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ronya posted:drat it use your superspeed time more productively It's implied that moving would break it, so this is pretty much just talking as a free action
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SlothfulCobra posted:Eightfold knows too much to be as weak and unimportant as she lets on. Eightfold ate Spender's collection of books about spectral stuff.
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Apr 18, 2014 19:39
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Well, there is another weakness of the spirit world thing. It takes energy from the spirit to pull the spectral into and keep them in that world. I didn't think spectrals would end up using super speed for everything.
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Mystic Mongol posted:Eightfold ate Spender's collection of books about spectral stuff. I wonder if Isabel was like  'OOPS HOW DARE YOU EAT THOSE BOOKS I LEFT NEAR YOU hey anything interesting in there?'
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ThatBasqueGuy posted:It's implied that moving would break it, so this is pretty much just talking as a free action Well, less "implied" and more "outright stated", though Eightfold says "yet" so that might change. I wonder if the difficulty is a matter of Eightfold's weakness or the distance, though, since normally movement in this state is simple, as we've seen both with Spender's recent antics and our introduction to this sort of thing with Isaac. Anyway, I wonder what the purpose of this is. And why the book doesn't look possessed anymore.
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Roland Jones posted:Anyway, I wonder what the purpose of this is. And why the book doesn't look possessed anymore. This keeps coming up. It's because it takes time for the book to change after eightfold returns to the book.
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Apr 18, 2014 21:01
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He posted a cool thing on Tumblr too!
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Whitenoise Poster posted:This keeps coming up. It's because it takes time for the book to change after eightfold returns to the book. I am aware of that. I just thought that it had shifted back already, since, you know, Eightfold's pretty weak and all, so it looking normal was a change here. Turns out I was mistaken, though.
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Uh oh it seems eightfold wants to take a TIME OUT.. he wants us all to keep it real about... BOOKS siotle posted:He posted a cool thing on Tumblr too! oh, i could have sworn he inked it digitally.
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"How to Read," "CATS!", and "A Brief History of Underwear."
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Dr. Buttass posted:"How to Read," "CATS!", and "A Brief History of Underwear." Pretty sure it's "CATS?"
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Let's split the difference and call it an interrobang.
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I'm trying to read the title on the flying book in panel 6, I got as far as "On the Death of Gods" then the second line seems to be "& A Breakfast" but I'm not sure about really anything there. It might be the name of the author.
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Apr 19, 2014 05:44
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That book is Isabel's tool, which is "On the Birth of Gods" by Dr. A Beaumont.
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Eightfold is adorable. Also still giving off "totally gonna die" vibes.
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Apr 21, 2014 11:28
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Fear not, we're just being led to more exposition.
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Apr 21, 2014 12:42
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The roar of a thousand death flags being raised at once
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Apr 21, 2014 12:44
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AnonSpore posted:The roar of a thousand death flags being raised at once
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Can anyone other post the alt text for me? I am out of town and phone only.
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Paramemetic posted:Can anyone other post the alt text for me? I am out of town and phone only. "As your BFF I am also aware of your intense dislike for Uncool Things"
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Paramemetic posted:Can anyone other post the alt text for me? I am out of town and phone only. "As your BFF I am also aware of your intense dislike for Uncool Things" Also gee Eightfold I appreciate getting this exposition and all but is now really the time to talk about your backstory?
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She's preparing something! It'll probably be related to the story thus making it an awesome callback. Also thanks guys.
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Finally got around to reading this webcomic and it's pretty great. It seems to move a little slowly though - I thought things were just getting started when I caught up to the current page and realized I'd just read three years worth of updates. It's got a great style and the pace is fine narratively, I just worry if it's going to actually be able to finish. I mean, how long has it been in-universe? Like a week?
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Dolash posted:Finally got around to reading this webcomic and it's pretty great. It seems to move a little slowly though - I thought things were just getting started when I caught up to the current page and realized I'd just read three years worth of updates. It's got a great style and the pace is fine narratively, I just worry if it's going to actually be able to finish. Well keep in mind for a long time the webcomic had no real fixed update schedule to speak of. The Mondays and Fridays thing is fairly new. That's why it seems especially slow 
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Yeah, it didn't start updating more than once a week until late last year, and he's fairly consistent about meeting the deadline. Also, he's in school right now, wouldn't surprise me if it starts updating more often eventually.
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So I'm kind of stumped on what Eightfold could even be planning. To my knowledge, tools can't do anything on their own. The spirit possessing the object lends it's power to the Spectral, and the Spectral determines the rest. Which leads me to believe that this whole backstory thing will be a convenient excuse for Eightfold to ditch Isabel. Not in the "I want to get away" sense but in the "You rely on me like a crutch, but you can be so much better, so I'm gonna leave you now and force you to become the Spec-Shot Master you were always destined to be~!" sense. To boost her confidence in herself, so that she can fight off infinitely respawning digital catdogs, and not uselessly throw herself off of a moving ghost train to rescue a book at the possible risk of her life. I mean, what else could follow a story that begins with "It all started when I met the first opponent I couldn't defeat"?
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Dolash posted:Finally got around to reading this webcomic and it's pretty great. It seems to move a little slowly though - I thought things were just getting started when I caught up to the current page and realized I'd just read three years worth of updates. It's got a great style and the pace is fine narratively, I just worry if it's going to actually be able to finish. Try three days total. I know he said somewhere that the story is supposed to last a year of webcomic time, and I honestly doubt that's actually going to happen. Then again, maybe it'll update more frequently over the summer. MikeJF posted:Also, each page has about the content of two or three lesser webcomic updates. This too. Unlike some other webcomic authors, Zack is good at pacing the strips out so that we don't, say, get stuck with reading a single conversation for months at a time. Or if we do, he makes sure it's an entertaining exchange.
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I suppose he could cover a whole year with a few good timeskips, although the comic's plot seems pretty tight at the moment - not really much room for downtime or letting things simmer.
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Zero_Tactility posted:SO RAD HOT COW. e: Are those Isabel's parents?
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And a thumbs up from the mysterious hinted-at black Activity Club member!
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MikeJF posted:And a thumbs up from the mysterious hinted-at black Activity Club member! Yes, oh so mysterious. Absolutely not Dmitri in any way at all. (it is actually Garcia)
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AnonSpore posted:HOT COW. It would explain why she looks half latino and half asian. Also they both look like mega dorks her grandfather must hate.
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Blackheart posted:It would explain why she looks half latino and half asian. Also they both look like mega dorks her grandfather must hate. Yeah I was gonna say. The dude in particular looks like exactly the sort of son a guy like Gramps would deem an irredeemable embarrassment and failure.
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Isabel's grandfather really is the worst then. He's teaching all these skills that in a pinch could wind up being totally useless, and then trying to stop people from using more useful skills.
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SlothfulCobra posted:Isabel's grandfather really is the worst then. He's teaching all these skills that in a pinch could wind up being totally useless, and then trying to stop people from using more useful skills. Well, I am sure that she knows how to use Kung Fu on physical objects/beings as well. Just when she was five she didn't really understand that swords don't work on real dogs.
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