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Post by Timberwere on Nov 7, 2018 8:04:30 GMT
I am surprised there isn't a one-way mirror in the room for them to observe Annie. And I wonder how long they leave her waiting. |
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Post by theonethatgotaway on Nov 7, 2018 8:05:45 GMT
Gaaaah, waiting for two days, to get three panel update! WITHOUT WORDS OR OTHER CHARACTERS! What do I have to do now? Discuss the shape of the door? The great expression on Annie's face? GAAAH!
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Post by Timberwere on Nov 7, 2018 8:13:11 GMT
Oh. We seem to have two threads, and mine seems to have come a few seconds later than Zox Tomana's. But there is a reply here, too, so I can't just delete this thread... Is there a way to merge the two threads into one, perhaps?
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Post by madjack on Nov 7, 2018 8:15:40 GMT
without a moderator, everyone would have to delete their replies
edit: you could report your own post asking for a delete, someone will respond eventually
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Post by shadow3 on Nov 7, 2018 8:35:29 GMT
Hello, Ms. Carver.
As you can see, we've had our eye on you for some time now, Ms. Carver.
It seems that you've been living two lives. In one life, you're Antimony Carver, daughter of a respectable Court researcher. You have a Court Security number, you go to classes, and... you help your landlady change her tank water. The other life is lived in wilderness, where you go by the Gillitie alias Fire Head Girl, and are guilty of colluding with a very dangerous enemy of the Court.
One of these lives has a future, and one of them does not. I'm going to be as forthcoming as I can be, Ms. Carver. You're here because we need your help. We know that you've been conversing with a certain individual: A magical being who calls himself Loup. Now, whatever you think you know about this creature is irrelevant. He is considered by our authorities to be the most powerful entity alive and therefore poses an unacceptable danger to the world.
My colleagues believe that I'm wasting my time with you, but I believe you wish to do the right thing. We're willing to wipe the slate clean. Give you a fresh start. And all that we're asking in return is your cooperation in subduing a deadly threat before it's too late.
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Post by artezzatrigger on Nov 7, 2018 9:44:46 GMT
You're killin' me, Tom.
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Post by csj on Nov 7, 2018 10:23:55 GMT
Well, the decor could be worse... Oh. We seem to have two threads, and mine seems to have come a few seconds later than Zox Tomana's. But there is a reply here, too, so I can't just delete this thread... Is there a way to merge the two threads into one, perhaps? We are Forum. We will add your literary and vernacular distinctiveness to our own. Your posting will adapt to service us. Resistance is futile. |
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Post by Jelly Jellybean on Nov 7, 2018 11:25:13 GMT
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Post by madjack on Nov 7, 2018 11:31:11 GMT
You are tearing me apart, Siddell. |
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Post by pyradonis on Nov 7, 2018 12:06:21 GMT
Annie's new room does not look as roomy as the old one Tony provided for her.
Well.
I wonder when she starts to wonder why there are two red switches on the wall and pushes one.
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Post by faiiry on Nov 7, 2018 14:29:32 GMT
On the wall, are those fire alarms or cameras or what? And why are there two when one should probably do?
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Post by Eve Swann on Nov 7, 2018 14:30:13 GMT
Turns out everything's normal and they're just preparing for a biiig surprise party for her.
R-right?
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Post by ctso74 on Nov 7, 2018 14:31:34 GMT
Gaaaah, waiting for two days, to get three panel update! WITHOUT WORDS OR OTHER CHARACTERS! What do I have to do now? Discuss the shape of the door? The great expression on Annie's face? GAAAH! To be fair, that door is the best interrogator the Court has. It always makes the perp give in and talk first. No one's ever beat it at staring unflinching across the table. |
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Post by OrzBrain on Nov 7, 2018 15:03:04 GMT
I want to know why things haven't been fixed more. Doesn't the Court have all kinds of construction robots and self growing buildings and stuff? Is this really the Court, or is it a Loop trick?
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Post by Bontage on Nov 7, 2018 16:08:01 GMT
I'm just waiting to learn that this is the OTHER Gunnerkrigg Court, on the OTHER side of the forest, and that neither of the courts know of the other, with the exception of Anthony and maybe the headmaster.
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Post by Anthony on Nov 7, 2018 16:16:35 GMT
I imagine Gunnerkrigg Court is full of such rooms.
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Post by ohthatone on Nov 7, 2018 16:30:07 GMT
Annie, if you suddenly see a giant light bulb in the middle of the room and little shadowy figures dancing around it, you run.
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Post by tustin2121 on Nov 7, 2018 16:40:22 GMT
I am surprised there isn't a one-way mirror in the room for them to observe Annie. And I wonder how long they leave her waiting. Technically speaking, we can only see three walls on this page, so there's still hope that the fourth wall is full of some sort of crazy revealed on the next page. Also, Annie, now might be a great time to practice some ether projection? Maybe sneak a peak at the other side of the door and listen in on why they wanted to detain you? |
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Post by blazingstar on Nov 7, 2018 18:54:55 GMT
Gaaaah, waiting for two days, to get three panel update! WITHOUT WORDS OR OTHER CHARACTERS! What do I have to do now? Discuss the shape of the door? The great expression on Annie's face? GAAAH! Hello, Ms. Carver. As you can see, we've had our eye on you for some time now, Ms. Carver. It seems that you've been living two lives. In one life, you're Antimony Carver, daughter of a respectable Court researcher. You have a Court Security number, you go to classes, and... you help your landlady change her tank water. The other life is lived in wilderness, where you go by the Gillitie alias Fire Head Girl, and are guilty of colluding with a very dangerous enemy of the Court. One of these lives has a future, and one of them does not. I'm going to be as forthcoming as I can be, Ms. Carver. You're here because we need your help. We know that you've been conversing with a certain individual: A magical being who calls himself Loup. Now, whatever you think you know about this creature is irrelevant. He is considered by our authorities to be the most powerful entity alive and therefore poses an unacceptable danger to the world. My colleagues believe that I'm wasting my time with you, but I believe you wish to do the right thing. We're willing to wipe the slate clean. Give you a fresh start. And all that we're asking in return is your cooperation in subduing a deadly threat before it's too late. Looks like the forum found a way to amuse ourselves. Well done, Shadow 3! Although I feel like your post is a giant reference to something, I don't know what... |
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Post by machiavelli33 on Nov 7, 2018 19:34:05 GMT
"Is it safe?"
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Post by jda on Nov 7, 2018 20:09:40 GMT
Hello, Ms. Carver. As you can see, we've had our eye on you for some time now, Ms. Carver. It seems that you've been living two lives. In one life, you're Antimony Carver, daughter of a respectable Court researcher. You have a Court Security number, you go to classes, and... you help your landlady change her tank water. The other life is lived in wilderness, where you go by the Gillitie alias Fire Head Girl, and are guilty of colluding with a very dangerous enemy of the Court. One of these lives has a future, and one of them does not. I'm going to be as forthcoming as I can be, Ms. Carver. You're here because we need your help. We know that you've been conversing with a certain individual: A magical being who calls himself Loup. Now, whatever you think you know about this creature is irrelevant. He is considered by our authorities to be the most powerful entity alive and therefore poses an unacceptable danger to the world. My colleagues believe that I'm wasting my time with you, but I believe you wish to do the right thing. We're willing to wipe the slate clean. Give you a fresh start. And all that we're asking in return is your cooperation in subduing a deadly threat before it's too late. Yeah... That sounds like a very good deal, but I think I got a better one. What about... I give you a Fire ( turns her hair on flames) and you give me my phone call. |
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Post by csj on Nov 7, 2018 20:35:46 GMT
I feel like your post is a giant reference to something, I don't know what... It hurts me to say this, but it's an ' old' one. |
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Post by bedinsis on Nov 7, 2018 20:59:07 GMT
Hmmm... is this room... No, the one I was thinking about has a different colour scheme. I have some wild spec regarding what Loup's trick might be that I've yet to see written: Could it be that Loup in some way managed to turn the purple barrier (or inserted a new barrier just off of it) which does not permit machinery through or only allows humans through one way? That would explain why the court stopped searching for her; they were literally unable to. Although that's hardly a trick so much as a defensive mechanism... Ugh! Maybe I'm just trying to think of a way that doesn't involve memory manipulation or a fake Annie, since the previous sounds like humiliation and another way to isolate Annie from her friends and the latter sounds like isolation of Annie and off screen character development we never got to experience. |
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Post by darlos9d on Nov 7, 2018 21:19:25 GMT
Annie's new room does not look as roomy as the old one Tony provided for her. Well. I wonder when she starts to wonder why there are two red switches on the wall and pushes one. Do not attempt to interface with... *The Nozzle.* |
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Post by heranje on Nov 7, 2018 23:36:59 GMT
Loup's Trick - Personally leaning toward some kind of decoy Annie as the trick. I think Loup either sent back a corpse that looked like Annie, a walking talking doppleganger to take her place, or perhaps had a doppleganger come up to the edge of the forest and declare that Annie was leaving the Court and was going to live in the forest now. Perhaps including a fiery attack on the Court or something else to get her branded as a traitor. The latter would also explain the guard's confused "You'll come with us? Willingly?" - if they know of Anthony Carver's daughter as the traitor who abandoned the Court for the Forest, it'd be very confusing to have her suddenly show up and peacefully walk back into the Court of her own volition.
Also, Annie's confession before going into the forest would give the traitor story even more foundation. Not only did Antimony Carver leave the Court after the attack, she colluded with the Forest to destroy the barrier that kept the court safe from such attack (Jeanne) as part of a plot to destroy the Court. If this is the story the Court has bought into, that'd potentially have consequences for her friends as well - Smit and Parley confessed to helping her do so, and they could feasibly have found out that Kat did, as well - though the three could equally have been cast as co-conspirators & traitors in this narrative, or as simply having been duped by Annie. Perhaps Anthony could also have been implicated, and has now become persona non grata.
Ahh Tom, if you don't show us someone entering this room and clearing some things up on Friday I'll... I mean, continue to wait with bated breath, but kinda grouchily.
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Post by todd on Nov 8, 2018 0:23:31 GMT
Loup's Trick - Personally leaning toward some kind of decoy Annie as the trick. I think Loup either sent back a corpse that looked like Annie, a walking talking doppleganger to take her place, or perhaps had a doppleganger come up to the edge of the forest and declare that Annie was leaving the Court and was going to live in the forest now. Perhaps including a fiery attack on the Court or something else to get her branded as a traitor. The latter would also explain the guard's confused "You'll come with us? Willingly?" - if they know of Anthony Carver's daughter as the traitor who abandoned the Court for the Forest, it'd be very confusing to have her suddenly show up and peacefully walk back into the Court of her own volition. Also, Annie's confession before going into the forest would give the traitor story even more foundation. Not only did Antimony Carver leave the Court after the attack, she colluded with the Forest to destroy the barrier that kept the court safe from such attack (Jeanne) as part of a plot to destroy the Court. If this is the story the Court has bought into, that'd potentially have consequences for her friends as well - Smit and Parley confessed to helping her do so, and they could feasibly have found out that Kat did, as well - though the three could equally have been cast as co-conspirators & traitors in this narrative, or as simply having been duped by Annie. Perhaps Anthony could also have been implicated, and has now become persona non grata. Which would have some long-term problems for the story - rendering most of the cast (apart from Annie) unavailable (short of the Court leadership being overthrown, the memory of Jeanne's freeing being erased from everyone, or something along those lines). That might work for a chapter or two, but not longer than that. Unless this is the start of the final book, and Tom hasn't mentioned anything about that. The Court would also be facing the drawback of losing four talented members in the middle of an emergency situation - not to mention that it wouldn't want to admit that: a) the Founders murdered someone, subjected her to eternal torment as an enslaved ghost, and covered it up to keep it safe and b) they were in favor of her remaining a tormented, hate-corrupted, enslaved ghost. No matter how great the danger from the Forest, that would be difficult to justify. Unless the Court issues a "cover-up" story and keeps the truth about Jeanne secret from the public (even the Donlans and Eglamore). |
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Post by Corvo on Nov 8, 2018 2:02:29 GMT
I am surprised there isn't a one-way mirror in the room for them to observe Annie. And I wonder how long they leave her waiting. Technically speaking, we can only see three walls on this page, so there's still hope that the fourth wall is full of some sort of crazy revealed on the next page. |
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Post by shaihulud on Nov 8, 2018 6:37:18 GMT
I know people don't want this to be an alternate universe, but I still hope it is. It would be interesting to meet her mother Surma, but older and childless.
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Post by philman on Nov 8, 2018 8:49:06 GMT
Annie walks up the the door and says "I, am .. A, ghooost!".
And the Court never figures out how she escaped.
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Post by heranje on Nov 8, 2018 10:25:45 GMT
Which would have some long-term problems for the story - rendering most of the cast (apart from Annie) unavailable (short of the Court leadership being overthrown, the memory of Jeanne's freeing being erased from everyone, or something along those lines). That might work for a chapter or two, but not longer than that. Unless this is the start of the final book, and Tom hasn't mentioned anything about that. The Court would also be facing the drawback of losing four talented members in the middle of an emergency situation - not to mention that it wouldn't want to admit that: a) the Founders murdered someone, subjected her to eternal torment as an enslaved ghost, and covered it up to keep it safe and b) they were in favor of her remaining a tormented, hate-corrupted, enslaved ghost. No matter how great the danger from the Forest, that would be difficult to justify. Unless the Court issues a "cover-up" story and keeps the truth about Jeanne secret from the public (even the Donlans and Eglamore). Absolutely, but don't we seem to be in "large-scale change" territory? For years, the comic has been going with the Court and Forest in stalemate, Court systems in place - while Annie's adventures have had effects, nothing has challenged the overall fabric and structure of the society she lives in - until now. Now the Court and the Forest are at war, the Court has been partially destroyed, Coyote is dead, Ysengrin trapped somehow within Loup... To me it seems like a classic "everything is changing" part of the storyline. It wouldn't be surprising to me if that led to large-scale changes also within the Court - Annie and her friends cast as outsiders, perhaps even a rebellion against the Court leadership, which has been flagged previously as pretty authoritarian and shady. Regardless of what happens, I don't think the conclusion of this arc will be "and now everything is back to normal." Annie's long-term storyline of being pulled between Court and Forest is coming to a head, the underlying conflict between the Court and Forest has bubbled to the surface - change is coming to Gunnerkrigg Court. Of course, Tom is likely going to surprise us all with a completely different twist and I'm probably way off base, but I don't necessarily think "that would lead to a lot of large changes and problems for the cast" is reason enough for a theory not to be feasible. |
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