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Post by Max on Nov 18, 2011 8:00:57 GMT
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Post by King Mir on Nov 18, 2011 8:04:29 GMT
She might not be planning to use ethereal blinker projection mode next time.
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Post by Max on Nov 18, 2011 8:05:32 GMT
She might not be planning to use ethereal blinker projection mode next time. Ah, that's a good point. In that case it would be quite interesting to see how they get down there without tripping the alarms. |
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Post by smjjames on Nov 18, 2011 8:06:10 GMT
Cue surprised look on Shadows face  Even if Robot knows Parley can teleport, he can't predict where she will teleport, until Parley gets too predictable with her teleporting. |
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Post by smjjames on Nov 18, 2011 8:08:57 GMT
She might not be planning to use ethereal blinker projection mode next time. Ah, that's a good point. In that case it would be quite interesting to see how they get down there without tripping the alarms. Teleporting probably. The alarms only seem to trigger for the bridge and maybe the grassy area. |
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Post by King Mir on Nov 18, 2011 8:09:50 GMT
She might not be planning to use ethereal blinker projection mode next time. Ah, that's a good point. In that case it would be quite interesting to see how they get down there without tripping the alarms. Well she can teleport... |
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Post by jasmijn on Nov 18, 2011 8:16:04 GMT
Finally! |
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Post by smjjames on Nov 18, 2011 8:16:17 GMT
It also looks like she can change position while teleporting.
Anybody want to bet she could use the teleporting to actually disarm Jeanne? IF it's even possible to do so.
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Post by Max on Nov 18, 2011 8:18:19 GMT
Ah, that's a good point. In that case it would be quite interesting to see how they get down there without tripping the alarms. Well she can teleport... ...duhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh. |
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Post by chenmaestro on Nov 18, 2011 8:21:19 GMT
*Bip*-fighting! It has finally arrived! -ChenMaestro |
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Post by Nicer Atom on Nov 18, 2011 8:22:15 GMT
Even if Robot knows Parley can teleport, he can't predict where she will teleport, until Parley gets too predictable with her teleporting. Smitty's there, so Parley will always teleport to the place she should to be (i.e. literally the least expected place in a fight), regardless of whatever patterns her opponent might find. I expect he will also be with them in the ravine, as he would probably find the device without even trying. So, no problem with Jeanne, either. |
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Post by descoladavirus on Nov 18, 2011 8:23:29 GMT
Ladies and Gentlemen I present to you...Parley being awesome.
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Post by King Mir on Nov 18, 2011 8:27:39 GMT
It also looks like she can change position while teleporting. Anybody want to bet she could use the teleporting to actually disarm Jeanne? IF it's even possible to do so. I'm not certain she can. She could just be moving quickly after teleporting. EDIT: Also, there's a faint shadow effect in the last panel suggesting movement. Disarming a ghost with a firm grip may be hard. Normally you'd try to strike the wrist, but is she corporal enough for that kind of thing to work? |
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Post by Cleo on Nov 18, 2011 8:28:40 GMT
Bip!fighting to the rescue!
Gosh, the stakes do seem rather high when it comes to taking on Jeanne. If they go down there as non-ethereal then Jeanne might also see what Kat, Smitty and Robot etc are up to. If Annie and Parley distract her in the ether, there's perhaps a chance of Jeanne not 'seeing' the physical world. It will also mean that the Arrow Team won't be able to see if Parley and Annie run into trouble. This is my reading on how it might work though Jeanne might be aware of both realms at the same time.
I'm genuinely worried. These are fictional characters and I'm genuinely worried. Well done to Tom.
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Post by smjjames on Nov 18, 2011 8:34:06 GMT
I don't know if Robot will actually be down there.
Still though, we don't yet know if Parley can teleport while inside the Ether. Teleporting with your physical body is one thing, but teleporting outside of it (or rather, while in 'Astral form' ) has to be another thing completely.
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Post by legion on Nov 18, 2011 8:40:18 GMT
Bip!
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Post by lunaryon on Nov 18, 2011 8:51:02 GMT
Given that when she teleports it is instantaneous movement, her astral self has to be able to replicate the effect for her soul not to be destroyed by the sudden lack of a physical shell.
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Post by Mezzaphor on Nov 18, 2011 9:07:50 GMT
Parley: "I need to kill fast and swords too slow!"
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Post by CGAdam on Nov 18, 2011 10:03:22 GMT
Aaaaand there we go.
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Post by todd on Nov 18, 2011 11:41:13 GMT
I wonder if any of them ever thought about the possible consequences of setting Jeanne free. Consulting Jones before endangering themselves and probably the whole Court seems like a good idea right now. I think that what matters to them is simply that a) what the Founders and Diego did to Jeanne was wrong, and b) Muut placed the duty of freeing Jeanne upon Annie. There are other ways of protecting the Court from the Wood (diplomacy, for example, which the Court still doesn't seem to have made a serious attempt at - maybe because of its contempt towards talking animals and refusal to see them as equals). |
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Post by mikeymikemikey on Nov 18, 2011 11:53:20 GMT
Well, in the span of two pages, Tom's managed to please the people who thought S1 was holding back and the people who wanted to see Parley's bipping (I am calling it that, damn whatever it gets called eventually) powers put to use in a fight. Two pages that were, given Tom's pre-drawn page buffer, drawn before we saw the first page of this chapter.
Damn, is fandom really that predictable now?
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Post by Alexandragon on Nov 18, 2011 12:07:29 GMT
And here we... GO!
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Post by smjjames on Nov 18, 2011 14:51:27 GMT
Well, in the span of two pages, Tom's managed to please the people who thought S1 was holding back and the people who wanted to see Parley's bipping (I am calling it that, damn whatever it gets called eventually) powers put to use in a fight. Two pages that were, given Tom's pre-drawn page buffer, drawn before we saw the first page of this chapter. Damn, is fandom really that predictable now? Perhaps he just knows his audience very well? He's had a few years of comic drawing to gain that experience. Even though we don't usually see him logged in, he certainly seems to read every thread. |
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Post by Miri on Nov 18, 2011 15:32:48 GMT
Well, in the span of two pages, Tom's managed to please the people who thought S1 was holding back and the people who wanted to see Parley's bipping (I am calling it that, damn whatever it gets called eventually) powers put to use in a fight. Two pages that were, given Tom's pre-drawn page buffer, drawn before we saw the first page of this chapter. Damn, is fandom really that predictable now? Both predictable and getting good at predicting, I think. Not only does Tom have years of experience drawing these, but we've got almost a thousand pages of experience figuring out his storytelling. Also, darn straight, Parley. Use your resources. |
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Post by warrl on Nov 18, 2011 16:02:01 GMT
In fencing, which is a competitive sport, teleporting would be unsportsmanlike conduct, and if teleporters become sufficiently common it will be explicitly banned - until they are even significantly more common, and a special division is created where it's legal and expected.
In real swordfighting, the rules are very simple: if you survive without severe injury and achieve your goal, while your opponent doesn't, then what you did was good (enough).
Parley's training for a real swordfight.
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Post by TBeholder on Nov 18, 2011 16:16:02 GMT
Cue surprised look on Shadows face Yeah, he's hilarious. I guess this little detail wasn't mentioned in their presence so far... he can't predict where she will teleport, until Parley gets too predictable with her teleporting. May be the whole point here, since she takes Jeanne seriously enough. Teleporting probably. The alarms only seem to trigger for the bridge and maybe the grassy area. And to install them at the bottom, someone would have to go there. Anybody want to bet she could use the teleporting to actually disarm Jeanne? IF it's even possible to do so. I doubt it's possible with a normal weapon, and have no idea how Parley plans to parry, for that matter - or it will be just dancing around without a touch? Because Jeanne's sword is as non-corporeal as herself - hits from it don't cause visible bodily harm and her "real" weapon just lies on top of her bones. Damn, is fandom really that predictable now? The fandom predictably dwells on things predictable anyway. |
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Post by smjjames on Nov 18, 2011 16:44:35 GMT
Parley could try removing the sword from the mummified skeletons grasp, but I doubt it would be that easy and descrating (or otherwise messing with) Jeannes corpse would just piss her off even more, and they don't want to make her any angrier than she already is.
I realize that her sword is as non corporeal as she is, but it's either pretty solid in the Ether or as Coyote implied, there is some seriously powerful magic behind that sword.
Probably should give the corpse a proper burial after Jeanne is freed.
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Post by myzelf on Nov 18, 2011 17:09:15 GMT
Finally! My thoughts exactly. |
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Post by Rafael on Nov 18, 2011 17:09:49 GMT
Anyone else think bipfighting against Jeanne might be a bad idea? In The Coward Heart, she held Parley and Annie in the river bank. It's true she was using the blinker stone to do that, but I'm worried she might have other tricks up her etheric sleeve and teleporting might not work to have the upper hand.
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Post by November on Nov 18, 2011 17:38:01 GMT
That.. that's cheating!
parley how could you ._.
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