Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-4830106-20141010002549/@comment-24891101-20141010004226

Ruby's finally using her weapon as it was intended. 'Bout time we saw that; what's the point of a sniper rifle, with the long range, accuracy, and advanced optics if you just use it at close range?

As we suspected, the dog kicks things off.

RWBY-Ruby has a heart-to-heart on their half-truths. Weiss' is the most interesting, since her career path may at some point bring her into direct opposition to her family. As, of course, will Blake's, but we knew that. Kinda surprised that Yang didn't mention her mother again, since Blake certainly, and Ruby presumably knows at least part of it, yet Weiss is in the dark.

So the Mountain Glenn project was basically doomed from the start. It's interesting to note, though, that Oobleck seems to use the terms city and kingdom mostly interchangeably, suggesting that Vale is not so much a city as a walled megalopolis, though the city's apparent size relative to the presumably Earth-size planet (on account of the gravity) already suggested that, and a majority of the nation's population lives within it. That's not to discount the existence of smaller cities within the Kingdom of Vale, though. And Oobleck notes that it was the first major expansion attempted. This suggests that Vale, and likely the other kingdoms, historically consisted of a number of smaller towns protected from the world at large by a wall, which ultimately grew together and filled the space, so that only comparatively recently have they had to expand beyond the walls.

Subterranean Grimm, eh? Neat. If Cinder et al are planning on undermining the walls and opening the tunnels, then they'd be able to enter Vale proper. Also, they need to be really careful, as there are things probably lurking underground. We get more evidence that the Grimm are actively hostile (as if we needed it), as they attacked without provocation only when the population moved underground.

How'd the White Fang get the mechs underground? Giant service elevator?

Oobleck apparently doesn't drink coffee, just darts around to give the impression that he is over-caffeinated. That weapon of his, whatever it may be, obviously cannot hold any actual liquid, unless it is actually liquid-based.