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Showing Elliot's spellbook glowing and making noise suggests that whatever happened is significant. It's a callback to when Nanase got her angel spell, though not quite as dramatic. Elliot, without realizing it, has leveled up. I tend to think Elliot has opened the door to getting a wider range of spells that reflect on who he is. Edit: the only reason for Elliot to get heat vision is because Superman has it and the hero fixation that created Cheerleadra is based in Superman. Magic would simply be filling out more of the motif. I don't see Elliot's new spell as anything minor as heat vision. I have no idea what it is. Just that it's some kind of Big Deal. Maybe having to do with the Cheerleadra form...Maybe.

Magic does have a mind of its own... Disliking and NOT CASTING them, maybe. Casting them every night despite not liking them? I would be confused too. Casting with reluctance and/or annoyance ought also make the point...

That makes sense, but Magic reflects who the magician is. If "female" doesn't apply to Elliot, it would seem to me that *disliking* female-oriented spells would be the way to eventually make the point. Your answer leads me to wonder if Magic insisted on girly spells because it *was* reflecting who Elliot was/is even though Elliot didn't know it.

The dreaded Lingerie Beam!

That's one thing I've never understood. How do you get non-girly spells by making girly spells a part of who you are?

I could live with those..

If I had a spellbook, I'd want it to have "Don't Panic" in large, friendly letters on the cover...

I want to think that Elliot's spellbook was always titled "A Perfectly Normal Book" and the final panel means Elliot got something new.

I've liked FV5 Greg too...

I sympathize as well. I felt something similar last week. I was blindsided by a change at work that left me feeling particularly powerless (I am vulnerable to feeling this way anyway). I had a simmering emotional meltdown going that lasted all weekend but recovered during this week. I'm back to normal now. (normal as I get anyway...)

Bless you for reusing my slay.

I can see them both wanting to wear the same thing just because it would be a couple-ish thing to do... Not an option normally open to cisgender couples.

One of the reasons I supported that kickstarter...

Plan CM has begun...

According to the Maxim list on Ovalwiki, Howard Taylor hasn't codified all 70 yet.

Forum toxicity is much more fun imagined than experienced.

Grace herself is merely being gamerrific. This isn't the first, last or worst example of how playing a game's quirks and limits for advantage produces bizarre character behavior. Dan's stated before that the seduction skill seems to work out of context with and regardless of the actual situation.

I just realized that Abner may be an ancestor to Schlock Mercenary's Captain Tagon. He's getting paid twice for the same job.

Reason #1 why Dan shouldn't ever come to these forums...

See Dan Commentary...

I though Dan retconned "Vampire" to replace "Aberration" as the umbrella term for mages wanting immortality badly enough to prey on other humans?

Chaos is literally Pandora's middle name. Some of her reasons probably boil down to "because."

No veils. They must either not believe in the "unlucky to see the bride before the wedding" superstition or like living dangerously.

"I knew she was trouble the moment she walked into my office. Legs that went on forever, a body that won't quit topped with hair the color of spun gold. I said to myself 'Abner, this is your lucky day.' I just wasn't sure if it was good luck or bad luck. My business, the luck's usually bad..."

If this is the Colonel starting Operation CM, it's perfect information to give Sirleck. It is possible that Elliot is only "Magus' boy" and Sirleck has no designs on him. This did not occur to me. I was too uncomfortable to be able to think past Sirleck possessing Elliot. I wondered why Sirleck would spend 6-7 months possessing a host he really doesn't like land would like to be rid of? Surely he could have money laundered and a better host found by now. Taking Elliot seemed a good reason.