PS238 by Aaron Williams
Ps238: The School for Metaprodigy Children
PS238 by Aaron Williams
Ps238: The School for Metaprodigy Children
PS238 by Aaron Williams
Ps238: The School for Metaprodigy Children
PS238 by Aaron Williams
Ps238: The School for Metaprodigy Children
120 thoughts on “2016-06-29”
Zer-Author
Wow. That’s a lot of eyes.
That clinches it; whatever 84 is looking for, it involves a trick question. My first guess is that she is looking for the letter I.
Armitage
Is that Peter Capaldi’s eye in the portrait?
w00hoo
I’m just so glad that bowl of potatoes is there 🙂
David Goldfarb
Yes, that’s Peter Capaldi in his brief appearance in the Doctor Who 50th anniversary special.
I bet the answer will be a mirror: that in which anyone can see their own self, their “I”.
Psyque
Potatoes, knitting needles, the dollar bill pyramid., drawstring shorts.. Wait, is that a Wii?
Anon
She has super-strength.
Pick up the building, hold it aloft, and wait to be snapped back to Reality.
Ideal outcome: “Hmmm, technically you DID bring me the Eye and you’ll make a good Opponent — after you get a bit more seasoning. I’ll be back in a century.”
maarvarq
OK Julie, take a breath before you make any decisions. If this is fair at all then there must be a way of deciding on the real one.
Del
Hmmm… not the letter, “I”… I suspect “I” as in “self.”
Jon Penner
An I-beam?
ThatGuy
Wow… all those traps with trick questions and specific wording phrases and counter loop hole traps…. Just to have the last one be a giant screw ball attack.
Want an “eye” little girl? Have all the “eyes” except this one!
artificer-urza
I think it’s an actual eyeball.
Fhaolan
Out of all the things there, for some reason the coatrack gets my attention. It’s probably there just as a Doctor Who reference (there’s *always* a coatrack in the TARDIS), but for some reason I’m trying to think of a pun/joke with eye that would apply.
MattStriker
A nice way to demonstrate the fallacy behind the “needle in a haystack” saying. You don’t hide a needle in a haystack, that’s silly. You hide it in a pile of other needles.
With Respect
Interesting.. why is this room full of Time Lord artifacts.. and is that Artax’ staff?
Is it more than just the knickknack closet of a long-lived wizard?
It’s certainly not abandoned at any rate. That’s an actively lived-in little hoard.
Ah well; it’s a magic quest. What she seeks is the last thing she finds.
John
That chunk of Egyptian stone in the back has a big ol’ Eye of Horus on it.
Mechwarrior
Just watch out for the Eye of the Tiger.
The tiger probably wants to keep it.
One Skunk Todd
Is that meant to be one of the Argonath statues?
Sociotard
Tee Hee, potatoes. And the Wii has two i’s.
Naldru
Aye yai yai
BignorseWolf
Eye of the knitting needle?
Staredown
Eh, screw it. She has superstrength, she should just take it all back in a big pile.
MrMike
Ai-Yi-Yi.
Lore
she’s looking for someone specifics eye why not the glasses?
Devlerbat
I’m wondering if it actually matters what she takes. With so many things that could be called “the eye” perhaps she just needed to reach this point and bring back something, anything, as proof.
=Tamar
Knitting needles don’t have eyes. Sewing needles do.
greyhobbit13
I think the “eye at the heart of the egg” may just be the middle of the place. Like, the “eye” of a storm. Maybe it resembles an egg yolk? This is an egg after all.
The problem with this sort of thing, it is easy to over think.
Scott
I’m just wondering, the eye can be known as something else, the mist door let us know that. Baba Yaga told us that it is know as The eye, that and nothing else. Make me think that when it is called The eye, there is nothing added to it. For example, a potato’s eye (or The potato’s eye) wouldn’t work. Neither would The eye of Horus (you don’t just call it The eye). And the one from the US dollar is The all seeing eye. Again, wouldn’t work because it’s not just known as “The eye”.
Lucy
According to Baba Yaga, the eye that Julie is looking for is called that and nothing else (or words to that effect). Is that a useful clue here? For instance, I doubt it’s a gem – because although that COULD be called an eye, it’s not the only thing it’s called.
Foradain
I don’t see anything that meets the “called that and nothing else” criteria.
I’m with Anon and Staredown. Take it all back, let Veles sort them out. ^_^
Knug
Why is there a banana strung up? Am I missing an “eye” pun there ?
Jay
Archimedes! Have you seen that flying machine model?
Marie
I like the little plane, it reminds me of one on a very old Batman cover. The props are great.
The kind of answer really depends on whether this is a Campbell ‘hero’s’ quest where the hero fetches something back to help his people. Then it would be something, Or this could be a heroine’s quest where she gets enlightened and finds the answer in herself. Now I hope this will be a really grim answer that combines the two and she loses an eye. Have we seen 84 with any object she’s acquired or already owns? Didn’t she get an invitation to that FIST party to be their leader? She is the “I” and the invitation might fit in other ways to the puzzle too.
Town Crier
Well, if it were the eye of a magical egg, I might look for a yolk; however, Baba Yaga’s clue eliminates that. A glass eye would do the trick…
Town Crier
Of course, the spectacles would be a common sense answer, but, again, Baba Yaga’s clue precludes such…
PhoenixPaw
“They eye is just THAT, called by NO OTHER NAME.”
Both Veles and Baba Yaga seems to be well in the know about what it is, and they both refer to it in singular form. Also, Grigor said:
“This place was made by Koschei the Undying, to protect something MOST DEAR to him.”
Now, the confusion about the “me/myself/i” and “eye” only appears in English, and I don’t think neither Veles nor Baba Yaga would make it.
What would be valuable to somebody able to construct such a magical egg?
Wouldn’t it take quite a bit of skill and eye for detail to make such a thing.
So … yea, I’ve got clues, but no eye-dea.
Prairie Son
Yeesh, isn’t that the ruby Nodwick and Company had to fetch that ended up with them owning their own dungeon?
Puidwen
that’s just cruel to julie
Raulen
I for Identity. It’s her personal crusade to find what is most dear to anyone: their sense of who they are, which is called by no other than than “I”, their Identity. This is his home of knickknacks of adventures, hoarding of things both relevant and frivolous.
Golux
Gah! A multiple choice question with many plausible answers…
Mike
I wonder…
Veles’ challenge is to enter the egg and “claim the eye at its heart”. The mist guardian says “it was clever to call it that so you could get past the guardians of the first gate”. At the first gate, the stone guardians said “we don’t think that’s on the list of stuff we’re supposed to guard”, so we can conclude:
(1) The eye IS something they were supposed to guard;
(2) It’s one of multiple things they’re supposed to guard.
So, it’s entirely possible the eye ISN’T that something which is “most dear” to Koschei. Not likely, but possible.
Jim Theis
Is that the scarlet emerald Eye of Argon I see in that first picture?
JDunk1971
I’m guessing the green jeweled egg. Julie is the ‘I’ in the egg as the egg floats in Veles’s hand, therefore the Egg and I.
trlkly
The part about it only being called an eye makes me think it’s literally an eyeball. But then what’s clever about calling it an eye?
Town Crier
Well, if you can find the exact center of the egg, then that could be considered the eye, as in the eye of a storm being the center of a storm. It might be a location and not an object.
Andorxor
Grab the WII to get something,that isn’t toying with mortals, to entertain the bored god.
=Tamar
This is a fairy tale. What’s the fairy tale thing to do?
Korith
I think something in that room is causing the person who enters to see what they want to see, and smart 84 is going to notice, eventually.
Knug
I have to wonder if Aaron changes his stories based on the comments/theories that we place in the comments. I mean, if he read a comment and discovered that a theory presented was a better idea than the story he’d sketched out, would he modify his tale in future pages ?
Generally, the folks that follow these stories are well read and genre savy. While we will present a lot of bad ideas and off-kilter theories, I’d be willing to be at least once we have put out concepts that were just as good as the direction Aaron had taken.
Baethan
I’m wondering if it might be something akin to Dorian Grey. A self-portrait painted by the Undying, called ‘I’. At which point, it’s called that, and nothing else.
Naldru
Could “calling” the eye be like calling a dog. If she yells “eye”, would the thing that comes to her be the eye “that is called by no other name”.
Stephanie Lynn
I like the jars of stuff. Eye of Newt anyone?
Justin Cox
And then she realizes…. “*I* am at the center”
Samantha Fuller
I can’t believe no one else thinks that what she was sent to get is the visual attention of Koschei on Vales. She needs to trip an alarm then find an security camera or its magical equivalent, witch is probably that picture on the wall. Then she needs to quickly direct it at Vales probably by writing his name on it then getting herself “killed” and presumably returning to his vicinity.
Samantha Fuller
Just checked back pages, I still think that it is that magic mirror like picture but she dose not have to get herself killed, Veles will draw her out. presumably with what she is holding. Now how to set an example while avoiding becoming the Champion of Earth.
DaveM
Yay, new page!
Best she breaks out the “speed” attribute of her fiss methinks.
Messenger
Is there any chance the Eye is already in the panels of this update? I wonder if the Eye is something we readers would correctly immediately recognize if we saw it.
The “Eye at the heart” of a “magical egg”… :-/
http://ps238.nodwick.com/comic/10242014/
Lycanthromancer
There’s an eye-o-cane right next to the door.
=Tamar
The TV, if running, could show the CBS eye logo.
BignorseWolf
All of the other questions were psycological. Maybe she just has to bring herself, I one thing, out.
Trumppoll
Whoa, is that Ultra Boy? Kewl. http://static.comicvine.com/uploads/ignore_jpg_scale_medium/2/25838/490183-ultra_boy1.png
Nightmask
At this point I think the eye is literally that, there’s an eyeball in there somewhere like the Eye of Vecna.
Town Crier
Heh. A truly chaotic individual would accept any eye from the room, since it would be proof that you got to the center, but making you sweat is half the fun.
Roguebfl
The place looks like some kid’s room.
anon
If you can take more than one thing, I’d pick up that cane with the golden orb on it just because it looks cool.
anon
Isn’t that red gem in the case the same one used in the nodwick story to restore balance to the temple’s books after dealing with century 13 real estate?
xero
From Thesaurus.com
Synonyms for eye
noun optical organ of an animate being
blinder eyeball headlight lamp ocular oculus optic peeper pie baby blue
M H
Hope the webcam from FFN will make a cameo.
The eye of Sauron would also be amusing.
(and HAL from 2001 might also be good.)
Should have an i-pod.
CotFI2
Choose…
jon
superstrength means she can pull a nodwick and pack it ALL out of there. problem solved
Owlmirror
Interesting factoid: the eye floating above the pyramid on a dollar bill, replicated in the background of this scene, is called the Eye of Providence.
I’m surprised no-one mentioned the vase by the door – I’m pretty sure that’s supposed to be a representation of the Lidless Eye, aka, the Eye of Sauron.
I think the flowers in the vase are supposed to be giant poppies, which might be an intentional pun (pop-eyes, see?).
I was looking at the statue, and it occurred to me that the orb could have an iris and pupil, turned facing down into the statue’s hand.
The marionette has the colors of the Golden Age Green Lantern, yes? And, according to the Wiki page I looked at to check the costume, GL Alan Scott lost an eye during the Infinite Crisis.
Nobody
So everything in that room has a double name, or simply contains the word eye. Eye in statue – also a jewel. Potato eye’s. Still has another name. Eyeballs…you get the idea. So what is the one thing in the room that is just an eye, and has no other name?
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