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Mike Danger posted:Anyone else getting a SHODAN vibe? I figure Annie is hearing https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XVoU30ixHrM
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Demiurge4 posted:Annie's never seen Kat's angel form before. That's gotta freak a girl out. E: Next story chapter of course, although having City Face hijinx in the foreground while a battle to survive is going on in the background would also be amusing. Itzena fucked around with this message at 21:44 on Oct 24, 2016 |
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Isn't city face more of a Tom's on holidays thing than end of book?Cavelcade posted:Thanks, I was trying to remember who it was that actually saw her, this saves me the effort. Lol at the next page.
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ConanTheLibrarian posted:Isn't city face more of a Tom's on holidays thing than end of book? Nah it's always at the end of the book. Tom has a huge buffer and there are actually MORE pages than usual when we get City Face. I wish we could get annual City Face!
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Itzena posted:E: Next story chapter of course, although having City Face hijinx in the foreground while a battle to survive is going on in the background would also be amusing. Cat Mattress posted:Look at you, elemental. A pathetic creature of flesh and fire. Panting and sweating as you run through my puzzle box. How can you challenge a bird-goddess of robots?
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This was mentioned earlier, but Kat has inadvertently used a machine to turn herself into a God thus making her a literal Deus ex Machina (which roughly translates into "god from the machine"). This is a Hell of a place to end a chapter.
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Space Cadet Omoly posted:This was mentioned earlier, but Kat has inadvertently used a machine to turn herself into a God thus making her a literal Deus ex Machina (which roughly translates into "god from the machine"). Not exactly--Kat's divinity, at least as far as we've seen, is a function of the robots' belief in her as a god. But as I understand it, her actual ascension hasn't actually started yet, because the robots are incapable of true death, and therefore don't enter/impact the ether. However, the causality of belief is flexible--once Coyote existed, he had always existed. For the robots though, they're clearly aware of a time before Kat, so it doesn't pan out quite the same. Basically, to go full speculation, if you read the Holy Book of Kat, they would be recording this as a time when she was both human and divine, and *because* they remember it that way, she's presently human with a hint of what's to come about her. She doesn't ascend because she's supernaturally good with machines, she's supernaturally good with machines because in the future she ascends to godhood. At some point in the future, she's going to hit the "actual apotheosis" part of her timeline, and then things really get crazy.
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what if annie has always seen kat in the ether like this and just didn't think it was worth comment because she's met a bunch of freaky psychopomps already
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We never got to figure out what blue's name was, rip
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dragon enthusiast posted:blue's name was, rip 
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And Tom kills it again on the bookend.
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Tollymain posted:looking forward to the interpretations Kat is putting her all into the school play and really hamming it up; Annie keeps missing her queues because she trying to get her dad's attention; meanwhile John Wilkes Booth waits offscreen, menacingly and flamboyantly
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Ditocoaf posted:holy poo poo, Red is going to propose to 'Blue' Blue is going to turn her down, but only as a way of saving face.
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I'm glad to see Kat and Annie are no longer on opposing sides of the court/forest divide. Not sure why Smitty and George are on the forest side with Annie's fire spirit and Kat's d20, though.
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Ditocoaf posted:holy poo poo, Red is going to propose to 'Blue' "Hey, what's-your-face, you fat idiot. Will you be my jabroni?"
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Tollymain posted:looking forward to the interpretations You have reached the classical era.
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I just noticed Jones and Fire!Annie up on top. Also, interestingly, for once we don't have Annie on the Forest side, Kat on the Court. Both are on the Court side now, with Kat actually being closer to the Forest than Annie. Instead, on the Forest side, we have Parley and Smitty, albeit much further away and without as much detail. Parley has no face and Smitty's not even facing us. I could try reading into all this and more, but I'm tired and have a headache now, so, later maybe.
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Interesting that Annie, the Forest medium, is finally depicted on the Court side while Smitty the Court medium is depicted on the Forest side.
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Maybe these don't really mean anything and they're just pretty drawings?
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Big Boner Stacy posted:Maybe these don't really mean anything and they're just pretty drawings? If you listen to Tom's explanations on youtube, there's actually CRAPLOADS of alchemical meanings in these drawings. Everything is significant.
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Have we seen that triangle in the moon before? I'm curious if we have any information about what the third symbol that accompanies Kat and Annie would be. I'm guessing not, otherwise the very convenient position of Kat's shoulder doesn't have the same impact. Maybe it's the Court?
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Fire Annie is on the forest side, so I'm guesing Annie is on the court side to represent having been torn away from the forest. That's all I got for now.
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So are Red & Blue a couple now or what? I'd ship it.
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EmmyOk posted:Coyote and Tony are equally powerful and great. They certainly are to Annie. Until Tony's recent reappearance, Coyote was probably the closest thing to a father figure she had in her life. And just look at the way he's glaring across the stage at Tony.
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This is leaning way less on the dichotomy thing than previous treatises, which is interesting. Pretty much the only people solidly mirroring each other are Coyote and Anthony looming from respective balconies. Everyone else is just kinda doing their thing wherever they happen to be. The celestial bodies are more complex than just "Sun over forest, moon over court" -- though there's a tiny moon and sun carved into the architecture's corners. Ooh -- and I just noticed the lower pillars on the court side are decorated with marching robots. Also, it's maybe kind of ominous that Smitty is facing away from the viewer. That seems symbolic, and probably bad.
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Malpais Legate posted:So are Red & Blue a couple now or what? I'd ship it. A couple of knuckleheads.
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Ditocoaf posted:This is leaning way less on the dichotomy thing than previous treatises, which is interesting. Pretty much the only people solidly mirroring each other are Coyote and Anthony looming from respective balconies. Everyone else is just kinda doing their thing wherever they happen to be. The celestial bodies are more complex than just "Sun over forest, moon over court" -- though there's a tiny moon and sun carved into the architecture's corners. Looming conflict or loss. Possibly...death? Interesting how murderghost straddles the boundary between forest and court side, and how the rift isn't present in the lower half. A growing rapprochement or does solving the Jeanne problem allow the forest to invade the court?
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Bilirubin posted:Looming conflict or loss. Possibly...death? I'm fully expecting that freeing Jeanne from her torment will cause at least as many problems as it solves.
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Bilirubin posted:Looming conflict or loss. Possibly...death? Jeanne is the lynchpin around which all of the drama depicted in the treastise will play, I'd hazard.
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For all that the Jeanne situation is terrible, none of them seem to have thought through the consequences of solving it. The forest is not a harmless thing and I think the founders might have had a legitimate reason to be scared of invasion.
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NewMars posted:For all that the Jeanne situation is terrible, none of them seem to have thought through the consequences of solving it. The forest is not a harmless thing and I think the founders might have had a legitimate reason to be scared of invasion. Agreed. Does not in my mind justify their solution to it, but things are only going to get more and more complicated as our heroes get older and more adult 
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Daius posted:For real Parley and Smitty's positioning makes me think that Smitty is a goner Some people were saying that Blue's mind control makes her too powerful and that she would be killed off here because of it. We all forgot that there was one character here who's far more powerful than she is.
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