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Post by philman on Jul 5, 2021 7:02:10 GMT
But no Pop?Well Coyote/Loup has had his fun destroying the peace, now it's the Court's turn
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Post by Fhqwhgads on Jul 5, 2021 7:05:20 GMT
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Post by ebaaus on Jul 5, 2021 7:10:53 GMT
This is some great artwork.
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Post by imaginaryfriend on Jul 5, 2021 7:15:24 GMT
Now we know why they needed so many Shadow Men. I count 13 (minus Aata and Shell) so if they're spaced 30m apart they can make a relay chain 390ish meters. Assuming that puts them in range of the equipment they brought and the larger units don't have more than double the reach that's half a kilometer or so. Not as deep in the Wood as I thought they'd be. |
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Post by madjack on Jul 5, 2021 7:21:47 GMT
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Post by arf on Jul 5, 2021 7:28:42 GMT
A relay system, indeed. I wonder if the 'power stations' were the prototypes and, like John Harris' chronometers H1 - H4, the sticking point was miniaturisation?
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Post by madjack on Jul 5, 2021 7:31:15 GMT
A relay system, indeed. I wonder if the 'power stations' were the prototypes and, like John Harris' chronometers H1 - H4, the sticking point was miniaturisation? Might well have had no need to scale them down until this opportunity came along. If vacuuming the fragment of Coyote out of Loup is what they're after, perhaps they didn't need full power versions for just a fragment of a god? |
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Post by maxptc on Jul 5, 2021 7:39:51 GMT
I'd assume at first glance this is a "if you kill us you don't get the message" tactic, but then why even deliver the bottle? More to it I suspect.
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Post by jda on Jul 5, 2021 7:41:07 GMT
No, they hope a lot more from that encounter. Maybe to destroy Loup, or to control him somehow? They've been playing around with the ether, anything is possible really. Extract the Ether from Coyote. Like with the water.Only a measly canine would remain. I will start my oven for my own Etheric cookies |
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Post by imaginaryfriend on Jul 5, 2021 7:49:03 GMT
A relay system, indeed. I wonder if the 'power stations' were the prototypes and, like John Harris' chronometers H1 - H4, the sticking point was miniaturisation? Might well have had no need to scale them down until this opportunity came along. If vacuuming the fragment of Coyote out of Loup is what they're after, perhaps they didn't need full power versions for just a fragment of a god? My guess is the relays are just relays, specialized antenna. The ether extractor/purifier is still probably quite large. I'll double down on my spec that the knocked-down extractor was put back together in the red zone. |
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Post by aline on Jul 5, 2021 8:03:50 GMT
Well. That's it for Loup. I'm not too sad to see him go, but I'm worried for the rest of the Forest.
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Post by bicarbonat on Jul 5, 2021 8:10:04 GMT
I'm most interested in what's happening at the end of this conga line - namely, improbably, Aata shaking that etheric honeystick for all he's worth.
Also, it's good that Annie will be there for the aftermath of this. Things may get a bit "Old Yeller."
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Post by maxptc on Jul 5, 2021 8:15:54 GMT
Well. That's it for Loup. I'm not too sad to see him go, but I'm worried for the rest of the Forest. I agree, it might be a little early but this looks like the end of Loup to me. |
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Post by wlerin on Jul 5, 2021 8:28:50 GMT
I will start my oven for my own Etheric cookies A shame you didn't link this page, wherein we were told that station was specifically for extracting ether from lake water. (Since Coyote is the one who told us it was "lake water" in the first place, and George had no clue what he meant (what lake?) I think that confirms Coyote's plan is still on track. |
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Post by kefka on Jul 5, 2021 8:31:41 GMT
I wonder if this could start some sort of civil war on the Court.
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Post by mimhoff on Jul 5, 2021 8:56:55 GMT
Well. That's it for Loup. I'm not too sad to see him go, but I'm worried for the rest of the Forest. I agree, it might be a little early but this looks like the end of Loup to me. Loup can't die until he agrees that Coyote's plan is wonderful!So how much of this is in the plan? |
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Post by aline on Jul 5, 2021 9:01:52 GMT
So how much of this is in the plan? So far, I imagine, everything. Coyote knew about the Court's research, so if he predicted Ysengrin would eat him, this development can't have been much of a surprise. |
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Post by blahzor on Jul 5, 2021 10:03:01 GMT
free ride to Court jail for you Coyote spirit!
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Post by rafk on Jul 5, 2021 10:42:03 GMT
I'd assume at first glance this is a "if you kill us you don't get the message" tactic, but then why even deliver the bottle? More to it I suspect. Was the last Tesla coil in the chain, the one at Coyote/Loup, contained in the bottle too? Not sure how it got there, the thing thrown in panel 1 doesn't look like a Tesla coil and in fact it looks like an anchor? Possibly some kind of etheric anchor to prevent Coyote/Loup teleporting out? It may also be that this moment of Coyote emerging creates a moment of vulnerability to what they're doing that they couldn't reliably generate without giving up the lake water bottle. It also LOOKS to me like the energy is coming FROM Coyote - that they are draining Coyote/Loup using some kind of huge negative etheric potential (probably related to the power station) rather than blasting him. |
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Post by rafk on Jul 5, 2021 10:47:30 GMT
Well. That's it for Loup. I'm not too sad to see him go, but I'm worried for the rest of the Forest. I'm just waiting for Coyote's counterstrike myself. The Court is clever, but are they clever ENOUGH? |
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Post by manabi on Jul 5, 2021 10:51:25 GMT
So how much of this is in the plan? So far, I imagine, everything. Coyote knew about the Court's research, so if he predicted Ysengrin would eat him, this development can't have been much of a surprise. I also suspect that Coyote was deliberately taking memories from Ysengrin to make sure Ysengrin would eat him given the chance. Ysengrin was aware that he was losing memories, but not what they were. He wanted them back. |
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Post by dvanbenn on Jul 5, 2021 11:58:25 GMT
So how much of this is in the plan? So far, I imagine, everything. Coyote knew about the Court's research, so if he predicted Ysengrin would eat him, this development can't have been much of a surprise. I wonder if one of the points of creating Loup, was the force the Court hand into using the weapon. That way rather than trapping or killing Coyote it gets Ysengrin instead. Ysengrin could be in real trouble since his body was already so weakened by Coyote's gift. |
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Post by Per on Jul 5, 2021 11:58:57 GMT
Was the last Tesla coil in the chain, the one at Coyote/Loup, contained in the bottle too? Not sure how it got there, the thing thrown in panel 1 doesn't look like a Tesla coil and in fact it looks like an anchor? They're ground symbols from electronic schematronics. |
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Post by todd on Jul 5, 2021 13:04:21 GMT
Well. That's it for Loup. I'm not too sad to see him go, but I'm worried for the rest of the Forest. It raises the question of what happens to Gillitie Wood with Loup now (apparently) incapacitated. Will it weaken and wither again, as it did beore Coyote arrived? Or will it become even more dangerous and aggressive without a leader to control it? (The Court's undoubtedly hoping for the former - with the dark possibility that its next step, once certain that there's no longer a "Lord of the Forest", being to send in a team armed with chainsaws to cut down all the trees, reducing Gillitie to nothing more than a lot of stumps, and another team to round up all the remaining inhabitants and haul them off for incarceration.) |
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Post by saardvark on Jul 5, 2021 13:50:17 GMT
I will start my oven for my own Etheric cookies a tray of cookies is in order! well speculated.... I suspect the daisy chain of antennae will lead back to the device the shadow doods set up at the edge of the forest: www.gunnerkrigg.com/?p=2479which is itself a relay antenna to send the Coyote/Loup ether back deep into the court. They are draining off a huge amount of etheric energy, it appears mostly from the Coyote fragment that appeared. Im guessing this is a Coyote fragment (like after the last item chomped by Loup) since Loup needs to confirm the brilliance of Coyote's plan before he dies and Coyote comes back fully... and Loup cant do that if he's getting croaked right here. So if this is just a Coyote fragment, he might not be losing that much of his total ether supply, and if the Court's plan is to de-godify him, it will fail. On the other hand, it might also (through Coyote) be draining Loup's ether as well, thus making the Court the agent of Loup's demise. Which may have been Coyote's plan all along.... |
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Post by pyradonis on Jul 5, 2021 14:08:11 GMT
I like the special FX. Was the last Tesla coil in the chain, the one at Coyote/Loup, contained in the bottle too? Not sure how it got there, the thing thrown in panel 1 doesn't look like a Tesla coil and in fact it looks like an anchor? They're ground symbols from electronic schematronics. There are different versions of symbols for electric ground (in fact one was seen in the comic above the entry to Jeanne's tomb), but none look like these things. They look like antennas, like the ones seen on the device the Shadow Men left at the edge of the forest. |
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Post by liminal on Jul 5, 2021 14:22:32 GMT
Shell and friends really be like  |
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Post by Gotolei on Jul 5, 2021 16:14:51 GMT
Part of me wonders what happens if Annie laserbeams the extractor/node/thingy that's hanging in the air right in front of her. Like we saw her shattering stone in a flashback last chapter, is this scaled-down machinery resilient enough to bear that kind of energy? Would it be a suddenly-much-more-violent beam that's sent along the nodes and the un-gloved hands of those holding them, or would it just vaporize the thing? Normally they wouldn't go to all this trouble for a poochyena but shiny events only happen so often |
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Post by maxptc on Jul 5, 2021 16:29:53 GMT
Would you like to give Coyete a nickname? BUTT was sent Kats PC. |
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Post by Corvo on Jul 5, 2021 17:14:35 GMT
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