brokshi
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Post by brokshi on Oct 14, 2016 7:06:28 GMT
Yikes!Looks like she lives to see another day. In real time, I mean.
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Post by arf on Oct 14, 2016 7:09:31 GMT
Looks like Jeanne is still in the illusion.
(Or she's hamming it up for a pantomime?)
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brokshi
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Post by brokshi on Oct 14, 2016 7:11:11 GMT
Looks like Jeanne is still in the illusion. (Or she's hamming it up for a pantomime?) Maybe she just remembers the illusion and thinks it was real? Or some other form of being severely mentally affected. |
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Post by turion on Oct 14, 2016 7:12:24 GMT
She is in the illusion. Confusion keeps her. If George or anyone manages to distract her for long enough, she'll stay there. (Annie, go!)
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Post by crater on Oct 14, 2016 7:14:30 GMT
whew
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Post by bedinsis on Oct 14, 2016 7:16:48 GMT
On the one hand: YAY! Nobody died!
On the other hand: BOOO!! Cop-out!
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brokshi
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Post by brokshi on Oct 14, 2016 7:18:29 GMT
On the one hand: YAY! Nobody died! On the other hand: BOOO!! Cop-out! It's not a cop-out though. As the last thread showed, tons of evidence for this one. |
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Post by Daedalus on Oct 14, 2016 7:30:45 GMT
Bah. I still consider this a cop-out. But that doesn't mean I'm not happy  Wasser lives! |
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Post by rafk on Oct 14, 2016 7:35:32 GMT
On the one hand: YAY! Nobody died! On the other hand: BOOO!! Cop-out! It's not a cop-out though. As the last thread showed, tons of evidence for this one. Fish even called the kneeling. Your post reminded me of Elan breaking the 4th wall in Order Of The Stick to point out there was tons of foreshadowing for a particular deus ex machina moment. Good times. |
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Post by haspen on Oct 14, 2016 7:36:05 GMT
On the one hand: YAY! Nobody died! On the other hand: BOOO!! Cop-out! I'm with bedinsis (and Daedalus) on this  |
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Post by Gulby on Oct 14, 2016 7:38:11 GMT
PHEEEEW !!! OH THE HORROR AND THEN THE RELIEF AND HOLLY COW I AM SO RELIEVED !!! Hum. So. I think the illusion broke the instant Jeanne understood that it was a faerie trick, but that she's so fast with her sword that it took time to shatter before she stopped and saw that it didn't killed the intruder. Now she's not in the illusion anymore but she didn't quite realized what was going on exactly. My 2cts : Jeanne will aim again but George will interpose between the two and then big talk and then, everybody was wrong and the story of Jeanne is not what we know about it and oh my gosh Annie is in deadly danger, and then... Well. I can't wait to read the next page.  |
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Post by Per on Oct 14, 2016 8:11:29 GMT
I still think actual facy stabtimes would be too gruesome for GC. I was a bit thrown by the last comic, but decided to wait and see. And now we have seen. At least until Monday, when Jeanne decides to try a low poke and hits Red square in the hair. (And it must be acknowledged that even if Jeanne got the elevation of her target wrong, she was spot on with respect to direction and distance, even with spatial relationships and movement in the illusion corresponding very loosely to reality.) The thing these developments are making me wonder right now is whether the genre goggles will be coming off at the beginning of the next book with people questioning just how reckless and irresponsible it was to go forward with this plan at this time. Now she's not in the illusion anymore but she didn't quite realized what was going on exactly. I think she's still in the illusion, otherwise it would be obvious to her why she missed. |
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Post by Whitespace on Oct 14, 2016 8:27:03 GMT
I'm not sure the illusion is enough to explain that reaction. Maybe Annie did something to the device?
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Post by TBeholder on Oct 14, 2016 8:28:33 GMT
But it's still a cliffhanger.
And thank you and your big mouth, Red - now the murderghost knows exactly what went wrong.
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Post by calpal on Oct 14, 2016 8:38:11 GMT
Well, at least no one is complaining that they're wrong,yet... so that's a bit of a relief to see no one died.
Still not out of the park, though. I'd say this would be like a first strike against Jeanne.
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Post by tiberius on Oct 14, 2016 8:41:25 GMT
Well, you could call it luck. But I bet, Smitty suggested the girls kneeling instead of standing. Hope, he didn't have to do more aka pull strings for that.
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Post by kralex on Oct 14, 2016 8:50:22 GMT
On the one hand: YAY! Nobody died! On the other hand: BOOO!! Cop-out! I'm with bedinsis (and Daedalus) on this I'm with bedinsis, Daedalus and haspen on this. I'm kinda fond of the blue fool, too, but this seems cheap - and makes Jeanne seem "not very scary". |
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Post by brokshi on Oct 14, 2016 8:52:58 GMT
If it makes all the cop-out people happier, Red and Blue are now scared, unarmed, and vulnerable on the ground in front of Jeanne.
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Post by freeman on Oct 14, 2016 8:56:56 GMT
Red and Blue are only standing in the ether, they are kneeling on the ground in the real world. MYSTERY BISCUITS! (Oh yeah.) I suspect the focus will now switch into Annie and Kat. |
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Post by bedinsis on Oct 14, 2016 9:18:16 GMT
If it makes all the cop-out people happier, Red and Blue are now scared, unarmed, and vulnerable on the ground in front of Jeanne. Why would that make me happy? I said that I was happy nobody died; it's that I felt lied to by the story that made me annoyed. |
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Post by fish on Oct 14, 2016 9:25:36 GMT
I was not the only one to call it but I was the first, so I'm taking my cookies, thank you!
To all you guys crying cop-out: there's still enough time left for someone getting unambiguously stabbed, maybe even Blue still.
Edit: Also, that's what you get for taking a fairy illusion at face-value!
Or maybe everything will be fine in the end because Smitty is seriously overpowered.
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Post by foresterr on Oct 14, 2016 10:05:36 GMT
Phew. And now, I can see, on the previous page, ghost Jeanne's looking down for some reason  |
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Post by philman on Oct 14, 2016 10:08:38 GMT
My 2cts : Jeanne will aim again but George will interpose between the two and then big talk and then, everybody was wrong and the story of Jeanne is not what we know about it and oh my gosh Annie is in deadly danger, and then... I still think that in their eagerness to free the unjustly imprisoned Jeanne everyone is overlooking WHY the court decided to trap Jeanne down there. I get the feeling that when/if they free her, there is going to reveal some other terrible danger that her presence was holding back. |
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Post by Druplesnubb on Oct 14, 2016 10:55:15 GMT
Aww, now I can't make my joke about the black one dying first  |
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Post by Jelly Jellybean on Oct 14, 2016 11:01:22 GMT
Is Blue getting stabbed in the face the illusion, or is Blue surviving the illusion?
Did Annie die when she fell from the bridge and everything we've seen since then is just her final thoughts?
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Post by bedinsis on Oct 14, 2016 11:53:56 GMT
Is Blue getting stabbed in the face the illusion, or is Blue surviving the illusion? Did Annie die when she fell from the bridge and everything we've seen since then is just her final thoughts? That actually raises a question I've been wondering about for some time: What really happened between these two pages? Jeanne is there in one moment but is gone in the next. More to the point, she left a wound on Annie and the suicide fairies saw it; was that meeting entirely in the ether? My best guess at the moment is that Annie managed to enter the ether while asleep, and for some reason Jeanne could cross the Annan while there, but her ghost body had to stay on the other side. The question is then why Annie changed position of her physical body while in the ether. ...thinking about it, has Jeanne ever interacted with someone's physical body? All the encounters thus far has been in the ether from what I remember. Oh, wait, the guides. When Annie guided Mort she wasn't in the ether(no scar) and Jeanne has killed guides. |
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Post by saardvark on Oct 14, 2016 12:15:39 GMT
Phew. And now, I can see, on the previous page, ghost Jeanne's looking down for some reason called that! |
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Post by Sauzels on Oct 14, 2016 12:20:46 GMT
Jeanne seems unexpectedly calm about this.
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Post by saardvark on Oct 14, 2016 12:24:05 GMT
That actually raises a question I've been wondering about for some time: What really happened between these two pages? Jeanne is there in one moment but is gone in the next. More to the point, she left a wound on Annie and the suicide fairies saw it; was that meeting entirely in the ether? My best guess at the moment is that Annie managed to enter the ether while asleep, and for some reason Jeanne could cross the Annan while there, but her ghost body had to stay on the other side. The question is then why Annie changed position of her physical body while in the ether. along those lines, why did Jeanne just nick Annie's face, leaving a small memento mark? A test to see if she was a living (bleeding) creature? I know Kat shows up with the bright-light hovership, but with Jeanne's speed, she could have easily ended Annie right there in no time. Why no rage mode attack? |
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Post by saardvark on Oct 14, 2016 12:25:27 GMT
Jeanne seems unexpectedly calm about this. and thoughtful, for a "mindless attack ghost". I think there is more to Jeanne in ghost form than we have been led to believe..... |
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Wasser lives!
