NP Saturday, November 20, 2021

[Darth Fluffy 338]

https://www.egscomics.com/egsnp/forreals-18

It's a mystery!

The profile in the first panel looks like Susan, which would not be a mystery, so, I guess it isn't.

 

[mlooney 3,594]

And we get a canon cannon!  So who ever this is matters.  The next question is the "continued"  mean next week or much later?

[ProfessorTomoe 1,336]

41 minutes ago, mlooney said:

The next question is the "continued"  mean next week or much later?

The world may never know.

[mlooney 3,594]

We did, on Discord, get Word of God that this is a new person, not some one that we have seen before in another context.

[Pharaoh RutinTutin 1,619]

30 minutes ago, mlooney said:

this is a new person, not some one that we have seen before in another context

When Pandora returns to the mortal plane, she will be different than than she has appeared before.  Maybe that counts as a new person?

Stretching?  Not as much as my first thought that this was Noriko.

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And I still want to see Pirate Grace with her cannon in a regular story comic

[mlooney 3,594]

54 minutes ago, Pharaoh RutinTutin said:

When Pandora returns to the mortal plane, she will be different than than she has appeared before.  Maybe that counts as a new person?

Stretching?  Not as much as my first thought that this was Noriko.

The Dan said it was a new person that he hadn't even designed yet, so it's unlikely to be either of those.
 

 

55 minutes ago, Pharaoh RutinTutin said:

And I still want to see Pirate Grace with her cannon in a regular story comic

That would be good.

[Darth Fluffy 338]

4 hours ago, Pharaoh RutinTutin said:

And I still want to see Pirate Grace with her cannon in a regular story comic

Yarrr!

[mlooney 3,594]

Of course Grace wouldn't be a _real_ pirate, she not the type to get all into the plundering and stealing sort of stuff.

[Pharaoh RutinTutin 1,619]

9 hours ago, mlooney said:

Of course Grace wouldn't be a _real_ pirate

Now we're gate keeping who is a "Real" pirate?

Personally, I think Grace would make an excellent addition to the crew of The Pirates of Penzance

If she has the vocal range for a Wagnerian Bass-Baritone, she might be perfect as the Pirate King

[mlooney 3,594]

19 minutes ago, Pharaoh RutinTutin said:

Now we're gate keeping who is a "Real" pirate?

Better me than Disney

 

[Pharaoh RutinTutin 1,619]

Disney had some of the best animated Pirates ever in 1953's Peter Pan and some classic live action Pirates in 1950's Treasure Island

Apparently the intellectual property guardians who so fiercely defend Disney against any perceived outside threat can not do anything to save themselves from within

[ijuin 594]

2 hours ago, Pharaoh RutinTutin said:

Now we're gate keeping who is a "Real" pirate?

Well, piracy is ordinarily defined as robbery on the seas. Is someone a pirate if they do not commit or attempt to commit piracy?

[Pharaoh RutinTutin 1,619]

20 minutes ago, ijuin said:

piracy is ordinarily defined as robbery on the seas

Maybe she could be a Pittsburgh Pirate and be content with stealing bases?

[mlooney 3,594]

7 minutes ago, Pharaoh RutinTutin said:

Maybe she could be a Pittsburgh Pirate and be content with stealing bases?

I'm not sure how MLB would deal with magic users.  I suspect that magic is going on the list of "performance enhancing" stuff and be banned.

[Pharaoh RutinTutin 1,619]

26 minutes ago, mlooney said:

I'm not sure how MLB would deal with magic users.  I suspect that magic is going on the list of "performance enhancing" stuff and be banned

Just like the bans on other performance enhancing stuff have been so well enforced by MLB and sports in general

[ijuin 594]

1 hour ago, Pharaoh RutinTutin said:

Maybe she could be a Pittsburgh Pirate and be content with stealing bases?

Out here we have the Oakland Raiders (soon to be the Las Vegas Raiders), whose logo is a pirate.

[Darth Fluffy 338]

4 hours ago, mlooney said:

Better me than Disney

 

... Talk about not clear on the concept ...

[Darth Fluffy 338]

2 hours ago, ijuin said:

Well, piracy is ordinarily defined as robbery on the seas. Is someone a pirate if they do not commit or attempt to commit piracy?

The Pirates Who Don't Do Anything

[Darth Fluffy 338]

2 hours ago, mlooney said:

I'm not sure how MLB would deal with magic users.  I suspect that magic is going on the list of "performance enhancing" stuff and be banned.

How do you test for it?

[Pharaoh RutinTutin 1,619]

10 minutes ago, Darth Fluffy said:

How do you test for it?

Presumably, the testing wand Edward and Noriko used repeatedly on infant Tedd was the best available, and infant Tedd was able to block the readings just because the noise it made upset him.

Why do I suspect that the testing equipment teams use (especially high school and minor league teams) won't be as sophisticated as that which is available to a top FBI agent, a world class monster hunter, and an Elf?

[Darth Fluffy 338]

20 minutes ago, Pharaoh RutinTutin said:

Presumably, the testing wand Edward and Noriko used repeatedly on infant Tedd was the best available, and infant Tedd was able to block the readings just because the noise it made upset him.

Why do I suspect that the testing equipment teams use (especially high school and minor league teams) won't be as sophisticated as that which is available to a top FBI agent, a world class monster hunter, and an Elf?

Seems like they'd be blowing the secret if they acknowledged the ability to magically enhance.

[ijuin 594]

Tedd was able to block it because of Seer abilities. Ordinary Mages or Wizards presumably can only do so rarely, if at all, or else Noriko, Edward, or Raven would have thought of the possibility.

[Amiable Dorsai 70]

6 hours ago, Pharaoh RutinTutin said:

If she has the vocal range for a Wagnerian Bass-Baritone, she might be perfect as the Pirate King

Never thought about it before, but if she can morph her vocal cords, she can have any range she wants.

[mlooney 3,594]

2 hours ago, Amiable Dorsai said:

Never thought about it before, but if she can morph her vocal cords, she can have any range she wants.

Or by morphing on the fly, she can have all the ranges more or less at once.  Go from infrasonic to ultrasonic in one take.

[mlooney 3,594]

5 hours ago, ijuin said:

Out here we have the Oakland Raiders (soon to be the Las Vegas Raiders), whose logo is a pirate.

Raiders are a subset of pirates, assuming you don't mean the military types.