Invisibility does indeed rule.
Is it bad that while reading that line for the first time in the last panel, I heard it in Amber's voice?
you know, I still don't know that fae's name
Quote from: ??? (Hellcat) on September 30, 2007, 11:33:18 PM
you know, I still don't know that fae's name
'tsokay, only Amber knows, right now.
and probably Tealsteak...
Onto the comic, I actually
can do that, but only when I'm not thinking about it. I am forever having people ask where I went or tell me I startled them, when I was doing something rather high-visibility or loud.
Nice trick, but does it seem to anyone else that Lorenda is still looking at her?
When going invisiable..It helps keep your damn mouth shut
First thing out of my mouth after reading;
*exhalation*
Just Kidding!;
"
Good stuff, good stuff... I'ld do it too."
Quote from: Kenji on September 30, 2007, 11:26:27 PM
Is it bad that while reading that line for the first time in the last panel, I heard it in Amber's voice?
YES!!! Because you went to AC and didn't stash me in your bag to take with you :<
Quote from: Sienna Maiu - M T on September 30, 2007, 11:57:45 PM
First thing out of my mouth after reading;
*exhalation*
Just Kidding!;
"Good stuff, good stuff... I'ld do it too."
Quote from: Kenji on September 30, 2007, 11:26:27 PM
Is it bad that while reading that line for the first time in the last panel, I heard it in Amber's voice?
YES!!! Because you went to AC and didn't stash me in your bag to take with you :<
I'm sorry, I'll bag you next time and smuggle you so you can join in the mwahaha'ing. :<
Also, its nice to see the human fae acting just like the fluffbutt faes.
Quote from: Regal on September 30, 2007, 11:52:28 PMNice trick, but does it seem to anyone else that Lorenda is still looking at her?
Probably hadn't changed her perspective so as to continue avoiding Jyrras' gaze.
Being invisible like that might have some serious repercussions later. Like...uh...
Oh, hell! It wouldn't have any repercussions. False alarm. Carry on.
Know be cool and ironic Lore could see her still?
Awkward conversations are always even more awkward when someone reminds you of them and thrusts you into the situation. But invisibility rules. It's my second-most longed-for ability, right behind telekinesis.
Quote from: Azraelle on October 01, 2007, 12:15:29 AM
Awkward conversations are always even more awkward when someone reminds you of them and thrusts you into the situation. But invisibility rules. It's my second-most longed-for ability, right behind telekinesis.
Ah, the ever-popular "Flight or Invis?' question.
Apparently, I already have both.
Half-demons don't have the ability to see through illusion, don't they? As someone's pointed out Lorenda's looking in that general direction... though Jyrras is also in that general direction...
:mowninja <-Quite appropriate.
Invisibility is nice, but have to be careful with what kind of invisibility. You don't want to be permanently invisible, now, mmh?
Quote from: Ink on October 01, 2007, 04:05:37 AM
Invisibility is nice, but have to be careful with what kind of invisibility. You don't want to be permanently invisible, now, mmh?
Im sure some superpowered people learned that the hard way doc...
Quote from: Raist on September 30, 2007, 11:36:10 PM
Onto the comic, I actually can do that, but only when I'm not thinking about it. I am forever having people ask where I went or tell me I startled them, when I was doing something rather high-visibility or loud.
Awesome... sounds like you've got Plateau-eyes! Think you could teach me how to do that?
I can see I'll have to quote 'A Gift From Earth' when I get home...
Quote from: Ink on October 01, 2007, 04:05:37 AM
Invisibility is nice, but have to be careful with what kind of invisibility. You don't want to be permanently invisible, now, mmh?
Griffin says hello.
I find it funny that she didn't lie. She said "I'll vanish for a bit." How it is interpreted is one of a thousand ways and going invisible is one way.
Also I think I should say this, odds are around 25% that Jyrras knows that the fae simply went invisible and he knows that this is a conversation that they must have.
Invisibility can go only so far, remote viewing, spy cameras, hidden recorders may seem indirect but for the most part you are not there and getting caught is much more difficult. Going invisible has it's drawbacks. One being there are easy ways to find out where you are hiding, the old paint bucket is a classic.
Quote from: Ink on October 01, 2007, 04:05:37 AM
Invisibility is nice, but have to be careful with what kind of invisibility. You don't want to be permanently invisible, now, mmh?
I must admit, I couldn't see myself living like that... :P
Quote from: Kenji on September 30, 2007, 11:26:27 PM
Is it bad that while reading that line for the first time in the last panel, I heard it in Amber's voice?
I did too! I can so see Amber saying that... XD
Ahh sneaky eavesdropping Fae :giggle
*Charline hmms* I suppose we Cubi could blend into the background, like squid and chameleons. :3
I must steal a Fae soul and gain more powers! >:3
Quote from: Alondro on October 01, 2007, 10:09:24 AM
I must steal a Fae soul and gain more powers! >:3
I hear there's a bit of a trick to that since Fae don't have souls in the conventional sense. Dark Pegasus seems to know of a workaround though, but he's a bit difficult to get hold of these days.
Quote from: Tapewolf on October 01, 2007, 10:21:07 AM
Quote from: Alondro on October 01, 2007, 10:09:24 AM
I must steal a Fae soul and gain more powers! >:3
I hear there's a bit of a trick to that since Fae don't have souls in the conventional sense. Dark Pegasus seems to know of a workaround though, but he's a bit difficult to get hold of these days.
Ah, but when they left his castle, they forgot to look around for the notes and ancient scrolls and whatnot he was must have used! After all, he had to learn the ritual from somewhere. Everything in that place was left as is, just waiting for someone with the proper dark motivations!
And what if some sly succubus happened to slink inside and snatch some of that precious information, eh? >:3
Quote from: Tapewolf on October 01, 2007, 05:26:53 AM
Quote from: Raist on September 30, 2007, 11:36:10 PM
Onto the comic, I actually can do that, but only when I'm not thinking about it. I am forever having people ask where I went or tell me I startled them, when I was doing something rather high-visibility or loud.
Awesome... sounds like you've got Plateau-eyes! Think you could teach me how to do that?
I can see I'll have to quote 'A Gift From Earth' when I get home...
Oh drat, that means if I practice and try to make use of it, it'll go away, just like my super-limited ESP did.
I used to be able to predict minor things(whether a coin would come up heads or tails, or which hand someone's holding something in) with frightening accuracy, but when i tried practicing and honing it, the ability spontaneously vanished.
Ooh, that's sneaky! No fair!
Quote from: Raist on September 30, 2007, 11:36:10 PM
Onto the comic, I actually can do that, but only when I'm not thinking about it. I am forever having people ask where I went or tell me I startled them, when I was doing something rather high-visibility or loud.
[Lydia, Hood, Laney, Kane and Keller are holed up in an empty house planning their next move. Lydia is in the kitchen, the others are in the sitting room.]
Nobody was looking at him.
Laney was staring into the artificial fire; Hood was looking at Laney; Harry Kane was in his Thinker position. None of them were really seeing anything, at least not anything there in the room. Each wore an abstracted look.
"One problem," Harry Kane said dreamily. "How the blazes are we going to free the rest of us, when only four of us escaped?" He glanced around at his inattentive audience, then went back to contemplating his navel from the inside.
Matt felt the hair stir on his head. Harry Kane had looked right at him, but he certainly hadn't seen Matt Keller. And there was something very peculiar about his eyes.
Like a man in a wax museum, Matt bent to look into Harry Kane's eyes.
Harry jumped as if he'd been shot. "Where the blazes did you come from?" He stared as if Matt had dropped from the ceiling. Then he said, "Umm... Oh! You did it."
There wasn't a doubt of it. Matt nodded. "You all suddenly lost interest in me."
--A Gift From Earth, Larry Niven. Chapter 8 - Polly's Eyes
Quote from: Tapewolf on October 01, 2007, 10:21:07 AM
I hear there's a bit of a trick to that since Fae don't have souls in the conventional sense. Dark Pegasus seems to know of a workaround though, but he's a bit difficult to get hold of these days.
Truthfully we don't know if he was right and that it would have worked
now for the work arounds on detecting invisibility one of the people I alked to when I played VtM had a good defense against invisble vampires sneaking into his club. beaded curtains on the doors
I was -tempted- to look that up and post it before you did, Tape... ;-]
Quote from: thegayhare on October 01, 2007, 03:55:53 PM
Truthfully we don't know if he was right and that it would have worked
Indeed - it's not even clear if there
is a Dark God at all, or whether it's just some fairy-tale he happens to believe in.
Quote from: Alondro on October 01, 2007, 10:38:10 AM
Quote from: Tapewolf on October 01, 2007, 10:21:07 AM
Quote from: Alondro on October 01, 2007, 10:09:24 AM
I must steal a Fae soul and gain more powers! >:3
I hear there's a bit of a trick to that since Fae don't have souls in the conventional sense. Dark Pegasus seems to know of a workaround though, but he's a bit difficult to get hold of these days.
Ah, but when they left his castle, they forgot to look around for the notes and ancient scrolls and whatnot he was must have used! After all, he had to learn the ritual from somewhere. Everything in that place was left as is, just waiting for someone with the proper dark motivations!
And what if some sly succubus happened to slink inside and snatch some of that precious information, eh? >:3
And I say you have an ego bigger than or just as Inks
Quote from: thegayhare on October 01, 2007, 03:55:53 PM
now for the work arounds on detecting invisibility one of the people I alked to when I played VtM had a good defense against invisble vampires sneaking into his club. beaded curtains on the doors
Vampiric invisibility is the mental 'don't notice me' type, though, so beaded curtains shouldn't work. They'd be good against physical invisiblity.
Quote from: Janus Whitefurr on October 01, 2007, 05:48:07 AM
Quote from: Ink on October 01, 2007, 04:05:37 AM
Invisibility is nice, but have to be careful with what kind of invisibility. You don't want to be permanently invisible, now, mmh?
Griffin says hello.
However, Griffin could only make himself disappear and not his clothes, requiring to go naked when he was on the prowl. The fae is obviously able to make both herself and her clothes become invisible. I suspect that Lorenda is a little like Alice in Wonderland at this time, and she is feeling slightly confused.
Speaking of invisibility, I don't suppose you've heard the joke about the time Sue Richards of the Fantastic Four had a little too much to drink and made her clothes turn invisible instead of herself.
*mumble mutter Lorenda mumble mutter*
Quote from: Kenji on September 30, 2007, 11:26:27 PM
Is it bad that while reading that line for the first time in the last panel, I heard it in Amber's voice?
No, because you are not alone.
Quote from: AnizInDisguise on October 01, 2007, 08:23:40 PM
Quote from: Kenji on September 30, 2007, 11:26:27 PM
Is it bad that while reading that line for the first time in the last panel, I heard it in Amber's voice?
No, because you are not alone.
So you've heard Amber's mwaha?
Quote from: terrycloth on October 01, 2007, 06:02:26 PM
Quote from: thegayhare on October 01, 2007, 03:55:53 PM
now for the work arounds on detecting invisibility one of the people I alked to when I played VtM had a good defense against invisble vampires sneaking into his club. beaded curtains on the doors
Vampiric invisibility is the mental 'don't notice me' type, though, so beaded curtains shouldn't work. They'd be good against physical invisiblity.
True but the curtains would still draw attention to anything passing threw them to an alert veiwer especialy in a vampire run bar.
but thats neither here nor there
Quote from: thegayhare on October 01, 2007, 09:20:41 PM
Quote from: terrycloth on October 01, 2007, 06:02:26 PM
Vampiric invisibility is the mental 'don't notice me' type, though, so beaded curtains shouldn't work. They'd be good against physical invisiblity.
True but the curtains would still draw attention to anything passing threw them to an alert veiwer especialy in a vampire run bar.
but thats neither here nor there
I think the point was that the "SEP field" type would include the bead curtains, since it's all in the head of the viewer.
As you say, though, neither here nor there. ;-]
I have to agree with the page title. Where did September go anyway?
Jyrras is definitely looking to Lorenda in the last panel (his eyes go that way) but she is looking to the empty chair. I'd like to believe she does notice something there, It would sure make something more interesting about her anyway.
Quote from: Kenji on October 01, 2007, 09:04:18 PM
Quote from: AnizInDisguise on October 01, 2007, 08:23:40 PM
Quote from: Kenji on September 30, 2007, 11:26:27 PM
Is it bad that while reading that line for the first time in the last panel, I heard it in Amber's voice?
No, because you are not alone.
So you've heard Amber's mwaha?
GETITOUTGETITOUT!!! :U
Quote from: Moonfire on October 01, 2007, 11:26:39 PM
I have to agree with the page title. Where did September go anyway?
Jyrras is definitely looking to Lorenda in the last panel (his eyes go that way) but she is looking to the empty chair. I'd like to believe she does notice something there, It would sure make something more interesting about her anyway.
Maybe shes just looking that way because she is shocked that the Fae just vanished into thin air??
As for the whole Dark Pegasus and stealing a Fae's soul thing.. I am just going to chalk that one up to the fact that maybe Amber didn't have all this "Dan's a Cubi" and "There are only X ammount of Fae, and they die when they choose" stuff all planned Waaaaaay back then... So there are going to be some inconsistancies...
Quote from: Naldru on October 01, 2007, 06:20:12 PM
Quote from: Janus Whitefurr on October 01, 2007, 05:48:07 AM
Quote from: Ink on October 01, 2007, 04:05:37 AM
Invisibility is nice, but have to be careful with what kind of invisibility. You don't want to be permanently invisible, now, mmh?
Griffin says hello.
However, Griffin could only make himself disappear and not his clothes, requiring to go naked when he was on the prowl. The fae is obviously able to make both herself and her clothes become invisible. I suspect that Lorenda is a little like Alice in Wonderland at this time, and she is feeling slightly confused.
Speaking of invisibility, I don't suppose you've heard the joke about the time Sue Richards of the Fantastic Four had a little too much to drink and made her clothes turn invisible instead of herself.
I'm merely pleased someone got the reference, which was the first thing to come to mind when the dear doctorfox mentioned permanent invisibility - he's the classic case. Though you must note that while Griffin turned
himself permanently invisible, it did say the formula was intended to be 'alter the refractive index of people
and objects'. Not that it happened.
Quote from: llearch n'n'daCorna on October 01, 2007, 11:11:16 PMI think the point was that the "SEP field" type would include the bead curtains, since it's all in the head of the viewer.
As you say, though, neither here nor there. ;-]
I wonder why The Shadow never thought of that...
(The Shadow's powers did tend to decline over the span of the show. In some of the early episodes, he was able to do things like impersonate the villain's dead accomplices)
Who is Griffin ?
First thing that hit my mind when I saw the invisibility was a short story from Stanisław Lem
about a man that got the "gift" of invisibility for a few hours per day by an alien trader as reward.
It was a purely logical, scientific invisibility though, turning his body into something that let light pass
through unhindered ... problem was that this included his whole body ... including the eyes.
So since there was nothing the eyes lenses could project the light onto for the brain to interpret
he was blind every day for those few hours.
Pretty good story. 8)
Quote from: Timothy on October 02, 2007, 05:02:42 AM
Who is Griffin ?
....
The Invisible Man? H.G Wells novel? Classic science fiction? Am I just old?
Quote from: Janus Whitefurr on October 02, 2007, 08:39:28 AM
Quote from: Timothy on October 02, 2007, 05:02:42 AM
Who is Griffin ?
....
The Invisible Man? H.G Wells novel? Classic science fiction? Am I just old?
Oh ... never knew his name was Griffin.
Though I doubt you are THAT old to have read the original book.
Wiki suggests it was published 1897.
You are probably young enouth to have seen the movie around 2000? ;)
Tough I have to admit that Lem ain't as old as Wells.
Quote from: Timothy on October 02, 2007, 08:56:07 AM
Quote from: Janus Whitefurr on October 02, 2007, 08:39:28 AM
Quote from: Timothy on October 02, 2007, 05:02:42 AM
Who is Griffin ?
....
The Invisible Man? H.G Wells novel? Classic science fiction? Am I just old?
Oh ... never knew his name was Griffin.
Though I doubt you are THAT old to have read the original book.
Wiki suggests it was published 1897.
You are probably young enouth to have seen the movie around 2000? ;)
Tough I have to admit that Lem ain't as old as Wells.
I abhor most movies based on literature, because regardless of how much they make they epically
fail at capturing the same atmosphere as the book. And who knows, maybe I really AM over a century old and read the original
Invisible Man novel, or much more likely is the notation that I read it in my primary school years. Either way - I read (some of) the classics, and thus that makes me old because dagnabbit kids these days... :b
heh. I never read that one, if only because I think we got lumbered with the time machine one instead.
I should go find a copy.... *looks for Gutenberg*
Quote from: Aurawyn on October 02, 2007, 01:01:21 AM
As for the whole Dark Pegasus and stealing a Fae's soul thing.. I am just going to chalk that one up to the fact that maybe Amber didn't have all this "Dan's a Cubi" and "There are only X ammount of Fae, and they die when they choose" stuff all planned Waaaaaay back then... So there are going to be some inconsistancies...
I think that he needed a "Fae Soul" because it isn't really a soul. He needed something with a bit more punch.
Quote from: Timothy on October 02, 2007, 08:56:07 AM
Quote from: Janus Whitefurr on October 02, 2007, 08:39:28 AM
Quote from: Timothy on October 02, 2007, 05:02:42 AM
Who is Griffin ?
....
The Invisible Man? H.G Wells novel? Classic science fiction? Am I just old?
Oh ... never knew his name was Griffin.
Though I doubt you are THAT old to have read the original book.
Wiki suggests it was published 1897.
You are probably young enouth to have seen the movie around 2000? ;)
Tough I have to admit that Lem ain't as old as Wells.
Thanks to Turner Classic Movies I'm able to see the Claude Rains version every October. :mwaha
*hmms at Janus* I recall HG Wells and Jules Verne had quite a row. Verne was complaining about Wells using a gravity-insulating metal invention in his story about travel to the moon, which Verne said was absurd and impossible. I found it very funny indeed, when his own story involved shooting people out of a cannon! The ship would have been pulverized upon impact, and the intertia would have turned everyone inside into a splat. Bah, an impossible invention makes for better science fiction than something that's simply impossible.
I sided with Wells and he was very grateful to have one of the Great Cosmic Entities back him up... eh.. erf!
You read nothing! :shifty
Quote from: Aurawyn on October 02, 2007, 01:01:21 AM
As for the whole Dark Pegasus and stealing a Fae's soul thing.. I am just going to chalk that one up to the fact that maybe Amber didn't have all this "Dan's a Cubi" and "There are only X ammount of Fae, and they die when they choose" stuff all planned Waaaaaay back then... So there are going to be some inconsistancies...
Ouch. You wound me. :<
I have some matches, here. Ready when you are.
... now, where did we put the cooler full of gasoline and the jugs of methanol?
Quote from: llearch n'n'daCorna on October 02, 2007, 02:08:12 PM
I have some matches, here. Ready when you are.
... now, where did we put the cooler full of gasoline and the jugs of methanol?
Under your sons playpen
Ah, keeping it in a safe place, then. Good to hear.
Quote from: Amber Williams on October 02, 2007, 01:38:14 PM
Quote from: Aurawyn on October 02, 2007, 01:01:21 AM
As for the whole Dark Pegasus and stealing a Fae's soul thing.. I am just going to chalk that one up to the fact that maybe Amber didn't have all this "Dan's a Cubi" and "There are only X amount of Fae, and they die when they choose" stuff all planned Waaaaaay back then... So there are going to be some inconsistencies...
Ouch. You wound me. :<
Oh no no!
*worships teh Amber*
I meant no offence!! Really! I said maybe...
*runs and hides* :cry
Quote from: Alondro on October 02, 2007, 11:17:57 AM
*hmms at Janus* I recall HG Wells and Jules Verne had quite a row. Verne was complaining about Wells using a gravity-insulating metal invention in his story about travel to the moon, which Verne said was absurd and impossible. I found it very funny indeed, when his own story involved shooting people out of a cannon! The ship would have been pulverized upon impact, and the intertia would have turned everyone inside into a splat. Bah, an impossible invention makes for better science fiction than something that's simply impossible.
I sided with Wells and he was very grateful to have one of the Great Cosmic Entities back him up... eh.. erf!
You read nothing! :shifty
I believe that Jules Verne was more interested in the gadgets, and tried to use extrapolations of existing devices. Although building a cannon to go to the moon was impossible, cannons did exist. Although some of the concepts existed in reality, a little math demonstrated the problems of Journey to the Center of the Earth and From the Earth to the Moon, they were great gadgets and he really didn't see a need to do all the math. If you look at The Time Machine, The Invisible Man, The First Men in the Moon, The War of the Worlds, and The Island of Dr. Moreau, you will find that H. G. Wells was more interested in looking at society through the impact of the inventions. He didn't care how the invisibility potion or Cavorite (the anti-gravity metal) was created. He simply had the character state that he had created the invention and went on from there. Perhaps Jules Verne could be considered the father of "hard" science fiction and H. G. Wells the father of "soft" science fiction.
Interesting, this has most certainly diverged far from its original topic. I blame the ferret.
... Jyrras is going to end up with Wildy.
The prophet hath spoken.
Quote from: Jakon on October 04, 2007, 12:40:43 AM
... Jyrras is going to end up with Wildy.
The prophet hath spoken.
You know ... I think that would be kinda cool. :bunny :kruger
He'll end up with Fa'lina disguised as Wildy. It'll be a big revelation in the 8th season of the soap opera "As Furrae Turns".
... so Jy-Jy likes mountain climbing, then? ;-]
Quote from: llearch n'n'daCorna on October 04, 2007, 10:41:42 AM
... so Jy-Jy likes mountain climbing, then? ;-]
Well you know, he's always been into the big girls... *that statement smacks of double entendre!* :U
fits in with the tendency I've seen for couples to have either a massive contrast in heights, or almost none at all. The short girls who are up to my shoulder seem to go for the guys whose shoulders are above my head!
:mowhappy All the more reason why Jy should fall for Bernadette the moment he sees her!