{"id":1870,"date":"2018-09-12T13:17:04","date_gmt":"2018-09-12T17:17:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ceaselessfables.com\/cfb\/?p=1870"},"modified":"2018-09-12T13:17:11","modified_gmt":"2018-09-12T17:17:11","slug":"254","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ceaselessfables.com\/cfb\/2018\/09\/12\/254\/","title":{"rendered":"#254"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/ceaselessfables.com\/cfb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/cfb_254.jpg?w=525&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-880\"\/><figcaption>December 13, 2015<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>NOTES<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>The color palette of this page was inspired by the 1982 Activision game\u00a0<em>Chopper Command<\/em><\/li><li><em><\/em>The digits on Essul&#8217;s archivist badge correspond to the page number of his first appearance, the volume numeral of the art reference books, and the page his reference art appears on in that volume<\/li><li>In panel 6, the phobe symbol is used, to indicate 5,000 phobes (dollars)<\/li><li>Five thousand is also the cited death toll of the &#8220;Cloud Concourse Calamity&#8221; 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