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Lol Cassie with the random NPR mention. I mean I love NPR now in my adult years but I sure as hell never knew about it as a 90s teen. That feels like a weirdly deep cut for high schoolers.
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I appreciate how the OP commentary for this one has eventually wound up at "hush, hush. It'll all be over soon."
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# ? May 28, 2022 06:44 |
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CidGregor posted:Lol Cassie with the random NPR mention. I don't think I heard of them until a couple years later, when (like Al Jazeera) they were being targeted by the administration, or at least badmouthed. But I was definitely a high schooler by then, even though it was another decade before I actually heard anything from them.
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# ? May 28, 2022 09:21 |
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Like I won't lie I've mostly tuned this book out and am just speed-glancing through it in case anything happens that will come up later. Helmacrons were hilarious the first time yeah it was a good comic relief episode. Oh boy did they not need to be reoccuring characters who show up more often than the Hork Bajir colony.
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# ? May 28, 2022 19:11 |
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Chapter 17quote:Blood! Put aside the fact that, while the smell of blood does attract sharks, it doesn't make them go into a total frenzy, because that battle is already lost to popular culture. My question is, what is Rachel actually smelling? The Animorphs are small enough they can actually see red and white blood cells. You smell things when particles of that thing gets up into your nose and it detects it, and when we smell blood, most of what we're actually smelling is the iron in the hemoglobin, which is inside the red blood cells, which she's obviously not smelling. So, what's she smelling? Chapter 18 quote:We continued down the tunnel that was Marco’s vein. When we reached the branch Jake had pointed out, we followed the bloodstream into a wider tunnel. I'm going to let any doctors we might have in the thread explain this.
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# ? May 29, 2022 04:25 |
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Epicurius posted:Honestly, Marco having to track down the person who may have taken a picture of them morphing and get the camera back is a stronger plot. Stretch that out, add some complications, some backstory for the person who's camera it is, and a reason they can't just morph in and do a home invasion, and there's a book right there. Agreed. The rare situations where for whatever reason they can't morph are always interesting. CidGregor posted:Lol Cassie with the random NPR mention. Cassie absolutely lives in an NPR household
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# ? May 29, 2022 04:41 |
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freebooter posted:Cassie absolutely lives in an NPR household Yeah, I knew about NPR as a kid because it was the news radio my mom always listened to in the car.
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# ? May 29, 2022 12:50 |
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If the Helmacrons are "fungible" does that mean the self-imposed restriction against not morphing conscious beings wouldn't apply to them?
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# ? May 29, 2022 18:45 |
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quote:<Eenie, meenie, minie, moe?> Ax said. Ax is a funny guy
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# ? May 29, 2022 22:31 |
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Chapter 19-Marcoquote:When I finally got home from my pathetic attempt at breaking and entering, I put on a longsleeved sweatshirt. Couldn’t let Dad see my wrist. Didn’t want him to know I’d been trying to rob some kid when his deranged dog took a chunk out of me. I think the Chee would probably help him. Chapter 20-Rachel quote:Thump, thump. So much for Marco....
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# ? May 30, 2022 03:38 |
Ive been thinking it's time to start a new Stellaris game, and the Helmacrons seem like they'd make a p good Gestalt Consciousness race
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# ? May 30, 2022 05:37 |
Though slavers that immediately wage war on everyone could be fun too
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# ? May 30, 2022 05:37 |
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honestly this book rocks. who cares science nerds, make me a bloodshark
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# ? May 30, 2022 07:31 |
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Chapter 21-Marcoquote:What’s wrong with Buster?” A voice, just outside the door. Female. Maybe the photographer’s mother, sister, aunt. I mean, he sort of had to do it, right? Chapter 22-Rachel quote:An inch. So, you think Marco's dead? Epicurius fucked around with this message at 03:15 on May 31, 2022 |
# ? May 31, 2022 03:12 |
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quote:In a way, I welcomed the pain. It reminded me I was alive. For now. Lol, emo Marco's rash decision to morph makes more sense after having already read the book and knowing what's going on. Also, for all this book's flaws, kinda interesting to see the morphing process taking place at a molecular level.
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# ? May 31, 2022 08:10 |
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Epicurius posted:So, you think Marco's dead?
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# ? May 31, 2022 09:39 |
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Epicurius posted:So, you think Marco's dead? Nah this series is pretty consistent in its claim that cockroaches are unkillable
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# ? May 31, 2022 09:50 |
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Epicurius posted:So, you think Marco's dead? Yes, and I hope he burns in hell
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# ? May 31, 2022 21:23 |
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nine-gear crow posted:Yes, and I hope he burns in hell Aww. Poor Marco. He doesn't deserve your hatred. Besides, he's in this book. That's a greater punishment than anything Hell can inflict.
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# ? Jun 1, 2022 03:15 |
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Chapter 23quote:O Majestic Leader, Humans are a race of fools! We told them time and time again that Helmacrons do not surrender! And yet they delude themselves, believing that we would deal with them simply because me have suffered minor injury! Does it not make you laugh, and prove that we are the only fit rulers of the universe? - From the log of the Helmacron Males That was kind of sweet, and for all that Rachel and Marco don't always get along, they understand each other. Chapter 24 quote:“This isn’t the barn,” Cassie said. Good news! Marco's ok. Well, as ok as Marco gets.
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# ? Jun 1, 2022 03:39 |
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Chapter 25quote:Marco morphed a gull. So, before we finish this book and pretend it didn't happen, lets talk for a little bit about rabes. Assuming Rachel is right, Marco was infected with rabies before he morphed. The average incubation period for rabes is 30-90 days (the outliers are like 6 days at a minimum and 15 years at a maximum). This means, for most people, they don't start showing symptoms between one to three months after they're infected. There's no way that this would affect Marco's brain or judgement this quickly. Other than the pain from the dog bite, Marco would be fine 12 hours after he was bitten. Also, secondly, Rachel, use common sense here. You know a place where there's a rabid dog that's living with at least 3 people (camera kid, camera kid's sister, and camera kid's mom). All these people are in danger of being infected with rabes, and, like you said, about Marco, they wouldn't know they had rabies so they wouldn't have started the treatment in time. Right now, among the Animorphs, you've got an Andalite who's probably not vulnerable to earth diseases, a hawk, who can't get rabes (because only mammals can get rabes), and 4 humans who can morph and cure any disease they get. Get the team together right now, sneak into the apartment, kill the dog and dispose of the body. Otherwise, all you're doing is solving the problem of "it's possible this kid knows we can morph" in the most brutal and cruel way possible, by making sure they and their family die of an infectious disease. Anyway, next book is a Tobias book,. called The Test, ghostwritten by Ellen Giroux, who was responsible for the rather tripper "The Familiar" book we just read before this last one, and "The Illusion", where Tobias is tortured by the sadistic Yeerk Taylor. This book also has a character we've met begore, but don't worry,. They're much less annoying than the Hemacrons, and while Geroux's books tend to be kind of weird, I like them, and I like this one, and I hope you will too.
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# ? Jun 2, 2022 03:18 |
I did like how they kept referring to the dog as Cujo, just to give a hint
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# ? Jun 2, 2022 03:28 |
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Comrade Blyatlov posted:I did like how they kept referring to the dog as Cujo, just to give a hint Yep. Lot of Stephen King fans among the 9-12 year old set, too.
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# ? Jun 2, 2022 04:13 |
Letting all those people die of rabies seems... really out of character. Then again, it's unfunny Helmacron book 2, so...
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# ? Jun 2, 2022 05:57 |
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Epicurius posted:Anyway, next book is a Tobias book,. called The Test, ghostwritten by Ellen Giroux, who was responsible for the rather tripper "The Familiar" book we just read before this last one, and "The Illusion", where Tobias is tortured by the sadistic Yeerk Taylor. This book also has a character we've met begore, but don't worry,. They're much less annoying than the Hemacrons, and while Geroux's books tend to be kind of weird, I like them, and I like this one, and I hope you will too. Yeah, the next book is definitely an upgrade from this one. Though I do have one complaint about it that goes aaaaaall the way back to the beginning of the thread!
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# ? Jun 2, 2022 13:41 |
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disaster pastor posted:Yeah, the next book is definitely an upgrade from this one. Though I do have one complaint about it that goes aaaaaall the way back to the beginning of the thread! So you got grievances. I look forward to hearing them. "I'm sorry, but on page 12 of The Invasion, Jake said his middle name was William, but in chapter 11 of The Test, his mother when she's mad at him, calls him by his first and middle name, and she clearly says "Jacob Franklin". Does Jake have two middle names? My immersion is ruined!
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# ? Jun 2, 2022 16:47 |
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Epicurius posted:So you got grievances. I look forward to hearing them. KA Applegate takes a long sip of wine and looks up. "I'm sorry you feel that way. I don't give a poo poo." Michael Grant rips a big fat cigar in the background.
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We'll start the new book tomorrow, if you don't mind. Computer problems are making posting there difficult, and I'm not even going to attempt using my phone or tablet.
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# ? Jun 3, 2022 03:32 |
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quote:Cassie stowed the blue box somewhere safe. Again, for security, she didn’t tell us where. Oh my loving god this is such terrible opsec. What are you worried about! What is the risk assessment here? One of the other Animorphs getting infested is game over for you anyway, and none of them knowing where the box is if Cassie gets hit by a bus tomorrow puts you in the same place as if you just destroy it or drop it in the ocean! Or worse, in fact, since the Yeerks have demonstrated they at one point had blue box seeking technology! Anyway... that book was not very good, and you could even call it "an interesting idea in theory" if you were being charitable, but what it really smacks of to me is "we are really scraping the bottom of the barrel Scholastic, please let us end this series." Thankfully for all of us they do actually end up doing that on their on terms, and soon. And also the very next book I remember being pretty OK, which is an outlier at this twilight stage of the series where they're spinning the wheels before getting into the really good endgame.
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freebooter posted:Oh my loving god this is such terrible opsec. What are you worried about! What is the risk assessment here? One of the other Animorphs getting infested is game over for you anyway, and none of them knowing where the box is if Cassie gets hit by a bus tomorrow puts you in the same place as if you just destroy it or drop it in the ocean! Or worse, in fact, since the Yeerks have demonstrated they at one point had blue box seeking technology! Yeah. Realistically, Tobias and Ax should be hiding it; they're the two hardest to capture and infest, and if anything happens to one, you still have someone who knows the location and you can revise your options then.
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# ? Jun 3, 2022 12:06 |
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disaster pastor posted:Yeah. Realistically, Tobias and Ax should be hiding it; they're the two hardest to capture and infest, and if anything happens to one, you still have someone who knows the location and you can revise your options then. Operation Just Bury It In The Woods Or Whatever
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# ? Jun 3, 2022 12:56 |
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freebooter posted:Operation Just Bury It In The Woods Or Whatever The chances of digging a hole in the woods near that city and not finding a crashed alien spaceship or civilization of mutated mole people is basically nil.
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OctaviusBeaver posted:The chances of digging a hole in the woods near that city and not finding a crashed alien spaceship or civilization of mutated mole people is basically nil. That's why it's important to call 811 before you dig.
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OctaviusBeaver posted:The chances of digging a hole in the woods near that city and not finding a crashed alien spaceship or civilization of mutated mole people is basically nil. <After being ordered by Prince Jake, Tobias and I attempted to bury the Escafil Device in the woods. In our first attempt, we uncovered a portal created by Crayak which brought us to an alternate dimension and were forced to fight our way back to this one. In our second attempt, we accidentally dug into the Yeerk pool and had to find a way out without detection. In our third attempt, we found a crashed spaceship created by the Alinorn, a species known to the Andalites, although we have little to do with them because of their vanity and notoriously bad breath. After some misunderstandings, we helped them repair their ship, and they left, sparing earth from the danger of halitosis. In our fourth attempt, we dug into a cavern and uncovered a species of snake people, who descended underground after humans came, who worshiped Tobias as a god. On our fifth attempt, we discovered a lost city, but we cannot discover who built it or why. On our sixth attempt, we began to bury the Escafil Device but were scared away by some mean dogs. Our seventh attempt was cut short due to an encounter with a leopard. It is now our eighth attempt. I am an Andalite, and I know it is my duty to obey my prince until death, but I have grave doubts about our ability to complete this mission. Tobias has suggested we give it to Cassie, and tell her to put it someplace safe. While I know it is dishonorable to lie to one's prince, I am still tempted.>
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# ? Jun 3, 2022 16:52 |
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All this digging had better result in a monologue about being overwhelmed by the earthworm's powerful instincts.
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# ? Jun 4, 2022 03:09 |
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Instead of digging, lets take to the skies with a Tobias book, ghostwritten by Ellen Geroux. Book 43, The Test, Chapter 1 quote:My name is Tobias. Still a freak of nature. Part human. Part bird. Confused? Don’t worry, it gets better. So this is the first time that we hear Tobias sort of admit to himself that he became a nothlit on purpose. Also, besides that, this book confirms, if Tobias's last book didn't, that Giroux knows torture, and that, when you've been tortured, even after the physical pain from it heals, the torture still goes on and you're still mentally affected. Chapter 2 quote:Tha-BOOM! Boom! Broke cover to help a kid, was knocked out by an eagle. Epicurius fucked around with this message at 03:34 on Jun 4, 2022 |
# ? Jun 4, 2022 03:23 |
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Oh wow we're going full ptsd mode. This book is starting off way more promising. That's why I read animorphs; animal transformation escapism and inescapable traumas.
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# ? Jun 4, 2022 04:23 |
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Epicurius posted:Yep. Lot of Stephen King fans among the 9-12 year old set, too. Is that sarcasm? That actually does match my experience from that time.
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Fuschia tude posted:Is that sarcasm? That actually does match my experience from that time. That was actually sarcasm. I don't remember being interested in Stephen King back then. That was more of a teenager thing.. I just can't see many parents letting their 9 year old read Stephen King.
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Chapter 3quote:This hawk’s gonna feel that wing. Hero or not, when he wakes up, he’ll hurt like crazy.” My eyes snapped open. Through the links of my cage I spied the faces of two concerned, labcoated veterinarians. Both women. One brunette, one blond. The words University Clinic were Unfortunately for Tobias, he's the only animal not being treated in Cassie's garage. This also reinforces Tobias's lonliness. Everyone else has homes to go to, and he doesn't. Chapter 4 quote:Sccreeeeech! So, Tobias figured there were two groups looking for him.....the Yeerks and the Animorphs, but there were really three groups. I assume we're going to figure out who the third group is.. Also, all this is on video, so I wonder if the Yeerks have anybody on the security staff to erase it, or, if not, if they're going to when things are over. That's the danger with using Hork-Bajir Controllers for missions like that. Lot of muscle and stopping power, don't really fit in on earth.
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