November 1st, 2013
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I don't go to a lot of parties, but I presume they're all a bit like this.
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NOT what I expected at all...
Huh, it looks like at least 1 if not 2 of the ladies at the table are wearing maid outfits. Wonder if those are the maids that left...
ooh, good catch!
I saw that too! While the perpetrators are still evil and greedy people, not having had the maids eaten would make them the "Jail time" kind of evil, not the "Feed them alive to their pet monsters" kind.
In my eyes at least.
Unless they -are- letting people eat themselves to death somehow...or Maybe gluttony makes them thinner as they eat or something and they can't keep up and they eat and eat till they starve then get replaced? @_@ Maybe Nora hasn't been taken yet since Gladys called her a 'wee skelf' and so she wouldn't have lasted long?
That is, of course, assuming the guests are behind this. For all we know, they might be trapped just like the hotel's personnel, and forced to eat everything. Question is, why "released" maids are there. Do they indeed replace deceased or otherwise unavailable guests? Why would there be a need for that? Since all the guests are rather thin, I would suppose Gluttony is taking away all the nutritions they consume for itselfm keeping them exhausted and barely alive. That would be a really morbid setup there.
Two ladies and one man are wearing the brown and tan servants' outfits. The question is, why? Did they replace three of the original guests? Did the original guests die, or what? And why is the place such a mess? Are they so taken over by the spirit of Gluttony that they eat that grossly? The visible original guests all look rather slender for having been eating banquets for however long it's been. So many questions!
There probably weren't any male cleaning staff, so the man is probably the previous baker.
It is unclear, but it does seem we have something more complex that "throw her on a platter and serve her as dessert".
Perhaps Gluttony, being gluttonous, demands ever greater levels of gluttony to feed itself on? So you'd have to keep adding people.
NOOOOOO those poor uneaten cakes!
Wait, wait. I expected gluttony, but... sloth??
Well this is after hours, so maybe they ate and ate and ate till they passed out?
When was the previous baker from? If there are former servants here, maybe he is as well?
Those cheeks look very sunken for people who've been eating so much. Or possibly just really noticeable cheekbones.
Reminds me of the spell in Witches of Eastwick (which also turns up in other places) where what you eat ends up in someone else's stomach. Perhaps everything the guests eat goes straight to Gluttony so they are always ravenous and starving and of course Gluttony can never get enough food.
Ah nostalgia! The joys of student life.
"I don’t go to a lot of parties, but I presume they’re all a bit like this."
Only if they're being thrown by a Rock band, a frat house, or the [Hellfire Club](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hellfire_Club "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hellfire_Club").
I presume that the staff are replacing the guests that can no longer attend to their party duties?
Food fight!
(What is that green stuff off the left edge?)
La Grande Bouffe? (Look it up on Wikipedia....)
IS THAT JILL?
eew
Wooooooooah. What?
Oddly enough, that's who I was thinking!
It would be senseless to leave your proxy foodies too weak to eat, no? If this spirit is intelligent, then perhaps it allows them to retain at least that much sustenance.
Maybe the Gluttony demon eats all the food they've consumed?
I'm confused and terrified.
Who cleans the dining room every night? Or does it never get cleaned at all?
This looks a bit like a college LAN party after the caffeine has worn off.
I don't think that's a polo shirt; the collar isn't the same color as the shirt. It looks like a detachable collar to me.
I can't help but wonder though I'm properly wrong... Are the people eating the food there also prisoners? Forced to eat the meals as the crazy owner tries to make them the perfect meal for the perfect review to have a perfect hotel... well isn't that just perfect?
Looks like "going home" is, as we all thought, not a "good" thing- just not as up-front grisly as some thought it might be (Looks like it's amply horrific as you'd expect out of a Deadly running amok, though... Looks like she gets to join the guests AS a guest...which isn't a good thing at all from the looks of it.)
My Mistake It was Mrs. Doubtfire afterall...
My gash, they're pretty hollow-faced for guests at an all-day every-day feast. . . .
Oh by the way, I discovered this webcomic less than a week ago and I've wanted to comment lots of times but thought I had to get an account at Disqus but then it turned out not so I'm fine now and I'll probably comment on EVERYTHING on my rereads.
No, it's not what it looks like - I don't REALLY hate commas.
I do love it when people do that! Go right ahead :)
I was afraid this might happen.