"Yay. I builded me a sucking vortex." 
Indeed because last time I checked robot is fully sentient and he might not like his body being replaced.
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Someone is going to get murdered so hard because she didn't throw it away. That last line seals it.
Kat getting soul sucked flag: Activated.
Creed of the Happy Pessimist:Always expect the worst. Then, when it happens, it was only what you expected. All else is a happy surprise.
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ur a tool
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x5: Given how he reacted to the new arm, and that his old body was broken anyway, and Kat is his God, he's probably ecstatic.
Friendshiping.
Creed of the Happy Pessimist:Always expect the worst. Then, when it happens, it was only what you expected. All else is a happy surprise.
edited 26th May '17 3:19:26 AM by MattII
it's a living
Think you need to reread what the post you're responding to was responding to (when it was responding to your previous post). This all started when you said you didn't think there was a way for the psychopomps to set all this in motion, but saying that they didn't ask Annie is a) a separate point from not asking Surma and b) doesn't forego the possibility that they were pulling strings some other way, possibly through Mort. The question is whether the psychopomps want something from Annie that Surma didn't have, whether or not they specifically asked Annie to do it (they didn't). But they still might have known something of how they could use this to bring Annie into the fold with them. We just don't know enough to know if or how that could be the case.
Think of the mooks!
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Why didn't they ask Surma? Do we have any reason to believe that Surma even knew about Jeanne? Surma had (at least some of) the same abilities as Annie, but she didn't have the same knowledge or the same crew to help her. (Kat appears to have far outstripped her parents in the field of robotics and etherial manipulation. Eglamore wouldn't have willingly done what Parley did. No one in the original crew could have contributed what Smitty did. And who could have cast the glamour instead of Aieylu?).
Besides that, Surma and her friends did not seem to have the same willingness to kick over the traces that Annie and her friends do. They largely accepted the status quo.
The psychopomps didn't cause Annie to do this. They took advantage of it, when she decided to, but they aren't the ones who put it in motion.
...if you don’t love you’re dead, and if you do, they’ll kill you for it.
it's a living
That sort of goes to the point, though— the psychopomps have been trying to send Jeanne for a very long time, and they do want something from Annie. So what exactly does Annie have that Surma didn't?
I don't think we can say for certain that the psychopomps did or didn't affect events in some way, that's the point. They could have, and concealed their involvement; or it could just be a red herring. We don't know.
edited 26th May '17 12:40:31 PM by Unsung
Think of the mooks!
Well, I'll invoke Hero of Another Story on this one and point out that Jeanne's situation may not be totally unique - maybe the particulars differed, but maybe there were others that needed active assistance to cross over, and Surma had to help them. In which case, Surma wasn't tasked with helping Jeanne because she was busy trying to help out other trapped souls instead.
Reminder: Offscreen Villainy does not count towards Complete Monster.
Surma may have known better. She seems to have prioritized loyalty to the court over an abstract 'doing the right thing.'
it's a living
Well, even that would be something Annie has that Surma didn't.
But I don't think there's enough to go on to prove conclusively that Kat's right about this— or that she's wrong. What's more interesting is that the comic brings it up at all. That just seems like a hint of some sort, a redirect to get the reader thinking along the lines Tom intended, whether to get everyone on the same page for a reveal or to mislead them for the same.
Or not. It just seems like in a chapter full of introspection and speculation, there's probably at least some significance to each talking point.
edited 29th May '17 2:15:54 AM by Unsung
Iiiiiiit's those two! Someone might be in trouble.
I've lost track. Who are these two?
Aether pump, general Competent Background Adult with etheric/science backgrounds.
"Coffee! Coffeecoffeecoffee! Coffee! Not as strong as Meth-amphetamine, but it lets you keep your teeth!"
it's a living
Oh wow, have we really been waiting since Chapter 28 to find out these two's deal?
1832
and 1833
Pfft–