Well, the Queen may be one of the good guys now…or good gals, actually…or well, actually actually she would always have been one of the good guys/gals, as the flashback revealed, she just appeared to be one of the bad guys/gals? If you ignore the plothole in the middle part, I guess that’s the official version. So, let me start again: Well, the Queen may have been revealed as one of the good persons now, but…she’s still a politician, which constitutes a quite severe qualification on the ‘good’ distinction.
Her political instincts shine through in her pretending to regret any “collateral” loss of sanity in our heroes…before having to admit that her plan, whatever it is, actually requires it. Showing sorrow and regret on the outside while high-fiving yourself on the inside is pretty typical politician behavior. Unfortunately, the collateral damage proves lighter than anticipated – mostly because our heroes have a lot of mental resilience acquired over years of being trapped in bizarre circumstances and exposed to insanities of all kinds. With the collateral damage having failed, the Queen has little choice but to try and inflict some…uh..lateral? damage.
Fortunately for her, her assistants have her back. They might not look like sanity-blasting eldritch abominations individually…but when they combine..uh..their powers…in a specific way only they are capable of, the effect on onlookers can be as bad as anything that Nyarlathotep can create with its overabundance of unhealthy physical manifestations.
Fortunately for you, the BMC stage is equipped with a sophisticated audience-protection feature called the chocolate wall. When the chocolate wall is activated, a massive shower of individually-wrapped censorship bars hermetically seals off the stage from the audience spaces. No matter what’s happening on the stage, the audience will see nothing of it…and any potential disturbing sounds will be greatly muted, if audible at all.
Of course, the chocolate wall cannot stop the audience from imagining what’s going on. Whether the images that might appear before your mental eyes are better than the abominable reality…or perhaps even worse…largely depends on your mental eyes, of course, and the mind they’re attached to. But even if it is worse…at least it won’t be my responsibility. =P
More on Thursday.
Mopey was in bad with Takeda Shingen. I don’t think the twins have a chance to one-up that.
Everyone else can just look the other way.
Looking away from that sort of trainwreck would require an enormous amount of willpower, though – and you’d still have to deal with the audio, in any case. XD
I do admit, though, that the Takeda Shingen thing would also have been supremely shocking – if it had taken place in public. That’s probably the major shock factor involving the twins – it’s less what they are doing, but that they’re unabashedly doing it in broad daylight. XD