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Malthus casts off his Al role play to indulge in his favorite illusion tactic: nightmare mode. If the carrot won't work, he's ready to use the stick :(

No rough page for this one - originally I had this and the next page smashed into a single page, but I hated it once I sketched it out! What looked ok in the roughs stage looked rushed and confusing in the sketch stage. It needed a few extra panels of downward spiral to work, so here we are, taking a few extra beats for Ethan's realization and Malthus gearing up for a terrible time (;╹⌓╹) aaaahhhh