Next Door

Next Door was a collaborative comic on the original CBWHfCBW server. It was started by Val on June 4th, 2017 and the last panel was by X\_Ry on August 30th, 2017. It began as a spin-off of Code Tangerine. The premise behind the comic is that all the participants had their own character, named after and drawn in a specific color, that would be the main character of the comic whenever they were drawing. People would take turns drawing, while the rest of the participants would send commands.

## Characters

Next Door has an ensemble cast of colorful characters (ba dum tss) where the main character switches depending on who's drawing.

* Cyan (played by Val)
* Green (played by Actionguy777)
* Grey (played by DeadBread)
* Orange (played by Mobius 1)
* Periwinkle (played by Ace)
* Pink (played by Faileur)
* Purple (played by LegendFinder)
* Red (played by Madeline)
* Sky (played by SkyFireIce)
* Teal (played by anonezumi)
* Yellow (played by X\_Ry)

## Setting

Next Door's setting is Cyan's "warehouse next door". She describes it as a "physics-defying mansion of a warehouse" and a "void between worlds" in the introductory panels. The warehouse's layout frequently changes depending on who's drawing. The background is black and all objects and structures are depicted with white and grey, generally.

In the first iteration, drawn by Madeline, each character had a room with a door leading to it with their name on it. The door and all the objects in each character's room is of their color. Each room starts completely empty, but they can be decorated, as Red does, and later Cyan. Cyan also decorates a room for a party she's throwing.

In the side story drawn by Faileur, the setting is that of a traditional RPG.

## Main Story

At the start of the comic, not much relevant happens. The story starts when Cyan throws her party. Everyone arrives at the party and it seems calm, but then the lights shut off. There's some commotion while they're off, and once they turn back on, there is "general chaos". Cyan tries to salvage the party and takes a drink from the punch bowl. However, soon after, she faints and falls to the ground, apparently because of alcohol poisoning. Someone in the room spiked the punch with alcohol.

All of a sudden, her eyes open and turn into red squares. Cyan has turned into a color zombie. Orange tries to punch her but misses, and Sky takes her down instead. Orange pokes Cyan with a stick, which aggravates Cyan, who stands up and yells. Orange once again misses another punch, while Cyan walks to another side of the room. Purple decides to take care of Cyan using his magic, and Cyan falls down to the floor once again.

In the future, Cyan decides to decorate her room. She adds various suspicious items, and a glass of spilled punch shows up. Cyan decides to lick the spilled punch from the floor. She then screams "AAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH! Wait, what the void?! What the actual void?!", but her text is shifted via the Caesar Cipher (shift 2) as a form of corruption. When she can't understand herself, she remarks "I really should've paid attention in that cryptography class." Pink tries to check up on Cyan after hearing the screaming, but Cyan's door disappears. Cyan then eats a burrito with the wrapper on, chokes, dies, and becomes a color zombie again.

Despite Cyan's door having disappeared, Pink has the intuition to reach out and attempt to open a door where it might be placed if it were there. It turns out, it is there, and Pink has now opened Cyan's door to discover her as a color zombie. Pink uses her magic to stop the zombie, then turns her attention to the spilled punch, which she picks up, and Cyan's satanic coffee maker. She decides to make a blood sacrifice to the coffee machine, which gives her an umbrella cocktail, as she wanted. She then decides to take out the umbrella and feed the cocktail to Cyan, which turns her back to normal.

Cyan freaks out when she wakes up, screaming "WHAT YEAR IS IT?!", to which Pink explains that it's 2500. After something involving the umbrella, Pink decides to punch a clock, but then it turns evil and grows a bunch of arms that start attacking her(?) and at this point I'm totally lost but Yellow comes in to the rescue by literally throwing the narrative at Pink. Yellow then kills Orange with a bowl of noodles and absorbs her body, becoming Orange (but only by physically changing colors). Yellow then tells Purple what happened, who asks where the body is. Purple decides to search for the body, and gets the idea to replace Orange with a literal orange from an alternate universe.

Now apparently, all of the other characters are trapped in a cage, so Yellow decides to dangle Orange near Pink so she'll break the cage and bully Orange, which works. Then both the alternate universe orange and actual Orange accuse everyone of murder and the comic dies.

## Side Story

A side story starring Pink (and thus made by Faileur) happens in parallel with the main story. Her quest appears to be to bully Orange. She recruits a somewhat confused Red, then meets Purple and Grey who also join. Pink meets a crossroads and decides to go right, finding two bandits terrorizing a young girl. She yells at them to get their attention, and one of the bandits "totally loses it", going off on a rant (the Navy Seal Copypasta) and vibrating incredibly quickly, even starting to speak in wingdings. Cyan then sneaks up on Pink, but Pink doesn't notice Cyan's existence. When Cyan attempts to slap her it does nothing, her hand passes right through Pink's face. Pink focuses her attention back on to the bandits and kicks the male one, doing 3 damage. Red opts for a more effective option, stabbing and killing him. Purple then sets the other bandit on fire with magic, killing her too. The girl that was being terrorized does not seem to be comforted, no matter what Pink does. Soon, the perspective switches back again.