[Seventh Seal] Page 67 - Chapter 5

Row 1

Box 1 Pete walks down a cobble stone street in one of the older areas of town. The light of the sun is slowly setting in the distance. All of the light clearly looks wrong and in this case the sun is a white circle in a black back ground with edges of black against the horizon.

Box 2 Pete spots some trolls in the distance, unseen by nearby cops. He smiles. There is a municipal park in the background with some shops on the far side out of focus.

Pete: Ah! Some of Sluice’s people. Maybe they can help me.

Box 3 Pete walks up totally unseen to the trolls who have begun talking to each other.

Row 2

Box 1 Pete waves to one of the trolls. The trolls do not see him. Meanwhile, a pigeon lands unseen on one of the shoulders of the trolls.

Pete: Hello? I say hello there?!

Box 2 Same scene from the cops perspective. There is a pigeon sitting in the middle of the air, just hovering there.

Cop #1: Any sign of them?

Cop #2: None.

Cop #1: Damn it.

Cop #2: Er…George?

Box #3 Close up of George’s face. Looking annoyed.

George: What?

Box #4: Cop points to the bird hovering in mid air.

Row 3 Box 1

Both cops star at the pigeon hovering there.

Row 3 Box 2 We see things again from Pete’s perspective. Troll #1 spots the pigeon and points it out to Troll #2.

Pete: Hello? Can you hear me?

Row 3 Box 3 Close up of Troll #2’s face as it gets a wicked grin.

Row 4

Box #1: Troll #2 reaches over and pops the pigeon into a bloody pulp like it might have been a zit.

The cops look utterly shocked. Pete is reaching back to kick one of the two trolls to get its attention.

Box #2: The two trolls laugh. Pete is standing rather still. In the background George is sick off panel but obviously doing so with a “RETCH” or some such thing indicating such.

Pete: Er….never mind then. Maybe it’s a good thing you can’t see me.

Precyber - Chapter 26

Things go from bad to worse for Clarke.

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[Seventh Seal] Page 66 - Chapter 5

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Row 1 Box1 1 Horus sits on his throne watching the scene in the church through the scrying pool.

Horus: We saw who you really were in the beginning.

Box 2 One of the dispossessed souls in the pool in chains looks back up through the water at Horus.

Horus: We value the strength of the individual. The natural order of nature and the freedom to take its course. You still seek to impose your will upon it.

Row 2 Box 1 Klery sits in front of the alter, kneeling.

Narration: You cannot stop a Hurricane, or an Earth Quake…

Box 2 The soul looks away from Horus’s gaze looking down at it, dejected.

Narration: And you cannot stop us.

Row 3 Box 1 Jesra, Vesuvius and Sluice run down a narrow alleyway.

Box 2 Sluice follows Vesuvius vague pointing and they run toward the church.

Box 3 As they enter the doors, they see Klery and twenty trolls behind her watching her.

Box 4 Vesuvius, Jesra and Sluice lay on either side, with their backs to the wall, and a clear view of the trolls in front of them, heads turned toward the middle, with a clear expression of fear on their faces, more so in the case of Vesuvius and Sluice.

New Story - Snail Summer and Long Time Passing

Available here and here.

Snail Summer is a coming of age story of the classic variety, but set in a far future where Opsa's Cousin Kili comes from a distant start to visit her family's farm. There are strange snails that mimic the faces of screaming children when frightened and the two of them want to find out why. 

Long Time Passing is a love story in a future in which immortality is a curse for those without funds. The only way to gain a fortune to marry the woman he loves is to banish himself to a remote outpost deep in space for a thousand years.

[Naked City Atlanta] Hate

Snu Snu the hate bear was having a hard time with all of the negativity in her life.  She got none of the most excellent merchandising that her more positive cousins did.  You could sell a stare, but the Hate Bear 357 Magnum didn't really do well outside of the Sunday gun and knife show crowds.  And do you want to know what a person does to a stuffed snarling bear right after they buy a knife or a gun?

It isn't hugging, that's for fraggling sure.  And seriously? What was the point of being the natural enemy of positive reinforcing ursine when you couldn't even mother trucking sod ram swear properly due to the decision about what was or was not age appropriate for young impressionable mind?  So hate speech was OK.  So teaching kids to group the world into categories of good or bad, that was OK.  To exploit thousands of children who made the little dolls that were sold so the brother lucking executive at the company could have his corporate jet was OK

But Rod forbid little Timmy might have his ears profaned with a single word not on the For the Children's Special Purity Associations list of words that was aok.  There was magic in children's toys.  Everyone knew that.  What they didn't know was just how much the Other Mucking company executives knew about it and Cull Mucked the toys as soon as they made them.

Made to be bad.  That was Snu Snu.  Made to be an eternal second banana to bears that sucked and weren't really cute.  They couldn't even make matching foes...instead of things like Greed Bear and Fear Bear, it was nono the hate dolphin...really?  A hate dolphin?  Had the idiot who thought this up ever even MET a dolphin?  Hoho the hate chicken was amusing.

Chickens just sucked.

But Frothy the hate Pangolin? Wrackles the Hate Elepahnt?  No wonder they weren't selling.  And when you weren't selling, your spirit just faded away, but never quite death.  No, not death, just a lingering awareness of how much you sucked and how much it hurt when Bubba and Billy got drunk on a sunday afternoon and did unspeakable things to Snu Snu with a knife.

Of course, Snu Snu might not be able to swear, but Snu Snu did have the Hate 357 Magnum...and the home address of a certain executive.  And Snu Snu knew love for the first time in her life as the Dog Lambed Blood splattered all over the wall with said executives lack of brains....

And they all lived happily ever after.

Precyber - Chapter 25

The bad news keeps piling up on Clark.

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[Seventh Seal] Chapter 5 - Page 65

Row 1 Klery walks amidst a row of marching trolls, not seeing them.

Narration: It is the unseen that makes us powerful.

Row 2 Klery walks past several cops while the trolls surround her. The cops are pushed out of the way.

Narration: They do not understand the stakes or the magic of the seals. They have fought a war half brain dead, and now somehow through luck they have managed to give themselves a chance.

Row 3 Klery walks into a church, and the trolls hesitate at the edge, held back by an invisible barrier.

Narration: I cannot allow ignorance to triumph. It was their ignorance that nearly destroyed everything the first time. It is the symbols that matter.

Row 4

Box 1 The troll takes an axe and cuts into the barrier.

Narration: It is the symbols pertinent to the world itself.

Box 2 The troll steps inside and the others follow behind.

Narration: Not the brand of good and evil that they want to impose upon it.