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Writing By Popular Demand The City of Komona Presents its Magic Contest Grand Prize of 50 000Ko For the most impressive magical demonstration! Entrance: 150Ko The new giant and secured arena Komona Azarday, 10 AirMoon SPECIAL INVITATION Pepper I’m ready! Come on, Carrot. Let’s go!

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Pepper Still sure you don’t want to come with us? Cayenne I’m certain. We do sorcery in Chaosah, not spectacles! Writing The KOMONAN OPENING CEREMONY OF THE NEW ARENA TODAY RESIDENTS WORRIED ABOUT THEIR TAXES TICKETS SOLD OUT: SUCCESS GUARANTEED! POLITICAL TENSIONS IN LAND OF AH AH CURRENTLY OCCUPIES 80% OF TERRITORIES YOU HAVE EXCELLENT VISION! Pepper Thanks for letting me participate! I’ll win! I promise! See you this evening! Sound blam! Cayenne …

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Mayor of Komona As the Mayor of Komona, I declare the second Grand Magic Contest open! Audience Clap Mayor of Komona I know that you’ve waited impatiently for this event! Thank you for having travelled from the four corners of Hereva to discover our grand, ultra-secured arena! Let’s move on to introduce our participants! Carrot ZZZ… Pepper Carrot?! What do you think you’re doing?! Wake up! It’s beginning! Everyone is watching us! Sound Tap!

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Mayor of Komona Adept of the mortally revivifying magic of “Zombiah”, we are honored to welcome… CORIANDER! Audience Clap Mayor of Komona The flora and fauna hide no secrets for this witch of “Hippiah”! Please welcome… CAMOMILE! And now, thanks to the technical prowess of Komona, here, in a world exclusive… Sound Flop! Mayor of Komona …a witch from the watery depths who masters the formidable magic of “Aquah”! SPIRULINA! Pepper Aquah?! Here?! Incredible!

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Carrot Groooo Pepper Carrot! It’s nearly our turn! Be patient! Please! Just for today! Mayor of Komona Witch of the spiritual and ascetic magic of “Ah”, it is a pleasure to welcome among us… SHICHIMI! Audience Clap Pepper Carrot! NO!!!

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Mayor of Komona And now, it is time to turn to this mysterious participant, who anonymously entered to show off the flamboyant magic of “Magmah”… Sound Flap! Mayor of Komona OH! What a surprise! Yes, it’s her! None other than… SAFFRON! Sound Sploosh! Mayor of Komona Ah! It seems a participant already has a problem! Audience Ha! Mayor of Komona Miss!! Please return to your place!! Pepper Caaarrott! NO! Sound Dzing! Pepper ?! Sound Splash!

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Pepper Ha-ha! Thanks, Spirulina! And sorry… Where are you going?! GET BACK HERE! Mayor of Komona Ahem! Here then is our final participant with the uh… indescribable … magic of “Chaosah”… PEPPER! As the main prize winner of the potion contest, we’ve decided to offer her a special position! Pepper ?!.. Mayor of Komona As such she will be… … part of our jury ! Sound Bam Audience Clap Clap Clap Clap Clap Writing Magic Contest Official Jury Pepper Yay. Writing Queen Aiel Pepper Lord Azeirf Narrator TO BE CONTINUED…

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Credits 02/2017 - www.peppercarrot.com - Art & Scenario: David Revoy - Translation: Alex Gryson Brainstorming: Craig Maloney, Quiralta, Nicolas Artance, Talime, Valvin. Dialog Improvements: Craig Maloney, Jookia, Nicolas Artance and Valvin. Special Thanks: Inkscape team and especially Mc. Based on the universe of Hereva created by David Revoy with contributions by Craig Maloney. Corrections by Willem Sonke, Moini, Hali, CGand and Alex Gryson. Software: Krita 3.2.1, Inkscape 0.91 on Linux Mint 18.1 XFCE Licence: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 Pepper&Carrot is entirely free(libre), open-source and sponsored thanks to the patronage of its readers. For this episode, thanks go to 816 Patrons: You too can become a patron of Pepper&Carrot at www.patreon.com/davidrevoy