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Post by CoyoteReborn on Apr 22, 2016 7:00:41 GMT
How dare they?  It's not like they could stop Me if I tried to break in, no no! They just want to make my *ahem* emissary uncomfortable  BAH!! Only I may demean My subjects so!
You have made Coyote angry, and worse, interrupted His party!! There will be blood, yes yes!
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Post by Gulby on Apr 22, 2016 7:02:49 GMT
That's... Pretty mean.
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Post by arf on Apr 22, 2016 7:08:15 GMT
Fairy cooties... you can't be too careful!
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Post by hnau on Apr 22, 2016 7:09:31 GMT
Say goodbye to Auntie Coyote...
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Post by bedinsis on Apr 22, 2016 7:09:34 GMT
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Post by imaginaryfriend on Apr 22, 2016 7:12:49 GMT
They just want to make my *ahem* emissary uncomfortable BAH!! Only I may demean My subjects so!
You didn't happen to dust your outgoing subject with anything that would set off a geiger counter just to be funny, did you? Because that would be kinda funny. She'd have to take a shower. An embarrassing and painfully scrubby shower. |
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Post by keef on Apr 22, 2016 7:22:20 GMT
Just say no, Annie.
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brokshi
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Post by brokshi on Apr 22, 2016 7:31:53 GMT
That's a bit of an excessive cleaning crew, the forest can't be THAT dirty. Or do they think etheric stuff is radioactive?
I mean this is an obvious intimidation/"we want you to be uncomfortable here" thing but at face value it's very over the top.
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Post by themarvelgirl on Apr 22, 2016 7:34:00 GMT
I waited four years to choose an icon. This one feels right.
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Post by noone3 on Apr 22, 2016 7:37:44 GMT
 Also Annie seems very Android 18-ish at times... |
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Post by stevecharb on Apr 22, 2016 7:53:59 GMT
"Uh, hey, we're from the government. Can you point us towards E.T.'s house?"
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Post by csj on Apr 22, 2016 8:01:29 GMT
Funny, I don't recall trickstergod moonthief and mr treewolf getting the hazmat treatment when they visited the Court in person. Literally picking on the little guy.
Of course there's Absolutely No Way This Juxtaposition of Values Was Intentionally Confronting At All.
As long as you gloss over the suicide coyote enforces on certain buttfaces wanting to leave the forest on a more permanent basis...
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Post by imaginaryfriend on Apr 22, 2016 8:04:00 GMT
That's a bit of an excessive cleaning crew, the forest can't be THAT dirty. Or do they think etheric stuff is radioactive? I mean this is an obvious intimidation/"we want you to be uncomfortable here" thing but at face value it's very over the top. Maybe Antimony didn't say what sort of creature she was bringing back. Or maybe she did, and they're just used to dealing with the city type of Regional Faeries [born in discarded crisp packets, making metal rusty to create entry points into human homes for rodent friends, scrounging through bins for sustenance, possibly taking dust-baths like birds and alongside birds and getting mites from birds] and they want her steam-cleaned before allowing her entry. If you think bedbugs are hard to get rid of, imagine if they were intelligent, huge, and had magic. There's nothing like a genuine fairy infestation. |
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Post by rafk on Apr 22, 2016 8:04:30 GMT
funny I don't recall trickstergod moonthief and mr treewolf getting the hazmat treatment when they visited the Court in personliterally picking on the little guy Typical authoritarian fear tactics. It totally makes sense for the mindset of the Court as portrayed so far. Totally for intimidation and not any legit purpose. Let's see if Annie puts up with it. |
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Post by csj on Apr 22, 2016 8:06:30 GMT
funny I don't recall trickstergod moonthief and mr treewolf getting the hazmat treatment when they visited the Court in personliterally picking on the little guy Typical authoritarian fear tactics. It totally makes sense for the mindset of the Court as portrayed so far. Totally for intimidation and not any legit purpose. Let's see if Annie puts up with it. when something as simple as a shadow or a seed can become a tool of the Forest, some caution is advisable. Having it on full display however is just pretty silly. |
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Post by speedwell on Apr 22, 2016 8:11:18 GMT
This is stupid, heavy-handed, shock theater meant to intimidate, absolutely. How banana republic of them. How North Korea of them. And they did it without consulting their ambassador, certainly. Wait till he finds out. Stuff just got official.
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Post by rafk on Apr 22, 2016 8:12:15 GMT
Typical authoritarian fear tactics. It totally makes sense for the mindset of the Court as portrayed so far. Totally for intimidation and not any legit purpose. Let's see if Annie puts up with it. when something as simple as a shadow or a seed can become a tool of the Forest, some caution is advisable. Having it on full display however is just pretty silly. Some caution, such as watching Coyote and Ys when they came over, is understandable. This pack of guys in hazmat suits is a lot more than caution. |
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Post by calpal on Apr 22, 2016 8:57:09 GMT
Well, there are worse things they could shower her with... like bullets, for example.
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Post by OGRuddawg on Apr 22, 2016 9:15:28 GMT
This. Right here. This is why I hate displays of power. It's just so obvious and unnecessary. It makes you look stupid and cowardly.
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Post by arf on Apr 22, 2016 9:21:47 GMT
Personally, I hope the Foley contingent are well stocked up with wanging tomatoes (and #OccupyGunnerkrigg signs)
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Post by Señor Goose on Apr 22, 2016 9:26:27 GMT
WE HAVE A 23-19
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Post by csj on Apr 22, 2016 9:31:27 GMT
when something as simple as a shadow or a seed can become a tool of the Forest, some caution is advisable. Having it on full display however is just pretty silly. Some caution, such as watching Coyote and Ys when they came over, is understandable. This pack of guys in hazmat suits is a lot more than caution. If they knew what we, the reader knows, then yes. Unfortunately, they don't. Once upon a time a 'friend' of Annie's left the forest without a good scrub and well... |
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Post by Jelly Jellybean on Apr 22, 2016 11:11:31 GMT
Makes one wonder why the Court allowed this visit at all. Annie had no way to force them to accept her idea, so the Court had to see some benefit in it. Maybe the Court is like one big bureaucratic Anthony, trying to do what it thinks is the right thing from its distorted perspective and then bungling it in every way imaginable.
Why don't they have robots do the decontamination work? I suppose these could be robots, or a mix of humans and robots, in suits that make it easier to decontaminate the decontamination robots.
You can infer from the last panel that Tom spent some time learning about decontamination procedures and equipment. Happy fun time!
EDIT: It would be a twist if they are there to decontaminate Annie, not the fairy.
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Post by foresterr on Apr 22, 2016 11:30:02 GMT
Bwahahahahaha.
Serious question: do you think this is more Court's paranoia, or Court's security theatre / propaganda?
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Post by crater on Apr 22, 2016 12:08:29 GMT
both these guys really know how to cut loose, first a few hours of jovial celebration, followed by a shower party. Miss being a kid
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Post by tiberius on Apr 22, 2016 12:15:37 GMT
Bwahahahahaha. Serious question: do you think this is more Court's paranoia, or Court's security theatre / propaganda? I think there is a lot of paranoia involved in this. As Jones said in an early chapter, the court doesn't recognize the creatures from the forest. Because of this, I don't believe they want to harrass the visitors. But they want to make sure, the students and the staff is not harmed by some strange and foreign bacteria or other "stuff". Makes me wonder, though, why Annie wasn't treated that way after her summer vacation in the forest. Or - wild thought here - they do did not have the slightes clue, how "big" she really would be and this turns into a very awkward scene next week with a lot of apologies. |
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Post by todd on Apr 22, 2016 12:49:20 GMT
Serious question: do you think this is more Court's paranoia, or Court's security theatre / propaganda? I'd say paranoia. Especially given the Court's past record towards the Wood (to the point where they'd do things like deceiving Renard to trap him - but their deception ploy resulted in the very results they were trying to avoid, namely, Renard's accepting Coyote's offer). And I don't think that the Court wants true peace with the Wood. It doesn't want war (I think its leadership recognizes that a war would be too costly), but I don't think that it wants the kind of harmonious co-existence that the fairy's visit seems designed to help. For one thing, to achieve that, the Court might have to give up its experiments with the ether - experiments which the forest-folk are clearly unhappy about (and from what we've seen so far, I think the forest-folk have a point) - and there's no way it would ever agree to that. Not to mention human pride that can't stand the thought of treating talking animals and fairies as equals. |
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Post by aline on Apr 22, 2016 12:56:23 GMT
Makes one wonder why the Court allowed this visit at all. Annie had no way to force them to accept her idea, so the Court had to see some benefit in it. Maybe the Court is like one big bureaucratic Anthony, trying to do what it thinks is the right thing from its distorted perspective and then bungling it in every way imaginable. The Court is made of many people with probably some conflicting interests and opinions. Smitty was the one who managed to negotiate this one, as Court medium. We don't know who agreed to it. But I'd guess not everyone is happy about it.
The point is, this visit from an average Forest citizen is something new. It could lead to a diplomatic incident, or it could lead to new visits, and new friendships. If someone wanted to make the balance tip one way and not the other, that'd be the way of doing it. Maybe someone even agreed to this visit in the hope that it would go horribly wrong...
The interesting thing now is how Annie will deal with it. She's the negotiator, she acts in the name of the Forest. And this is the time to go for subtlety, i.e., *not* burn everything down.
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Post by Trillium on Apr 22, 2016 13:11:02 GMT
And where is Smitty and Parley? Shouldn't they be on the other side of the bridge?
Intimidation techniques like this are not going to go over well with the Forest folk.
What at would be the best way to respond to this display of insensitive distrust?
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Post by Fishy on Apr 22, 2016 13:12:34 GMT
I'll give the Court points for baby steps. Their total score is still in the negatives but hey.
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