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  1. Posted

    6 hours ago, Darth Fluffy said:

    Actually one of the disappointing aspects of this is why the hell isn't the governor having the National Guard (state militia) process water for Flint? That is something they can do.

    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.

    5 hours ago, hkmaly said:

    Possibly because so many people is claiming it's already ok.

    That worked soo well for Walkerton 20 years ago.

  2. Posted

    Just now, ijuin said:

    Nobody really needs to be averting their eyes here--they're all girls here right now, except for the one male who is openly gay.

    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.

    Just now, ijuin said:

    Diane and Ashley probably have no idea what Grace means by "Uryuom", since they have not yet been told about the aliens walking among us.

    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.

    Just now, ijuin said:

    As for Grace's clothes themselves, non-living things seemingly have no energy of their own to maintain an enchantment (unless explicitly made to store energy, as with wands, etc.), so they only have the initial energy from the spell cast upon them. When that runs out, the enchantment expires. Sizechanging is an explicitly unnatural status (as opposed to changing things like hair length, bosom size, etc., which only "violate" normal biology/physics to change into the new form, not to remain in it), which means that it needs to be maintained with energy. Thus, once Grace was no longer able to supply the energy to keep her clothes shrunk, they quickly reverted.

    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.

  4. Posted

    5 hours ago, mlooney said:

    Because I was feeling bad yesterday I went to sleep around 1:30 in the afternoon. I slept until about 2:45 this morning. It's now roughly 3:30 AM and I'm fully awake. On the plus side, I seem to be over my cold, but I'd rather be asleep again. Time to do some data entry on Project X I suspect. Or work on "The Terran Campaign" for "Edge of Imperial Space".

    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

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  5. Posted

    Just now, mlooney said:

    Here is.

    I'm amused by the various people's reactions to Grace being nude. 

    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.

  6. Posted

    Just now, Darth Fluffy said:

    Yes. I am saying that during a multi-years long crisis in which the water supply leads to various health hazards, long term complications, and even death, not to mention smells and looks bad, even the poorest people are sufficiently motivated to buy up the available supply, to the point where "bottled water for sale in Flint" is not a thing. People do truck some in form elsewhere, and lord knows how many folks have by now set up their own makeshift water treatment plants in their homes.

    Worldwide, unsafe water still kills vast numbers; our aggregate carelessness is likely to allow such to remain a problem.

     

     

    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.

  7. Posted

    6 minutes ago, hkmaly said:

    I mean, sure, it MIGHT by also caused by some weird stact effect, but it seems it happened when she was NOT transforming. Also, the same would be true: her own transformation is uryuom transformation, no stacking. The enchantments on the clothes however could have some weird stack effects ...

    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.

  8. Posted

    9 hours ago, detrius said:
    13 hours ago, mlooney said:

    Here is.

    OK, why did Grace's cloths just become full sized?

    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.

  9. Posted

    15 hours ago, hkmaly said:

    I don't think Susan would get this far only completing two quests ... the list of quests in Fable II is here.

    Meaning, Dan already either timeskipped something over or just shortened the story.

    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.

  10. Posted

    9 minutes ago, hkmaly said:

    Yes. She also didn't finished being introspective at that point because she was interrupted by the bell. Did she found another opportunity later or is that still waiting in future?

    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.

  11. Posted

    16 minutes ago, hkmaly said:

    It's like ... the idea is there, but we can't be sure if Diane though about it more. She DID though about SOME stuff, but I think there are still some things she didn't re-though.

    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.

  12. Posted

    2 minutes ago, hkmaly said:

    Speaking about which, I wonder if she already applied her openness on being geeky or if that is still in future. Because yes, after being so open about so many stuff, I can't see her remain to be afraid of becoming geek.

    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.

  13. Posted

    48 minutes ago, hkmaly said:

    I see it as "other people are into it, therefore it's not weird".

    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.

  14. Posted

    2 hours ago, hkmaly said:

    Actually, I understood that "no longer considered weird" part as realizing that there are other people who are into it so it can't be that weird.

    That's no different than what I had said though.

    She's into it, therefore it's not weird to her.

  15. Posted

    2 hours ago, hkmaly said:

    Because Nanase changed enough in those two years.

    2 hours ago, hkmaly said:

    The idea was that Nanase made the doll shortly after the trip to France and was using it to secretly communicate with Susan until she said something which made Susan's opinion about her go down. Remember that Nanase saved her from vampire ; their relationship on start of comics didn't really matched that.

    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...

    2 hours ago, hkmaly said:

    Note that Nanase seem to SUSPECT changing form would result in new doll.

    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.

     

  16. Posted

    2 minutes ago, Pharaoh RutinTutin said:

    So it is the opinion of Diane that defines what is "Weird" and "Normal"?

    Good to know

    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"

  17. Posted

    1 hour ago, hkmaly said:

    She MIGHT had other fairy doll linked to Susan in past which would get obsolete and stop working.

    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.

  18. Posted

    On 1/31/2020 at 5:06 PM, hkmaly said:

    https://egscomics.com/egsnp/parable-063
    Usually it's the hero doing the recruitment, but she's busy so yeah Rhoda was left alone ...

     

    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.

  20. Posted

    5 hours ago, mlooney said:

    That was before the change of not change of magic.  Clothing changes are acting different now.

    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.

  21. Posted

    2 minutes ago, hkmaly said:

    Let's think about it again: Nanase was getting mostly hiding spells. She had noone she might want to secretly contact before Ellen ... she knew Susan but based on their phone talk it doesn't seem she would be contacting her often (or would it? Maybe she used to talk to her more often before Susan started to call her slut. Maybe Susan started to call her slut because she tried to talk to her about finding the right man ...).

    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.

  22. Posted

    1 minute ago, hkmaly said:

    I think that it means that Sarah either didn't realized that squishing could give her extra curves proportionally, or though it wouldn't be enough.

    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.

  24. Posted

    Just now, mlooney said:

    Yeah, I think we can assume that.  On the other hand I'm like who ever said "what does that even mean"  because I don't see how, other than possible "cool factor" having on sun glasses would effect your feelings of being that much smaller than normal.

    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.