#3807

“Oh, SH8T.”

Fucking hell, that was instant.

At best, the trolls had mere minutes to prepare for Jack's arrival. They can't outrun him, they're fresh out of hiding spots, and their best fighter is halfway across the Incipisphere. What can they even do?

There's no way they're actually getting vaporized, so I can only assume we're in for some sort of deus ex machina. Perhaps one of the trolls will awaken an Aspect power, or reveal one that they've been holding in reserve.

The two Heroes of Light had challenged the same Jack Noir, the one straddling The Scratch and about twenty hours of his own time, to a circumstantially simultaneous pair of duels. Circumstantial simultaneity [...] is the agent responsible for the major cosmic event which pre-extinction Alternians came to refer to as The Great Undoing. The same concept rules the innumerable lesser events by which this critical moment shall be catalyzed, including the break, my employer's arrival, the detonation of a very powerful bomb, and my own death. It is an abstraction weaving together the fortunes of otherwise perfectly disparate chronologies, such as those bound to a pair of distinct sessions.

Vriska and Rose are heroes of the same Aspect, dueling the same invincible enemy - and, thus, these duels are cosmically 'linked' in some way. In short, it seems like two events become 'circumstantially simultaneous' if they share enough of the same characteristics.

If you deconstruct Scratch's overly-technical terminology, he's essentially discussing narrative parallels, and explaining that they'll play a major role in English's summoning ritual. It sounds like English is just as meta-aware as his minion is, and his plans will take these more abstract properties of Paradox Space into account.

This might also be the technical term for these 'remixed' panels that we often see in the comic. Out-of-universe, this is just Hussie re-using assets, but perhaps there's some deeper meaning here, too.

The Slayer was, for the moment, unmotivated by the Thief's motion for a compelling duel. This side of The Scratch, he opted for a more ruthless and calculating policy of extermination. On his arrival, not about to repeat the mistakes leading to his banishment, he quickly obliterated all twelve planets, followed by Prospit and Derse, to weed out those who might outsmart him in the same manner.

Q Drops! 3807- None are safe, None are protected

3807

New: Title TBD Q!!Hs1Jq13jV630 Jan 2020 – 12:52:43 PM

A transformation in Virgo

The constellation of Virgo (The Virgin) is especially rich in galaxies, due in part to the presence of a massive and gravitationally-bound collection of over 1300 galaxies called the Virgo Cluster. One particular member of this cosmic community, NGC 4388, is captured in this image, as seen by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope’s Wide Field Camera 3 (WFC3).

Located some 60 million light-years away, NGC 4388 is experiencing some of the less desirable effects that come with belonging to such a massive galaxy cluster. It is undergoing a transformation, and has taken on a somewhat confused identity.

While the galaxy’s outskirts appear smooth and featureless, a classic feature of an elliptical galaxy, its centre displays remarkable dust lanes constrained within two symmetric spiral arms, which emerge from the galaxy’s glowing core — one of the obvious features of a spiral galaxy. Within the arms, speckles of bright blue mark the locations of young stars, indicating that NGC 4388 has hosted recent bursts of star formation.