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Dolash posted:Or find a key to a door outside the barrier, or ask someone who isn't a spectral to go outside the barrier and get a key to a door outside the barrier. Maybe they're an item with antagonistic tendencies and he's deflecting legitimate concern, maybe he doesn't like to be seen in a position of weakness, maybe he's a huge dork Who knows!
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Zarei jumped straight to 'you trapped us all' rather than 'you killed my friend!', which isn't doing wonders for my opinion of her.Dolash posted:Or find a key to a door outside the barrier, or ask someone who isn't a spectral to go outside the barrier and get a key to a door outside the barrier. I feel like if there was a door within range Forge would've been told of it rather than 'go make your own'. quote:I'd also like to note that Spender lied to Zarei about his encounter with Forge, which honestly seems weird since Forge was just a big, bad wandering monster to Spender so what's the point of hiding that he found and destroyed him? At the very least it suggests he doesn't trust her very much. I suspect he's embarrassed/awkward at how thoroughly he got his arse kicked and is pretending he was fine.
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Tollymain posted:that dinosaur bitey-grabby tool seems hilariously powerful All Jojo powers are hilariously powerful.
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MikeJF posted:Zarei jumped straight to 'you trapped us all' rather than 'you killed my friend!', which isn't doing wonders for my opinion of her. This is almost certainly going to be a major theme throughout the comic, after we've had it so heavily established with Isaac's relationship with his spirit, Isabella/Eightfold, and Spender actively (and immorally, it seems) imprisoning his shadow spirit.
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MikeJF posted:Zarei jumped straight to 'you trapped us all' rather than 'you killed my friend!', which isn't doing wonders for my opinion of her. Honestly if you're a spectral with a free-standing spirit friend and you don't have a plan for incarnating your spirit in a tool/yourself in case they get hosed up you're probably not very good at your job. I'm pretty sure she has a backup plan, just not one that allows them to get out of mayview any time soon 
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Congratulations, Spender, it turns out there is someone out there who's almost as much of a gently caress-up as you are. Almost.
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I hope the train possesses Ollie https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LEDD58pXJNI&t=111s or anybody really.
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A few minor notes: Zarei refers to the train as "13", rather than by a "normal" name. I don't think it's the only spirit she's tamed, either, though I can't recall specific evidence of this. She also gets irritated and snatches the arrow off of it the way she does because it ignores her command. Day is totally about to go into spirit time, or at least i being possessed or something, before that other agent crushes the train. I like the spooky round glowing eyes look. Zarei pulls a pretty good one a few panels later herself, on that topic.
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Roland Jones posted:A few minor notes: Zarei refers to the train as "13", rather than by a "normal" name. Trains have numbers, though.
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Opposing Farce posted:Congratulations, Spender, it turns out there is someone out there who's almost as much of a gently caress-up as you are. Almost. Nah, we can blame Zarei's actions on Spender again. Everything is always Spender's fault.
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She said she was only visiting Mayview when Spender asked why "they" (the Consortium, clearly) would be "wasting [her] on guard duty". Who's she visiting? Probably the train itself, I'd say.
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Hypocrisy posted:Nah, we can blame Zarei's actions on Spender again. Everything is always Spender's fault. I think it's supposed to be the guard that's almost as much of a fuckup as spender.
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Poor Max had to watch his first true love get its head crushed in. 
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Rhonne posted:Poor Max had to watch his first true love get its head crushed in.
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reignonyourparade posted:I think it's supposed to be the guard that's almost as much of a fuckup as spender. Yeah, that's who I had in mind.
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reignonyourparade posted:I think it's supposed to be the guard that's almost as much of a fuckup as spender. also spender's fault. really everything in this chapter is spender's fault
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I think with the "everyone's trapped in Mayview" set up, we're heading for the next chapter being a ~murder mystery~! Of course why Zack wouldn't have the murder mystery take place on a train is besides the point
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I would think a murder mystery would be pretty easy to solve in this situation, considering you could just ask the ghost that pops out.
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Ghosts can be destroyed. Surely a double-murder would be even more evil? Actually, I wonder if the ghosts of dead Consortium members play any role in the organization? They'd still be around, after all.
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No unpeople allowed.
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Reg Shoe would have a thing or three to say about that.
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Oh hey, an update! Max is in an understandably bad mood now that his trip to visit his mom is scrapped, not that Isabel and Ed are picking up on that (maybe Isaac?). Had to laugh at the motorcycle work-around for Spender's car being full. Now, who's this shadow the dogs work for?
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There sure are a lot of sexy vehicular bachelors in that panel. Personally I'm a sucker for Thomas' steamy intensity.
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A big flaming stink posted:also spender's fault. really everything in this chapter is spender's fault Seriously, Spender completely fumbled the situation in just about every possible way. Short of a student straight-up dying (which very nearly happened twice), I don't know how things could be worse. Did we know before now that the shield was the Consortium's doing?
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The Lord of Hats posted:Did we know before now that the shield was the Consortium's doing? No, this is new information.
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The Lord of Hats posted:Seriously, Spender completely fumbled the situation in just about every possible way. Short of a student straight-up dying (which very nearly happened twice), I don't know how things could be worse. Spender mentioned at some point that one of their spectrals raised it using a spirit's power. Probably they could even take it down, except that that would probably defeat the purpose of bubbling the whole town! I mean, seriously, that bubble is a disaster waiting to happen the minute an unknown new spectral tries to drive into Mayview. They must really want to keep the town concealed.
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Pretty sure Spender mentioned a colleague did it at some point. Or maybe Zack said it somewhere.
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According to the news post, Paranatural's on hiatus from now to the 21st.
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Happy Yeti posted:Pretty sure Spender mentioned a colleague did it at some point. Or maybe Zack said it somewhere. http://www.paranatural.net/index.php?id=228 Comic hints that the lady seduced the train in order to tame it. This comic is all about human-vehicle love. The 2 pages after deal with how Max could have died if he left Mayview in a normal car.
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I reread Chapter 4 and something jumped out at me: http://www.paranatural.net/index.php?id=279 I think the "Cousinhood dogs" were actually under the employ of Boss Leader, and she used them to lure away Spender. The giant spider that saved Max in the underground tunnel had a conspicuous black zipper on it as well. Was this a distraction to separate Max from the group so Boss Leader could talk to him and try to recruit him onto her side? She apologizes specifically for putting Max in danger and causing him to lose consciousness. She also says she didn't mean to lead the kids into harm.
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They're not using "dogs" literally, it's a sign that they don't think much of the Cousinhood. It's implied to be another human organization that has something to do with ghosts. I would guess they're a lot more violent in eir methods and probably less accepting of mediums/maybe tool users. She asked that the kids go along because she wanted them introduced to Agent Day ASAP, because otherwise Spender could likely put it off indefinitely, and hide whatever he's doing that much better. She didn't expect the entire operation to go tits-up like it did, so when she finds Max unconscious, she realizes *something* disastrous happened, and she inadvertently lead the kids into it.
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Dolash posted:I'd also like to note that Spender lied to Zarei about his encounter with Forge, which honestly seems weird since Forge was just a big, bad wandering monster to Spender so what's the point of hiding that he found and destroyed him? At the very least it suggests he doesn't trust her very much.
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So it's taken me several re-reads to really figure it out, but let's see if I got all this right: Splender says he's a medium for an extremely dangerous spirit, and if he's killed it'll be released. So for a while I thought this was his Lucifer spirit, but that's not the case at all is it? The back and forth between them was always confusing so it took me re-reading it several times to get it. Lucifer is tied to the glasses, so they always have to remain on because he is essentially a cage for the dangerous spirit that's in Splender right? And I guess the spirit fusion he does with Splender basically caused him to not be able to pay attention to the prisoner, at which point it tries to escape? He and Lucifer were able to seal it back up in time. But now Splender looks like poo poo. Is he looking like poo poo because he's just super shaken up and weak now, or is he trying to focus on keeping that spirit locked up now alongside Lucifer?
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Macaluso posted:So it's taken me several re-reads to really figure it out, but let's see if I got all this right: That's pretty much it. You can actually see the shadow of the shadow monster in its cage in some panels. http://www.paranatural.net/index.php?id=241 http://www.paranatural.net/index.php?id=287 As for why he looks like poo poo, well, I think he's both reflecting on what a lovely job he did almost getting a bunch of kids killed on what was supposed to be a simple, easy mission, including carelessly unleashing an eldritch horror upon them, as well as bothered by the implications of everyone being stuck in Mayview. Fecha fucked around with this message at 04:44 on Nov 12, 2014 |
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Fecha posted:That's pretty much it. You can actually see the shadow of the shadow monster in its cage in some panels. http://www.paranatural.net/index.php?id=241 http://www.paranatural.net/index.php?id=287 Oh huh interesting. I didn't notice the shadows in the cage in those panels before! Lucifer also verifies what I thought, the spirit fusion basically hosed up his ability to keep the monster caged. edit: Eightfold being on the other side of the barrier is going to be important later I bet Macaluso fucked around with this message at 04:58 on Nov 12, 2014 |
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Poor Max, I forgot he was planning to leave Mayview to see his dead mom. Ouch.
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The Lord of Hats posted:They're not using "dogs" literally, it's a sign that they don't think much of the Cousinhood. It's implied to be another human organization that has something to do with ghosts. I would guess they're a lot more violent in eir methods and probably less accepting of mediums/maybe tool users. She asked that the kids go along because she wanted them introduced to Agent Day ASAP, because otherwise Spender could likely put it off indefinitely, and hide whatever he's doing that much better. She didn't expect the entire operation to go tits-up like it did, so when she finds Max unconscious, she realizes *something* disastrous happened, and she inadvertently lead the kids into it. How do you explain "Inhuman choices can be made with the best --" (of intentions, presumably), then?
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