Brainspike: Poor evil telepath… no one believes him. And really, why would they? Apart from being a manipulative psychopath… as Dwayne Donovan points out “weird shit happened to everyone” and with a few thousand people on the island that day, well… no one cares! Use the Brainspike tag to follow his adventure!
Arne Samson & Dwayne Donovan: these two security guards were introduced on page 6.49 – both of them got up to shenanigans before the “blank-out”, although Donovan’s (assaulting Brelvis) was a bit more visible than Samson’s (attemting to assassinate the Master Assassin)!
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If Donovan was stuck with kitchen duty,would Samson rub it in?
Unless the inmates handle kitchen duty???
I don’t think anyone would want to eat Donovan’s cooking…it would be a cruel and unusual punishment…
and I’d be quite worried about the inmates’ cooking for other reasons.
“Would you like arsenic with that?”
Arsenic is soooo pre-superpowers. I’m sure most of the supervillains would put in something that turns people into mindcontroled puppets or mutated monstrosities or something.
“Would you like wonderflorium or Material-X in your baked beans?”
“Don’t you have any more The Ooze?”
“Sorry. Guard caught the last shipment that was being smuggled in.”
Mmmm. The Ooze.
Sydney Scoville: [ Thinking while mopping the kitchen floor ] Why do I have to wait in prison with their criminals while the immigration folks sort out which universe I should be in? Just ’cause I have powers, they stick me in super-powered jail! Oh well. It could be worse. I could be stuck in a cell all day, or even in among some of those creepy girls they got here.
At least they are letting me help out here in the kitchen. Hmm the chili is a little bland. What do they have here to spice it up? Well, they’re only scotch bonnets, but they’ll do. I’ll just put in a half-dozen or so. Don’t want to blow off anybody’s mouth that isn’t used to the hot stuff yet.
TWC update: now at #86, not bad at all! 🙂 But sure we can do better?
You’d think “we all do thing we regret” might apply to Samson too, but he doesn’t seem very regretful… perhaps because he’d only have regretted it if he’d been found out.
As much as I’m not fond of types like Donovan I can relate to his resentment. Even though lots of people were affected by that ‘mind-bomb’ he’s being singled out because the others are either too influential or just plain too popular to be punished.
Plus he got caught doing it.
1. Grace, you’ve never revealed Donovan’s super power. This may be my last chance to ask, so please divulge it! Please?
2. As an American, I’ve never heard the term “agony aunt”. I looked it up, so now I know: it’s an advice columnist like Dear Abby.
Living in Australia means growing up on not just local culture, but one fairly ripe with cultural references and words from both the USA and the UK, the problem is sometimes presume a reference or term is universal when it isn’t. That said, it’s helped me decide on Arne Samson’s background, so next page he’ll use “arse” instead of “ass”…!
As for Donovan’s power… to be honest I never had one in mind for him. But you can rest assured it’s probably something fairly mediocre.
But why does Brain Spike care if some random guard believes his story? Unless it’s an ego thing (something that I imagine he’s got an overabundance of), I just don’t see why he’d care.
I did wonder that too, maybe he thinks it will get him time off?
Someones grumpy