Endtown by Aaron Neathery for November 14, 2021

i think i know what interreality feels like…

Doo eet.

You’re traveling through another dimension, a dimension not only of sight and sound but of mind. A journey into a wondrous land whose boundaries are that of imagination. That’s the signpost up ahead – your next path, the Interreality Conduit. Watch your head and keep arms and legs within the ditto car.

-apologies to Rod Serling

“Grex” is a term I don’t recall coming across before. Is it what Topsiders refer to Anthros? Interreality matter is an obvious term that I didn’t think of before, but if all this in the story is as I now understand it, I guess the issue is to bring Eden and all of the residents to the present reality without coming apart, i.e. disassembling their bodies back to the parts where they came from.

Terrence is now part of Eden….Grex is a noun that describes a group that originated from an original hybrid stock.

…and if we can get Radar a date with a hair-dryer…

I don’t think their guidance was up to spec even before.

I am proud to say that after “cut the power” I don’t understand a single word of what they’re saying. “Interreality conduit. Interreality matter.” Hah!

Going to Hell in a hand basket!

Why did the peacock cross the interreality conduit..?

Is it really wise to stress a bird that handles stress poorly? Especially when within a confined space?

Why do I get the feeling there will be guidance from Marx?

blink Does anyone have a translation for this? The best I got is Eden’s about to pull a Dorothy’s house on reality, but I could be wrong.

We could really use some sort of Endtown encylopedia, an easy way to look up characters, plots and terms, without reading back over TWELVE YEARS of stories!

At the next nexus they’ll be ex-grexes.

^Ha!

This way to the E-Grex!

The Topsiders seem to think they’re making sense.

Terrance’s body language suggests otherwise.

Yeah, right. Let’s bring more people to the facility that’s probably going to be nuked by other topsiders…

They became “interreality matter” by falling asleep when exposed to the air of the Earth. Just how fragile is that planet’s hold on physics now? How fragile is it’s 3-dimension hold on existing?

What’s interesting is that these Topsiders are interested in keeping everyone alive, not just themselves. They seem to be looking forward to a time where they can be free of their biosuits and the “grexes” can live.

The good news is that things can’t get much worse. The bad news is that things can still get worse.

After they save the world, this band of superhero comic book mutants will be known as the Uncanny Grex-Men.

I understood everything he said. What I don’t understand is how Terrance’s uniform suddenly fits his much-smaller frame so well.