madragoran
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"If he trully does hurt you, I will rend the flesh from his bones on your word"
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Post by madragoran on Sept 28, 2018 7:07:13 GMT
... aaah it all makes sense now! |
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Post by madjack on Sept 28, 2018 7:10:41 GMT
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Post by Angry Individual on Sept 28, 2018 7:21:57 GMT
.... Uh oh.
If it's been awhile, I have a feeling a lot of people are going to be frantic about her disappearance.
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Post by madjack on Sept 28, 2018 7:45:06 GMT
.... Uh oh. If it's been awhile, I have a feeling a lot of people are going to be frantic about her disappearance.
Well it's either that or fire elementals get Super Hair Regrowth™ powers. Neither would be a huge surprise. |
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Post by merry76 on Sept 28, 2018 8:23:26 GMT
Well it's either that or fire elementals get Super Hair Regrowth™ powers. Neither would be a huge surprise. I do think its the effect of being a half fire elemental that has tapped into her morphic/aetheric side _a bit_ much in this encounter. While being in the ether.
Its like super food for her elemental side - this would make it possible to get Super Hair Regrowth. Funny how it never fixed her Jeanne Scratch though. Maybe its a scar she wants to keep (something that happens a lot in fiction).
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Post by Nepycros on Sept 28, 2018 9:35:21 GMT
That Omega Device gets more ominous by the day.
If we're willing to extend a branch to Coyote, the old dog might actually have plans to disrupt the Court and save Annie/the Forest, and all of this is an elaborate scheme. As wild and callous as he may appear, and as abusive as he's been to Ysengrin, he's not an outright villain of the story.
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Post by pyradonis on Sept 28, 2018 11:29:05 GMT
Doesn't she want to ask him to take Jones down from orbit?
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Post by Per on Sept 28, 2018 12:45:37 GMT
Maybe she hasn't actually left the holodeck? Edit to clarify: not a serious suggestion. |
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Post by todd on Sept 28, 2018 12:46:57 GMT
That Omega Device gets more ominous by the day. Yes, what Loup said about the Court on this page didn't surprise me. I'd suspected for a long while that the Court's activities could lead to something with disastrous consequences for the Wood, and Loup's remarks have strengthened that suspicion. (In fairness to them, I doubt that the Court leadership realize what those consequences might be, but I suspect that they might be willing to sacrifice Gilltie and its inhabitants for the sake of the Grand March of Science and Progress, even arguing that the inhabitants are only animals and "primitive" tribespeople like the Anwyn, nowhere near the equals of the technological apex of the Court's inhabitants, and that they are entirely within their rights to dispose of them, with a tone of "Our right to supersede you is the right of the higher over the lower".) I think that Annie needs to do some proper research (assuming that she'll have the opportunity to do so, with the situation this desperate) into what the Court wants - Loup's raised the possibility that it isn't worth saving or protecting. (Though the bulk of the people there, I believe, don't suspect the truth. Maybe the solution is to evacuate everyone but the Court leadership, like the Headmaster, back to the regular world and let the Court leadership face the consequences of their meddling.) Though I had wondered, for a bit, whether Loup's attack was based more on an anger towards humans (because of things like their portraying Ysengrin as a buffoon in their stories), and was attacking the Court more because it was the closest group of humans to Gilltie Wood than because of anything the Court itself was doing. |
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Post by ctso74 on Sept 28, 2018 13:29:59 GMT
That Omega Device gets more ominous by the day. Yes, what Loup said about the Court on this page didn't surprise me. I'd suspected for a long while that the Court's activities could lead to something with disastrous consequences for the Wood, and Loup's remarks have strengthened that suspicion. Maybe, not just the Woods. The Omega Device could short-circuit the Etheric cycle of life, and make the world not 'spin'. From what we know of the Ether, what would happen to Etheric beings, if tech capable of separating Man from it was created? Would we have to wait for the bad effects, or would they sudden manifest because of the Ether's nature? Another question, does Jones know about the Omega Device? She seemed pretty cozy with the Headmaster. It's easy to believe she might. So no matter what the OD does, maybe a 'neutral' party would be okay with it? Maybe being 'neutral' is the problem, and it will take Annie and Kat seeing both sides to see it clearly? Seriously though, Jones is still in orbit. |
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Post by jda on Sept 28, 2018 14:51:10 GMT
Annie Van Winkle? When she returns, she will have to deal with Kat's daughter, now the current TechnoGoddess(TM), the Court has already finished reconstruction, the movement of people to another place created a second Renaissance, and they all are living in geosynchronous orbit, so, they gave Jones the hitchhiking of her (non?)life to Mars and beyond. Oh, and there is also a Statue of Annie to remember her. And Eglamore still is making guard there. |
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Post by mturtle7 on Sept 28, 2018 21:03:25 GMT
Oh dear... Loup WAS personally stopping time in the Forest, and Antimony was with him...but surely he wouldn't? Why would he do that? Doesn't he want the gifts back as soon as possible, or are they really as important as he made them seem? |
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Post by todd on Sept 29, 2018 0:15:56 GMT
Maybe, not just the Woods. The Omega Device could short-circuit the Etheric cycle of life, and make the world not 'spin'. From what we know of the Ether, what would happen to Etheric beings, if tech capable of separating Man from it was created? Would we have to wait for the bad effects, or would they sudden manifest because of the Ether's nature? I'd considered the possibility that it could wipe out all the etheric beings. To be fair to the Court, they might not know that is what it does, and might believe that it's nothing more than an information-gathering device. (On the other hand, after the trouble they've had with Coyote, Ysengrin, Loup, and other forest-folk, I can imagine the Court leadership being ready to take a tone of "Wipe them all out; we won't be safe until they're all destroyed. The only good etheric being is a dead etheric being.") I can't help wondering, also, what the Court was thinking of, naming it something like "Omega Device" - a name that suggests a doomsday weapon built by a megalomaniac bent on world domination. I don't think that the Court would stoop that low, but based on their past record, it'd be all too easy to suspect the worst about it. (Perhaps this is why they've been keeping quiet about it.) |
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Post by zbeeblebrox on Sept 29, 2018 5:48:41 GMT
Hm yeah I was gonna say, we saw time stop earlier. For everyone else, it should have taken no time at all. And from Annie's perspective within the aether, it took a fairly short amount of time. But maybe physically, Annie was staring blankly at a totem for weeks?
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Post by todd on Sept 30, 2018 0:01:02 GMT
I hope that Tom's not going for a "long ages of time went by in the Court" approach. We've just had a number of major developments here: Loup demanding the bone and water that Coyote gave Parley and Smith, the question over whether giving these to Loup is a good idea vs. there not seeming to be any other way of handling him, the dark hints about the Court's purpose and the threat it poses to Gilltie Wood (and possibly the etheric world in general). Having Annie come back to the Court to find that a long time passed while she was away would mean that the focus would have to shift to all those changes in her absence, the new cast (or alterations to the same ones if it was a few years rather than generations), etc., delaying or eclipsing all those elements.
More likely, Annie's hair being longer is just some etheric "rapid growth" and not "what seemed like a few minutes was really years". (She doesn't seem noticeably different apart from the change in hair length, anyway.)
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Post by Angry Individual on Sept 30, 2018 2:00:18 GMT
I figured it was more weeks rather than years.
But if she shot through time I'd be highly amused.
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Post by OGRuddawg on Oct 1, 2018 0:49:56 GMT
Annie's also transitioning out of the physical world, so her hair might not be fully out of the ether yet; however, it would be amusing to see her hair grow every time she uses her fire elemental side in true anger. we haven't seen it get longer from fighting as a fire elemental before, though. A several-week timeskip might have taken place.
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