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Post by imaginaryfriend on Aug 21, 2024 7:06:41 GMT
Looks like Antimony and Kat interrupted arts and crafts day. Tune in next time to see how the Foley kids tie into this mystery. |
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Post by yellowb on Aug 21, 2024 7:10:22 GMT
Well, there's your answer for the chapter title.
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Post by Gemini Jim on Aug 21, 2024 7:13:56 GMT
Those are the tendrils!
That's about all I can think to say. (EDIT: Ninja'ed)
I don't know if those are self-imposed tendrils, created by the ex-fairies as a metaphor for their being tied to the Court (or representing the Forest? or both?). And the Distortion made their mental chains real.
Or it kind of looks like they've been captured already, and being made to do something...
Poor Rey, he's like Natsu on Fairy Tail. (* No fairy pun intended)
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Post by philman on Aug 21, 2024 7:41:30 GMT
Huh, based on the chapter title I thought these were Smitty's strings, but this looks like something completely different, much more forest-like
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Post by imaginaryfriend on Aug 21, 2024 9:46:29 GMT
Whatever's going on, it looks like Antimony won't easily rope them into her plans. They may have shff'd here for knot.
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Post by aggadahGothic on Aug 21, 2024 11:09:32 GMT
My favourite character has at last returned: those strange non-diagetic red-yellow-blue lines that Tom enjoys. (Though, upon skimming through the last thousand pages of the comic, he has seemingly not drawn them in several years. Does louisxiv's index feature a tag for 'strange lines'?) |
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Post by TBeholder on Aug 21, 2024 11:34:28 GMT
Those are the tendrils! That's about all I can think to say. (EDIT: Ninja'ed) I don't know if those are self-imposed tendrils, created by the ex-fairies as a metaphor for their being tied to the Court (or representing the Forest? or both?). And the Distortion made their mental chains real. Or… it’s much the same effect of Coyotization we have seen in Kat’s workshop already. Hardware that turned into weird plants, but somehow still kind of works. |
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Post by pyradonis on Aug 21, 2024 12:28:44 GMT
Why are they carrying Robopillar with them all the time? Not a good idea in case it gets dangerous, IMHO. My favourite character has at last returned: those strange non-diagetic red-yellow-blue lines that Tom enjoys. (Though, upon skimming through the last thousand pages of the comic, he has seemingly not drawn them in several years. Does louisxiv's index feature a tag for 'strange lines'?) I think the last time they turned up was indeed in the same place as well, when <Snuffle>* visited her friend in the Court.
*pronounced correctly
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Post by aggadahGothic on Aug 21, 2024 12:59:29 GMT
I think the last time they turned up was indeed in the same place as well, when <Snuffle>* visited her friend in the Court. *pronounced correctly
Examining that page more closely, I suspect they are crêpe paper streamers hanging from the ceiling, as are common in primary school classrooms; there is a black line running through each of them, akin to thread. (It is an interesting detail; does the Court in practice treat Foley students like primary school children?) I am entirely unsure how I came to believe they were an FX used widely in the comic. EDIT: I must take the opportunity to make this reference,
DAVE: well shit
DAVE: thats a hell of a mystery no one thought was a mystery and didnt even really need solving
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Post by ctso74 on Aug 21, 2024 14:15:06 GMT
Welp. My head went to a dark place.
The last time she was here, she was startled when they surprised her in the Ether. What if this time, when looking into the Ether, she's startled by tortured screams. I hope not for Foley's sake.
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Post by blahzor on Aug 21, 2024 15:59:39 GMT
My favourite character has at last returned: those strange non-diagetic red-yellow-blue lines that Tom enjoys. (Though, upon skimming through the last thousand pages of the comic, he has seemingly not drawn them in several years. Does louisxiv's index feature a tag for 'strange lines'?) well Kat won't understand that..whoopsie using their data crunching to find Zimmy/Meg/Loup/Memory |
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Post by Gemminie on Aug 21, 2024 16:05:02 GMT
Renard, Kat, and Annie transport into a hallway; as they were just talking about trying to contact the former Forest denizens who are now Foley House students in the Court, it's logical that they're trying to reach them. Renard, as has happened before, is disoriented by distortion-travel. We see that Shadow and Robot are there too; they have come along. They appear to be outside a classroom door; the Court stopped having classes some time ago but appears to have kept the Foley students in class – perhaps because they were also taught by a former Forest denizen, so nobody who is involved in the project to move to a new planet needs to be pulled off the Foley House classes?
Shadow, Robot, and Kat open the door and look into the classroom, and Kat's reaction is surprise. We first see a hint of a tree and a vine, but then in the next frame we see that trees are growing in the classroom's corners and their branches extend along the ceiling, and some sort of multicolored tendrils extend downward from the tree branches and entwine around each student's chest and arms. The students appear to be sitting at their tables with their eyes closed and their hands on the table in front of them, doing nothing physically. Kat asks what the tendrils are. Well, obviously they're tendrils. It's in the chapter title.
What are the tendrils doing? Things in the distortion seem to represent what's going on in reality, so what is going on here? The tendrils have the students bound and immobile, so it may represent the Court's influence on them, either known (we know they put the souls of Forest residents into human bodies and use them to do calculations) or unknown (maybe the Court places more restrictions on them than we know). We also know that the students tend to sit immobile in class in the physical world while they play in the Ether, so is something like that happening now? Maybe Annie will look (on the next page)?
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Post by drmemory on Aug 21, 2024 18:06:08 GMT
I'm guessing that the fairies are being held captive by the court, and used as batteries (or maybe compute engines). Not by Omega - this feels different. How this is being done is a really interesting question - I can't think of too many that work for the court that might be able to do such a thing. Only one really - Aata. But since they threw him out, it's possible that what we're seeing is different. Or that he's involved but what he's doing isn't what I was thinking. Hopefully Annie will peek into the ether and find out.  |
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Post by jaaama on Aug 21, 2024 18:14:02 GMT
I think the last time they turned up was indeed in the same place as well, when <Snuffle>* visited her friend in the Court. *pronounced correctly
Examining that page more closely, I suspect they are crêpe paper streamers hanging from the ceiling, as are common in primary school classrooms; there is a black line running through each of them, akin to thread. (It is an interesting detail; does the Court in practice treat Foley students like primary school children?) I am entirely unsure how I came to believe they were an FX used widely in the comic. EDIT: I must take the opportunity to make this reference,
DAVE: well shit
DAVE: thats a hell of a mystery no one thought was a mystery and didnt even really need solving
They are related to the forest culture somehow; here and for the next few pages after they are shown near the village Antimony spent the one summer in. In the extra chapter there is one extremely close to the camera , I suppose they are some sort of charms. |
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Post by TBeholder on Aug 22, 2024 0:45:17 GMT
I think the last time they turned up was indeed in the same place as well, when <Snuffle>* visited her friend in the Court. *pronounced correctly
Examining that page more closely, A better view in #980, when Annie visited Foleys, even the tape attaching these things to the ceiling is visible. |
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Post by drmemory on Aug 22, 2024 1:33:56 GMT
Great catch on the ceiling banners! I'm not sure those are the same as what is wrapped around their arms, and continuing onto the floor though.
Also, really interesting that there is a tree there, and no laptops - we may be seeing something that has changed. Like the "seeds instead of CPUs" things. It almost feels like they are wired into a network now. Can't wait to see what Annie sees when she peeks into the ether!
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Post by csj on Aug 22, 2024 1:45:45 GMT
My favourite character has at last returned: those strange non-diagetic red-yellow-blue lines that Tom enjoys. (Though, upon skimming through the last thousand pages of the comic, he has seemingly not drawn them in several years. Does louisxiv's index feature a tag for 'strange lines'?) Don't quote me on this in case an investor is listening, but someone in the court is probably exploring the possibility of an elf-based llm |
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Post by Geekette on Aug 22, 2024 10:11:42 GMT
I'm also agreeing; these feel like computer wires.
We saw that in class; they were all on the laptops, fingers tapping away while their minds were elsewhere. Same posture, their eyes are closed like they're in the ether again, and the visuals look like computer wires.
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Post by blahzor on Aug 22, 2024 12:48:23 GMT
I'm guessing that the fairies are being held captive by the court, and used as batteries (or maybe compute engines). Not by Omega - this feels different. How this is being done is a really interesting question - I can't think of too many that work for the court that might be able to do such a thing. Only one really - Aata. But since they threw him out, it's possible that what we're seeing is different. Or that he's involved but what he's doing isn't what I was thinking. Hopefully Annie will peek into the ether and find out. Well I doubt it's literal. They are held captured by the idea they need a name and must work for one which is worthless to the court and very valuable to them |
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Post by TBeholder on Aug 22, 2024 17:12:31 GMT
Also, really interesting that there is a tree there, and no laptops - we may be seeing something that has changed. Like the "seeds instead of CPUs" things. It almost feels like they are wired into a network now. Can't wait to see what Annie sees when she peeks into the ether! Well, a plant keyboard would look silly.  |
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Post by lisanela on Aug 22, 2024 17:15:50 GMT
It's always good to have a nice ethernet connection when you're uploading everyone into another planet.
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Post by hoob on Aug 22, 2024 21:15:33 GMT
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Post by drmemory on Aug 23, 2024 3:59:52 GMT
I'm guessing that the fairies are being held captive by the court, and used as batteries (or maybe compute engines). Not by Omega - this feels different. How this is being done is a really interesting question - I can't think of too many that work for the court that might be able to do such a thing. Only one really - Aata. But since they threw him out, it's possible that what we're seeing is different. Or that he's involved but what he's doing isn't what I was thinking. Hopefully Annie will peek into the ether and find out. Well I doubt it's literal. They are held captured by the idea they need a name and must work for one which is worthless to the court and very valuable to them That's fair. Just because they are wired in doesn't necessarily mean they are captive. If Bugsy (or some faceless court drone) told them they'd get names if they helped... that would be a stronger bond than cold iron, and may even prevent them from helping Annie.
We know that at least some of the court knows about the name thing and how important it is to them. Jones for one.
Still, I can only think of one court person likely to be able to make plant-like tendrils to hook them into a router (tree), and that's Aata. Of course, it's also possible that what we are seeing isn't literally what's there. Kat may be something quite different, and Annie will probably see something even more different in the ether.
Hey, does anyone remember if Renard can always see into the ether? Or does he need to decide to, like Annie? Coyote literally lives in the ether, being a creature of the ether, and I've always kind of assumed he could see both meatspace and etherspace at the same time or at least at will, but I don't recall it ever coming up for Renard. Loup is less capable but then you could say that about him in a lot of senses. I just don't remember it being discussed in the context of Renard. I ask because I'm wondering if he's routinely viewing what's there to view in the ether as he and Annie blip around.
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Post by hoob on Aug 23, 2024 10:55:52 GMT
Well I doubt it's literal. They are held captured by the idea they need a name and must work for one which is worthless to the court and very valuable to them That's fair. Just because they are wired in doesn't necessarily mean they are captive. If Bugsy (or some faceless court drone) told them they'd get names if they helped... that would be a stronger bond than cold iron, and may even prevent them from helping Annie.
We know that at least some of the court knows about the name thing and how important it is to them. Jones for one.
Still, I can only think of one court person likely to be able to make plant-like tendrils to hook them into a router (tree), and that's Aata. Of course, it's also possible that what we are seeing isn't literally what's there. Kat may be something quite different, and Annie will probably see something even more different in the ether.
Hey, does anyone remember if Renard can always see into the ether? Or does he need to decide to, like Annie? Coyote literally lives in the ether, being a creature of the ether, and I've always kind of assumed he could see both meatspace and etherspace at the same time or at least at will, but I don't recall it ever coming up for Renard. Loup is less capable but then you could say that about him in a lot of senses. I just don't remember it being discussed in the context of Renard. I ask because I'm wondering if he's routinely viewing what's there to view in the ether as he and Annie blip around.
shows coyote existing simultaneously in and out of the ether, and I assume Renard can do the same, but chooses to not widen the gap between him and his friends |
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Post by tibert on Aug 23, 2024 13:12:44 GMT
Hey, does anyone remember if Renard can always see into the ether? Or does he need to decide to, like Annie? Coyote literally lives in the ether, being a creature of the ether, and I've always kind of assumed he could see both meatspace and etherspace at the same time or at least at will, but I don't recall it ever coming up for Renard. Loup is less capable but then you could say that about him in a lot of senses. I just don't remember it being discussed in the context of Renard. I ask because I'm wondering if he's routinely viewing what's there to view in the ether as he and Annie blip around.
shows coyote existing simultaneously in and out of the ether, and I assume Renard can do the same, but chooses to not widen the gap between him and his friends |
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