#277. Chapter 2 Recap Recaps
#277 *
May 2, 2026
- Chloe: "All right, so how are you going to explain this one?" Zia: "Listen, chapter 2 is — I mean — " Chloe: "What Zia's trying to say is that chapter 2 wasn't her best work." Zia: "Hey! I had a great monologue in there!"
- Chloe: "Zia decided to throw a poker night party." "I usually go out when she hosts a party and come back to find the apartment trashed — " Zia: "I swear that wasn't my orangutan!" Chloe: " — so this time I stayed home."
- Chloe: "She invited her friends from work," "and we started playing poker." "And then I find out this lunatic green noodle is actually researching the portals." "Like, y'know, an actual grownup scientist type."
- Chloe: "Turns out this flake is a damn supergenius, and it wasn't very nice the way you made everyone else explain that for you." Zia (grimacing): "You wouldn't have believed me otherwise."
- Chloe: "So anyway, I took the full maximum dose of Excedrin for a headache that was this big, and the party ended." "And then we watched a movie together, because Zia's actually really fragile on the inside and really just wanted a friend." "Didn't you?"
- Zia (bright pink, flustered): "I'm — I'm not that fragile!" Chloe: "So you do or don't cry when you see a lost puppy?" Zia: "Huge puppy eyes, Chloe!" "I'm not made of stone!"
Characters: Chloe, Zia
Chapter 2, "Zia's Poker Night"! In which things happened! And stuff! And also Zia turns out to be kind of a sociopath! And we never actually get around to playing poker!
— Inker
