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Where the hell do these dumb ideas keep coming from
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Just stumbled across some old photos whilst tyding up - these were taken in a church in Edinburgh that had an art exhibit. They reminded me of something... 
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Nov 29, 2016 00:14
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I hope Parley's sword is at least a +1. Can't hit non-corporeal beings with non-magic weapons.
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Nov 29, 2016 00:19
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Ghost touch and holy are the way to go.
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Nov 29, 2016 02:58
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It seems pretty clear that Jeanne's a homeclass variant with corporeality.
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Nov 29, 2016 10:50
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Synthbuttrange posted:Where the hell do these dumb ideas keep coming from Yeah I don't know what it is about this comic that attracts so many bad theories and misconceptions.
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Nov 29, 2016 10:58
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Here's where that idea came from: When Parley first begins teleporting http://gunnerkrigg.com/?p=585 Jones says "and Andrew's ability might have played some part as well", and she mostly can't seem to control the destination. And then several chapters later, she figures out how to more deliberately teleport while holding Smitty http://gunnerkrigg.com/?p=784 . And then there's everything Jones says on the Party Hat joke page http://gunnerkrigg.com/?p=788 . All of which can easily give the impression that Smitty's probability distortion was helping Parley control her teleportation's destination, at least while first learning. But I'd say that even if that's the case, by now she's probably practiced enough that she doesn't need to rely on any luck. Hey, it's me, the guy who can find and link any page in ten minutes or less. Because I don't want to be one of those weirdos with wild theories about a webcomic, so every time I talk about it here I just dig through the comic and point at things I find, and now I'm a different kind of weirdo. Ditocoaf fucked around with this message at 14:40 on Nov 29, 2016 |
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Nov 29, 2016 14:34
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Callin it now, Jones comes down to stop all this.
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Nov 29, 2016 14:41
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Parley was randonly teleporting onto Smitty because she would think of him randomly (because shes in looove). Her encounter with Jeanne made her realize this connecting and she figured it out. Now she can teleporting on demand and she doesn't do it randomly either, Smitty has nothing to do with it anymore.
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Nov 29, 2016 14:43
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Maybe its the power of love. Maybe it's the following: Elgamore: "Hey Parley, git gud." Parley: "Okay." <Vegeta-grade workouts, Goku-level teleport practice>
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Nov 29, 2016 15:16
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Like, maybe the woman with arms thicker than a titanic German sword is just really good at combat. Elgamore does stuff that is so fast it probably blurs the lines of what is physically possible by extraordinary skill and what's possible only be magical assistance, so perhaps Bip Teleport is something totally within Parley's capacity to practice and master under tutelage.
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Nov 29, 2016 15:17
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You know, considering Jones wanted to get a bomb dropped on her, I wonder if she ever wanted to see if Jeanne could hurt her. She seems keen on knowing the limits of her invulnerability.
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Nov 29, 2016 15:32
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Jones will definitely have a moment where she intervenes to defend one of the kids, stops whatever, looks down and sees that she's stabbed through the heart/arm ripped off/etc., looks back up and says "Ah. So that is my limit."
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Nov 29, 2016 15:44
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Oz posted:I hope Parley's sword is at least a +1. Can't hit non-corporeal beings with non-magic weapons. If Parley just uses Transient Curse, she'll be fine. She might consider dual-classing into DEX and STR, though. You can get faster swinging weapons that way.
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Nov 29, 2016 19:46
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oh yes oh god yes form the head FORM THE HEAD unghhhh...
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Ha! I should have said something if I wanted any credit, but I really suspected that "she's too fast" thought bubble earlier was from Jeanne. She's been the POV character for a lot of this confrontation, which is a gimmick I really like.
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Nov 30, 2016 09:37
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I'm starting to think that Parley should just wield a maul.
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Nov 30, 2016 10:08
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Pommel strikes because she's bipping in too close to use the blade, 
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Nov 30, 2016 10:11
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Jeanne is having a really rough day.
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Nov 30, 2016 10:24
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I'm not 100% sure that Jeanne and Jones would even be able to interact with eachother. Jones has absolutely no presence in the ether and Jeanne, while corporeal, is etheric.
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Nov 30, 2016 10:26
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Parley seems to be bonking a ghost with a sword just fine?!
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Nov 30, 2016 10:37
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No Parley, you have to use the pointy end.
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Nov 30, 2016 10:44
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EvilTaytoMan posted:No Parley, you have to use the pointy end. Well, she does use it as an additional grip.
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Nov 30, 2016 10:53
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Parley I'm not sure you can concuss a ghost
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Nov 30, 2016 11:17
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I hope she twists the pommel and out comes the coyote tooth sword.
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Nov 30, 2016 11:30
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 JT Jag posted:I'm not 100% sure that Jeanne and Jones would even be able to interact with eachother. Jones has absolutely no presence in the ether and Jeanne, while corporeal, is etheric.
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Nov 30, 2016 11:33
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Daius posted:Parley I'm not sure you can concuss a ghost Well, there's only one way to find out, isn't there?
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Nov 30, 2016 11:56
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Yeah, I wonder if this actually has any effect on her besides knocking her over for a moment.
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Nov 30, 2016 13:05
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She's going to attack Smitty and George will bip in and get stabbed instead because she has no luck strings to protect her from his powers. And Smitty will be all "It should have been me".
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Nov 30, 2016 13:33
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Splicer posted:She's going to attack Smitty If she thinks she's back under the effects of illusion, she might go after the elves again.
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Nov 30, 2016 17:29
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MikeJF posted:Yeah, I wonder if this actually has any effect on her besides knocking her over for a moment. It's all a diversion.
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Nov 30, 2016 17:47
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What's going on in the last two panels? Did Parley bip in front of Jeanne, then turn her back on her while spinning around to smash the pommel in her face? Seems like a bad idea to me but I don't actually know anything about swordfighting
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Nov 30, 2016 20:22
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Staltran posted:What's going on in the last two panels? Did Parley bip in front of Jeanne, then turn her back on her while spinning around to smash the pommel in her face? Seems like a bad idea to me but I don't actually know anything about swordfighting Yes but Jeanne's blade is outside parley's blade hand so she 's fairly open to the back hand with no real way to strike back. e; Like if you assume Parely started the spin as soon as she appeared Jeanne can't really do anything at that distance with a rapier.
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Nov 30, 2016 20:25
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Staltran posted:What's going on in the last two panels? Did Parley bip in front of Jeanne, then turn her back on her while spinning around to smash the pommel in her face? Seems like a bad idea to me but I don't actually know anything about swordfighting She bipped in with her back already turned then swung her arm around to strike
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Nov 30, 2016 20:26
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I don't think parley is trying to kill Jeanne. So she can't really use her sword blade, since their goal is to free her. Although what happens if you cut up a ghost??? I don't know how fighting hate spirits works
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Nov 30, 2016 21:09
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 Meanwhile, Annie discovers that Kat's true power is more true and more powerful. 
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Nov 30, 2016 23:39
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JT Jag posted:I'm not 100% sure that Jeanne and Jones would even be able to interact with eachother. Jones has absolutely no presence in the ether and Jeanne, while corporeal, is etheric. Jeanne was able to slice up those drones Kat sent in, so she can affect purely physical objects. I think it'd be more of an unstopstabbing force meeting an incuttable object situation. Jones seems to have absolutely no knowledge of Jeanne though (since she didn't show up at the court until its origins were already long obscured), so it may never come up.
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Dec 1, 2016 09:46
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cant cook creole bream posted:Well, she does use it as an additional grip. It's a legitimate strategy, though it's usually used to smash someone with the cross-guard instead of the pommel:  Yes, it's called the Murder-Stroke  EmmyOk posted:Yes but Jeanne's blade is outside parley's blade hand so she 's fairly open to the back hand with no real way to strike back. What Jeanne could do is use her left foot to wheel away from Parley, place the rapier on something she can cut (e.g. an arm) and draw it, but then again she probably doesn't have time to; longswords are a lot faster than people give them credit for, to the point where fencing with one isn't necessarily an I-want-to-lose type of idea.
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Dec 1, 2016 12:46
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delfin posted:
Hold on to your asses, assholders.
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Dec 1, 2016 13:44
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A.o.D. posted:Hold on to your asses, assholders.
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Dec 1, 2016 13:55
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Hremsfeld posted:It's a legitimate strategy, though it's usually used to smash someone with the cross-guard instead of the pommel: The Mordhau is a great example of something that gets super-amplified by all the other literature in the field being lost. It's like if every cookbook except an early 1970s vaguely racist and inaccurate Canadian book on sushi were the only thing left to future chefs.
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