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Otherkinsey Scale posted:But the caper here is that the vision-Skyggemyrians are going to keep Lyndon alive until the war ends, and then right before they kill him, they tell him everything they need their real selves to know. So he has a vision about a Skyggemyrian saying "this city has better defenses than it seems, don't attack it" or whatever, and then stabbing him. It could be all this, but there's also another possibility: simple self-preservation. The Skyggemyrian knows that it will die (because the timeline ends) as soon as Lyndon dies. So it's keeping him alive and out of the way for the rest of Lyndon's life, so that the Skyggemyrian has live the rest of its life. If they just wanted war info, they could have killed him instantly and had a Skyggemyrian touch the scepter instead. Lyndon would be inclined to lie to his captors, after all.
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I think the Skyggemyrians know about some crazy event and decided to keep Lyndon around to witness it and become an advocate for whatever they’re doing in the real timeline. I’m not convinced we’re seeing how the scepter’s death vision sausage is simulated, though. But I guess that’d require a very Thorsby explanation to get out of the scepter timeline, since Lyndon ultimately getting killed would have just given him that vision initially.
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Dinosaurs! posted:I think the Skyggemyrians know about some crazy event and decided to keep Lyndon around to witness it and become an advocate for whatever they’re doing in the real timeline. I’m not convinced we’re seeing how the scepter’s death vision sausage is simulated, though. But I guess that’d require a very Thorsby explanation to get out of the scepter timeline, since Lyndon ultimately getting killed would have just given him that vision initially. Only in the real timeline.
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 Ok good point, but no one who’s touched the scepter had any context for their death. If people witnessed the lead up then the crew wouldn’t have been confused about their visions of being killed by each other. I figured Lyndon was on to it with his immortal comment, but maybe the scepter really is broken.
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This may be a stretch, but maybe the Skyggemyrian altered the scepter's vision by recognizing he was in it, and that was something the scepter itself didn't anticipate. Like, maybe the vision was supposed be a short one, ending with Lyndon fleeing the scene and getting killed by the jouster, and that would have been it. This would imply that the scepter is fallible, though, and able to be outsmarted from within. Which... I guess it could be possible?
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Dinosaurs! posted:
why do you think were not getting any scenes from Lyndon's perspective as far as he knows this isn't happening
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Who came up with the theo-- oh, right. BIGGERJ (singing): I'm smarter than Oyvind Thorsby, I'm smarter than Oyvind Thorsby... (Oyvind points Mjolnir at BiggerJ's head) OYVIND THORSBY: DU ER IKKE SMARTERE ENN MEG! So it seems that the initial touch IS included in a death timeline, but only if it can't be avoided, at which point it behaves like all nested touches: non-functionally. There's no way Lyndon wasn't going to use it at that moment. vyelkin posted:Okay, new theory: Not necessary. A complete simulation is a complete simulation, even if the user only sees the tail end of it. BiggerJ fucked around with this message at 02:58 on Mar 23, 2019 |
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Rumda posted:why do you think were not getting any scenes from Lyndon's perspective as far as he knows this isn't happening I guess plot pacing? Lyndon was an active participant at the start of the timeline. I’m not trying to say he’s been an omniscient observer to everything going on with Audrey, but he’s been doing something (unless he’s frozen) while in captivity for however many years. Maybe the scepter sims the whole thing and whoever touched it only retains the memory of the final moment? Could the scepter be “broken” because everyone’s in a simulation from someone who touched it earlier and you can’t scepter-ception?
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"Overhead, without any fuss, the stars were going out." Dinosaurs! posted:Maybe the scepter sims the whole thing and whoever touched it only retains the memory of the final moment? This, exactly. You HAVE to sim the whole thing. A universe simulation is a universe simulation, even if the user doesn't see it all. Dinosaurs! posted:Could the scepter be “broken” because everyone’s in a simulation from someone who touched it earlier and you can’t scepter-ception? It's possible that the 'other person' was still Lyndon, and in the new timeline, the original touch was omitted (as we saw in its first use in the comic) but Lyndon still touched it because he was always going to in that situation. But I wouldn't put it past Thorsby to have Lyndon die, have the universe not end, and then have it turn out that someone else touched it first. BiggerJ fucked around with this message at 09:22 on Mar 23, 2019 |
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New Strip and it looks like Audrey has a breaking point after all.
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I hope Audrey finds some way to retain her memory after we jump back in time so she can stop Zoozo from dying. Maybe she can stab Lyndon to death while listing all the bad stuff that he needs to prevent.
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Eeevil posted:I hope Audrey finds some way to retain her memory after we jump back in time so she can stop Zoozo from dying. Maybe she can stab Lyndon to death while listing all the bad stuff that he needs to prevent. BiggerJ fucked around with this message at 12:15 on Mar 27, 2019 |
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Audrey kills Lyndon with a hammer inscribed with everything thats happened
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I kind of hope we're right now because I love the logic of this theory.
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366 Last panel: "Are we the baddies?"
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I've just realized that if our theories are correct, with the scepter being used to not just prevent its user's death but perform a dry-run, then the twist is that an interesting mechanic has been explored and exploited, which is EXTREMELY Thorsby. So the twist is that there IS no twist - it's just another Thors-day!
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"I was never her friend" 
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Thats true though, she was a sword for hire.
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The universe is collapsing, from the outside toward the center.
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Predicting a Thorsby comic is futile, but I'm guessing Lyndon has finally died? Ed: not sure if that needs to be spoiled since it's a guess but better safe than sorry If anyone else is curious we're about five years 10 months 'forward'.
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uvar posted:Predicting a Thorsby comic is futile, but I'm guessing Lyndon has finally died? Ed: not sure if that needs to be spoiled since it's a guess but better safe than sorry If that's the case, then I think that means something really has changed with the way the scepter works. Something like instead of the person who touched the scepter getting the vision, the person closest to them gets it instead or in addition to them. Because I don't think Thorsby would do something like have this whole thing be a diversion where no one remembers it afterwards, that would be so pointless and wouldn't match his storytelling in the other comics. But if we're about to get a few pages of the world ending, and then Audrey wakes up back when Lyndon touches it, and she remembers everything but he only remembers the moment of his death, that would be a huge breakthrough.
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Is this close to being done? Love this guy's comics but I try to wait until he's finished to start them, so I've been waiting on this one for a while.
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Otherkinsey Scale posted:The main question is, how did piranha head guy know this was going to happen? Maybe he learned about what happens when the scepter gets used during the time they had it.
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Whatever just started happening is probably the event that little yellow Skyggemyrian said Audrey wouldn’t believe until she saw it. Seems like she’ll be the one with the vision when we snap back to the original timeline. I’m so curious how the scepter’s power transferred to her and how much she’ll remember. This has been interesting, but I hope Thorsby’s explanation isn’t too contrived.
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Dinosaurs! posted:Whatever just started happening is probably the event that little yellow Skyggemyrian said Audrey wouldn’t believe until she saw it. Seems like she’ll be the one with the vision when we snap back to the original timeline. I’m so curious how the scepter’s power transferred to her and how much she’ll remember. It could just be a not related to the sceptre event that the Skyggemyrian knew about because of previous sceptre delves.
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369 The plot, it thickens.
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DACK FAYDEN posted:Why did nobody follow up on his suicide note although I guess also we are looking at the only person who'd care This is the police force they're dealing with: http://trixie.thecomicseries.com/comics/177 http://trixie.thecomicseries.com/comics/178
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http://trixie.thecomicseries.com/comics/370 LMFAOOOOOOO
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Holy poo poo
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Pistol_Pete posted:Lyndon has clearly decided to make the best of his situation lol I don't think he has much of a choice tbf
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