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Post by blahzor on Apr 2, 2021 16:30:22 GMT
or that time Annie asked about that stedman fellow
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Post by warrl on Apr 2, 2021 18:09:28 GMT
Paz really needs to work things around in her head to the point that she takes responsibility and actually apologizes to Annie.
Annie may not need that apology, but Paz does.
Acknowledging that she should have done this would be a poor second best, but still better than not.
She's allowed to take a while to get to that point though: she's a kid, of an age where kids are supposed to be figuring this stuff out.
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Post by Polyhymnia on Apr 2, 2021 22:41:52 GMT
And even more obvious here. Don't forget here, where some strange guy I don't recognise says a lot that could have been ripped straight off the board. And especially here! Okay can’t make the link work on mobile so here: www.gunnerkrigg.com/?p=1825 |
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Post by pyradonis on Apr 3, 2021 9:55:32 GMT
Don't forget here, where some strange guy I don't recognise says a lot that could have been ripped straight off the board. And especially here! Okay can’t make the link work on mobile so here: www.gunnerkrigg.com/?p=1825To be fair, back then there were also people siding with Red. |
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Post by flowsthead on Apr 3, 2021 17:08:08 GMT
To be fair, back then there were also people siding with Red. Yeah it was pretty rough. Annie got a lot of shit at the time. |
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Post by Polyhymnia on Apr 3, 2021 17:25:25 GMT
To be fair, back then there were also people siding with Red. Definitely, but I feel like Annie kind of voices that sentiment? Mostly because she thinks Red is right. Not as strong as some forum members, though. |
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Post by Gemminie on Apr 4, 2021 4:17:06 GMT
To be fair, back then there were also people siding with Red. I remember that – that was back in the time when I was reading the forums (to see if anybody had figured out what the heck had just happened on each page) without actually participating myself. I was siding with Annie, and then Kat said this (panel 2), which was exactly what I was thinking (Smitty might well have died if they'd tried to get him conventional medical attention, and even if he hadn't died, he wouldn't have been good as new for several months, if ever). I mean, they still might have gotten there too late, and also, moving him there via "Bip!" might actually have been quite a shock; it's not as if teleportation has been studied for use by EMTs. Instead, Annie took responsibility, paying a future price, and they healed him with magic/etheric means as if the wound had never happened. Why didn't Smitty decide to wear a Kevlar vest that day? Is it possible that the outcome where Annie has to work for the spirit guides someday is actually luckier than the alternative? I use too many parentheses. |
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Post by pyradonis on Apr 4, 2021 10:28:51 GMT
To be fair, back then there were also people siding with Red. Why didn't Smitty decide to wear a Kevlar vest that day? Probably because a) he doesn't possess a Kevlar vest with plates needed to also protect from piercing weapons -at least AFAIK it's not exactly something the average UK citizen has hanging in their wardrobe -, and
b) he couldn't ask the Court for one because then he would have had to explain what he needed it for, and even then,
c) would it protect from ghostly weapons?
d) They also thought his supernatural luck would protect him from getting hit, just like it protected Ayilu (who, just like Red, also didn't wear any item for protection).
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Post by speedwell on Apr 5, 2021 7:27:47 GMT
d) They also thought his supernatural luck would protect him from getting hit, just like it protected Ayilu (who, just like Red, also didn't wear any item for protection).
That's a good and important point to make about the working of magick in the traditions from which Tom draws heavily. It's not the perfect work of a perfect God; it's the work of human beings with a human understanding of (what would be considered etheric) science, and subject to human fallibility. |
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