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Post by zimmyzims on Aug 25, 2014 7:00:38 GMT
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Post by lemmingatk on Aug 25, 2014 7:01:44 GMT
You guys really *are* fast at making threads.
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Post by Tacdud2 on Aug 25, 2014 7:01:50 GMT
This is going to be very interesting. Also he is demanding not asking.
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Post by feraldog on Aug 25, 2014 7:04:09 GMT
... So Kat is now finding out in a very creepy way about the robo-cult. She is also on a ship with Zimmy (who is already freaked out about her, and ill at the moment), Jack (who is really pissed that she's there), her girlfriend, and various assorted cast members.
Nothing could possibly go wrong!
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Post by zimmyzims on Aug 25, 2014 7:04:22 GMT
You guys really *are* fast at making threads. You linked to the wrong one, though! Thanks. Can't understand how it happened. Or maybe it's because I had three gunnerkrigg pages open the same time.  ... So Kat is now finding out in a very creepy way about the robo-cult. She is also on a ship with Zimmy (who is already freaked out about her, and ill at the moment), Jack (who is really pissed that she's there), her girlfriend, and various assorted cast members. Nothing could possibly go wrong! So, let's say that there is a highly effective and uncontrollable fan there. Is this about to be the horse load of shit that is about to hit it in 10, 9, 8,... |
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Post by sapientcoffee on Aug 25, 2014 7:05:45 GMT
Oh goooooood, this is bound to only end well. /sarcasm
ETA: I like how the double row of seraphs in the first panel is done.
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Post by sotha on Aug 25, 2014 7:07:08 GMT
This has me really worried. I'm sure Kat will succeed in whatever [test] the robots have set for her, but how her classmates will react? There has to be a reason they're all [trapped] on a cruise ship.
I guess I was right in thinking there wasn't going to be any partying this chapter.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 25, 2014 7:11:31 GMT
Hmm, it seems I was wrong in one key aspect, overwhelmingly right in the other. 1. No Robot. The now-confirmed-as-not-silly sailor-bot is the speaker, but... 2. Control. Tacdud2 is completely right (as was I, in the last thread). The Seraphs and the sailor-bots have established that they are in control of this situation, and he is demanding to be made flesh. "You will make me flesh" has immediately joined the ranks of the multitudes of ominous and telling Gunnerkrigg quotes... EDIT: ETA: I like how the double row of seraphs in the first panel is done. Me too! The Seraphs have always been the robots' rather comical Stormtroopers, since they were first introduced, but when they get serious (just like the comic as a whole), they get serious. Now they're in their neat, orderly rows, and I can almost imagine the Imperial March in the background. |
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Post by philman on Aug 25, 2014 7:12:03 GMT
Ooooh, is this going to turn into an Aliens style story of robots hunting students through the ship if Kat refuses?
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Post by sapientcoffee on Aug 25, 2014 7:17:56 GMT
"You will make me flesh" has immediately joined the ranks of the multitudes of ominous and telling Gunnerkrigg quotes... Not to mention the Frankenstein overtones... |
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Post by GK Sierra on Aug 25, 2014 7:20:37 GMT
Wow. Shit just got WEIRD.
And here I was thinking this was a beach episode.
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Post by Lightice on Aug 25, 2014 7:21:14 GMT
Huh. I wasn't expecting this. So the sailor bots knew who Kat was all along, and just pretended ignorant, or the Seraphs who hid on the ship told them during the voyage. In the former case they are a force to be reconed with, considering how "good" most robots are at lying, while in the latter the Seraphs would be manipulating them to be guinea pigs for Kat's experiments.
In any case, they don't seem to realise that Kat isn't nearly far enough for that sort of thing. I wonder if she can make them accept that or if they decide to pressure her with extreme prejudice?
Also, now the entire school body's going to know about Kat's robo-cult.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 25, 2014 7:25:35 GMT
"You will make me flesh" has immediately joined the ranks of the multitudes of ominous and telling Gunnerkrigg quotes... Not to mention the Frankenstein overtones... Frankenstein? I don't know if that's the best comparison. I think it's being played up much more like "You will grant me salvation," i.e. demanding entrance into Heaven from an angel... Or something. Maybe not. |
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Post by imaginaryfriend on Aug 25, 2014 7:26:40 GMT
I suppose she's reached somewhere in her research where grafting the "arm" onto a robot is the next logical step. Therefore they are demanding it. The only question that remains is if the robot's death is somehow involved in that logical step.
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Post by Chancellor on Aug 25, 2014 7:34:09 GMT
DaedalusAnd man did this get creepy quick. Like, "I have No Mouth, and I Want to Scream" type of creepy, now that I think about these faceless Robots wanting to become organic.
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Post by keef on Aug 25, 2014 7:39:57 GMT
(not very wild spec) The sailor bots are networked, so they may form a hive-mind, therefore I and me and not we and us.
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Post by Elysium on Aug 25, 2014 7:40:58 GMT
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Post by arf on Aug 25, 2014 7:43:18 GMT
The creepiness is enhanced by having just watched the new Doctor Who episode.
"I have bad eyes. You will make me flesh."
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Post by Xan on Aug 25, 2014 7:45:12 GMT
Dear god, that immediately evokes horror games overtones. Well played, Tom.
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Post by KMar on Aug 25, 2014 7:45:18 GMT
I wonder what the other resident hacker extraordinaire (mainly, Jack) will think about this. Because this doesn't sound safe at all.
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Post by smurfton on Aug 25, 2014 7:46:17 GMT
While the robots are forcing her into this, they must realize that one joint does not a robot make, and she could not possibly make ...
She could do it with help. The wing only took two weeks to grow, this trip will take about as long. With labor done for her, she can finish on the cruise, since all she needs is a muscular system, a nervous system (wires) and a skeletal system.
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Post by keef on Aug 25, 2014 8:03:58 GMT
While the robots are forcing her into this, How are they going to force her anyway; abduct Paz? |
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Post by TBeholder on Aug 25, 2014 8:14:03 GMT
A bunch of Seraphs appear. Surely nothing wrong can come from... oh, it' already did. Nevermind then.
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Post by KMar on Aug 25, 2014 8:21:57 GMT
While the robots are forcing her into this, How are they going to force her anyway; abduct Paz? The IRC channel noticed that Annie's usual antics might not work with sailor-bots who have instantaneous wireless communication, especially if they are full of religious fervor. Speaking of which, if S13 has prophesied that the Creator will make them flesh, but Kat will decline, will members of the Robo-Cult have a crisis of faith? Also, no matter the outcome of this chapter, the acts the Seraphs have already taken are no doubt unprecedented in the Court history. Disrupting the students' holiday trip? Mutiny on the board? The Court will think this as an act of rebellion. The Headmaster will be furious. His daughter is there, after all. Right in the line of fire. Trouble in paradise, indeed.Edit. also, any bets how long it will take before Annie* realizes to warn Lindsay via etheric means that everything is not all right on the board? *(Annie being the only one capable of doing that without raising an alarm, if sailor-bots are to restrict the movements of students, I think) |
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Post by Fishy on Aug 25, 2014 8:25:37 GMT
Their master plan has been revealed; the sailor bots do not have off buttons on their heads! Truly they will now be unstoppable.
Also yeah that isn't absolutely terrifying or anything. I'm just... Gonna... Go...
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Post by csj on Aug 25, 2014 8:48:31 GMT
 Living beings have rights that robots do not. 'Becoming flesh' would pose many problems for hierarchy and order at the Court. |
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Post by eightyfour on Aug 25, 2014 9:32:39 GMT
Calling it now: The speaker isn't the sailorbot at all, it's the cruise ship itself! It wants to be a living organism because it is madly in love with Lindsey!
You see the ship is one giant robot of it's own right. The sailorbots are not so much crew as more of a really elaborate user interface. that's why they don't appear to have eyes (the ship has sensors all over itself anyway) and are networked (they have no own AI and are operated directly by the ship's AI).
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Post by fish on Aug 25, 2014 9:43:36 GMT
Welp, this escalated quickly. I really don't like what the seraphs did here. Taking from the angel without her permission? No other robot would dare! I wonder why Robot, as the cult leader, is not here. Hopefully because he does not approve of this nonsense. The angel needs to work at her own pace! Or he's gonna appear on the next page.  |
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Post by Toloc on Aug 25, 2014 10:39:56 GMT
Kat might have slacked off on further testing or she might have been hesitant to commence the next stage of testing and actually transplant one of her limbs onto a robot.
The sailor might just be volunteering to be the first test subject. It is hard to say if they are actually threatening her or the others.
May be they just want as big an audience as possible for the start of their ascension.
Well, they likely are threatening them, but I think the rest makes sense.
Also what is that thing? Another wing? Where to even put it on a bot?
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Post by todd on Aug 25, 2014 10:48:13 GMT
Let's hope that (assuming that the students get out of this one alive and whole) Kat won't be the one getting in trouble with the Court this time. Though any fair administrator would have to recognize that the robots viewing her as an angel or goddess and building a religion around her was their idea, not hers.
(For that matter, I wonder whether the Court's going to take harsh measures against the robot population after this - maybe even regarding them with more paranoia than Gillitie Woods.)
The moral: If a robot's been disassembled and stuffed into a closet, or its body turned into paper clips and its CPU stored away somewhere, it's a good idea to leave it that way.
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