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Post by warrl on Apr 23, 2010 20:50:20 GMT
I still wanna know what's up with his fingers. He chews his knuckles. Either that, or maybe he skinned them while running up a wall.
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Post by todd on Apr 23, 2010 22:24:07 GMT
I think that Tom will certainly have to have *some* means of getting Annie out of this mess, unless he plans for this to be the last chapter (unlikely) or for someone other than Annie (say, Kat) to be the new protagonist of "Gunnerkrigg Court" henceforth (also unlikely); it would be difficult (if not impossible) to run the webcomic with Annie either expelled or placed under such close supervision from then on that she would be unable to have any more adventures.
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Post by sharp on Apr 23, 2010 22:35:20 GMT
I don't think that this will end with a slap on the wrist, this seems like one of those offenses where if Jack gets caught he'll simply "disappear."
"Hey, where's Hyland today?" "I dunno, no one's seen him for almost two weeks now." DUN DUN DUNN
And I agree with the notion that Jack probably thinks that by hurling himself into Zimmingham, Zimmy will be there too-effectively "drawing her out." If he did gain access to the same world that she slips into, then it seems logical that if they both had an episode at the same time, Jack could find her there.
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Post by todd on Apr 23, 2010 22:43:21 GMT
Though one piece of good might come from this incident: the Court might learn that its experiments with the Ether are having disastrous side effects on Zimmy and fix the problem (unless that was the whole point of those experiments - and if it is, that makes Gunnerkrigg even more unsettling than before).
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Post by Casey on Apr 23, 2010 22:49:45 GMT
Annie's going to use her ethereal self to pick up her corporeal self and fly back over the lake.
You heard it here first! *chuckle*
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Post by warrl on Apr 24, 2010 0:35:31 GMT
Annie's going to use her ethereal self to pick up her corporeal self and fly back over the lake. You heard it here first! *chuckle* It would be somewhat plausible, but somehow I doubt it. Definitely an interesting thought though.
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Post by Mezzaphor on Apr 24, 2010 0:45:17 GMT
If Annie were to get caught, I suspect that simply telling the truth would be her best course of action. But for some reason, I doubt Annie would be so forthcoming.
If we're going to make predictions: Jack and Annie get cornered, but just when it looks like they're about to get caught, they get whisked away to Zim City.
Then Annie reminds Jack that, no matter how long they spend here, they'll get sent back to normal reality at the same second they left.
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Post by llogg on Apr 24, 2010 2:00:13 GMT
1. Kat has come to the rescue before, she was suspicious of Jack earlier and knew where they were likely to go. I'll be shocked if she's not on that boat (or in an off-camera hovercraft of her own invention following close behind in stealth mode).
2. Annie uses the tooth-sword to destroy the ether sucking station.
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Post by bookworm on Apr 24, 2010 2:58:21 GMT
Annie's going to use her ethereal self to pick up her corporeal self and fly back over the lake. You heard it here first! *chuckle* I second this...didn't coyote mention something about being able to lift her body really easily? Plus that would be awesomely cool! Jack's zimmy-esque eyes are creepy...
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Post by Per on Apr 24, 2010 8:29:27 GMT
If she tries to fly over the lake, she'll get wet once the power station drains the ether out of the rain, air and ghostly hair.
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Post by Mezzaphor on Apr 24, 2010 14:00:14 GMT
You know, I imagine the power station doing its ether-draining thing -- at the same time that Annie has used the blinker stone to step out of her body -- would be bad.
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Post by starburst98 on Apr 24, 2010 14:26:37 GMT
i think this is going to teach annie that some people don't want help even if they need it. like jeanne, she will simply try to kill annie if she goes down there instead of talking no matter how much annie trys. so she needs to beat them into submission so they can stay still long enough to listen.
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Post by hal9000 on Apr 24, 2010 15:59:51 GMT
i think this is going to teach annie that some people don't want help even if they need it. like jeanne, she will simply try to kill annie if she goes down there instead of talking no matter how much annie trys. so she needs to beat them into submission so they can stay still long enough to listen. I think an even better lesson is that she ought to: A. Be more proactive about taking action on problems like this and B. Not follow unhinged fugitives into highly-sensitive and dangerous facilities.
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Post by sebastian on Apr 24, 2010 18:38:56 GMT
I, too, think that Annie should have spoken her mind a little sooner, but I don't mean before they entered the station, I mean when she found out that Jack had and ethereal spider nesting in his brain.
Remember kids, when you find that someone you know is infested or possessed by extraterrestrial/supernatural critters seek for help ASAP, don't wait until they try to activate of an etheric power station. At that point usually it is too late.
And now you know... ;D
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Post by Refugee on Apr 24, 2010 20:31:41 GMT
I, too, think that Annie should have spoken her mind a little sooner, but I don't mean before they entered the station, I mean when she found out that Jack had and ethereal spider nesting in his brain. ... That would be true for most people. Folks like Annie, though... Well, she's one of those for whom "move to the sound of the guns" is damn near reflex. There's no way she can not be where she is. Kat's like that, too. So's Jack, I think, although it's taken a bad turn in him.
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Post by Casey on Apr 24, 2010 20:34:41 GMT
I don't know what that expression means.
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Post by Refugee on Apr 24, 2010 21:04:57 GMT
I don't know what that expression means. Most of us, if we hear "guns" (that is, cannons, or metaphorically, battle or any dangerous commotion)in the distance, we move away, because, you know, battle is dangerous. But some, like Annie, move to the commotion. It's automatic, they can't help themselves, they live for it, until it kills them. They tend to become soldiers, cops, EMTs, folks like that. === I'll note that one possible origin of the phrase was an incident where that was exactly the wrong thing to do, a temptation to be distracted from one's station. See also this discussion, which says that the phrase "conveys some subtle and complex nuances". It's not a good thing or a bad thing, just a tendency some individuals have. Oh, and this comment to the above: "As you can see, it is 'march' not 'ride.' Once again the damn cavalry tries to take credit from the infantry. " === I bet Eglamore is like that, too. So is Smith, in her own way. === Reynard and Coyote, on the other hand, are the sound of the guns.
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Post by Casey on Apr 24, 2010 21:29:13 GMT
Oh, 'to' as in 'towards'. Ok that makes more sense.
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Post by Refugee on Apr 24, 2010 21:49:10 GMT
Oh, 'to' as in 'towards'. Ok that makes more sense. Ack, sorry, didn't mean to lecture. Yes, I see that reading the phrase against the template of "move to the music" might be confusing. "If time flies like an arrow, do fruit flies like a banana?"
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Post by todd on Apr 25, 2010 12:45:58 GMT
I wonder if anyone *could* help Jack. His troubles came about from a combination of two elements that were never meant to be combined: the Court's experiments with the ether, and Zimmy's weird nature. I get the impression that Zimmy's torments and nightmare city are a mystery to everyone, including her; even if she wanted to help Jack (which, knowing her, is unlikely) she probably wouldn't know what to do. We have a mixture of two unknowns; I think it may be beyond anyone's ability, at present, to cure Jack. It might take years of studying both the Ether and the nightmare city to find a solution - and I don't think that Jack has that long.
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Post by starburst98 on Apr 25, 2010 14:01:01 GMT
or we can take the direct approach and just kill the spider.
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Post by blue on Apr 25, 2010 19:40:45 GMT
Haha yeah I am just waiting for etheric Annie to just smoosh it. CHAPTER OVER
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Post by todd on Apr 25, 2010 22:41:30 GMT
or we can take the direct approach and just kill the spider. Without knowing whether that would reverse the trouble or not. That approach frequently makes the situation worse.
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Post by blackboe on Apr 25, 2010 23:46:13 GMT
Yes, can you just imagine her squishing it and then Jack dying in a horrible way.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 26, 2010 0:07:42 GMT
Or killing the spider and finding out that it had been keeping in check something even worse. That's usually how this kind of stuff goes.
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Post by hal9000 on Apr 26, 2010 1:02:20 GMT
Maybe, maybe not. It's the choice between risking a quick and painful death, or going through a long, drawn out process in which your mind/personality/soul is slowly devoured from the inside out, ending with a ruined husk good only as a target for *gop*ing.
There aren't any good options there, but I think it's generally agreed that a quick death is preferable to a slow one when you have a choice in the matter.
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Post by shouqi on Apr 26, 2010 1:32:02 GMT
or we can take the direct approach and just kill the spider. This. She got the knife for a reason. Hopefully she knows how to use it.
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Post by Mezzaphor on Apr 26, 2010 2:34:33 GMT
It is a huge and largely unfounded assumption that violently killing the spider will fix anything.
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Post by blackboe on Apr 26, 2010 3:17:34 GMT
It is also a huge and largely unfounded assumption, I have just realized, that killing the spider is even possible. There is always coyote's tooth, but there's always the chance that the spider will merely run around to the other side of Jack's, and it must be said that waving the sharpest knife in the world around Jack's face would not be the wisest of ideas.
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Post by Casey on Apr 26, 2010 4:19:36 GMT
Aw come on, you guys talk like you've forgotten that 80% of what you read on these boards is huge and largely unfounded assumption. *grin*
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