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Post by Daedalus on Dec 7, 2016 8:00:17 GMT
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Post by ed1300 on Dec 7, 2016 8:03:26 GMT
I think Tom's trolling us. Yes, yes he is. |
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Post by arf on Dec 7, 2016 8:14:08 GMT
We are all Kat.
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Post by noone3 on Dec 7, 2016 8:23:48 GMT
We've been tommed once again. |
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Post by tiberius on Dec 7, 2016 8:50:42 GMT
Well, not all of us. Tom is Annie and he really can't describe what she might be seeing. So, we are really all in the same boat right now on the surface of the river. So many symbols, so many opportunities for interpretation. |
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Post by imaginaryfriend on Dec 7, 2016 8:55:07 GMT
Sometimes the best way to draw something is to not draw it.
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Post by agasa on Dec 7, 2016 9:24:41 GMT
 TOOOOOOM |
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Post by gpvos on Dec 7, 2016 10:09:19 GMT
More or less what I predicted. We've been tommed once again. Yes, we should coin "tomming" as meaning master-level trolling. Tom: if we don't get at least a glimpse of what Annie sees, like at the end of the first ROTD chapter ( www.gunnerkrigg.com/?p=1321 ), I will yell at you the next time we meet. |
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Post by fish on Dec 7, 2016 12:24:10 GMT
"Why don't I ever get to see the cool stuff?" Be careful what you wish for, Kat. Remember how you freaked out after seeing Ketrak and Ankou. Also, you're a sceptic, that's why. We sceptics never get to see cool stuff like ghosts and aliens.  |
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Post by yinglung on Dec 7, 2016 12:36:46 GMT
"Why don't I ever get to see the cool stuff?" Be careful what you wish for, Kat. Remember how you freaked out after seeing Ketrak and Ankou. Huh. If her etheric vision reduces what she sees to its most mundane manifestation, what did she see when she saw ketrak? |
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Post by bgb16999 on Dec 7, 2016 12:49:28 GMT
I really hope we get to see the undoing of this lock from Annie's perspective, if only because it would look way more awesome than Kat's. Awww, darn. |
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Post by fish on Dec 7, 2016 12:53:48 GMT
"Why don't I ever get to see the cool stuff?" Be careful what you wish for, Kat. Remember how you freaked out after seeing Ketrak and Ankou. Huh. If her etheric vision reduces what she sees to its most mundane manifestation, what did she see when she saw ketrak? I don't think her powers work on the guides for some reason. She saw Ankou like everyone else did. So Ketrak probably wasn't reduced to anything when she saw him, is my guess. |
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Post by Chendzee'a on Dec 7, 2016 13:40:06 GMT
"Why don't I ever get to see the cool stuff?" Be careful what you wish for, Kat. Remember how you freaked out after seeing Ketrak and Ankou. Also, you're a sceptic, that's why. We sceptics never get to see cool stuff like ghosts and aliens. Kat vision only works when she peers into or enters the ether realm. The psychopomps, that is their true forms, who they really are at their core. They also manifested in the real world. Elf guy is still the elf guy even though he's a ghost. That's not who he was. ROTD guys were not a giant monster or a vampire, they were once humans and are wearing costumes. |
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Post by ctso74 on Dec 7, 2016 14:26:14 GMT
I think Tom's trolling us. Well, he is asking us a riddle of sorts, while we try to cross his metaphorical bridge... Now I'm wondering, if Tom actually owns a bridge somewhere. I imagine to cross it, you have to prove Xn + Yn = Zn has no whole number solution when n has a value greater than 2. Or something with Terry Pratchett level of cleverness. |
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Post by noone3 on Dec 7, 2016 18:13:38 GMT
More or less what I predicted. We've been tommed once again. Yes, we should coin "tomming" as meaning master-level trolling. I'm not so sure if this counts as "trolling" per se. I mean, when Tom does it, you are happy he did, and always come back for more. That is a art. |
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Post by fia on Dec 7, 2016 18:53:56 GMT
Tom, this whole chapter has been super fun. And I actually do think we're getting to see the cool stuff. The cool stuff like Annie's face in the penultimate panel    |
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Post by agasa on Dec 7, 2016 19:22:16 GMT
More or less what I predicted. Yes, we should coin "tomming" as meaning master-level trolling. I'm not so sure if this counts as "trolling" per se. I mean, when Tom does it, you are happy he did, and always come back for more. That is a art. Of course. We love being tomrolled. That's about 10% of the reason we're here. |
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Post by unbalanced on Dec 8, 2016 2:05:06 GMT
If I had to guess what visuals Annie is seeing right now it would probably be something like this page, but in addition to the metal bones/chains that are part of Kat, large metal bars made from the lock-pick would be coming from her and branching off like tree branches or like forks of lightning to touch down on the various moving parts of the maze. If we ever were to see the scene I wouldn't be surprised if it was something similar to that, but that's just my interpretation. |
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Post by seedmagnesium on Dec 8, 2016 3:32:39 GMT
Way back when, Parley joked that Smitty's power was to make everything boring. I guess it's really Kat who has that power.
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Post by Pig_catapult on Dec 8, 2016 4:14:30 GMT
If I had to guess what visuals Annie is seeing right now it would probably be something like this page, but in addition to the metal bones/chains that are part of Kat, large metal bars made from the lock-pick would be coming from her and branching off like tree branches or like forks of lightning to touch down on the various moving parts of the maze. If we ever were to see the scene I wouldn't be surprised if it was something similar to that, but that's just my interpretation. I imagine Annie's seeing some Alien Geometries right now. |
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Post by Deleted on Dec 8, 2016 4:18:31 GMT
you have to prove Xn + Yn = Zn has no whole number solution when n has a value greater than 2. "I have a most wonderful conception of how Annie sees Kat's lock-picking, but it would break the constraints of the page layout to draw it." |
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Post by TBeholder on Dec 8, 2016 7:09:03 GMT
"Why don't I ever get to see the cool stuff?" Be careful what you wish for, Kat. Remember how you freaked out after seeing Ketrak and Ankou. She also know that Annie freaked out from how Kat looks right now, but didn't from seeing Ketrak. She's just too excited to put it together right now.  If I had to guess what visuals Annie is seeing right now it would probably be something like this page, but in addition to the metal bones/chains that are part of Kat, large metal bars made from the lock-pick would be coming from her and branching off like tree branches or like forks of lightning to touch down on the various moving parts of the maze. If we ever were to see the scene I wouldn't be surprised if it was something similar to that, but that's just my interpretation. you have to prove Xn + Yn = Zn has no whole number solution when n has a value greater than 2. "I have a most wonderful conception of how Annie sees Kat's lock-picking, but it would break the constraints of the page layout to draw it." We can hope that Tom reserves that one for something more thematically appropriate, however. |
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Post by autumnrook on Dec 8, 2016 17:32:19 GMT
I'm picturing Kat's god-form picking up the lock picks and Annie sees them transform into a powerful weapon, like a sword or staff. As Kat uses them, the sword would slice through the maze, or perhaps the staff would push the walls aside like Moses parting the red sea.
Edit: Well, that's probably too simple and doesn't explain why Annie couldn't describe it. Ah well.
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Post by cb3 on Dec 9, 2016 8:43:08 GMT
I'm picturing Kat's god-form picking up the lock picks and Annie sees them transform into a powerful weapon, like a sword or staff. As Kat uses them, the sword would slice through the maze, or perhaps the staff would push the walls aside like Moses parting the red sea. Edit: Well, that's probably too simple and doesn't explain why Annie couldn't describe it. Ah well. I pictured the Mecha Angel sprouting multiply forked and dividing limbs like metallic lightening branching through the whole maze. |
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Post by warrl on Dec 9, 2016 9:43:42 GMT
The thing is, Kat is the one picking the lock, so what Annie is seeing doesn't really matter - unless she can correlate it to what Kat says she's doing and feeling with the lockpicks.
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