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The cloaked dude or the Emissary of Magic? I'm assuming they aren't the same person. Yes. Actually here I was talking about the Emissary of Magic, as hoping to finding out the cloaked dude isn't noteworthy, while the Emissary of Magic happened some time back so it's noteworthy that despite that time I still hope we will eventually find out. Also, note that if cloaked dude will be revealed as Emissary of Magic, it would mean the real identity of Emissary of Magic is still pending. (And I consider both Zeus and Noah more likely, but Emissary of Magic IS on the list.)

Not only that, noone mentioned Ashley yet. "Quantum rocket science physics" is probably FTL engine: either something capable of going faster than light in normal universe, which is not supposed to be possible at all but there may be cheat how to do it, OR some kind of wormhole generator. Not simple stuff. Although maybe Uryuoms would disagree. I'm not sure what's stopping her. Doesn't she have beam to do that? ... actually, maybe she already tried and now wants Elliot to try. Main problem with using them day to day is that they affect her mind. We don't know what goth version does, as we haven't seen her for long periods of time like we have seen mild mannered and Heidi. If that is or isn't problem depends on situation However, Elliot also can't switch to them without going through cheerleadra, AND may prefer to keep them secret for their original purpose of cheerleadra secret identities. Well, it seems that for some reason he doesn't want to use THAT form as his consistent reusable form.

You think small (granted, may be more practical). Instead, you should put the glass and the vax/ice plumb inside bigger container, evacuate whole container, put vax/ice plumb inside the glass, open the container, pour water on the plumb. Hmmm ... alternative to vax/ice would be something like salt or sugar which the water will simply dissolve. Harder to time, though.

The only reason to get XP would be to keep going with the game. Because the antagonist got meta about Grace and cheat codes and what not, I don't think the game is going to go on any more. I think that the antagonist made her forget part of what he said, with possible effect being she doesn't know how much meta it was and will therefore continue with the game. I definitely wouldn't. On the other hand, she presumably had it easier than it should be until now ... THEY seem to not have full control over the game and may be unable to actually end the game. Also, THEY seem to believe Susan can help them find Grace. The evil cult leader is antagonist INSIDE the game. This person is one or two meta levels higher. Hmmm ... COULD it be Emissary of Magic? That would be someone we sorta know so revealing it's him would mean something, and he might be wanting to know Grace more, and he was able to appear in her dreams ... maybe that dream with forgetting to wear clothes in class was not only dream he intruded into. I still hope we will find out later. Wait, who you want to terminate?

Also, sounds like Susan would still be able to use the potions to get at least SOME XP, although probably not to max up on everything ... And I suppose this will be IN ADDITION to actually finishing the story. Actually, completely new person would not know ABOUT Grace. There would be people who may want to know Grace better, from different angle they already know her ... Rhoda for example. Or Noah. Also, Zeus is still in game. Sooo ... he likely make Susan forget he was talking about how this is from Grace's head. And about the elastic waistband ... yeah there are limits to elastic. And yes I also have clothes which seems to hold when I stand but start to move downwards when I'm walking ... (I'm fixing it with belt).

What would be motivation of that limitation? I think they should've left this part in.

There's also the possibility that holding onto a transformation too long could make it permanent too. I think that this is only true about different kind of enchantments than what Tedd is currently using, but yes it would be relevant ... Why not? I mean, sure, we don't know how transformation works in first place, but it's seem it's even more arbitrary than the general transformation safety unless you are Vlad. Yeah, of course, there would be specific healing spells too (instead of using enchantments).

... speaking about medical uses for enchantments ...

Glad it's not just me that was confused then. I third that. But apparently, we are supposed to be confused. As long as it isn't a reset of the game and we have to go over this ground again, I'm fine with that, If she still has the all the money flowing in from the rent and the XP potions still work, she can get back fairly quickly ... but something tells me that's not what's planned. Of course, there is still the issue that she basically refused to get XP in any OTHER way than the potions, so if potions don't work now she won't get ANY.

That's good argument against using enchantments for healing ... but you are missing one detail: Tedd already mentioned he knows how to make permanent transformations, based on her ability to permanently change gender. That would be another option, yes.

I think those boobs are at least double-FV5 ... And yes, she can totally escape, but presumably the cage is just symbolic anyway.

That seems to be the case here. That actually makes me feel better about Tedd's abilities Yes, it would actually be weirder if Tedd remembered every detail of every spell he saw. Apparently, what he knows about spells is subject to the same memory abilities as everything else he remembers. Note that he probably WOULD be able to make the wand with Elliot's spells as he remembers it, but he consider safer to look again than to make imperfect copy. ... hmmm ... the technologies around his gauntlet, they would be able to store spells verbatim, wouldn't they? I'm running both ways on this as I can see both options as being why Elliot would want a wand. That being said, I still think that there will end up being a 3rd option which we haven't considered as to why. I'm actually seeing it like this: "Why you want your own spell ... You want it for Ashley right?" "Oh, that would be also good idea ... but I was actually thinking about it being easier to not end up looking as Ellen" At least is not bottom-half-empty. That combination is dangerous.

Tedd has mentioned (s)he doesn't like using magic for medical-ish reasons, but never explained why. It could be something like Bilbo and the One Ring, his life is lengthened, but at a cost; it was described like stretching what life he had, rather than adding to it. I find that unlikely, but it's true we can't rule it out based on (lack of) information in comic. Not necessarily. It's possible immortals were created from human imagination and therefore based on humans. It's possible they intentionally mimic humans up to the ability to breed with them - it can be something original immortals did and then forgot (it's quite likely that every immortal currently living went through forced reset sometime in past). I'm guessing Dan wouldn't decide even if someone would make HIM immortal. Also, I suspect that he will avoid the question of medical application of magic, because his reason why it doesn't work is that if it would work it would be nasty from DGB to keep that secret ... but there is no in-universe reason why that couldn't work, or why can't Sarah use her 17-year old saved form to live forever. As-is, he can just avoid the topic by not having any character hurt or old enough for the question to appear in comic. If I would be writing the comics, I would say that it didn't worked before the reset but works now, because generally magic should be working more logically without the explicit changes Will of Magic was doing to keep it secret. But I'm not, so ... Did you see the question, "If so, can they have sex without involving a mortal?" ? Not only do we not know what sex between two immortals produces, we don't know that they can or do have sex with each other. Canon is they are aware of each other, but mostly avoid each other as a threat, don't treat each other particularly well (what we would call low social skills) and occasionally hang out as a couple, which could be like spousal, or could be sibs, or something else? So even if it is possible, it may be something they generally do not desire. If not for Helena and Demetrius, we could assume they live alone, but with them, there is question about whose behaviour is more common. I even raised question if Voltaire isn't targeting Pandora because she's his ex. But yes, even if they are not siblings in traditional sense, it's possible that fairies see each other as siblings and don't develop romantic feeling for them. Or they consider each other too dangerous to get intimate with. That would be true even for sex with mortal Yes, it's either another fairy or something not named yet, which may be even more dangerous than Elf. Very unlikely, also it was explicitly said that aberrations used to be humans.

Boo! I say Boo to this!!! *starts petition to bring back demonic Susan* For bringing back demons, you don't use petitions. You use pentagrams. I know, similar words.

You don't know what sex between two immortals produce. On the other hand, even humans can have sex without getting pregnant. It's possible they have children just because they consider it part of the "love" package. Or because they like having children. I would expect that some limitation would be the case, yes. On the other hand, she limited herself completely voluntarily before. Maybe it is? Seriously, even with just few dozen elves few thousand years ago, there should be fairy genes in basically everyone on the planet. Of course, not everyone with fairy genes is wizard. And remember that unnatural hair color are a thing in EGS universe. If those hair colors were related to fertility problems, someone would notice. If there is some problem in reproduction, it likely affects just first few generations, maybe even JUST the elves (direct children of fairies). I would expect that most elves would be capable enough to not let their children starve. But, yes ... ... it is possible that diseases are as dangerous to elves and their children as to mortals. Accidents almost certainly are. And even if they had better than average immune system or better regeneration (or reached that effect using magic), live in past was dangerous and percentage of people surviving until old age became issue was not so high. BTW, I don't think immortals are genetically that much similar to human. It's quite obvious that there is some effect causing elves being very different from their parents and their children even more so. Assuming it's genetical (which I don't think it is: I think it's magic - and after all, Uryuom egg can mix different species, Immortals can have similar ability), maybe fairies have more than 23 pairs of chromosomes but 23 of them are compatible with humans, elves have just one chromosome of those additional kind instead of two but still get some effect, and their children have standard number of chromosomes and are mortal. Dying in fifty years would be quickly by Elf standards, wouldn't it? I don't think they would call it "can not reproduce", however.

Ooo, I see a future in marketing in your career. "Buy Windows. It's an operating system." I'm acknowledging the situation, not promoting it. And, yes, if Windows is operating system, then 99 Bottles of Beer is story. Hmmm ... well, ok, Windows 98. I would actually be bad in marketing and I would never promote windows. Or systemd. Which I believe has little to do with how this topic started. Wasn't the quote you responded to talking about Heinlein's book? No, I believed the topic started with evaluating how did Uryuom convinced Earth governments to follow their laws. And I'm saying that if they would be refugees, it would be very unlikely. Also, it's obvious that there were contact with Uryuom homeworld recently, way AFTER the change which prevented Uryuoms from using Earth magic. (Also, I totally consider the whole situation with Uryuom weird, in a "Can't think about explanation making it logical" way. I hope Dan has some but I'm afraid he doesn't.)

Not necessarily. Current number of elves is low, despite the claims that they are infertile, which should ENCOURAGE making them. This suggest that either higher number of elves is not normal and was caused by some additional motivation which disappeared (like, it became fad to have some), OR that they became problem and as reaction to that problem fairies stopped making them (so much), either based on remembering it's not good idea or due to some rule change making it harder. Now, assuming that Greek heroes WERE elves, it's obvious the elves were not problem before. That would suggest their numbers was not so big before that either. Note also that in time of Ancient Greek, there were perhaps three "cultures" on whole Earth - one around mediterranean sea, one somewhere in south-east asia and one in and around middle america. Like, ok, Egypt and Greece were not completely same culture, but they had close contact, influenced each other a lot and would allow contact between elves. Actually even the south-east asia culture was connected to the mediterranean one.

True, but people actually do speed through red lights. People do not use rocket cars on the road. For numerous reasons. One of the earleir Darwin awards was a guy using JETO rockets to make his car go faster. 'Nuff said? So there are at least SOME people who use rocket cars on the road Ok, were. Real rocket cars and their ilk, including down to dragsters and such are notoriously uncontrollable. This is why, when you attempt to break the land speed record, you do so on a very flat wide open plain, such as Bonneville Salt Flats. Of course, with a rocket car, you have an additional consideration of needing downward pressure to ensure that you remain a land vehicle for the records. Compared to normal cars, even Apollo was hard to control. Well, OK, then; I probably won't want to read your narratives. Well, Groundhog Day wasn't bad. Why my narratives? I'm just saying that just because some narrative is bad it won't stop being narrative, in the same way that rotten apple is still apple despite not being safe to eat. (Well ... ok, eventually the apple will rot to state when it's no longer recognizable as apple ...) Rocks are not ideal weapons. They are expedient weapons. In The Moon is a Harsh Mistress, they entail making calculations to use existing payloads and equipment for bombardment. Look at it this way. You might need to defend yourself. You have all kinds of options. You need to defend yourself in the next few seconds. You'll grab whatever you can. "You need to defend youself in the next few second" is exactly the situation anyone parking a spaceship on Earth orbit is NOT.

I'm starting to hope you will hate next story line even more than this one.

Is this something that can happen in Fable? I guess, if you hack it?

That cheating bastard removed ability points Susan legally obtained by drinking legal potions bought by legal money? Also, somehow removed her evil status? She may also not have her purity now. Which was also obtained totally legally, according to all rules of the game.

We were, however unrealistically, talking about a motor vehicle. The very few rocket powered cars that have been built were not street legal. Neither is speeding nor riding through red lights legal. Also, we are talking about changing direction. The rockets would need to be directed perpendicularly to your direction, like from side window or something. Those few rocket powered cards have them pointing to back. (Wait, am I argumenting for your side? ) ... not enough of a story to earn the title, ' Narrans' . I disagree. Yes. However, in Armageddon, they were trying to save Earth, not White House. Bigger target. That's actually exactly what most meteorites are doing. We egoistically talk about how they fall on Earth, but they are on their own extremely eccentric orbit, minding their own business, when suddenly Earth hits them with it's 30km/s from side. (Ok, most meteorites are not stationary, but their speed relative to Sun is usually smaller than Earth's.) Yes, Tungsten poles are very dense and have very small cross-section in direction of fall. Standard rocks, not so much. Which is exactly why I keep saying they are not ideal weapons if you need some precision. Again, even harder if you are trying to hit specific target (and not just "anywhere on Earth will do") with simple rock.

This is better argument that the number of wizards and persons with magical abilities , but I still wouldn't rule out relatively small number of elves still getting to be "famous". Look at our mythology: there are perhaps few dozens Greek heroes claiming to be children of gods (with Zeus being that god in roughly half cases). Granted, with them concentrated in relatively short time period already suggest that at least in that time, there were more elves on Earth than in my "minimal" estimate (assuming that those heroes WERE elves in EGS history - they might also be fairies themselves or whatever Heka is) but I don't agree there would need to be more of them than few dozen at once, and it IS possible that the times Greek mythology was about were single time with most elves around. Now, quite a lot of Greek heroes died, and there were wars which could easily killed more. (Speaking about which, yes, Adrian was not able to enter military ... because magic was not involved. It's possible that in, say, Trojan war, elves were free to fight BECAUSE there were some on both sides. Or the rules changed since then.)

In this situation, I think Susan wouldn't say it at all while Nanase maybe only as a joke. Let's not forget that Justin wants a "natural" "Your Hot" effect. Last time I check very few women have 4 boobs. Exactly.

Depends on terrain. But, yes, mostly. Depends on what you mean by reaction and what situation we speak about. If we are talking about general question if it's possible to react in speeds close to speed of light, the answer is definitely yes. You may even be able to change direction, if you have rocket engine or something else generating trust. Of course, in this scenario, your only possible reaction is to regret that you 1) tried something this stupid 2) did not pack a rocket engine 3) did not pack shielding capable of withstanding going through atmosphere in this speed. The question if you have time for that is philosophical: according to some theories, your entire life replays in front of your eyes before you die. Granted, you can build a story around tweets. Humans are good at finding patterns even if there isn't an intrinsic one. I view the noise of the far right much like a vinyl record skipping. There really isn't a sense that there was a tune being played, you're just lost in the repetition of a short segment that keeps repeating. Read this for a sense of what I mean. There is a story there, but the main player has made himself a sad pawn with little voice, hasn't he? The one guy close to him who has some sense about this is likely to be $#!t canned for telling him he's wrong. Repetition is the simplest pattern possible. And I assume you know the famous song 99 Bottles of Beer? The song also tells a story. Not complicated story, but a story nevertheless. If the big rock breaks up, it may do more damage, but also at different place than original target. Speaking about which, while classical orbital bombardment uses falling effect, other kinds of kinetic attacks as well as meteorites itself do not rely on it. If you put stationary object in front of Earth, the Earth will hit it with speed of 30km/s. For comparison, terminal velocity of object in free fall is about 80m/s. Meteorites falling on Earth won't get faster by falling - they get slower by air resistance.