Gunnerkrigg Court 8: Thrown for a Loup

[BRC]

No, cause we see her as an adult in the scenes with the Norns.

I'm guessing this is like a Decker / Netrunner? Body goes limp while the cybernetic interface takes over sensory input and the individual issues commands? Interfaces with linked devices?

1) The Norns are explicitly Not Kat, they say as much that they're not neccessarily "Here is what Kat will look like in the future"

2) Kat can build human-passing robotic bodies. Even if she's a ghost in the machine now, that wouldn't stop her from looking human.

[Ellen]

Not the problem I was expecting. But, is Kat's body dead or unconscious?

Usually, I understand why Kat and Annie don't go and grab adults to help. But, am I the only who thinks this wouldn't have happened if they'd gotten Kat's parents? Or even Annie's dad?

Or what about Reynard? He probably has some opinions about rushing into moving your consciousness around without weighing the consequences.

I mean, look how that worked out for him.

[sihnfahl]

Not the problem I was expecting. But, is Kat's body dead or unconscious?

Neither? Unless she managed, somehow, to so mess up the design that it transferred her consciousness wholesale to the Machine, then all her sensory inputs have been redirected into interfacing with the Machine.

As to the rest, it would be speculation, as she's not moving her consciousness; her senses are wholly coming from the Machine, when her intent was to overlay inputs from the Machine into her senses.

[Ionathus]

I love the mental typo of calling her body her "account"

I am otherwise freaked the hell out about this whole situation

[Rodin]

Not the problem I was expecting. But, is Kat's body dead or unconscious?

Usually, I understand why Kat and Annie don't go and grab adults to help. But, am I the only who thinks this wouldn't have happened if they'd gotten Kat's parents? Or even Annie's dad?

Or what about Reynard? He probably has some opinions about rushing into moving your consciousness around without weighing the consequences.

I mean, look how that worked out for him.

Thinking about it, it makes sense.

Annie's dad is too bound up with the Court. Even though Kat has worked with him well there probably isn't a great deal of trust with him at the moment. Kat's parents have the same sort of issue, and while she definitely trusts them more they're also more likely to tell her not to do it out of concern for her. Reynard isn't an expert on human/machine interfaces, and Kat has been dismissive of the magic side of things in the past.

It's a bit reckless even by her standards, but I can easily see why Kat wouldn't want to involve the adults no matter how smart it would have been. She's being a reckless teenager.

[137beth]

Is Paz blaming herself?

[Vinyadan]

Is Paz blaming herself?

No, she's training herself in AI speech by pretending she's HAL 9000.

[Clertar]

No, she's training herself in AI speech by pretending she's HAL 9000.

Finally we get to meet PazGPT

[geoduck]

It would be quite the plot-twist if it turns out she's been a Court spy all this time, and is preemptively apologizing before attacking Antimony.

[137beth]

Nah, she isn't a Court spy: she's just an AI who's been trained on Court spies

[wingnutx]

This sounds ominous as hell.

[geoduck]

This sounds ominous as hell.

It's probably a reference to this moment during the Insane Cruise Ship adventure.

[sihnfahl]

It's probably a reference to this moment during the Insane Cruise Ship adventure.

And the end of the Jeanne story arc.

[eee]

OMG. Over the phone tech support. The potential for disaster is prodigious.

[Pax1138]

OMG. Over the phone tech support. The potential for disaster is prodigious.

*Distant explosions*
"What did you do!!?"
"I typed out what you said! With all the slashes and dashes!"
"Tell me you did not spell out the slashes and dashes."

Granted, this might've been more likely if Annie had had to do the typing.

[137beth]

They need Thea from Girls With Slingshots, who can hear punctuation.

[wingnutx]

Kat is in there playing Grand Theft Auto.

[DaFlipp]

I know it's a clear case of early installment weirdness, but I find it hilarious that Annie is being depicted as clueless (or at least less-helpful) on the tech side of things when just about the first thing we ever saw her do in the comic was build a robot.

[137beth]

But Annie later said she didn't have the first idea how to make a robot: she just switched him on.

[Vinyadan]

I got the feeling that Annie was somewhat deflated in later comics... early on, she could speak Polish, build robots, contact the unseen world, do karate, use lockpicks, and probably do more stuff I don't remember. There were all the ingredients for the world to rotate around her. Instead, she became bad at school and people, and, while influential, a cog in Coyote's long-term machinations.

[Yuki Akuma]

Karate? Antimony has never been depicted knowing karate!

Now, judo, on the other hand...

[eee]

Oh. Punch in the throat time.

[sihnfahl]

Oh. Punch in the throat time.

Well, it did seem they were drifting apart since Kat kept on getting sucked into the robots...

[Spacewolf]

She's also a child who might not have much say if her parents are leaving the court.

[sihnfahl]

No heartbreak like teenage heartbreak.

[JavaScribe]

So, what is the plan for the infrastructure the Court is leaving behind? Are there going to be two Courts, or is the old Court to be abandoned completely? Do the people who plan to stay have any of their own leadership or organization?

[sihnfahl]

So, what is the plan for the infrastructure the Court is leaving behind? Are there going to be two Courts, or is the old Court to be abandoned completely? Do the people who plan to stay have any of their own leadership or organization?

The Old Court is going to be abandoned completely by the Movers. The New Court is one of pure science, no Ether involved, or so they believe.

The Stayers? Well, they're probably going to try to rebuild the Old Court. It all depends what happens with Loup (cause, you know, they believe he'll bash things). Between the ascended Kat Robots, the Forest Dwellers and the Stayers, they could rebuild and create a blended Court. A mix of the Etheric and Science, kind of like what Kat's doing.

[Murk]

Without the Annan waters, the old Court will just continue growing until it has gobbled up the entire world!

[Neoriceisgood]

Paz gonna take a ride on a bus.

Whenever real world locations get mentioned I'm reminded this is actually a location that's supposedly in the real world.
Did we ever get information as to where Gunnerkrigg is actually located? I legitimately don't remember.

[BRC]

Paz gonna take a ride on a bus.

Whenever real world locations get mentioned I'm reminded this is actually a location that's supposedly in the real world.
Did we ever get information as to where Gunnerkrigg is actually located? I legitimately don't remember.

Somewhere in England I believe.