[2660] "Kat, who was saying all of this?"

[imaginaryfriend]

I'm sure that's not really the ocean talking. It just looks a bit like it.

[madjack]

Well this raises more questions than it answers.

[basser]

Ay guys the Seed Bismuth was people all along! People made of ocean goo.

Have to admit the face also kinda looks like Zimmy's gop-monsters, though.

[noone3]

All the techies of Gunnerkrigg are being bamboozled by some etheric abomination!

[flowsthead]

It is interesting that it has memory altering powers. That's gotta be on purpose. Wonder what the glypths are on the face.

[arf]

Wearing the Seed Bismuth as a hat to distract attention was a stroke of genius.

[imaginaryfriend]

The glyphs on the face look sorta like lightning bolts to me, crossed with a Siddell-esque question mark, but I think they're just fancified versions of the scribble that appears on Nobodies' faces. Gotta figure it's from the anti-memory whatever, but I also wonder if the figure isn't really there but is appearing through telepresence from the other side of the ocean (thus the ocean-ish appearance).

[bicarbonat]

My first thought was, "Hang it UP, Maitreya – we get it, Earth is horrible" ... Whoever it is, I feel like there's a real rope-a-dope at play somewhere.

And where is Aata, anyway?

[blahzor]

Odds of this not being a version of Kat is 90494837404 to 1

[csj]

'Be Not Afraid' i say as my body merges with the ether to become the most immortal asshole ever

[philman]

So you're saying it's like a Tech goddess, right Kat?

Where have we heard of that before?

[heranje]

Excuse me as I hop right over the Faceless Entity to comment on how prominently the moon with Annie's fingerprint on it is shown in the background, on both this and the previous page. I wonder if that's a reminder that even though the Court is moving to another planet, they may not be as inaccessible to those left behind as one would assume - especially if Loup gets involved.

Speaking of which, will Loup continue this attack when he learns that the entity he was attacking has dipped?

[arkadi]

Funny that they should say "Don't let my appearance alarm you" if people can't actually perceive their appearance. But then, maybe that is supposed to be the alarming bit.

Or maybe... only Kat can't see them? If this is some kind of being made entirely of ether, it would make sense for Kat to be unable to perceive them.

[rafk]

Loony theories thread: please start your engines.

[phyzome]

Anyone else think Eglamore looks kind of weird here?

[imaginaryfriend]

Aug 8, 2022 9:35:03 GMT arkadi said:

Funny that they should say "Don't let my appearance alarm you" if people can't actually perceive their appearance. But then, maybe that is supposed to be the alarming bit. Or maybe... only Kat can't see them? If this is some kind of being made entirely of ether, it would make sense for Kat to be unable to perceive them.

I think this is Kat's memory. At the time this happened she was able to see something that may have been alarming about their appearance or how they were dressed but now she can't recall much of anything about whoever was speaking except that they made excessive hand gestures while talking.

[atteSmythe]

Looks like a Broken Man to me.

[rabbit]

“…and the inhabitants of this planet are eager to meet you. See, here is their book about your species. It’s called To Serve Man.“

[ctso74]

It could be less about Modify Memory, and more about their appearance being beyond current comprehension.
Not Lovecraftian at all. /s

Very Seed Bismuthy to me. So many questions.

[blahzor]

The Norns: you will make the court better
Also The Norns: we didn't tell you that you basically shipped all the bad Court people off on another planet

[blahzor]

wait wait wait haven't see seen this pose before in one of the treasties or chapter title ? the Catalyst one i think

i'm searching so hard but i swear there was a single image showing Kat with multiple arms showing her doing multi-tasking

[maxptc]

So I think its becoming clear the need for a massive ether source was misunderstood by us as a group. They need it in the same way we need to get away from gasoline. They still have enough, just not enough to operate the as they would like. It must take the ether stations and maybe the Forrest transfer students ages to get the details of a trip secured.

I'm assuming Kat doesn't remember because the "transcended" person isn't letting those who stay behind remember. I wonder if its a technology or if we also misunderstood the issue they have with the ether. They may not have an issue with its existing, just that everyone doesn't have equal access to it. Kat used the arrow to build a way for non magics to do that. The arrow is already Court tech.


I think it's s Kat from the first timeline, but that I feel less confident about.

[blahzor]

the thing i'm looking for it has to be post Kat's computer with the floating screen or a hint to her having it but also before the Loup attack. Kat has to remember what she said b/c she has to remember to say it later in the future

[madjack]

Aug 8, 2022 13:41:55 GMT blahzor said:

wait wait wait haven't see seen this pose before in one of the treasties or chapter title ? the Catalyst one i think

i'm searching so hard but i swear there was a single image showing Kat with multiple arms showing her doing multi-tasking

It's the cover art of Catalysis.

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[blahzor]

Aug 8, 2022 14:05:59 GMT madjack said:

Aug 8, 2022 13:41:55 GMT blahzor said:

wait wait wait haven't see seen this pose before in one of the treasties or chapter title ? the Catalyst one i think

i'm searching so hard but i swear there was a single image showing Kat with multiple arms showing her doing multi-tasking

It's the cover art of Catalysis.

i knew i was smart and also dumb
thanks

my mistake was looking through the website and database instead of book covers LAUGHING ON LINE

[pyradonis]

Oh, hey, it's Elon Musk coming to take us to the stars!

Aug 8, 2022 9:35:03 GMT arkadi said:

Funny that they should say "Don't let my appearance alarm you" if people can't actually perceive their appearance. But then, maybe that is supposed to be the alarming bit.

Or maybe... only Kat can't see them? If this is some kind of being made entirely of ether, it would make sense for Kat to be unable to perceive them.

Kat could see psychopomps, ghosts, Etheric Arbiters and Loup just fine.

Aug 8, 2022 13:41:55 GMT blahzor said:

wait wait wait haven't see seen this pose before in one of the treasties or chapter title ? the Catalyst one i think

i'm searching so hard but i swear there was a single image showing Kat with multiple arms showing her doing multi-tasking

You're looking for the cover of book vol. 8:

[edit]Ninja'd by five whole minutes. That's what I get for wanting to answer to several posts at once.[/edit]

[theonethatgotaway]

It's bending the light of the moon... I'm putting my money on a Wizard of Oz play, did anyone check the bilge of that dingy? I'm pretty sure there's a little dude there with a microphone and a punch of light switches behind a little curtain!

[Jelly Jellybean]

Aug 8, 2022 13:56:02 GMT maxptc said:

So I think its becoming clear the need for a massive ether source was misunderstood by us as a group. They need it in the same way we need to get away from gasoline. They still have enough, just not enough to operate the as they would like. It must take the ether stations and maybe the Forrest transfer students ages to get the details of a trip secured.

I'm assuming Kat doesn't remember because the "transcended" person isn't letting those who stay behind remember. I wonder if its a technology or if we also misunderstood the issue they have with the ether. They may not have an issue with its existing, just that everyone doesn't have equal access to it. Kat used the arrow to build a way for non magics to do that. The arrow is already Court tech.


I think it's s Kat from the first timeline, but that I feel less confident about.

Alt-Kat aligns with the Catalysis cover similarity.

I am getting an "I am Coyote too" vibe, but Alt-Kat is more logical.

[Gemini Jim]

In the first panel, are Annie and Kat still at the ocean? Because it looks like a featureless beige wall behind them. At the very least, if it's still night the wall shouldn't be beige.


There's no room in the panel to draw any of the Left Behind people there. Or waiting for the Beam Me Up Scotty. But that doesn't mean they aren't there. Not to mention, would they want Annie of all people to suddenly crash their cult party?



If they have moved away from the ocean, moving Kat away from the brink of the Court's cult has to be a good thing.

=

WildSpec: the cult leader alien finished its speech, explained the rules, maybe did a quick "so, who's with me?" before loading up the Space Boat to "space, and totally not Guyana."

And what of anybody who doesn't want to go, or who has cold feet? Hypnotic command to prevent them from revealing too much. Perhaps with instructions to stay at the beach (until dawn? until the boat is gone? await further instructions? or "until the memory wipe is complete")

Then Annie arrives and breaks the spell, at least for Kat. So Kat still has a fuzzy memory of what happened.

[aline]

So I guess we've met Omega.
Nice haircut.