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Image 1

Panel 1
(Back in the school gymnasium, several people including Jay, Pandora, the principal, and some students appear to be waking up groggily)

Panel 2
(Bump, Mr. Ironguts, and a random student are looking in astonishment at a bright light glowing at the edge of the frame)

Panel 3
(The forms of Milan and a young girl are floating in the air in the middle of the arena, surrounded by a bright light)

Panel 4
(Closer in on Milan, who just has a halo of light around her)

Panel 5
(Milan is planted flat faced on the floor, with her legs up)

Image 2

Panel 1
(Milan starts to push herself up, with a queasy look on her face. He hair now has some amorphous tendrils around the edges, and the gold gem on her necklace is now black)
Milan: Ugh, I think I’m gonna puke.

Panel 2
(Milan’s eyes open wide)
Ayzee (off-panel): Milan!

Panel 3
Ayzee (worried, continuing): Are you alri-

Panel 4
(Milan holds up a hand, palm out, agitated)
Milan: Stop!
Milan: Don’t touch me!

Panel 5
(Ayzee freezes, horrified)

Image 3

Panel 1
(Milan sits on the ground waving her hands with a worried look)
Milan: No, no! I mean-

Panel 2
Milan (sheepishly): I got half of the Grom curse from her, so…
            If you touch me, I’ll turn into your greatest fear.

Panel 3
Ayzee (timidly): Oh.

Panel 4
Ayzee (rubbing her forehead in confusion): Wait, hang on.
            I don’t follow.

Panel 5
Ayzee (perplexed): Who’s “her”?

Panel 6
(Milan and Ayzee turn to look wide-eyed as a voice speaks from off-panel)
Voice: Enna.

Image 4

Panel 1
(A young girl, around Ayzee/Milan’s age, sits on the ground. She is wearing a loose grey dress. Her skin is pale and she has bags under her eyes. A circular symbol is drawn on one of her arms. Her hair has amorphous tendrils floating from it)
Enna: My name is Enna.

Panel 2
Enna: Wait, what year is it?
Milan (sheepishly): I… don’t think we use the same calendar.

Panel 2
Milan (concerned): And, Enna?

Panel 3
(Enna looks down sadly, eyes closed)
Milan (off-panel): You… cursed yourself, didn’t ya?

Image 5

Panel 1
(A normal looking Enna is outside, holding an armful of scrolls, with a panicked look on her face. Her hair is straight. There are shadows cast on the wall near her of people with swords attacking other people)
Enna (V.O.): Back then, I was an assistant historian.

Panel 2
(Enna holds up one scoll with an anxious look on her face)
Enna (V.O.): When the pirates arrived,

Panel 3
(Close-up on the scoll. It has a seal on it that looks like Grom, with tendrils and glowing blue dots for eyes)
Enna (V.O.): I happened to hold on to a mysterious curse.

Panel 4
(A large form of Grom, with several glowing eyes and tendrils, is lashing out as many people run away from it, dropping swords. There is a person-shaped figure at the top)
Enna (V.O.): I saved the town…

Panel 5
(Enna looks like a young girl again, except her eyes and mouth are glowing blue, and her hair is waving around. We can see the circular symbol on her arm at the edge of her sleeve. People are recoiling from her in fear)
Enna (V.O.): At the cost of being feared forever.

Image 6

Panel 1
(Enna, holding a bottle of yellow elixir, is running away outside of a town. She is looking back at a mob of people carrying torches at the edge of town)
Enna (V.O.): I was driven away by my own people,
Enna (V.O.): And forced to hide inside an abandoned mine.

Panel 2
(Enna is sitting on the ground, crying, leaning back against a mine cart on rails. Several empty bottles with traces of elixir lie around her)
Enna (V.O.): Once in a while, I tried to slip into town to steal elixirs.

Panel 3
(Enna is in her Grom form, looking like a large pile of black goo with several glowing blue eye spots)
Enna (V.O.): I… even subconsciously did so after being taken over.

Panel 4
(Back in the arena, Enna is hugging herself and sobbing)
Enna: I’m sorry.
Enna: I- I didn’t mean to bring fear to everyone.

Panel 5
(Milan, Luz, Amity, and Ayzee stand around looking worriedly at each other)


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  • Aielman15
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    1611 months ago

    The Boiling Isles citizens should seriously reconsider their practice of imprisoning eldritch horrors inside random scrolls that anyone could have access to.

    • @[email protected]OPM
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      1111 months ago

      Better than the alternative ‘Banishing eldritch horrors to the human realm’ I suppose ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

      • Aielman15
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        911 months ago

        I bet they tried, but giraffes were too strong to be imprisoned in a scroll.