[2419] What Can We Do?

[Timberwere]

Of course they find the toy shop first thing they do.

[philman]

Dammit Gamma, haven't you heard of tempting fate before

[madjack]

Jan 22, 2021 8:15:58 GMT philman said:

Dammit Gamma, haven't you heard of tempting fate before

Fate probably stays well clear of Zimmy and anyone around her.

[imaginaryfriend]

So... Guessing that Antimonies don't know Gamma well enough to generate a fake out of her memories, I suppose they'll find a Gamma in the toy store that Zeta believes she deserves. That's not gonna be pretty. Hopefully they'll just find some sort of huge freakish monster that symbolizes that instead. They can run from that, at least.

[blahzor]

Gamma doesn't want her to go to the toy shop and find Zimmy with a ex

[daria]

Still no guesses where are Rey and Gamma? If you think that it is obviously ether because of Rey, I'll tell you that it’s not obvious because of Gamma

[Vuk(Wolf)]

Rey can use his Familiar-phone to tell Annies not to enter the cursed toy store, given those are Annies at all.

[Jelly Jellybean]

Clowns in the Toy Store?  It may not be fatal, but it is still clowns.

If this is a memory from before Zimmy meet Gamma, maybe it is before Gamma removed the clown stuff from the toy store.

Jan 22, 2021 11:01:47 GMT Vuk(Wolf) said:

Rey can use his Familiar-phone to tell Annies not to enter the cursed toy store, given those are Annies at all.

Their connection is severed.

[Corvo]

I'm loving the panel transitions! Very nicely done!

[Vuk(Wolf)]

Jan 22, 2021 11:35:35 GMT Jelly Jellybean said:

Clowns in the Toy Store?  It may not be fatal, but it is still clowns.

If this is a memory from before Zimmy meet Gamma, maybe it is before Gamma removed the clown stuff from the toy store.

Jan 22, 2021 11:01:47 GMT Vuk(Wolf) said:

Rey can use his Familiar-phone to tell Annies not to enter the cursed toy store, given those are Annies at all.

Their connection is severed.

But that's not real Renard, that's part of antimony as Gamma says.

[ohthatone]

Dang it, Gamma, choose a hair length and stick to it.

[ctso74]

Annie: "At least, it's not raining."

Jan 22, 2021 8:53:18 GMT imaginaryfriend said:

So... Guessing that Antimonies don't know Gamma well enough to generate a fake out of her memories, I suppose they'll find a Gamma in the toy store that Zeta believes she deserves. That's not gonna be pretty. Hopefully they'll just find some sort of huge freakish monster that symbolizes that instead. They can run from that, at least.

Or a reenactment of a bullying instance, using the elves as stand-ins. Sort of a weird version of the Bullbot in The Tomb.

[jda]

Jan 22, 2021 9:39:17 GMT blahzor said:

Gamma doesn't want her to go to the toy shop and find Zimmy with a ex

NO. Gamma does not want them to go to the toy store because there is... the real Gamma, and thus, the narrating Gamma will disapppear.

[jda]

wELP

[bedinsis]

Huh, this makes me wonder: if this scenario is a mash-up of Zimmy's memories does that mean that Zimmy went to the toy store after her encounter with the teenagers and it somehow became worse?

[shadow3]

(☞ﾟ∀ﾟ)☞ "Heeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeere's CHUCKY!!!"

[zbeeblebrox]

Jan 22, 2021 9:52:39 GMT daria said:

Still no guesses where are Rey and Gamma? If you think that it is obviously ether because of Rey, I'll tell you that it’s not obvious because of Gamma

I'd say it's just the ether.
It's just that Zimmy's uncontrollable constructs lock normal people out of the 'normal' ether-space. But Rey is not normal people, and Gamma is a Zimmy filter so she's not normal people either. In fact this is probably how Gamma always sees these constructs when they happen.

[ohthatone]

Back in Power Station going to the toy store was zimmys plan- she established it was their place to meet. Here, while not zimmys idea, she isn't against it. So what changed that gamma knows but zimmy doesnt?
Maybe gamma is worried if zimmy doesnt find her there as usual, zimmy will panic and that's when the REAL fun starts.

[imaginaryfriend]

Jan 22, 2021 17:46:54 GMT zbeeblebrox said:

Jan 22, 2021 9:52:39 GMT daria said:

Still no guesses where are Rey and Gamma? If you think that it is obviously ether because of Rey, I'll tell you that it’s not obvious because of Gamma

I'd say it's just the ether.
It's just that Zimmy's uncontrollable constructs lock normal people out of the 'normal' ether-space. But Rey is not normal people, and Gamma is a Zimmy filter so she's not normal people either. In fact this is probably how Gamma always sees these constructs when they happen.

Agree; I think that Gamma and Renard are in Zimmingham-adjacent etheric space. Renard is an etheric creature and therefore apparently can't get sucked in to Zimmingham like the regular mortals but Gamma's locked out because of Zeta's mood. Presumably Gamma will be able to get in when Zeta's mood changes and resolve the incident. What Renard can and will do is more uncertain but I figure he should be able to get in (or entirely out) at some point if he wants to badly enough. He may have to wait for Gamma to be let in so he can figure out how... but he may be able to figure it out on his own now that he knows what's going on, and go in and help.

[fia]

Gamma said two pages ago that these kids beat Zimmy up before they met. So the toy store may be even creepier now "prior" to Gamma showing up. 

[gpvos]

Something terrible is going to happen. They'll meet Boxbot in the toy store.

[drmemory]

You know, Zimmy didn't actually say who "they" were, as in "they came and gutted it". In a normal context I'd assume that "they" was the owner of the toy store or something but Tom doesn't often take the easy or obvious path.

Also, Gamma was just talking about the bullying incident, then about going to the toy store being a bad idea. Maybe that's where Zimmy got beat up? I certainly hope we don't get a reenactment of that, demonstrated on the Annies!  It doesn't seem like the Annies or Renard have any powers in here...  Can she handle 3-4 young, athletic elves?  Maybe.  She does know some martial arts.  But, if it's a recreation, it might not be a fair fight.

I don't remember Zimmy or Gamma ever mentioning what was up with the toy soldiers or the stuffed toys. Or the library, for that matter. In this case, we the audience know a little more than the Annies. I don't remember ever seeing any hints that she understood how to defend in Zimmyland. Or for that matter, what one might want to defend against other than the easily-popped nobodies.

[jda]

Welp, let's hope Gamma is wrong, ... again.