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Probably because it'd cost just as much money to have the National Guard use their equipment as it would to just replace all the pipes. That worked soo well for Walkerton 20 years ago.

Pretty much the only one actually averting their eyes is Elliot and as I said before, it's probably completely in character for Elliot to not want to stare at her best friend's naked girlfriend. Other than Justin, who's reason for blushing might just be general embarrassment (I dunno), for the other girls it's likely due to being attracted to Grace which Dan's teased us with before with Nanase and Ellen. Ashley didn't hear the word Uryuom before, but she already knows about aliens, well in that she knows Grace is human/squirrel/alien/alien. Diane doesn't know yet. I dunno if it was a retcon but Dan did have us believe back in "Indiana Elliot and the TOSF" and then reiterated in "New and Old Flames" and "Playing with Dolls" that clothes would hold enchantments after they were taken off, of course in "Playing with Dolls" it was said that clothes needed to be worn to benefit from a person's resistance but I don't see Grace running out of magic being related to resistance. Only thing I can think of is if stacking enchantments simply has diminishing returns on how long each enchantment would last, or just makes the enchantments unstable, and it's not at all related to how much energy a person has, yet Tedd seems to believe it does.

If anything, Elliot could show Diane where the idea for the Cheerleadra 2.0 outfit came from.

Let's see, at least 13 hours of sleep (uninterrupted I assume since you didn't mention any) feeling better because of it... only complaint being boredom? I wish I could get 7 hours uninterrupted sleep most days. lol

Yeah, Ashley starts off not looking, but then looks. Sarah has seen Grace naked enough times now that she's wished she could be that comfortable with it, and I think she's more amazed by Grace stating that she was using actual magic there. Elliot's...well probably being Elliot here and would likely not look out of respect regardless as to whether she's used to it or not. Ellen's also seen Grace naked enough times, but Nanase hasn't and we know Nanase feels the same way about Grace as Ellen does. Justin blushing is probably just from the fact that Grace is naked which is embarrassing to look at regardless of whether or not one's attracted to her. Diane's been blushing a fair bit already and had just had her "yes I'm attracted to girls" mood cranked to 11 (or higher) moments ago. Susan we knew is attracted to both men and women, at least she's not in male form this time around. As for Grace's clothing failure, I guess maybe each change she made to herself affected her clothes in some way, and apparently those changes, plus her going full squirrel earlier took some big chomps out of the ambient energy. I kinda figured that if she was using actual magic she wouldn't have enough of her own personal magic reserves if any at all due to her having only relied on Uryuom Power up until 2 weeks ago. But I didn't think clothing resizing would drain the area that quickly.

It's why I wish people would stop focusing on whether or not climate change is real and accelerated by human pollution and focus on pollution simply being bad for our health.

She noticeably got tired after sprouting the tail, I can't see it just being the resizing of clothes as the reason alone. I'm not entirely convinced that her clothes resized again to fit her new breast size, the sweater looked loose enough before and more snug after so it's really hard to say. The tail either sprouted in a way that went over the waistband of her pants, or the pants was given a hole to accommodate the tail.

If you look at her face, you'll notice how tired she is. She just shrank herself and her clothes to the maximum degree. My guess is that she has to actively keep this up and the final transformation just drained the last bit of energy from her, so she now needs some time to recover. It could also be related to Tedd's earlier mention of enchantments being stacked, like shrinking twice and adding the tail, then she embiggened her boobs (not sure if bringing out the antennae counts, probably not) if there isn't enough energy to maintain all the enchantment, it might kick out the earliest applied one, and considering she didn't regrow along with the clothes it might considering body shrinking and clothes shrinking as separate and since regrowing the body first would most assuredly destroy her clothes, the clothes went first. Of course this puts into question whether Uryuom Power or actual Magic was being used here, being able to shrink that much, even in the first instance, was more that she could using morphs gained from the TFG, and the clothing resize aspect wasn't even possible for her prior to the magic not-change. The tail and boobs are things she could manipulate before with her shapeshifting but does this mean that it's much easier for her to use magic without having to suppress her Uryuom Power, maybe because she has to concentrate in order to shapeshift without her clothes resizing it means she's gotta suppress the Magic in order to use Uryuom Power now? or maybe there's not longer a distinction between the two.

Well, Susan spent a fair bit of time with the real estate stuff, that by the time she was railroaded back to the main quest she wasn't yet famous enough to continue, she did at least 1 side quest before paying Bard-Ellen to sing songs about her. she might have done more than one side quest, but I get the vibe that she gave up on it pretty quickly, I mean, I wouldn't want to keep going back to the temple guy after each quest to see if I've finally gotten enough fame to do his quest either.

The only thing they didn't finish discussing was related to fashion though, not very groundbreaking compared to this recent bit of introspection, but this current introspection probably wouldn't have happened without the earlier session at school, so I'd say that opportunity just happened. To add, Diane's introspection's going to develop much like Elliot's probably, it's not going to be about a particular subject, just that it's going to happen more often now that she's started.

There apparently was a time when Diane used to like Rick calling her Barbie, sure it was probably because she had a crush on him before she found out he was gay. And, as revealed further into her introspection, Diane was already in the process of changing things, Elliot would have been the first guy she wanted to have a meaningful relationship with since junior high. Agreeing to help Ellen and Nanase with the griffin mystery was a move into geeky territory. In a sense, Diane's behaving more like she did when she was 12.

I think just showing interest in magic counts, as evident in "So a Date", but again, she was trying (and failing) to deny it, so what's really changed is that she seems to have completely dropped the "I'm too good for this stuff" routine. Though, it's possible that Charlotte might have had some influence in which Diane's attitude really took a bad turn and she found herself really thinking about how she was acting, also this, which lead to this.

Thing is, there was a period where she thought everything geeky was weird to the point that she'd deny any interest in it, but now she's more open to a lot of it and realizing just how much stuff interests her which fits the "Also maybe into some stuff that can no longer be considered weird", she used to think stuff was weird but because she's realized she's really into it, she can't call it weird anymore.

That's no different than what I had said though. She's into it, therefore it's not weird to her.

You're assuming Nanase got the spell right after being awakened, but I'm retty certain that Nanase had only recently got the fairy avatar spell when she used it to contact Ellen, and she seemed like she was doing so to show off, if she had the spell for longer, it's likely she would have showed Elliot or Ellen or someone before then. It seems like something that would come up during anime style martial arts class, which, considering where she was when we first see her use it... That theory would have most likely come about either at the time Nanase was told about the party and that she'd be transforming, or shortly after she actually transformed, beyond that it becomes less likely for her to just out of the blue wonder about it.

I think it's more like she just answered the question she had in "So a Date" of "Am I into this?" and she's now going "Yes, yes I am into this, I am soo into this, no one can be further into this than I am right now." Ashley: "hold my soda"

The question is, how would it stop working? I doubt it'd be a time limit because at the time we first saw Nanase use the fairy doll, her and Susan weren't on good terms yet, the Night Out happened and they started talking, but then Painted Black happened, and then Nanase spent that night in fairy doll at the Dunkel's and the next day recovering still, that would leave 6 days up until Grace's birthday, but I would expect that creating a doll linked to Susan before then would have had a negative response as well since I wouldn't expect them to be on good enough terms for Susan to be OK with it, maybe not as harsh as when Nanase caught Susan getting dressed (which was a couple days after Grace's birthday so like 8 days from Night Out), but I would think that Susan would have made it known to Nanase to not link dolls to her before that moment. The only way that Nanase would have been able to make a new doll linked the Susan would be if any previous dolls had been destroyed or Nanase was transformed, but 1) the doll made that caught Susan getting dressed only ended up getting tossed in the chest of summonables, not destroyed and if other dolls had been destroyed then that should have been a clue to Nanase that Susan didn't want dolls linked to her. and 2) Nanase hadn't known that being transformed would allow for multiple dolls linked to one person until Grace's birthday, so unless she took the opportunity of being male to make dolls for multiple people instead of just Ellen (which there was no indication of) Nanase wouldn't have had the ability to make another doll linked to Susan that was different that the one we know she made.

Considering it's Arthur doing the recruiting, it's safe to say that Susan and Rhoda will be teaming up again. I wonder if Rhoda will be the motivation for Susan to finish the main quest, or will Susan manage to take Rhoda on side quests for the rest of the story.

it's currently 0C (32F) here we had snow earlier and there's a chance of rain as the temp rises to 5C (41F). In other news 4 out of 5 Groundhogs agree that we'll get an early spring. https://twitter.com/DomenicFazioli/status/1223962129126109184

The clothing stuff probably made it easier for Sarah to enlarge herself earlier, would she have done so if everyone thought wardrobe malfunctions could still happen? I was mainly using the Playing With Doll reference to show that Sarah would likely have used dynamic morphs to change height before and that she may have helped Tedd determine the "squishing and stretching" aspects of it.

It's also apparent that Nanase hadn't linked a fairy doll to Susan until after Grace's birthday, though hmm, it's possible Susan wasn't the only one to receive fairy dolls that day.

I feel like I should remind you that Tedd and Sarah have seen each other naked many times doing morphs like what Susan and Nanase used, which is the same as the height change Sarah just got before shrinking, makes me think she's done this a few times already.

When she stated the need for a penalty, she wanted to do so as a way to "lessen her own temptation to misuse the wand", her fantasy shows that the temptation is quite strong after seeing Elliot girlify and shrink.

Something that was brought up on discord that I didn't consider, can Nanase target herself with the fairy avatar spell? If the requirements for creating a fairy is that it needs to be linked to someone Nanase knows at a location Nanase's been to, then if she had practiced using the spell prior to showing Elliot, Justin and Ellen, then who did she link to? There's her family, but she'd have had to do so without them noticing and then she'd probably have a collection of dolls stashed somewhere if she didn't dispose of them.

the past several days have had temps hovering around 0C with weather reports being "a chance of flurries and risk of freezing drizzle".