MTGinktober plugs in and is stuck in interminable remote meetings about Day 26, "Connect Eternal Night," starring Professor Onyx!
I had the idea to make a Zoom meeting among different teacher-type creatures and planeswalkers, and the way they always feel like an eternal night(mare) of technical difficulties and ceaseless babble. The trick was to make it feel in-universe, so as much as possible, I wanted to make the jargon feel non-high-tech, particularly in the error message--rather than connect to the internet, they connect to leylines. The actual error message referenced proxies (fake Magic cards), so that's included with counters. Note they cast messages (spell them, too) rather than type.
Fun Facts: While this is Professor Onyx's MTGinktober debut, Liliana has appeared several times, surely at least annually at this point, since she also appears as Lil'iana, too. I try not to use text too much, but this scene really called for a lot of text for the little gags, so I just had to make sure not to blow it with my terrible handwriting. The bear is Ruxa, Patient Professor, who is calmly listening to everyone drone on.
Easter Eggs: Many Zoom tropes. Oldschool Azami isn't tech-savvy, so her handle is her email (Yahoo or Yale dot edu? I'll never tell...). Hand(?)-raising Julius is always opinionated and has to push how he's super qualified with M.D. in his display name (tempered by the casual first-name use). Valenteen Deen of the Veen is the guy with the fun screenname, who can't wait to point out someone's muted. Shu Yun is the guy who always forgets to unmute. Trostani speaks ambiguously in the royal we, and prefers a different service, namely Discord. Sigarda is always angling to be host.
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