Good stuff! But....
10/10 for the story (up until now included) and the amazing animation, but in this one I'm seeing the edges of your scenes. It might be a NG bug in how they embedded the swf, but as I mentioned, I see edges and cut off characters on the bottom and right edges. I've noticed that some flash files on NG have similar problems (the swf being cut off or too large). Maybe some code to center and mask out the bg?
Anyway, keep up the good work!
(p.s. NG programmers: I'm using FF 3.5.5 on OS X 10.6.2)