Whoever she is talking about ‘formed the Pact of the Seven Part World’. This refers to the original peace treaty made between the seven at the end of the Universal War, therefore she must be talking about one of the seven, most likely herself.
I remember once reading that the human brain can store somewhere on the scale of 2.5 petabytes of data, I wonder how much time it would take to fill up that storage with your memories. Was she always a worm? when she says “I took up this form in order to survive” does that imply she wasn’t always like that? When did she took up the form of a bunch of hegemonizing swarm worms?
Theory: Gog was the first to try and upend Zoss, in her first life when she was both at her strongest(most able to change) and weakest(hadn’t gained her gog abilities)
Each reset she got weaker and stronger in equal measures, each time unable to break the wheel.
She’s had to spend untold millenia watching others rise and fall trying to do the same thing she did knowing all along that she failed and will never accomplish her goal.
It’s certain that at some point every member of the 7 has been on this stage, had this moment with her. Alongside untold millions of others.
Gog didn’t help because gog sees no reason to help. Whether she does or doesn’t makes no difference. It’s the hedonism to Jadis’s nihilism.
So Gog needs all of her physical mass to maintain her memories. What happens to her, and to physical matter, when the world is reset? What point does the reset take us back to? I always thought of it as either the destruction of everything followed by rebuilding, or as an actual turning back of the clock. Both of those probably wouldn’t allow Gog to maintain her form…
Maybe I just missed when this was established, but I’d always assumed the resets cover roughly the time period between Zoss granting his key to the heir for this cycle and when that heir fails. Gog referring to someone else forming the pact of the seven part world indicates the resets actually happen much, much earlier.
…How many times has Gog asked Om to say it? Given that same chance that it would all change, oer and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over andoverandoverandoverandoeverandoveandoeverandoveranedovrandorandoernovedneornandove
There are more grains of sand on the beach than stars in the universe or something like that. She’s saying her lifespan is measured in ETERNITIES. Though seriously, have untold trillions of years passed in all the cycles cumulatively?
Obviously there is free space. She’s constantly gaining vast amounts of data from the lived experiences of each of her bodies, but each has plenty of room to spare for that – the human brain is alleged to hold 2.5 petabytes, and DNA could be utilised to store more, especially if the worm god organised itself into fleshy data servers.
Am surprised by mass surprise that Gog is not that simple. Come on, people, this comic should have teach you that no-one is that simple years ago, somewhere in the second book. Out of six, mind it.
Still, this is astonishingly chilling and good update. Fitting way to celebrate the birthday of Clark Ashton Smith. The Worm has ever-increasing chances to become my favourite demiurge character.
The alt-text fits, but I was expecting Funeral March of a Marionette
Christ. The pain you can see on Gog’s face when Allison asks how many resets.
Zaid.
I want to say who I suspect she’s going to name, due to an earlier visual reference. But I also don’t want to spoil anything if I’m right.
But…ponder significant characters and who has unfinished arcs.
It’s obviously Zaid. He’s achieved what Allison is trying to achieve, yet it didn’t change anything.
Whoever she is talking about ‘formed the Pact of the Seven Part World’. This refers to the original peace treaty made between the seven at the end of the Universal War, therefore she must be talking about one of the seven, most likely herself.
So it was, so it will be.
super hoping shes talking about herself
That panel when Gog suddenly looks lucid, I think it’s 12? It was terrifying.
It’s 6 Juggernaut Star Scours The Universe,
Ah… it’s all starting to make sense now why she acts how she does. The stakes are different for her.
“It was me, Allison!”
After all
“The mass remembers! The mass is immortal! And most of all – the mass always wins.”
Dang, when the Worm is talking normally you know it’s serious.
If neither Gog, Agog, nor Allison were able to do it alone, perhaps it must be done together.
Drink the work! Drink the worm!
Take the batteries out and step on the ruddy thing!
Holy shit is this a mote in gods eye reference
I remember once reading that the human brain can store somewhere on the scale of 2.5 petabytes of data, I wonder how much time it would take to fill up that storage with your memories. Was she always a worm? when she says “I took up this form in order to survive” does that imply she wasn’t always like that? When did she took up the form of a bunch of hegemonizing swarm worms?
You’re also forgetting that we forget (heh) things over time, so, that storage would never actually fill completely.
It also implies that she is unable to forget things.
Theory: Gog was the first to try and upend Zoss, in her first life when she was both at her strongest(most able to change) and weakest(hadn’t gained her gog abilities)
Each reset she got weaker and stronger in equal measures, each time unable to break the wheel.
She’s had to spend untold millenia watching others rise and fall trying to do the same thing she did knowing all along that she failed and will never accomplish her goal.
It’s certain that at some point every member of the 7 has been on this stage, had this moment with her. Alongside untold millions of others.
Gog didn’t help because gog sees no reason to help. Whether she does or doesn’t makes no difference. It’s the hedonism to Jadis’s nihilism.
So Gog needs all of her physical mass to maintain her memories. What happens to her, and to physical matter, when the world is reset? What point does the reset take us back to? I always thought of it as either the destruction of everything followed by rebuilding, or as an actual turning back of the clock. Both of those probably wouldn’t allow Gog to maintain her form…
but gog?
Maybe I just missed when this was established, but I’d always assumed the resets cover roughly the time period between Zoss granting his key to the heir for this cycle and when that heir fails. Gog referring to someone else forming the pact of the seven part world indicates the resets actually happen much, much earlier.
I’m guessing the reset goes all the way to the first conquest.
Am I crazy, or does this body of Gog Agog look A LOT like Allison?
Gog could easily have chosen a similar appearance to Allison.
…How many times has Gog asked Om to say it? Given that same chance that it would all change, oer and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over andoverandoverandoverandoeverandoveandoeverandoveranedovrandorandoernovedneornandove
My guess would be Incubus for the one who initially ruled.
I actually feel sorry for the WORM.
Damn.
I never thought she had so much complexity behind all the jester joke, good writing there.
There are more grains of sand on the beach than stars in the universe or something like that. She’s saying her lifespan is measured in ETERNITIES. Though seriously, have untold trillions of years passed in all the cycles cumulatively?
I read the earlier math, make that untold quadrillions, assuming gog is being literal about the math.
Or wait, quintillions was it? We’re still talking about timescales beyond easy comprehension.
The whole “bread and circuses” angle of our pal is really starting to make a lot of fucking sense.
Interesting: Before, her killing parts of herself was like someone doing knife tricks with their hand.
The bit about segmented storage implies that it’s more like watching someone ramming an icepick into their brain.
You’d think she’d need every single body for data storage, unless she has other methods and backups or something.
Obviously there is free space. She’s constantly gaining vast amounts of data from the lived experiences of each of her bodies, but each has plenty of room to spare for that – the human brain is alleged to hold 2.5 petabytes, and DNA could be utilised to store more, especially if the worm god organised itself into fleshy data servers.
lobotomy so i can add a shiny new processing server instead
A walking tragedy, indeed.
Am surprised by mass surprise that Gog is not that simple. Come on, people, this comic should have teach you that no-one is that simple years ago, somewhere in the second book. Out of six, mind it.
Still, this is astonishingly chilling and good update. Fitting way to celebrate the birthday of Clark Ashton Smith. The Worm has ever-increasing chances to become my favourite demiurge character.