Chiasmata: Found Footage

>Omar, no!

BONNIE: "Hey, wait a minute!"
CLARA: "Omar, what the Hell! You better not-"
BONNIE?: "We haven't worked out which of us is which, honestly. Not sure if we can."
DANIEL: "Yes, and I'm somewhat concerned by the question, so maybe, um, put the fire away before we try to work out what's going on."









==~>

Omar, thankfully, puts out the fire.

OMAR: "Okay, fine. But I'm definitely still watching you both."
BONNIE: "Okay, sure, you do that. So, we're up to... four-and-a-bit people out of twelve, right?"
BONNIE?: "That's fair. Although, maybe there's a double of everyone else, too?"
CLARA: "God, that'd be confusing."
BONNIE: "It's weird, knowing what I look like."
CLARA: "Well, nothing here makes sense anyway, so you might as well... mitose? Maybe we could ask Jacqueline if she can tell if you're all messed up, time-wise?"









==≈>

BONNIE: "Yeah, we should really try to find everyone else. It's a real pain that we keep getting split up like this."
BONNIE?: "Yeah, and at the rate we're headed, we'll split into more than twelve."
OMAR: "So the others are around here, somewhere?"
BONNIE: "Er, I guess?"
???: "wellstillIIiiiwaitwatchingsomeyouwatchingwatchingwatching"
CLARA: "Hey, do you guys hear that?"









==≈>

It stands, slowly. Something seems to have gone strange in the regeneration of its head, and it talks, continuously, in a jumbled, meaningless mismash of all your voices at once, getting steadily louder.

DANIEL: "Yeesh, it's getting creepier."
BONNIE: "See, Omar, if you'd asked us rather than running in, all explosions and stuff, I'd have told you that the thing's got the same powers as me!"
OMAR: "Okay, fine, I was too hasty, I'll try again."









==≈>

One of the Bonnies grabs him before he can apply the Even More Fire method of problem-solving.

OMAR: "Hey!"
BONNIE?: "What did Other-Me say about just jumping in? Fire isn't gonna just work again if it didn't work last time!"
OMAR: "Look, if it's burned to ash, then-"
BONNIE?: "- you don't know what'd happen, and neither would I, but I just keep getting weirder when I regenerate, and so does it. Maybe one of the weird things it'll be will be immune to fire, and then what'll you do?"
DANIEL: "Um, guys?"









==≈>

OMAR: "Let me go! I'll just-"
BONNIE?: "No! You'll just-"
DANIEL: "Hey, wait, I have an idea!"
BONNIE: "Oh no. Daniel!"









==≈>

DANIEL: "If we can't get rid of it by damaging it, what if we just..."









==~>

==~>

There's a brief pause, somewhere between horrified, confused, relieved and maybe a handful of other emotions. Certainly, more than one per person.

BONNIE: "Daniel."
DANIEL: "No need to thank me. I just figured that, if we can't directly attack it, we can just throw it over the side, so it can't get back to us, no matter how much it regenerates!"
BONNIE: "Yes, but what's down there?"
DANIEL: "No idea!"
BONNIE: "So it could be anything?"
DANIEL: "Hmm. I mean, it's really far away, probably?"
OMAR: "Probably."
DANIEL: "It's a possible problem for Future Daniel. So, now, we can go look for the others!"









==~>

DANIEL: "Welp. That's Sam, I guess?"
OMAR: "Wait, what the hell is that?"

Footnote:

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So:

1. Thanks for bearing with me in waiting for this update.
   
2. This update contains panel #420, and is released on April the twentieth. Weed number!
   
3. Oh, so that's what those mysterious background shapes were? Mystery solved!
   

...You know, I never noticed those idiosyncratic "forward arrows" before. I wonder if they mean anything?

Yes they do.

^ Typically the forward arrows represent a non-command to have time pass.
The number of horizontal lines is either always four, as in "==>" or represents the number of party members.
One party member is ->, two is =>, three is -=>, etc. The ~ probably represents Bonnie? and (briefly) Daniel, But Cooler.

Correct. You also get wiggly lines for members of the Triumvirate.