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blacksocks posted:She jumped the height of that trash dumpster in stride. That seems magical. Like some sort of Magical Girl Trash Jumper？
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blacksocks posted:She jumped the height of that trash dumpster in stride. That seems magical. Everybody knows you can't so much as touch a metal trash dumpster without making a deafening 'GONG' sound.
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Aug 27, 2022 18:22
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Dr Subterfuge posted:Here's hoping it's the lead up to discovering how her own powers are useful. I think a sort of 'Tessa publically returning as a MG/returning to Future's Promise' beat could be interesting, with HP knowing explicitly that she's evil (but her relationship with Undine preventing her from taking any drastic action/driving a wedge between them for some great dramatic irony) and Vedika learning Tessa's true motives via her powers and becoming the only person who really believes HP could cause some interesting drama.
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Aug 27, 2022 23:11
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That's a good point that we don't have any basis for how Tessa would act in the waking world. Could the whole story finally come to a head before dawn?
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Aug 27, 2022 23:33
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Oh man, you know how the whole thing with that monster that poked Kokoro and made her intangible is that it had to touch you to do it? And Vedika's whole thing is that she can do a mind meld by touching someone? I wonder if that's going to come into play here, especially with her being up on higher ground (since it seemed to be able to fly). Is this how she finds out she can communicate with monsters?
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Aug 28, 2022 00:39
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I hadn't really considered what a non-transformed Gooptessa would be like. I guess I've been assuming it wouldn't be possible. It would be a neat trick if Goops could hide away like that, though I don't think she'd ever want to reveal her new transformation to anyone with authority. Seems like it would raise way too many questions.
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Aug 28, 2022 01:36
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https://www.sleeplessdomain.com/comic/chapter-20-page-20 hoo boy that first panel, eh?
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Sep 3, 2022 22:27
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rannum posted:https://www.sleeplessdomain.com/comic/chapter-20-page-20 Yeah, outside of places that have a Vedika of their own, most of these flares are going to be from people for whom it got bad enough to get outside. Also, this is page 666!
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Sep 3, 2022 22:36
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Do the monsters all poof automatically when 2am hits? I've been wondering why everyone relaxes at 2am, when really it probably ought to be like now with monsters clawing at no-longer-barrier-protected homes. I wonder if Vedika's psychic powers will activate on getting grabbed. Probably better for her if they don't, really, falling off a roof is not an ideal time to have a mind-meld.
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Sep 3, 2022 22:40
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The_Final_Stand posted:Do the monsters all poof automatically when 2am hits? I've been wondering why everyone relaxes at 2am, when really it probably ought to be like now with monsters clawing at no-longer-barrier-protected homes. It's mentioned a couple of times that monsters can't survive after the barrier resets, but the mechanics of how and why haven't been explained. And that's assuming Anemone getting distracted doesn't interfere with this process.
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Sep 3, 2022 22:49
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Everything is fine
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The_Final_Stand posted:Do the monsters all poof automatically when 2am hits? I've been wondering why everyone relaxes at 2am, when really it probably ought to be like now with monsters clawing at no-longer-barrier-protected homes. From 2 am to 1 am, Anemone runs around killing every monster instantly. Her barrier time is the one hour of sleep she gets each day. No wonder she hates getting woken up. Edit: Looking at the thread title I remembered that wrong. Her barrier time is four hours each night. cant cook creole bream fucked around with this message at 22:56 on Sep 3, 2022 |
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Sep 3, 2022 22:51
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This wouldn't be a problem if every house had an emergency shotgun in easily accessible areas.
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Sep 4, 2022 05:40
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They don't poof automatically - the scripted annnouncement says to make sure the streets are clear of monsters on your way home, implying there is some sort of grace period where monsters are still alive and caution needs to be taken around them. https://www.sleeplessdomain.com/comic/chapter-4-page-2
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I mean, do they have guns? I don't think they do. Could be wrong though
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The city does not have guns though they are aware of guns as a thing that exist(ed). Guns don't work on monsters anyway. (From Mary on the discord).
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On earlier discussion I'm confused, do MGs in this get a standard superhuman strength/fitness package or not? Training certainly effects it but are they innately kinda superhuman as in most MG stuff or not?
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A Sometimes Food posted:On earlier discussion I'm confused, do MGs in this get a standard superhuman strength/fitness package or not? Training certainly effects it but are they innately kinda superhuman as in most MG stuff or not? It definitely seems to affect them to some degree. In the first couple of chapters Sally eats poo poo and Sylvia eats poo poo which are both injuries the average person wouldn't shrug off, though it's not clear how much of that is like, plot armor/comic relief. I also feel like it probably saved Starlight Spear's life when she was transporting baby Kokoro to the hospital - like even without the extreme speed, a normal person wouldn't have been able to survive that long - but I don't know. We also hear about MGs getting tons of injuries and ultimately being fine though I'm guessing a lot of that is due to healers. Rue also uses her magic to heal herself, so we can assume that to some degree their magic fuels strength and regenerative properties, though I'm getting into conjecture territory. Also when trying to look for something I ran into this page which I'm really curious about still. I wonder if her dream was disturbing, or if she's musing about her mom and the fact that her powers went into her? God this comic has so many nice details and is just so well put together. I love to reread it sometimes and just appreciate all the little worldbuilding poo poo that's in it. Thank you Mary for such a nice comic.
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Tiny Myers posted:It definitely seems to affect them to some degree. In the first couple of chapters Sally eats poo poo and Sylvia eats poo poo which are both injuries the average person wouldn't shrug off, though it's not clear how much of that is like, plot armor/comic relief. Not just me who finds it unclear then? I'm assuming they have at least a bit though it's obviously kinda variable and not like the Sailor Senshi (Usagi can exit atmosphere from a standing jump lol) or anything. Also new page and here weeee goooo.
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Comparing to the initial Tessa-Goops fusion, I'm seeing more hands and fewer eyes, and it's all concentrated in the monster. Wonder how much difference there is from it being contact with A Generic Monster vs Tessa being outright engulfed by Goops. When Zoe's cousin Alex had a "light contact wound", the goo that came out was almost all screaming mouths.
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Sep 8, 2022 12:30
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He also said his nightmare had everyone trapped and there was a lot of screaming voices...
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Now the question is can Vedika make anything of this/remember it more clearly than other people who get contact injuries.
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Now my big question is if this is also what goes through Goops head every moment of the day. Could explain some of her more hateful traits if this is just her life.
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Sep 8, 2022 14:38
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Tiny Myers posted:It definitely seems to affect them to some degree. In the first couple of chapters Sally eats poo poo and Sylvia eats poo poo which are both injuries the average person wouldn't shrug off, though it's not clear how much of that is like, plot armor/comic relief. Re-reading this I really forgot a couple of things. One is how early goops was shown, but two it also it made me remember how confused I was at the page where all the girls are all dead or dying. Compared with the pages you've posted of Sally and Sylvia eating poo poo, the impact that the monster causes later doesn't really seem so life-threatening.
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I think the implication is that the gravity-giraffe just kept doing it, and none of the girls could figure out a counter before they were worn down. When Undine goes back a few nights later, there's a bit of flashback speech we didn't get to see initially.
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I suspect part of the reason for that scene later is that I don't feel that was communicated clearly at all the first time. Which, like, to be clear I don't think we really needed on-screen graphic treatment of the characters, but going from showing two of them being able to take heavy blows to that being fatal was pretty confusing on a first read with how it's laid out.
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See I thought it just crushed them to death with a gravity field, Undine mentions staying alive by keeping her blood inside with water control.
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I don't know why I didn't see this kinda thing coming. It seems so obvious in hindsight. I thought there might be some revelation where Vedika realizes she can fight monsters on the astral plane or some such bullshit, not that the monsters were in pain or something.
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Oh, dang. Mary has stated that this isn't like Madoka, in that the monsters aren't former magical girls. She never said anything about them not being former people.
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Has anyone ever mentioned what non-MG dreams are like? Because I’m getting some “nightmares made manifest” vibes now.
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Bussamove posted:Has anyone ever mentioned what non-MG dreams are like? Because I’m getting some “nightmares made manifest” vibes now. They haven't but I feel like based on that comic where the girls are discussing their Founder dreams, people just have normal dreams. Otherwise I feel like they'd be like "sure was nice to have a GOOD dream" or something.
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Joe Slowboat posted:See I thought it just crushed them to death with a gravity field, Undine mentions staying alive by keeping her blood inside with water control. That's exactly what it did. It basically just gravity smashed them into the ground over and over until they were dead.
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Bussamove posted:Has anyone ever mentioned what non-MG dreams are like? Because I’m getting some “nightmares made manifest” vibes now. Given what form they take, I've always assumed they take the form of people's fears; animals, cartoon characters, distorted human features (Mouths). isasphere posted:Oh, dang. Mary has stated that this isn't like Madoka, in that the monsters aren't former magical girls. Minus "It's not a dream" this is starting to feel a lot more FF X right now. Cuz there's a non-zero chance these monsters, if not the whole entire enterprise are powered by the souls of the damned.
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So uh what happened to that guy who came from outside the bubble anyway 
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The comic did show us that the hurling was its main form of attack, albeit not directly: https://www.sleeplessdomain.com/comic/chapter-7-page-33 Just that, presumably multiple times.
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isasphere posted:Oh, dang. Mary has stated that this isn't like Madoka, in that the monsters aren't former magical girls. Former people that were outside when the barrier first went up, I am guessing. That said, that doesn't quite explain that one dude who is implied to be from outside the city.
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Captain Oblivious posted:That's exactly what it did. It basically just gravity smashed them into the ground over and over until they were dead. I read it as one very, very hard smash, basically crushing them into the ground with the force of a fall from a far greater height than they actually were. But same overall effect. It's an elevator-monster! Fear of falling, etc. Someone's fear is being stuck in an elevator plummeting from the ??th floor. Ditocoaf fucked around with this message at 07:18 on Sep 9, 2022 |
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Ditocoaf posted:I read it as one very, very hard smash, basically crushing them into the ground with the force of a fall from a far greater height than they actually were. But same overall effect. And then pinned them down with gravity iirc, since they talk about not being able to move from the weight (and how it’s not the air pinning them down, so the yellow girl - Sylvia? - is helpless too). It’s a brutal scene and it never read ambiguously to me that the monster was just much stronger than what they usually fought, by orders of magnitude.
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Magical girl: Heel Stomp?
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