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Post by sven on Feb 18, 2019 16:54:51 GMT
In which Annies fall ten metres into a foot of water on concrete without shattering all their hips and such. Yeah, this stuck out to me, too.
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Post by DonDueed on Feb 18, 2019 17:08:53 GMT
Wednesday: a big chunk of the floor... er, ceiling falls on Mr. Scorpionfish and smooshes him.
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Post by saardvark on Feb 18, 2019 17:19:51 GMT
Wednesday: a big chunk of the floor... er, ceiling falls on Mr. Scorpionfish and smooshes him. ...into many puddles, each of which morphs into an adorable little scorpion-placoderm-monkfish, surrounding our heroes...
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Post by netherdan on Feb 18, 2019 17:21:06 GMT
It seems to combine the general appearance of a monkfish: monkfish.tiff (222.08 KB) with the armored head-shield of a Paleozoic placoderm (similar to glyphomatrix' idea): placoderm.tiff (466.71 KB) but the front "fins" seem to be tipped with something akin to a scorpion's sting... scorpion.tiff (616.7 KB) Annies better watch out for those. If like a monkfish, they are related to anglerfish and can suck things into their mouths with great force. If like a placoderm, they'll be difficult to combat head-on due to the heavy armor... best to attack from the rear, behind the head-shield. Headshield may also make it a bit front-heavy and a bit slow. Maybe! Looks like you like those lossless image formats. Are you a designer? Anyway, I thought more on the line of a Dunkleosteus bony head with the Monkfish body plus water because magic
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Post by Gotolei on Feb 18, 2019 17:29:52 GMT
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Post by Gemini Jim on Feb 18, 2019 17:37:39 GMT
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Post by saardvark on Feb 18, 2019 18:15:46 GMT
It seems to combine the general appearance of a monkfish: monkfish.tiff (222.08 KB) with the armored head-shield of a Paleozoic placoderm (similar to glyphomatrix' idea): placoderm.tiff (466.71 KB) but the front "fins" seem to be tipped with something akin to a scorpion's sting... scorpion.tiff (616.7 KB) Annies better watch out for those. If like a monkfish, they are related to anglerfish and can suck things into their mouths with great force. If like a placoderm, they'll be difficult to combat head-on due to the heavy armor... best to attack from the rear, behind the head-shield. Headshield may also make it a bit front-heavy and a bit slow. Maybe! Looks like you like those lossless image formats. Are you a designer? Anyway, I thought more on the line of a Dunkleosteus bony head with the Monkfish body plus water because magic we fully agree! Dunkleosteus is merely one of the largest (~6 meters long) and nastiest of the placoderm (= [armour]plate-skinned) family. The image I clipped was of Coccosteus, a much smaller (0.4 meters long) relative of the Dunkle-dude. I'm an astronomer. I analyze high resolution images a lot, sometimes looking for something very faint, so its important not to have any lossy compressions or I can lose my signal. By force of habit (and laziness), I generally make images that way...
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Post by jda on Feb 18, 2019 20:57:22 GMT
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"Coyote too is up there, crouched in the moon, ... , a prisoner blue and dreaming."
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Post by iver on Feb 18, 2019 21:36:12 GMT
If we don't see a Smooth Criminal joke being mentioned by one of their friends before this split shenanigan is over (if ever) I'll be disappointed. Especially at Rey Annies are you okay, Will you tell us that you're okay? (Ha!) There's a sign in the concrete That he struck you With a deceit, Annies He came into your bunkers He left seedlings for you alters (Ha!) Then you fell into the water You just dropped down It was your doom Annies are you okay, so Annies are you okay, are you okay, Annies? You've been hit by You've been struck by A smooth carnivor! *faint sounds of maniacal laughter in the background*
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Post by Igniz on Feb 19, 2019 11:06:20 GMT
The laws of video games state that as long as you land in any surface that isn't spikes or lava, you can fall from any height and all fall damage is instantly negated. There, I fixed that for you. Regarding the monster of the week, if we take into account that, besides their fang-like teeth, these types of fishes are also known for creating a powerful suction that vacuums its prey when opening their mouth, and that those stings (or are they hooks?) are, at the least, very sharp, and at most, venomous (probably carrying a neurotoxin of some kind), then the Twinnies might be in deep-water trouble, especially if going with Water being the weakness of Fire. However... Water is not always the weakness of Fire, as there are several instances, in different types of media, where it is the other way around - Fire is the weakness of Water, and in turn, the weakness of Fire being Air (or, sometimes, Earth). If this is certainly the case, then that arthrodirid monkfish might be fried in no time x2. Long story short, this can be an epic boss or just a blue herring , while things can go three ways for the Wonder Twins: 1. They fight in tandem and show us a display of good teamwork, even if they can't completely make amends by the end of the fight; 2. they get in each other's way, making the boss battle longer and harder than it needs to be; or 3. one Annie saves the other while also eliminating the watery threat in a display of power, greatly hurting the second Annie's self-esteem, feelings and pride.
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Post by pyradonis on Feb 19, 2019 12:36:27 GMT
Mmh. The first fall was in the Ether, that hardly counts. The second one I always interpreted as Annie jumping down from the tree after the trunk had landed on the ground. And the way Courtney is landing in panel 1 is not exactly how they teach you in Judo class... I think I'll stick with the explanation that gravity manipulation was still at work. The laws of video games state that as long as you land in any surface that isn't spikes or lava, you can fall from any height and all fall damage is instantly negated. There, I fixed that for you. Pft. Even Super Mario 64 had fall damage. That's one bad ass looking monkfish-type monster creeping up. Fortunately there's an escape door nearby, if they can fend it off first. It seems to combine the general appearance of a monkfish: with the armored head-shield of a Paleozoic placoderm (similar to glyphomatrix' idea): but the front "fins" seem to be tipped with something akin to a scorpion's sting... Annies better watch out for those. If like a monkfish, they are related to anglerfish and can suck things into their mouths with great force. If like a placoderm, they'll be difficult to combat head-on due to the heavy armor... best to attack from the rear, behind the head-shield. Headshield may also make it a bit front-heavy and a bit slow. Maybe! All this talk of Pokémon, while you make it sound much more like a good Legend of Zelda boss battle!
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Post by ohthatone on Feb 19, 2019 13:31:02 GMT
All this talk of Pokémon, while you make it sound much more like a good Legend of Zelda boss battle! Turns out this is what the Zora really look like and this is their princess that the Annies need to rescue.
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Post by theonethatgotaway on Feb 19, 2019 14:17:48 GMT
OK, OK, maybe we all need to cool our jets a little bit. We're all over here assuming this HUGE THING WITH THE PINCERS is gonna malevolently attack our protagonist(s). Let's not forget we thought the same thing about Basil, back in the day... This could be a juvenile creature that's always lived in the sewers and is now for the first time experiencing human intrusion, it could be a forest creature that got lost when traveling along the roots of the tree,...
The only one who's told us that "something might have followed" is Loup, and how trustworthy is he? The message was even just recorded, he had no idea something WOULD be there.
This is going to devolve into Connie lasering the creature, with Fannie trying to talk to it, before we find out its true intentions...
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Post by netherdan on Feb 19, 2019 17:05:27 GMT
OK, OK, maybe we all need to cool our jets a little bit. We're all over here assuming this HUGE THING WITH THE PINCERS is gonna malevolently attack our protagonist(s). Let's not forget we thought the same thing about Basil, back in the day... This could be a juvenile creature that's always lived in the sewers and is now for the first time experiencing human intrusion, it could be a forest creature that got lost when traveling along the roots of the tree,... The only one who's told us that "something might have followed" is Loup, and how trustworthy is he? The message was even just recorded, he had no idea something WOULD be there. This is going to devolve into Connie lasering the creature, with Fannie trying to talk to it, before we find out its true intentions... This. Let's not forget that while Loup might have collapsed the floor with the message seed's roots, this cryptid might have saved both Annies by loosening or reversing gravity to ease their 20+ meters downwards momentum (water was falling up!). This menacing Monkleoscorpion can totally be their friendly way out of the sewers PS: I just imagined that scene and it goes like this Monky: Oh THANK GOD you're fine I thought- OOOWW THAT HURTS Annie: ANTIMONY! He was just talking! Antimony: I thought he was attacking us... Annie: So what? It's a living creature! How could you do that! Would you kindly ask before shooting it down? Monky: I know a way out... Antimony: Look! I was trying to save our booties! Annie: It seems HE saved both OUR booties! Monky: Actually, I'm genderless- Annie/Antimony: SHUT UP!
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Post by Per on Feb 19, 2019 19:03:01 GMT
PS: I just imagined that scene and it goes like this Monky: Oh THANK GOD you're fine I thought- OOOWW THAT HURTS Annie: ANTIMONY! He was just talking! Antimony: Pft... Annie: So what? It's a living creature! How could you do that! Would you kindly ask before shooting it down? Monky: I know a way out... Antimony: Pft! Annie: It seems HE saved both OUR booties! Monky: Actually, I'm genderless- Annie/Antimony: SHUT UP/PFT!
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Post by todd on Feb 20, 2019 0:19:16 GMT
OK, OK, maybe we all need to cool our jets a little bit. We're all over here assuming this HUGE THING WITH THE PINCERS is gonna malevolently attack our protagonist(s). Good point. We've had a few cases of genuinely hostile adversaries who had to be defeated by fighting (Ysengrin's army in "Crash Course", for example), but Tom seems to prefer less violent confrontations.
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Post by saardvark on Feb 20, 2019 5:00:55 GMT
This menacing Monkleoscorpion can totally be their friendly way out of the sewers Monkfish + Dunkleosteus + Scorpion = Monkleoscorpion or Monky for their friends Great name! Love it! Or (only slightly rearranging): Dunkleosteus + Monkfish + Scorpion = Dunkle-monk-pion or Dunky for their friends [EDIT:] or Scorpion + Dunkleosteus + Monkfish = Scorpo-dunkle-monk (fish) Scorpy to his friends... name that beasty!
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Post by imaginaryfriend on Feb 20, 2019 5:53:56 GMT
In which Annies fall ten metres into a foot of water on concrete without shattering all their hips and such. Related topic: This tunnel system is way too big for just a storm drain. It's big enough for a major flood control tunnel or a built-over large creek/small river, an abandoned train or extra-large service tunnel, and if it only had traffic lights it could have been an automobile tunnel. I've seen thinner canals. By the way: The proximity of this tunnel to the "bunker" is another suggestion that it was more of an air-raid shelter. Nobody would ever build a floor that thin in a bunker right where there was a tunnel big enough to tow artillery through. Or roll tracked artillery through. Of course, if someone told me that it was just the Seed Bismuth creating facilities mostly at random then a bunker would make more sense.
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Post by jda on Feb 20, 2019 6:52:27 GMT
Mmh. The first fall was in the Ether, that hardly counts. The second one I always interpreted as Annie jumping down form the tree after the trunk had landed on the ground. And the way Courtney is landing in panel 1 is not exactly how they teach you in Judo class... I think I'll stick with the explanation that gravity manipulation was still at work. There, I fixed that for you. Pft. Even Super Mario 64 had fall damage. Pfffft. Since Prince of Persia.
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Post by Runningflame on Feb 20, 2019 7:43:11 GMT
In which Annies fall ten metres into a foot of water on concrete without shattering all their hips and such. Yeah, judging from how Forest!Annie is trying to stop her fall in panel 1, she should have one or two broken wrists for sure.
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Post by netherdan on Feb 20, 2019 11:34:02 GMT
In which Annies fall ten metres into a foot of water on concrete without shattering all their hips and such. Yeah, judging from how Forest!Annie is trying to stop her fall in panel 1, she should have one or two broken wrists for sure. I'm telling you, Monky has gravity powers and just saved them!
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Post by saardvark on Feb 21, 2019 18:55:17 GMT
In which Annies fall ten metres into a foot of water on concrete without shattering all their hips and such. Like with the water (it goes up!), gravity shenanigans, comrade lots of weird gravity shenanigans here, actually. The Annies snd some flooring pieces fall, maybe more slowly than usual (?), while the water(?) on the walls still flows up (panel 1). Panel 2 still shows a flooring piece splash down in the background. Panel 3 shows a flooring piece, either still falling (should have splashed down by now, unless it broke off later) or possible suspended in mid-air (!! ... no "movement marks" to indicate direction of motion, if any). Panel 4 shows water dripping down off the Annies normally. But panel 5 shows Monkleopion/ Dunklemonkpion/ Scorpodunklemonkfish/ That Blue Guy sliding down at Courtnie from the high wall behind her, and all around him the water "flows up". Gravity seems to depend on location in this tunnel! Or maybe possibly the BlueGuy has some control over gravity locally?
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Post by netherdan on Feb 22, 2019 1:58:36 GMT
Like with the water (it goes up!), gravity shenanigans, comrade lots of weird gravity shenanigans here, actually. The Annies snd some flooring pieces fall, maybe more slowly than usual (?), while the water(?) on the walls still flows up (panel 1). Panel 2 still shows a flooring piece splash down in the background. Panel 3 shows a flooring piece, either still falling (should have splashed down by now, unless it broke off later) or possible suspended in mid-air (!! ... no "movement marks" to indicate direction of motion, if any). Panel 4 shows water dripping down off the Annies normally. But panel 5 shows Monkleopion/ Dunklemonkpion/ Scorpodunklemonkfish/ That Blue Guy sliding down at Courtnie from the high wall behind her, and all around him the water "flows up". Gravity seems to depend on location in this tunnel! Or maybe possibly the BlueGuy has some control over gravity locally? They're actually a really small beast-kind water elemental with gravity powers making up a body from big sea fossil and "jelly water" (i.e. the stuff that makes up jellyfish bodies)
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Post by blazingstar on Feb 22, 2019 4:50:25 GMT
Bud, no! What have they done to you?! I'm so glad I'm not the only one who saw the resemblance.
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Post by imaginaryfriend on Mar 1, 2019 10:46:25 GMT
Now let's see... Not sure if some of the creature's distorted in this depiction because of motion or magic but we've got bilateral symmetry, jointed limbs, teeth, eyes, probably no wings but probably gills... (starts browsing through arthropods extinct and living) [edit]But before I lose myself in that for a while I'll mention that we can see the root which MicroLoup sprang forth from.[/edit] [edit2] Teeth look like a general predator and the mouth is surrounded with plates; maybe there's only one kind of teeth but not sure. Can't see where those limbs attach but I'm going to tentatively say they're forcipules and not jack knife chelicerae, and only one pair of those. Looks like no antenna but with all the uncertainty I will probably have to wait for the next update to either identify it or declare it fictional.[/edit2] I think it's a mix between a chelicerate arthropod and an extinct armored fish like ol' Drepanaspis here: vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/dinosaurs/images/3/37/Drepanaspis.png/revision/latest?cb=20130710160114Turns out there's an order of Placoderms called Antiarchi of which the advanced forms had pectoral fins that were modified into thin limbs with elbow-like joints that can resemble, when articulated in a forward position, jack knife chelicerae. Images of reconstructions are hard to come by but the eyes on the smaller dudes like microbrachiidae are just too close together. Others among the bothriolepidoidei look pretty close. Contrary to some early assertions, some did have teeth.
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