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Post by todd on Jun 12, 2022 23:19:48 GMT
If this is about the Court leaving - as in "it's happening right now" - I suspect that something will upset it - maybe Loup gatecrashes the meeting. It'd be difficult (at best) to continue the story in a recognizable form if the Court did depart, leaving everyone etheric behind, and there are too many unresolved threads to end the webcomic here. I can't see it ending here, but I could see it turning into a confrontation or even an all-out war. For example, if they Angel-nap Kat, the robots, golems, and NP aren't going to let that go unchallenged! Even worse if they suck out Annie's energy or all the ether energy that's within the perimeter of the court, as that would bring Renard and Loup into it! One more really bad thing that could be about to happen. Remember how the court has a history of using people's technology without their permission? Well Kat's been creating some really cool stuff lately, AND has the arrow. So we may also be heading for consequences caused by a breach of contract. If the court takes the arrow and does something bad with it, Kat will be blamed. On the bright side, we may finally get to see the court actually act, so we can see what they've been planning all this time. I just don't think this is going to be stuff anyone we like will want to see.
Or Loup breaks in, eats the Headmaster and all the other schemers at the top of the Court (it'd be tempting, if that happens, to give it an atmosphere evocative of the Fenris-wolf eating Odin at Ragnarok), is somehow forced out before he can devour anyone else - but with the Court facing the complication that: a) its leaders are no more but b) Loup has, in eating them, removed the bulk of the "amoral manipulators" that were steering the Court down the wrong path (with the survivors among the grown-up Court membership including the Donlans, Eglamore, Antony, and the rest, who weren't part - or a whole-hearted part - of their scheming), offering hope that if the Court survives this attack, it might take a better route. |
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Post by madjack on Jun 13, 2022 3:58:21 GMT
Hmm, well presumably this is an invitation to the Omega project, and thus who will be invited to go with them when they create the "New Court". I wonder which of the other kids got invitations. Janet I am assuming yes as she is the headmasters daughter. Paz probably not, her speaking to animals trick is probably too close to the ether. Winsbury I don't know enough about, but would be interesting if they ended up splitting up all the couples. Annie is disliked by the court but her father is important to them, would he be influential enough to get her an invitation? Or would her lack of invitation drive him out? Perhaps this is why Headmaster Llanwellyn was set up as an overprotective dad. Seeing as he's head of the Shadow Men now, he must have known about the plan to leave and didn't want her forming relationships with people that she might well be ripped away from, especially if the departure date was dependent on 'when Coyote's powers get stolen'. Another idea might be that her super-aim skills might actually be 'too etheric' and he wanted to lead the Shadow Men to be able to pull rank and bring her anyway, as if they're going somewhere without the ether she'd probably lose that but not a lot else?. |
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Post by imaginaryfriend on Jun 13, 2022 7:10:39 GMT
The best part of the pitch is that they don't have to buy. Housing's probably still going to be free along with everything else people need and many things they want based on their perceived level of importance. They just have to agree to continue to work for the Court indefinitely for no other compensation, live under perpetual surveillance, send their kids to the Court school, understand little about how they're being governed, not upset more important people's applecarts... |
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Post by pyradonis on Jun 13, 2022 17:12:11 GMT
William doesn't really seem like a guy anyone would need protection from. I never really understood the problem. Does Llanwellyn have anything against William in particular, or is he one of those super a-holes who would forbid their daughters to have romantic relationships of any kind? |
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Post by todd on Jun 13, 2022 17:51:39 GMT
William doesn't really seem like a guy anyone would need protection from. I never really understood the problem. Does Llanwellyn have anything against William in particular, or is he one of those super a-holes who would forbid their daughters to have romantic relationships of any kind? William did start off (in Chapters Two and Three) as something of a trouble-maker. |
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Post by pyradonis on Jun 14, 2022 9:39:48 GMT
William doesn't really seem like a guy anyone would need protection from. I never really understood the problem. Does Llanwellyn have anything against William in particular, or is he one of those super a-holes who would forbid their daughters to have romantic relationships of any kind? William did start off (in Chapters Two and Three) as something of a trouble-maker. Yes, but he very obviously isn't any more by chapter 34, and if Llanwellyn didn't believe Janet, if he's so worried, as the headmaster he could get reports from the teachers about someone's behaviour. I agree William started out as a bully, but has been a decent fellow for a long time now. |
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Post by silicondream on Jun 15, 2022 1:07:47 GMT
I can't see it ending here, but I could see it turning into a confrontation or even an all-out war. For example, if they Angel-nap Kat, the robots, golems, and NP aren't going to let that go unchallenged! Even worse if they suck out Annie's energy or all the ether energy that's within the perimeter of the court, as that would bring Renard and Loup into it! One more really bad thing that could be about to happen. Remember how the court has a history of using people's technology without their permission? Well Kat's been creating some really cool stuff lately, AND has the arrow. So we may also be heading for consequences caused by a breach of contract. If the court takes the arrow and does something bad with it, Kat will be blamed. On the bright side, we may finally get to see the court actually act, so we can see what they've been planning all this time. I just don't think this is going to be stuff anyone we like will want to see.
Or Loup breaks in, eats the Headmaster and all the other schemers at the top of the Court (it'd be tempting, if that happens, to give it an atmosphere evocative of the Fenris-wolf eating Odin at Ragnarok), is somehow forced out before he can devour anyone else - but with the Court facing the complication that: a) its leaders are no more but b) Loup has, in eating them, removed the bulk of the "amoral manipulators" that were steering the Court down the wrong path (with the survivors among the grown-up Court membership including the Donlans, Eglamore, Antony, and the rest, who weren't part - or a whole-hearted part - of their scheming), offering hope that if the Court survives this attack, it might take a better route. Thinking of N.I.C.E. again, eh? Personally, I would expect the Court to react to a massacre of their leadership by becoming more paranoid and unscrupulous. That's what they've done before when they suffered shattering attacks from the etherics (Coyote's creating the Annan Waters and Loup's first assault.). Nothing radicalizes like martyrdom, after all. OTOH, if the Court openly took its best shot at Loup, failed, and then Team Annie killed him...or helped him kill himself, or whatever...that would make the leadership look incompetent, which IMO is more likely to lead to regime change. Yes, but he very obviously isn't any more by chapter 34, and if Llanwellyn didn't believe Janet, if he's so worried, as the headmaster he could get reports from the teachers about someone's behaviour. I agree he started out as a bully, has been a decent fellow for a long time now. I find it hard to believe that Llanwellyn would be troubled by bullying behavior in the first place. He seems the type to consider it an effective method of social control. |
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Post by todd on Jun 15, 2022 1:53:32 GMT
Thinking of N.I.C.E. again, eh? Not this time, actually. I'm not certain what inspired the notion of Loup crashing it (beyond the fact that, as I've mentioned elsewhere, it'd be in the interests of the story to sabotage the Court's plans to move away, and he's the Court's biggest enemy at present. (And while the Court does feel a bit like N.I.C.E. - if with the obvious difference that the Court's genuinely interested in science - the actual physical sciences - while N.I.C.E. only pretended to be a scientific organization, and even its scientific veneer showed a focus more on social engineering than on the physical sciences - I definitely don't see Loup as a counterpart to the Merlin of "That Hideous Strength". Indeed, I don't see a true counterpart to Loup anywhere in Lewis's book.) |
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