The Devil and the Deep Blue Sea

Maybe use those wings you probably still have.

Ohhhh, this feels weird. You didn't really have legs before, you think, but you at least felt like you did. Now you feel like a... a thing. A thing whose legs have been tied together and are bending backwards.

How does Mermaid get around?

She slithers, doesn't she?




Yeah, she slithers. You don't slither. You stumble down the mountain.


Several tumbles down the slopes later, you're in the forest. Flatter ground. Gravity isn't working with you anymore.

There has to be a better way to get around.

Roooooooooooollll

>Flop around helplessly until someone comes to your aid.

Use wing-fins to just drift a comfortable distance above the ground.

Grab your tail and roll like a wheel.

Find someplace where gravity is working with you.

Alternatively, alter gravity.

Pull that roly-poly someone out of the shrubbery!

You can't really fly normally anymore, as your wings have changed into fins. You start rolling along the forest floor. This is ridiculous! You can't go into town like this, that would be horribly embarassing, not to mention you're completely sore as it is now.


"UH"


"go on"
"NO, YOU FIRST"
"okay fine, scaredy-butt"
"SHUT UP"


"I THINK SHE HEARD US"


Oh, it's Dryad. He hasn't grown much since you saw him last.
"hello, demon! are you hurting? you seem to be having a trouble with the moving"

Well, you're not hurt too bad. But yes. You are having a trouble with the moving.

Wasn't Dryad speaking to someone?


"oh, um, yyyyyeah i was talking to myself yes!"
"UGH, THAT IS THE WORST COVER-UP I'VE EVER HEARD
I'M JUST GONNA INTRODUCE MYSELF"


"SO I HEAR YOU ARE ALEX HARVEST, SHE WHO HAS SLAIN MY KIND
NICE TO MEET YOU, DISBELIEVER
I AM PAN"

Compliment his rad scar

pan cake?

Shake hands. No hard feelings, right? :D

If he wanted to kill you or something, he would've done. Poor thing probably can't help but be a vulgar little uncouth thing neither. Just hear him out.

"disbeliever?" please explain.

also: read all of another realm and all of this today. I am happy that this sort of comic exists, user input building the comic. Awesome

cmon kitet you have a whole big vacation that doesn't actually end, get to work slacker



Oh... this might be bad. It's a faun. You thought you had... converted them all into a different being. It must be bitter about that.

Does he need anything from you?

"HEH, I DON'T THINK YOU'RE IN A POSITION TO OFFER HELP RIGHT NOW"

Okay, you're not, but he doesn't have to be snooty about it. What does he want?


"YOU'RE POPULAR IN TOPIA, AREN'T YOU?
YOU GET TO SLEEP INSIDE A HOUSE
AND EAT FINELY PREPARED MEATS"


"I WANT TO LIVE LIKE THAT
I WANT MY OWN ROOM, JUST A SMALL ONE WILL DO
I WANT TO TASTE THE FOOD OF THE CIVILIZED
AND I WANT... TO BE ACCEPTED INTO YOUR SOCIETY"

Woah, hold up. Isn't that what Centaur attacked Topia over?


"centaur?"
"ALMOST
I CAN BARELY REMEMBER, BUT
HE HAD NO CONCEPT OF SOCIETY, NO IDEA OF ECONOMY OR OF JOBS
ALL HE WANTED WAS THE TERRITORY
DO YOU HAVE ANY IDEA HOW TERRIBLE CENTAUR'S OLD TERRITORY WAS, HAVE YOU EVEN BEEN THERE"
"who's centaur?"
"GUY WHO USED TO LEAD ALL THE FAUNS
HE DIED OR SOMETHING"

You can't say you have ever been to Centaur's old territory, but would like to hear about it.

Girl, you gonna go live in the ocean; you don't need no house.

Tell him that if he'll let you ride him around town and get to the sea, you'll give him your house, and make sure the Topians know he's a cool guy.

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Or I guess maybe just the closet if he's too intimidated by the prospect of a whole home.

Well, you think about maybe letting him live in your house... but it's not even your house. It belongs to Fairy. You don't even know if you're gonna stay a fish demon after you're done with whatever Heaven wants you to do. You don't even know if you can trust him, even. But then, would Dryad really make friends with a violent beast?

Really, Fairy's much better at the whole "introducing newcomers to town" thing than you. Maybe you should consult him.

But first you need to get to him.


"CARRY YOU?
UH, SURE
WHERE TO?"

To the treehouse at the edge of the forest!

"ALRIGHT, LET'S GO"




Fairy! Are you home?
...
No answer.

Take a peek inside!

Oh no! Maybe something happened to him? Go check!

Guess he's not hereee keep going into town and politely ask pan to wait outside the bridge

by the way kitet i think this and ADR is the soooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo <3

You... you can't get inside... you can't fly anymore...


"hey, you want me to check if he's home?"

Oh. Yes, please.






"dang, nobody's home
guess he's at town or something
what do we do now?"

Well... you guess you gotta go into town... the problem is, it'll be very risky to ride Pan into town, but dragging yourself there will be a real chore. How are you gonna get to Topia like this?

Yes ride Pan anyways
you can tell people pan's alright and stuff yeah?

Even if you look a bit different, they still know you in town, right? If you explain that Pan's helping you get around I'm sure they'll be tolerant of it.

This... isn't going to end well. You decide to keep riding Pan to your destination.

"ARE YOU SURE THIS WILL WORK?
I DOUBT EVERYONE HAS JUST FORGOTTEN WHAT MY PEOPLE HAVE DONE
AND I DOUBT ALL OF THEM WILL LISTEN TO YOU"

Well, do we have any better ideas? We'll just convince anyone we see to escort us on our way.
If enough people think you're alright, then that's the first big step.
Let's go.






Well, you're at Bili Bridge... no sign of anyone yet... except for whoever's on guard duty.

"heyyyyyy!"


"hey friend, do you mind if we pass?"
Tolu mumbles, half asleep, and starts to scoot over before he sees you.


"uh, uh! no, demon, get off faun!
why havent you destroyed faun?!
what are you doing?!"

Tolu, listen, it's all right. This is Pan. He's not a bad faun. He's taking me into Topia. Let us through.

"uhhhhh! okay but im gonna come with you!
to make sure faun doesnt do anything bad! okay!"

"I CAN ASSURE YOU I WILL DO NOTHING OF THE SORT"

"aaahhhhhhhhh!!!"

Well, alright then.


You're at the front gate of Topia now. A few people are looking out their windows at you, no doubt confused and worried.

... Now that you think about it, you weren't even told where Mermaid is waiting for you.