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2012-10-23, 01:10 AM (ISO 8601)
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- Dec 2004
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- The Land of Angles
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2012-10-23, 04:41 AM (ISO 8601)
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- Dec 2004
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Re: Gunnerkrigg Court 3: Mystery Solved!
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2012-10-23, 12:27 PM (ISO 8601)
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- May 2011
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- France
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Re: Gunnerkrigg Court 3: Mystery Solved!
I'm not sure to remember the finer bits, but here's what we do know about Jones:
- she's not a very expressive or extroverted person (okay, that's an euphemism). Either she's truly emotionless, either she hides it all, either she's merely put them aside to deal with living longer than everyone else.
- she's got amazing physical skills. We can't exactly conclude yet they are in themselves 100% inhuman, though the possibility seems likely.
- she doesn't die or age.
- Coyote knows her so well she has her own nickname, "Wandering Eye".
With all these elements, we're certain she is at the very least touched by the supernatural (and not a robot!). She could be Galatea, or a similar sort of golem. She could be a human who made a deal with Coyote (though we still have to know which parts are the blessing, which parts are the drawback, and which parts are unrelated to Coyote). She could have been brought to existence the same way Coyote claims he was, however, I don't see which fictional archetype she could be.
And then, there's the 4th option: she could be something else entirely. Which is something we can't rule out.
Side note: the peasant in the 2nd panel looks like he stepped out from Zimmy's mind (well, the other two too, but him especially). Probably just an artistic choice, given his face in the 6th, but I still wonder if it's only a coincidence.Originally Posted by on Dwarf Fortress succession gamesOriginally Posted by Dwarf Fortress 0.40.01 bugs
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2012-10-23, 05:57 PM (ISO 8601)
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- Nov 2006
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- Watching the world go by
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2012-10-23, 07:48 PM (ISO 8601)
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- Mar 2010
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Re: Gunnerkrigg Court 3: Mystery Solved!
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2012-10-23, 08:29 PM (ISO 8601)
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- Jul 2010
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- Argonth
Re: Gunnerkrigg Court 3: Mystery Solved!
Actually, she never even tried the bridge. She jumped off beside it. See here.
Witty sig here nosey, aren't ya?
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2012-10-24, 12:48 AM (ISO 8601)
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- Mar 2012
Re: Gunnerkrigg Court 3: Mystery Solved!
I doubt she is as strong as limestone. Limestone isn't strong enough to break concrete without smashing itself.
That always bugs me about stone creatures is that they are never brittle.
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2012-10-24, 02:15 AM (ISO 8601)
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- Feb 2007
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Re: Gunnerkrigg Court 3: Mystery Solved!
Well of course not. Stone creatures exist only in stories. Since people most attribute stone to being most stone creatures are strong. If you want your construct or creature to be brittle, you make it out of something else.
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2012-10-24, 02:16 AM (ISO 8601)
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- Jun 2012
Re: Gunnerkrigg Court 3: Mystery Solved!
Jones...Jones you appear to be on fire.
I know you don't react to things very much, but your on fire Jones.
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2012-10-24, 02:17 AM (ISO 8601)
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- Dec 2006
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- Dancin' away
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Re: Gunnerkrigg Court 3: Mystery Solved!
Well.
That's interesting?i am going to make it through this year
if it kills me
i am going to make it though this year
if it kills me
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2012-10-24, 07:38 AM (ISO 8601)
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- Apr 2009
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- Somewhere...
Re: Gunnerkrigg Court 3: Mystery Solved!
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2012-10-24, 09:54 AM (ISO 8601)
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- Jan 2008
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- Calael Kari
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Re: Gunnerkrigg Court 3: Mystery Solved!
This is probably my favorite panel in this little set so far.
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Neutral Good Human Cleric (2nd level)
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2012-10-24, 10:44 AM (ISO 8601)
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- Oct 2008
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- Xin-Shalast
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Re: Gunnerkrigg Court 3: Mystery Solved!
Hmm, not the Library of Alexandria and none of the Great Fires of Rome, as those were not really millennia ago. More like a millennium and some change.
Did Ancient Egypt or Greece have any great fires or have we finally departed from what is historically plausible?
Musashi: I was more reminded of the Shadows from Deadly Premonition, but I do concur that it was a bit interestingly odd.
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2012-10-24, 10:51 AM (ISO 8601)
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- Jun 2007
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- On Paper
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Re: Gunnerkrigg Court 3: Mystery Solved!
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2012-10-24, 11:33 AM (ISO 8601)
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- Jan 2005
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- Eberron
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Re: Gunnerkrigg Court 3: Mystery Solved!
Man this thing was full of outdated stuff.
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2012-10-24, 12:29 PM (ISO 8601)
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- Nov 2006
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- Watching the world go by
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2012-10-24, 01:57 PM (ISO 8601)
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- May 2011
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- France
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Re: Gunnerkrigg Court 3: Mystery Solved!
Oh, yeah.
... perhaps.
We just know it's a touchy subject. For all we know, she's got a normal weight/height ratio for a human, but feels enough emotions to be self-conscious about it. Sure, it would make more sense that she is actually as heavy as stone, but this is Tom's story we're talking about. The easy explanation should never be assumed.Originally Posted by on Dwarf Fortress succession gamesOriginally Posted by Dwarf Fortress 0.40.01 bugs
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2012-10-24, 03:00 PM (ISO 8601)
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- Jan 2009
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- The cyberpunk present
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2012-10-24, 03:30 PM (ISO 8601)
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- Nov 2008
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- Lost in the Hinterlands
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Re: Gunnerkrigg Court 3: Mystery Solved!
Well, at least she's not playing the violin.
A father taken by time, a brother dead by my own hand.
With this work behold my grief, in Stone and shifting sand.
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2012-10-24, 04:13 PM (ISO 8601)
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- Oct 2008
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- Xin-Shalast
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2012-10-24, 04:43 PM (ISO 8601)
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- Jul 2010
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- Argonth
Re: Gunnerkrigg Court 3: Mystery Solved!
Witty sig here nosey, aren't ya?
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2012-10-25, 04:34 AM (ISO 8601)
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- May 2010
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- Ireland
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Re: Gunnerkrigg Court 3: Mystery Solved!
Alternate explanation for 'millenia':
Gunnerkrigg Court is set slightly in the future, hence explaining robots (to a degree).Last edited by Cavelcade; 2012-10-25 at 04:35 AM.
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2012-10-25, 05:04 AM (ISO 8601)
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- Oct 2011
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- Therinos
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Re: Gunnerkrigg Court 3: Mystery Solved!
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2012-10-25, 02:11 PM (ISO 8601)
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- Jun 2007
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2012-10-25, 03:40 PM (ISO 8601)
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- Oct 2008
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- Xin-Shalast
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2012-10-25, 04:42 PM (ISO 8601)
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- May 2010
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- Ireland
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Re: Gunnerkrigg Court 3: Mystery Solved!
People play Pacman and listen to Elvis. And they're right to do it!
...also what Coidzor said, even if he was using sarcasm blue.
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2012-10-26, 02:05 AM (ISO 8601)
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- Nov 2008
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- Lost in the Hinterlands
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Re: Gunnerkrigg Court 3: Mystery Solved!
Well, there goes my Galatea theory. She precedes the myth.
Last edited by Giggling Ghast; 2012-10-26 at 02:13 AM.
A father taken by time, a brother dead by my own hand.
With this work behold my grief, in Stone and shifting sand.
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2012-10-26, 02:40 AM (ISO 8601)
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- Mar 2012
Re: Gunnerkrigg Court 3: Mystery Solved!
I told ya she couldn't be limestone!
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2012-10-26, 04:39 AM (ISO 8601)
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- May 2010
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- Ireland
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2012-10-26, 05:21 AM (ISO 8601)
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- Nov 2007
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- Pelican City
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Re: Gunnerkrigg Court 3: Mystery Solved!
That's a few more than "several" millennia.