cillvya
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Post by cillvya on Jan 28, 2005 19:30:22 GMT -5
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Post by PJ on Jan 30, 2005 6:13:14 GMT -5
On a random note, I just realised that there is a yeti on one of the mountains in the bottom left corner. Am I slow, or did some of you miss that too?
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Post by Dante on Jan 30, 2005 7:38:05 GMT -5
On a random note, I just realised that there is a yeti on one of the mountains in the bottom left corner. Am I slow, or did some of you miss that too? I didn't miss it, so you're probably just slow.
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cillvya
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Post by cillvya on Jan 30, 2005 15:53:54 GMT -5
I didn't miss it, but I didn't think anything of it. Do you really think the yeti and the Loch Ness monster are connected to the books? Maybe it's just to make the map more interesting. And I apologize for the middle, it's rather hard to read, but that's the best I could make it, I didn't want to rip my book in half.
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Post by Dante on Jan 30, 2005 16:04:56 GMT -5
I didn't miss it, but I didn't think anything of it. Do you really think the yeti and the Loch Ness monster are connected to the books? Maybe it's just to make the map more interesting. And I apologize for the middle, it's rather hard to read, but that's the best I could make it, I didn't want to rip my book in half. 1. I don't, but if you believe that the question mark from TGG isn't a submarine, then I imagine that the sea monster would appeal somewhat. 2. The map is fine; don't worry.
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cillvya
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Post by cillvya on Jan 30, 2005 16:39:29 GMT -5
We shouldn't dismiss anything though. Why wouldn't it be a submarine? Though I was actually thinking of how a submarine could have an unattached dot underneath it, are they connected? You know, the squiggly part and then the dot. Maybe it's two submarines. Or, like you said, it's not a submarine.
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Post by Dante on Jan 30, 2005 16:51:04 GMT -5
We shouldn't dismiss anything though. Why wouldn't it be a submarine? Though I was actually thinking of how a submarine could have an unattached dot underneath it, are they connected? You know, the squiggly part and then the dot. Maybe it's two submarines. Or, like you said, it's not a submarine. I imagine that, as per the description, the small circle is leading the rest of the craft, i.e. they are attached. Imagine if the line of a question mark just continued down to the dot. I did a fanart of what I thought it looked like, once. And here it is: img127.exs.cx/img127/3520/questionmarktggpicture15ij.jpg
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Post by PJ on Jan 31, 2005 0:33:37 GMT -5
Nice. And yes I am not too perspective. I also just noticed the volcano. Meh. I doubt they will be too important....except for the question mark beast (which is the sea serpent)
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Post by A. the Returned on Jan 31, 2005 4:58:53 GMT -5
I disagree. I doubt the Question mark is a Sea serpent although it may appar to be a Sea Serpent as Count Olaf's ship appeared to be aan octopus.
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Antenora
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Post by Antenora on Jan 31, 2005 8:49:57 GMT -5
I imagine it as a submarine made to look like a sea serpent, and when it bends a certain way it takes the form of a question mark: The things along the side are oars(probably way too big), and the little projection on the head is a periscope. Its eyes are windows, and the spine on its nose(barely visible) is a headlight.
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Post by cillvya on Jan 31, 2005 10:55:34 GMT -5
Oh wow, Antenora, that's a good pic, and it does sort of make things clearer. But it is an impractical submarine, (with the tail, if that's a passageway) but I guess that doesn't matter. It could look like that, but I don't think that that monster is the submarine either. I'm going to go look for the description in the book.
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Post by Dante on Jan 31, 2005 14:43:59 GMT -5
There was a third shape of glowing green light, this one the biggest of them all, a huge curved tube with a small circle at the end of it, slithering toward the center of the screen like a snake. But the third underwater craft didn't look like a snake. As it approached the eye and the Q, the small circle leading towards the enormous curved tube toward to Queequeg and its frightened volunteer crew, the shape looked more like a question mark. The Baudelaires stood as this new, third shape approaching them in eerie silence, and felt as if they were about to be consumed by the very questions they were trying to answer.
Captain Widdershins pointed at the porthole again, and the children watched the octopus stop, as if it too had detected this strange, third shape. Then the legs of the octopus began whirring even more furiously, and the strange submarine began to recede from view, a phrase which here means 'disappear from the porthole as it hurried away from the Queequeg.' The Baudelaire's looked at the sonar screen, and watched the question mark follow the glowing green eye in silence, until both shapes disappeared from the sonar detector, and the Queequeg was alone.
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The screen looked like a piece of graph paper, lit up in green light, and at the center were both a glowing letter Q, representing the Queequeg, and a glowing eye, representing the terrible octopus submarine that had devoured them. But at the top of the screen was another shape – one they had almost forgotten about. It was a long curved tube, with a small circle at the end of it, slithering slowly down the screen like a snake, or an enormous question mark, or some terrible evil the children could not even imagine.
“What’s that cakesniffing shape?” asked Carmelita Spats. “It looks like a big comma.”
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Night had fallen – Monday night – so the view outside was very dark, and the Baudelaires could scarcely see this enormous and sinister shape. They could not tell, just as I will not tell, if it was some horrifying mechanical device, such as a submarine, or some ghastly creature of the sea. They merely saw an enormous shadow, curling and uncurling in the water, as if Count Olaf’s one eyebrow had grown into an enormous beast that was roaming the sea, a shadow as chilling as the villain’s glare and as dark as villainy itself. The Baudelaire orphans had never seen anything so utterly eerie, and they found themselves sitting as still as statues, pressing against the porthole in an utter hush. It was probably this hush that saved them, for the sinister shape curled once more, and began to fade into the blackness of the water.
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Post by Akbar Le Grey on Feb 5, 2005 12:10:13 GMT -5
Antenora's map is good but i find a flaw. The Village of Fowl Devotees seem to be quite far north from the city. Didn't Poe mention that "villages around the city" were participating?
Oh and FFWF your map is good too. I liked the use of colours.
I wish I had a scanner. I have quite an interest in cartography and would like to draw a map.*sigh*
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Post by PJ on Feb 8, 2005 1:55:33 GMT -5
Thanks to FFWF's quotes, my theory that it is the giant sea snake from the map is reinforced. Words such as curling and uncurling, and slithering like a snake suggest it is not of mechanical nature. I also believe this dark creature has some kind of ties to Anwhistle Aquatics.
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Post by RockSunner on Feb 8, 2005 23:20:12 GMT -5
Thanks to FFWF's quotes, my theory that it is the giant sea snake from the map is reinforced. Words such as curling and uncurling, and slithering like a snake suggest it is not of mechanical nature. I also believe this dark creature has some kind of ties to Anwhistle Aquatics. Here is my idea of what the "?" might be: a giant, bioengineered chambered nautilus. It has a question-mark shape if you look at it right.
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