#the idea of also having an indie press to help other ppl

[wuntrum]

mentioned maybe switching to something in tech career-wise to my therapist and he told me someone he knows who got a certification in cyber security w/o any other schooling and 2 years later is now making 300k/year working from home. grits teeth

[loveisbraveandwild]

is there a reason you use storygraph instead of goodreads?

yup! goodreads is owned by amazon and is really just a cheap cash grab for bezos! a fun fact abt bezos is he started amazon w books because it would be easy, not because he has a passion for stories! storygraph was started by a Black woman who is Also a reader, so its designed to meet the needs of ppl who love books! its partially volunteer run, and they have a small team of ppl who r updating the website/app as we speak! readers can add books, which helps increase the number of indie pub books on it (indie pub books r disproportionally minority identity authors btw)! you can also pay $50/year to do bata testing and support them! this way, theyre getting ideas and feedback FROM users! goodreads has barely been updated in over a decade. it also runs on the same algorithm as amazon, which means the recs ur getting have nothing to do with the books youve read and liked and everything to do with who is paying amazon to promote their book! storygraph has an algorithm that considers the genre/style/rep ur reading as well as how ur rating them to give u personalized, curated recs! storygraph also gives better stats- their pie charts are beautiful! you can buddy read which means if u and ur long distance friend r reading the same thing u can see each others progress! you can also change the edition of the book your reading so as an audiobook and ebook lover i can see how much time im spending listening to books in comparison to how much time i spend w my face in a book! theres a lot of reasons to switch, but the biggest for me is that reading is a way for me to expand my empathy and goodreads doesnt feel the most ethical to me while storygraph contributes to my love of books and libraries and small press publishers in a number of ways

[nvrissa]

hello laid ease and furries ( u know who u are )......hahaha....are u ready for this ? zimzalabim ! my name is xan ( she/her pronouns ) and my laptop has been broken for a good 3 years now i have to use an onscreen keyboard so if u see me typing for 20000 years on discord only to send u a single sentence u know whats up x JSDBJWBJW here is the intro....im really winging this no one call me out for that WOOO....tw: medication, mental health, body image ? perhaps just to be safe <3

ok ! so im not gonna talk too much abt family stuff bc yuno and i are doing the collab of the century here and art takes time people ! JSBDJBWDJW but so u get a good idea...i will write a little abt it lets get it 

so the kwons were two of the biggest faces in hollywood ( and tbh they are still considered icons / hollywood royalty no matter how old they get they stay #Relevant ) think bradgelina ! literally everyone knows who the kwons if u dont u probably live under a rock /: 

their parents are very into the fame thing...so when it came to their kids ( nari and wolfe ) they SUPER pushed the famous life onto them, really expecting both of them to be just as obsessed and enamored by the public. idk if u guys ever say that vid of gigi and bella hadid before they were huge were their mom was pressuring them both to get into modeling and to stay skinny and to be stars etc....it was kinda like that !

so narissa, being the first born, really just internalized that shit...like imagine being told ever since u were a baby that fame and status and ur last name are wildly important and not being able to remember a time when u werent being watched by cameras / a third party ( the public ) bc that was her life ! nari has....no experience as to what life is like without cameras and without having to create this image of herself that ppl are gonna be into 

obviously that’s NOT normal....and it had it’s toll on her /: as a kid she grew up so fast like u know those kids that seem so mature and wise for their age ? that was nari. she always had two versions of herself: inside nari vs outside nari. she was so good at being good just bc she knew what stuff to express and what stuff to keep inside ( spoiler alert: most of it was kept in x )  

she is still very much desperate to please her parents despite it all /: i feel like for a long time she kinda excepted and agreed that fame is everything ( hence why shes known for using her last name to get her places ) but shes starting to realize just how FUCKED it all is and just how much it’s messed her up so stay tuned for more fun !

ok so career stuff ! nari started off as a child model bc she was um super cute and super good at knowing what to do / not freaking out in front of cameras <3 but she was always obsessed with actors ! she used to sit in front of the tv for hours legit study and memorize ppls mannerisms and various movie lines.. she was literally always just quoting random lines / imitating various actors so often her parents were like ok word go act !    

she landed her first role at 12 and it was a pretty huge role as a lead chara in a mini television series that revolved around a cast of kids ( think stranger things but not plot wise just how some of the mains were kids ) with zero acting experience before hand ... so it was pretty clear to the media nari got the spot bc she was a kwon ! there was a bunch of controversy around the show before it came out but once it was released...there was no denying nari had talent

after that it was just a whirlwind of acting doors opening up for her. everyone wanted nari bc of her last name and all the attention that came from it, not to mention every director wanted to be The One that helped narissa kwon become one of the most famous actresses of the 21st century. most of the time she was getting cast for selfish reasons but nari never realized it /: she was just happy to be acting bc it really was like therapy for her to become different ppl

flash forward to age 15 when narissa was finally diagnosed with generalized anxiety disorder and was prescribed meds to help ! it was actually a director from a movie she was working on that suggested to her parents nari might be struggling after witnessing her have a panic attack on set. not wanting a scandal, her parents agreed it was best to get her “help” which included pills and weekly therapy ! 

so nari actually didnt mind it too much tbh she HAD been struggling for a while she just assumed her anxiety was normal and just like something all famous ppl were dealing with but that wasnt the case. she was hesitant to open up to her therapist just bc she was still obsessed with this idea of inside nari vs outside nari, and she was very scared to cross that line so it took....years of sessions to build up that trust

as she got older though and as she got more famous, everyone just assumed she was better. she was more famous and loved by the day, she had become a chanel ambassador ( thank u jennie x ), her interviews on youtube always brought in record views, she’d started in plenty of movies critics agreed would become cult classics, her social medias were nearing kardashian level in terms of followers: everything was on track....

....except nari had actually never been more unstable. she had become so dependent on her meds she couldnt go anywhere or talk to anyone without popping a few in. all the watching eyes were starting to make her paranoid, not to mention the pressure from her parents ( who couldn’t be happier with nari being so famous ) was at its all time high. she had been nominated for an oscar at 21 and everyone was expecting her to win...and then she didnt

narissa kwon famously fainted at the 2018 oscars after it was announced she had lost the award. her actual fainting wasnt caught on camera or televised, but it WAS witnessed by some of the most relevant names and faces in hollywood who were in that room. the scandal took the media by storm, the hashtag #getwellnarissa trending for over 42 hours until a statement was released she had fainted bc of dehydration and other undisclosed causes and that she was okay & currently taking it easy at home surrounded by family 

in reality it was the abuse of her medication as well as all the stress, but when your last name is kwon manipulating the press is as simple as making the right phone call. unfortunately for nari and her parents, the article about the brat pack came out a week later, and there was no manipulating that source /:

for narissa, it was all a wake up call. she decided to go off her anxiety meds altogether. after falling out with the brat pack she spent that year trying to figure out who she was separate from her fame and her last name. despite some offers from a few casting directors ( surprisingly some people still wanted her despite the scandals bc she was still a kwon, after all ) narissa rejected every role except one in a coming of age indie movie that explores womanhood and mental health as well as strained relationships with mothers. the movie is set to release sometime mid august hehe (~:

she agreed to come to milan to reunite with the brat pack bc she’s still searching for herself ! nari figures the people who quite literally grew up with her might give her some answers......not to mention there is still a part of her who is desperate to reclaim the image and status she had before everything fell apart </3    

PERSONALITY/TIDBITS

narissa is....complicated to say the least. growing up in front of the cameras and in a family who prioritized fame and outside opinions of you as the most important thing, she is quite literally desperate for praise and approval. because she legit has no idea what parts of her are real and what parts of her she’s created for her public persona, she often looks for understanding in others!! shes very very good at analyzing people and understanding people in the hopes that its gonna make her better at analyzing herself, but to no avail. 

libra sun capricorn moon !! THIS is super accurate and telling if u wanna read but i kinda just summarized it in the last bullet

she is such a perfectionist with everything she does and a bit of a control freak in the sense that if she’s not the one doing something, she doesnt have faith whatever that is will be able to live up to her unrealistic standards. directors are often concerted with nari bc whenever she gets big roles.....she is so hard on herself, often asking for take after take bc she monitors every little thing abt her expression or her movements. she’s often left frustrated and disappointed with herself bc again, her standards are SUPER unrealistic ):

she’s relatively sweet!! growing up with the brat pack they probably knew her as the life of the party, very bubbly, confident, and very easy to have fun with as long as you’re being tolerable. however, she can get kind of opinionated at times so it’s very hard for you to gain her trust and respect back if you lose it. she’s also prone to random mood swings / periods of isolation, but whenever she returns its with a big smile and a soft voice assuring you everything is okay 

very good at lying and deceiving ppl but she hardly ever does it on purpose ( unless her publicists asks her too ). she’s carried this persona / public image of herself curated for consumption from others for so long, sometimes she has no idea when she’s being sincere or if she’s just convincing herself she’s being sincere. most of the time she only deceives other people about herself. she can come across as kind of elusive because of this ( think daisy from gatsby’s perspective ) but it’s not on purpose. she just legit has no true sense of self isnt that sexy?

speaking of sex. JWDBJWBDJWBD she also uses that as a coping mechanism / a weird affirmation that yes, she IS wanted by others and yes she IS seen as someone beautiful and that she IS something to be consumed by others ( like i said in my tags....male fantasies male fantasies ) but then at the same time she feels guilty abt this and so unsatisfied and disgusted at how she’s living her life as an object / manifestation of other people’s projections rather than as a normal person...rip </3 its a cycle

ever since her relationship with micah that was so hated by the public it actually ruined and ended their relationship, nari has been too scared to publicly have a relationship again. the media seems to love seeing her on casual dates with other stars, but not to see her tied down to one person, as that kind of “damages” this super accessible persona she’s put out ( think idols and why they cant date )  

she loves poetry, french music, all of marilyn monroe and audrey hepburn’s movies, nonfiction essays abt womanhood and identity, anything chanel, is particularly fond of silk dresses but is partial to velvet as well, wears lacy bralettes under everything bc it makes her a little more confident, actually prefers large parties to small ones because small gatherings are more personal therefore give her more anxiety, would only eat fruit and drink champagne if she could live like that, doesn’t know how to swim so she’s scared of the ocean as well as the dark, used to study ballet as a kid and misses it terribly, doesn’t know how to drive and isn’t planning to learn, can be materialistic at times, is probably an introvert masquerading as an extrovert for 22 years now, the only movies she cant stand are westerns, loves to travel but is scared of flying, doesn’t drink coffee, and is allergic to nuts. 

last but most important fact about narissa is that she loves her brother wolfe more than anything in this world so messing with him is the only way nari is bound to 100% hate you. she can bully him all she wants ( ex. starting very real rumors he IS in fact a furry ) but no one else is aloud to actually be mean to him or she will kill you

also very random but i had a hc that when she was 6 and her pet cat jinx died she caused enough fuss at home her parents actually made it a national holiday in about thirteen different states. the anniversary of this death is december 4th and yes . the brat pack better mourn jinx with nari every year......

pls spare plots im sorry this is so long.....JBDJBWJDBWJBWDJBJ i promise it will be worth it also im sensitive and very small ... how can u say no ? 

[comicteaparty]

November 16th, 2017 CTP Archive

The archive for the Comic Tea Party chat that occurred on November 16th, 2017, from 5PM - 7PM PST.  The chat focused on Ovum by Fervorcraft (“The Schilderich” and “Vanja Bajohr”).

Featured Comment:

Chat:

RebelVampire

Good day everyone~! This week’s Comic Tea Party is now officially beginning. Today we are discussing Ovum by Fervorcraft (“The Schilderich” and “Vanja Bajohr”)~! (https://tapas.io/series/Ovum) For those new to CTP, discussions about the comic are freeform, so please feel free to bring up whatever you wish. However, every 30 minutes I will be dropping in a discussion question to help those who would like a prompt. These questions are totally OPTIONAL to answer so pay them no mind if you wish~! Remember, constructive criticism is allowed, but the primary focus here is to have fun and appreciate the amazing comics that the community makes~! Each chat a top comment will be picked and featured on an ad for this chat, so let’s have a great discussion~!

With that said, let us begin with this first question~!

QUESTION 1. What is your favorite scene in the comic so far and why?

snuffysam

The first scene. It really sets up the dark/mysterious tone of the story.

RebelVampire

yes i do like how quickly the comic jumps into its tone. especially the closeup of nancy's shaking hands. i think that speaks volumes for her nervousness and the dread that were supposed to feel going through the story

Superjustin of Time and Space

Hello there~

Hope you guys all enjoy the CTP

RebelVampire

greetings~!

Superjustin of Time and Space

Just thought I'd pop in~

snuffysam

hi

Fluffybirb

hello, I'm Vanja Bajohr, one of the people doing the comic

snuffysam

Hi!

Fluffybirb

I'll just sit in the corner and answer questions

Superjustin of Time and Space

What inspired you to go for the creepy aesthetics?

RebelVampire

hey @Fluffybirb thanks for coming

Fluffybirb

well, I don't wanna spoil anything because some people complained about the hint dropping, but the story is basically a lovecraftian story

Superjustin of Time and Space

Ooh~

snuffysam

yeah i really like the "otherworldly horror" aspect to it

Superjustin of Time and Space

Those are always fun

RebelVampire

yeah the lovercraftian influences i think come in pretty loud and clear. i think it nailed the specific tone.

Superjustin of Time and Space

especially when you've seen so many and you knows what creeps you out, so you make a whole world based on the things you fear

Fluffybirb

The Schilderich and me are huge fans of his creepy tone (whilest we see a lot of problems with his racist tropes, so we try to avoid this and be highly aware of it)

Superjustin of Time and Space

Oh XD

Good to know you're fans at least!

Fluffybirb

Well being a fan to us basically means being critical of the source at least

Superjustin of Time and Space

Yea

Fluffybirb

but I'm glad we got the tone right ^__^

RebelVampire

just wanna make a quick note about spoilers, dont feel pressured to answer anything you dont want to. youre welcome to chime in, but youre also free to just let us theorize like crazy and laugh at our strange connections. but in the same thing youre welcome to spoil what you want. creators choice.

Fluffybirb

thanks, I am very curious about your thoughts and I think I will enjoy your theories so I will drop some basic answers I think

snuffysam

I really like the structure of the story so far. Going back and forth between flashbacks and the present day, and the like.

RebelVampire

yes i think the structure does leave you wanting to come back for more and unveils the mystery at a good pace. i think you get and have to wait for answers at the ideal pace for this time of story

in regards to the fave scene question, i really like the scene where Zachariah has to do some shady bribery to get the stuff he needs to go digging. like going in i expected zachariah to be mostly this upright person but then oop, nope, hes willing to go to shady measures to get stuff. was a really nice, unexpected character detail for me.

snuffysam

It was also a bit of levity given how quickly the bribe was accepted

Fluffybirb

this is why I like working with Schilderich, he brings in his own character interpretations. Sometimes my characters tend to be a bit on the idealistic side, so his ideas round them out nicely and add additional layers, because we see the characters through different eyes

Superjustin of Time and Space

That's cool~

It's always great to have someone else working on a story with ya.

RebelVampire

@snuffy yeah i totally agree there was levity in that moment too. i remember laugh crying that there wasnt even an attempt to hide the corruption

i definitely think the story is well-served if thats the case. i like that the idealism gets smudged a bit but not entirely wiped out.

snuffysam

yeah, the balance really works

the characters feel well done, despite there only being two chapters

Fluffybirb

it was always meant to be a short story so there will only be 4 chapters, currently we are working on the third one

so we figured it would be necessary to establish the characters quickly

snuffysam

ah ok

well you did a good job of it!

RebelVampire

yes i agree. i think things have been handled perfectly so far for a short story.

Superjustin of Time and Space

Do you plan to do some kind of sequel/spinoff/continuation, or will it be officially over after four chapters?

Fluffybirb

well, in fact we do plan to do an indie horror game as a loose continuation of the story

Superjustin of Time and Space

A game!?

snuffysam

woah cool!

Fluffybirb

Schilderich is an indie game dev, I used to be one, but these days I am writing novels

but since Schilderich is currently busy with doing the comic and his current game, we only found time to do some rough concepts

Superjustin of Time and Space

ooohhhhh

Fluffybirb

Hopefully we will find time to work on it in the future

Robert Bennet, the man Nancy is writing letters to, will be one of the main protagonists, and also his extended family

RebelVampire

QUESTION 2. At the heart of the story lies the ominous statue that seems to have been the cause of much misery. What is the statue? Who do you think made it and for what purpose? Why does it affect people the way it does (or alternatively, is everything just in their heads and it’s just a normal statue)? What exactly did it have to do with events of the past (and what were the events of the past for that matter)?

Fluffybirb

(ooooh I love this question! I am super curious about your theories!)

snuffysam

my thinking is that some ancient civilization created it? or found it? and then were wiped out by whatever the statue does

RebelVampire

i definitely think were dealing with some ancient civilization. although im hard pressed to believe they were necessarily wiped out by the statue. at least in the sense that oop statue was evil. it couldve been a creepy cult suicide thing. like "haha brother lets us stare at the statue and embrace the glorious darkness of the void that is before us."

snuffysam

i don't think they were blown up or eaten or whatever. just... eldritched to death.

RebelVampire

LOL thats an interesting cause of death XD i dont imagine thatll be on the death certificate

albeit this is assuming they were dead when they were wiped out. nancy mentions something about the eyes show the abyss. maybe the civ was somehow sucked into this abyss where they existed in a dark purgatory for a while

snuffysam

true true

Fluffybirb

I kinda wanna make Schilderich draw a silly comic now with a "death by abyss staring" death certificate

RebelVampire

well at least theyd have all the evidence they need. right there in the death certificate XD

maybe what had happened is that someone in the civ somehow accessed the abyss and their mind mentally degraded until they became of pawn for whatever is in the abyss. so they made the statue and slowly the statue corrupted and everyone came to worship some abyssal creature. so essentially the statues purpose is to corrupt and spread the influence of the abyss.

snuffysam

that could also be it

i definitely think we're dealing with an ancient civilization of some sort.

seeing as that's sort of the area of expertise for archaeologists...

RebelVampire

yeah i think we can concur on that that its an ancient civ. and ancient civs can be creepy and it matches up and i dont think the comic is fibbing about that.

although maybe the abyss isnt a physical place but more a mental state. so in a sense everything is in their heads but the statue is actually causing it. like the point of the statue is to degrade a person's mental state until theyre nothing but a shell of their former self and lost in the darkness of their own non functioning mind

(rip nancy if thats the case)

snuffysam

it's possible it's reversible if that's the case

Fluffybirb

well, Nancy is showing some signs of problems I would say

XD (to put it mildly)

snuffysam

yeah she definitely has her issues. it seems she was repressing them in the years since the incident, but this new stuff is making it come back.

RebelVampire

cant blame her though. id repress looking into the eyes of the abyss.

devil's advocate crazy theory: the original evidence Zachariah was actually a forgery and while the statue was legit buried he was purposefully looking for it but needed that evidence to convince ppl to let him dig.

snuffysam

then how did he find out about it?

RebelVampire

his family or the cult hes apart of. the abyss worshipping cult.

which i have no evidence for obviously. just giving an alternative while i hmmm over what other evidence i have

snuffysam

hey, could be true

RebelVampire

although there is that flashback scene that talks about children. the news conference press one. so im really curious what that has to do with anything

Fluffybirb

I have to admit the children come in a bit late as a theme, the third chapter will bring this back

RebelVampire

QUESTION 3. Regardless of what has happened in the past, it seems to have affected Nancy terribly. Between a book that caused her an ill reaction and Robert Bennett’s letter, she’s under immense mental stress. Why did she react the way she did to the returned book? Why is she so deeply affected by the past’s events? Did the events even happen in the way she perceives they did? Will she be okay or will she mentally deteriorate to a dangerous level?

snuffysam

I'm not sure if the book is directly related to the past, or if it's just something that reminded her

RebelVampire

well if we go back to the children theme (cause i segwayed so amazingly), the book had like a fetus on it or something. so it was probably that image that triggered her more than anything.

going back and skimming, the original relief that we see is like children worshipping a mother figure to. so maybe were dealing with the abyss being some motherly figure trying to reabsorb her children

snuffysam

maybe that's just what the eldritch horror "looked" like.

or both

RebelVampire

could be. but i definitely think the book is about the children thing. it could be some children got eldritched and so she cant bare to see children like that or something.

snuffysam

that could be. do we know how many people were there when the event happened?

RebelVampire

nope. the hints we get were there was some sort of grave robbery that nancy and Zachariah were there to witness, Zachariah died possibly from falling into the pit, and she mentions just vaguely "they found the children"

although from the words im not sure whether its implying there was a third party robbing the grave (maybe children even?) or if it was zachariah robbing the grave

snuffysam

i think it's meant to imply zachariah was robbing the grave. i don't think he made it a public thing, so after the incident, the government pretended he didn't have permission

RebelVampire

OH! if that was the case would make sense given were shown the gov is corrupt

Fluffybirb

I had a lot of fun being around but sadly I can't keep my eyes open (it's 3am around here). Thank you for having me and thanks for the talk!

snuffysam

thanks for joining us! and thanks for the comic!

RebelVampire

no prob! thank you for coming~! hopefully should have the archive done not too long after the chat concludes

Fluffybirb

I will definately recommend your talks and read up on the rest of the conversation bye!

RebelVampire

bye and sleep well~!

i do feel like its likely zach was robbing the grave. like it makes the most sense and its why he fell into the pit and it killed him. cause when he found the statue he some sort of void into the abyss in the ground or something. so i assume he fell into that.

snuffysam

maybe they dug a ditch to get the artifact out- and while zach was found dead in the pit, he died before falling in

like, he stared into the abyss and it killed him, and then he fell over

RebelVampire

yeah that could very well be.

although i wonder if he did it on purpose. cause he was shown towards the end of chapter 3 to be pretty willing to go far for his discovery. at least he seemed pretty "aha" to nancy saying that it was probably occult in nature

and to a degree he seems to be mentally degrading in the flashbacks, just not in the same way as nancy

cause his obsession is taking over

snuffysam

there's a chapter 3? it doesn't seem to be up on tapas yet...

RebelVampire

i meant chapter 2

oops XD

had three on the brain i guess

snuffysam

alright phew

yeah i can see that. not sure if it's an affect of the artifact or if he's just like that normally though

RebelVampire

yeah it is hard to say

hmm i wonder if theres a hint in the fact the third title is going to be called "dead less"

cause i feel this lends credibility to the idea that the abyss is less dying, more just going there. albeit im gonna assume its the soul going there but the soul is aware of everything

snuffysam

ooh yeah maybe!

Superjustin of Time and Space

If that becomes the Chapter 3 title I'll be amused

snuffysam

it was already revealed. non mortis (deadless).

RebelVampire

https://tapas.io/episode/469792

yes and it has a lovely creature on the cover too

very lovely

although i wonder if thats one of the children nancy is referring too

what if it was a child from the ancient civ that has been mutated by the abyss

snuffysam

that would be interesting

RebelVampire

which i could understand her mental state then. especially if she assumes its still out there

lurking

waiting

so she too can join the abyss

snuffysam

does the abyss have a goal? or is it just some incomprehensible evil entity?

RebelVampire

i assume incomprehensible albeit evil is debateable. cause thats applying human morality to something we cant begin to understand

snuffysam

true true

RebelVampire

QUESTION 4. All of Nancy’s anxiety in the comic is triggered by Robert Bennett who is writing Nancy to inquire about Zachariah Eliot and the events of the past. What exactly is Robert’s aim in writing her? Is it merely curiosity or is something else sinister at work? What do you think will happen if/when Robert finds out the entire truth?

snuffysam

i think he's going to try and destroy the artifact and/or entity

don't know if he'll succeed, but i think that's his goal

RebelVampire

that could be. i never considered that. tbh, up until it was mentioned that hed be in a game, i was leaning more towards him being kind of evil. like he wanted the statue for his own selfish ends. mostly cause him writing out of the blue seems suspicious. but its possible he is a good guy. just wondering why he waited so long to deal with this

snuffysam

maybe he just recently found out. or he's an evil entity killer and he just hasn't gotten to this one yet.

RebelVampire

was like "the abyss eldritch? well maybe i can fit it in on tuesday....ten years from now."

snuffysam

yup exactly. he might also just be really young. he's been interested in a while, but ten-year-olds don't go around killing eldritch horrors

RebelVampire

yeah albeit i think it mentioned he was zachariah's friend or something. although maybe something of zach's recently came to his attention

like he mysteriously received zach's journal in the mail or something

snuffysam

yeah that was the impression i got

but then the question is, who told him about zachariah?

RebelVampire

good question. maybe thats what the game is about that was mentioned. we learn theres a twofold mystery going on

snuffysam

perhaps his goal has nothing to do with the statue? just figuring out who sent him this info?

Superjustin of Time and Space

Late response but aah okay

RebelVampire

yeah that could be, if we go to that assumption that someone sent him info to prompt him to contact nancy. although i feel like he is after the statue. wait do we know what happened to the statue?

snuffysam

i don't think so. i think the police just left it in the hole?

RebelVampire

what if instead it got sold and robert happened to be the collector who bought it. but he never really looked at it until one day he was like "oh when did i get this." and then he was like "oh no the abyss" so he decided he needed to learn everything he could cause oh no the abyss

snuffysam

lol that could be it.

maybe he's a weird eccentric who's trying to track the statue down just to collect it. not for anything evil. he just likes really creepy things in his house.

RebelVampire

that could be. he must have quite the house then. i feel either way the statue is destined to wind up in his hands. whether that was his goal or not.

snuffysam

or worse, all this investigation is going to lead Nancy to get the statue

RebelVampire

gonna be honest i think nancy is doomed. i assume shes either 1) going to wind up in a mental hospital cause she cant come to terms with the past 2) stare into the statue and go bye-bye or 3) more specifically go to the pit where zach died and also go bye-bye

snuffysam

it could have a happy ending! but yeah probably

RebelVampire

true. i mean i dont think nancy will ever be happy, but she may at least accept what happened and not get triggered by seeing a book.

snuffysam

yeah i don't think the trauma she experienced is exactly curable

RebelVampire

although i wonder who it was that returned the book. cause maybe they returned that book on purpose to dredge up troubles for nancy

snuffysam

if that was just a book with a fetus on the cover, it may have just been an innocuous return? like, it was a book on pregnancy or something

RebelVampire

yeah that could be. hard to say. but it could definite be a moment thats just meant to set the mood

RebelVampire

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