. Girl #2: Cindy Tombs was weird /*before*/ her father died. -- Cindy Tombs (aka Cynthia Tombsy): I don't /understand,/ Jzaxil. The spell worked to /charm/ them into coming to the sleepover, but the obedience-spell undid the charm and *didn't work!* Jzaxil (reading from a Cue Card): You need more power, Cindy Tombs. have you heard of the... hold on... "The Magus Inter-i-tus In-fun-di-bu-lum"? === NOTE: Ref: _Father_ <https://archives.sluggy.com/book.php?chapter=73#2021-11-30> | _Jzaxil_ <https://archives.sluggy.com/book.php?chapter=73#2022-07-21> | _Magus Interitus Infundibulum_ <https://archives.sluggy.com/book.php?chapter=73#2022-09-14>. | Flag |
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