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It's kind of interesting how none of the villagers seem to be able to remember anything supernatural, as far as I can tell. I'd guess that all the strange rituals are remnants of protection rituals. Protecting them from the things that they cannot remember. Though I'm kind of curious of the Skull and Shovels ritual is somewhat opposite of that. Either bringing/keeping supernatural things, or perhaps even the thing that keeps people from remembering stuff like the giant bats.
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It looks like being blindfolded is the only way to understand him as well. Well, unless it's painful for him to be seen.
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Jun 15, 2013 18:10
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I read it more as a "I can't explain any of this. Trying your interpretation/story is a good enough starting point to figuring out what is going on. Even if I don't believe it."
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Jul 10, 2013 22:30
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A new update. And I already see something of note. The stitching is now normal, not the fancy red threaded stuff. I doubt that's a mistake. Which means something happened in the week gap. Or the remnants of the tailor ghost's influence went away. Or it has to do with everyone forgetting. Or even more mundane, someone took out the stitching and replaced it. Hold on. Looking back, the stitching is normal stitching back when the Bottlefly boys found 'em. And it's entirely gone when he's talking to the cop, only to return when he's asleep. So either it's entirely in his head, some artist error, or Zane has some sort of subconscious power over reality. Or something that I'm not even thinking of.
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Jul 13, 2013 06:55
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I see. There's no way this is going to end up helping him. Either he forgets enough of it to make it useless by the time he wakes up, or it doesn't make sense outside of dreams.
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Feb 21, 2014 02:42
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Fabricated posted:I re-read this book so far and I kinda skimmed over the fact that apparently something is heating the floor under Zane's shop. That's not something that was really used in small buildings back then. And I did a quick search and underfloor heating has apparently been a thing for way longer than I thought.
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Mar 21, 2014 06:44
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Was looking through book one and I found this. Specifically the first panel. And also every time he says he doesn't know how to play/doesn't know the rules, he's facing left.
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May 4, 2014 01:21
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Good morning. Something occurred to me, that's a bit 'unresolved' at the moment. Not really related to the newest strip, but certainly the current overall story arc. Whatever happened to that writer guy? Did he just book it after the whole angry yelling about 'it was murder' thing, never to be seen again? Did he actually do the deed, or is he like Zane and thinks he did. Maybe Zane found him, brought him along to help record what happened. An outsider that wouldn't forget. But he did. And upon leaving Broodhollow he looked at his notes, found out that he wrote things he doesn't remember writing. And it implies that he saw someone get killed. But it's just vague enough that it could imply he did the killing. Or maybe it implies Zane did the killing. So he heads back into Broodhollow, with only a scant few details. One of them being a man with a pet bat.
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Jul 15, 2014 18:28
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Maybe everyone in Broodhollow has one of these things? Zane just happened to get a slightly different one. Or his body is rejecting it since he got it later in life. And so it's terrified.
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Aug 12, 2014 07:41
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There's an awful lot of skeletons on the monster. Maybe the Bottlefly Boys was an entire crew. Say 20 or so. Perhaps enough to have a day crew, in addition to a night crew. And then something happened to the day crew, wiping it out entirely. I can't remember was there a day crew in comic, or is it just the night crew?
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Sep 8, 2014 20:19
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Mr.Pibbleton posted:drat, that's a badass encyclopedia salesman! But probably not in the way you'd think.
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Sep 12, 2014 23:08
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nimby posted:What does Broodhollow do? It makes you forget.
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Sep 14, 2014 05:21
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The background is named "bh_back_angleworm.jpg". So I guess it's been that since the beginning of book 2? Wayback machine kind of confirms it's been there for quite awhile, all the way back since early in book 2. This is like the bloodstains in the navigation all over again. Which also seem to have been there since the start of book 2.
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Sep 29, 2014 03:16
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I was going to quote myself saying that the whole 'scare me' thing in the last dream sequence might mean that he's been dreaming the entire time. But then it appears I didn't actually post that. I guess I thought "Nah, couldn't be", since whenever I would have been posting, it would have been too much happening in the dream. Now I'm not so sure. Edit: Zoe posted:Never thought of how the actual literal definition of the words might apply before, but makes perfect sense. Even though I doubt giant evil bone wearing bugs are the only thing that's being bread down there.
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Oct 10, 2014 09:28
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I don't think he tugged on it yet. He certainly got ready to, and his hands were shaking, but not actually pulling. Cadavre putting his hand on Zane's shoulder freaked him out enough to not hold on, though. I'd say he might not even remember that tugging is safety at the moment. Eschers Basement posted:I think that's exactly what's going on here. A lot of the elements of this - the hole motif, the symbols and signs in red, the red lines, etc. - are things that have previously only appeared to Zane in dreams, and now it's topped off by the appearance of Cadavre, who also appeared and spoke to Zane in his dreams. Either Zane is still dreaming, or Zane's dreams are prophetic ties directly to this moment, and I think Cadavre speaks to it being the former, though Cadavre's eyes bleeding speak to something I don't know what the gently caress.
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Oct 10, 2014 20:12
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But how would Zane take a picture of this with undeveloped film? The purpose of a camera is to let you take pictures, after all.  (I'm just imagining Zane throwing film at monsters, and it somehow working.)
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Oct 12, 2014 02:21
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ThaumPenguin posted:Well, this was posted today, at least according to the upload date, which is weird because I remember seeing this exact page before.
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Apr 26, 2015 23:24
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neogeo0823 posted:Uh, so, that's scary, yet convenient, how they do that. When she said that they filled each others gaps in memory, I didn't think it would be like this. It took two people to remember someone's name. It seems that there's a bit of 'noise', so that would explain why they have a confirmation phrase.
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May 5, 2015 18:27
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MikeJF posted:That's a good point. Because holidays are a communal thing, they're constantly reminding each other of what happened and they don't lose them. It's like a larger automatic version of the 'hem' concept.
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It's a shame that he doesn't remember that the pattern helped the stitched together monster in. So yeah, this is going to bite him hard.
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