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Post by hp on Jan 30, 2017 14:12:30 GMT
If GK world has a History Channel, their Pawn Stars' next season will be following psychopomps making a profit over the direst hour of random teens.
Then their John Oliver will make a 10 minute sketch about etheric loan sharks
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Post by jda on Jan 30, 2017 14:28:14 GMT
Free meal. Free meal?!?? Is no one else freaking out about this? Or did I miss something? What the heck? Also - Annie? Whaddya get yourself into this time? Finally - those guys are jerks. [insert *bap* here] The saying goes: Free meal, there ain't such thing. |
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Post by Señor Goose on Jan 30, 2017 14:37:01 GMT
"So Annie, now that Smitty is safe and the psychopomps have saved his life, what was that Cost they were talking about?"
"Cost? Oh yeah, I just have to go file some paperwork at the RotD. Wanna come?"
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Post by Chendzee'a on Jan 30, 2017 15:12:02 GMT
Well, that's that. Now Annie has to cover all their shifts at the local McDonalds for a year. "Why hello Ketrak, I just put a burger on the grill-- ohhhh." Ewwww....I see what you did there.....BLARGHHH |
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Post by csj on Jan 30, 2017 15:18:20 GMT
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Post by atteSmythe on Jan 30, 2017 16:07:09 GMT
Oh wow - on that second page you linked, I never noticed the foundations of the buildings. You can actually see them growing out of the pattern of the Bismuth. Too cool. |
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Post by westwindreborn on Jan 30, 2017 16:18:28 GMT
So, who else think their draining her and this week is going to end with her collapsing and her friends freaking out. I wonder if the consequences Muut is talking about is in regards to a life for a life scenario. Meaning Antimony just volunteered to place herself in mortal peril?
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Post by ctso74 on Jan 30, 2017 16:59:18 GMT
Kat: "Huh... ... This can't end well..."
If she's taking on psychompomp duties, I wonder how Rey will respond. Would he be against it due to Annie reluctance, or as an Etheric being, would he consider it normal? Why is she so against it? Is she just going to settle disputes between the psychosquad, or is she going to get her own Domain of souls, that she has to ferry?
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Post by GK Sierra on Jan 30, 2017 17:11:35 GMT
Ok, inappropriate part edited :/ Thanks. Keep it PG please. |
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Post by Grabix on Jan 30, 2017 17:44:09 GMT
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Post by mordekai on Jan 30, 2017 21:50:30 GMT
I know I am repeating myself a lot, but... please Kat, could you eat those assholes' souls already? We are in serious need of some old school Righteous Divine Wrath, with rains of sulfur and molten lead and hails of red-hot iron bolts and rivers of blood and weeping of bloody tears and gnashing of teeth and demon worms eating bones and organs and brains from inside-out and lakes of eternal quenchless fire consuming the souls of the sinners forever and all the other stuff, and I am getting impatient...
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Post by fia on Jan 30, 2017 23:54:31 GMT
I am still wondering whether we should file this under Free Meal, no such thing as or Free Meal, nice knowing ya |
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Post by Glim Glam on Jan 31, 2017 0:00:34 GMT
I guess I should have known Smitty wasn't going to die. Now the real question is what the price will be. Obviously, it's something she must do for the Psychopomps. Maybe they will ask her to become a full-time Psychopomp or maybe it's something far more sinister. I've got a bad feeling about this. How much longer is Tom going to keep us waiting?
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Post by Rasselas on Jan 31, 2017 0:01:17 GMT
So, who else think their draining her and this week is going to end with her collapsing and her friends freaking out. I wonder if the consequences Muut is talking about is in regards to a life for a life scenario. Meaning Antimony just volunteered to place herself in mortal peril? I wondered this, but her reaction is incongruous with that possibility. I think she'd be more accepting if it were her who's being sacrificed. Her reaction sounds more like she'll be forced to do a task she'd rather not do. |
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Post by todd on Jan 31, 2017 0:23:10 GMT
Maybe they will ask her to become a full-time Psychopomp or maybe it's something far more sinister. Probably not a full Psychopomp, since that would most likely mean that she would: a) have to depart Gunnerkrigg for the life of a Guide and b) would be forbidden to interfere in the events of the living world. Those conditions would automatically end Annie's role in the comic; at most, she'd get an occasional appearance, but would have to step down as the protagonist. "Gunnerkrigg Court" might be able to continue without her (one of the main unresolved threads is the "robot religion" arc, which centers on Kat) - Tom might even have planned Annie's freeing Jeanne to be the end of her role in the story - but I doubt we'd see that. |
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Post by warrl on Jan 31, 2017 4:43:27 GMT
Kat: "Huh... ... This can't end well..." If she's taking on psychompomp duties, I wonder how Rey will respond. Would he be against it due to Annie reluctance, or as an Etheric being, would he consider it normal? Why is she so against it? Is she just going to settle disputes between the psychosquad, or is she going to get her own Domain of souls, that she has to ferry? Antimony has a long-standing grudge against the psychopomps. They'd been her friends for somewhere around half her (short-so-far) life - since approximately her earliest memories - and her mother's friends for years before that. But when her mother died...(And a thoroughly merited grudge too, imho. Horrible thing to put a tennish-year-old girl through.) |
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Post by Zox Tomana on Jan 31, 2017 5:31:02 GMT
Kat: "Huh... ... This can't end well..." If she's taking on psychompomp duties, I wonder how Rey will respond. Would he be against it due to Annie reluctance, or as an Etheric being, would he consider it normal? Why is she so against it? Is she just going to settle disputes between the psychosquad, or is she going to get her own Domain of souls, that she has to ferry? Antimony has a long-standing grudge against the psychopomps. They'd been her friends for somewhere around half her (short-so-far) life - since approximately her earliest memories - and her mother's friends for years before that. But when her mother died...(And a thoroughly merited grudge too, imho. Horrible thing to put a tennish-year-old girl through.) And I doubt it was because, as Rey once said, "There was nothing left to claim." Obviously there was, or Annie wouldn't have had to do it. So they literally chose to simply not come and take her. I know I voted in the poll that I consider Diego to be the worst.... but these psychopomp folks can be jerks. |
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Post by Saliant on Jan 31, 2017 11:41:48 GMT
I think it's going to be psychopomp duties as well. Seems like the most likely scenario. But for what? Or whom? Just in general, or is there something particularly nasty that they don't want to undertake?
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Post by speedwell on Jan 31, 2017 11:55:56 GMT
Antimony has a long-standing grudge against the psychopomps. They'd been her friends for somewhere around half her (short-so-far) life - since approximately her earliest memories - and her mother's friends for years before that. But when her mother died...(And a thoroughly merited grudge too, imho. Horrible thing to put a tennish-year-old girl through.) And I doubt it was because, as Rey once said, "There was nothing left to claim." Obviously there was, or Annie wouldn't have had to do it. So they literally chose to simply not come and take her. I know I voted in the poll that I consider Diego to be the worst.... but these psychopomp folks can be jerks. I wonder what their first "job" was like and whether it required the same sort of "thrown in the deep end" emotionally-wrenching sort of task. |
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Post by Jelly Jellybean on Jan 31, 2017 12:04:40 GMT
Antimony has a long-standing grudge against the psychopomps. They'd been her friends for somewhere around half her (short-so-far) life - since approximately her earliest memories - and her mother's friends for years before that. But when her mother died...(And a thoroughly merited grudge too, imho. Horrible thing to put a tennish-year-old girl through.) And I doubt it was because, as Rey once said, "There was nothing left to claim." Obviously there was, or Annie wouldn't have had to do it. So they literally chose to simply not come and take her. I know I voted in the poll that I consider Diego to be the worst.... but these psychopomp folks can be jerks. I think Annie's grudge against the Pomps is misplaced and may be a subconscious coping mechanism or transference. Surma let the Pomps teach Annie some stuff, but no one seemed to prepare Annie for her mother's passing or her fire elemental nature. That falls more on Surma than anyone else. For a long time Annie couldn't bring herself to acknowledge faults in her parents. I think she now acknowledges that her father has issues, but it is going to be a long grind for Annie to admit that her mother should have, but didn't, prepare her better. |
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Post by razgrizx on Jan 31, 2017 13:54:38 GMT
The free meal comment is making me think other than Annie working for them full time, the price could be Smitty's etheric luck powers. Since the guides job is to "keep the world spinning" by returning people to the Ether, basically "feeding" the world ether of people who have passed on
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Post by ohthatone on Jan 31, 2017 13:56:04 GMT
So if Annie agrees to be a psychopomp doesn't that mean she will be disallowed to have children of her own? I know Rey said "there was nothing left to take" but as others have previously pointed out, there must have been SOMETHING. but perhaps not enough to be a psychopomp.
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Post by hp on Jan 31, 2017 15:08:16 GMT
Thing is, from my understanding Smitty's powers of pushing probabilities are passive and have been acting all this time, while he's down and with a dagger to his chest. Even Jeanne, who could see and cut the "threads", said they kept tangling around her. Smitty influences ether even though he can't connect to it conciously. Wonder if that will improve Annie's prospects. Maybe Muut will state their price is a McDonalds combo for every pomp and next page they'll all be on a shopping food court playing with Happy Meal pokemons. So if Annie agrees to be a psychopomp doesn't that mean she will be disallowed to have children of her own? I know Rey said "there was nothing left to take" but as others have previously pointed out, there must have been SOMETHING. but perhaps not enough to be a psychopomp. Maybe she'll not be a full-time pomp, but some kind of psychopomp elemental mix between Black Widow and Mariska Hargitay, focusing on difficult cases. GK's version of Saint Expeditus (whom Brazilians call "the saint of impossible cases") |
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Post by fish on Jan 31, 2017 15:16:49 GMT
It seems both our protagonists are breaking new ground after these last two chapters. Kat has finally been made aware of her mecha angel form and Annie now has some sort of binding responsibility towards the psychopomps. One major plot line has been resolved, now two others will be given the spotlight.
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Post by hp on Jan 31, 2017 15:45:46 GMT
One major plot line has been resolved, now two others will be given the spotlight. But complications will surely arise from taking Jeanne out of the picture. I think her release will thicken the plot, not the opposite. Unrelated side thought: Jeanne killed a lot of people, even psychopomps that came to collect her. But if she can kill pomps, how could they come down to collect the souls of those she killed? The Annan shores should full of vagrant ghosts the pomps were unable to collect... Now THAT would be creepily awesome. Imagine that scene were Annie falls of the bridge, but instead of just Jeanne she wakes up to a crowd of apathetic ghosts from various historical periods wandering around, not acknowledging her presence... Then she looks to the side and there's this single female one with a sword standing by her side and looking straight at her. Slice! |
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Post by mu695 on Jan 31, 2017 18:31:38 GMT
Unrelated side thought: Jeanne killed a lot of people, even psychopomps that came to collect her. But if she can kill pomps, how could they come down to collect the souls of those she killed? The Annan shores should full of vagrant ghosts the pomps were unable to collect... Now THAT would be creepily awesome. Imagine that scene were Annie falls of the bridge, but instead of just Jeanne she wakes up to a crowd of apathetic ghosts from various historical periods wandering around, not acknowledging her presence... Then she looks to the side and there's this single female one with a sword standing by her side and looking straight at her. Slice!It's already been established that Jeanne can deal etheric damage. By the time she's done there'll be nothing left to collect. |
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Post by hp on Jan 31, 2017 18:45:02 GMT
It's already been established that Jeanne can deal etheric damage. By the time she's done there'll be nothing left to collect. When Annie, Kat and Mort visited the RoTD, they were shown VTs with the last words of several beings, including pomps, killed by Jeanne. She doesn't erase her victims' souls from existence or something like that, those people were able to be taken to the RoTD and then escorted into the ether. |
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Post by goldenknots on Jan 31, 2017 19:38:23 GMT
It's already been established that Jeanne can deal etheric damage. By the time she's done there'll be nothing left to collect. When Annie, Kat and Mort visited the RoTD, they were shown VTs with the last words of several beings, including pomps, killed by Jeanne. She doesn't erase her victims' souls from existence or something like that, those people were able to be taken to the RoTD and then escorted into the ether. I found all of that very confusing and contradictory. If there's a record, that would seem to indicate that Jeanne's power was not so great as to prevent the making of records, and a psychopomp would be on hand to collect it. But Jeanne's supposed to be so toxic that nobody can get near her, so... |
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Post by Rasselas on Jan 31, 2017 19:38:50 GMT
Unrelated side thought: Jeanne killed a lot of people, even psychopomps that came to collect her. But if she can kill pomps, how could they come down to collect the souls of those she killed? Good question actually. I think the same way Muut was able to visit Annie: very carefully. It's one thing to go after Jeanne herself, another thing entirely to slip in and collect a lost soul. People probably avoided the ravine altogether, knowing that those who go there don't come back. So there probably weren't that many deaths down there, over the years. |
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Post by fia on Jan 31, 2017 21:05:17 GMT
When Annie, Kat and Mort visited the RoTD, they were shown VTs with the last words of several beings, including pomps, killed by Jeanne. She doesn't erase her victims' souls from existence or something like that, those people were able to be taken to the RoTD and then escorted into the ether. I found all of that very confusing and contradictory. If there's a record, that would seem to indicate that Jeanne's power was not so great as to prevent the making of records, and a psychopomp would be on hand to collect it. But Jeanne's supposed to be so toxic that nobody can get near her, so... I think the thing to remember is that not everyone who dies is, like Jeanne was, tied to the river. She can't move from her spot. But it may be that other ghosts can (like Mort and the ROTD). So perhaps the 'pomps can get to them as soon as they're out of reach of Jeanne. |
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