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SlumberTown 🌵⭐ @slumbertown.bsky.social · Jul 2
Book 2: Prologue
A new adventure awaits!
- February 4, 2024

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SlumberTown title page with the series logo, by Macxi. Four characters are centered on and around a busted up yellow car, with the license plate 1CASA25. Boone the goat is standing on top, gazing up at the starry constellations in the sky. Romy the dog is standing on car's hood, also staring at the sky, with their back turned toward us. Echo the bat is leaning against the back of the car with arms crossed. Lester the hyena is holding a beer bottle and crashed out drunk on the ground in front of the car. The characters are all in an outdoor canyon surrounded by rocks, cactuses, a naked tree and several poppy flowers in the foreground.
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*Shiiiiiiing*!

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Romy holds up their phone, which dramatically catches a beam of light. Boone gasps in the background, Echo observes calmly. Lester is seen standing backwards. The light is reflecting off of all of them and around the room.
November 10, 2025 at 7:44 PM
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Romy takes the lead! Did she manage to crack the code? She just made it up... but isn't that what puzzles are? Making up solutions to see if they work?

And Romy is better at that than she gives herself credit for!

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Boone gasps dramatically: "WHAAAAAAAAAAAAT???" We pan to an image of Boone placing a birthday hat on Echo's head while she averts her eyes from the birthday cake and room filled with decorations. Romy is thinking in the corner, and Lester is laughing drunkenly in the background. Boone: "Well, maybe we oughta change that!" Echo: "No. No, we don't." "How come? Is it 'cuz you don't like it when people sing the song?" Boone continues making dramatic expressions while going on about it. "This is an emergency! A travesty of catastrophic proportions! If Echo's never celebrated her birthday, that means..." He counts on his fingers. "25, 26, 27... that's twenty-seven birthdays we gotta catch up on!!!" He falls backwards with the back of his hand to his forehead. "It's kind of a lot... think we can manage it, Romy?" Romy is brought back to earth suddenly with a "Hah?" Boone looks down at Romy, offended, "... are you even listening... ?" Romy grins nervously through her teeth. "S-sorry! Thinking. Um." Boone pouts and slides his sunglasses over his eyes, where a beam of sunlight is hitting, reflecting and directing somewhere to the side. Romy, observing and thinking, 'Oh! That beam of light. It's casting a glow...' She pulls Boone's arm to keep him still. "Boone, stay here." Boone, clueless, "Beh?" "And uh... try not to move to much." "Oooooooooookay?" We see the sun beam hitting from his glasses to the Aries constellation on the wall, causing it to glow. Romy's attention turns to Lester's beer bottle, which he's holding upside down. She directs him to lift his arm to where the sun beam is directed. "A-and you. Can you move your arm up a little? Near the shoulder?" Les, tiredly, "Eh? What fer?" Echo shoves him into position. Lester lifts his arms in exasperation and shouts, "HEY! Tryin' ta pick a fight or somefink?" His bottle is positioned perfectly to direct and re-direct the light beam. Romy, with excited stars in her eyes: "Y-yes! Right there, exactly!" Lester keeps still with his arms up, poker-faced: "... *hic*!". Romy then shyly regards Echo. "And Echo? Iiiiiiis.. it okay if I touch you?" She sweats and grins nervously. Echo's heart rate increases and she blushes. "Ah? Er. Of course. However you... need." Romy takes Echo's hand in her own, and gently leads her. 'The third river... it'd have to be Scorpio.' She looks up to the constellation on the wall. 'If I'm right, then... this just might work...' She takes Echo's face and slowly pulls it down, while Echo looks a little lovestruck. Romy: "... there." She holds Echo's face in her paws, the sun shining and directing on her glasses, making the blush on her face glow. Romy blushes too, the eye contact making her shy. Romy: "Yeah. Just like that..." Romy then releases Echo's face and immediately turns back to the puzzle at hand, deep in thought. Echo meanwhile is seen holding her blushing face, surprised by her reaction to Romy's touch. Romy: 'Then from her, to me... where would I direct the path from there?' We see a map constructed by Romy's mind, where the position of each person, their birth constellations, and the light beams mirror the symbols/riddle on the stone tablet. Romy: 'Something like this... ?' Uncertainly, 'Gosh, I hope...' More confidently, "I mean - I KNOW this is right! It HAS to be!" Romy looks up at the Pisces constellation. "I'll stand here. And then..." Boone looks over from a couple feet away. "And then... what?" He must've moved because the light beam is barely brushing the side of his glasses. Romy instructs him to tilt his head a little. "Oh! Hah. Tilt your head like..." Boone mirrors Romy's tilt, glasses coming in contact with the light beam once more. "Like thi -"
November 8, 2025 at 7:39 PM
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Hold the phone!

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Romy's paw holding up their phone
November 3, 2025 at 7:21 PM
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Romy puzzles it out!

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Page 2.91: Full Circle
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Romy maps out the puzzle in their head. There is diagram showing how the beam of light would reflect off everyone and their matching constellation, in order of the astrological calendar and lining up with the elemental riddle from earlier. Romy, in thought: 'Something like this... ? Gosh, I hope - I mean - I KNOW this is right! It HAS to be!'
October 27, 2025 at 8:53 PM
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Echo is ready for assistance! Well, that’s one way of putting it.

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Echo blushing with her heart rate increasing behind her. "Ah? Er. Of course. However you... need."
October 20, 2025 at 11:28 PM
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Reflect... and direct!

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Boone tilts his sunglasses in a pout, and the sun's beam reflects downward off the lens and to the side. Romy, thinking: "Oh! That beam of light. It's casting a glow..."
October 14, 2025 at 12:00 AM
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Does anyone ACTUALLY enjoy it when people sing the song, though?

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Boone gasps dramatically: "WHAAAAAAAT???" The scene pans to a birthday table where he's putting a birthday hat on Echo's head while she stands in front of a cake with strawberries and blueberries. Romy is deep in thought and Lester is drinking and laughing in the background. Boone: "Well, maybe we oughta change that!" Echo: "No. No, we don't." Boone: "How come? Is it 'cuz you don't like when people sing the song?" Echo: "No, it's just -"
October 6, 2025 at 8:44 PM
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Solving a riddle in a cave puzzle should be easier to do in a dreamworld, in retrospect. How much of that puzzle are you solving, and how much of it are you creating? You gotta make stuff up, at least a little bit.

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Romy and Echo walk to a stone slab atop a few stone stairs. The shrine is shaped like a sun with two horns (like the Aries symbol) sticking up from the top. The slab says "Una flama, tres rioz". A flame symbol is inscribed with three river symbols surrounding it. Romy: "It's some kinda message. But just in symbols. And Spanish, maybe?" Echo steps in front of the slab and counts with her fingers. "Una. Tres. I don't know a ton of Spanish, but I think it's just coinciding with the symbols. One flame. Three... rivers?" She looks at Romy in a disoriented daze, while Romy looks at her in concern. Echo: "Heh. Not bad. I'd say that's fairly simple, as far as cave riddles go." Lester interjects, while Boone flips quickly through his Iowa Joan comic book. Les: "Riddles?! Well ain't that a buncha baloney!" Boone, hunched into his comic book: "I mean, it tracks. Most dungeons have puzzles before you reach the final boss. In 'Issue 19'..." Lester: "Oh, can it. Your comics are baloney too." Boone jabs him in the chest, looking very offended, "YOU TAKE THAT BACK!". Romy looks up at the hole in the ceiling from where they fell, up at the sun, "But a riddle? Here? Where we just broke through the ceiling?" She rubs her arm uncertainly, while the shadow of Janus's silhouette is seen ominously behind her. "How do we know someone's actually been down here before?" Boone clasps Romy's shoulder and waves his arm in the air, while a cloudy dreamy backdrop with rainbows and bubbles surround them. "Romy. Buddy. We are in the bowels of wonderous whimsical dreamland!" Echo slides in from the side of the page, "... presumably." Boone, excitedly, "RIGHT! Nothing here ever makes sense!" Echo, coolly, "No? It's means anything makes sense." Boone, irate, "That's what I mean! NON-sense!" Romy facepalms. "... I'm so confused." Echo consoles her. "Yeah - sorry. Boone's words can have that effect on people." Boone leans in with his ear perked. "Hold up. ME? MY words? You're the one who's always turning my words around. And making my sense make less sense!" Echo and Boone stand behind a spacey, starry background with their backs toward each other. Echo is palming herself on the forehead while Boone grumpily crosses his arms. The Scorpio constellation is seen behind Echo, the Aries constellation behind Boone. Echo: "Alright, whatever. Boone and I tend to disagree about the way things work here. But we do have one thing in common..." Echo gives a toothy grin, her glasses glistening. "CONFIDENCE." Echo is seen sitting on the cave floor with a half-lidded smile, as Boone leans his cheek against hers from over his shoulder, going "HMPH." Echo: "You gotta make sense of things your own way. Even if it doesn't make sense to anyone else." Romy nervously twiddles her fingers. "Y-you mean I'm supposed to... make things up?" Boone: "... when you put it that way..." They both look at Romy with a grin. Echo: "Yeah. Pretty much." Romy looks down sadly. "That's... easy for you guys. But I'm bad at lying. And I'm not confident at all..." Boone urges Romy gently, clasping his tummy in his hooves. "It's not lying, kid. It's followin' your gut. And stickin' to it!" He gestures with his head back to the stone slab with the riddle on it. "Take this riddle. Fire, rivers... don't see anything like that down here. Is there anything else in this cave you can see?" Romy turns her head back up. "Well, there's..." She looks up at the constellations on the walls, while Boone smiles from afar. "Stars." Echo holds a cup of coffee, standing against a flashback from Book 1 of Romy and herself standing underneath the starry night sky, Romy explaining something excitedly to Echo while Boone watches from his apartment deck with his pajamas on. This is in reference to the Book 1 scene where Romy enthusiastically imparts their love for astronomy on Echo. Echo: "Rather convenient for YOU, I'd say. Wasn't that a big interest of yours back home. Charting stars?"
October 5, 2025 at 10:00 PM
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Echo reveals a tragic truth.

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Echo with her back turned to a shocked Romy: "I don't... really celebrate my birthday, Romy."
September 30, 2025 at 12:47 AM
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Romy wants to know what your birthday is… no reason, just curious!

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Boone poses under the sun while adjusting his sunglasses on his face. Romy approaches shyly from behind. Romy: "Uh, Boone? When's your birthday?" Boone: "My birthday? April 11th. Why?"
September 22, 2025 at 5:46 PM
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Feigning confidence isn't lying, it's just... uh... learning to own it!

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Boone gently cradling his stomach while speaking directly to Romy: "It's not lying, kid. It's followin' your gut. And stickin' to it!"
September 15, 2025 at 9:05 PM
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And today we bow our heads and thank the newest patron, Christopher Cook, for supporting the comic. THANK YOUUUUUU AAAAAAAAAHHH, you guys really do so much to help keep the SlumberTown cogs a-turnin'! ❤️
slumbertown.bsky.social SlumberTown 🌵⭐ @slumbertown.bsky.social · Sep 8
Boone and Echo have different perspectives, but the same spunk... and the same advice for their pal! 

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Boone leans against Echo, thoughtful, while Echo stares blankly into the distance (glasses shrouded). Boone: ".... when you put it that way..." Echo and Boone both smile, and Echo finishes: "Yeah. Pretty much."
September 8, 2025 at 7:12 PM
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Boone and Echo have different perspectives, but the same spunk... and the same advice for their pal! 

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Boone leans against Echo, thoughtful, while Echo stares blankly into the distance (glasses shrouded). Boone: ".... when you put it that way..." Echo and Boone both smile, and Echo finishes: "Yeah. Pretty much."
September 8, 2025 at 7:10 PM
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Lester "found" a cave! But are they falling up or down? There's more stars down here than there were up there!

Will they find a path forward? Or backward? Maybe both???

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Romy, Boone and Echo all look down in silent shock. They approach the hole Lester fell through, which leads down a huge rocky cliff. As Lester lays in a painful position on the ground, Echo calls down, "Uhh. Lester? You good?" We shift to a birds-eye perspective above the hole where Romy, Boone and Echo are gazing down at Lester below. Lester angrily retorts, "Bloody carrion! What'z it look like?!" Romy winces and thinks to themself, 'He's alive, I guess... we should probably pull him up.' They turn to Boone and ask, "D-didn't you pack a rope?" Boone starts pulling his backpack off his shoulder: "Right! Yeah! Lemme just -" Echo holds up her hands nervously and says "W A I T. Stop. Moving." The ground is shown cracking underneath their feet. Boone tries to run away in a panic. "HAYSTACKS!!! We gotta dip!" Echo grabs a fistful of his jacket to stop him. "No, Boone. STAY. I explicitly said -" There's a loud crash as the trio falls through the expanding hole in the ground, with Romy yelling "ARF!". An establishing shot displays all three of them falling down the hole above Lester, who is slowly starting to recover and get back up. Before he can, Romy lands on him with a SPLAT!, Echo lands on top of both of them with a SQUASH!, then Boone slams down on the pile with a huge SPLOOOOOT, knocking the wind out of Lester from the very bottom. Boone taps his chin and looks up innocently. "Baa? Guess we found a way in." He gets up to stretch and crack his bones, giggling, while Lester fumes silently behind him. "And the fall wasn't as bad as I expected either! Hehe!" Romy rubs their face in winced pain. "Oooongh..." 'What is this place?' A large establishing shot shows a wide cavern with saturated blue and orange lighting, constellations etched on the walls, and stalagmites hanging from the ceiling and floor. Boone is still stretching, Lester is hunched over picking up his beer bottle, and Romy and Echo are standing and falling the opposite wall. Romy: "It... looks like another dead end." Echo: "Unlikely. There's ALWAYS a path forward in Slumber." Echo looks over confidently to a less confident Romy. "Take a closer look. See anything that sticks out to you?" The camera pans to Romy's other side, where they catch sight of a stone tablet with giant ram horns like the Aries symbol. Romy: "Hum."
September 4, 2025 at 5:36 PM
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Fiction may be closer to reality than you’d think… in Slumber they’re one and the same!

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Boone is reading an Iowa Joan comic book while Lester looks on unamused. Boone: "I mean, it tracks. Most dungeons have puzzles before you reach the final boss. In 'Issue 19'...' Les: "Oh, can it. Your comics are baloney too." Boone gets upset and jabs a finger at Les while a tear hangs from his eye. "YOU TAKE THAT BACK!!!"
September 2, 2025 at 5:43 PM
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It is but a simple cave riddle. ¿En Español?

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Romy and Echo look at a stone with Spanish words carved into it (una flama, tres rioz). Echo: "Heh. Not Bad. I'd say that's fairly simple, as far as cave riddles go." Romy: "?!"
August 25, 2025 at 6:52 PM
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If there’s no path forward, you might just have to make one!

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Page 2.81: A Path Forward
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Romy, Echo, Boone and Lester all stand around, looking around at the cave they fell into with stars etched into the walls. Boone stretches and Lester picks up his bottle. Romy: "It... looks like another dead end." Echo: "Unlikely. There's always a path forward in Slumber."
August 18, 2025 at 8:09 PM
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How many falls can Lester break?

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Romy falls onto Lester with a SPLAT!!!
August 11, 2025 at 10:08 PM
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July's been quite a month!

Previously on SlumberTown: Romy and Echo ascend the mountain. Echo's still kinda loopy, and Romy's face is getting redd. That hot desert sun is certainly taking its toll on our adventurers... hopefully they remember to hydrate!

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Romy and Echo are both blushing, as Romy adverts her eyes away awkwardly.Romy: "..... okay." She looks at Echo's blushing face, trying to interpret the situation in her head. 'Okay?! Is she okay?' Visuals depict Romy posing within bubbles, shrugging and slouching dejectedly in her confusion and anxiety - Romy herself, meanwhile, twiddles her thumbs while deep in thought. 'It kindaaaaa feels like she's not? But why wouldn't she say so? I don't wanna seem like I'm awkwardly prying... and I'm probably making her feel awkward just asking!' Romy embarks on a straight path with Echo following behind - there are many paths and signs with arrows (and Spanish words saying 'here' 'there' 'everywhere' and 'nowhere'), making it rather unclear where they should be going. Romy: "I'm... looking for a path." Echo: "A path?" Romy: "Or maybe a sign. About where we're supposed to be going." Echo adjusts her glasses: "I've been seeing stars." Romy looks back at her, incredibly concerned, "Huh? Because you hit your head?" Echo laughs awkwardly and points to something off screen, while Romy peers over from behind. "Ahaha... noooo, I mean - LOOK." Echo and Romy's shadows look down upon a rock face, where glowing stars and constellations are etched on the surface. Romy gasps excitedly, eyes forming into stars: "*gasp* STARS!!!" She tilts her head inquisitively. "Linked together like constellations... but not constellations I recognize." Echo, casually, "They're more like a path, I've noticed." She then puts her hand to her aching head, appearing to struggle still with her concussion, "We could try to follow the stars. See where they lead or... something or other..." Romy reacts in an epiphany of sorts, her hat comically bouncing off her head in shock and awe. "FOLLOW THE STARS. Like the voice said. I get it now!!!" Echo squints, confused: "Whuh..." Romy sweats nervously, "N-nothing. Sorry!" She clenches her fists in excitement, turning to Echo with starry-eyed vigor. "I just - I have a REALLY good feeling you're right, Echo! Let's follow them!!" Echo puts a hand on Romy's shoulder in teasing amusement, and Romy glances back with a bit more of a shy and humbled look. Echo: Well, someone's enthusiastic. Alright, silly pooch. Why don't you lead?" There's a large establishing shot of Romy and Echo ascending a path up a giant mountain hill, following the constellations on the rocks from the bottom of the page. Lester can be seen somewhere halfway up the mountain, lying down and splayed over a rock while guzzling alcohol. Boone can be seen at the very top, perched atop a cloud above the mountain's peak, and searching around with a concentrated look. Romy and Echo converse back and forth as they make their way up. Romy, shyly: "Y-you think I'm silly?" Echo, grinning: "Uh huh. In a cute way." Romy blushes, shocked and embarrassed, "CUTE?!" Echo, unbothered: "It's a compliment. Try not to get sidetracked." Romy, still blushing, and clearly struggling to hold it together, "Don't worry, I'm not! HAH!!!" Echo, teasingly: "Really? Because your face is so red, it's a bit hard to tell." Romy is trying to cover her blushing face with her paws, still walking ahead. 'Focused... stay focused!' Her paws push forward. 'The stars... the path..." A voice off screen catches her attention. "Oh, hey Rom-ster." Boone is seen in front of Romy, leaning down and offering her a bottle of water. "Your face is pretty red. Are you staying hydrated?" Romy, still blushing madly: "NO - I mean YES! I mean -" She pulls the bottle to her face, still blushing, albeit timidly. "Did we hit a dead end?" The four adventurers are seen silhouetted from atop a flat peak, with no path in sight. Boone: "Maaaaaaybe. Haven't seen a single entrance so far." He continues speaking to Romy and Echo, while Lester nonchalantly lumbers off behind him. Boone lifts his foot and points to it: "It's weird. These rock formations feel a bit hollow underhoof. So there must be a cave somewhere around here." He pauses with a finger to his chin, in deeper thought. Lester stands off in the distance, the ground cracking underneath his feet. Boone, unaware: "We just gotta find a way to get in -" Lester falls through the ground with a loud "GAHUHU?!", and Boone's ear lifts, pupils moving toward the direction of the sound. "... side."
August 4, 2025 at 8:40 PM
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Also, huge thanks to a new patron this month! Shout out to Pomegranite this week!!! ❤️
slumbertown.bsky.social SlumberTown 🌵⭐ @slumbertown.bsky.social · Aug 4
Topple one domino, and the rest follow…

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The ground cracks. Boone gets spooked and tries to take off running, but Echo grabs his arm. Boone: "HAYSTACKS!!! We gotta dip!" Echo: "No, Boone. STAY. I explicitly said -"
August 4, 2025 at 8:07 PM
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Topple one domino, and the rest follow…

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The ground cracks. Boone gets spooked and tries to take off running, but Echo grabs his arm. Boone: "HAYSTACKS!!! We gotta dip!" Echo: "No, Boone. STAY. I explicitly said -"
August 4, 2025 at 8:06 PM
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Is he dead? Exciting! Read to find out!

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Romy, Boone and Echo all look over in silent shock, then peer down a hole while Echo asks, "Uhh. Lester? You good?"
July 28, 2025 at 7:57 PM
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Oh no! A dead end! (… or is it?)

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Two panels where Boone is thinking to himself out loud in real time, while Lester stands nonchalantly at a short distance behind him. As Boone is talking, Lester suddenly falls through the cracks in the rock below. Boone: "We just gotta find a way to get in - ... side."
July 21, 2025 at 7:48 PM
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Book 2.7: In the Shadows
- March 18, 2024

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Boone draws attention to a couple pool balls in his hoof, with a large visible red bump on his head. "C'mon, Romy! These balls won't hit themselves. Hehe." Romy, while putting their memory log journal on the bookshelf. "Right! Coming..." They walk to the pool table with a stick in paw, while Boone cheers them on - though they are still too deep in their thoughts the flashbacks of their vision to notice. 'Let's see... the graveyard. My dad's tombstone.' Boone: "You're up first, kiddo! Take your best shot!" Romy preps the pool stick: 'That person in the shadows... who WAS that?" They aim the stick while holding it in their mouth. They think back to the silhouette of Janus White (the stoat) peering from behind the tree. 'For some reason, I don't think they belong there. In that flashback.' They avert their eyes nervously. 'So... if that's the case...' The Janus silhouette appears at the other end of the pool table from Romy's POV. 'What are they doing in such a personal memory?'
July 15, 2025 at 7:16 PM
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Book 1.7: Social Anxiety
- March 18, 2019

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Romy looks across the other side of the path and sees a hyena there, leaning against a window in a ragged jacket, holding a beer bottle. The hyena: "Yeeeah, YOU! Red sweater? Get over here! ... hic..." Romy points to themself in confusion, then trails their bike over to the drunken hyena. As they walk, they think to themselves, troubled, 'Okay, this is scary. I don't know who this guy is. And suddenly I'm walking toward him? His scent makes me a bit uneasy, but... it's probably just the anxiety talking! I'm sure he's fine. Besides, I can't turn back now. That'd be weird.' They force a smile and hold their head up, trying to feign confidence. 'Come on, Romy, loosen up! Just go up and say hi. That should be easy! Just... just say...' They finally speak: "Uh... h-h... hi... ?"
July 15, 2025 at 7:10 PM