Annotated 48-50
And now Byron’s player is checking Syr’Nj’s player out for a beat. Well, I won’t hold that against him, it’s only natural in this situation, and as long as he isn’t being a creep or making her uncomfortable…oh, you weren’t paying attention to that part?
FB: This account of the early beta-testing is starting to look a bit slanted. (Content warning: body horror.) I think this is the first and last “content warning” I put on the FB ads, which seems about right. Even Berserkgate wasn’t much more disturbing than this to me, though squickiness is subjective, of course.
In reality, Carol just picked up all the clothes and walked away, probably stealing her own glances at Best and Byron’s players as she did, and busied herself for the three hours HR said this would take. The first wave of panic came later, shortly after those three hours were up.
Happy Halloween!
Dang, you nailed the fortuitously-timed Halloween content much better than Willis did! (Even if it didn’t appear on-site until after midnight.)
Hah! Like Carol wouldn’t have taken a look at the meaty dwarf… Them skinny kids have nothing on him.
I definitely thought this was the most stomach-turning moment in the series. Even years after seeing this page for the first time, I’m always torn between having to look at it quickly because it’s so viscerally horrible and wanting to appreciate how incredibly well-executed it is, especially panel 4.
Agree on panel 4. It’s equal parts gruesome and hypnotic.
I’ve always kind of wondered if the thing the clothes ends up in is a hamper or a bin. It looks a lot like a bin to me, which… just leads to an awful lot of questions about who knew what when. Assuming it’s not a dream-modification of what really happened.
Carol needed five seperate hampers!
That they didn’t provide for that, as well as for changing booths, is telling.
I would suspect that if Carol’s dream/imagination/recollection is coming up with the loose finger and the scene above, then the question of where the clothes actually went may not be reliably answered in them.
What I _do_ find a bit weird, though, is that they definitely did not provide any sort of visual barrier between the participants, and between the tubes and anyone who happens to be in the room. And we know they didn’t because that’s also how they are seen later.
Carol’s guilty conscience is surprisingly death metal-ish