The Haunted Woods Plot Thread

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Bruno wasn't affected by the Spirit of Slumber though while everyone else who'd drunk the potion was. Maybe that was what swung it...

[Gav]

rookina said:

Bruno wasn't affected by the Spirit of Slumber though while everyone else who'd drunk the potion was. Maybe that was what swung it...

I was wondering; does that mean Bruno's family was unwillingly counted in the Spirit's spell? They were obviously not there when the Spirit was summoned, so they would be either in their house hiding or something like that.

[Schefflera]

I think the Spirit of Slumber basically affected the town. And I got the impression they were sort of frozen in time (out of time?) except for walking around ghostly one night a year, in which case Bruno probably really would have been under the curse for longer. But I may be getting that more by analogy with stuff like Brigadoon than from actual implications in the plot, so I'm not sure if it really counts.

[Crystal]

...that was a quick ending.

[Nimras]

schefflera said:

I think the Spirit of Slumber basically affected the town. And I got the impression they were sort of frozen in time (out of time?) except for walking around ghostly one night a year, in which case Bruno probably really would have been under the curse for longer. But I may be getting that more by analogy with stuff like Brigadoon than from actual implications in the plot, so I'm not sure if it really counts.

Brigadoon! *hearts*

Yeah, I figured it was because they were frozen in time, and didn't age or anything, while Bruno and Sophie were outside of the spell's 'bubble' and aged normally. So Bruno was under the spells effects for a good 10 years at least -- while the rest of them it was just like a couple days.

[Gav]

nimras23 said:

schefflera said:

I think the Spirit of Slumber basically affected the town. And I got the impression they were sort of frozen in time (out of time?) except for walking around ghostly one night a year, in which case Bruno probably really would have been under the curse for longer. But I may be getting that more by analogy with stuff like Brigadoon than from actual implications in the plot, so I'm not sure if it really counts.

Brigadoon! *hearts*

Yeah, I figured it was because they were frozen in time, and didn't age or anything, while Bruno and Sophie were outside of the spell's 'bubble' and aged normally. So Bruno was under the spells effects for a good 10 years at least -- while the rest of them it was just like a couple days.

So... Sophie might actually be older than Reginald now?

[Schefflera]

Reginald did look awfully short in that one panel...

[Huntress]

schefflera said:

I think the Spirit of Slumber basically affected the town. And I got the impression they were sort of frozen in time (out of time?) except for walking around ghostly one night a year, in which case Bruno probably really would have been under the curse for longer. But I may be getting that more by analogy with stuff like Brigadoon than from actual implications in the plot, so I\'m not sure if it really counts.

Yeah, I thought of that frozen-in-time possibility too but that couldn´t help me get the feeling that the excuse was sucked out of the pen (okay, keyboard), most likely because Nightsteed got the exact same reason. A little originality here, sanko very much? >> (And why would they not want to change Nightsteed or Bruno back, that´s the real question I got now o.o)

Not that it really matters x3 I liked that plot. Wasn´t stupidly difficult *mutters something about Anubis Toxicology Reports* or stupidly hard *mutters about opponents who give diseases and skyrocket the cures* and the plot steps were independent so it didn´t matter whether you got stuck somewhere or not. For once pretty well done, TNT ^^

[Ebil]

First the Nightsteed and now Bruno... HEY. Maybe it's related, and they're going to have a really awesome plot sometime in the future which gathers together unexplained pieces of previous plots and ties them into one story. That would mean that they weren't REALLY plot holes/ unexplained because the authors were lazy, but rahter planted there on purpose!

...

Sigh. I wish that scheme wasn't so completely preposterous and improbable -_-

On the subject of Bruno, I thought he was positively koot n' kuddlee before he got changed into a huge hulking beastie... couldn't they at least bother turning the poor guy back? "Been under the curse too long", my foot. The Nightsteed said the same thing... *doubts the 'steed had been cursed any longer than the other Qasalans*

[Schefflera]

I think they thought the Nightsteed looked cooler. I'm not sure about Bruno, although I sort of suspect going back to normal would have been... odd for him. And while the enormous back muscles are kind of strange looking and in some shots he has Popeye syndrome, he's really rather handsome about the face in a rugged way.

I think the "too long" explanation actually works better for Bruno than it did for Nightsteed, but it did sound a bit recycled.

[Draco]

heh, Reginald is a shorty

I was thinking, there may be at least one more chapter of the plot, just to show how things turned out. But who knows. Maybe next year.......

[Ebil]

Heh, yeah. It *does* seem feasible with Bruno if you accept the 'frozen in time' idea for the touwn (for ten consecutive Halloweens, that would mean they've only been cursed for the equivalent of ten days (plus a few) while Bruno would have gone the whole ten years.) But the Nightsteed just made no sense at all to me. He said he'd been cursed too long, didn't he? Well, weren't he AND Jazan AND the rest of Qasala all cursed at the same time? And anyway, We know all of them have been like that for at least over 200 hundred years... even if the Nightsteed had been cursed before the rest of the city, it couldn't have been that far before, and when we're talking about that amount of time a couple years wouldn't make much of a difference.

[nocturne]

Did anyone notice how EASILY the mayor went down? Just a little kerzap from Sophie and he was down. I think a guy with 10,000 (100,000?) difficulty would be a bit tougher than that.

Time-saving? Perhaps. Sophie has enough power to take over Neopia? Indefinite.



I'll be doing this everywhere today.....HI EBY!

[Nimras]

I belive usually the explination is that they reason they go down so easily (remember Jazan?) was because we were fighting him and brought him down enough for Sophie to zap him.

Or something like that.

[Huntress]

nimras23 said:

I belive usually the explination is that they reason they go down so easily (remember Jazan?) was because we were fighting him and brought him down enough for Sophie to zap him.

Or something like that.

Pshaw, this is what I miss in Neo. So many charas have so much potential. I bet if Fyora unleashed everything she has, it´d have enough power to wipe out half of Neopia. They could for once do a plot with old characters developing to new heights and showing what they really got instead of coming up with new shiny stuff that always seems one-use.

(Yeah, I spent most of today catching up with missed Dragonball GT episodes in Youtube, shoot me >___>)

But the comics have never given me the impression of us helping the big final blast in any way. They just lack any visual help from the side. We do whatever we want, the comic still goes as it goes. *shrug* Guess the Neopets plots just are like that. Shouldn´t be much of a surprise, ey...?