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Post by bedinsis on Jul 11, 2022 7:00:58 GMT
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Post by madjack on Jul 11, 2022 7:12:01 GMT
Quick Loup, ruin something else, that'll make everything right.
I wonder if we'll follow him or switch back to Kat here, interested to see how she'll come away from this big meeting.
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Post by stclair on Jul 11, 2022 7:52:35 GMT
Curses, my cunning plan to split them up so I could have her all to myself has failed!
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Post by kefka on Jul 11, 2022 8:13:36 GMT
Honestly it's really creepy if he's really doing this because he has a crush on Annie.
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Post by speedwell on Jul 11, 2022 8:26:48 GMT
"Feh"?  Loup speaks Yiddish now? (Jewish chick laughs hard enough to scare the cat)No, but seriously, what was Annie about to confide? Well, we already knew one of her powers as a fire elemental is being especially attractive to Etheric beings, in a general sense. All the apparently silly material about how to rebuff robots hitting on you has looked like foreshadowing for a good while now. Really though I think Coyote always coldly resented, and Ysengrin hotly resented, Renard's involvement with the Court, and that may have even been the original intent, predating Annie and maybe even Surma. But, truly, any particular attraction he has for Annie is crude and animalistic to a degree because he is, however gifted with intelligence, a crude primal being, the essence of the Forest, and in opposition to the Court. Yeah, I know it amused Coyote to play house with the Court for a while, but it was never going to end with some sort of permanently amicable marriage of such disparate cultures.
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Post by bicarbonat on Jul 11, 2022 8:40:18 GMT
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Escalation it is!
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Post by shadow3 on Jul 11, 2022 8:48:38 GMT
This came to mind: if Renard's original body really is gone, then Kat could make a new body for Renard with her bio tech.
It also brings to mind: Renard could get a special weaponized body that can be used to go toe to toe with Loup in a fight.
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Post by speedwell on Jul 11, 2022 9:01:50 GMT
This is deadly serious stuff in a deceptively plain and simple package, to be sure. It's one thing for the 700-odd-year-old legendary character to offer to spend the 70-odd years of a human companion's remaining life with her. That would be a commitment roughly equivalent to what I gave to my last job. But we have two arguably immortal entities here pledging an eternal life bond. If I were the mother of either of them I would gently remind them how much work they will have to put in to maintain that bond, even if they do everything right.
Of course I have to remind myself that the "familiar" relationship already contained all this, so although it is serious, it isn't a surprise.
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Post by agasa on Jul 11, 2022 12:17:49 GMT
This is so sweet, it smells like a red flag. It has the same emotional impact of announcing he's going to retire and marry his high school sweetheart.
Wild spec: Rey's about to die.
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Post by stef1987 on Jul 11, 2022 12:54:22 GMT
That link of yours goes to "http://redirect.viglink.com/?key=71fe2139a887ad501313cd8cce3053c5&subId=1734310&u=https%3A//www.gunnerkrigg.com/%3Fp%3D2648", which looks fishy. dunno if that's an issue on my pc, yours, or the forum |
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Post by bedinsis on Jul 11, 2022 13:00:48 GMT
That link of yours goes to "http://redirect.viglink.com/?key=71fe2139a887ad501313cd8cce3053c5&subId=1734310&u=https%3A//www.gunnerkrigg.com/%3Fp%3D2648", which looks fishy. dunno if that's an issue on my pc, yours, or the forum I noticed that as well when I had just made that post, but when I tried to edit it it claimed that the link I used was the one I intended, i.e. www.gunnerkrigg.com/?p=2648, so I let it be. Nonetheless, I just updated it; the redirect-viglink seems to now have disappeared. EDIT: spoke too soon. |
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Post by Corvo on Jul 11, 2022 13:28:05 GMT
That link of yours goes to "http://redirect.viglink.com/?key=71fe2139a887ad501313cd8cce3053c5&subId=1734310&u=https%3A//www.gunnerkrigg.com/%3Fp%3D2648", which looks fishy. dunno if that's an issue on my pc, yours, or the forum I noticed that as well when I had just made that post, but when I tried to edit it it claimed that the link I used was the one I intended, i.e. www.gunnerkrigg.com/?p=2648, so I let it be. Nonetheless, I just updated it; the redirect-viglink seems to now have disappeared. EDIT: spoke too soon. Edit: Same problem here. Seens to be an issue with Proboards. Edit 2: The same happens with any links from old threads too. Definitely a Proboards issue. |
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Post by liminal on Jul 11, 2022 13:51:51 GMT
This is the last time we saw Renard in his imp form.
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Post by ctso74 on Jul 11, 2022 13:52:37 GMT
Annie: "And hey, at least it's not raining."
Rey: "Right?"
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Post by madjack on Jul 11, 2022 13:56:38 GMT
This is the last time we saw Renard in his imp form. We saw it briefly again when everyone got mad at the arbiter. |
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Post by blahzor on Jul 11, 2022 14:28:03 GMT
Wonder if he's mad
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Post by liminal on Jul 11, 2022 14:33:11 GMT
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Post by csj on Jul 11, 2022 14:43:44 GMT
"Feh"? Loup speaks Yiddish now? walkspaws towards annieפֿעפֿעפֿעפֿע |
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Post by Gemminie on Jul 11, 2022 14:57:55 GMT
After Renard says he'll follow Annie wherever she goes, even to the psychopomps, and Annie agrees, Renard pops into humanoid-plushie form and hops onto her shoulder. They agree never to part, and Renard says his current body (made by Surma, owned by Annie) isn't so bad.
But Loup, in Jerrek form, has been watching and listening from a distance and is not pleased by this. Jealous of the bond between Annie and Renard, he hopes to move closer to Annie as Jerrek, but his act of revenge seems to have driven Annie and Renard closer together, so this may make Loup's task more difficult.
Jerrek/Loup departs with a "Feh," going elsewhere. Will we follow him on the next page, or will we continue to follow Annie and Renard? This looks like a pullaway from them. Does this mean that we'll see what happens to Jerrek next? This implies that either he'll do something, or something will happen to him. What could that be? Well, Lana could find Jerrek and express her affection for him, which would be an awesome development. Or the Court could attempt to entrap him, still needing a godlike amount of etheric energy, and perhaps they'll do a better job than Kat did. Perhaps Omega predicted where he'd go – or perhaps they can use Omega inversely, finding the locus of the uncertainties in Omega's predictions. Or perhaps we'll just see the next nefarious thing Loup plans to do. But I really think that the artwork, showing Jerrek moving at Loup-speed but not looking where he's going, suggests that he'll bump into something he didn't expect.
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Post by antiyonder on Jul 11, 2022 18:58:56 GMT
So if we don't see what's right after, I'm guessing he says/thinks "Like I care that he is around Antimony often. It's not like I'm jealous>:-(!".
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Post by warrl on Jul 11, 2022 21:50:50 GMT
And we'll all believe he isn't jealous.
Yeah, right.
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Post by maxptc on Jul 11, 2022 21:53:27 GMT
I'm choosing to ignore possible creepiness here because the Loup failing and Rey dying comments have my cynicism firing in a new direction: Loup is aware his shot didn't land and if anything had the opposite effect he wanted. Sure hope he doesn't escalate things further because of that. Like by splitting the magic link between Annie and Rey or doing something else only a God could.
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Post by Gotolei on Jul 11, 2022 23:37:26 GMT
I noticed that as well when I had just made that post, but when I tried to edit it it claimed that the link I used was the one I intended, i.e. www.gunnerkrigg.com/?p=2648, so I let it be. Nonetheless, I just updated it; the redirect-viglink seems to now have disappeared. EDIT: spoke too soon. Edit: Same problem here. Seens to be an issue with Proboards. Edit 2: The same happens with any links from old threads too. Definitely a Proboards issue. If you know a lick of js, poke at what proboards is doing in the background and yeah there's a script that adds viglink redirects to any link that isn't a proboards.com domain. It's actually been going on for years (apparently at least August 2016 going off of a quick search of the forums), it just seems in the past week or so they stepped it up a notch so it's happening more often. ublock origin filter proboards.com##^script:has-text(vglnk) if you're not on a chromium-based browser |
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Post by arf on Jul 12, 2022 0:34:29 GMT
Annie: So it's decided
Rey: We will never part.
Annie(giving a fond squeeze): Nev... OW!!
Rey: What?
Annie:... What are all these needles doing inside you?
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Post by avurai on Jul 12, 2022 1:20:04 GMT
Annie: So it's decided Rey: We will never part. Annie(giving a fond squeeze): Nev... OW!! Rey: What? Annie:... What are all these needles doing inside you? Rey: Antimony, those are your lock-picking tools. They’ve been in my body since I took control of it—for two or three years now. Annie: ... They’re sharp though. Rey: I think I used them as claws one time. |
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Post by theonethatgotaway on Jul 12, 2022 7:17:02 GMT
Why is no one mentioning tiny little Rey BUTTCHEEKS!  |
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Post by saardvark on Jul 12, 2022 11:53:31 GMT
Why is no one mentioning tiny little Rey BUTTCHEEKS! gaaaah! double-plus-cuteness! |
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Post by rabbit on Jul 12, 2022 18:52:15 GMT
Why is no one mentioning tiny little Rey BUTTCHEEKS! gaaaah! double-plus-cuteness! "Rey was the nazz, with God-like [RADIO EDIT]" |
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Post by drmemory on Jul 12, 2022 19:51:49 GMT
I wonder what Loup thought was going to happen? He had to know Annie wouldn't drop him or think less of him as a result of what was done. Maybe he was just hoping to make him really depressed? Crush his furry little ego? As for the viglink thing, I did a little research. It's both a legit monetization company, AND a vehicle used for malware. Don't know which yet but I won't be linking to anything here until it is resolved. I assume this is something only proboards can resolve, and they may be doing it on purpose. Who knows? If you google for it, the removal guide on pcrisk.com provides a pretty good explanation, but again, if proboards is doing this on purpose, then nothing can be done by us. I'm actually sort of glad it isn't on my end - sometimes URL-writers are malware on your local system or inserted by your internet provider. This seems to be confined to proboards.
I recommend not clicking any of those links until we know for sure.
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Post by maxptc on Jul 12, 2022 21:02:13 GMT
I wonder what Loup thought was going to happen? He had to know Annie wouldn't drop him or think less of him as a result of what was done. Maybe he was just hoping to make him really depressed? Crush his furry little ego? Good question. I dunno if Loup really had a end result in mind. Create drama through trauma, assuming that would strain the relationship? Maybe he thought Rey would blow up or breakdown when he lost his original body and lash out the way Ysengrin might respond. |
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Loup speaks Yiddish now?
