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BobTheJanitor posted:Zimmy must have a pretty terrible aversion to the sea. I know most people, even those prone to seasickness, don't have as much trouble with giant cruise ships. They're so big, and typically have giant stabilizers, that it's more like just being in a building than on a boat. Water does weird things with etheric power, doesn't it? That's how the court was using it to do etheric experiments and duplicating the effect gamma has on Zimmy on a grand scale. So being on the water with a head full of etheric energy probably makes you feel wonky, and apparently not in a cool  way
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i thought it was that water, at least in some places, absorbed ether/energy and when it rained it helped block out the signals going into/coming out of zimmy. i could have sworn i remember reading in one of the chapters about how it had to be natural rain, showers didn't work, and that when the court had sucked all the ether energy out of the water and created a rainfall it didn't work on zimmy, leading to the events starting here
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Yup, in Dobranoc, Gamma we see that rain is soothing to Zimmy for some reason. Then, in Power Station we find out the the court is doing something with rain, but for whatever reason it doesn't work on Zimmy. Finally, in Spring Heeled, Part 2 we learn that it's the ether in that rain that's soothing and that the court is now able to replicate the effect.
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Aug 8, 2014 17:33
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Maybe she is just seasick.
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HoboNews posted:Maybe she is just seasick. she's allergic to all that fresh sea air and sunshine
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Aug 8, 2014 18:18
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None of them seem to have packed sunglasses and my eyes are smarting in sympathy.
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Warmachine posted:Let me be the first to say that I don't want to see what it looks like when Zimmy loses her lunch.
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Thanks Internet posted:Yup, in Dobranoc, Gamma we see that rain is soothing to Zimmy for some reason. Then, in Power Station we find out the the court is doing something with rain, but for whatever reason it doesn't work on Zimmy. Finally, in Spring Heeled, Part 2 we learn that it's the ether in that rain that's soothing and that the court is now able to replicate the effect. What they were able to replicate seems to be what Zimmy does, absorb the ether out of the air/rain.
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Aug 8, 2014 21:21
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Zemyla posted:One word: Spiders. 
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Thanks Internet posted:Yup, in Dobranoc, Gamma we see that rain is soothing to Zimmy for some reason. Then, in Power Station we find out the the court is doing something with rain, but for whatever reason it doesn't work on Zimmy. Finally, in Spring Heeled, Part 2 we learn that it's the ether in that rain that's soothing and that the court is now able to replicate the effect. from that last link, "further stress on zimmy's mind, or even distance from gamma, can lead to distortions that present themselves in the physical world" zimmy aint looking too relaxed in that second panel today, they're gonna land somewhere bad.
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Aug 8, 2014 23:29
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Somebody will get her some motion sickness pills and everything will be just fine. Right? 
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Cernunnos posted:Somebody will get her some motion sickness pills and everything will be just fine. I hope not. I love Zimmy chapters. I'm hoping this boat is on a one way trip to crazy brainspider town, and anyone without plot armor is expendable. 
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BobTheJanitor posted:I hope not. I love Zimmy chapters. I'm hoping this boat is on a one way trip to crazy brainspider town, and anyone without plot armor is expendable. But crazy brainspider town was a terrible place 
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Aug 9, 2014 03:12
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If there's one thing that will solve all problems, it's giving Zimmy drugs.
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Wittgen posted:If there's one thing that will solve all problems, it's giving Zimmy drugs. I could see two possible outcomes there. Either her normal perception of reality is already so far beyond the horizon that she can't even tell the difference, or it causes a sort of breakdown that leads directly into some straight up biblical end-of-the-world bleeding eyeballs with teeth everywhere scenario.
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BobTheJanitor posted:I hope not. I love Zimmy chapters. I'm hoping this boat is on a one way trip to crazy brainspider town, and anyone without plot armor is expendable. i don't think gunnerkrigg really does "expendable characters"
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Tollymain posted:i don't think gunnerkrigg really does "expendable characters" What, Hetty doesn't exist now? Haha yeah she totally doesn't!
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Poor Gamma...she looks so stoked to be on the boat, but she's stuck in Zimmy's broom closet of  .
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Tollymain posted:i don't think gunnerkrigg really does "expendable characters" SIIIIIIIIGH
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hetty wasn't expendable she lives on in my heart :'(
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Alister was pretty expendable, too. Insofar as he was a "one and done" type of character. Though his character arc made sense the whole way through, and the revelation in the end informed on his actions during the first couple of pages. Also it fueled a bunch of "Kat is into birds" jokes when she and Paz started hooking up.
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I think his point was that whilst Gunnerkrigg has one-off characters, it doesn't have generic redshirts.
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MikeJF posted:I think his point was that whilst Gunnerkrigg has one-off characters, it doesn't have generic redshirts. That's fine. The rest of the chapter can be devoted to developing the expendable characters before suddenly killing them in a horrible way. Works for Robert Kirkman!
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Next time, on a very special GUNNERKRIGG COURT...     One of the students will be HORRIBLY KILLED  (my money's on Annie) 
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Aug 9, 2014 07:02
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Nonsense. Somehow it will be Boxbot. (He'll fake his own death for attention.)
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Blackheart posted:What, Hetty doesn't exist now? Hetty was not expendable. She was edible. There's a difference. Learn your words.
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Mazerunner posted:(my money's on Annie) My money is on Annie being the killer. Girl has issues. It was Roxbot
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Mazerunner posted:Next time, on a very special GUNNERKRIGG COURT... This isn't some lame twist where we introduce a character only to kill them off.  A CHARACTER DIES THIS EPISODE.
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Mazerunner posted:Next time, on a very special GUNNERKRIGG COURT... hopefully it's jacks horrible beard that dies
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Roland Jones posted:Hetty was not expendable. Good point, although technically Hetty was the doll... unless the murder shrimp WAS ALSO NAMED HETTY!?
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Blackheart posted:Good point, although technically Hetty was the doll... unless the murder shrimp Maybe "Hetty" was a nickname or some kind of variation on the shrimp-demon's name, kind of like "Reynardine" vs. "Renard."
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Was it ever explained how the shrimp demon was also stuck in a toy that belonged to someone, thus being imposed to their will? Because we know with Renard his body hoping was a god-tier power granted by Coyote, and it just happened to apply to anything with eyes. Or do we just not bother asking because it was a chapter meant to explore how Renard could do a lot of bad things, but doesn't because he's nice.
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Coyote's gift to Renard was a twisted version of his own power to turn his shape into other animals (or the moon). It's not really a god-tier power, just a power bestowed by a god. Hetty could've just had the ability naturally, or maybe it's just things monsters can do, or maybe she's secretly Coyote, etc etc. We know that weird things congregate at the Court more than elsewhere, so it's not super surprising that there's at least one other person who owned a murdertoy. Tom will eventually be doing a retrospective about that chapter, so maybe your questions will be answered then. It probably doesn't matter to the overall narrative, though.
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KittyEmpress posted:Was it ever explained how the shrimp demon was also stuck in a toy that belonged to someone, thus being imposed to their will? We know that Hetty was bound to the doll via some sort of contract that her original owner made with her. Upon her original owner's "accidental death", Hetty was surprised to learn that she wasn't freed from her doll body. Afterward, she learned that the original owner had written in her diary that if anything happened to her, that the doll should go to her brother, which somehow was binding enough to transfer ownership to him, even though he had absolutely no clue about any of it. Thus, Hetty spent all of her time remotely torturing the poor boy, ramping it up further and further until she was about to kill him, which is when Reynard stepped in.
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Opposing Farce posted:Maybe "Hetty" was a nickname or some kind of variation on the shrimp-demon's name, kind of like "Reynardine" vs. "Renard." It was a reference to heterosexuality, once again proving this comic's bias against cis-heteronormativity.  KittyEmpress posted:Was it ever explained how the shrimp demon was also stuck in a toy that belonged to someone, thus being imposed to their will? Pretty much the later thing. It was more a chapter about Rey's past and how he reacted to a character who was essentially a dark mirror of himself, or a reminder of what he could be if he ever let himself go. Although it did have some interesting hints at the marks on their foreheads having some more important meaning than just being pretty decorations. But really I think the most important takeaway was that Eglamore and Reynard get together for movie marathons.
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SynthOrange posted:What if someone does the robot?
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It's a deliberate ruling to ensure Boxbot cannot win by forcing him to fall back on the Hand Jive.
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A different font for every line of text. Truly Tom knows the ways of school event posters.
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