So quickly? I don't think Oasis is involved, but it's been like what, six years since we last saw her?

Check out his last news post on the front page. A few weeks ago. He has two main storyarcs planned past Monsterous.

Wasn't Pete planning on ending ~2017? I'm pretty sure we have at least a few years left, and knowing Pete those few years will stretch into a few "Sluggy" years... (his more recent story arcs are getting into the "several" year range, just sayin'...) He dropped one rather big dangling point in Sasha's plotline before moving on to the next story. And I suspect that if we're going to run into Sasha again, Oasis won't be far behind... I also have a nagging feeling we'll be seeing Dr. Steve again... That all said, I'm 99.9% sure it won't be in the current storyline.

I'm personally hoping it goes on past 2047, but I guess we'll see ;)

On a lot of levels, Oasis' story can be considered "complete." The mystery behind her nature has been revealed, she's now achieved knowing herself, and her enmity with Hereticorp has been resolved by the destruction of Hereticorp. That said, there are a couple of things that make me feel Oasis may still have a role in the plot ahead. First, it was never fully explained why the intersection of Hereticorp with Chilus' cult would break the web. One could surmise that paranoid Schlock, upon learning of a cult to release K'Z'K, would have gone flux crazy, and that could have broken the web, so there is a potential explanation there, but it's not 100%. The other thing was how neither Schlock or anyone at hC actually knew how Oasis works. Somehow they could manage well enough to make Kusari, but there were aspects that were just handwaved as Dr. Steve being ahead of his time. Maybe, but I think there's something more to be revealed there. Something that ties Oasis more closely with Poopypants. It's just too damn weird and coincidental for Oasis to have been cloned from someone who wrote the book on fate magic. So yeah, I agree that Oasis is probably gonna show up again. Not in this chapter though, but before the end.

I forgot about all that.

Well. Guess we'll see her when she comes then! Too much stuff to keep track of, lol.

Didn't someone say that Oasis operates outside the web?

Edit: ah yes, it was a fate spider.

Well, there is still more to go on Sasha's story, and we have the whole "sibling rivalry" that would drag Oasis back in. That was my point. And in addition to Lord Golbez's points, we never really got the Orsintos connection. There is more involved there as well. Could their research somehow be connected to Symachus? I think possibly, but perhaps only tangentially. Enough to connect things, but not enough to suck all of that into the current storyline.

Well, Sasha's still definitely up to something, but I could easily see where we left off with Sasha as just another ending with a dangling thread suggesting something more to come, similar to the Dimension of Pain or Oceans Unmoving. I don't think Pete plans on revisiting either of those before the end of Sluggy but they both did end in ways that suggested there would be more to the story.

That's all that I meant, really. Not everyone gets the Happy ever after text.

So…. Are the head-tilters irrelevant to Basphomy and its been Gwynn going around capturing the moon followers? Could the fey, or some of them, be moon followers? That’d be a nice twist.

I'm pretty sure the fey are constructs of Symachus, and presumably under his control.

Gwynn was surprised about the possibility that Dunuloa's followers were being hunted. I don't think she's behind that.

Otherwise... I'm starting to wonder that she's been spending a bit too much time in those demon books. She doesn't even have Anise to teach her to read them without going mad (much).

Who would have thought that ritually sacrificing demons might backfire?

Would it have made a difference?

Technically Basphomy DID erase her memory without permission. Gwynn pointed out the issue with needing to hide the plan from Farahn, but never got the opportunity to voice an objection to the methods used.

And here we are today.

So, it occurs to me to wonder: why did Symachus want Cynthia Tomb(s) to imprison/destroy all those demons? Was it so someone would compile all of their knowledge for him? What could they know that he still didn't have after thousands of years of "research"?

Second and perhaps more pressing question: why would he want her to release PP? How did he benefit from that move? Was it to expose the end demon so he could further his plan of "rising above" him somehow? Or was it an attempt to expose more of Dunuloa's work (and followers)?

He seemed to think the staff and the sword were the keys to his victory, but of course we have no idea what he planned to do with them (except maybe power up the sword with the staff to the point where it could actually kill the Bug?) -- so it seems the whole previous chapter opened more questions than it closed.

Sigh... back to waiting and hoping Gwynn hasn't "Hassen-ed" herself into a downward spiral of evil from which there is no return.