LNH: Classic LNH Adventures #25: Omaha Project the Conclusion

[Drew Perron]

On 7/20/2016 11:15 PM, Arthur Spitzer wrote:
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> Chapter 20 has Mike Escutia attempting to inspire Russ Allbery.

Awwwwww. <3

> And Chapter 22 has Russ "Eagle" Allbery and David Anastasion doing
> whatever they can just to make this damn thing stop.

Eheheh. `-`;

>      Just then, a hardcopy of Omaha Project chapters 1-19, including Pliable
> Lad Annual #1, floated by.  He grabbed it and flipped through it briefly.
>      "Hmm.  Replaced by an evil duplicate right after the LNHers fell
> through the distortion the first time.  Wonderful."

Heeheehee. Always a useful device. :D

>      "Well, tooooo bad, pal," the Angel hissed.  "You're dead, and you're
> staying dead."
>      "I don't think so, Eddie," came another voice.

It's interesting - this "afterlife" bit has some interesting ideas that don't 
really come to anything?

>      "Ow!" Pli exclaimed as he landed on the ground below.  Picking himself
> up, he looked around himself.  He quickly recognized the place as the same
> 'world' he and the others had wound up in after falling through that
> disturbance.  But the force wave was supposed to have returned him home --
> to alt.comics.lnh -- wasn't it?

Ah, and here Pli comes back from Just Another Cascade.

>      As if on cue, he felt something, and turned to see another distortion
> forming.  Within it, he could see a form hurling at high speeds towards the
> distortion, but just off-center enough to miss it.  As the figure
> approached, Pli recognized it, and reached out into the distortion to catch
> it.

Oh, man, I can imagine how this would look visually and it's SWEET. This sort of 
reaching through a warped space towards a shadowy, stretched-out form, as seen 
from three-quarters perspective...

>      Ms. Jayse looked over the group she had just picked up from the
> cornfield.  Samuel Anderson, the team leader.

Did we meet these guys earlier? I'm honestly not sure.

>      The thing that used to be Emmerson looked up from the corpse of the
> farmer which he had been busy ripping apart as the grey thing landed with a
> roar in the cornfield about a hundred meters away from him.  All around him
> was a scene of death and destruction.

More '90s gratuitous killing of unnamed nobodies. Sigh. x.x

>      That was the last thing William Drew managed to say in his life before
> Emmerson leapt at him from the shadows of the room and tore his throat out
> with one hand while snapping his neck with the other.

siiiiiiiigh

>      "But why?" Touri asked.  "Why the force wave, why pull us here?  What's
> the purpose behind all this?"
>      "Purpose?"  Search Lass laughed.  "Since when have they ever needed a
> purpose?

This feels like a bit of a copout, to be honest - making all the big mysterious 
things not really mean anything - but to be fair, it would be hard actually 
fulfilling the promise of all the various things involved. Still, there's a 
reason I counted this as in the "unfinished crossovers" category in JAC.

>      ==I could cause more than problems.  You interfered with a Wanderer,
> and there are some agreements that not even you can ignore.==
>      "Yes, yes, no need for the veiled threats.  We know exactly where you
> stand.  Oh well, if you're going to be annoying about it."

I do like that attitude.

>      It was several moments later before a man crawled up out of the crater,
> brushed off his clothes, and headed off down the road.  This may have been a
> false alarm, but the day would come, and when it did Fading Dan would be
> there.  After all, he didn't have anywhere else to go.

Danny boy, the pipes, the pipes are calling~

Drew "that song is a lot newer than I thought" Perron