Endtown by Aaron Neathery for June 06, 2018

Is this the end of Endtown? stay tuned same bat time, same bat souffle channel!

How many are there in Endtown? Best count I have is about 30 names in each column with each page having two columns (one has three but for simplicity we’ll just say they all have two columns) totaling over 300 clients. For this to be a viable food chain, if my science memory serves me, you need like a 5-to-1 prey/predator ratio for a viable system, with the prey giving birth at a high enough rate to maintain the population. If every predator in the community was on the list, that would mean there are at a minimum 1,800 individuals living in Endtown. I never thought there were more than about 300 to 500 at best.

And eventually they’ll be wanting hasenpfeffer.

Interesting…. clandestine cannibalism that’s more widespread than Jacob imagined. You can see the dismay written all over his face.

Now to sort out whether those are truly “clients” partaking of the butchery, or those she only believed are involved. The mind is a complex thing; a casually expressed comment from someone about liking bacon during the pre-war days might show up on Mavis’s “client list”.

I hate to say this but say this I must….Jake’s now finding out how deeply into the “RABBIT HOLE” this conspiracy goes. :/

I believe that conspiracy has upgraded into becoming a bonafide institution.

I’m guessing he’s finding a lot of familiar names on the list.

And your only possible ally is dead. Allgood. Silly rabbit……you been tricked.

Only thing we know is the list probably doesn’t have much in wolves, pigs, chickens and probably other delicious barnyard critters.

Show no mercy, Jacob. You must deserve the trust of the rats.

i’m inclined to believe that this “client list” is fraudulent. Either Mavis was fed false information (disinformation) in the event that she was caught and scanned, or she made it up and deluded herself by memorizing the ’phone book. She was a bit unhinged after all.

If that list were accurate, there is no way such a vast conspiracy could’ve remained a secret, especially in such a confined and contained society as Endtown. Remember: two people can keep a secret- if one of them is dead.

In the words of Chester A Riley, “What a revoltin’ development this is”.

Hoshit. ;^.^

Hey, maybe this is what Mavis was laughing about.

On the bright side… He can at least scratch one name off the list.

“And at what time did I say ‘Now go forth and eat thy neighbour…?’”

Pretty much when you said to feel good about the animal forms they’ve turned into. You may not have said those exact words, but it seems that’s the message they’re reading…

Reading over the above, I now understand why Aaron avoids reading these comments…

Hold on, there. How many of Endtown’s residents have disappeared? Enough to feed all on these lists?

How do you tamp down a nuclear bomb? If anything’s going to blow up in Endtown’s face, this is it.

Some will just be customers with the understanding of: “Don’t Ask. Don’t Tell” Others will have a higher/deeper level of involvement/Larger portion of the Guilt.Jacob will probably Never be able to sort this out and resolve it with any resulting peace of mind; no matter how many pieces of mind he gets from Mavis.

And once again, Jacob is blindsided. I’m really curious what will happen when he’s left without an apparent path. What can he possibly do? On one side, he’s discovered that The Rats are not his allies at all—and threaten dire consequences if Endtown becomes unstable. On the other, he’s got social unrest already brewing; his trusted (?) “inner circle” has been plotting against him; and this rot that could eat Endtown alive (literally) has already spread quite far.

“OK…..Who is innocent?”

Jacob’s dream of Aaron Marx appearing with bleeding eyes was not a good omen. Jacob falling on his knees neither.

This is either bad writing or an extremely poor diversion of plot, either way this goes it’s a failure. I agree with the top comment, there is no way a 300 person secret like this would have stayed quiet, not in a place as small and contained as EndTown. To make matters worse, a client base of 300? How can there be THAT many pigs in EndTown to feed that many clients? The pig humanoids are about the same size a regular pigs which have about 160 lbs of usable meat and based on how many pigs we saw die during this ark 160 lbs over less than 20 deaths is feeding 300 people?

I cannot suspend my disbelief this much.

The only other thing that could make sense is that the person who had their brain fried memorized as many folks as she could in a telephone book in the event they were captured and interrogated. I doubt anyone knew of the mind scanning machine, considering when it was introduced they asked what it was having never seen or heard of such a thing before. The client base absolutely must be smaller than what is being presented, there is no way otherwise this could make sense.

Well, this is going to be a fun million piece puzzle.

okay that client list tells us, lots of people like their pork n beans.They could kill the supply but the demand will linger, until the taste of pork is forgotten.

Does anyone remember how many pigs have disappeared? Using an estimate of 30 names per column, two columns per screen and nine screens (and counting) plus an extra column on one screen that would be 570+ “customers”. To feed that many people on a regular basis there must have been dozens.

And here Jacob begins to realize just how difficult it will be to keep his verminous constituents in check. It looks like a purge might be in order…leading into that symbolism in his dream of pulling out a bleeding plant from his desk. Perhaps pulling out the weeds. A terrible job but Aaron saw him as the best man for it.

So, a strip of bacon to the beans or two and no further questions? Are there levels of immorality, criminality or just stupidity?

If the client list was that big, wouldn’t demand have outstripped and depleted supply rather quickly.

How about publish that list of names for all to see?

I think Jacob might be more worried about what the Security folks will do if they see this as a threat to the continued existence of Endtown. If he isn’t most worried about that, he should be. The rats are long on “justice” and short on mercy.