Walk With A Friend 2015-08-27
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Re: Walk With A Friend 2015-08-27
Methinks those two are going to be late for their next class...
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Re: Walk With A Friend 2015-08-27
And the class after that, and the one after that...DilyV wrote:Methinks those two are going to be late for their next class...
Until someone finds them, near comatose, in the middle of the hallway.
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Re: Walk With A Friend 2015-08-27
At this point I think they are merely skirting insanity.jwhouk wrote:(mumblemumbledammitcheesymumblemumble)
...
Uhm.
Are... are they... kilt?
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Re: Walk With A Friend 2015-08-27
Better than catatonic in a closet.jwhouk wrote:Until someone finds them, near comatose, in the middle of the hallway.
Wait until the hall monitor gives them a dressing-down for not being in class.Warrl wrote:At this point I think they are merely skirting insanity.jwhouk wrote:Are... are they... kilt?
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Re: Walk With A Friend 2015-08-27
No, those are the standard-length Gryphon High uniform skirts.jwhouk wrote:Are... are they... kilt?
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Re: Walk With A Friend 2015-08-27
Truly an expantsive lesson in the price of being cruel. It socks to be them, there's nylon about it.MerchManDan wrote:Wait until the hall monitor gives them a dressing-down for not being in class.Warrl wrote:At this point I think they are merely skirting insanity.jwhouk wrote:Are... are they... kilt?
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Re: Walk With A Friend 2015-08-27
So the slack jawed jerks are just standing there appearing to be staring at the wall. Should bring down their social standing a bit. Not good for them. Especially if they go about babbling for a while.
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Re: Walk With A Friend 2015-08-27
I'm not sure if i like Devyn as much as i was starting to any more.
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Re: Walk With A Friend 2015-08-27
The more I see of Devyn, the better I like her!
If they survive, those two will have hopefully learned not to judge by appearance. You are likely to poke something than is better left alone.
On the other hand, befriending someone like that definitely gains you a powerful ally.
If they survive, those two will have hopefully learned not to judge by appearance. You are likely to poke something than is better left alone.
On the other hand, befriending someone like that definitely gains you a powerful ally.
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Re: Walk With A Friend 2015-08-27
i hope that those two girls on the right side of panel one ARE the ones that Devyn is messing with, but the hair on the left girl in panel one is much longer than any other pic of her we've seen so far, as well as the fact that the perspective shift from Devyn being on the LEFT side of the hallway getting stuff out of her locker, and now suddenly she's on the RIGHT side with a book in her hands much closer to the RIGHT side of the hall... but when Atsali shows up, she's back over by the lockers again even though the the way she's turning her head is correct for her still being over by the lockers though...KnightDelight wrote:So the slack jawed jerks are just standing there appearing to be staring at the wall. Should bring down their social standing a bit. Not good for them. Especially if they go about babbling for a while.
like Tsillah, when she met up with Pratt and McBride out on the street, right? at least, we HOPE that it's a VR game and not like Monica and the Tar, where she's about to squish those two goobers for getting bullied and finally snapping.OTOH, as far as these sharp tongued twosomes are concerned, Best creepy Virtual Reality game EVER!!
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Re: Walk With A Friend 2015-08-27
Paper skin and bones of wax.Dave wrote:Truly an expantsive lesson in the price of being cruel. It socks to be them, there's nylon about it.MerchManDan wrote:Wait until the hall monitor gives them a dressing-down for not being in class.Warrl wrote: At this point I think they are merely skirting insanity.
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Re: Walk With A Friend 2015-08-27
Scantrontb, I think today's perspective is a 180 degree turn from Monday.
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Re: Walk With A Friend 2015-08-27
Well damn! Not a flashback? Just hella terrifying? Damn!
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Re: Walk With A Friend 2015-08-27
That Atsali called Devyn a friend should make her whole day. That Devyn is seen walking and chatting with the Queen Bee may raise her social caste considerably.
I'm not sure the two figures on the right in the first panel are Devyn's tormentors. The girl with long hair, her hair comes down to mid shoulder; the girl in the hall's hair is almost to her waist.
It would appear a bit of time has passed or something happened. Short haired girl's collar was previously flat and her tie fairly snugged up; now it's loose and the collar disarrayed. I wonder what they are staring at that seems so devastating.
These two might be the same non-human species, and under stress they're reverting to their original coloring. Their lower fangs are certainly more pronounced. On the other hand, Devynworld might be infecting them...Opus the Poet wrote:I dunno, that skin coloration does not inspire confidence (they need a bard to sing the "inspire courage" song)Sgt. Howard wrote:No... they are "TILT"!jwhouk wrote:(mumblemumbledammitcheesymumblemumble)
...
Uhm.
Are... are they... kilt?
I'm not sure the two figures on the right in the first panel are Devyn's tormentors. The girl with long hair, her hair comes down to mid shoulder; the girl in the hall's hair is almost to her waist.
It would appear a bit of time has passed or something happened. Short haired girl's collar was previously flat and her tie fairly snugged up; now it's loose and the collar disarrayed. I wonder what they are staring at that seems so devastating.
Re: Walk With A Friend 2015-08-27
...There's gotta be a jar around here somewhere for that kind of thing...AnotherFairportfan wrote:No, those are the standard-length Gryphon High uniform skirts.jwhouk wrote:Are... are they... kilt?
I'd personally like to know if Devyn disappeared and left them in that awful place deliberately or because Atsali broke her connection when she called for her.
Re: Walk With A Friend 2015-08-27
Good catch. I was thinking there was still a chance it was a flashback/flashforward combo.jwhouk wrote:Closer inspection: the two of them are still "there" in the hallway in panel one. Devyn's looking at them with a blank look on her face.
Almost like, "I know what you're looking at right now, and I don't feel a bit sorry for you."
The one girl had been showing signs of "para-teeth" the whole time, but both are showing decided amounts of long fanged teeth now. I hope this is just what their normal is, and not a result of what Devyn has done. She is descended from Greek stock though, major curses for slights against them was not uncommon.
If they are still trapped in a world of how people's actions toward her affect her, perhaps Atsali wanting to walk with her will have a sudden strong positive effect on that world. I get the feeling Devyn doesn't feel things in half-measures.
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Re: Walk With A Friend 2015-08-27
Gotta agree here, to be honest at this point I'm infinitely more concerned about the two of them than Devyn. It reminds me far too much of my own self around that age, being targeted and picked on for silly reasons which in my case was being a 'big kid'. I too made the big mistake of bottling it in and not talking about it, and damn near threw someone across the hallway because of it. Devyn needs helps, Atsali is a good start but probably a legit para psychologist would be the best.AnotherFairportfan wrote:I'm not sure if i like Devyn as much as i was starting to any more.
I still resented the other kids for bugging on me back then, but I also quickly realized I couldn't just lash out in anger or I'd hurt them. So yeah, I hope next page will at least show the two of them recovering from whatever she's done, rather than focus entirely on her and Atsali being buddy-buddy.
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Re: Walk With A Friend 2015-08-27
Line forms to the right, akeche...
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Re: Walk With A Friend 2015-08-27
I just realized you may be correct. Every known Otherworld has a location, and appropriate theme music.jwhouk wrote:Are... are they... kilt?
Devyn's dark place may be Scottish... and these two are staring helplessly at an eldrich bagpiper in full blaring drone.
That would account for their expressions of horror, and the cry for help from another spectator.
Their mottled complexion suggests that they're downwind from the local haggis factory.
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Re: Walk With A Friend 2015-08-27
Two bimbos of middle-teen age
drove Devyn to levels of rage
her darkness did spin
and sucked them both in
('tis best not to rattle her cage!)
They are both stuck there in no small a way
and left with no room they could crawl away
there expressions quite blank
with spirits that sank
as they stand comatose in the hall-a-way
the lesson here as I unwind it
is simple- and now let me grind it;
"Those looking for trouble
and proceed at the double
are always astonished to find it!"
Annie wants to talk to Mrs. Dave regarding tranque guns and darts...
drove Devyn to levels of rage
her darkness did spin
and sucked them both in
('tis best not to rattle her cage!)
They are both stuck there in no small a way
and left with no room they could crawl away
there expressions quite blank
with spirits that sank
as they stand comatose in the hall-a-way
the lesson here as I unwind it
is simple- and now let me grind it;
"Those looking for trouble
and proceed at the double
are always astonished to find it!"
Annie wants to talk to Mrs. Dave regarding tranque guns and darts...
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