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The panels on the page mirror the broken shards on the morgue's floor. Around them, speech bubbles representing a song zigzag. The different panels show Miguel in a chair, with someone in front of him holding a big pair of pliers, several tools with blood on them, the shards on the floor, and a masked Eurico who's singing and playing the portuguese guitar.

The song goes:

Oh Coimbra do Mondego
E dos amores que eu lá tive
Quem te não viu anda cego
Quem te não ama não vive

Quem te não viu
Anda Cego
Quem te não
Ama
Não vive.

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4 Panels.

Panel 1:
Estanislau is standing in the middle of the morgue room, with his two arms up. Mask on. One hand is holding the big pair of pliers. Eurico is on the foreground, holding the guitar and looking mildly annoyed at him. Theroom is very brightly lit with golden sunset colors.

Estanis: I have a proposition for you, FEARLESS: have you ever considered becoming a MIME?
Eurico: Why don't you find us a new singer, then! It's been two years.
Estanis: Oh, and where am I gonna find a voice like Victor's, hein?
Eurico: I need to sing the songs of my people, Fancy.

Panel 2:
Estanis the Fancy looks at the ceiling with a dreamy expression behind his googly-eyed devil mask. Behind him, he recalls Eurico, Victor and Estanis are sitting on a bar table while Victor violently chop's a guy's finger off.

Estanis: Aaah! Remember that time he chopped off that Antunes guy's finger? Good times, good times.
Eurico (off panel): If he already has the right number of fingers why don't you hire him?

Panel 3:
Estanis crosses the room to pick a CD from a CD recorder that's been sitting by the window.

Estanis: What ever happened to him?
Eurico: Changed schools.
Estanis: Huh. I'm not surprised.
Eurico: Fancy...

Panel 4:
Estanis is holding a CD on his finger.

Eurico (cont): Ângela seemed less nebulous today. How is she doing?


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6 Panels.

Panel 1:
Estanis moves back to where he was standing before. The Foreigner is tied to a chair, with his hair down and mask on. Estanis picks a new tool to play with, a manual drill.

Estanis: Ah, she's much better! I think she finally found the right meds for her. She cleans up after herself now, major improvement right there.
Eurico: I'm glad to hear.

Panel 2:
Eurico misses a string while playing the guitar.

Estanis (off panel): I think changing schools also helped her a lot.

Panel 3:
Eurico looks up his eyes menacingly visible behind his mask.

Panel 4:
Estanis lays the drill over the Foreigner's right hand.

Eurico (off panel): Hold on.

Panel 5,6:
Eurico puts his guitar away and walks towards Estanis.

Estanis: ?
Eurico: Have you noticed it is not flinching? It reacts to pain. And yet it's as if it doesn't know you're the one causing it.



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5 Panels.

Panel 1:
Eurico and Estanis stand on each side of the Foreigner and look down on him. Estanis is concerned and moves the drill away.

Estanis: What do you mean, you think it is... Atypical? Oh my God, Fearless, I'm not gonna hurt an atypical person!

Panel 2:
Eurico dismisses Estanis' concerns with a handwave.

Eurico: That's not it. This creature isn't human, of that I am sure.

Panel 3:
A vision of the Foreigner's mental pattern, with the five antlers protuding from it. Eurico's hands on the sides of the head, as if they are unweaving a string.

Panel 4:
Eurico stares at the scene, attentively.

Panel 5:
The Foreigner is shaking, with his mask still on.

Eurico (off panel): Or at least, not anymore.

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Panel 1:
Eurico moves his hands through the Foreigner's hair.

Estanis (off panel): Christ, if this is anything like our deslusos, you're wasting your time.
Eurico: No.

Panel 2:
Eurico is standing behind the chair the Foreigner is tied to. Behind them, the sunset comes in through the window, and the two of them are barely more than silhouettes.

Eurico (cont): This thing is but a parasite, latching onto the remains of a human mind. It's pattern is different. Not human. New. And more fragmented than the mind of an Augur.

Panel 3:
The Foreigner's black left hand, with a few fingers chopped off.

Estanis (off panel): Huhh, the meditans might have just found out a way to make dead soldiers too.
Eurico (off panel): Recycled proactive soldiers? That'd be the end of us.

Panel 4:

Estanis: That shit's unsettling, man.

Panel 5:
Top view of the room. Estanis is leaning against one of the beds, which is covered in different torture tools, some of them with blood, and a few beer bottles. Eurico is holding a syringe.

Eurico: You go on. I'm gonna give it another shot of ibuprofen. Its pattern is starting to shift outwards. We don't want it attacking us again.

Panel 6:
Estanis sighs.

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Panel 1:
Estanis approaches the Foreigner with a friendly body language.

Estanis: Shall we go back to discussing what your meditan friends are up to, Miguel? My good friend Fearless can give you some music, if you want to... To lighten up the mood!
Miguel: Our actions broke the balance of the cosmos. We must amend-
Estanis: Come on, Miguel. We've been over that.

Panel 2:
Miguel moves his head as if looking directly at Estanislau.

Miguel: We are all incomplete now.

Panel 3:
Eurico, behind the Foreigner, rests both his hands sofly over the Foreigner's shoulders.

Eurico: You're not telling us the whole truth, are you, Miguel?

Panel 4:
Eurico puts both his arms around the Foreigner's neck, and leans his head against his. It's almost a soft embrace.

Eurico: Are there more like you?

Panel 5,6,7:
Estanis drills through Miguel's right hand. Miguel screams and Eurico tightens his grip around his neck,

Miguel: I/WE CAME ALONE.


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5 Panels.

Panel 1:
Miguel gasps for hair, his face partially visible under the mask. His hands and mouth are very bloody.

Estanis (off panel): Oh come on.

Panel 2:
Estanislau leans closer to Miguel and pats him on the head, holding his drilled hand. Eurico looks towards the door.

Estanis (cont): This hurts me too. I'm a catholic, you know?
Eurico: ?

Panel 3,4:
A shot of Eurico looking in the door's direction. The door doesn't look back.

Panel 5:
Eurico and Estanislau are leaning against one of the big windows of the room. Estanis has his arms folded and is looking down, annoyed. Eurico is looking outside the window with both his hands on his hips. The two of them are still wearing their masks. In the foreground, the silhouette of the Foreigner looks at his left hand, where new fingers seem to grow, but barely visible.

Estanis, the Fancy: Ooof, this is going nowehere. It just keeps repeating the same shit, Fearless.
Eurico, the Fearless: It just thinks it can fool us. It's measuring its words, trying to hit a sensitive spot with all that religious nonsense.

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5 Panels.

Panel 1:
Estanislau and Eurico near the window. Estanislau is leaning with his back against it while Eurico is looking outside.

Estanislau (cont): But what if it is telling the truth?
Eurico: It is not. I guarantee you that.
Estanislau: You GUARANTEE? How do you know what's normal for this thing?

Panel 2:
The Foreigner looks at his hand, now once again with all its six fingers, still tied to the chair.

Estanislau (off panel): Think about it. Different brain pattern for truth, different brain pattern for lies. Why not?

Panel 3,4:
Shot of the CD recorder and the sunset's golden light hitting the flasks in the counter.

Panel 5:
Eurico puts a hand next to the window, looking outside. There is a view to the plaza and the people gathered there.

Estanislau (off panel): I don't know, Fearless, I don't know. Sigh! They should have sent a priest.
Eurico: They might just have.

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Seguem notas interessantes sobre os estudantes e lentes, mas por favor levem em conta que são muito desorganizadas e não para seguir à letra:

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4 Panels.

Panel 1:
Vertical thin panel, with a view of the Academia's Morgue building. The sunset hits strongly against the windows, which shine goldly. Two figures approach the building.

Panel 2:
A horizontal view of the inside of the building. It's a large hall, with a row of collumns on the foreground and a large tile mosaic in the background. The mosaic represents several different historical scenes and the Lusitanian coat of arms. Two professors walk behind the collumns, with large black capes. One of them has yellow hightlights and the other has them in red. They are followed by a Lusitanian warrior, with the devil mask on.

Professor Urtiga (in yellow): What happens inside my faculty building does indeed concern me, professor Moniz. And you, sir, do not have the jurisdiction to UNLEASH YOUR WILD DOGS inside my premises. And much less to have them operate behind closed doors!
Professor Moniz (in red, we totally have met him before): Doctor Urtiga, you do NOT wish to be seen as an impediment to national security.
Professor Urtiga: Oh, are you threatening me? Inside my house? Are you going to have me arrested in front of my students?

Panel 3:
Close up of professor Urtiga, who is tall and thin. He looks at Professor Moniz with something akin to disdain.

Professor Urtiga (cont): Or will you be sending your TROUPES to attack me under the veil of the night?

Panel 4:
The two are interrupted by the arrival of the Bishop, accompanied by an acolite and a student. The student addresses Professor Urtiga.

Student: Doctor, the Bishop you called for is here.

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Hey vejam só quem é ela, se não é a nossa querida e famossíssima Kate Blast!, virada católica!

Bom, como eu afinal raramente ou nunca partilho os meus profundíssimos pensamentos sobre personagens e lugares neste sítio, se calhar era boa hora para começar? Ora vamos lá.

Na página anterior foram introduzidos dois novos personagens, chamados ao local pelo nosso caríssimo Professor Doutor Urtiga. Um deles é supostamente um Bispo, o que me levou a gastar horas a pensar em como havia de representar um cargo num futuro que, sendo distante, está tão amarrado ao passado, mantendo-o ainda suficientemente reconhecível para que fosse óbvio. Acabei por optar pelo “tão extremamente reconhecível que é preciso andar de lupa para ver as diferenças”.

O Bispo traz um Acólito (ninguém tem nomes porque não merecem), que é assustadiço e talvez desadequado para o papel de “vamos lá investigar esta suspeita de actividade paranormal”.

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Panel 1:
Professor Urtiga and the Bishop share a handshake.

Professor Urtiga: Certainly, your Holiness must have noticed as soon as your holy feet stepped on my building that we are facing an event or CREATURE much unheard of. We mustn't, under any circumstances, leave this in the hands of the PDL, whose barbarous methods are no secret to us.

Panel 2:
Professor Moniz interrupts, slightly appalled. He stares at the other professor calmly, but menacingly. The other one is angry at this.

Professor Moniz: I am appalled at your insinuations, Doctor Urtiga. If the PDL is OVERZEALOUS it is only because it places the interests of this nation first.
Professor Urtiga (emphasis): Do you think I was born yesterday, professor!?
Bishop (off panel): Professor Moniz-

Panel 3,4:
The Bishop calms the other two down with a gesture of his hand. He looks up as the building gains a greener tint to it, and blood drips down the walls.

Bishop: What is this thing whose mind drips in agony down the walls of this building? This is clearly not the work of man.
Professor Moniz: And yet it came to us in the body of one. Yesterday, dead. Today, alive and immense. The body was captured during the Atégina Mission and I have intimated the particiants to share their perpective with us. They should be arriving within the day.


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