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The 19th Person posted:She blasted him with a gigantic wall of fire. Even with Elgamore there is a risk of injury. That's at least manslaughter. She didn't blast him with it, she laid it in his path so he couldn't follow her. It's not like he was going to kill himself by intentionally running into a fire. If she'd actually wanted to hurt him she would have hit him with it directly.
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Bremen posted:She didn't blast him with it, she laid it in his path so he couldn't follow her. It's not like he was going to kill himself by intentionally running into a fire. If she'd actually wanted to hurt him she would have hit him with it directly. I think we can all agree that the page in question is not 100% clear on what is going on, and so events are slightly open to interpretation. Some of us believe Antimony was blasting Eglamore with fire, while others of us (myself and evidently you, Bremen, included) believe she was placing a wall of fire across the bridge. Until a more clear explanation is forthcoming either in a future page or from Tom, let's just agree that it was all firey.
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I didn't actually think the pages were all that unclear. Looking at 809, the fire is forming a wall across the bridge rather than running down it (look how it's engulfing the lamps, which are on the side of the bridge - it's heading out to the side). In 810, Eglamore is not running away from an advancing fire, he's just shielding himself a little bit from what's there, and he has plenty of time to doodle a fairly complicated design on the bridge with purple chalk to remove the obstacle. (That doesn't mean that what she did was a particularly great idea, and yeah, someone could have gotten seriously injured, but that also doesn't mean she's an attempted murderess acting out of blind anger.)
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I can't believe you guys are actually discussing whether Antimony meant to murder Eaglemore when she
Well I clearly see now why Tom would want to get rid of his formspring.
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If you have time to draw a hopscotch game, you haven't had a fireball thrown at you.
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Sneaksie Taffer posted:If you have time to draw a hopscotch game, you haven't had a fireball thrown at you. Clearly you don't know the martial art of battle hopscotch. EDIT: More seriously, I think you'd put in more effort if drawing stuff in chalk is your main defense against offensive magic. That said, I'm on the side of fire wall. While I doubt Annie was thinking clearly in terms of what she was trying to do, Eglamore and the Court are still calm enough to send Jones to try to persuade Annie to come back (assuming they sent her), instead of considering her an Enemy and cutting her off completely. Fangz fucked around with this message at 06:42 on Jan 9, 2011 |
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Jan 9, 2011 06:38
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I knew I had to be getting to the end of the updates since the suspense was reaching a fever pitch. The moment I knew the comic was brilliant was when Coyote showed up. Excellent choice of inspiration and I really like how his movement is depicted. Well, that was much of a Saturday well spent.
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Ka0 posted:had no idea of her fire mind pyrotechnics, least of all controlling them The fire was created using her blinker stone.
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Mahlertov Cocktail posted:The fire was created using her blinker stone. What reason is there to think that? We haven't seen the blinker stone at all this chapter, and she's part fire elemental.
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Elftor posted:What reason is there to think that? We haven't seen the blinker stone at all this chapter, and she's part fire elemental. But she didn't know that at the time, and we've seen her make blinker fire before.
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Ka0 posted:I can't believe you guys are actually discussing whether Antimony meant to murder Eaglemore when she As for the actual page where she blasts fire, that looks more like an uncontrolled torrent to me. I could imagine it as she sees someone coming to retrieve her, she blasts fire to ward them off, but due to her emotionally unstable state she VASTLY overcompensates. It wouldn't be intentional but damage could be an end cause. Like I said before, sometimes I like reinterpreting nice things as secretly horrible. Annie's entire personality is a front to repress her angry fiery real self, and will become an arsonist, murdering dozens of her fellow students, including Kat. The 19th Person fucked around with this message at 01:28 on Jan 10, 2011 |
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Guava posted:But she didn't know that at the time, and we've seen her make blinker fire before. Yeah, but the blinker fire always comes from the blinker stone. She didn't leave it in the river last chapter, and I doubt she got Smitty to throw it down there again. I think she just focused her rage on Eglamore, and fire was the result.
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I thought the point of blinker stone was just a focus for the individual's own abilities? We've never seen Mrs Donlan use it for anything other than the signal, so blinker fire would presumeably just be Annie's fire ability manifested via the blinker stone.
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Tom's formspring posted:Was the fire Annie made created by her blinker stone? If so, would it physically burn Eglamore or would it just feel as if he's being burned?
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Okay, that's not new at all, is it? I thought it had been established quite a while ago that she could make real fire if she wanted to. It's just that generally, it has been more practical for it not to set things on fire.
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I understand why Annie wants to stay, but Kat is going to be sad and that makes me sad. 
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Oooh boy. I wonder if today's comic indicates Coyote has some sort of hold over Jones, because Jones looked very flustered and human for that panel. So hmmm... As for Annie, tsk. Taking a suspicious offer for greater power in a brief moment of emotion never works out well.
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Jan 10, 2011 09:18
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Coyote in that last panel is amazing. He's loving this poo poo (although I cannot recall a page he's appeared in where he wasn't loving this poo poo).
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Pierson posted:Coyote in that last panel is amazing. He's loving this poo poo (although I cannot recall a page he's appeared in where he wasn't loving this poo poo). Well, he looked pretty pissed off in the bottom left of http://www.gunnerkrigg.com/archive_page.php?comicID=497 Oh well, time to voyage into the heart of Coyote's brutal Stalinist regime!
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Fangz posted:I wonder if today's comic indicates Coyote has some sort of hold over Jones, because Jones looked very flustered and human for that panel.
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I love Coyote. He's so entertaining. I really hope he doesn't end up being a bad guy or anything at the end. Kat is going to be sad about this 
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Fangz posted:I wonder if today's comic indicates Coyote has some sort of hold over Jones, because Jones looked very flustered and human for that panel. So hmmm... Jones got outmaneuvered by Coyote because he knew she didn't wish to take Annie after all.
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Poor Kat. She was really looking forward to the summer. Annie really isn't being a good friend here.
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Mickey Eye posted:Poor Kat. She was really looking forward to the summer. Annie really isn't being a good friend here. As important as their friendship is, I don't think it's the first thing on Annie's mind right now.
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Mickey Eye posted:Poor Kat. She was really looking forward to the summer. Annie really isn't being a good friend here. I'm kind of thinking Kat would be fine with it, I mean, I'm sure she would be allowed to visit. Although, I think it's a definite possibility that Kat may be a bit resentful of the situation but will keep it to herself.
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I'm dying to know how Annie is going to explain everything. "so Kat, I was getting your books from your backpack, listen, you'll never guess what happened..."
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Agreeable Employer posted:I'm sure she would be allowed to visit. I sincerely doubt this. 1) I expect her to go on the trip anyway, even without Annie. She did it last year and I get the impression it's tradition. 2) Forest is still massively off limits. Annie seems to be the only exception due to good graces with coyote.
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idonotlikepeas posted:She could give Jones her blinker stone to give to Kat. She'd only be able to talk to Reynardine through that.
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Fangz posted:She'd only be able to talk to Reynardine through that. She can talk to Kat using the fire-writing thing from the camping trip. Kat can either write stuff down for her to see through the stone, or try talking - don't know if she can hear things through it or not.
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Mickey Eye posted:Poor Kat. She was really looking forward to the summer. Annie really isn't being a good friend here.
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Staggy posted:She can talk to Kat using the fire-writing thing from the camping trip. Kat can either write stuff down for her to see through the stone, or try talking - don't know if she can hear things through it or not. Coyote also taught her to manipulate physical things while using the blinker stone, so she could actually write something down on paper as well.
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Ka0 posted:I'm dying to know how Annie is going to explain everything. FronzelNeekburm posted:Poor Renard. He was the only one who knows anything who was actually honest with her, and now he's probably stuck as a doll for the summer. The saddest doll. Mahlertov Cocktail posted:Coyote also taught her to manipulate physical things while using the blinker stone, so she could actually write something down on paper as well.
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TheGreenAvenger posted:Then how would she signal that she wanted to come back "Sorry Kat, need to take the stone back now. Phone me!" *recalls stone* *raises signal*
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Mahlertov Cocktail posted:I feel like she could, but she's probably preeeetty pissed at Reynardine right now. Not after Coyote dropped the "He-loves-you-bomb" on her.
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