Chrome
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Post by Chrome on Aug 28, 2009 2:48:40 GMT
I'm surprised nobody caught onto something I just noticed.
You notice that sapling that's shown in the frame where Bob says he and Marcia look after the released "trees."
Okay, we've seen connected trees already for the bound dog, Robot's arm, etc. But that sapling?
I bet it's from the seeds Ys dropped during Fangs of Summertime. Nothing else we've seen so far would suggest a sapling like in that frame.
I mean, what else would the Court do, but take those seeds, and stick 'em in a decontam habitat? It's the smartest move possible for that particular event.
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Post by Jiminiminy on Aug 28, 2009 3:41:14 GMT
I'm not sure if that'd be entirely accurate, there's not even been a year between the events there and the time currently. That's alarmingly quick for a natural tree to grow, but in comparison to robot's arm, it's the opposite, becoming startlingly slow. It's difficult to tell what tree type it is, or if tree species even apply, given the possible situation, but the only tree I know that can grow that quick is a Maple, which that doesn't much look like.
Although, in the absence of other explanations, we must default to the only one present.
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Post by Seth Thresher on Aug 28, 2009 4:34:25 GMT
It would be amusing if, for humor's sake, that those seeds were actually just something along the lines of sunflower seeds that Ysengrin had happened to have been snacking on just prior to the meeting, and a few fell out of his pocket.
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Post by mjh on Aug 28, 2009 9:12:11 GMT
The dog tree makes me a little bit sad, gnarled and twisted in what seems like a dying position. I think it might be the dog that got its leg chopped off in the flashback chapter, the hind leg has some sort of an abrupt cut. Of the two bound dogs in “Ties”, the one which got its leg chopped off (and it was its front leg) actually got away. The second bound dog was destroyed by Mr. Thorn. But the way Bob put it, riding on a bound dog was/is the forest creatures’ usual mode of transportation, so there may have been many more incidents like the one we observed in “Ties”. By the way, in “Ties” Anja had sensed that the bound dog was “not a real creature … is more like … puppet … being called back to forest.” Now if “being called back” was an accurate description (and we would have take into account Anja’s lack of fluency in English at the time), it might imply that the bound dog was remotely controlled from the forest, not by its passengers.
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somnium
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Post by somnium on Aug 28, 2009 12:38:45 GMT
Regarding the bound dogs
Don't ask me why exactly but my first impression was 'bound' as in boundary...
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Post by imaginaryfriend on Aug 28, 2009 15:04:38 GMT
But the way Bob put it, riding on a bound dog was/is the forest creatures’ usual mode of transportation, so there may have been many more incidents like the one we observed in “Ties”. . When I first read those comics I remembered how someone once tried to crash a car through a Berlin wall checkpoint to escape to the West. Maybe the dogs were sent to rescue shadow folk stranded on the wrong side but maybe they magicked some trees on the Court side into transportation. It was all one place before Coyote split it, so I would guess the trees would be the same. Maybe the glass-eyed men also use the bound dogs as patrol cars to police the boundary of the woods? Maybe they have to bind themselves into them somehow to control them. Or possibly they bind themselves to the dogs with seatbelts made of the most stygian shadows so they don't fall out when it jumps.
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Post by Ulysses on Aug 28, 2009 19:22:03 GMT
Bob says that they grow that shape naturally and are used later on. I see Bob saying that they use all sorts of magic to control the trees. Where does he say they grow naturally into that shape? I think the "control" here is more the "move" or "use" control rather than "shape" control. I think they're naturally that shape because Bob says they are "canine shaped roots that some of the forest creatures used as transport". It's open to interpretation but to me it seems fairly cut-and-dried. Something I just picked up on while typing this: Bob says the Bound Dogs were " used as transport". 'Used' past tense. Do they not use them any more? If not then why? Do they have some other form of transport now?
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Post by Mishmash on Aug 28, 2009 22:31:08 GMT
Of the two bound dogs in “Ties”, the one which got its leg chopped off (and it was its front leg) actually got away. The second bound dog was destroyed by Mr. Thorn. But the way Bob put it, riding on a bound dog was/is the forest creatures’ usual mode of transportation, so there may have been many more incidents like the one we observed in “Ties”. Do we actually know it got away? The chapter ends with the Bound Dog running, with a missing leg, and Mr Thorn riding a Rogat Orjak. Maybe he and the Orjak caught the other Dog before it reached the forest and brought it back for investigation/decontamination?
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