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Parallax webcomic, p. 49
okay, things pick up a bit on page forty-nine.
https://www.parallaxcomic.com/comic/page-49
more exposition, but it's getting chewier. Rogers claims that the city of Silverdalen is built in an area that's magically powerful
🔴 the way I prefer to think of such things is that a land of great extremes produces a lot of steep gradients in potential energy that can be exploited, that generate more chaos and turbulence in the systems that arise in such areas
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So uh, I'm homeless (person I was living with got evicted), staying with a friend's parents 1½ hours from my brand-new job, and need things like work outfits (my job has a dress code) and gas.
I'm not paid until Friday. When I start making money and have a roof over my head, I will be helping others. But for now I need some help to get through the week.
bleh, lying down and dozing off to 2nd season MLP:FIM
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Parallax webcomic, p. 48
oh and one final line: "if it were up to me I wouldn't have just dumped it on you like that". well fine
Parallax webcomic, p. 48
blah blah magical attire blah blah special powers blah blah "I was its keeper" blah blah "it chose you" etc. etc.
Parallax webcomic, p. 48
forty-eight.
https://www.parallaxcomic.com/comic/page-48
this page is mostly infodump and rather standard stuff, especially for a toku nerd like me. so Rogers reveals the result of Lomax's scared phone call at the end of the henshin sequence that completes chapter one (chapter zero?) of this comic. apparently Rogers instructed Lomax in how to take the "raiment" off, the lozenge-themed garb that Lomax was wearing after the henshin and couldn't get off themself
Parallax webcomic, p. 47
forty-seven
https://www.parallaxcomic.com/comic/page-47
"you found my old wedding ring!" Rogers says, with dubious sincerity. Lomax is flustered: "I didn't know you were married." Rogers corrects them: he _had_ been married, he says, but has been a widower for seven years now. but it's OK, he reassures the alarmed Lomax!
"I'm living."
then it's down to business. Rogers knows that Lomax wants an explanation for the strange "dreams" or whatever happened with the henshin sequence and after
Parallax webcomic, p. 46
Lomax picks the ring up from the coffee table and looks at it, wondering why it's been left out.
Rogers comes back with tea and snacks, sees that Lomax is handling the ring, and is plainly nonplussed. "ah", he says, with a frozen smile
Parallax webcomic, p. 46
on to forty-six
https://www.parallaxcomic.com/comic/page-46
inside Prof. Rogers's home. it looks boring and suburban, but to Lomax it "feels off". and who knows, maybe there's something a little too pristine and neat about it
Rogers is being effusively polite, offering food or drink, Lomax at last accepts tea and Rogers goes off to the kitchen to prepare it. sitting in the living-room, Lomax notices what looks like a plain gold ring. dun dun DUN
@Nine then there's the Richard Linklater crossover, JoJo's Waking Life
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@diodelass that's a mood only with chemistry and a master's degree
Parallax webcomic, p. 45
more shitty '80s rock. this is your territory, Chara
🔴 bleh whatever
Parallax webcomic, p. 45
so "Silverdalen" is big enough to have suburbs, and what we see in the frame makes the city look fairly sizeable. that makes sense given the authors, honestly; they're big city folx, like me. but Silverdalen is hemmed in by high mountains, in a way that Seattle isn't
in a center strip we see some lyrics for Kenny Loggins's "Danger Zone". Lomax asks what the hell the music is
finally we arrive, with Rogers, at a small single-family home. Rogers's home
Parallax webcomic, p. 45
page forty-five
https://www.parallaxcomic.com/comic/page-45
from the interior of Prof. Rogers's sensible car we see that Lomax is huddled in the back seat, like you do when you're in a stranger's car and you don't wanna get too close. Rogers comments on this, with a smile
"how far is it to your place?" Lomax asks. Rogers explains that he lives out in the suburbs west of Silverdalen (west again, huh), and we see the city in an establishing frame
Parallax webcomic, p. 44
Lomax thinks to themself that the last thing they wanna do is go to the creepy guy's house but they need answers so *shrugs*
in the parking lot Lomax calls the parents with some kind of bullshit excuse for coming home late. meanwhile we see Rogers at his sensible compact car
Parallax webcomic, p. 44
page forty-four. I'm up to Chara's current age, hahaha
https://www.parallaxcomic.com/comic/page-44
the other student leaves detention with a smile and a cheery "bye Mr. Rogers [sic]!"
*sighs* okay at this point I'll just have to write off the earlier "Rodgers" spelling as a slip
fine, it's Prof. Rogers now. anyway. Lomax tentatively approaches Rogers about having that confidential talk and Rogers says sure! they'll talk at Rogers's _home_
Lomax is...less than pleased at the prospect
Parallax webcomic, p. 43, a word on Seattle postfurry bullshit
"it was worth a try," thinks Lomax, as Rodgers gives them a look (that we can't see all of, because the frame cuts off Rodgers's eyes, in a way that's I'm sure not meant to symbolize anything)
Lomax sits. time wastes away till it's 5 pm
Parallax webcomic, p. 43, a word on Seattle postfurry bullshit
page forty-three
https://www.parallaxcomic.com/comic/page-43
Lomax goes to the "extracurricular" class, which I guess is some kind of review section or study hall or whatever. detention, but for college kids. Prof. Rodgers is there and Lomax immediately tackles him: "I need some answers." but Rodgers nods to the one other student there and shuts the conversation down.
Lomax sits at a desk, fuming, and Rodgers says something about help with math
