[856] Hack? Do some hacking?

Wow, that...... that was kinda obvious it was fake annie

EDIT: sweet moves though :E

How DID you know he was possessed anyway, Annie? Hrrrrmmmm?

orrrr you could tell her the whole story from your viewpoint perhaps, mmh annie? aah what do I know

Panel 2 reaffirms Tom's storytelling skills 10x. It's a great shot of the action, emphasizes Annie's desperation to patch things up, shows off her forest-child athleticism, and is a close-up to point out how her feet have become thanks to running around barefoot in the woods.

I wonder how Antimony managed to coordinate this with Robot; I guess coming back with the luggage took a fair amount of time. (Edit- Idea semi-ninja'd by Ignotus Somnium)

Also: My inaccurate assumptions about Antimony seem to have blinded me to the possibility of this scenario.

Furthermore: Nothing says, "Let's be friends again" like implying that someone's stone stupid. Not sure Antimony has enough cute power to crack Kat's not-amused facade through sheer perseverance with this strategy.

the SPLISH just a crazy theory, but robot and annie didn't come from the same way as kat came from the dorms, maybe the splish was annie?

Hmm, at first I thought the timing seemed like Annie found Robot and told him to go "annoy" and "inconvenience" Kat WAY too quickly. But we don't really know how far Kat went to get her bag or how long it was before Robot found her, so on second thought, it doesn't have to be that super-fast. Of course, Annie still had to set up her "plan" pretty darn quickly, but as her scheme was nothing if not hare-brained and ill-thought-out, that works.

I guess Annie had the same thought as a bunch of the posters, that if she saves Kat and they work together to fix some kind of interesting problem, the two of them will make up. Doesn't work out quite so well when it's fake, does it, Annie?

I definitely don't think the "old Annie" would have done something like this; it definitely seems like the kind of thing an extroverted, energetic person would do. Of course, she's not very GOOD at improvising little shows yet, but can you see stoic!Annie doing that?

Which is actually quite interesting, because it's a way she's *changed* over the summer, but it's not a *mature* thing to do. It may be good for her, to be more willing to make a fool of herself and not just bottle up her feelings... but still shows that character development isn't always a steady climb upward, so to speak.

It could also be that she is trying to get Kat to have some fun, but this is completely the wrong time for it.

Maybe but if Robot was already down there with Antimony then he wouldn't have needed to sneak by Kat to set this up, and if he wasn't down there then he wouldn't have known he needed to avoid Kat. Slight modification of your theory: Maybe it was ShadowII zipping by on the dark water to go get Robot? (Idea semi-ninja'd by smjjames)

Yeah, I have to go with this one, that Kat wasn't supposed to be fooled by the display and think it was actually real. Mostly just because the alternative has too many Unfortunate Implications-- Annie trying to deceive Kat, attempting to mend their friendship based on a lie, and so on. I don't want to think Annie has that little respect for Kat or that she would do something that manipulative, so I'm going to go with "inappropriate joke."

I don't think the "splish" could have been Annie-- there's no indication in the panel that she's wet. (And if her feet were wet, that awesome leap-up-onto-the-railing-then-the-wall might have gone quite badly!)

I thought the same thing about having to sneak by Kat at first, but the more I think about it the less I think it's necessary. Kat goes off to get a bag from we-don't-know-where. At some point when she's rolling her bag, she turns and sees Robot there. He could have walked up from the area of the dorms, or he could have gotten there when she was somewhere else getting her bag.

Or, for that matter, there could be multiple entrances/exits to the dormitory area. Seems like a safety hazard to only have one way to/from the crazy submarine dorms!

Plus the fact that Tom is such a great storyteller.

Oh I know what went wrong, Antimony forgot to call Kat "Spacemonaught Kat." (Reversal of roles from those days, big-time.)



I thought Cascal meant Robot splashing (because of Antimony's plan) but I agree that it doesn't appear necessary (or reasonable) for either Antimony or Robot to be sneaking by or avoiding Kat to set this up. If Robot was down there he and Antimony could've leisurely followed Kat up to set up the ambush in the kiosk area.

[edit] Although, if Antimony's really been practicing perhaps she zipped by on the water using etheric super-speed and/or weight-reduction to go get Robot. [/edit]