[2901] Metal and bones

[jda]

Yuck. It seems machina is made of living things here...

[guntherkrieg]

Feels like box art for a weird 1990s Amiga game.

[silicondream]

Components of Omega, perhaps? Omega's star researcher does have a history with necrotech.

[worldsong]

Looks like it's Morthagi Time.

[pyradonis]

I knew there were pieces of bone among the machine parts!

So... the Omega Device? Possibly brought into this form through the distortion? Or simple Zimmingham weirdness?

[morrahadesigns]

This doesn't look shiny and clean enough to be a representation of Kat's merging of bot and living flesh. I wonder what it really is.

[Igniz]

Of course, gigeresque imagery comes to mind.

Feb 12, 2024 12:05:04 GMT pyradonis said:

So... the Omega Device? Possibly brought into this form through the distortion? Or simple Zimmingham weirdness?

Behold the rise of Kat, supreme necrotechnomancer!

[ctso74]

This one confused airport security so much.

[Gemminie]

On this first page of the chapter, we see a machine seemingly made of "metal and bones," as Tom's comment states. Some of the bones appear to be actually incorporated into the machinery, while others don't. Many of the components appear old, corroded, or damaged. I don't know enough about machines/engines to say what specifically some of these parts look like, but it's clear to me that some of these parts look like mechanical bits and some look like hydraulic bits. There are wheels, chains, and belts, but there are pipes too.

To me this looks like the answer to a question similar to "If you built a machine in the pre-electronic era using necromantic energy, what would it look like in the Ether?" Are we looking at Omega? I suspect that Omega's been around for quite a long time, hacked on by generations of Court engineers. It doesn't look like it's in great shape, though this may be the old original bits of it, and maybe more modern parts of it look better. Or maybe not; perhaps the disrepair we're seeing is a recent development, caused by either the distortion or other recent events.

The concept of an old-school machine augmented with organic parts does remind me of the New People, where Kat took some old-school robots and gave them pseudo-organic or synthetic-organic bodies and brains. Are we looking at someone's earlier attempt to do that, either with Omega or with some other project? That attempt doesn't look very successful.

Another weird idea I had was that perhaps this is a part of the Ether that came into existence when Diego started making his robots/golems, and it's in terrible shape simply because nobody's been properly dying and going back to the Ether. Maybe with Sam's essence returning, things will suddenly start looking better here. In this speculation it has nothing to do with the Court except inasmuch as Diego was involved in the Court.

[blahzor]

okay. who x-ray'd Kat?

[arf]

The gears of the world: OK, who added the cogs?

[philman]

Think there is a typo in the title? 2901 not 2091

[King Mir]

Perhaps this has something to do with Anthony? He may have made some promises in order to get Surma back.

[Runningflame]

Metal and Bones: The long-awaited sequel project to Divinity and Damnation?

[Gemini Jim]

Pull back to reveal an installation at the Court Museum of Modern Art.



Or the design for Sam's NPC tombstone.

[bedinsis]

jda I think you put the wrong number in the title of this thread. [2901], not [2091].

[Hatredman]

Hummmmmm, bone cookie...

[jda]

Feb 13, 2024 20:22:33 GMT bedinsis said:

jda I think you put the wrong number in the title of this thread. [2901], not [2091].

Fixed, thanks

[Jelly Jellybean]

Sorry I missed it for so long, but chapter thumbnail right there at the bottom of the page.