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Post by imaginaryfriend on Jul 10, 2019 7:04:31 GMT
As some predicted, Annie(s) can remotely communicate to Renard by virtue of his being her/their familiar now. Also: The display on Kat's device is giving me Homestuck flashbacks. |
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Post by madjack on Jul 10, 2019 7:09:17 GMT
I'm wondering how Cvet knows this, have she and Rey been talking?
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Post by imaginaryfriend on Jul 10, 2019 7:10:40 GMT
Assuming of course that she's correct, she probably knows because that's standard fare for familiars and their masters.
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Post by madjack on Jul 10, 2019 7:16:17 GMT
I meant how does she know Rey is now a familiar in the first place? Very possible Orjaks are just perceptive of that kind of thing I suppose.
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Post by imaginaryfriend on Jul 10, 2019 7:30:26 GMT
Either that or someone told her, or a combination of both. She may have sensed a change in his "status" and asked, or someone may have asked her about what happened when Art got his new bod and she found out that way.
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Post by theonethatgotaway on Jul 10, 2019 7:54:17 GMT
Well, Rey did get that COOL new symbol clearly labeled on his head, so there's that...
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Post by arf on Jul 10, 2019 8:01:10 GMT
We have wisps again, do we?
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Post by shadow3 on Jul 10, 2019 9:15:14 GMT
It wouldn't be an expedition into an alien environment without a bunch of red shirts (albeit gray) tagging along.
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Post by pyradonis on Jul 10, 2019 9:17:29 GMT
I meant how does she know Rey is now a familiar in the first place? Very possible Orjaks are just perceptive of that kind of thing I suppose. My guess: It is not important who exactly told her, so Tom omitted it so we can get on with the story after one chapter of mainly talking.
Interesting that the two of them have other company while Eggman and Courtney are really alone. I want to know how exactly they entered this place, and with whom.
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Post by philman on Jul 10, 2019 9:37:55 GMT
Hmm, for some reason my first thought is of that thing in the forest that pretended to be the Seed Bismuth to get to Annie, but I might just be having false word associations with Wisp nest vs Wasp nest.
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Post by madjack on Jul 10, 2019 9:38:50 GMT
I meant how does she know Rey is now a familiar in the first place? Very possible Orjaks are just perceptive of that kind of thing I suppose. My guess: It is not important who exactly told her, so Tom omitted it so we can get on with the story after one chapter of mainly talking. Interesting that the two of them have other company while Eggman and Courtney are really alone. I want to know how exactly they entered this place, and with whom.
Parley + Rey look to be separated as a group too, so two groups got split off while the third larger group stayed where it was? If Rey can use Annie's fire powers though, all 3 have a fire type support now... |
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Post by stevencloser on Jul 10, 2019 10:08:44 GMT
Y'all think the Annies are going to use Rey as a phone line?
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Post by csj on Jul 10, 2019 10:14:21 GMT
Annie: "Can you warn Annie about the wisps?"
Renard: "Is this a collect call?"
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Post by pyradonis on Jul 10, 2019 10:42:31 GMT
Hmm, for some reason my first thought is of that thing in the forest that pretended to be the Seed Bismuth to get to Annie, but I might just be having false word associations with Wisp nest vs Wasp nest. No, you are correct. That thing was identified by Coyote as a wisp. It looked like a giant colorful wasp though. |
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Post by Eily on Jul 10, 2019 12:54:51 GMT
I'm wondering how Cvet knows this, have she and Rey been talking? I'm just going to guess that Annie just talked about it right now, otherwise Cvet should have told them about their new power before the mission, so that they could give it a try and train properly. That or Cvet just assumed that the Annies already knew, since they had the Quick Start Guide. But Annie just didn't do her homework... again. |
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Post by ctso74 on Jul 10, 2019 13:16:38 GMT
Hmm, for some reason my first thought is of that thing in the forest that pretended to be the Seed Bismuth to get to Annie, but I might just be having false word associations with Wisp nest vs Wasp nest. No, you are correct. That thing was identified by Coyote as a wisp. It looked like a giant colorful wasp though. At first, I thought they were shrunken down. I think, it may be because the "architecture" looks like an enlarged insect nest to me. Nothing creepy about that. Nope. Nothing could go wrong. It wouldn't be an expedition into an alien environment without a bunch of red shirts (albeit gray) tagging along. That guy on the left is one day from retirement. |
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Post by ktcruel on Jul 10, 2019 13:38:50 GMT
Also: The display on Kat's device is giving me Homestuck flashbacks. Obviously, this Annie is from the candy timeline, and the other Annie is from the meat timeline. |
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Post by pyradonis on Jul 10, 2019 13:39:22 GMT
I'm wondering how Cvet knows this, have she and Rey been talking? I'm just going to guess that Annie just talked about it right now, otherwise Cvet should have told them about their new power before the mission, so that they could give it a try and train properly. That or Cvet just assumed that the Annies already knew, since they had the Quick Start Guide. But Annie just didn't do her homework... again. To be fair, who would have read that "Quick" Start Guide in one night? (Yes, one night is an assumption, but I am expecting the gang to hurry up now.) |
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Post by Eily on Jul 10, 2019 14:39:41 GMT
I'm just going to guess that Annie just talked about it right now, otherwise Cvet should have told them about their new power before the mission, so that they could give it a try and train properly. That or Cvet just assumed that the Annies already knew, since they had the Quick Start Guide. But Annie just didn't do her homework... again. To be fair, who would have read that "Quick" Start Guide in one night? (Yes, one night is an assumption, but I am expecting the gang to hurry up now.) A well written Guide of that size would have a table of content or index to let you jump to the interesting part. But a well written Quick Start Guide wouldn't be that big. So I guess if the thing is poorly written, Annie would actually need more than one night. Unrelated but I wonder what the last three panels are supposed to mean. We already got similar ones on the previous page. Is that supposed to indicate "meanwhile"? |
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Post by saardvark on Jul 10, 2019 15:00:16 GMT
hmm, (Fr)Annie reaches out to Renard, who is with Parley. Maybe if (Fr)Annie can describe their locale, or pinpoint it on the Coyote-thing-locator, Parley can bip to where they are? And she can at least be in contact with (C)Annie, also thru Renard. This familiar designation for Renard could come in quite useful ....
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Post by Gemini Jim on Jul 10, 2019 15:41:38 GMT
Interesting that those Court "red shirts" (yes, actually gray) are there. Makes me wonder just what kind of mission is this.
Why are the red shirts needed?
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Post by pyradonis on Jul 10, 2019 15:47:14 GMT
To be fair, who would have read that "Quick" Start Guide in one night? (Yes, one night is an assumption, but I am expecting the gang to hurry up now.) A well written Guide of that size would have a table of content or index to let you jump to the interesting part. But a well written Quick Start Guide wouldn't be that big. So I guess if the thing is poorly written, Annie would actually need more than one night. Also: Since Annie is used to using EtherSkype to communicate with Renard, long distance communication with the familiar might not be the first thing she would look up.
I know if I were of Annie's age and heritage, the first thing I would look up is if my familiar got cool fire powers of his own, or if I could channel my fire powers through him.
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Post by pyradonis on Jul 10, 2019 15:51:41 GMT
Interesting that those Court "red shirts" (yes, actually gray) are there. Makes me wonder just what kind of mission is this. Why are the red shirts needed? The area is big, the tracker might have a limited accuracy. Maybe they are to operate some other special equipment if the bone and water need to be excavated. And since Eglamore is part of the team, they are probably doing the mission by the book, which might very well mean entering red zones only with a whole security team. |
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Post by Gemini Jim on Jul 10, 2019 19:14:47 GMT
Interesting that those Court "red shirts" (yes, actually gray) are there. Makes me wonder just what kind of mission is this. Why are the red shirts needed? The area is big, the tracker might have a limited accuracy. Maybe they are to operate some other special equipment if the bone and water need to be excavated. And since Eglamore is part of the team, they are probably doing the mission by the book, which might very well mean entering red zones only with a whole security team. Yeah, I can see that. Especially the "by the book" part. Still, there must have been some interesting conversations during the planning stages of this operation. Something along the lines of: "You're telling me you need to go into the red zone ... To retrieve some lost, buried artifacts .... So you can hand them over to the insane forest god ... who made an unprovoked attack on the Court?" "Yup" "It's too dangerous/ Not without backup, etc." |
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Post by todd on Jul 10, 2019 23:58:39 GMT
"You're telling me you need to go into the red zone ... To retrieve some lost, buried artifacts .... So you can hand them over to the insane forest god ... who made an unprovoked attack on the Court?" "Yup" "It's too dangerous/ Not without backup, etc." Except they don't have any other options for dealing with Loup at the moment (at least, none that have been mentioned in the story). The closest I can think of would be for the Court to call off its experiments with the ether, since apparently that's the source of the grievances with the Forest - and the Court would rather be ravaged by Loup and his forces than agree to that. |
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Post by zbeeblebrox on Jul 11, 2019 6:29:58 GMT
Ah I see, so they were broken up into three groups. The splash page made it look like two but this makes more sense.
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Post by pyradonis on Jul 11, 2019 20:25:47 GMT
Great. I looked at the comments under the comic and now I cannot unsee Cvet's moustache (actually her nostrils) in panel 6.
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Post by DonDueed on Jul 11, 2019 21:06:24 GMT
These last three pages raise an interesting question. All three separated teams appear to be in the same place, specifically a particular wisp nest near one of the great trees. Yet they do not see one another.
This seems to indicate that either it's one extremely large wisp nest, or three very similar wisp nests, or...
Did the three teams end up in different timelines? Could it be that both Annies are now back in their original timelines? The little mini-panels at the end of the last two pages could be an indication that we readers are shifting between timelines.
Yet that guy with cAnnie seems to be aware of the existence of multiple Annies, which would seem to put them in "our" corner of the multiverse.
Time will tell (haha), I guess.
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Post by Eversist on Jul 12, 2019 16:13:58 GMT
The little mini-panels at the end of the last two pages could be an indication that we readers are shifting between timelines. It's an interesting thought (being split into multiple timelines), but I believe Tom's used that visual device in the past to show time passing/a distance jump for the viewer. I still really like the idea though... |
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Post by pyradonis on Jul 12, 2019 22:27:22 GMT
These last three pages raise an interesting question. All three separated teams appear to be in the same place, specifically a particular wisp nest near one of the great trees. Yet they do not see one another.
This seems to indicate that either it's one extremely large wisp nest, or three very similar wisp nests, or...
Did the three teams end up in different timelines? Could it be that both Annies are now back in their original timelines? The little mini-panels at the end of the last two pages could be an indication that we readers are shifting between timelines.
Yet that guy with cAnnie seems to be aware of the existence of multiple Annies, which would seem to put them in "our" corner of the multiverse.
Time will tell (haha), I guess.
I think the fact that both Annies are calling the same Renard is a clear indicator they are all in the same timeline. |
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