Scotty

I don't think Lucy and Diane have changed in appearance compare to the last sketchbook, so what was Rhoda doing that had Dan suggesting she wasn't done yet? My guess is she put a heightened attraction spell on Diane and Lucy and that's how they ended up in their current position. Is it canon that Rhoda has such a spell? No evidence of it yet, but it might be something she could end up getting, right?

It was Elliot and Tedd on the basement couch, wasn't it? No, wait, maybe I'm thinking of Tedd angsting over breakups. It was with Sarah when he revealed to her that the wand said he had no magic potential. Tedd knew that the wand his mother kept using the wand on him to figure out why he had no magic potential, but I think his reason for not wanting to think about them being wrong was for more mundane things like "Dad's a wizard, it doesn't make sense for him to not know what's wrong with me" but the actually explanation from Pandora had the effect of "Of course my parents didn't know about Seers and how powerful they are so the wand completely baffled them!" It became more irony than angsty.

Yeah, though I'm not sure if DGB would really bother, if they really do want to keep the secrecy going for as long as possible, they'd be more inclined to have the main eight go to a private school specifically for magically gifted individuals (no, not Hogwarts....) rather than go to a public university in Moperville. Edward however might be able to pull some strings.

I don't think she would have denied one piece of clothing being enchanted only to turn around and say she's got other enchanted pieces of clothing and magic weapons. Actually, Ellen only denied credit for the scarf, so it might be the other way around.

Did they have to stay hush hush about it and make sure none of the faculty found out?

I was thinking something similar to the first part of Squirrel Prophet.

The conversation seems like it should be part of a storyline, rather than a short recap in a Q&A.

Hmm, that's an idea, who do we all think will end up being roommates. Best case scenario would be the "Saved by the Bell: The College years" route and they all get a shared co-ed dorm where the guys have one bunk room and the girls have another and a common room between them. Of course the ratio of guys to girls is a bit lopsided, more so if Elliot continues the routine of transforming for bed and of course Tedd would have prime girl time as well. If they have to be paired like in "Dumbing of Age"...that might be tricky if there are strict rules that prevent sharing rooms with members of the opposite sex.

I'm still unsure what the purpose of hiding that from Tedd for the time being serves really, Tedd already knows that his parents divorced over the fact that Noriko thought that Tedd had no magic potential and that she's also a powerful wizard, I don't think it'd be a surprise for him, or anyone in his position, to learn that a parent remarried and had another child. Tedd would probably even understand if Van didn't react to the magic analysis wand like Tedd did. I do wonder exactly how much Tedd told Edward though, it's confirmed that Tedd told him that he's a Seer, but did he say that he found out through Pandora and that she told him about his mom and how Adrian is his godfather?

So it was the gloves that allowed Nanase to bash the door in so easily. It's pretty much canon that Nanase has played dress up with doll clothes.

I would hope that Dan plans on rewinding to where Tedd tells Edward about that, maybe the next storyline starts with Tedd telling Edward what happened and how Arthur wants to give him a lab and requested that Ashley learn how to wizard under his observation, and figure out what happened to Ellen. Berating Grace is what I was talking about in the previous thread. If Edward had easy access to cell logs and such, we'd see more berating.

Valkyrie Drive (the second gif) is most likely the one I'm thinking about given the description.

http://egscomics.com/egsnp/nanasecraft-58 They still have arms! The disarm wasn't thorough enough!

Didn't we speculate that a freshly reset Pandora might decide to become Sarah's roommate in University?

No no, this was more of an NSFW form of expression of love that caused the warrior's girlfriend to transform into a sword or gun with which the warrior used to defeat the big baddy. I couldn't find it in the tropes page you link.

I did note that. Either Lucy hasn't noticed yet, or she has and her expression there IS her reaction. Most likely, though they better get somewhere private before that happened, I hear the Janitor's closet is a good place at school.

I think the biggest change is with Lucy. How would she feel about this?

I vaguely remember hearing about an anime or manga (or both) where the warriorlady's girlfriend transforms into a weapon through the power of love. Considering the feelings that have been developing between Nanase and Sarah over the course of the comic. Ashley might have made a mistake by not separating them.

Actually, pressing the matter would help, Edward could easily going into a lecture about Grace hiding things from him and she would feel guilty as heck. Sarah and Tedd being marked by the Immortal responsible for most of the incidences in Moperville, Pandora's interactions with Sarah, Grace's interactions with Adrian in solving the Boar issue, the whole thing with Luke at the card tournament. These are all things that Edward would consider need to know even though he's no longer head of the paranormal division and withholding that information could be considered breach of trust while living in his home. Mama Kitsune probably only knows about Nanase because Edward's told her about her involvement in the goo fight and the Nest, and Cranium filled her in on what happened when Abraham attacked, it's also possible that she knows a spellbook when she sees one.

I don't think Edward monitors the gang's phone usage as much as people thinks he does, for instance, Grace and Sarah's texts to each other, Edward questioned whether he should be concerned and Grace basically lied to him, there's been no indication that he's acquired logs of their cell activity or else he'd have pressed the matter later, and it's been over 2 weeks since then.

Last 2 panels are what all of us are feeling.

I can't remember who it was that said it, but I remember watching cooking shows where the host kept saying that the water for cooking pasta needs to taste like the ocean. Sounds like you went for Dead Sea.

I don't know for sure, that's why I made it an "If" statement, when Voltaire appealed to have the laws changed, he started out by acting sympathetic to Pandora, that alone should make Zeus, Helena and Demetrius (especially the latter two) suspicious of his motives, but then Voltaire switches to a more sinister tone that seems to contradict the initial message. Also Voltaire said "if enough of us agree" which means it doesn't have to be unanimous so all it would take is enough of them to buy into the idea of protecting family to ignore the possibility that many wouldn't give a rats arse about family and just want more freedom. Helena and Demetrius change outfits frequently, but that probably doesn't count, I dunno if maybe shapeshifting is connected to the age (and therefore overall power) of an Immortal or if it's just a choice. Dan's already stated that Voltaire has no motive to get involved in Sam and Grace's business and then there was that whole deal where people thought Pandora was pretending to be Ashley. Yeah, we though Smoke was Camdin which isn't the case, but it didn't help that one of the clues about Smoke was related to Camdin and we went down that path despite another clue (the way Smoke used "girl" instead of "chick") stating otherwise, but we can't fault Dan for that because he has stated that if a character was someone in disguise, he'd foreshadow who it is or leaving clues that connect the two, otherwised a brand new character is likely a brand new character.

It was quite apparent that DGB was unable to prevent all incidents from happening resulting in the conference with the WoM. Arthur's best case scenario was that another incident would make magic unusable for decades, which would mean people would eventually forget about magic (aside from Seers or course). The last system change happened at a time when incidences were isolated by distance, that attack on the village would not have been experienced by anyone outside the village and so in the following years, all they would have are stories about the time they were outnumbered by an invading force and yet still triumphed, they could write stories or draw pictures about it but outsiders would likely treat them as myth and legend. That's not really possible now with a good majority of people with cameras in their pockets and access to the internet, and it doesn't really matter if magic users figure out there won't be anymore system changes because the rate of incidences will increase anyway as the number of magic users increase, as we've seen with Not_Tengu, people could just stumble onto the ability to use magic. Here is where Arthur states that accessibility of magic was the real secret. Here is where he concedes that keeping that secret would no longer be possible. And then here is where he mentions that it won't be long before he goes back into retirement. I think the best he'd be able to do is inform the right people of what's happened and recommend a course of action, but the fact that he's tasking Tedd with researching ways to make magic safer for everyone, means that he's likely chosen the route of minimizing damage rather than all out secrecy and he would likely be suggesting that Tedd get whatever support needed. There isn't really any sense in imprisoning Magus for making Ashley cry either, and as I said before, Ellen and Elliot would have told Arthur why Magus did what he did, and it wouldn't make sense to imprison him after he'd just escaped a prison he didn't belong in. Magus is still much like Elliot and Ellen, he wanted to be a battlemage to protect people, an he hated the fact that he had to resort to using Elliot the way he did and dealing with Sirleck in the process. I don't think there's any risk of him going on a rampage. Arthur told Tedd that his continued research is of critical importance, so I'm pretty certain Tedd is aware of what could happen if knowledge spreads too much before he's able to come up with a solution to make it safer. Of course it is up to Dan, but remember how Dan left us with Voltaire? I'm pretty certain that if Voltaire got his way, I don't see him or other like minded Immortals taking a nap to let Tedd get his work done.

Forgot to respond to this part too. Both Elliot and Ellen believe that Magus should be allowed to return home, Ellen would like it if she got a chance to actually talk to Magus about who she is and all that. I believe Arthur wants to help him get home as well, but first he wants Magus to apologize to Ashley.