Endtown by Aaron Neathery for December 21, 2020

Kinda’ like St. Nicholas! Finally some reality in how to raise kids! Scare the little blighted into submission…

The more I think of it, the more plausible my suggestion at the end of 12/19’s comments seems. Sarah would not have run from Jim in horror of his new form…she didn’t even remember him. And if he was unimpressive down there she probably would have laughed instead of fled.

Jim is toast, and Sarah is dust. Wally & Kirbee get along fine. Attitude matters.

This explains a lot……So Albert back at Endtown is still human as there is no other but him in any of the realities. So either Sparkplug Sanders had no other reality brothers or his treatment against the Zero weapons isolated him into a single reality rendering him immune to the changes. Out of sync and unable to die. Still they have to stop the realities from crashing…..or find a reality isolated from the coming chaos.

And now the story of… 2020! Furry kids screaming and hiding under the covers

I would have like to have seen what the offspring of the suits look like!

Well, based on the history of humanity, this may not actually be a bad thing… Oh, Happy Holidays, all! ;-)

It had been established previously that two anthros will give birth to a completely random kind of animal anthros, even if the parents ar the same kind of animals.

If it’s truly random, could it be possible they could also give birth to a Typhoid Mary human? Human are animal too, after all?

Furry little kids and little bitty toothbrushes.

Wally: “Well, it was a good run. I’ll be sure to work in your name when I tell the grandchildren.”

The most memorable of all the images in this strip so far for me, is the “In Memoriam” statue in Unity. The lizards committed genocide against all non-lizard anthros, and are planning to send that little historical detail down the memory hole, but they felt guilty enough that they made that statue.

The “typhoid Marys” probably produce furries, too, since they hook up with anthros..

maybe those “typhoid marys” aren’t having any kids because they’re too busy trying to avoid ending up on topsider vivisection tables, you gotta control for ALL your variables.

Something I would hope…99.44% of people are “animals are alright, kinda, in their place”, but 0.56% are obsessed with a particular species (the way I am with mongooses). Maybe those few Furry fanatics are ones who are psychically in tune with their cardoodle counterpart (hey, if we can have mind reading dittos, why not this?). That would be a small compensation for me if this should happen to our Earth some night when I am asleep (if it happens when I am awake, of course, I’m boned).

Sooo, I guess we’re not going to see what they were looking at. Guess it’s too gruesome.

OK, dumb question. If these suits are made with the additional material that blocks the inter-reality swap from happening, why can’t they make a polymer “tent” with the same properties, have two consenting topsiders go inside, de-suit (after all, they would still be protected inside the tent), make some whoopie, re-suit, and then exit.

Rinse – repeat – gestate – deliver (inside another tent, of course), en-suit infant etc.

Why couldn’t that work?

I’ll post this here to make it more likely to be seen.Just received an Amazon gift card in the mail for Xmas. Is the Unity In Memoriam statue in vol 3? I am almost sure it is but want to confirm before ordering.

“…when men are fairy tales in books written by rabbits.”Peter Beagle, “The Last Unicorn”

I can fully understand why the Topsiders are so cheesed. Imagine them, the ultimate lord of the planet, the ultimate “apex predator” and now due to a rash mistake on their part they’re going to soon be a footnote in the history books of anthros. No wonder they want to lash out at the anthros in the way they are.

I don’t think anyone has said what caused the initial dimension overlap. If this group of Topsiders caused the “grex avalanche” by making the Eden Project…then why did they do the experiment in the first place? “Eden was put into a pocket singularity to control the ‘mutations’ caused by dimensional overlap brought on by putting Eden into the pocket singularity” makes no sense. So what caused the overlap? And did the war using Amesworth radiation and Zero guns have anything to do with it?

Perhaps our Storyteller left little bread crumbs in each previous story arc; tiny bits so many have missed tying together? Or, perhaps he’s just being Aaron Marx, and diddling with depictions of reality at random? Or perhaps we are all following a really creative rascal who loves something like a twisty road in a really responsive sports car? No matter…the story goes on…

Aaron tells me he get ~$8 for each book. That is about 30% of what we spend :-( I intend to ultimately buy all four volumes, but it depends on when I can afford them. My cousin guardian has me on a budget, and if I break it no more credit card. My birthday (63) is coming up Mar 5, maybe I’ll get another gift card? Or I can buy once a month…

As a newbie here, is there some way when I come and see, say 80 posts where last time it was 75 posts, that I can quickly find the five new posts without having to click on all of them and their replies?

Regarding RickD’s comment. No paradox. Eden created well after the advent of the grexing, which was happening before the war as we saw in the Holly memories aboard the Edmund Fitzgerald, and the isolated drive in the dark by Holly and her husband, where they found monsters — which were destroyed by an airstrike.

Now, we saw in Holly’s memory that people in biosuits responded to the destruction of her friend (and the friend’s husband and house) by those cheery little bombs. (And they shot it out with police.) So it is not clear which came first, the biosuits or the changes. But one suspects the biosuits came first.

Also, remember that this is the only world amongst a large number of more or less closely separated worlds in the multiverse that was not made completely uninhabited by war, according to the Edmund Fitzgerald computer. Perhaps that was because only it was experiencing the grexing? (unknown at this point).

And as far as the destruction of worlds, we saw that happening on another “earth” in Wally’s dream with the female Marx leading a charge on horseback. That ended in a blood. It was probably on a different “earth” that fully died.

Perhaps the grexing is what preserved this earth, which is not ours of course because consarn it we don’t have flying cars! 8^(

You know, like my revulsion of both Republican and Democrat Parties, I don’t know which I would join here. Allgood’s side is one thing…but it increases danger of Schism Syndrome. Jack’s is another…but we (and him) saw where it can lead in the wolves and pigs arc. Me, I’d be torn between the extremes. Maybe Thomas Mongoose Mazanec, changing my middle name (which was Richard, after my father).

Could someone who is more steeped in Endtown than me, and is more proficient at wikis than me, update the Wikifur entry on Endtown?

You know, in this Covid Christmas, the worst I can remember, it helps a little to think of a world immeasurably worse off than we are.

You know, that perception filter would have had an easy time with me…my cousin complains how unobservant I am. Don’t need my bottlebottoms on my nose anymore (which wouldn’t fit anyway)? What’s a fraction of a millimeter in eyelens curvature when I have a snout, pizzle, tail and pelt? Broken limbs heal in days? Hey I never had a broken bone, I would just think “Gee, faster than I thought! Sure glad!” With this universe who would notice such details? I once saw a Beetle Bailey cartoon where Beetle makes a bet that he can have a shoelace untied at inspection and Sarge would not notice. He came out to inspection wearing a clown wig and mask, a Hells Angel leather jacket, a ballet tutu…and one shoelace untied.

What would have happened to Foxworthy in our world? I know newspapers have fallen for hoaxes before…I am pretty sure the publisher or editor was not hung in public and left to (presumably) rot off the noose.Fired? Lawsuit? Or nothing?