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Wow, it looks like the weird RSS delay is fixed! I thought Kat had to prove she was an angel, but they've labelled her a creator. Maybe it's close to the same thing if you consider the title "creator" in a theistic way instead of an engineering way.
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Jan 25, 2013 09:30
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This is the point where Kat realizes that "Angel" is more than just a cute nickname Robot gave her.
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Jan 25, 2013 09:52
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Wait, they have laser eyes! They could have just laser-eyed everyone and had done with it all?  I want laser eyes too.
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Jan 25, 2013 09:58
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'...jesus christ they have loving lasers!'
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Jan 25, 2013 10:04
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So that's where we've seen it.
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Jan 25, 2013 10:31
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Rexxed posted:Wow, it looks like the weird RSS delay is fixed! I thought Kat had to prove she was an angel, but they've labelled her a creator. Maybe it's close to the same thing if you consider the title "creator" in a theistic way instead of an engineering way. Or exactly the same thing if you read Forming. Prison Warden posted:Well, it's blue. So I'm guessing Kat'll give it to Annie to increase her fire resistance. , I wonder if it is Quadra magic or Added Cut? But seriously it is super great to be reading a story that borrows more deeply from the concepts of western mythology instead of just ganking the names. Also gently caress my brain, this was the first thing it saw today:  
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Jan 25, 2013 10:46
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I wonder if the Mark of the Creator descends from Diego.
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Jan 25, 2013 10:53
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ATP_Power posted:So that's where we've seen it. It's appeared a number of times in conjunction with Kat. We also see it in the second treatise, the third treatise and the fourth treatise. It probably shows up a bunch of other times, but I'd have to pore over the entire comic to do that and it's pretty late.
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Jan 25, 2013 11:07
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Rincewind posted:It's appeared a number of times in conjunction with Kat. We also see it in the second treatise, the third treatise and the fourth treatise. It probably shows up a bunch of other times, but I'd have to pore over the entire comic to do that and it's pretty late. Interesting, considering how the treatises seem to compare it with Annie's "Antimony" mark, and also how in the first treatise, Kat has a hammer with the symbol of the seed bismuth on it. e: Holy poo poo, why is there a seed bismuth symbol over Ysengrin's missing ear in the 2nd treatise? 
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Jan 25, 2013 11:16
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Conot posted:e: Holy poo poo, why is there a seed bismuth symbol over Ysengrin's missing ear in the 2nd treatise? Unknown, but possibly hinting that it was the Court's fault he lost it.
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Jan 25, 2013 11:24
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Doctor Reynolds posted:Kat is now Robot Pope. More like the robot Don.
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Jan 25, 2013 11:33
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She's got an army of crusaders!
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Jan 25, 2013 11:35
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Rexxed posted:Wow, it looks like the weird RSS delay is fixed! I thought Kat had to prove she was an angel, but they've labelled her a creator. Maybe it's close to the same thing if you consider the title "creator" in a theistic way instead of an engineering way. They didn't label her a creator, they bestowed the Mark of the Creator on her. She got a flash of inspiration for the bio-robot design, where do you imagine the robots think that came from? Angels aren't God, they are the messengers of God. The robots already believe that the tic-tocs were sent by a divine being to watch over things. In all probability they consider Kat a servant of that divine Creator.
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Jan 25, 2013 11:39
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For anyone who hasn't noticed, the Archives page got an upgrade.
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Jan 25, 2013 12:07
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Zemyla posted:I want laser eyes too. We all do, my friend. We all do. Which also means there's really no telling what robots could be capable of if they weren't so dumb. Uh, actually, maybe upgrades for all isn't such a good idea...
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Jan 25, 2013 13:25
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So I take it that unlike the other symbols, this one doesn't have some kind of pre-existing alchemical significance?
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Jan 25, 2013 13:49
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It was made up, and inspired by the filament in a light bulb.
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Jan 25, 2013 14:00
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pik_d posted:Someone absolutely needs to use this Laser seraphs! They announce the coming of The Angel. Just like real seraphs! Only with lasers.
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Wili posted:Laser seraphs! They announce the coming of The Angel. Just like real seraphs! Only with lasers. Don't tempt me
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Jan 25, 2013 14:46
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 Even though we'll never be able to tell them apart I hope each of the S models have just as unique a personality as Robot, and not just act as a crazy-lazer-robot cult all the time.
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Jan 25, 2013 14:48
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The question now is, what are the robots going to have to defend Kat from?
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Jan 25, 2013 15:02
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MikeJF posted:I wonder if the Mark of the Creator descends from Diego. It does kinda resemble his nose.
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Jan 25, 2013 15:12
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Zemyla posted:Wait, they have laser eyes! They could have just laser-eyed everyone and had done with it all? I got Laser Eye Surgery a few years back. Talk about a huge fuckin' let-down. All I can do is see better.
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Jan 25, 2013 15:23
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pik_d posted:Someone absolutely needs to use this Now I can't help but think of an avatar combining this with this.
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Zemyla posted:Wait, they have laser eyes! They could have just laser-eyed everyone and had done with it all? First laser cows, now the Seraphs. I wonder what other robots have laser eyes
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Fragrag posted:I wonder what other robots have laser eyes 
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Fragrag posted:First laser cows, now the Seraphs. I wonder what other robots have laser eyes I got laser eyes man, I can burn through poo poo, I can read minds, and now I... I am more curious.
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Jan 25, 2013 16:40
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Knowing Boxbot though, his are installed backward.
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I wonder if the robots do this for every kid who shows some talent for robot tinkering. Maybe they have poor long-term memory.
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Zenzirouj posted:I wonder if the robots do this for every kid who shows some talent for robot tinkering. Maybe they have poor long-term memory. To be fair, "Made a anti-gravity engine at 13" and "Saw a bird flap its wing and immediately had idea as to how to make a organic robot" are hardly "talent for tinkering"
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Conot posted:To be fair, "Made a anti-gravity engine at 13" and "Saw a bird flap its wing and immediately had idea as to how to make a organic robot" are hardly "talent for tinkering" Yeah, but it's funnier to imagine them busting in on some kid playing with k'nex and doing this same spiel.
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Fucknag posted:It does kinda resemble his nose. Glad to see I'm not the only one who thought of that.
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Rincewind posted:It's appeared a number of times in conjunction with Kat. We also see it in the second treatise, the third treatise and the fourth treatise. It probably shows up a bunch of other times, but I'd have to pore over the entire comic to do that and it's pretty late. I have a feeling it hasn't shown up that much, but I'd be curious. Also, this continues to support the theory that Kat and Annie are or are becoming avatars/champions of two great and opposing forces. I also suspect that a lot of people besides them know this. They probably get away with much of what they do (teasing coyote, tinkering with robots, etc) because they are both much more powerful and important than either of them realise. It might also explain Annie's father's actions. At first I thought he might have been trying something crazy like resurrecting Annie's mother, but now I think he may just have been trying to subvert or damage the opposing champion. He may even have been acting on behalf of a faction within the Court.
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Lead out in cuffs posted:It might also explain Annie's father's actions. At first I thought he might have been trying something crazy like resurrecting Annie's mother, but now I think he may just have been trying to subvert or damage the opposing champion. He may even have been acting on behalf of a faction within the Court. I have a feeling that if anything, he's just trying to separate Annie from the "fire elemental" part of herself. If the above is true, it's entirely incidental.
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...so, the mark of the Creator is B^U? Seriously, that's all I can see on that carving.
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Dias posted:...so, the mark of the Creator is B^U? Impossible, because that would mean that there was an X-box robot lurking around somewhere, which would be far more terrible than boxbot, and that can't happen.
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Sieje posted:Impossible, because that would mean that there was an X-box robot lurking around somewhere, which would be far more terrible than boxbot, and that can't happen. The truth, revealed.
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Ursine Asylum posted:I have a feeling that if anything, he's just trying to separate Annie from the "fire elemental" part of herself. If the above is true, it's entirely incidental. Annie's mother died from being separated from her fire elemental part. I seem to recall Renard saying that there was "nothing left". That may not strictly have been true, but if it is, it would suggest that Annie is 100% her fire elemental part, and inseparable from it. But I wouldn't put it past her dad to try something like killing Annie to resurrect his ex-wife. Dias posted:...so, the mark of the Creator is B^U? I said this in an earlier post, but I think it got lost (plus it was late and I didn't provide much detail). Symbols like that are usually magical sigils. They are the seals of spirits, angels, powers, etc. A book full of examples would be the The Lesser Key of Solomon. Usually sigils are created by encoding an alphabet onto a two-dimensional diagram, plotting the letters of a word onto that diagram through the encoding, and connecting the dots. Some examples of systems for doing this: http://www.magickaschool.com/boards/viewtopic.php?f=60&t=13093 http://www.wisdomsdoor.com/wb/hwb-sigil.shtml http://solomonicmagic.blogspot.ca/2011/08/aiq-bekar-sigils.html A lot of those links are kinda new-agey, but it's the  end of new age. What I'm curious about is whether Tom actually went to the trouble to encode a word, or whether he just scribbled some lines down. Given the hints Tom's dropped so far, I think he did a certain amount of of his own, and has this all researched and worked out. So I'm curious as to what word or acronym the symbol encodes.
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