Vorlonagent

Immortals don't seem to use "spells" the way human magic users do. They just seem to be able to....do stuff. Supporting thought: Magic is not in danger of resetting for Immortals, just humans and the like.

Good points. Perhaps we'll see when Pandora confronts Voltaire. It may be there is not "typical" for Immortals... There's a lot of general stuff about Immortals we can come up with just comparing Jerry-before and Jerry-after reset. Even as a fledgling Immortal, post-reset Jerry had a good idea that the punch at the new years eve party was magically spiked and he had some basic assessment of the whole situation to realize that Ellen + nanase could stop not-Tengue, plus some idea of how Ellen's psyche worked to realize that a pair of snow angels could give her the idea of copying Nanase's Guardian Angel form. It's easy to assume that Jerry did not intervene directly because he simply didn't have the juice to go toe-to-toe with not-Tengue even if he wanted to, which he probably didn't, even if he could. We can see that Immortals possess some intrinsic insight even fresh off a reset, though what magical ability they have is unknown, especially on the physical plane.

My reasoning went like this: We have no screen time for Jerry's incarnation through the 20th Century. While he could be considered "typical" during this time, we have no sense for his ability and limits. We do have screen time for Pandora + Blaike, but Pandora mostly amused herself with easy tricks before meeting Blaike, and then put herself under artificial limitations in order to adventure with him. She might be typical but there's next to nothing useful there for one reason or another. Jerry's current incarnation is a newly reset Immortal. Helena and Demetrius, are recent "bad resets". They are all at the low end of Immortal power and perception and so are not "typical". Jerry in Hammerchloreons and Helena and Demetrius' previous incarnations as the French Immortals were pushing the high end of Immortal power and perception. They too were not "typical" That kind of leaves Voltaire by default, who I still like calling "The Colonel"...

Oddly enough I have been using The Colonel/Voltaire as my yardstick for a "normal" immortal. Neither incarnation of Jerry is typical (though Jerry the Younger is close). Pandora isn't typical, nor Dimitrios and Helena. Voltaire seems in the prime of his life, guiding and empowering for fun and profit.

The Colonel's spider-sense should be going off about now. he's in big danger of being fried...

A lot of us thought Ashley was going to get the gender-bender mark that went to Tedd...

It's much faster than a toaster oven too.

I just found out that a Foreman Grill does a great job reheating pizza...

Simple power generation should be looked on as a last resort use or as a legal penalty for crimes committed. Under most conditions such people would be expected to be a rare resource that you'd just think there'd have to be a better use for them than matrixing them. If we can make the power extraction equipment portable and non-intrusive enough for the individual to operate normally, all sorts of interesting uses open up. We could pop a usefully-generating individual in an Iron Man suit which could store the individual's output internally and engage in combat for a limited time. It would be harder to make a practical animal-exoskeleton. Not impossible, but harder. Certainly bio-energy generation would solve the issue of how to power that(those) bionic limb(s). A usefully-generating individual could be something like a self-powered railgun-sniper, On the civilian side, a energy-generator could make a great rescue worker (think: self-powered "jaws of life") An energy-generating animal companion could keep portable life support equipment going for a important politician who can't afford to be bed-ridden (keep a tight hold on that leash. Your life depends on it...).

I misread that. Interesting.

If the mightiest tree in the forest falls down and there was nobody there to chop it, it could not have been herrd by anyone... Your best bet is time travel. Make use of both memberships.

"Fair combat" is physical combat. Add magic and a human - Immortal fight tends to go out the window.

If you look right behind the head of the foreground Pandora, you'll see a fist and the top of the head of a 5th Pandora.

Sirleck's host may not have been his host before the comcs timeframe. This comic could be showing Sirleck latching onto his current host. Even I'm not sure either way.... Sirleck may have had other options but he either did not take them or wasn't ready to take them at the time. His situation has evolved from some unknown state to become what we see in Zorua's link.

Ah but how will you cut it down if you are "herring impaired"?...

She could even be chaotic good.

I wouldn't be surprised to find that Pandora broke into 5 tantruming children all screaming in unison.

You're no fool....

...which means the mightiest tree in the forest feels safer...

European court tradition, at the very least, has a post dedicated to making snarky comments about the King. No tedious weapons training or having to wear armor...

Oh yes, right. Silly of me. I can never keep tabs on who we're at war with from week to week...

Like the place with the Dewitchery Diamond in it?

Beebbeep, Beepbeep, Yeah... Road Runner, the Coyote's after you...

Well as is said, "If all you have is a hammer..." In the revised continuity, is the Crash considered collateral damage to the physical assault history suffered in its correction?