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Post by Yin on Oct 2, 2009 6:52:23 GMT
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Post by Casey on Oct 2, 2009 6:56:22 GMT
Not so "decontaminated" after all, I guess...
Plus, Magic Hairband has returned to its original hue.
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Post by roboticelf on Oct 2, 2009 7:00:22 GMT
Wow, that's actually really creepy. Cool.
And yes, Eglamore looks quite strange.
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Post by gaia on Oct 2, 2009 7:01:38 GMT
Eglamore is kidnapping children in a cunning disguise! Is there no end to his depravity?
More to the point, short of Huorns there's no way that tree could have nabbed Janet from the archery grounds and Paz from the tents. Just how many monsters does this campsite have? Does the Court even have a Health and Safety officer?
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Post by Azeltir on Oct 2, 2009 7:02:10 GMT
Ahhh! I absolutely did not expect thiiiiiis!
Jeez, why does Tom change Eglamore's look all the time? If he didn't tell us in the comments, surely I wouldn't be able to recognize that this tree-looking guy is our PE teacher / Dragon Slayer.
Meanwhile... I guess Ysengrin and friends aren't controlling these, what with the decontamination. But maybe some rogue soul is left in there, gone insane with the whole lack of contact with the forest. Or maybe I'm completely wrong. Tune in Monday!
Ben
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Post by eightyfour on Oct 2, 2009 7:09:27 GMT
Ahhh! I absolutely did not expect thiiiiiis! I think no one did.  So now we have two possibilites: 1. There is one malovelent and mobile "tree" in the park, who snatches people. 2. The whole park, or at least significant parts of it, are like that. |
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Post by Alex on Oct 2, 2009 7:11:57 GMT
Now we know why they didn't want the chocolate.
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Post by edzepp on Oct 2, 2009 7:12:02 GMT
Evil ghost trees!
Oh well. At least it wasn't a evil ghost Vermicious Knid.
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Post by zbeeblebrox on Oct 2, 2009 7:38:51 GMT
haha! She's so excited too!
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Post by xanbcoo on Oct 2, 2009 7:42:12 GMT
Kat is an appallingly bad actress.
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Post by judgedeadd on Oct 2, 2009 7:44:30 GMT
Durkon Thundershield was right! The trees are attacking!
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Post by raharl on Oct 2, 2009 8:12:54 GMT
The trees seek vengeance for said arrow shooting incident! If only Janet was a wizard, she would of known better than to anger the shrubbery.
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Post by hal9000 on Oct 2, 2009 8:22:21 GMT
Oh man, this is bringing back memories of Evil Dead.
There is a solution, of course: somebody's gotta volunteer to get a chainsaw hand.
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Post by Aris Katsaris on Oct 2, 2009 8:42:24 GMT
Durkon Thundershield was right! The trees are attacking! Hehe. You ninjaed me in this. Let me post a relevant link: Order of the stick, #150. |
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Post by Count Casimir on Oct 2, 2009 8:43:13 GMT
Count Casimir is back! Time for my intermittently scheduled Completely Off-Base Prediction!
I'd have to guess that Annie and the other kids are half-right...Eggers and Bob ARE playing a trick on them, but they're using the "tamed" forest creatures to do so. Perhaps teaching them a little something about the ways of the court in the process!
Stop me if someone's said this before.
EDIT: nice Order of the Stick reference. ;D
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Post by eightyfour on Oct 2, 2009 9:08:12 GMT
It kinda figures: During decontamination they managed to sever the connection between the plant-creatures and the forest, only with the result that now no one is controlling them anymore and they run rampant with a free will of their own. The Court, having a bit of a blind eye for all things etherical, isn't aware of it. Only Marcia, the suspected ex-dryad feels something is wrong. She probably made a scene when she heared kids would be camping in her "haunted" park until the court agreed to send Eggers along - more to appease her than as actual protection. Because I doubt Court officials would've sanctioned a school trip into a dangerous area - even with protection - if they actually were aware of the danger. Protecting the kids from harm is one of the foremost duties of any school, after all. Here's a terrifying thought: What if the "problems" Tom predicted people to be having with this chapter were referring to the emotional response to the death of a main character? I know I'm painting black here, but the situation of those six disappeared kids, plus Kat, might be more serious than we realize. That tree-ghost doesn't look friendly at all.  |
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Post by Rasselas on Oct 2, 2009 9:13:57 GMT
I just hope it's not Paz. She's so cute and innocent.
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Post by sinewmire on Oct 2, 2009 9:25:57 GMT
This, Azeltir, very much this.
Kicking myself for not reading the visual clues right - how else would someone have attacked Paz from above her tent?
You win this round, Sidell.
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Post by bisected8 on Oct 2, 2009 10:10:07 GMT
Why's everyone so sure Kat's in danger? The tree clearly just wants a hug. ¬_¬"
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Post by penguinfactory on Oct 2, 2009 10:11:45 GMT
Wow.
I think we can safely dispense with the "it's all a trick" hypothesis, then. I wonder if Ysengrim is behind this?
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Post by Aris Katsaris on Oct 2, 2009 10:17:09 GMT
Not really. We still don't know if the teachers are instructing/controlling the trees somehow.
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Post by nikita on Oct 2, 2009 10:32:05 GMT
I wonder if that tree has grown out of the seeds Ysengrin dropped.
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Post by Aris Katsaris on Oct 2, 2009 10:41:04 GMT
Unless it has a very fast growth factor (always a possibility), it's probably too soon for that -- less than a year has passed since Ysengrin dropped those.
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Post by todd on Oct 2, 2009 10:41:39 GMT
I think the suggestion above that the Court doesn't know that the decontaminated trees haven't been entirely decontaminated makes the most amount of sense; it provides the best explanation I've seen yet for why the teachers are seemingly behaving less competently than usual. Though this is going to be a shock for Eglamore and Bob when they get back.
I can think of two other possible explanations for "people having problems with this chapter" besides possible character deaths:
1. Jack's confrontation with Annie (which certainly did produce controversy, some taking Jack's side and some Annie's).
2. The possibility of the Gunnerkrigg faculty being now accused of either incompetence or some dark purpose (as in, deliberately letting the tree capture some of the children, because it in some way helps the Court continue to function - giving up the lives of a few so that the whole can thrive).
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Post by idonotlikepeas on Oct 2, 2009 11:56:59 GMT
I like the little exposed rib-cage on the tree.
If Marcia really is some kind of semi- or ex-supernatural being, this still could be a trick. Maybe she can control the trees, or has some kind of bond with them. It might explain why she got so upset about one of them getting shot with an arrow.
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Post by todd on Oct 2, 2009 12:43:54 GMT
Of course, if Kat *does* get killed (though it's still a big "if" at this point), that would lead to an even darker turn for the webcomic than just the death of a popular character. Annie would be all alone again - she only made the effort to socialize with the other children because she was afraid that she was causing Kat's isolation - and with the second loss of a loved one, might retreat even more into grief and numbness.
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Post by troll on Oct 2, 2009 13:15:23 GMT
Ahhh! I absolutely did not expect thiiiiiis! I think no one did. So now we have two possibilites: 1. There is one malovelent and mobile "tree" in the park, who snatches people. 2. The whole park, or at least significant parts of it, are like that. (whistles innocently) Kat: Master of subtlety. Also, now that the kids have decided the ghost isn't real, we know it is real, because if they were right the rest of the chapter would be boring. Hooray for metalogic? The other bit of meta-logic is that while all this seems to fit, Annie has been shown not to be an objective reasoner when it comes to "that sounds like something Mr. Eglamore would do". Which makes me shift into high-gear trying to think of what could be being glossed over due to lazy thinking. Eighty-four's shadowman theory is good- they're surrounded by decommissioned "Dogs", which were used as shadow delivery systems in unhappier times. Could also be one of the decommissioned Forest devices itself. Which concerns me as well; the faculty are usually far more able than that. (One reason, I suspect, why both the children in the story and we ourselves considered the practical joke theory as the most likely explanation.) Unless (which probably belongs to Wild Speculations) they're deliberately abandoning the children to the ghost as part of some dark plan - maybe as annual sacrifices to keep the Court thriving. If you go go less Wild, that makes a kind of sense- and this is a training exercise against Forest agents that have had their teeth pulled so they present a threat to be overcome but not a danger. |
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Post by tyler on Oct 2, 2009 13:18:25 GMT
That tree is some awesome design, right there. I haven't had much to say, the art in this chapter's been pretty cool all around, but this tree/ent is so awesome I had to post it.
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Post by wanderer on Oct 2, 2009 14:25:19 GMT
THA TREES BE ATTACKIN'!! RUN FER YER LIVES!!!Durkon Thundershield was right! The tress are attacking! BAH! You may have done it first, but my reference was better!  In other news SWEET MAMA JAMA that tree is creepy. So... is it kidnapping children or eating them?  And her hairband has color-shifted itself back to purple again.
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Post by Aris Katsaris on Oct 2, 2009 14:48:53 GMT
If it's a real danger and not a teacher-manufactured test, then burying their bodies would be my guess. I can't imagine *where* it would be able to kidnap them to.
In which scenario I doubt Kat will die like this, but Janet & Paz may already have been killed. I wonder how the headmaster would react to his daughter's death.
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