Haylo

Elvis has the advantage that multiple Elvis impersonator are good enough to earn a living at it -- big pool of candidates. I used to distrust Elvis sightings until I realized how many good reasons there were for even careful observers to be fooled.

Just have everyone that can "do" Cheerleaders appear all together, and say it's the standard "uniform" for anyone super powered who doesn't have their own unique super identity yet. The very short skirt is to encourage new supers to get their own costumes as soon as they can.

That is easy to disprove. Just arrange for still another duplicate and have all three show in public at the same time.
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...what? >.>

I like the notion that it might be Nanase. Failing her, the easiest way to fake the C-Girl is to have a wizard do it. Since wizards can learn the spells of others, one would only need spells of flight, disguise and strength, and these all seem fairly common.
Of course, that would mean that when Elliot asks Mr. Verres how the DGB pulled it off, he will only answer "A wizard did it."

Just like the "Camera Phones" incident, the internet has dramatically changed society in an unexpected way -- everybody is so innundated with baseless rumors that no one pronouncement (from a known liar no less) is going to be believed except perhaps by a few fanatics (who wear out their own believability at an accelerated rate in the information age).
I wonder what the tipping point would be for something like that? It would take more than just a few videos and "experts".
Still, the evidence can only build up, from incident to incident.

If magic resets, Noriko will lose access to her magic.
What will she think when she gets back to Moperville and discovers her disappointing son is leading the effort to discover and teach the new laws of magic?

We also know Magic seems to have a sense of humor and occasionally trolls.  That argues for some kind of consciousness.

Monastic record keeping was pretty good during that period, actually. And while a lot has been lost, much has survived by copying, and I assume secret magical organizations would be pretty good at that.

Inspirational Elliot is inspiring.
Knowing about the tenuous state of magic nearly returned Tedd to the mute stage.
Now Tedd has a plan.  A mission.  A raison d'être.  A Holy Grail worthy of an epic quest.  A Hitchcock worthy McGuffin.  An interesting hobby.  A mad obsession.  A quirk that makes the neighbors talk about Tedd in whispers.
Too bad this plan doesn't come with a paycheck or academic credit.  This could take a long (LLLLLLLOOOOOOOONNNNNNNGGGGGGG) time.

RE-turn to the light side, rather - I get the idea that she only slowly drifted to the dark after too many centuries and never completely gave in.

RE-turn to the light side, rather - I get the idea that she only slowly drifted to the dark after too many centuries and never completely gave in.

RE-turn to the light side, rather - I get the idea that she only slowly drifted to the dark after too many centuries and never completely gave in.

... is that to say that the spellbook defines a callback, and then registers a reference to it in the mage (for an onUpdate event or whatever)?  I guess Tedd could work out how to register his own callbacks (say, from a watch) in that case, but he might have to watch a spellbook as it is created (to see it being registered) and when a spell is being gained (to see it being invoked).  In this case (a) a cloned copy of the spellbook would remain static and not update, unless/until its callback is sepeartely registered, (b) if the spellbook is destroyed the mage may run into an unmatched dependency upon gaining a new spell (unless magic works such that the reference is also destroyed), which could be anything from silent to fatal (knowing Dan, more likely the former).
The diametric alternative, of course, would be the spellbook acting as a client, actively re-downloading the information from the mage intermittently.  An more efficient possibility is intermittently querying the timestamp and, if it's newer than the one it has stored, re-downloading the information.  These are less elegant but avoid making the spellbook a dependency of the mage (they instead make the spellbook dependant on the mage).  Also, an exact clone of the spellbook would work as is, unless the mage has some mechanism to prevent a given revision being downloaded twice, in which case it would be a race as to which spellbook gets a given update and which one does not.  If not, then the mage is essentially a queriable API, which Tedd could study by gazing at a spellbook as someone gains a new spell.
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"the mage is essentially a queriable API" never thought I'd say that.

Just too out of character for me. Most of the fun of these fairly innocent pinups is seeing the characters' reactions to them, and stepping this far out of character feels as if we are just seeing ( for example) Heidi's body double with a stranger who looks a little like Carol.

Just too out of character for me. Most of the fun of these fairly innocent pinups is seeing the characters' reactions to them, and stepping this far out of character feels as if we are just seeing ( for example) Heidi's body double with a stranger who looks a little like Carol.

While I think Raven is being *slightly* harsher than the deeds warrant... part of that is because Pandora *didn't* cause the Dex thing but Raven thought she did. And she probably does need even more harshness to realize what she's doing.

I have to take Nanase's position: You can't skip warning people about threats to their lives or their relative's lives just because the warning is traumatic, and Diane is nowhere near corrupt enough to decide her survival doesn't matter compared to antagonizing Susan.
I do agree that with 20-20 hindsight they should have gotten an intermediary and done less intrusive research, but until after the fact there was no way to know that wouldn't be even worse.

I have to take Nanase's position: You can't skip warning people about threats to their lives or their relative's lives just because the warning is traumatic, and Diane is nowhere near corrupt enough to decide her survival doesn't matter compared to antagonizing Susan.
I do agree that with 20-20 hindsight they should have gotten an intermediary and done less intrusive research, but until after the fact there was no way to know that wouldn't be even worse.

By some definitions, cows would qualify.  Beasts that are used as machines to turn grass and grain into milk and steaks.

 
*takes mlooney's List*
*makes a note*
*gives HarJIT a sharp look*
*underscores a couple of times*

He was introduced as having connections with the FBI as a consultant though. There's been no evidence of anyone questioning if the FBI had wizards, and it was clear that he wanted to keep it that way.
In the conversation between Arthur and Cranium, the us of the plural "agents" suggests more than we've been shown, I'd be willing to expect a dozen to maybe at most 20 under Arthur's branch in Illinois mainly because of Moperville being unusually more active in paranormal stuff. If there are branches in every state, it might range in staff from 2-10 depending on paranormal activity in each state. So there's probably less than 100 agents in the FBI. Though it is possible there might be more agents if they're always recruiting people they find with talents for magic.

On another tack, as we learn more about how Magic itself can be an active character, there could be way for Susan and Diane to be totally unrelated: Magic might insist that Potential Vampire Hunters be born in pairs (or more) because of horrifying attrition rates. There could be a lot of Susan look-alikes throughout the world (this generation).  In another generation, Van Helsing might have lasted as long as he did because there was always another one to take over for him...

Every day, man is making bigger and better fool-proof things, and every day, nature is making bigger and better fools.

Can I put in a request for a spammable "like" button?