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Ashley winning with the Kitty Pet card would have been great.
 

Since the diamond is destroyed, then Abraham will have no need to atone for it's creation any longer. If he is nearby and gets involved, I'm hoping he helps remove Sirleck from Ellen. I imagine when he comes out of stone form he'll do the usual modern knowledge/garb thing and realize only months have passed, then he'll do whatever he did to discern who touched the diamond and realize that it was the same aura as the last time and really wonder what the heck is going on.

Happy birthday Hack.
 

You mean Sirleck, right? He's the one currently possessing Ellen.

Magus admitted to influencing Grace into searching for info about the diamond. So Grace was just as much an unknowing pawn in the place as Tedd was in originally zapping Elliot.

The second floor being lit and the diamond being out in the open might have been because Sirleck bribed the guard into not only letting Tedd and Elliot into the facility, but made it easy to find what they were looking for.
The question is, would Sirleck be able to bribe the guard a second time?

You mean Sirleck, right? He's the one currently possessing Ellen.

Whelp....
You open one of the 996 boxes on this floor and find...
An old, battered Victorian sleigh, with bullet holes on one side. Large red sacks hold a variety of hand-made toys, each with a tag on it, bearing a name and an address. If investigators poke into the bags, they may find toys with their names on them... Disturbingly, one bag of toys contain some obviously high-tech gear (antigrav boots, working toy flying saucers, alien dollies, and so forth.) Each name is written in unknown symbols, but the addresses are readable.

That glare is beyond "regal".
The translation for that expression can only be, "We are not a-mew-sed."

Whelp....
You open one of the 996 boxes on this floor and find...
An old, battered Victorian sleigh, with bullet holes on one side. Large red sacks hold a variety of hand-made toys, each with a tag on it, bearing a name and an address. If investigators poke into the bags, they may find toys with their names on them... Disturbingly, one bag of toys contain some obviously high-tech gear (antigrav boots, working toy flying saucers, alien dollies, and so forth.) Each name is written in unknown symbols, but the addresses are readable.

http://www.egscomics.com/?id=2468
"full of relatively useless or inert magic artifacts" eh?
Like ones that might have been used in previous magic systems?
That might not be so useless or inert anymore?
Probably a red herring.

http://www.egscomics.com/?id=2468
"full of relatively useless or inert magic artifacts" eh?
Like ones that might have been used in previous magic systems?
That might not be so useless or inert anymore?
Probably a red herring.

Have any appliances been acting up lately?

http://www.egscomics.com/?id=2468
"full of relatively useless or inert magic artifacts" eh?
Like ones that might have been used in previous magic systems?
That might not be so useless or inert anymore?
Probably a red herring.

Dan had stated that Voltaire had been created prior to New and Old Flames. He had waited over 6 years to reveal him, so yeah I would believe that Dan was giving us a hint that Pandora wasn't responsible for manipulating Dex into summoning fire golems and Bulldog Dragon.

I don't think frozen waffles will threaten the events unless the Olympic Winter Games are held in Belgium.

I really love today's update to The Whiteboard. Also, the last speech bubble shows that surprisingly, Roger has some common ground with Davros.

To be honest I don't think any forcing would be necessary, Arthur was Edward's prior boss and taught him everything he knows and while Edward was thoroughly confused by Arthur's actions when retook the position as head of the paranormal division, I don't think Edward had any disrepect for Arthur, and we know Arthur has loads of respect for Edward since he agreed to doing the fake Cheerleadra sighting. Of course if they have to both watch over Tedd, there is potential for a conflict between father and supervisor but Arthur might just let Tedd work at whatever pace she's comfortable with and I imagine he'd be taking into consideration that Tedd needs to continue regular studies to finish high school.

Greg's got some wonderful qualifications for Vladia: Moral uprightness, tolerance of weirdness, and a force field.

To be honest I don't think any forcing would be necessary, Arthur was Edward's prior boss and taught him everything he knows and while Edward was thoroughly confused by Arthur's actions when retook the position as head of the paranormal division, I don't think Edward had any disrepect for Arthur, and we know Arthur has loads of respect for Edward since he agreed to doing the fake Cheerleadra sighting. Of course if they have to both watch over Tedd, there is potential for a conflict between father and supervisor but Arthur might just let Tedd work at whatever pace she's comfortable with and I imagine he'd be taking into consideration that Tedd needs to continue regular studies to finish high school.

Van's a seer as well though, if Noriko is his mother, it's likely she would have used a magic analysis wand on him after he was born as well, either Van wasn't scared by the wand like Tedd was, or the wand wasn't noisy like Edward's or maybe, she must still have had some concern about Van's ability to defend himself when she first tried to teach him to cast spells and he couldn't.
However, the guilt could have come if Van gave the same results as Tedd, but later on she realized just how ever Van could resist enchantments and maybe figured out that could be the case with Tedd as well. That would make her feel guilty about the way she treated Tedd as defenseless and useless as an apprentice without giving him a chance, she'd also believe that it's too late to go back an try to reconcile things since she had started a new family.
For the most part I do agree with that reasoning for her leaving Tedd in the first place, but it was also probably the biggest conclusion jump someone could do.
Let's see, failure to realize the wand was being resisted, failure to realize Tedd could see magic, failure to realize that Tedd was empowering the watches and not some fancy technodohicky he made, failure to realized Tedd's genderfluidity...
I don't think we have enough palms.
 

Van's a seer as well though, if Noriko is his mother, it's likely she would have used a magic analysis wand on him after he was born as well, either Van wasn't scared by the wand like Tedd was, or the wand wasn't noisy like Edward's or maybe, she must still have had some concern about Van's ability to defend himself when she first tried to teach him to cast spells and he couldn't.
However, the guilt could have come if Van gave the same results as Tedd, but later on she realized just how ever Van could resist enchantments and maybe figured out that could be the case with Tedd as well. That would make her feel guilty about the way she treated Tedd as defenseless and useless as an apprentice without giving him a chance, she'd also believe that it's too late to go back an try to reconcile things since she had started a new family.
For the most part I do agree with that reasoning for her leaving Tedd in the first place, but it was also probably the biggest conclusion jump someone could do.
Let's see, failure to realize the wand was being resisted, failure to realize Tedd could see magic, failure to realize that Tedd was empowering the watches and not some fancy technodohicky he made, failure to realized Tedd's genderfluidity...
I don't think we have enough palms.
 

Eh. You resolve that just by building additional pylons.

Trying to reconstruct something I posted before the forum crash... the following is said somewhere in Europe, in some language possibly beginning with the letter F...
 

And now I'm picturing The Neverending Story being done as a JRPG.
"The Child-Like Empress needs a name, what will you name her?"
"Boobs"