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[Xentha]

.. Wow.. Really? No topic for this one even after the five days I had to wait to get this account validated 'cause I never bothered to register to this new forum? Awh well..

Anyway, soooomething tells me that whoever suggested that Sandra's powers have just been turned dormant, -may- be showing through. Unless there's some sort of strange altiverse tomfoolery going on here, in which I'd suspect that The Pits might have caused it, but if she'd been walked around for hours - let alone a day and a half, I doubt the effect would have stayed until she woke up. The only thing past that, that would make sense is the pits having a 'feel good' effect that triggered the latent floatiness.

Which would kinda make sense.

[ShardZ]

Er... yeah, we've become a bunch of slackers. But welcome to the new forum, Xentha! Had you registered in the old forum, or is a more traditional welcome in order?

I suppose the spider explained the floatiness well enough, but yeah, not why it stuck. Maybe sleep/unconsciousness has a way of really taking hold in this realm. And while she didn't get lost in the timestream, it did reveal that she acquired some major long-term forgetfulness. Maybe it happened after the graveyard, but maybe it happened after she got flushed.

I wonder if we'll get to see another civilization, or if these houses are fake, too. There certainly is some interesting landscaping and architecture going on. Lost toys? Childhood memories? And "the artist" was here, of course.

[Xentha]

I was on the other forum, likely under a different name, though I wasn't very active there either, as I didn't often have anything to contribute.

However, I'm not sure I gathered anything about the floating from the spider. It hinted at it sort of with "so fly away", but that's extremely vague - and could imply that other creatures there often can fly anyway. - As for the amnesia-esque forgetting, perhaps that was just due to being a demon so long - that she had gotten so wrapped up in being in-character that she'd begun to drop traces of memories, maybe?

And, perhaps, perhaps! A day and a half is a lot of walking, who knows where they might've gotten to.

[ShardZ]

Hmm, looking back, I see what you mean. Maybe I got lucky and inferred it when he said people go to the pits "when they're at their lowest." She had reached a state of emotional depression (somewhere between hurting Mabel and her conversation with Inky), and was "released" by the pits when she let go of those feelings. I figured the "fly away" was a gentle taunt. She just didn't have the heart to hiss at him.

At least, that's my guess. Though if I'm right, I wonder if Rage and Cage used the same roads to get in/out. Coma-related braindeath doesn't seem to be quite the same level as emotional depression...

[Omega]

Ah, he he heee...

It's really been a short while since my last log in. Welcome Xentha, don't let the slow posting rate discourage you. Things might be quiet for longer periods, but the community is still live and well (mostly thanks to regular updates from Joe).

Heh, notice how the circles around Sandra's eyes have vanished after some napping?

[Aebliss]

It seems to me that Sandra is a little more human now. Something about that Neverland comment... It's just a feeling, I may be completely wrong.

[Novia]

I want to respond to Joe's comments under the comic.

While I haven't lost any respect for you, I would really like this storyline to get over soon I haven't really enjoyed it at all.

[Revereche]

For my part, I've really been enjoying this latest storyline! Sandra's return to human form in a complete inversion of the comic's former set-up has been very fun to watch.

Also, spider from the moon!

[ShardZ]

Hello Novia! We appreciate you sticking around, regardless of your preference in storylines!

I for one am glad to have the emotion/floating/flying connection defiitely cleared up; don't know why we'd lose respect due to exposition that actually has a place in the comic. And now the spider's "Aww, you depressed"... "So fly away"... "You feel better" lines, etc. make a LOT more sense now. He wasn't deliberately teasing (much?) or being cryptic, he genuinely assumed Sandra knew what was going on.

I agree with Reverche--every chapter brings a new change to at least one character, and this one has been a fun little doozy.

[Omega]

It's a twist! You cannot dislike a twist, not a one that's like this one.

To see a person turn into a hero and loath herself at the same time. To see a hero fall and become a villain, the oldest story in the book. Then to throw everyone off from good, perfectly safe and predictable story arc into this Alice in the Wonderland ripoff? What is it not to like?! I'm not going to say it's brilliant (although it's not far off), but Zebragirl is so much more satisfying comic to read than the vast majority of the stuff out there. Always have been and hopefully always will be.

So to summarize, Novia, I don't agree with you about this storyline getting over soon.

[Novia]

I didn't like Alice in Wonderland.

It's just dragging on in surreal land a bit too much.

[Revereche]

I didn't like Alice in Wonderland.

Welp, that explains it.

[Jazz]

Sandra's comment in the latest stip, "After I learned to eat fear", was a bit unnerving. Should've ended with "Om nom nom!"