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The Monster’s Loose Page 8

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The year is drawing to a close and that means it’s time to get a new calendar for 2025! Lucky for you, I have one for sale! It’s a 13-month risograph calendar featuring a bunch of extinct animals and plants! Makes a great gift!

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Is that…Bloodcarver? o_O

A detail I notice is that the door ahead of him has been re-hung since the tunnel went in (way back in Exchanges). The visible hinges tell me it opens outward from the club, and any panic bar hardware would have to be on the club side of the door, where newbies would expect to see it, instead of the tunnel side, where it used to be.

That door is … quite weird. It did not have visible hinges on the side it opened towards back then, the (replaced) handle teleported from the right to the left, and both its versions have the peephole look out to the side that can open the door per the crash bar, anyway. And yet, it quite clearly still is the same door …

… and what even became of whatever dead-end(?) room it used to lead to, before Tim and Sam reattached its non-club side to the tunnel??

(Pro tip: If the club ever needs a bunch of mythicals moving soil for free, start a rumour about “a lost liquor storage room”. The storage we’ve seen apparently held only food, after all …)

Another curious aspect of the door as seen in that old view is the large brackets flanking it. They make it possible to literally bar the door, with a heavy beam. Of course, that only works if the door opens inward.

What used to be on the other side of that door? Do we really want to know?

> Another curious aspect of the door as seen in that old view is the large brackets flanking it. They make it possible to literally bar the door, with a heavy beam.

Well … at the price of said massive beam shearing the handle right off the door, apparently …

> What used to be on the other side of that door? Do we really want to know?

… we’re still out one, apparently well-hidden, Wonderland Jabberwock, aren’t we? 8-P
https://www.skindeepcomic.com/reader-questions/rq-6-wonderland/

I’d like to propose two theories here:

First is that the door could be mounted on a hinge style that is significantly less visible. Piano hinges and concealed hinges (aka, euro-hinges, aka, look inside your kitchen cabinet doors) come to mind.

Second, and much more realistic, theory is that Kory may not have had “draw in door hinges” on her list of must-haves, accidentally prompting a wave of people arguing about the viability of a magic door that changes its appearance to torment people with continuity errors.

I’m reminded of an image I saw somewhere: a door at the back of a room, secured with bolts, bars, locks, and chains; sealed with spells, prayers, and sutras; posted with warnings and notices. But don’t worry, just ignore it. (I’m thinking it might have been a Kelly Freas illustration in a Robert Asprin book.)

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