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Post by madjack on Jan 4, 2023 8:56:45 GMT
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Post by laaaa on Jan 4, 2023 9:40:42 GMT
...Are you sure it wouldn't be an improvement to lose all your powers?
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Post by csj on Jan 4, 2023 11:08:25 GMT
inb4 spiders
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Post by Per on Jan 4, 2023 13:15:05 GMT
"I owe Buck and Lindsey FIVE MILLION QUID since poker night"
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Post by ctso74 on Jan 4, 2023 14:14:29 GMT
The Court's student loan program is unique.
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Post by maxptc on Jan 4, 2023 14:24:12 GMT
"Two people are in love somewhere Annie, and I just won't have it.'
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Post by blahzor on Jan 4, 2023 16:05:44 GMT
we got to set Annie up with a Google News notification
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Post by Eversist on Jan 4, 2023 16:55:11 GMT
I'm sure it's unrelated, but was the last time we saw red-outlined panels here when Coyote interrupted Annie's dream? www.gunnerkrigg.com/?p=813 |
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Post by rabbit on Jan 4, 2023 17:48:15 GMT
So ... the idea of losing her power doesn't seem to bother Zimmy very much, but when the Court comes for her they aren't going to like what she'll do? We have a group of people ready to travel and a (very damaged) person who potentially has the power they need to help them get there. The thing is, the destination Zimmy regularly transports people to isn't another planet. They may not like what she'll do indeed. |
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Post by guntherkrieg on Jan 4, 2023 18:19:25 GMT
The thing is, the destination Zimmy regularly transports people to isn't another planet. Or is it? Perhaps Zimmingham is the doomed future instance of Planet Court. |
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Post by wombat on Jan 4, 2023 18:51:05 GMT
"Two people are in love somewhere Annie, and I just won't have it.' Zimmy, to Gamma: "I don't want anyone else in the Court to be in love because it makes it less special for us." |
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Post by Gemminie on Jan 4, 2023 19:07:17 GMT
OK, I've got three pages to summarize with context without reading the forums (I'll read afterward) this time ...
Jenny casts her spell, which creates twinkles and bolts of red energy, forming themselves into columns of what may be arcane symbols above her head and shoulders. Now, this is supposed to be a spell to locate Zimmy, but as she and Jack said, Zimmy knows when anyone's trying to find her, and she doesn't like it. It seems that Zimmy has decided to come confront this set of would-be Zimmy-seekers, because the environment gets dark around them, and in this context, frame, layer, or whatever you want to call it, Jenny's magic circle has turned the same red color as her energy, and her columns of symbols now seem to rise from the bottom of the frame.
Then, out of the darkness behind Annie, Zimmy emerges, calling her name. Annie seems spooked. And why not – this was supposed to be a spell to find out where Zimmy is, not a spell to summon her. Though I'm not sure whether they've summoned Zimmy – they may instead have gotten Zimmy to summon them to her. It's difficult to say whether an outside observer would see Jack, Jenny, and Annie standing on that hilltop staring into space, or whether they've disappeared, or whether they've been covered by a cloud of blackness, or what.
Zimmy recoils and complains about "all this light," but we don't really see light. We see Zimmy seemingly breaking through a barrier of darkness, with tendrils of that darkness still clinging to her. We see Gamma behind her, still covered in the darkness, her eyes closed. Jack explains that the light is probably the star ocean, which Zimmy doesn't know about (or at least not by that name). Gamma begins to emerge from the darkness too, also covered in tendrils of it, and finally opens her eyes and smiles tiredly toward Jack and Jenny. Jenny doesn't say anything but seems oddly gleeful to see them.
Annie finally gets to the point, warning Zimmy that she's in danger from the Court, but Zimmy and Gamma already know. They felt a change a while ago (this was probably depicted at the beginning of the chapter), and Zimmy says she's always figured the Court was going to want something from her in return for taking her in. Jack and Annie explain the basics about the star ocean, and Zimmy laughs, saying "That's crazy!" Exactly what she thinks is crazy isn't something she goes into, though, because she tells them that she's got much worse things to worry about than the Court coming after her. And that's where we leave her for today.
Open questions are, obviously, what Zimmy thinks is crazy (that they would want to absorb her power at all? that they want to leave the planet? that they want to use Zimmy's power to leave the planet? that Annie and co. wanted to warn her about that?), and what she has to worry about that's worse than the Court coming for her (is something wrong with Gamma? is something metaphysical going wrong with Zimmy's connection to the Ether? maybe it's something about Loup?). It seems likely that we'll find out something about the second question, at least, on the next page.
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Post by blahzor on Jan 4, 2023 23:02:47 GMT
I'm sure it's unrelated, but was the last time we saw red-outlined panels here when Coyote interrupted Annie's dream? www.gunnerkrigg.com/?p=813So this is all taking in place of someone's there's head is my assumption |
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Post by mturtle7 on Jan 5, 2023 0:26:42 GMT
Open questions are, obviously, what Zimmy thinks is crazy (that they would want to absorb her power at all? that they want to leave the planet? that they want to use Zimmy's power to leave the planet? that Annie and co. wanted to warn her about that?), and what she has to worry about that's worse than the Court coming for her (is something wrong with Gamma? is something metaphysical going wrong with Zimmy's connection to the Ether? maybe it's something about Loup?). It seems likely that we'll find out something about the second question, at least, on the next page. I'm guessing it's the "leave the planet" part that's "crazy" to Zimmy, since it's so far outside her worldview. She probably can't really fathom why anyone would want to leave the planet, any more than she could fathom why people call stuff ' magic'. If she's not so worried about the Court hunting her down, I'm guessing it's something to do with Project Omega, since she's shown some kind of connection to that before. Regardless, you're right that we'll probably get more info about it next page, even if it's only hints.
EDIT: I forgot to mention that she's also probably less worried about the Court catching her because she's used to running from the authorities back in Birmingham.
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Post by grahamf on Jan 5, 2023 0:39:48 GMT
...Zimmy isn't the Seed Bismuth, is she?
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Post by Eversist on Jan 5, 2023 2:49:21 GMT
I'm sure it's unrelated, but was the last time we saw red-outlined panels here when Coyote interrupted Annie's dream? www.gunnerkrigg.com/?p=813So this is all taking in place of someone's there's head is my assumption That makes sense! I figured it was just a visual extension of Jenny's magic, but I love this interpretation, too. |
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Post by drmemory on Jan 5, 2023 4:31:38 GMT
...Are you sure it wouldn't be an improvement to lose all your powers? Yes, if that's what happens. But I don't think we've ever established what happens to a creature like Coyote, Loup, or Zimmy if all of their power is drained. Is there still a living being left?
In Zimmy's case, I have a feeling the effects might be much further reaching than just depowering or killing her. Who knows what Zimmyland really is?
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Post by jda on Jan 5, 2023 8:18:53 GMT
When a creature like Zeta says she had more pressing matters than the possibility of enslaving/death to her and maybe others, I'd worry.
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Post by TBeholder on Jan 5, 2023 11:26:59 GMT
When a creature like Zeta says she had more pressing matters than the possibility of enslaving/death to her and maybe others, I'd worry. I would not expect her priority list to resemble that of anyone else… …but yes. |
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Post by pyradonis on Jan 5, 2023 11:57:15 GMT
I'm sure it's unrelated, but was the last time we saw red-outlined panels here when Coyote interrupted Annie's dream? www.gunnerkrigg.com/?p=813The most recent instance I remember is when S13 discovered pain. Though the red outlines on those old pages seem a bit thicker and brighter to me than the current ones. |
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Post by wombat on Jan 5, 2023 16:42:54 GMT
I'm sure it's unrelated, but was the last time we saw red-outlined panels here when Coyote interrupted Annie's dream? www.gunnerkrigg.com/?p=813The most recent instance I remember is when S13 discovered pain. Though the red outlines on those old pages seem a bit thicker and brighter to me than the current ones. Thank you for reminding me of what is probably the strangest ship I have ever loved so deeply. |
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Post by csj on Jan 5, 2023 21:01:12 GMT
The thing is, the destination Zimmy regularly transports people to isn't another planet. Or is it? Perhaps Zimmingham is the doomed future instance of Planet Court. that would still be better than present day birmingham /s |
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Post by davidm on Jan 5, 2023 21:55:47 GMT
If Zimmy power goes down then all the bad stuff in Zimmy gets out. Jack's adventure with whitelegs had the whitelegs eager to get out into real world and mess it up, and they'd probably also go swimming in star ocean and turn it into something much worse than love boat drama. And hitch a ride to the new colony on other side.
Loup may have to rescue the court, lose his life in process and then get reborn like the fairies that were begging Annie to smash them with a rock (so they could be reborn as humans)
Jones might also become involved, and perhaps life end... At some point Jones will likely be "born" and then sent into the past by Kat like Tic Tok. Easier for Jones to be born if Jones isn't still around. Jones helped with Jack spider troubles, and Jones looks a lot like someone wanted a "so beautiful" Jeannie, "she died we did nothing" combined with "angel" kat, she could be the ultimate new person model, part of diego's final plan for robot.
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Post by guntherkrieg on Jan 6, 2023 0:04:05 GMT
Or is it? Perhaps Zimmingham is the doomed future instance of Planet Court. that would still be better than present day birmingham /sI ain't never goin' back. Not now. Not never. |
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Post by guntherkrieg on Jan 6, 2023 0:05:20 GMT
Loup may have to rescue the court, lose his life in process and then get reborn like the fairies that were begging Annie to smash them with a rock (so they could be reborn as humans) Guess: Loup gets killed and reincarnated, but Jerrek still exists. So there's two of 'em. Anime harem-antics a go-go. |
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Post by guntherkrieg on Jan 6, 2023 0:08:42 GMT
I always figured it's a metaphor for anxiety, depression/self-loathing and repressed childhood joojums, whilst also being the waste pipe for the Ether, whilst also also being raw magickqal energy channelled through a disturbed teen girl. |
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Post by blahzor on Jan 6, 2023 0:35:10 GMT
I'm sure it's unrelated, but was the last time we saw red-outlined panels here when Coyote interrupted Annie's dream? www.gunnerkrigg.com/?p=813The most recent instance I remember is when S13 discovered pain. Though the red outlines on those old pages seem a bit thicker and brighter to me than the current ones. so red outlight is in the head and/or memory of high significance (to the ether? as Robot became the first robot to experinence pain and letting the other robots this is a new reality) |
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