“This is no time to feel as if the ground itself is tilting beneath you, resulting in the symbolic destruction of your life’s ambitions by your own unwise alliances and poorly-masked brutality!”

Phil’s investment in fonts by Blambot continues to pay off. (At least I think it’s Blambot, it looks Blambotty, but by now he wasn’t running it by me whenever he got a new one to play with.)

Scipio’s “implying” construction was, I think, the only time we really used 4chan language as an inspiration point for his dialogue. Even though that was a larger-scale inspiration for his character, Phil was moving away from that culture at this point, and I had never been into it.