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  2. Posted

    6 minutes ago, Darth Fluffy said:

    You are thinking logically. I hear Elliot reacting from his gut. But maybe it is about Ashley.

     

    I just don't see how a twitter thread where Dan wonders if he ever had Elliot explain why he chose something a simple as blonde hair for being able to differentiate from Ellen and the need to elaborate about it in an upcoming comic as "he totally wants a wand for Ashley".

    Elliot reacting from his gut would more likely be "a spell with little chance of messing up? I'll take it!"

  3. Posted

    18 minutes ago, mlooney said:

    The best answer as to why is so he can let Ashley change form until she becomes a wizard with enough power to do it herself.  Of course we are dealing with The Dan, who has a 3rd reason lined up for us...

    The tweet I linked earlier referenced the comic where Elliot is explaining how tricky it can be to tweak some features without going overboard with others, and there was also the problem certain features defaulting to "FV5" at bad times, so it would seem like Elliot's asking for a wand with a spell that won't default to an "FV5" figure if Elliot only wants to change face/hair/eyes/etc.

  4. Posted

    Just now, Darth Fluffy said:

    I think this has to do with his concern about loosing the ability to transform.

    But Elliot knows that's not possible now, at least the "Magic Change" threat is no longer a factor, dunno any other way Elliot would lose the ability to use magic. Even if areas with low ambient energy, Elliot's own energy should provide enough to transform a few times a day before he needs to rest.

  5. Posted

    4 hours ago, mlooney said:

    2) Why does Elliot want a wand with his own spell on it?

    1 hour ago, Don Edwards said:

    He's asking for a variant of his spell where what he has to think about is different and presumably either less complex or more in tune with the way his thought processes naturally run - or perhaps a bit of both.

    https://twitter.com/elgoonishshive/status/1249756966286757888

    We're going to have Elliot explain next comic anyway, but yeah seems like this would be the reason Elliot would like a wand.

     

  8. Posted

    Just now, mlooney said:

    Well, we should be hearing from Susan soon, I suspect that we will be hearing from Nanase about the same time.

    Nanase would most certainly suggest 4 boobs.

    Wait, Susan knows about that option as well, would she suggest it as a joke?

  10. Posted

    31 minutes ago, hkmaly said:

    There are likely more than the three rounds of recommendations, these are just the three we saw.

    This was just for hair, height and clothing, though I think they were in agreement on big boobs, well we didn't see Ellen's opinion on it but I would suspect she'd agree too.

  11. Posted

    16 minutes ago, hkmaly said:

    Remember Ellen.

    Yeah she's got a lot a different beams, but also each of them has conditionals in terms of hand gestures, I don't think she'd have duplicate spells for each gesture.

    It'd make just as much sense if Susan could summon a fairy, and then choose to inhabit it without having to dismiss and use a different summoning spell that specifically allows it. Also doing spells like that would make other spells obsolete, like if she can summon weapons that last longer or are more effective, and fairies that have more features available, as completely different spells, then it kinda makes the "summon stuff from a box" spell obsolete. Having 1 spell that adds features the more it gets used works just as well if not better because at least the caster doesn't have to worry about things like "oops I meant to use the spell that summons the more powerful sword, not the original one"

  12. Posted

    This is one of those times I wish I was a good artist and programmer, cus this could easily become a "mix and match" game, Diane's hair with Tedd's clothes and Ellen's height? or Diane's height with Tedd's hair and Ellen's clothes? the possibilities are....well....there's 27 possibilities... but still!!!!

  13. Posted

    7 minutes ago, mlooney said:

    I'm thinking she has "thing from the box" and "magic sword" as separate spells.

    The thing is, any weapon summoned from the box is magic already, I think mainly what the aura means is that the sword should last longer when fighting aberrations, because normally a summoned weapon would go poof after hitting someone/thing but during the mall fight, Susan took out one vampire and Adrian took out 2 more and the sword remained. that kind of an effect doesn't really require a whole new spell, especially if the fairies are still considered "summon from box" entities and yet she could potentially use them like Nanase's fairy avatar.

  14. Posted

    1 minute ago, mlooney said:

    I'm thinking that the magical aura spell is a new spell vs the generic summon something from the box spell.

    that would suggest that Susan cast 2 spells simultaneously though, summoning the sword, and applying the aura. even my limited D&D knowledge tells me that should take 2 separate actions.

  15. Posted

    Just now, mlooney said:

    It's possible that both spells were in the book when she read it.  

    I suspect her spell book isn't loaded with a lot of spells anyway, we know she got the hammers, and likely the spell for summoning things out of specified storage, and I wanna believe that the fairies are it's own spell that hooks into the summon from storage spell, rather than it being a subspell, though if weapons summoned have added features, then maybe fairies aren't that different and it may just be those two spells, and she saw the part about the weapon aura as she was looking for the fairy stuff.

  16. Posted

    17 minutes ago, mlooney said:

    She also confirmed that she had read her spellbook when Justin was talking to her about Diane.  Granted that was a read right after she found out she should read it from time to time.  The spell for a magical weapon designed to work vs aberrations that you reference would be new. 

    Both instances were the same week though, between Playing with Dolls and the aberration attack, she must have looked at her book right after getting home from Tedd's or else how would she have found out she could summon multiple fairies.

  17. Posted

    Just now, mlooney said:

    Oh, no question about that, I was just commenting on The Dan's stated policy on what is or isn't canon.  Death of the Author and all that.

    I added another line to my post that you might have missed while responding.

  18. Posted

    10 minutes ago, mlooney said:

    While not saying this is right in Susan's case, The Dan has also said that unless it happens in the comic, it's not canon.

    I think the fact that it is canon that Susan hadn't felt like checking her spell book due to awakening being cause by an emotional breakdown, it wouldn't be a stretch at all to believe than another emotional breakdown would cause her to lapse.

    Oh also, I think this page probably confirms she'd checked her spellbook after getting her new dolls.

  19. Posted

    13 hours ago, mlooney said:

    I forgot about that.  I would think that Susan would be checking her book more often, now that she knows that it can change with out her knowing it.

    1 hour ago, hkmaly said:

    Maybe she does. Which would mean she will realize it's likely to be connected quite fast after already knowing that something DID happened.

    On the other hand, maybe she WAS checking her book more often exactly UNTIL the events at mall. Maybe checking the book would only remind her what happened so she's avoiding it. It would be especially true if she would suspect she got some combat spell from that.

    Dan has stated that Susan hasn't been in the mood to check her spellbook (and probably hasn't even used her magic) since that night, so it's fair to say she doesn't know it's changed yet.

    https://twitter.com/elgoonishshive/status/1248046611818831875

    Of course, the week before the incident Susan was just made aware that she had to check her book to see if she got any new spells or how they worked, so she's really only had like 5-6 (if she happened to check it the day of the incident) days where she'd be most likely to read her spellbook.

     

  20. Posted

    6 minutes ago, hkmaly said:

    Also, yes, it's possible Adrian is the only Elf alive, but he's nowhere near only Elf ever. It seems very likely that there were much more Elves in past, but, well, they are long-lived, not immortal.

    Well, considering the fact that "Wizards, Seers, those with magical affinities" are descended from Immortal/Human hookups, it's a pretty safe bet that there were more elves at some point. New Elves being born would have likely dropped off after Immortals decided on restricting themselves. I guess the question would be, were there still Elves around in Abraham's time? Possibly near end of life when Adrian was born? Assuming Adrian was born during Abraham's time that is.

  21. Posted

    1 hour ago, hkmaly said:

    Actually, their lie about it to THEMSELVES and it would imply that they do care about elves and would actually care about THEIR children as well if they knew they can have them.
    On the other hand, it's true it's kinda selfish kind of care and they may only care about their own, not elves in general.

    I definitely agree on the "not enough data" though. So far we only know about single elf. That's catastrophically low number of data points.

    It's entirely possible that the decision to lie about Elves being able to have kids was done at the same time the decision to have 200 year resets was made, if living for too long ran the risk of becoming unstable then it makes sense that they'd want as few attachments as possible, Pandora was a good example of someone who didn't want to let go. Beyond that, most Immortals seemed to have just avoided getting too attached to humans so that Elves wouldn't result, as far as we know Adrian is the only Elf alive.

    Now in terms of Reset vs Refresh, it's unknown if Immortals had ever done refreshes before, or if it was just a suggestion that was put forth when Immortals were deciding how to handle the problem of instability, maybe the majority shot down the idea because they were like "No, the only way to be sure is complete reset, leave no emotional attachments intact!"(which, as Pandora also demonstrated, being emotionally attached to someone caused her to break Immortal Law) so for all we know, Pandora is the absolute first Immortal to attempt a refresh.

  22. Posted

    12 hours ago, hkmaly said:

    They are neutral towards humanity, but it's possible they don't count elves as humanity ...

    Especially considering part of Voltaire's campaign was letting all the Immortals know that it's possible to have families among mortals. If they were to find out that he intentionally put a fellow Immortal's family in danger to force said Immortal to break the law and then be all "this wouldn't have happened if we had more freedom!", they might have things to say about it.

  23. Posted

    36 minutes ago, mlooney said:

    Here is.

    Well, we don't have any more clues as to the bad guy is, but I'm going out on a limb and say it's not Noah or any one else we know based on his actions in this comic.

    On thing's for sure this is definitely breaking the 4th wall of the game setting here (not yet breaking the 4th wall of the comic though, at least not in the sense that they're getting us involved).

    Susan apparently getting a headache....maybe the dream theory still fits here, she might have been about to realize she's dreaming and turn this into a lucid dream, but whoever this guy is, is doing something to her to prevent it?

    32 minutes ago, hkmaly said:

    Hmmm ... do we know anyone who would typically go "eep"?

    Ashley probably? but she just met Grace in canon and also found out about her lack of modesty so the nudity stuff shouldn't have surprised her. Also she thinks Susan's "Soooo cool" too so I dunno what kind of motivation she'd have here.

  24. Posted

    Just now, hkmaly said:

    Not only it's sad, I'm not sure who will now have power to kill Voltaire ...

    It'd probably need to be a collective effort much like how they reset Immortals that break Immortal law, though I'm uncertain if they'd kill him, or if there's something worse than a forced reset that would be an adequate punishment.