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Ed Verres might not have a choice in the matter. All that might be needed is for Tedd to watch someone gain a spell and see what happens with the spellbook. I don't think Tedd could mass-produce tPhones in bulk if he wanted to.

Isn't there a magic shop at the Mall? Tedd could probably make a phone or tablet that displayed or read the user's spells. Then make Elliot carry one! Susan's version of Nanase's fairdoll has offensive uses. It's a tiny little flashbang with wings.

Oh Doh! Critical fumble of perception roll. I think I read from back to front and missed it was Rhoda in the first two panels...

MY mom will be sad. She was a fan.

Normally I would have suggested that you'd need someone other than Susan, but the way Dan had her practicing touch with Sarah in the pinup....

The 6th is Sarah, right?

I guess I could have lengthened Amanda's shorts. I just didn't think of it and I like what I have enough to not want to bother changing it. Yours was a good idea though. I had also wiped out several "jeans" lines as well by then. This much took me 4-5 hours counting all the false starts blind alleys and learning curve. That was enough. I could probably edit a similar drawing in about 2-3 hours though.

...and a spellbook.

" If anyone puts a steak in a hypersonic wind tunnel to get better data on this, please, send me the video. "

Yep. That all looked like part of the shoe from where I was sitting. No way was jeans cuffs going over them without a lot of work.

Pretty good for an off-the-cuff spellcast....

I decided to try my hand at altering Dan's pinup to more closely fit what I wanted to have seen. I'm pretty happy with how it turned out. A lot of what I did had to do with removing from the image, not adding. I had to pull lines from the bottom of Rhoda's and Amanda's skimpy tops and Amanda's shorts. My image-editor's Bezier-curve drawing function was my best friend. It allowed me to remove the slight crimping Rhoda's skimpy top had on her bust and give her a smooth curve, as well as create a more shirt-like underboob for her. I had to redraw Amanda's hip and thighs when I decided I couldn't credibly turn her shorts into full-length jeans and turned them into tights instead.

I don't know if Catalina and Grace have even met.

But who? Who is changing into Grace? My bet would be on Sarah...

Much depends on how fast you can accelerate the hockey puck. Meteors can hit the earth's atmosphere at such speeds that whatever survives an impact would actually be cool to touch. At a high enough speed, any part of the surface that experiences friction at all instantly vaporizes, so little or no heat is conveyed to the interior. I'd recommend a crunchy Uranium 238 center. Uranium has twice the density of lead for that extra "kick" when you really want it...

Wouldn't the ship fly off the launchpad all on its own? We think of the surface of the Earth as a static reference frame but it isn't. At the equator, the earth's surface is moving at about 1000 MPH (1600 KPH) and gravity is what holds stuff in place at the surface. Eliminating gravity, inertia should take hold and toss the ship directly away from the Earth's center of mass, which ought to be the rough equivalent of straight up. Despite going from zero to a speed that breaks the sound barrier, the crew would be fine because it is not an acceleration but a function of inertia. If the the ship ascends using only its inertia, the crew would experience a pull forward in the direction the ship was moving equal to the deceleration from air resistance. Cut gravity on ship at either of the Earth's rotational poles, the ship would simply float there, but again if you can create an island of normal gravity in front of the ship or negative gravity behind the ship, there you go. Negating gravity at various places on a planet can be especially nasty. A bunker that could take a nuclear weapon hit is still transparent to gravity. negate gravity in the interior of the bunker and everything not very securely nailed down splats against the ceiling.

That's right. Pixies. For those who don't read Chasing the Sunset: Pixies pretty selectively bend reality and steal your "shinies". Their alignment is best described as chaotic/whimsical. They simply don't exist on the good/evil line.

Getting the geese to swallow the pucks has slowed weapon deployment...

If the technology is capable of manipulating gravity, one has to ask if it can bunch gravitic lines or invert them. Bunched gravity allows the ship to "fall up" towards a local gravity well. Inverted (repelling) gravity could be set behind the ship to make it "fall" away from the negative gravity source. Depending on the intensity with which one could concenrate to dissipate gravity one could build an Albiquerre Warp Drive, peek past the Swatrzchild radius of a black hole, do your own gravitational lensing telescopes or create quantum black holes. This is before we talk about manipulating electromagnetism. The potential here is huge. All chemistry is based on electromagnetism. Zero out electromagnetic interactions and normal matter turns into plasma. Admittedly unnaturally cold plasma, but still plasma. That junk on the inside of your oven that nothing can get rid of? This would do it. Such as device could change the amount of energy required for a chemical reaction either for the greater or lesser, alter the emission spectra for elements, create absolute-zero temperatures. Manipulating the strong and weak nuclear forces would allow you to tear elements apart, down to their component quarks, or put them back together to create custom atomic nuclei not found in the natural world. We know what Uranium 233 does and what 235 does. What about 234? Depending on exactly what you can do, things go really nuts compared to our world.

Frisbees don't count.

In fairness fairies in Chasing the Sunset are just problematic. They don't really don't really go well with anybody.

You are "Critter Keeper" after all... I wish you the best in recovering from the loss. Wish I had something less generic to say that said the same thing...

I don't know what to tell you then. You are welcome to your own definitions of things. I've found they make a hash of discussions like this because we're using the same words for different concepts. I agree that Fox' news reporting is biased conservative. It practically can't be otherwise. Fox is so hated in so many corners, I would think it very easy to want to push back. But Fox' conservative bias does set it apart from news sources it is otherwise similar to. Moreover Fox News is a creature born of politics. If there wasn't a liberal hegemony in the mainstream media (my version of the term) there would be no conservative audience for Fox to grow so large serving. By comparison Al Gore's "liberal cable news network", whatever he actually called it, died a quick and miserable death precisely because the market for liberal news was already saturated. People were already getting what he was selling elsewhere. Same story for liberals on talk radio, most notably the talk radio network Air America. People were getting their daily dose of radio-liberalism elsewhere, presumably from NPR. No argument that it's going to be a bumpy few years. But if these social conservative projects are what dominate Trump's agenda, it's the quickest way to lose power. That's what destroyed the lock on government power that the Democrats got in 2009: Getting drunk with power and deciding to embark on some grand social crusade. If you are worried about inroads against established rights, it's better for your enemy to overreach, as the Democrats did with Obamacare, and get their wings clipped in the midterms in 2 years. What you do NOT want is for the Republicans to actually take care of business, shore up the economy, bring down the deficit and roll back social advances with a death of 1000 small cuts. Really there is no need for concern until and unless the Senate changes the Filibuster rules. There's only so much anybody can do with the Senate hogtied. Trump can use his executive power as Obama did and cancel what Obama did but them's the breaks. Do things the easy way, lose them the easy way. We haven't seen yet what Trump will or won't do for the economy or what segment. Don't talk like we're 3 years into his term. We're not. All you have to go on are Clinton Campaign rhetoric for predictions of what Trump will do and that stuff was designed to scare you. Get a few data points before you start drawing lines. And CERTAINLY do not write yourself out of the economy because you feel you won't be allowed in. That's just self-inflicted pain and you don't need that. Social conservatives are going to make some inroads. That's to be expected, but don't blow small losses into big ones or you'll never have any peace of mind, ever. Separate what you're concerned a loss would mean from what it actually means. Comfort your fears and strive for the reassurance of an honest, not emotionally-charged assessment.

I'm not sure Ashley having "mood hair" is going to work much better...