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Post by TBeholder on Apr 30, 2016 9:16:44 GMT
Snuffle walking off on her own is NOT a good idea in this environment! Next page: terrified Snuffle runs from behind the corner. Turns out, she ran into the Boxbot.
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Post by Jelly Jellybean on Apr 30, 2016 13:19:04 GMT
Snuffle walking off on her own is NOT a good idea in this environment! Next page: terrified Snuffle runs from behind the corner. Turns out, she ran into the Boxbot. Antimony uses "Shoo!" on Botbox. It is not very effective.
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Post by rafk on May 2, 2016 8:19:25 GMT
I think we saw a bit of this when Smitts threw the blinker stone (RIP blinker stone) into the ravine and it hit a bird for maximum accuracy. Not sure if Tom's just casually exploring the repercussions of this power or if this is foreshadowing some major cataclysm in the future. I'd be content with both. Both. Frankly I'd never considered that Smitty has that level of control, it had seemed like a passive power to me previously. It also hadn't occurred that "order to disordered situations" could stretch to creating a reason for Parley to return home early. If it is THAT powerful I am surprised the Court lets him walk around conscious.
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Post by rafk on May 2, 2016 8:23:49 GMT
Imagine if there is no limit. That the world will just keep shuffling stuff around until it makes whatever Smithy wants, or tries to do, happen. That means that if it takes Eglamore dying for Parley to jump home early, guess what, he's dead. Doesn't matter how it happens or if it's even within the limits of statistic plausibility, it's going to happen. Remember the cards? What if Jones' entire existence is actually based on Smitty's power? That is, Smitty at some point or another determined that his friend Annie needed Jones to be real to help her and so it just so happens that an indestructible entity that has existed since the beginning of the earth is around for Annie. How about that for statistical improbability? I hope not. Way over the top power level. It's bad enough now without making him a Haruhi Suzumiya who's aware of the power.
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Post by Daedalus on May 2, 2016 9:20:45 GMT
I think we saw a bit of this when Smitts threw the blinker stone (RIP blinker stone) into the ravine and it hit a bird for maximum accuracy. Not sure if Tom's just casually exploring the repercussions of this power or if this is foreshadowing some major cataclysm in the future. I'd be content with both. Both. Frankly I'd never considered that Smitty has that level of control, it had seemed like a passive power to me previously. It also hadn't occurred that "order to disordered situations" could stretch to creating a reason for Parley to return home early. If it is THAT powerful I am surprised the Court lets him walk around conscious. They might not have much of an option. There's weak evidence that they can't make power limiters (b/c they let a ZK-Class Threat named Zimmy walk around without controlling her powers). They could try to keep him sedated or in a medically-induced coma, but I suspect his powers might prevent such action. After all, being turned into a vegetable falls under the category of "unlucky", I would presume, so his powers may passively protect him by subverting their methods of control. Come to think of it, let's discuss his powers. He has an odd mix of probability alteration and entropy manipulation. What could even harm Smitty? Maybe another probability-alterer? His powers function at least at a low level at all times, and I would assume that he is somewhat protected from harm due to their effects. Looking around on the internet, entropy reduction/reversal is an uncommon power in comics, but in a few cases it extends to healing wounds or preventing the damage in the first place. It may be that he was selected as a Medium partially because of his large-scale powers, in order to monitor him more closely. I'd never considered this before, but each of the three medium candidates have absurd power levels (only eclipsed by Zimmy). Parley is an nigh-unconditional teleporter who may also develop psychic powers, and Annie is not only telekinetic and pyrokinetic - she can communicate with and influence powerful etheric beings (something the Court is very interested in). Thoughts?
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Post by ctso74 on May 2, 2016 13:58:03 GMT
Both. Frankly I'd never considered that Smitty has that level of control, it had seemed like a passive power to me previously. It also hadn't occurred that "order to disordered situations" could stretch to creating a reason for Parley to return home early. If it is THAT powerful I am surprised the Court lets him walk around conscious. They might not have much of an option. There's weak evidence that they can't make power limiters (b/c they let a ZK-Class Threat named Zimmy walk around without controlling her powers). They could try to keep him sedated or in a medically-induced coma, but I suspect his powers might prevent such action. After all, being turned into a vegetable falls under the category of "unlucky", I would presume, so his powers may passively protect him by subverting their methods of control. Come to think of it, let's discuss his powers. He has an odd mix of probability alteration and entropy manipulation. What could even harm Smitty? Maybe another probability-alterer? His powers function at least at a low level at all times, and I would assume that he is somewhat protected from harm due to their effects. Looking around on the internet, entropy reduction/reversal is an uncommon power in comics, but in a few cases it extends to healing wounds or preventing the damage in the first place. It may be that he was selected as a Medium partially because of his large-scale powers, in order to monitor him more closely. I'd never considered this before, but each of the three medium candidates have absurd power levels (only eclipsed by Zimmy). Parley is an nigh-unconditional teleporter who may also develop psychic powers, and Annie is not only telekinetic and pyrokinetic - she can communicate with and influence powerful etheric beings (something the Court is very interested in). Thoughts? Sometimes, the scope of time can affect the very definition of "lucky". Something that's lucky in the short-term can be very unlucky in the long-term, and vice versa. Without more details on his abilities, we can only guess as to what would happen in more complicated situations. Whether we see his abilities as Order or Luck based, we still have to figure out how that's being defined. Etherically? Personally? Ironically?
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Post by warrl on May 3, 2016 18:17:12 GMT
Come to think of it, let's discuss {Smitty's} powers. He has an odd mix of probability alteration and entropy manipulation. I'm not sure what the difference between those two things would be, but I'd add that he has a way of gaining certain information - perhaps subconsciously. For example, he points to one side and says "bam" *just as* Parley teleports to him on that side. He could be compelling her to do that, or he could just somehow know that she's about to do it of her own will. But the "compel" argument doesn't explain how he knew where a squirrel had hidden some nuts or why he was standing practically on top of the spot.
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Post by freeman on May 4, 2016 17:38:05 GMT
Hum, she has only even stated she could just kill "everybody in the world and herself", so whether it's XK or ZK is still debatable. Nice to see we have SCP fans around. How ironic that Zimmy and Gamma would be pretty boring "babby's first" type entries. I'll try something. This is by Friman Meadows, a SCP agent recently relocated to England from [REDACTER], so his grammar might be little off.
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Post by Daedalus on Oct 16, 2016 4:06:32 GMT
If something bad is happening to the protector, someone's got to tell the medium. That's why we have a medium! I JUST caught this reference while looking for one of my earlier comments. You caused me to break out laughing in the quietest floor of the library. Shame on you
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Post by Storel on Oct 22, 2016 6:12:02 GMT
If something bad is happening to the protector, someone's got to tell the medium. That's why we have a medium! I JUST caught this reference while looking for one of my earlier comments. You caused me to break out laughing in the quietest floor of the library. Shame on you Care to share the reference with the rest of us?
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Post by Per on Oct 22, 2016 7:47:45 GMT
Care to share the reference with the rest of us? You can listen to this (it's at roughly 0:50): Or maybe this: I'm glad someone caught it, even if it took a few months.
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Post by Storel on Oct 29, 2016 1:11:14 GMT
Ahhh... thank you!
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Post by bgb16999 on Feb 3, 2017 23:34:42 GMT
So I know I'm late to the party, but the first panel of this page keeps bugging me, and I didn't see anyone else mentioning it. Smitty says he couldn't go into the forest with Annie while Parley was away training. But in Chapter 54, Smitty went into the forest alongside Annie and <Snuffle>'s friend.
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Post by atteSmythe on Feb 4, 2017 6:23:44 GMT
So I know I'm late to the party, but the first panel of this page keeps bugging me, and I didn't see anyone else mentioning it. Smitty says he couldn't go into the forest with Annie while Parley was away training. But in Chapter 54, Smitty went into the forest alongside Annie and <Snuffle>'s friend. It's after Coyote visited, and insisted that Annie return. It could be that he also insisted that Andrew visit, so that they could perform the duty promised.
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Post by keef on Feb 5, 2017 21:26:42 GMT
So I know I'm late to the party, but the first panel of this page keeps bugging me, and I didn't see anyone else mentioning it. Smitty says he couldn't go into the forest with Annie while Parley was away training. But in Chapter 54, Smitty went into the forest alongside Annie and <Snuffle>'s friend. Eglamore is at the Court in Chapter 54, so they were not on a training trip at the time. So probably Parley has to be at or near the Court and available to protect Andrew, but doesn't necessarily has to go with him?
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Post by warrl on Feb 6, 2017 5:16:11 GMT
So I know I'm late to the party, but the first panel of this page keeps bugging me, and I didn't see anyone else mentioning it. Smitty says he couldn't go into the forest with Annie while Parley was away training. But in Chapter 54, Smitty went into the forest alongside Annie and <Snuffle>'s friend. Eglamore is at the Court in Chapter 54, so they were not on a training trip at the time. So probably Parley has to be at or near the Court and available to protect Andrew, but doesn't necessarily has to go with him? That would make sense. They have signal sticks. James can jump a half-mile in response, and George can get to Andrew even faster.
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