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Post by Daedalus on Apr 16, 2014 7:03:29 GMT
Yay back on topic! Here's hoping for more info about this Steadman (woops, Jeanne!) person. (Also, cryptic reference to other departments is cryptic.) |
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Post by fwip on Apr 16, 2014 7:05:08 GMT
Was it an inside job?
also 'then device you mean' Tom's comic is great and all, but proofreading should have caught that. It's not the first typo, either.
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Post by Gotolei on Apr 16, 2014 7:07:11 GMT
Random maybe insignificant thought: his hand is positioned in a way that kind of makes it look like he's holding the wires. We already know this guy is kinda manipulative..
(hmm)
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Post by fwip on Apr 16, 2014 7:08:11 GMT
Kind of want to change the title to reflect that... (tempted) Please don't. That would mean that the most important part of this comic was the typo. |
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Post by sotha on Apr 16, 2014 7:08:30 GMT
Ah, don't do that. I'm sure Tom will find out about it soon. I really want to know more about then device, though. It's multidimensional!
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Post by Gotolei on Apr 16, 2014 7:18:24 GMT
Ah, don't do that. I'm sure Tom will find out about it soon. I really want to know more about then device, though. It's multidimensional! So there's then device. Where's now device? Are we already getting into the time machine shenanigans from the wild spec topic? |
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Post by SilverbackRon on Apr 16, 2014 7:20:15 GMT
I wonder how they knew exactly how to make such a thing. Diego's skill was for his robots. It seems a strange step from robot building to creating a weapon capable of tearing through the ROTD (even assuming the living at that time knew about the existence of the ROTD).
I am loving how we are getting another great chapter of explaining a lot of the longstanding mysteries of GKC.
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Post by noone3 on Apr 16, 2014 7:24:38 GMT
Tom's comic is great and all, but proofreading should have caught that. And why do you think we are here then, prey? Anyway, it was a long and hard investigation to just know Jeanne's name, while all they need to do was to ask ROTD about it. |
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Post by Chancellor on Apr 16, 2014 7:30:42 GMT
I guess "Reponsible" isn't a fancy British term then?
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Post by melkior on Apr 16, 2014 7:33:49 GMT
Anyone here wanna bet with me that Kat's magitech skills will be exactly what's required to allow her to undo whatever is imprisoning Jeanne?
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Post by sidhekin on Apr 16, 2014 7:40:26 GMT
Tom's comic is great and all, but proofreading should have caught that. And why do you think we are here then, prey? Anyway, it was a long and hard investigation to just know Jeanne's name, while all they need to do was to ask ROTD about it. Doesn't look that way to me: gunnerkrigg.com/?p=1313The RotD probably all knew about the case, and the word probably spread fast when, recently, the name of the ghost of the Annan Waters was discovered to be Jeanne. Who made the discovery was apparently of less importance to them. |
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Post by Angry Individual on Apr 16, 2014 8:01:29 GMT
Perhaps by other departments, he's referring to the different kinds of afterlives?
Possibly the many different culture versions of heaven and hell, purgatories, or just other versions of RotD.
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Post by keef on Apr 16, 2014 8:38:38 GMT
Perhaps by other departments, he's referring to the different kinds of afterlives? Possibly the many different culture versions of heaven and hell, purgatories, or just other versions of RotD. Hell (and heaven)is other people. |
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Post by Ophel on Apr 16, 2014 9:46:05 GMT
Dang... Whatever they did, must be some srs bsns indeed. Perhaps by other departments, he's referring to the different kinds of afterlives? Possibly the many different culture versions of heaven and hell, purgatories, or just other versions of RotD. Hell (and heaven)is other people. Do you think there's a department specific to keeping detail with the Aether itself? Or maybe the department of reality's logic? Now that'll be trippy, if anyone got in there with shenanigans. (Though I'm not so inclined to think there is one for the latter, myself) |
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Post by TBeholder on Apr 16, 2014 10:11:26 GMT
I wonder how they knew exactly how to make such a thing. Diego's skill was for his robots. It seems a strange step from robot building to creating a weapon capable of tearing through the ROTD Golems. Also, depends on the point of view: he wasn't trapping spirits as previously assumed, he hacked the multiverse instead. |
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Post by davidm on Apr 16, 2014 10:46:03 GMT
I wonder how they knew exactly how to make such a thing. Coyote is one option, he did split the 2 sides, he also secretly gave a powerful knife to current group, he isn't always the nicest guy to his own people. |
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Post by Ophel on Apr 16, 2014 10:54:43 GMT
I wonder how they knew exactly how to make such a thing. Coyote is one option, he did split the 2 sides, he also secretly gave a powerful knife to current group, he isn't always the nicest guy to his own people. I'm inclined to say that that is out of his character, but I really can't tell with Coyote. (Who can?) ... But that would definitely make it quite interesting. Still, wonder what happened to the elf? Edit: O-O Do you think his soul is trapped in the arrow? That thing is a lot more formidable that it looks, after all. |
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Post by Per on Apr 16, 2014 11:29:46 GMT
One typo is fixed but the other remains. Also personally I'm slightly befuddled by the positioning of the last two balloons. I'm guessing "We aren't..." comes last, but it's easy to proceed to it from "... deal of damage."
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Post by zimmyzims on Apr 16, 2014 12:42:04 GMT
Perhaps by other departments, he's referring to the different kinds of afterlives? Possibly the many different culture versions of heaven and hell, purgatories, or just other versions of RotD. Hell (and heaven)is other people. In fact, Sartre was wrong. Hell is self. I mean myself, yourself and especially Sartreself. Heaven doesn't exist. |
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Post by warrl on Apr 16, 2014 13:01:54 GMT
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Post by ctso74 on Apr 16, 2014 13:31:48 GMT
Darn arrow. Could/would a psychopomp aid in the arrow's construction? Did the early Court have that kind of power, outside of the Seed Bismuth? If the arrow is a reality changer, can we even trust the record up to this point? Will Steve ever ask Sally from accounting out?
I'm sure all our questions will be answered shortly... any day now...
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Post by Deepbluediver on Apr 16, 2014 13:44:16 GMT
If Friday's comic isn't Annie going "Wait, hold up just a second there, Slim. WHAT other departments???", then I will be very disappointed. I like Annie but sometimes she can be a little thick.
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Post by alpacalypse on Apr 16, 2014 14:53:27 GMT
Its not just some crazy device, its a crazy plot device
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Post by Nnelg on Apr 16, 2014 14:55:57 GMT
I wonder... Diego was credited with the creation of the device, but was he the only one who worked on it?
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Post by fwip on Apr 16, 2014 16:13:05 GMT
Tom's comic is great and all, but proofreading should have caught that. And why do you think we are here then, prey? Anyway, it was a long and hard investigation to just know Jeanne's name, while all they need to do was to ask ROTD about it. I was under the impression that learning Jeanne's name was a side effect of an unrelated project. |
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Post by csj on Apr 16, 2014 16:16:15 GMT
the more I see of him the less salaryman he looks and the more roman he feels
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Post by barb. on Apr 16, 2014 16:41:16 GMT
Is it just me, then? I see a bird's head in the arrow's ether. Looks like a crow's head, or a raven, perhaps? Two creatures with strong mythical connections that we haven't seen much of before in GKC, unless you include the TicTocs. (Hello... longtime lurker, first time poster.  ) |
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Post by smurfton on Apr 16, 2014 17:05:30 GMT
I'm pretty sure that the most impressive thing about this arrow is that (as far as we know) it has had the largest effect on someone who never touched it.
Also, what other ghosts aren't members of the RotD?
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Post by fish on Apr 16, 2014 17:11:25 GMT
Is it just me, then? I see a bird's head in the arrow's ether. Looks like a crow's head, or a raven, perhaps? Two creatures with strong mythical connections that we haven't seen much of before in GKC, unless you include the TicTocs. Wow, you're right! It's abstract enough to pass as just random ether lines but it really does look like a bird. We've actually seen a crow/raven in this page. It looks like it could be associated with Steadman. Since he's the one who fired the device there could be a connection. Also, welcome to the forum! |
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Post by Lightice on Apr 16, 2014 18:17:17 GMT
This guy is still vaguely creepy even without his mask, with his solid black eyes and all.
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