Hefska clenches his fist, feeling not just alive but stronger than before. We then cut to him before his audience as he explains that he believes the beast was a spirit sent to try him and that his survival is the result of him passing the test. As we note life returning to normal as most of his people don't believe him, we focus on his mate carrying a bowl of fruit. She then drops it and bends over coughing up blood, confirming that she now has the infection.

CW: #blood
I am no longer 100% certain I will be able to resist the urge to draw up a little species ref sheet that explains how these guys reproduce. Also a fun note, they have radulas instead of teeth.
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Hefska is confronted by the bellowing alien monster. The two then exchange blows before the monster strikes him down. Hefska is shown waking some time later before sitting up to see that he is now alone on the beach.

CS: #Blood
Didn't realize it until working on this page, but having his eyes be red meant I'd pinned myself down to these aliens having red blood.
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Lana has pulled the timber out of her backside and notes it will result in painful splinters. She and Delilah, still in the bathtub, discuss how Lana came to be in the crawlspace between floors and why Delilah is sitting in the bathtub fully clothed. When Lana refuses to let go of that latter question Delilah snaps and admits, among other things, that her mother used to lock her in a closet when she messed up. This gives Lana pause before she notes that Delilah had a messed up childhood. Delilah reminds Lana that her mother tried to eat her, which Lana passes off as normal for her species.

Lana stop being fun to draw challenge. Rating: Impossible.
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Hefska exits the jungle and we sea him approaching a large unmoving creature washed up on the beach. As he comes closer we get a close up and see it opening its eye.

Look, at the very least he has to go up and poke it with a stick, it's a (assumed) dead body, ya just gotta poke those with a stick.
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Hefska is shown in his tent clasping hands with his partner and sharing his story before he calls the tribe together to hear the story from him all at once. We then get his flashbacks of him failing in the hunt, falling on his face, and being generally miserable in the rain. After the rain he peaks through bushes onto a beach with some strange creature ragged and covered in seaweed.

Pre-agrarian trail rations really are an underrated step in cultural development since it drastically increases the effectiveness of persistence hunters.
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Delilah is curled into a ball of misery hugging her knees in the bathtub. She laments the horrible day she's having and comments how she just wants to be left alone. At that point the ceiling collapses. Delilah throws up her hands and accepts this as proof the universe personally hates her. Lana, rising up from the rubble, notes that it's weird Delilah said that when she's the one with a broken ceiling joist shoved up her backside.

I've said it before and I'll say it again, any day I get an excuse to draw Lana is a good one.
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We see the entry pillars standing. As the narrator admits they assumed the hunter was dead, he walks through the pillars, covered in scars. We see many of the villagers running past our narrator in their hurry to see the man they thought dead. As she wonders about whether this was good or bad we see him greeting the others and that his eyes are now a strange red color.

Came back wrong, but it's like, coming back from the grocery store wrong. Went out to get groceries, came back with a demon.
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The narrator explains the small village where the plague began over a shot of the same on a small plateau in the mountains. As she explains she had just been brought into the adult circles of her society we see her among a work group of the aliens. She notes that it was then that one of their hunters left off to hunt on his own. We see the hunter walking by the group bearing a bow and spear. As he walks down the path away from the village we're told that they waited his return, then as the light shifts and the sun rises she notes that he failed to return, even for many days.

Five guesses as to what's going to happen to Hefska.
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Ben cringes as he flips through the magazine and contemplates offering Delilah the use of his doom-bots for revenge. Delilah swings the door open to glare at him and explain that all she wants right now is to be left alone. After she slams the door again Ben ponders what exactly she meant and Jeremiah points out they should just listen to her and leave her alone to go get some booze to wash the taste of maturity out of his mouth.

And now some confirmation that the title of those articles wasn't misleading click-bait and they really were that bad.
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Jaman is standing in front of a display screen showing the stars outside. As memories filter in of an alien world the image of an alien fades over her and the stars fade to an alien landscape. The alien looks away as her image fades and she thinks over her memories of how this all began.

Here's our first look at Patient -1, the host whose infection was spread to Jaman and began the whole mess on the station.
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Cover art features the title of the arc, "memories" and Jaman, patient zero, with the optic nerves out of the back of her head twisting into some kind of totem with a cluster of nerves coming off of it making it look like a tree.

cw #blood
Cover art for the next of the post script comics. This one will be a bit longer and details the events on the planet in the mind of the host before Jaman was infected.
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Jeremiah walks upstairs to find Ben still trying to get Delilah, who has locked herself in the bathroom, to talk to him. Ben says he doesn't know what's got her so upset and Jeremiah shows him the magazine cover. Ben has the same disturbed response Jeremiah had last comic and Jeremiah points it out.

If you're wondering why she didn't suspect something from that outfit, it's because they took a huge mess of different pictures in different outfits and didn't tell her which one they'd use.
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Long Donk sprints through the hallways while thinking over how being a leader and caring about those under you can mean having to make horrible decisions. They reach the door to the auxiliary bridge and it opens on scrubbot 721 preparing to detonate the bombs in the ship. Long donk takes a step forward before collapsing to their knees and begging 721 to end it all.

Our depiction of their final moments had Long Donk kneeling before 721, and now you know what was going on there.
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Long Donk contemplates the challenges in protecting the zombies as we see them rescue a zombie from a giant gift box only for the two to stand by and watch the box being incinerated. We then skip forward to watch Long Donk watching the footage of the pirate ship, and the zombies on it, exploding. We then cut to Long donk at the back of a memorial service for the zombies.

Had to redo that first panel completely because I misremembered how that scene looked the first time I drew it.
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Jeremiah is sorting mail when he gets interrupted watching Ben follow Delilah upstairs and asking Delilah why she's so upset. He then finds a copy of the magazine with he interview in the mail and reacts with severe discomfort as he comments on not liking having his questions immediately answered.

Full honesty, caffeine is probably magical in their world, magic kind of gets everywhere and contaminates everything, like radioactive glitter.
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Long Donk discusses how their new authority has isolated them from others. We open with a close up of the sign in front of their room. The original sign identifies it as one of the rooms for the hydroponics department while a taped up sign notes it as belonging to Machael Leroy the zombie supervisor. As they note that once you have authority the people under your authority only seem to speak with you to get something from you we focus on zombies coming to speak to them, first one, then two then dozens. As the zombies depart we see Long donk left alone in their office has they hang their head realizing how alone they are.

It's not an unreasonable change either, it is really hard to keep a healthy personal friendship or other relationship with someone once they become your boss.
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Long Donk thinks on the leaders we've seen and how 14, who seized power through force, the captain, who was given their power due to their skill and experience, and Atropos, who had their power forced onto them. We then cut to the scene where Long Donk claimed power themselves and see the other zombies, battered and injured from Atropos driving them back. Long Donk sighs and the takes charge because if they don't then the others are only going to get hurt worse.

Captain Perez really does have a pretty lengthy resume for their job.
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We cut to Ban's store sign as he talks with a customer. The conversation is interrupted by the door ringing and Delilah, looking miserable and with a cloud of depression following her trudges past both. Ben explains to the customer that he's going to go check on his friend and leaves behind a vaguely Furby-looking doll to handle the customer. The customer takes this in for a moment before telling Ben that he's having trouble not finding this insulting.

He should feel honored, that's a first-run Pawsly, those are pretty valuable these days with collectors.
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A cover for the chapter "Bearing the Crown." It depicts Long Donk, the leader of the zombies, framed by a rough grey surface with the title in gothic script above. In background their neck is a dazzling and twisting pattern and the shadows highlight a potion of their hair out shaped as a crown.

I only wish their hair was more blue so that it would bear a stronger resemblance to the Crown of Light.
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Donald and Sibbern embrace on the couch, sharing their last moment together as the explosions of the destructing space station consumes the world behind them.

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Pages that made me need to curl up on the floor and have a good cry:

Gabrio leaves the meeting but Delilah is asked to stay behind. The guild head begins asking her a leading series of question regarding their PR policies before shoving a copy of the magazine she did an interview for in her face. AS a result Delilah is extremely uncomfortable and makes a face like she just sat naked on a pinecone.

Pretty much all major organizations have policies like that and you can get in serious trouble for violating them.
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An indeterminate time later Sibbern rises. As a mutated Donald watches she yawns, revealing her new monstrous mouth. She suddenly notices Donald and the two immediately embrace.

Sibbern, now world record holder for biggest yawn.
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Azer slams down his hand on the desk, interrupting Gabrio to begin yelling at him. Chastised but defiant, Gabrio defends himself. Azer then slumps back in his chair, acknowledging the defense while explaining the discipline Gabrio should expect. He snarks off about this, something Azer points out is severely unwise.

It's like being savaged by angry bureaucratic dandelion fluff.
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Through panels shaped like a dancing figure we see a pre-zombie Donald greeting Sibbern. Then, while Jamon sets of the explosion he hears something and tackles Sibbern to the ground in an attempt to save her from the explosion. Only for this clearly to have failed as both lie together in a puddle of blood, dead and crushed beneath rubble.

Downside to these short pieces is that I don't really get much time to figure out the experimental aspects.
CW: #blood #death
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A cover page showing the silhouettes of Donald and Sibbern dancing. They form a heart shape and inside the shapes is a yellow rose bush with brief glimpses of the dancing figures visible. Rose petals are falling over the page and coming to rest in the blood leaking out from the heart.

The next two of these mini-arcs may be a little weirder than the previous. They won't be written as much from the normal perspective and won't feel as direct of a narrative.
CW: #blood
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The arc ends with Atropos and 721 curled up and looking out into the digital void.

Wrapping this up. Since this is just the one piece I'm about to follow it up with the cover for the next one.
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A laptop shows the undead monster from the previous BnJ cold open. The guild head discusses the image and it's shown Gabrio and Delilah are seated opposite him. After Gabrio pulls an "I told you so" Aver, the guild head, asks him if that's really the direction he anticipated for this meeting.

Of course the contrarian nature of people in positions like that being what they are, he might actually have gotten away with that if he hadn't said it out loud.
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As they continue the discussion, Atropos rests herself on 721's lap and we close in on their profile and then their view of the digital floor of the station.

Less funny than Persephone being unapologetically horny, but this is also really close to my own feelings on the matter.
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As 721 explains she was actually talking about how they were made up of Atropos' memories and that she's not at risk of losing those, we go from them kneeling down next to Atropos, to a close up stare at their hand, and then to Atropos leaning against their shoulder.

Though in organic life the memories fading is generally part of a healing process as the individual processes the loss and so tend not to be something really painful, though still a bit tragic.
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MD and Persephone are looking at a mystical symbol and discussing summoning an incubus. The spell goes off and instead of an incubus they've summoned a huge monster of a demon. MD clarifies some pages got stuck together and offers to banish it. Persephone begins removing her top and notes that she can make this work.

You know how sometimes people emphasize that their characters do not speak for them? Nope, Persephone is 100% channeling my feelings on this.
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