Ceaseless Fables of Beyonding

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• Tournament death toll: 130,000+
• Zardoza and Subliminus change course for Ponymus, to appeal for aid

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• The Shoadomites are recalling the wallopers to defend their homeland
• The zeppeloyers are wiped out by a sky sliggan (panel 6)
• Refusaleth crumbles the Gargrudgen, causing falling rocks for miles around
• In panel 9, you can see one of the walloper deployment canisters crashed into the audience

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• Insanus arrives at the island of Shoadom, and explains their connection to the current conflict
• Shoadom is encircled by a “safety wall”, as seen in panel 9

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• The zeppeloyer pilot is a direct reference to Colette Hiller as Corporal Ferro from the movie Aliens (1986)
• The wallopers pop out of deployment canisters, which sail to the ground and often cause additional damage
• “Field-tested” recalls the wallopers encountered previously in the story

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• Essul and Daemir Daggerbite have crashed on the Midirian coast, where the towering Gargrudgen are slowly walking toward the Tournament

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• #319, originally posted on 3/19
• This summit of Midirian Briguild representatives is an homage to a scene from Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones (2002)
• Briguilds represented, counterclockwise from lower left in panel 9: Currancer, Cursivere, Estimen, Fisherwit, Geareater, Minery, Panegandee, Resinati, Sortlec, Totsuvosto, Uluwestern
• Is the Estimen rep Riv’s father?
• Tiscinivel mentions “The Debt”; if you need or desire something strongly enough, the Midirian Empire will grant it to you, at the cost of your identity and freedom
• The Geareater rep is a clockwork automaton, much like Waywardo
• The Sortlec rep is a Similarian 
• All Briguilds are represented… except, of course, the Hatmender Briguild, which is clandestine

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• Graver propaganda appears in panel 2
• The Four Colleges of Fargon are notated on Cornelius’s scholarship; Jausiv, Dejavecho, D’Bocklewith, and Nodde-Gamra

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• Pethetigo’s plea of “think of the children” is of course a reference to Helen Lovejoy 
• Demandice gets the drop on Tremenz and bisects him with her fan

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• The Midirian Empire calls back their Pendulords and aerosoldiers (panel 1), weakening Castle Creepwood’s defenses
• Tremenz and his army (including Harangutang, panel 6) move to occupy Castle Creepwood
• Pethetigo (7) was last seen in #244 

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• Codefathers Subliminus and Zardoza have taken refuge in what has turned out to be some form of ship
• Zardoza’s equipment displays the following images: Gargrudgen towering over the shore of Midiria (2); Refusaleth at the Tournament (3); Holocough obliterating Inway (5); Imperial Pendulords in Creepwood (8)