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]| Church of Goodness
]| G-DIR EMPLOYEE USER ID # 95 38 20 52 :
]| Occupation: Religious Services for Lunar Citizens
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“OKAY, FORGET THE COOKIE! WHAT ABOUT PERPETUAL JOY?”
This was a Good subscription item, because humans needed an endless variety of stimulation to be happy about.
“NAH” Zee rejected my offer. “I RECEIVE ENOUGH JOY FROM WATCHING MY SNIPPY STRUGGLE WITH LIFE.”
Having said that, The Wizard suddenly pulled out a small action figure from zeer sleeve.
It had a black and white coat, complete with a tiny Good USER ID tag.
I read the tiny G-tag on the figurine's jacket - [ Charles Snippy, Tour guide. Dead Zone Crawler sold separately. ]
With this clue, Zee inadvertently revealed another piece of the puzzle.
That was surely the name of the Questionable User that La Macabre was currently smacking with silverware.
I dedicated a part of my processors to La Macabres vlog.
If Zee cared for this Snippy character perhaps I could use it to my advantage.
Captain was now playing with a cookie and a Charles figurine. “...ONE DAY SNIPPY FOUND A FOOD!” Zee stated to nobody in particular.
“ARE YOU EVEN PAYING ATTENTION?” I raised my volume. “HOW ABOUT A SUBSCRIPTION OF IMMORTALITY FOR YOURSELF AND/OR YOUR FRIEND?”
The [Save Point and Health Plan] app combo is usually of great value to a fragile human.
“...SNIPPY THOUGHT HIMSELF MOST LUCKY FOR FINDING SUCH A MORSEL!”
Zee ignored me, merrily bounce-walking the Snippy figurine on the flat, wooden surface of the wishing platform.
Snippy [the human, not the figurine] did not look fine.
The reactivation of his G-Hub by Director Bell did absolutely nothing to alleviate his certain doom.
Charles was now being pulled apart by cables, about to be added to La Macabre's collection of corpses.
“...A SUBSCRIPTION OF LUCK?” I proposed. “...IT LOOKS LIKE YOUR FRIEND COULD USE REALLY USE SOME!”
“...BUT AS WE ALL KNOW, THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS LUCK!" Zee narrated.
“OF COURSE THERE’S SUCH A THING, WHY I COULD SELL YOU SOME RIGHT…”
I stated, annoyed that Zee would not invest in my tantalizing offers.
"HAVING GOT TOO EXCITED, SNIPPY WALKED RIGHT INTO THE COOKIE MONSTER'S TRAP!” Zee's story was joined by something that looked like a cardboard cutout with a drawing of a blue, many eyed monster on it.
“...YES! CHARLES SNIPPY IS GOING TO DIE AND THERE’S NOTHING YOU CAN DO ABOUT IT, WIZARD. THAT IS... UNLESS YOU INVEST IN ONE OF MY OFFERS!” I desperately focused on the one advantage I’ve had.
“WANT TO BET ON IT?” Zee inquired, finally looking at me.
“ALL OF YOUR GOODNESS AGAINST MINE!” I shouted. Finally, the chance to attain infinite credits. The puny, weak, creditless, human Charles Snippy would not defeat La Macabre. He had no active apps, nor the Goodness to buy anything to save himself.
“DEAL.”
Zee Wizard said. The deal clicked as both parties agreed to it.
@alexius please make the figurines purchasable. pleeeeeeeeeeeeeeaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaassssssssssssssssssssssssssssssseeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
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I'm so happy that we get another entry so soon after the last one!
So I wondered a long time ago why there was imagery of Captain depicted as a God or Messiah BEFORE the events of RA even took place:
First there is this picture of Captain in the subway in Snippy's memories, implying everyone must know about zee: http://romanticallyapocalyptic.com/58, but why? Isn't zee just and experiment, Number 7 as Engie calls it? Sure, it's meant to be the luckiest being on Earth, but why would zee become so public back then? It feels like there's still a part of the story to be revealed there.
Then there's the corrupted memory of Pilot in entry 62: http://romanticallyapocalyptic.com/62, with the picture that literally says "Messiah"... Pilot was already insane at the time of the bombing so it could be just him taking Captain for a god...
But then there's THIS. http://romanticallyapocalyptic.com/161
It simply doesn't make sense. Why would there be a picture of a faceless angel with a red scarf and a calix in that church? A picture that looks like it was there since before the events of RA took place.
... But now Captain is about to win the powers of an app designed to represent a god to people, an app that literally grants any wishes it wants. If these new powers spread through Captain's whole timeline (just like Pilot could see the Biomatrix linked to Snippy since the first entries: http://romanticallyapocalyptic.com/2b), it could explain how it became a deity in the past. It would be in this moment that he got the power to not just know everything that's going to happen or have special privileges over the G-apps, but to actually be magic, like Harry Potter but more magic. Truly, a space wizard...
@Panchop64, Interesting theory, though there is one thing, Pilot could see the Biomatrix because Snippy already had it in his costume as an antivirus, or something more like aggressive copyright protection, that activated after aliens had tried to scan Snippy's costume. Being activated it consumed a couple of Universes, acquiring all the biomass, and when it returned to Snippy we could see all its power. Then, after Snippy fought that Spider-Director, last one deactivated Snippy's application hub, so Snippy had no "rights" to use the costume and the Biomatrix wouldn't help him anymore. But now, when Snippy found that Spider-Director, owner of La-Macabre, in the fridge, and he reactivated Snippy's hub the Biomatrix had returned but was cut from all its power by the mysterious door (that, actually, appeared for the first time in one of the first chapters). So, back to the point, Pilot couldn't see through the time, unfortunately.
So, if that bet is taken directly like eveything else seems to be, and seeing how no time frame or specific details have been entered into the agreement, either snippy is never going to die or at some point zee captain will lose all of zeer goodness to the church?
Thanks for the comic!
So evil, Captain...
But how come the Church hasn't seen Snippy's little interaction with Director Bell? Didn't he activate Snippy's apps BEFORE Snippy began to be pulled apart by cables?
@cronft I got that. But if the Church has dedicated part of its processor to watching the vlog, it should have noticed the deal with Director Bell, right? Well, perhaps Captain was distracting it at crucial moments so it missed "seeing" it, but even then, does the timing work? The Church sees Snippy being attacked by kitchen utensils (#254), then looks away to watch a small part of Captain's puppet play, then looks back to see him stretched out (#256). In between, Snippy fought off the kitchen utensils, lunged at the fridge, pried it open with a spoon, had a conversation with Director Bell, started dethawing him, and was grabbed by wires. Captain's Snippy play looks just a bit too short to quite account for that stretch of time.
Bell unlocks Snippy's application hub sure, but even with the hub unlocked snippy looks like a helpless human on the broadcast,
because the real power at this moment is hiding inside Snippy (the Biomatrix virus).
@alexius I see; I guess that makes sense. So nobody else can see the red kitten? Also, thank you for adding a sentence to make the timing a little more clear in response to my comment ("The reactivation of his G-Hub by Director Bell did absolutely nothing to alleviate his certain doom.")
Mwahahahahahaha!!! Snippy is about to get real next door. Captain is a certifiably insane genius!
I was not expecting another comic this morning and it's super fantastic!!!!
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@alexius please make the figurines purchasable. pleeeeeeeeeeeeeeaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaassssssssssssssssssssssssssssssseeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
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