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Post by Stately Buff Cookie on Sept 20, 2013 9:55:02 GMT
Does.. does this count as a throwdown? It was brief, but she blasted the crap out of the wasp. Was I right..? OH god I can't handle this. Someone spew some bullshit semantics about how I was technically wrong to get me back in to my comfort zone. AAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHH |
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Post by Ophel on Sept 20, 2013 10:02:57 GMT
Does.. does this count as a throwdown? It was brief, but she blasted the crap out of the wasp. Was I right..? OH god I can't handle this. Someone spew some bullshit semantics about how I was technically wrong to get me back in to my comfort zone. AAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHH
Umm.. [semantics]You're technically wrong[/semantics]? *badpokerface* All she did was used Fire Spike on its buzzy little creepface to its death. It was super effective, apparently. In any case, it's a normal self-preservation reflex. |
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Post by Deleted on Sept 20, 2013 10:11:08 GMT
In the final panel, it looks like the insect's legs have merged with Coyote's outline.
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Post by Rymdljus on Sept 20, 2013 10:40:04 GMT
It's rare to see Annie actually use her fire powers. I didn't even make the connection at first. I thought it was Coyote doing something in panel two.
Remind me please, have we seen her using her powers anywhere except in chapter 31? I sort of figured she couldn't just use them at will...
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Post by zimmyzims on Sept 20, 2013 10:47:05 GMT
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Post by goldenknots on Sept 20, 2013 12:09:57 GMT
Yeah I'm doubting that Coyote is 'watching over' annie as some people have said, much more likely he was letting this happen until it went too far, or until the wasp thing was about to reveal too much. It has already shown that Coyote's Annan waters separated the two sides before they started fighting, not after. No, look at 1249 again, it says he divided them after the fighting began. |
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Post by smjjames on Sept 20, 2013 12:20:20 GMT
Whatever coyotes motivation, seems like a thanks in response should be in order.
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Post by Per on Sept 20, 2013 12:39:48 GMT
I think the friendly spider-eating wasp would have been a plot seed for counteracting a Court infestation of whitelegs further on, but Coyote decided that wasn't funny.
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Post by Stately Buff Cookie on Sept 20, 2013 12:49:39 GMT
I didn't even notice the little crown in the burst the first time.
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Post by zimmyzims on Sept 20, 2013 12:56:17 GMT
Yeah I'm doubting that Coyote is 'watching over' annie as some people have said, much more likely he was letting this happen until it went too far, or until the wasp thing was about to reveal too much. It has already shown that Coyote's Annan waters separated the two sides before they started fighting, not after. No, look at 1249 again, it says he divided them after the fighting began. I think it is this that you should refer to, but yeah, you are right. |
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Post by melkior on Sept 20, 2013 13:19:50 GMT
Since Coyote is a god and he comes from the forest, was this a deus ex arboreum? ;-)
I'm guessing that Coyote arranged this whole thing, not really as a test of Annie's loyalty, but more to show her that she's trusted in her role as Forest Medium.
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Post by ctso74 on Sept 20, 2013 13:42:20 GMT
Let's hope this leads to some exposition. "So... that wasp said it was the Seed Bismuth?..." It would be nice, to hear something straight from the canid's mouth.
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Post by CoyoteReborn on Sept 20, 2013 14:11:32 GMT
I would have acted to defend her earlier, but I wanted my wasp to be be barbecued first. They're much crunchier that way.
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Post by quoodle on Sept 20, 2013 14:43:13 GMT
Taking a step back, the purpose of this outing is not to show the ruins, or necessarily to explain the seed bismuth (for nothing's important pre-coyote!!) - but to teach Annie to be able to defend herself. Which she did (but may need more practice, hence Coyote stepping in).
It started out with Ysengrin doing his style of defense, and moving onto Annie doing hers.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 20, 2013 14:53:50 GMT
Since Coyote is a god and he comes from the forest, was this a deus ex arboreum? ;-) Pick one: ex arboribus (from the trees), ex arboreto (from the tree-place) or e(x) silva (from the forest). Then write the following sentence on the blackboard a hundred times, while I flaunt my graduate cap and Langenscheidt's Latin Dictionary: COIOTVS EVNT DOMVS |
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Post by aaroncampbell on Sept 20, 2013 15:21:42 GMT
Just thinking: that's Renard and Coyote fixed up for etheric arthropod supplements. What does Ysengrin get for treats? Bovver-bites? Well if you ask Red, she'll tell you all about it!  |
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Post by Demonsul on Sept 20, 2013 16:05:33 GMT
Since Coyote is a god and he comes from the forest, was this a deus ex arboreum? ;-) Pick one: ex arboribus (from the trees), ex arboreto (from the tree-place) or e(x) silva (from the forest). Then write the following sentence on the blackboard a hundred times, while I flaunt my graduate cap and Langenscheidt's Latin Dictionary: COIOTVS EVNT DOMVS "Person called Coiotus, they go the house?" |
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Post by nero on Sept 20, 2013 17:08:49 GMT
At first I thought that the wasp was drawing out Annie's fire elemental soul/power. Since the wasp seems surprised in the third panel it is more likely that Annie had fired some shield. Coyote probably set this up, either way as least Annie is in for some real training.
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Post by maxptc on Sept 20, 2013 17:20:10 GMT
Well I guess the mystery of why that thing wanted to leave the forest is solved. Not wanting to be eaten is a big motivator.
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Post by philman on Sept 20, 2013 18:05:18 GMT
Yeah I'm doubting that Coyote is 'watching over' annie as some people have said, much more likely he was letting this happen until it went too far, or until the wasp thing was about to reveal too much. It has already shown that Coyote's Annan waters separated the two sides before they started fighting, not after. No, look at 1249 again, it says he divided them after the fighting began. Fair enough, I misremembered. I called that it wasn't the real Seed Bismuth, and I'm still not believing now that Coyote ate it just to save Annie. It was revealing secrets, and Im sure Coyote would prefer any secrets to come from his own mouth, with his own twisted way of telling them... |
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Post by Deleted on Sept 20, 2013 18:57:44 GMT
Pick one: ex arboribus (from the trees), ex arboreto (from the tree-place) or e(x) silva (from the forest). Then write the following sentence on the blackboard a hundred times, while I flaunt my graduate cap and Langenscheidt's Latin Dictionary: COIOTVS EVNT DOMVS "Person called Coiotus, they go the house?" But there's also a very silly pun hidden in that post. Dog Latin. Edit: Just now, ProBoards encourages me to read a »related story from around the web« called »The Pizza Bubbles of North America«, demonstrating that beauty comes from the strangest places. |
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Post by Demonsul on Sept 20, 2013 19:52:45 GMT
(That's what I was referencing  ) |
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Post by exuberancium on Sept 20, 2013 23:15:37 GMT
Also: Annie, your crown is showing! For me, this is the most interesting part of the update. WHAT DOES IT MEAN |
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Post by fuzzyone on Sept 21, 2013 0:01:23 GMT
Do you notice what we DON'T see anywhere?
I don't see a blinker stone.
Like, anywhere. True, she could be wearing it on her leather cord, but still, no visible blinker. I think that's a milestone there.
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Post by Covalent on Sept 21, 2013 1:29:13 GMT
How did the wasp not sting Coyote? I'm sure it could have, easily.
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Post by smjjames on Sept 21, 2013 3:10:33 GMT
How did the wasp not sting Coyote? I'm sure it could have, easily. Well he's a god, he can choose whether or not to feel pain (or unless the story has him feel pain), plus it probably died too fast to get in a sting. |
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Post by The Anarch on Sept 21, 2013 4:20:32 GMT
Every time I see the title of this thread, I hear "I hope you don't mind, I hope you don't mind, I hope you don't mind I put down in woooooords . . . how wonderful life is . . . while you're in the woooooooorld . . . "
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Post by arf on Sept 21, 2013 5:13:13 GMT
It's rare to see Annie actually use her fire powers. I didn't even make the connection at first. I thought it was Coyote doing something in panel two. Remind me please, have we seen her using her powers anywhere except in chapter 31? I sort of figured she couldn't just use them at will... She created a bit of a show in Chapter 41, when she accepted Coyote's offer to be the Forest Medium. A sort of finger to the Headmaster (although Annie's too ladylike to indulge in those sorts of gestures: leaves then to Renardine) |
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Post by warrl on Sept 21, 2013 5:23:05 GMT
Something just occurred to me:
Jones said that "Coyote is no liar". She didn't say that he doesn't lie.
We sometimes use an expression of the form "so-and-so is no X" when that person perhaps occasionally tries to be an X, but is really really bad at it.
In the current comic, Coyote makes a statement that I don't think anyone believes - not even him. Has he ever made a *credible* statement (and that would include the manner of him making it) that it later turned out he knew was false?
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Post by keef on Sept 21, 2013 9:34:53 GMT
Do you notice what we DON'T see anywhere? I don't see a blinker stone. Like, anywhere. True, she could be wearing it on her leather cord, but still, no visible blinker. I think that's a milestone there. Yes! You're right. Probably because she had no time to grab it and needed her fire to defend herself. Page 1159 She palms it when untying her hair, but here there is no "blink". I thought it was the first time but looked back at Firespike, no sign of the blinker there too. So when in anger she doesn't need the blinker. |
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