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PupsOfWar posted:Harrow does immediately realize Frontline Titties of the Fifth isn't a real publication That or when she sees it she sees that it's hand drawn or a stitched together zine (made by Gideon herself)
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Arsenic Lupin posted:Somewhere, maybe in one of the short stories, it's spelled out that the Sixth House are in fact catting around because they need the genetic diversity. They make a point of putting the most attractive Sixth House members in military situations where there are a lot of bored soldiers with nothing else to do. The Sixth House makes a point of teaching the kids erotic poetry before they go, because Sixth House. Yup. The Mysterious Study of Doctor Sex. I just reread it like two days ago. Pal apparently thought even then that Camilla should've been assigned to the "competent AND sexy" group if she wasn't his cav, despite him already also being in full starry-eyed teenager love with Dulcinea.
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Demon_Corsair posted:Just finishing a reread of Gideon and Gideon sacrificing herself for Harrow still seems to come out of left field. They go from life long enemies to grudgingly working together over the course of most of the book. Then they have their emotional moment in the pool and suddenly it’s I can’t live without you/i will sacrifice myself for you? It seems very rushed. And even though I knew the sacrifice was coming, it was still jarring. She's kinda got a martyr complex.
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Harrow is definitely much better on reread. I really liked how for the first 2/3s of the book, every chapter of her “memory” ends with a giant wink at the reader of how all of this is wrong. But I am confused about one thing. Was commander wake simultaneous haunting harrow as the sleeper and possessing the body of cytherea?
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Demon_Corsair posted:But I am confused about one thing. Was commander wake simultaneous haunting harrow as the sleeper and possessing the body of cytherea? I believe it was Harrow thinking Commander Awake Remembrance of These Valiant Dead Kia Hua Ko Te Pai Snap Back to Reality Oops There Goes Gravity possessing Cytherea's body and hallucinating The Body was the same thing.
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Demon_Corsair posted:Harrow is definitely much better on reread. I really liked how for the first 2/3s of the book, every chapter of her “memory” ends with a giant wink at the reader of how all of this is wrong. Wake is housed in Gideon the Ninth's two-handed sword. From this position, she ventures out to haunt other things. She haunts Harrow's dreams of Canaan house as the Sleeper, and intermittently possesses Cytherea's body to act in the real world. That's what causes the weird stuff that happens with Cytherea's body to happen, like ending up under Harrow's bed. Separately, Gideon the First's body is periodically possessed by his cavalier, Pyrrha, which is what's going on in some of his more inscrutable moments. When Harrow walks in on G1 commiting an act of necrophilia with Cytherea's corpse, that's Wake and Pyrrha having a ghost-on-ghost hookup. I think it's also Pyrrha who gives Harrow the tip about using blood wards to protect herself from G1. Also separately, Harrow is hallucinating the Body from the locked tomb, which is what causes her to doubt her own sanity in both her vision and in the real world. She doesn't disclose this to anyone in the real world, but the adult Lyctors come to doubt her sanity anyway because she keeps referring to G1 as Ortus due to the self-lobotomy she administered. There's several weird paranormal things happening to Harrow at once and imo you're very much meant to get them mixed up with each other til the end. It's a lot! Abigail Pent does ghosts for a living and she still looks at Harrow and thinks "what the gently caress?" PupsOfWar fucked around with this message at 20:24 on Sep 6, 2023 |
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Demon_Corsair posted:Harrow is definitely much better on reread. I really liked how for the first 2/3s of the book, every chapter of her “memory” ends with a giant wink at the reader of how all of this is wrong. Wake was possibly in the sword and transferred to Cytherea when harrow sleepwalked out and stabbed the corpse
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The real question is what's up with the Body. The Body is incredibly with it, and doesn't seem to be Alecto insofar as she speaks like a modern person and seems to know exactly who Harrow is, which Alecto, reunited with her locked corse, does not. The Body tells Harrow to lie to Mercymorn about her age, which very probably saves Harrow's life. How did the Body know she needed to do that? Just imagine how much information she would have to have in order to come up with that on the spot! Who the heck is she?
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Rand Brittain posted:The real question is what's up with the Body. the Bodysattva
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I agree with Seb that Wake transfers to Cytherea's corpse after Harrow stabs the body, so for most of the book, she's in that corpse, whereas previously she was in Gideon's sword. This is why in Gideon Harrow makes comments about feeling judged by the sword.
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Rand Brittain posted:The real question is what's up with the Body. She's probably Anastasia, the founder of the Ninth House. She shares a tomb with Alecto, and so Harrow would have come in contact with her body/potential revenant when she entered the Locked Tomb as a child, at which point Anastasia's ghost could have hitched a ride. Harrow would also be her blood relative (Mercymorn comments on the lack of resemblence), which would make haunting her easier.
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Old Kentucky Shark posted:She's probably Anastasia, the founder of the Ninth House. She shares a tomb with Alecto, and so Harrow would have come in contact with her body/potential revenant when she entered the Locked Tomb as a child, at which point Anastasia's ghost could have hitched a ride. Harrow would also be her blood relative (Mercymorn comments on the lack of resemblence), which would make haunting her easier. ooh good call
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Ahhh gently caress I hope you're right
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Oh gently caress, I never thought of that either. I always thought it was Alecto even though that’s logically impossible.
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Dawgstar posted:I believe it was Harrow thinking Commander Awake Remembrance of These Valiant Dead Kia Hua Ko Te Pai Snap Back to Reality Oops There Goes Gravity possessing Cytherea's body and hallucinating The Body was the same thing. Nayy I beleive "The Body" which was always distinctly different from Cytherea's corpse, and also in Harrows memories of her childhood, is maybe a splinter of Alecto slipping out of the tomb - who piggybacked in through a backdoor when all the 200 were homunculized into Harrow's fetus. And the double double unlikely twist I've got in my pocket is that instead it is Anastasia's soul, who jumped into Harrow after being stuck in the tomb for 10,000 years. Which would be a great Rita Repulsa meme that Muir would slip in Also the chronology isn't clear on when all the stuff with the Sleeper happened in the dream bubble. Wake had a link to both Harrow's soul and to Cytherea's Body to ride, so she could have been going back and forth but that isn't clear but it is certain Wake can't control Cyth's body until after Harrow stabs it through on the slab at the mithraeum, but Harrow did notice her soul in the shuttle with them in the river, something Jod somehow missed. The theory there is Wake had enough wiggle room as the sleeper to get harrow to do something weird she kinda would have done anyway, but far beyond 1:1 control like she can once she's in the corpse. e; gently caress I came to that conclusion without reading ahead like 5 posts I promise
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M_Gargantua posted:Rita Repulsa hmm i wonder who that ihttps://powerrangers.fandom.com/wiki/Rita_Repulsa Several ten of thousands of years ago, Rita's father Master Vile met with an ally of Zordon called Lady Fienna of Lutus and they fell in love before eventually getting married. However, he kept his true nature a secret from her although she eventually discovered his true nature and fled when she was pregnant with Rita. She went to Zordon for safety and gave birth to Rita in his accompaniment before trying to raise the baby. However, Master Vile never stopped searching for his lost wife and daughter and, when he found them, sent the Tenga Warriors who re-captured the six year old Rita and mortally wounded Fienna. Comicicon COMIC STORY- Power Rangers Unlimited: Edge of Darkness Vile then raised her in his psychopathic and cruel ways. Sometime between this and leaving Vile, she went to an unnamed planet and recruited a dog like creature named Finster who had just accidentally killed his wife Plepra and was worried over how the other natives would treat him when they found out. Rita played on his desire to create "beautiful art" (AKA hideous abominations) and convinced him to join her as she could make them real and he happily accepted. Comicicon COMIC STORY- Mighty Morphin Power Rangers 2017 Annual Along with her brother, Rito Revolto, Rita was raised to embrace the practices of evil and dabbled into the art of dark magic. Crafting for herself a scepter through which to channel her evil, Rita joined the armies of the infamous Lord Zedd and proceeded to aid him in galactic conquest. Gaining renown for the destruction she wrought upon Regda 2, Sorcery 7 and Tarmac 3, Rita amassed a large army of monsters and Putty Patrollers to serve her. During her reign of terror, she led a group of minions to conquer Earth, a planet populated by humans. Having conquered many worlds in the service of Lord Zedd, Rita was defeated by Zordon of Eltar during her failed invasion of Earth. Imprisoned in a space dumpster by the sage, Rita was cast into space where she would float for ten thousand years before arcing back to the moon. Once freed, she and her minions reclaimed their headquarters and started a second campaign on Earth to defeat Zordon and take the planet for Lord Zedd. Some years after this, she left Vile and joined up with the forces of Lord Zedd, acting as his commander whenever he was unable to oversee an invasion himself. A little over ten thousand years ago, she was invading the Breel homeworld with another emissary of Zedd's named Montaur with Montaur as the field commander and Rita as the puppet mistress. They were victorious due to Montaur's tactics and sheer numbers of Putty Patrollers but the twisted Montaur desired to commit genocide to make more people afraid of her and Zedd. Disgusted, she vaporized him when he turned to head to the Breel castle and presumably start such an atrocity. Comicicon COMIC STORY- Go Go Power Rangers Issue 5 Although Squatt and Baboo's origins are unknown, it is known that she didn't recruit Goldar. Goldar and his brother Silverback were already working for Lord Zedd as were their warrior race but he eventually turned against his brother when he planned to kill Zedd as he felt the arch-villain was wasting their time in simple invasions. He killed Silverback under orders from Zedd and was then assigned to Rita and her fledgling Evil Space Aliens. Comicicon COMIC STORY- Mighty Morphin Power Rangers 2016 Annual Establishing a Moon Palace on the planet's moon, Rita launched attacks against the world but her invasion was halted by the powerful sage called Zordon. A mighty wizard from Eltar, Zordon and Rita's servants and warriors had many confrontations; the pair built up a lasting competition as they won and lost battles. Rita, seemingly admitting her failure, called for negotiations to be made between her camp and the warriors of Earth. Meeting with Zordon, Rita revealed the depths of her treachery and trapped Zordon in a time warp. Before Zordon was gone, the wizard revealed he was prepared with his own fail safe. Conjuring up a space dumpster, Zordon sealed away Rita and her chief aides and servants and cast them into space. Inside the dumpster, Rita was forced to live through the lives of her numerous victims. which caused her endless trauma as she would live a love-filled life only for her own self to attack the planet she was on. ADVERTISEMENT Return to Earth MM Rita Repulsa Happy Birthday Zack Rita searching her book for a monster. Rita had been sealed in her dumpster for nearly 10,000 years before it found its way back to the moon. Not long after, a pair of curious astronauts stumbled upon the strange container and broke the seal that kept Rita's evil at bay. Released from her prison, she destroyed the dumpster and quickly set her sights on Earth. Reoccupying her palace which had lay vacant for eons, Rita sent her chief warrior, Goldar, to Earth to lay siege to the world. However, Rita was met by her opponent Zordon, who had managed to reestablish contact with Earth and gather new warriors. Beginning her second invasion of the planet, Rita's monsters were constantly defeated by Zordon's Power Rangers, teenage humans who wielded the mighty Power Coins. MM Rita Repulsa Switching Places Rita watching the Rangers battle her giant monster. While Rita largely relied on monsters created by her loyal minion Finster or with the help of other mystic allies such as Madame Woe or Lokar, her master stroke came in creating a sixth Ranger to combat Zordon's warriors. Rita secured a Green Candle from the Wizard of Deception to aid in her next scheme. Having long ago come into the possession of a power coin, Rita selected one of the Rangers' own classmates, Tommy Oliver, to become her Green Ranger. While this proved effective for a time, Rita's plan was ultimately foiled when the Rangers broke her spell and brought Tommy back to the side of good. A year after being freed from her dumpster Rita was horrified when a storm of dark energy began to erupt throughout surrounding space. Tvicon TV STORY-Green With Evil Banished A storm, a manifestation of Lord Zedd's power, ends when the master of evil took up residence in the Palace's Chamber of Command. Disgusted with Rita's performance and her inability to conquer the Earth after several millennia, Zedd had returned to destroy Zordon once and for all. Sealing her away once more in a space dumpster, Rita is cast back out into the void only to swear revenge. Tvicon TV STORY-The Mutiny Marriage Sometime after the demise of the Photomare and the destruction of the Rock of Time, Lord Zedd has to enter his bicentennial Sleep of Oblivion to recharge his powers. However, Rita’s dumpster nears the Moon and soon explosively makes landing on the surface but she is unfazed and manages to escape from it. Rita enters via her old balcony and starts calling out for her former minions for whatever reason but gets no response so heads to the workshop of her only remaining ally; Finster. Finster has spent the last several months of his time idling away in his workshop and bemoans his complete lack of relevance now that Zedd is around. He has gone from monster-maker extraordinaire to a dolting old man alone in his workshop but Rita appears in his workshop having crash-landed back on the Moon and snuck in. Initially, Finster just passes her off as him hearing voices in his head but soon realizes that he isn’t and uses a potion to return her to her proper size with his Spectron Reintergrator. Rita declares her intention to reclaim her own power so Finster suggests a monster army as he has had nothing better to do but Rita refuses. She tells him to create a love potion as she plans to brainwash Zedd into marrying her to regain her former glory without anyone being able to sabotage her. Finster comes up with the idea to use Alpha to trap the Power Rangers as part of Rita’s plan to give them to Zedd as a wedding gift which Rita happily accepts. When he returns from Earth after using two Putties to help restrain Alpha, Rita embraces him as thanks. Later on, whilst the Power Rangers do some dramatic wandering through the Specter Theater and the doors slam shut. Finster applies a facelift to Rita which regresses her by around 10,000 years to make her look more appealing for Zedd. Later, whilst Alpha makes Zordon look silly and Finster recreates her favorite monsters to attack the Power Rangers, Rita goes to administer the love potion and manages to successfully do so without being discovered. Tvicon TV STORY-The Wedding, Part I MM Rita Repulsa The Wedding Rita seduces Lord Zedd. Rita lingers around in Zedd’s rejuvenation chamber, proclaiming that she will make Zedd redundant when she becomes his queen and seal him away in a dumpster, like he did to her once she controls Earth. Eventually, she makes Zedd wake up using a feather and he immediately begins flirting with her and being overly goofy. Goldar appears after being summoned by Zedd and immediately orders the Putties to seize her, but Lord Zedd stops him, much to his shock. Much to Goldar’s abject horror, Zedd then announces his plans to marry Rita which Goldar is helpless to stop and is even ordered to plan said wedding much to Rita’s intense delight. Whilst the Robogoat and the Snizzard chase down the Power Rangers, Rita goes to Finster and demands more monsters for her wedding with the specification that they give her a lot of gifts. Shortly thereafter, Rita and Zedd hold a toast of dry ice to their wedding but the Power Rangers then escape the Specter Theater so Zedd drops everything and enlarges the Peckster and the Rhinoblaster after Rita comes up with the idea. The enlarged monsters easily defeat the Thunderzords and Alpha sends them back to the Specter Theater. With the Power Rangers recontained, Rita has Finster do her make-up as she powders her face and complains about marrying Zedd although she tells him to select two monsters and send some Putties to guard the Power Rangers and stop another escape. With both the Peckster and the Rhinoblaster standing guard, Lord Zedd begins his wedding ceremony with his monsters as guests and witnesses. Tvicon TV STORY-The Wedding Part II Inside Serpentera, Rita sits back on Lord Zedd’s command chair whilst Zedd pilots the Zord towards Earth. Shortly thereafter however, just as Rita and Zedd begin a game of “99 bottles of Slime on the Wall," Goldar discovers that the Power Rangers have outsmarted the immensely dense Peckster and the Rhinoblaster and have escaped. He reports this to his masters and Zedd orders him to send the entire monster army to Earth to cut them off. Goldar sends the entire monster army along with Putties to Earth but they end up slipping away and the Robogoat even ends up accidentally flailing when the Lizzinator. The two villains watch in glee as the Rangers flee to the Command Center while being pursued by the monsters but manage to make it to the building and makes the pursuit a dismal failure. As such, Lord Zedd throws his Growth Bombs to enlarge the monster army in order to force the Rangers into a Zord fight where the monster army can annihilate them. However, they are all soon wiped out and Rita and Zedd withdraw to the Moon Palace in disgrace. With the scheme a failure, Rita opts not to trap Zedd like she planned since she will need his help in the future. Tvicon TV STORY-The Wedding, Part III ADVERTISEMENT Married Life Sometime after Rita's marriage to Zedd, Scorpina becomes disillusioned with Rita and began to desire power so started to read her spell books. However, it was a trap (probably set to either test her loyalty or to find who had been breaking into her library) and she was banished to the Talos Dimension. Comicicon COMIC STORY- Power Rangers: Soul of the Dragon Sometime after her wedding, Rita gets the huff with Lord Zedd for unknown reasons but he wants her to consult the Ghost of Darkness to summon the Wizard of Deception and trap the Power Rangers in the past. After some presumed begging from Goldar, Rita consults the Ghost of Darkness and bemoans every time that they have banished the Power Rangers several times and they have always returned. The Ghost of Darkness states that Tommy’s leadership is the key to defeating the Power Rangers for good; kill him and the team falls apart. Knowing his keen nature however, he suggests creating a clone to kill him whilst the Wizard of Deception sends the other Rangers into the past. After he swiftly sends down the Wizard of Deception, Rita bows thanks the Ghost of Darkness before leaving and the being is never seen again. Later, after the Wizard of Deception brainwashes Bulk and Skull to get some hair from Tommy, Rita goes to Finster to gloat. She then reveals her goal; recreate the Green Ranger and destroy the Rangers for good (despite that not being her original goal). Meanwhile, despite Bulk and Skull failing, the Wizard of Deception and Zedd’s Putty Patrol put Tommy into a coma and create Tom Oliver. Even with all of the cards seemingly in Rita and Zedd’s hand, the Wizard of Deception is eventually killed and this plan fails miserably. Tvicon TV STORY-Return of the Green Ranger On the week of Angel Grove High's school president elections, Rita decides to take advantage of this for her own plans but Lord Zedd turned out to be sexist and claim her to be useless as a villain due to her gender. However, when he leaves to create his own scheme, Rita summons Squatt and Baboo as well as Goldar and reveals her plan to use an enchanted rope to turn them into intensely toxic rivals. After some poster sabotage between the two, Rita sends a letter to Tommy claiming that she has some information to bury Kimberly and sends down Goldar with the Putties who manage to capture Saba. Shortly thereafter, whilst the Power Rangers regroup at the Command Center, Rita goes to Earth with Squatt and Baboo and takes control of Saba by gagging him before having a dance for her presumed victory. Five of the Power Rangers confront Rita to get Saba back but she just mocks them before summoning the White Tigerzord to destroy the Power Rangers. Its superior strength gets the upper-hand against the Thunder Megazord and nearly destroys it completely much to the villains' delight. However, Tommy uses an Electro Magnet to retrieve Saba so Rita withdraws herself and the minions to avoid being crushed under the Tigerzord's foot. Tvicon TV STORY-Best Man for the Job Rita leans that Kimberly likes the Grumble the Magic Elf storybook and decides to banish her, Rocky and Tommy into it to leave the Power Rangers very weak and easy to destroy so uses her magic to do so. Rita also has an ally named Mondo the Magician within the book who she knows can destroy them for her so focuses her efforts on killing the Power Rangers still outside of the storybook. However, they later escape after the destruction of the Turkey Jerk by completing the story so brings Mondo out of the storybook but the Thunder Megazord reseals him and renders yet another plan a failure. Tvicon TV STORY-Storybook Rangers ADVERTISEMENT Season 3 Rita's brother Rito Revolto arrives at the Moon Palace to add his sword to their fight against the Rangers. He destroys the Thunderzords, but the Ninja Megazord easily beats him and the Vampirus which returns the war to a stalemate. Tvicon TV STORY-Ninja Quest AR Rita Repulsa Hogday Afternoon Rita celebrates a brief victory. Not long after Rito's arrival on the moon, Master Vile arrives to criticize his daughter's choice in men but his plan involving the Blue Globbor fails so he sticks around. Tvicon TV STORY-Master Vile and the Metallic Armor Attempting to upstage Zedd in conquering the Earth, Vile uses the Orb of Doom to reverse time on the planet and turns the Power Rangers back into children but his plan is thwarted by the Aquitar Rangers and he leaves for the Gamma Vile in disgrace. Tvicon TV STORY-Alien Rangers of Aquitar While they attempt to set things right, Rita and Zedd plot their boldest move yet: they will destroy the Command Center and steal the powerful Zeo Crystal for themselves. The plan is ultimately a failure; Goldar and Rito's implosion device does go off but the Rangers, Zordon and Alpha 5 escape to a fortified Power Chamber underneath the wreckage. The Zeo Crystal turns up in the rubble as Goldar and Rito lost it during their getaway. Tvicon TV STORY-Hogday Afternoon Zeo Despite the setbacks, Rita and Zedd celebrate their most significant victory over Zordon's forces by throwing a massive party in the throne room. Their good feelings however do not last as the Machine Empire, longtime rivals of both Rita and Zedd, stage a coup and force Rita and Zedd to flee the moon in Serpentera. Tvicon TV STORY-A Zeo Beginning Rita and Zedd eventually return and exact revenge after the Machine Empire becomes a laughing stock due to their multiple defeats by the Zeo Rangers. Tvicon TV STORY-A Golden Homecoming Rita and Zedd later have Finster build a missile to annihilate the Machine Empire after King Mondo's defeat but it gains sentience as Louie Kaboom who breaks free of their control and assumes command himself. Tvicon TV STORY-Bomber in the Summer With the help of a bomb disguised as a gift, the ruling family of the Machine Empire is temporarily destroyed and Rita and Zedd once again ruled the moon for themselves. Rather than immediately resuming attacks however, Rita and Zedd opt to go on holiday and return to take their revenge at a later date. Tvicon TV STORY-Good as Gold
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sebmojo posted:hmm i wonder who that ihttps://powerrangers.fandom.com/wiki/Rita_Repulsa[sub] And where was all of Power Rangers filmed? THAT'S RIGHT, NEW ZEALAND. It all fits 
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Here is another unsubstantiated theory about River Geometry. This is getting into reddit level blind theory crafting to fill dead space in my head. The spatial relationships are weird, so its all non-euclidean topology. The River is locationally analogous to the Sol System, without having any 1:1 connection to location real space, being infinitely big and all in the way dreams can be infinite. Because Jod killed, ate, and resurrected Sol and her planets, all the trillions of Thaums of soulstuff is stuck in the river, trapped in a giant bubble where once was Sol. Any Necro or human Necromancy powered device, when they go under, will always end up in the River because they're still tied by dread magics to Sol. The Resurrection Beasts are also tied to Sol, and thus the river, as that is where they were killed. While their corpus's can travel anywhere, but their souls can never leave the river to die for real. Jod is imprisoning them there like he is the rest of the souls. Outside the bubble making the River, is the rest of death, "the other shore" which Jod has conveniently corked so that he can do unholy death stuffs. As of uninvited guest Dulcinea seems to be the only one to eject herself out of Jods bubble and back to real death, only to turn around and poke back in to say hi to Pal now that she knows the trick of it. So at the center of the River, you have the Tower, where Alecto is kept in cold storage. It's the inverse of the drillshaft, which I still hold is on what used to be Luna. And I posit that the tower is quite literally all that rock that would have made the drillshaft just popped into the river and anchored there in the center of the bubble. The Shore itself they always refer to is like a mobius strip. No matter how far you go you'll endlessly loop around. And if you wade out into its waters you're always going 'down' but never 'in'. And if you try to cross the ocean you'll end up back on the shore. If you go down to the center of the bubble you end up in the Barathron. But if you happen to have a puppy in your back seat and a great sense of direction you can go to the center without going to the depth, which is the trick of it. Makes perfect sense right Also how did we change the thread title but still call it Trilogy.
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silvergoose posted:wait are you saying you don't know the "ahh, after ten thousand years I'm free" meme I think he just wanted to quote all that because wow does power rangers go places and wow does Alecto have a lot in common with our favorite witch. 
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Taika "Jod" Waititi is married to Rita Ora. The evidence mounts.
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M_Gargantua posted:Here is another unsubstantiated theory about River Geometry. This is getting into reddit level blind theory crafting to fill dead space in my head. The increasingly inaccurately named locked tomb trilogy Qn: who is the uninvited guest of the plays title?
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sebmojo posted:Qn: who is the uninvited guest of the plays title? a lot of people qualify
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sebmojo posted:Qn: who is the uninvited guest of the plays title? Theres three! Pal is the guest in Bab's body Bab's is the unwanted guest in Ianthe's Soul And Dulcinea is the ghost on the wrong side of death heckling the stage from the box Also sad that #3 didn't get to do a WKYK "Now you hosed up" reference in that regards.
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Rand Brittain posted:a lot of people qualify yeah it's basically everyone in it lol
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M_Gargantua posted:Theres three! Ianthe is also an unwanted guest in Babs' body! ...Ianthe is an unwanted guest in any location where she appears
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I have a dumb question, how does one get and read Uninvited Guest?
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Ceebees posted:I have a dumb question, how does one get and read Uninvited Guest? piracy Or buy the paperback version of Nona when it comes out. Is it out yet? Eventually they're likely to update the ebook versions; they did with the other two.
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It will probably be on the Tor website soon enough.
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Ceebees posted:I have a dumb question, how does one get and read Uninvited Guest? Backread the thread and there's a link.
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Ceebees posted:I have a dumb question, how does one get and read Uninvited Guest? Hargrimm posted:Someone on reddit got their hands on a pdf of The Unwanted Guest, the bonus short story for the Nona paperback. It's a play!
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Sep 7, 2023 18:27
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Something I’ve never quite understood about HtN: HtN divides its time between two narratives — lobotomised Harrow palling about with Ianthe et al, and Harrow’s soul palling about with the ghosts of everyone who died during the events of GtN. At one point, Harrow’s soul sees Palamedes get blown away by a shotgun, which is an early clue that his soul didn’t end up in the river to become part of Harrow’s alt-universe shenanigans. Later, when broke-brained Harrow meets Palamedes in his own bubble, she mentions how he’d died by being shot, implying that her recollection of the events of Canaan House are aligned with the secondary narrative where Ortus is her cavalier, etc. But that narrative eventually ends with her realising that everyone in Canaan House is a soul caught before entering the river, so how did the scene of Palamedes being blown away enter broke-brained Harrow’s memory? Or have I drastically misunderstood something?
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Sep 7, 2023 19:47
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Palamedes in HtN: Was his soul pulled into alt-universe Canaan the same way as Magnus and Abigail's, then shunted over to his bubble after being "shot"?
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