[2184] "It's coming this way!"

[imaginaryfriend]

Even if they are flying/teleporting how would they know for sure?

[Sky Schemer]

I am pretty sure that thing is just looking for its contact lens.

[imaginaryfriend]

Aug 7, 2019 7:06:17 GMT Sky Schemer said:

Psst! It's page 2184.

Thanks! Title corrected.

[philman]

Wait, so what just happened? In panel 3 it looks like she is jumping forwards, but then in panel 4 she is still in the same place where she started?

Is something distorting time? Preventing them from moving? Or am I just reading the comic wrong?

[theonethatgotaway]

Wait wait... teleporting I can understand, it's a "trick", an ability you can block. But flight is just a physical action! Orjak flap wing, Orjak fly! So from Annie's point of view, did Cvet fly away for a second before being BLIPPED back next to her? Or did nothing happen relative to Annie and the guards, while Cvet was just visualizing flying? What would happen if they try to walk towards the creature?

Has Annie already tried to communicate to it in the Ether? So far we've only seen her use the Annie-Talkies.

[madjack]

Aug 7, 2019 7:11:26 GMT philman said:

Wait, so what just happened? In panel 3 it looks like she is jumping forwards, but then in panel 4 she is still in the same place where she started?

Is something distorting time? Preventing them from moving? Or am I just reading the comic wrong?

From the looks on their faces, I don't think they know yet either, something is definitely messing with them to keep them in place.

There is a way out of these kinds of loops, Cvet.

[csj]

At this rate I'm just waiting for Loup to start singing about freeze rays.

[Kuraimizu]

hmm, this must be very powerful magics
blocks teleportation
warped space that keeps the party separated into 3 groups
Land-locked to prevent flight

I wonder if jumping or running would work at all.

[hnau]

Kajkavian ... is a South Slavic regiolect or language spoken primarily by Croats in much of Central Croatia, Gorski Kotar and northern Istria. ...

The term Kajkavian stems from the interrogative pronoun kaj (what). The other main dialects of Croatian also derive their name from their reflex of the interrogative pronoun. However, the pronouns are only general pointers and do not serve as actual identifiers of the respective dialects. Certain Kajkavian dialects use the interrogative pronoun ča, the one that is usually used in Chakavian. Conversly, some Chakavian dialects (most notably around Buzet in Istria) use the pronoun kaj. The pronouns these dialects are named after are merely the most common one in that dialect.

Outside Croatia's northernmost regions, Kajkavian is also spoken in Austrian Burgenland and a number of enclaves in Hungary along the Austrian and Croatian border and in Romania. Although speakers of Kajkavian are primarily Croats, and Kajkavian is generally considered a dialect of Standard Croatian, its closest relative is the Slovene language, followed by Chakavian and then Shtokavian.

Wikipedia

Edit, to point to a future commment:

Aug 7, 2019 9:00:45 GMT pyradonis said:

Additionally, kaj means "what" also in Slovenian (which was Sivo's native language, if I recall correctly).

[imaginaryfriend]

Maybe it is working. Until someone crashes/teleports into something that isn't supposed to be there, how would they know?

[csj]

The term Kajkavian stems from the interrogative pronoun kaj (what)

"Okay, what's the kaj?"
"Exactly."

[pyradonis]

I interpret the action from Cvet's perspective this way: She takes off, flies for a while, then wonders why the big creature does not seem to be nearer than before. She turns her head around to look how far away she is from Annie and notices Annie is still right next to her. Then she notices she is still standing on the ground.
Annie, meanwhile, probably just saw Cvet make some awkward motions instead of flying towards the big creature.

Aug 7, 2019 7:24:31 GMT hnau said:

Kajkavian ... is a South Slavic regiolect or language spoken primarily by Croats in much of Central Croatia, Gorski Kotar and northern Istria. ...

The term Kajkavian stems from the interrogative pronoun kaj (what). The other main dialects of Croatian also derive their name from their reflex of the interrogative pronoun. However, the pronouns are only general pointers and do not serve as actual identifiers of the respective dialects. Certain Kajkavian dialects use the interrogative pronoun ča, the one that is usually used in Chakavian. Conversly, some Chakavian dialects (most notably around Buzet in Istria) use the pronoun kaj. The pronouns these dialects are named after are merely the most common one in that dialect.

Outside Croatia's northernmost regions, Kajkavian is also spoken in Austrian Burgenland and a number of enclaves in Hungary along the Austrian and Croatian border and in Romania. Although speakers of Kajkavian are primarily Croats, and Kajkavian is generally considered a dialect of Standard Croatian, its closest relative is the Slovene language, followed by Chakavian and then Shtokavian.

Wikipedia

Additionally, kaj means "what" also in Slovenian (which was Sivo's native language, if I recall correctly).


By the way, is anyone else getting "Attack on Titan" vibes here? I do, and I have not even seen more than two episodes of that show.

[wanderer]

Hmm... looks to me like they're in one of those situations where, no matter how much you move, you never make any progress.

Happens some times in nightmares.

[Lizuka]

To tell the truth this whole chapter has so little context for any of what's going on that I'm having a very hard time being at all invested in it.

[noone3]

Aug 7, 2019 7:11:26 GMT philman said:

Wait, so what just happened? In panel 3 it looks like she is jumping forwards, but then in panel 4 she is still in the same place where she started?

Is something distorting time? Preventing them from moving? Or am I just reading the comic wrong?

Oh, its just one of those worlds, where you must run as fast as you can, just to stay in place. And if you wish to go anywhere you must run twice as fast as that.

[Per]

Aug 7, 2019 9:00:45 GMT pyradonis said:

By the way, is anyone else getting "Attack on Titan" vibes here? I do, and I have not even seen more than two episodes of that show.

I thought of

[ctso74]

I bet Steve or Lisa don't have issues getting from Point A to Point B, Cvet. *snap snap*

[Eily]

I actually like Cvet, and she looks tough, but so far her record on the comic is:

• Fail her entrance
• Fail to help the Annies in trouble
• Eavesdropping
• Be a huge gossip
• Try to jump forward and end up a few feet behind instead

Very impressive 

Her main achievements so far are to have neither killed Renard or been killed by Renard, and (the actually useful one) to tell Annie that she can talk to herself  

[ohthatone]

Aug 7, 2019 9:53:51 GMT wanderer said:

Hmm... looks to me like they're in one of those situations where, no matter how much you move, you never make any progress.

Happens some times in nightmares.

this was my interpretation as well.

[jda]

Aug 7, 2019 10:11:32 GMT noone3 said:

Aug 7, 2019 7:11:26 GMT philman said:

Wait, so what just happened? In panel 3 it looks like she is jumping forwards, but then in panel 4 she is still in the same place where she started?

Is something distorting time? Preventing them from moving? Or am I just reading the comic wrong?

Oh, its just one of those worlds, where you must run as fast as you can, just to stay in place. And if you wish to go anywhere you must run twice as fast as that.

Well, I was about to post a reference to the same...

[shadow3]

Jul 17, 2019 7:16:50 GMT madjack said:

The talk of Wisp mindgames is making me think they were all separated because they will be easier to turn on one another.

Prediction: This will backfire with two out of three groups, but C!Annie and Eglamore have already started on the wrong foot and it'll go downhill from there.

Jul 17, 2019 7:28:54 GMT shadow3 said:

If the wisps trap them in a maze of illusions, it would be so awesome to have Gunnerkrigg's Minotaur make an appearance to help them out.

Maze of illusions theory now has a much higher probability of being correct.

Waiting for our minotaur buddy to show up with crossed fingers.

[Runningflame]

Aug 7, 2019 7:24:31 GMT hnau said:

The term Kajkavian stems from the interrogative pronoun kaj (what). The other main dialects of Croatian also derive their name from their reflex of the interrogative pronoun.

Wikipedia

Dialects named after the interrogative pronoun they use--I love it! Reminds me of the langue d'oïl vs. langue d'oc classification in France.

[imaginaryfriend]

Aug 7, 2019 9:00:45 GMT pyradonis said:

I interpret the action from Cvet's perspective this way: She takes off, flies for a while, then wonders why the big creature does not seem to be nearer than before. She turns her head around to look how far away she is from Annie and notices Annie is still right next to her. Then she notices she is still standing on the ground. Annie, meanwhile, probably just saw Cvet make some awkward motions instead of flying towards the big creature.

That's my take as well though we won't know for sure until next comic... If Cvet is actually flying and is being made to think she isn't then she will hit the ground fairly quickly, since she hasn't been flying long.

Aug 7, 2019 7:22:00 GMT Kuraimizu said:

hmm, this must be very powerful magics
blocks teleportation warped space that keeps the party separated into 3 groups Land-locked to prevent flight
I wonder if jumping or running would work at all.

That could be the case but how would they know who's got abilities they need to block, aside from Cvet who can obviously fly? I suspect that the wisps acting in tandem are able to lock everybody into an entirely-mental world of their own creation... but if that's the case then why split the group and why is someone missing? Even if they'd been taken out in real life it would make sense to keep a decoy going in the fake world so nobody gets suspicious. The only answer that I can think of is that the wisps started out with minimal or no changes are changing things more on the fly as they need to. Both George and Cvet telegraphed what they were going to do very clearly. The Antimonies and Renard can still communicate either because the wisps didn't know about that, or because the master/familiar bond is something they can't interfere with; George and James didn't announce they were going to do the compass-arrow trick, they just did it.

I do wish an Antimony would get the idea to look at stuff through the ether when etheric stuff is happening...

Aug 7, 2019 14:04:55 GMT Eily said:

I actually like Cvet, and she looks tough, but so far her record on the comic is...

To be fair, a lot of the second string characters in the comic are kinda lackluster.

[Eve Swann]

No, fool! It's "It's coming right for us!" then you can shoot it without repercussions. Remember what Uncle Jimbo taught us.

[csj]

Gee Red Sure Would Be Nice To Be Friends With Right Now

[gpvos]

Aug 7, 2019 15:23:01 GMT Runningflame said:

Dialects named after the interrogative pronoun they use--I love it! Reminds me of the langue d'oïl vs. langue d'oc classification in France.

Actually, reminds me of Welsh and Walloon being named after a Germanic word for "gibberish". Looked it up now, the derivation appears to be in the other direction.

[apache]

Again, the old adage proves true.

No matter where you go, there you are.

*ba-dum-tis*

[pyradonis]

Aug 7, 2019 14:04:55 GMT Eily said:

I actually like Cvet, and she looks tough, but so far her record on the comic is:

• Fail her entrance
• Fail to help the Annies in trouble
• Eavesdropping
• Be a huge gossip
• Try to jump forward and end up a few feet behind instead

Very impressive 

Her main achievements so far are to have neither killed Renard or been killed by Renard, and (the actually useful one) to tell Annie that she can talk to herself  

To be fair, Cvet deliberately decided no to show herself when the Ashray turned up. The thing being a teamwork exercise and all.

Aug 7, 2019 17:33:32 GMT imaginaryfriend said:

The only answer that I can think of is that the wisps started out with minimal or no changes are changing things more on the fly as they need to.

They certainly influenced Cvet on the fly right now! (ba-dum tsh)

[jda]

Well, Medium, time to mediate.

[hubert]

I know what this creature will turn out to be! Giant Eglamore crawling in that little cave he saw!