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RabidWeasel posted:The giant iguana / komodo dragon / whatever that's supposed to be has an alchemical symbol on its snout, anyone know what it stands for? I couldn't find anything like it with some quick googling; it does look like a cartoon picture of a water molecule, though.
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RabidWeasel posted:The giant iguana / komodo dragon / whatever that's supposed to be has an alchemical symbol on its snout, anyone know what it stands for?
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Aug 28, 2013 09:41
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But if it's AV, it's upside-down. The direction makes it look like the symbol for magnet/lodestone, but that one doesn't have a central ring in the references I've seen. (Of course, there are always many variants of any given symbol because there was no ISO at the time to standardize practices.)
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Aug 28, 2013 10:10
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Interesting. Last chapter we got Renard backstory and character development. Now it's looking like this chapter is Ysengrin backstory and character development. It's almost like they're being set up for future direct conflict around Annie.
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Aug 28, 2013 14:18
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The horned demon on the fourth panel and the celophane ghoul in the last are competing for the position of smuggest monster in fun city.
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Aug 28, 2013 14:55
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Faraday Cage posted:Looks like the symbol for aqua vitae. At first glance it's closer to sal alkali.
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Aug 28, 2013 15:37
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Male Man posted:At first glance it's closer to sal alkali. Useful site. For reference, lodestone and aqua vitae.
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Aug 28, 2013 16:09
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"Stand down, soldiers. Your eyes deceive you: This is no human, but a terrible fire-demon. Also, she has told me that she can beat any one of you sissies in single combat. Her words, not mine."
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Aug 28, 2013 19:25
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Here's an idea: Hetty was a member of Ysengrin's "army" but left, only to somehow become trapped in the body of a doll and under the control of a little girl (and then Adam). This is why Renard knows her, he knew her from the Forest. Also explains why she was so into "honor" and "getting power" and that kind of stuff.
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Aug 28, 2013 21:48
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bartolimu posted:Interesting. Last chapter we got Renard backstory and character development. Now it's looking like this chapter is Ysengrin backstory and character development. It's almost like they're being set up for future direct conflict around Annie. It's pretty hot on the heels of Jones backstory and development, and a touch of Jimmy Jims development.
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Chronojam posted:It's pretty hot on the heels of Jones backstory and development, and a touch of Jimmy Jims development. I seemed to have missed the part in The Stone where Jones "developed" at all as a character. She seemed to always be the same to me! 
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Aug 29, 2013 04:08
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Rasamune posted:"Stand down, soldiers. Your eyes deceive you: This is no human, but a terrible fire-demon. Also, she has told me that she can beat any one of you sissies in single combat. Her words, not mine." 
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Aug 30, 2013 05:00
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I present panel one as an example of a bad decision, with panels two and three as my supporting evidence. Also wow these guys are jerks. Jerks who apparently don't pay attention, seeing as their questions were quite clearly just answered by panels one through three.
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Aug 30, 2013 08:02
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Good job CQC Slamming that snake Ysengrin!
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Aug 30, 2013 08:02
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I love all these new monstrous designs every single one these pages are all amazing. Besides the giant bugs and snakes are any of them directly taken from any sort of mythology or are these all straight from Tom's head? For real this is my favorite chapter just LOOK at everyone.
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Aug 30, 2013 08:06
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AE-35 Unit posted:I wonder if ol' Ysengrin's gonna have to flex some muscle to jog these guys' memories as to why he's a general. Forest rules and all that. Looks like I'm gonna get my wish! 
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Aug 30, 2013 08:09
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I love the bedazzled look of the snake in pannel 2. Just look at that. The eye looks perplexed, the tongue is all twisty. The hissing comes to an aprupt end. The fang is bent outwards. That looks really painfull by the way. Mister Sidel developed a fine artstyle over the years.
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Aug 30, 2013 08:20
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Oh man, Annie's gonna have to light some dudes on fire. 
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Aug 30, 2013 08:56
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"No you fools, because I'm the only thing standing between you and an horrible fiery death".
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Aug 30, 2013 10:18
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I think the most interesting bit about this page is the implication that these dudes don't care about Coyote's authority. For the most part, they aren't animals of any sort, so I kinda wonder where they fall within the whole hierarchy of the forest's denizens.
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Aug 30, 2013 12:03
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At this point everyone should be remembering this page.
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Aug 30, 2013 12:05
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Doctor_Blueninja posted:I think the most interesting bit about this page is the implication that these dudes don't care about Coyote's authority. For the most part, they aren't animals of any sort, so I kinda wonder where they fall within the whole hierarchy of the forest's denizens. There doesn't really seem to be a "hierarchy" of sorts. After "Leader(?)" Coyote and "General" Ysengrin there mostly just seems to be "everyone else". Hierarchies and titles are a human thing. All that matters to most of the forest denizens is strength and power (or at least the perception thereof). More than likely, Ysengrin's army of forest "soldiers" are just a loose-knit group of creatures that chose to follow him because he was the most aggressive and powerful.
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Air is lava! posted:I love the bedazzled look of the snake in pannel 2. Nah, snake's fine, from the slit pupil it's clearly a viper or a pitviper, and they have hinged fangs which bend all over the place in the course of normal behaviour (well, up and down anyway, if it's bent out to the side it might be a problem but the picture is ambiguous). Kudos to Tom for research, even though there are obvious fantasy elements in the scalation most people don't bother drawing the extended trachea or get the lower teeth correct /herpchat
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Aug 30, 2013 12:53
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Splicer posted:At this point everyone should be remembering this page. Funny, it reminded me more of this one.
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Doesn't look like they care much about Ysengrin's authority either. Went rogue or got dumped when Coyote took over? Splicer posted:At this point everyone should be remembering this page. That seems distinctly undiplomatic.
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Tubgirl Cosplay posted:Doesn't look like they care much about Ysengrin's authority either. Went rogue or got dumped when Coyote took over? Fire is just a continuation of diplomacy by other means.
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Aug 30, 2013 13:08
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Tubgirl Cosplay posted:That seems distinctly undiplomatic. Forest negotiations are a bit different than human ones. Setting someone on fire is more like a stern look to them.
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Aug 30, 2013 13:10
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Diplomacy is taking what you want and, in exchange, allowing the survivors to go fetch clean pants.
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Aug 30, 2013 13:22
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Whitenoise Poster posted:I love all these new monstrous designs every single one these pages are all amazing. Besides the giant bugs and snakes are any of them directly taken from any sort of mythology or are these all straight from Tom's head? The leafy guy on the far right could conceivably be a green man.
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Tubgirl Cosplay posted:That seems distinctly undiplomatic.
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Aug 30, 2013 13:37
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Splicer posted:At this point everyone should be remembering this page. Ahaha I didn't notice before how goddamn dirty Annie's feet were after she came back from for forest. Tom has such great attention to detail.
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Aug 30, 2013 14:22
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It's nice to see Ysengrin not being the butt of other people's schemes for once.
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Reading the bonus page from From The Forest She Came, it occurred to me that there was, at some point, someone in the Court's administration who thought "hmm I wonder where we can put Year 9 students - and what will we do with these abandoned oil rigs? If only there were some way to solve BOTH these problems..."
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The best part? Ysengrin became general of these folks before he got his tree body, as hinted at by the headmaster during the mechanic bird incident. He could kick all these monsters' asses as a lil' wolfie 
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Cyphoderus posted:The best part? Ysengrin became general of these folks before he got his tree body, as hinted at by the headmaster during the mechanic bird incident. Not no mo' he can't 
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I'm predicting Monday we'll either see a reference to Annie being Surma's daughter, which they will all respect for some unknown reason, or we'll see a lot of barbecued monsters.
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Freudian posted:Reading the bonus page from From The Forest She Came, it occurred to me that there was, at some point, someone in the Court's administration who thought "hmm I wonder where we can put Year 9 students - and what will we do with these abandoned oil rigs? If only there were some way to solve BOTH these problems..." Problem solved!
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BobTheJanitor posted:I'm predicting Monday we'll either see a reference to Annie being Surma's daughter, which they will all respect for some unknown reason, or we'll see a lot of barbecued monsters. I hope it's the latter. Annie gots'ta be her own person and earn her own respect 
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"No, because she demands it" would probably be one of the best things Ysengrin could say next. These folks don't seem like the types to respect anything but the rules of nature.
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Whitenoise Poster posted:I love all these new monstrous designs every single one these pages are all amazing. Besides the giant bugs and snakes are any of them directly taken from any sort of mythology or are these all straight from Tom's head?
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