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Post by novia on May 4, 2018 17:48:13 GMT
Wow, this is intense. Is the entirety of GKC gonna evacuate? We've never gotten any solid answers on how many people live there, but we know it's the size of a big city. When asked about the size of GKC (comparable to a real life city), Tom mentioned Birmingham. He didn't actually say it was the size of Birmingham - only that he based it on such - but still, let's say GKC is the size of Birmingham. That's a million people! Imagine a city of one million trying to evacuate everyone. How will it be accomplished? With special spaceships? With underground tunnels? Even with 50,000 or so, it would be a big task. remember that the court is mostly empty though... |
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Post by blazingstar on May 4, 2018 19:16:27 GMT
It's possible that Robot was the only one who didn't suffer a system override since he had his entire body rebuilt by Kat. The head part looks original but I'm assuming she had to drop most of the coding it had and create an entire new interface to interact with the grown body she gave him (which if I'm not mistaken is a very simple one that just let him access the components since he had to learn how to do everything just like a human baby learning to walk). If I'm right about it, this is a good source of religious propaganda that he could use, advocating that the Angel gave him not only a body that can truly die but also had free will As long as Robot has his original CPU, I think it's possible for his commands to be overridden. It's happened before. |
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Post by Runningflame on May 4, 2018 19:47:02 GMT
Is this the first time the thumbnail and the chapter cover show the same thing? I guess so, yes.  Nnnnoo, I don't think that's quite the same as the chapter cover. If it were, it would have a little bit of a step in the bottom left corner, and possibly arms of running people in the top left and/or bottom right. I'm guessing this "stationary woman (?)" symbol is going to occur somewhere in the chapter itself. |
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Post by keef on May 4, 2018 20:31:02 GMT
I guess so, yes. Nnnnoo, I don't think that's quite the same as the chapter cover. If it were, it would have a little bit of a step in the bottom left corner, and possibly arms of running people in the top left and/or bottom right. I'm guessing this "stationary woman (?)" symbol is going to occur somewhere in the chapter itself.  Damn. Edit: For Science!  |
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Post by Per on May 4, 2018 20:51:55 GMT
Quick, everybody inside this door labelled "SCP-087"
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Post by jda on May 4, 2018 21:16:35 GMT
Quick, everybody inside this door labelled "SCP-087" Sorry, I dont get that reference |
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Post by warrl on May 4, 2018 21:44:33 GMT
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Post by todd on May 5, 2018 0:15:00 GMT
I wonder what Ysengrin's response will be to the Court's flight. Maybe some gloating at first over victory - but then, after he thinks it over, some concern over a few likely aspects:
1. The Court might see the evacuation as only temporary, with plans to return once they've found some way of countering Ysengrin in his new state.
2. Even if they're permanently driven from the area, they could try rebuilding elsewhere, continuing with their experiments (I mentioned earlier that, judging from Reynardine's response to the Court's experiments with the ether at the power plant, those aren't common knowledge among the forest-folk, but Coyote was probably aware of them - and Ysengrin could have acquired Coyote's knowledge in the course of eating him), and now beyond the reach of Gilltie Wood - thereby making themselves far more dangerous. Ysengrin might conclude that it's better to either keep the Court where he can see it, or destroy it utterly - as in, mass slaughter.
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Post by netherdan on May 5, 2018 2:31:37 GMT
Quick, everybody inside this door labelled "SCP-087" GKC is absolutely one of the SCP Foundation Sites. I think it's probably Site-██ where they keep the [DATA EXPUNGED] |
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Post by warrl on May 5, 2018 4:50:33 GMT
Quick, everybody inside this door labelled "SCP-087" GKC is absolutely one of the SCP Foundation Sites. I think it's probably Site-██ where they keep the [DATA EXPUNGED]   |
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Post by todd on May 5, 2018 15:54:28 GMT
Another question that just occurred to me; where will the Court's population be evacuated to? Do they have a plan for that? (At least whatever trouble in the outside world they were supposedly fleeing from when they founded the Court is most likely over by now - though I suspect that the Founders were more likely running towards something than away from it, in any case.)
I have a suspicion the students are going to be scattered to schools throughout Great Britain (or possibly even further than that - Paz, say, going back to Spain).
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Post by netherdan on May 5, 2018 18:09:06 GMT
Another question that just occurred to me; where will the Court's population be evacuated to? Do they have a plan for that? (At least whatever trouble in the outside world they were supposedly fleeing from when they founded the Court is most likely over by now - though I suspect that the Founders were more likely running towards something than away from it, in any case.) I have a suspicion the students are going to be scattered to schools throughout Great Britain (or possibly even further than that - Paz, say, going back to Spain). I think the founders were fleeing from ethics. If that's so, it's theoretically not over yet Another good one: from which place will they evacuate? I don't think we've seen the Court's entrance or any outside world access, the thing that mostly resembled a front gate was facing Gillitie Woods. I guess we'll find out soon... Maybe E1 stand for Evacuation Site 1, so they must have multiple plans But is it truly a smart move to evacuate now knowing that a psychotic godly coywolf with super speed and a kink for killing humans is around and waiting outside? Maybe they'll have another pressing reason to flee, like Gamma being incapacitated |
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Post by bedinsis on May 5, 2018 19:39:10 GMT
Short prediction for Monday: I predict the chapter will begin in a similar way to Microsat 5. Id est in medias res with text boxes explaining the situation.
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Post by pyradonis on May 5, 2018 19:41:49 GMT
Looks like you really hammered that home He nailed it. Only a total tool would not get it. |
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Post by pyradonis on May 5, 2018 19:42:29 GMT
Imagine explaining this one to parents. "Your child has to come home temporarily, we have a giant tree growing out of the quad, it's very concerning and the school will be closed until the scary tree is dealt with. Also there's a homicidal wolf Coyote man thing running around." I doubt they'd admit that; otherwise, the parents would decide that the Court sounds too dangerous a place to send their children, and transfer them to more ordinary schools - most likely costing the Court future talent. (How they keep the children from talking about it, though, I don't know.) The same way they keep the children from talking about that freaky cruise ship incident I assume. |
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Post by todd on May 6, 2018 0:12:43 GMT
I doubt they'd admit that; otherwise, the parents would decide that the Court sounds too dangerous a place to send their children, and transfer them to more ordinary schools - most likely costing the Court future talent. (How they keep the children from talking about it, though, I don't know.) The same way they keep the children from talking about that freaky cruise ship incident I assume. Except we don't know if the Court adults even knew about the events in "The Torn Sea". |
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Post by todd on May 6, 2018 0:16:18 GMT
But is it truly a smart move to evacuate now knowing that a psychotic godly coywolf with super speed and a kink for killing humans is around and waiting outside? Maybe they'll have another pressing reason to flee, like Gamma being incapacitated Probably not that; bringing the Zimmy thread in at this point would make things way too complicated. More likely the Court will simply have evacuation procedures that Ysengrin can't or won't interfere with. Or - since the final page of the last chapter showed that Ysengrin was demanding a meeting - maybe Ysengrin will announce at the meeting that he's revoking Coyote's permission for the Court to stay, that the land on which the Court stands is now forest property, and the Court have so many hours to pack and leave, in the manner of evicting difficult tenants. |
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Post by pyradonis on May 6, 2018 10:40:51 GMT
The same way they keep the children from talking about that freaky cruise ship incident I assume. Except we don't know if the Court adults even knew about the events in "The Torn Sea". Lindsey is a Court employee. And I do believe the other Court officials would have asked why she wrecked their cruise ship, why it was piloted back manually by robots, and why there was a dead whale head growing out of it. |
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Post by todd on May 6, 2018 12:32:29 GMT
Except we don't know if the Court adults even knew about the events in "The Torn Sea". Lindsey is a Court employee. And I do believe the other Court officials would have asked why she wrecked their cruise ship, why it was piloted back manually by robots, and why there was a dead whale head growing out of it. Probably, but we've seen no discussion of the incident afterwards, or any sign that the Court adults had learned about it. (Then again, the role - or lack of a role - of the Court adults in the chapter raises its own questions. Why did none of them spot the Seraphs stealing the equipment they needed to pull off the plan? Why were there no adult chaperons on board? Maybe the Court higher-ups are cynical enough to endanger an entire year of students for the sake of an experiment, as some readers have suggested, but I can't imagine the Donlans, Eglamore, or Jones going along with it, and they're all sharp-eyed and alert enough to notice something like this; where were they during this time? Or is it all just a case of the usually-competent adults at the Court becoming temporarily negligent and inattentive for the sake of the story?) |
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Post by jda on May 6, 2018 13:47:35 GMT
Lindsey is a Court employee. And I do believe the other Court officials would have asked why she wrecked their cruise ship, why it was piloted back manually by robots, and why there was a dead whale head growing out of it. Probably, but we've seen no discussion of the incident afterwards, or any sign that the Court adults had learned about it. (Then again, the role - or lack of a role - of the Court adults in the chapter raises its own questions. Why did none of them spot the Seraphs stealing the equipment they needed to pull off the plan? Why were there no adult chaperons on board? Maybe the Court higher-ups are cynical enough to endanger an entire year of students for the sake of an experiment, as some readers have suggested, but I can't imagine the Donlans, Eglamore, or Jones going along with it, and they're all sharp-eyed and alert enough to notice something like this; where were they during this time? Or is it all just a case of the usually-competent adults at the Court becoming temporarily negligent and inattentive for the sake of the story?) I feel it is more like everybody takes for granted that robots' supervision equals Adult supervision. And since the full trip seems to have taken a couple of days at most,... |
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Post by todd on May 6, 2018 14:03:06 GMT
I feel it is more like everybody takes for granted that robots' supervision equals Adult supervision. And since the full trip seems to have taken a couple of days at most,... Perhaps. It might also have been a case of everyone being taken in by the robots' "comical buffoon" image (things like deciding that the best way to hide a secret headquarters was to put a big sign outside claiming that it's not a secret headquarters), and thus dismissing them as too inept to pull something like this off. Maybe the robots have been deliberately cultivating that image to dupe the humans into underestimating them. |
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Post by pyradonis on May 6, 2018 15:49:13 GMT
Lindsey is a Court employee. And I do believe the other Court officials would have asked why she wrecked their cruise ship, why it was piloted back manually by robots, and why there was a dead whale head growing out of it. Probably, but we've seen no discussion of the incident afterwards, or any sign that the Court adults had learned about it. That is true and one of the things puzzling me the most about the entire comic. But there is no way in hell they would not have learned about it. The Court, always depicted as using more tracking and observation devices than any real-world government, should not realize something has happened during that boat trip? That is simply impossible. |
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Post by todd on May 6, 2018 23:41:15 GMT
Probably, but we've seen no discussion of the incident afterwards, or any sign that the Court adults had learned about it. That is true and one of the things puzzling me the most about the entire comic. But there is no way in hell they would not have learned about it. The Court, always depicted as using more tracking and observation devices than any real-world government, should not realize something has happened during that boat trip? That is simply impossible. Yes. I'm hoping that the story will provide some explanation for the Court's seeming inactivity in that chapter before the comic ends. |
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Post by jda on May 7, 2018 0:12:56 GMT
That is true and one of the things puzzling me the most about the entire comic. But there is no way in hell they would not have learned about it. The Court, always depicted as using more tracking and observation devices than any real-world government, should not realize something has happened during that boat trip? That is simply impossible. Yes. I'm hoping that the story will provide some explanation for the Court's seeming inactivity in that chapter before the comic ends. Right now, only a Maze Runner level of conspiracy would explain it: "Everything was exactly planned to develop a specific brain pattern, even you knowing it" |
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Post by philman on May 7, 2018 11:39:19 GMT
Probably, but we've seen no discussion of the incident afterwards, or any sign that the Court adults had learned about it. That is true and one of the things puzzling me the most about the entire comic. But there is no way in hell they would not have learned about it. The Court, always depicted as using more tracking and observation devices than any real-world government, should not realize something has happened during that boat trip? That is simply impossible. We see most things from Annie and Kat's point of view. Just because we aren't seeing the court's investigation, doesn't mean there isn't one. It just means that Annie and Kat are not aware of it. OR it is one of the other many things going on at the court that Kat and Annie might or might not know about, but we haven't been told. |
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