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This one is kind of small and cramped. The one in Raiders was HUGE. We didn't saw the basement.

People having hereditary talent before reset had the same talent after reset, but what exactly that talent allowed them to do did changed. Or some of that damage could've happened WHILE it was inert. Actually she should be able to learn spell from other magic users as well. Like, from Elliot. In fact, if the wand don't give her some spell, cheerleadra might be her best option ; she saw Elliot do it several times already, she might be able to cast it herself if she's wizard and the wand helps ... The library guardian might be scary but the wand is MUCH CLOSER. And speaks in language Ashley can understand (mostly). Actually wait ... didn't the wand updated it's English from 16th century (thou, cometh) to 21th (wow) when it linked to Ashley? Wizardry is hereditary reliably only when both parents are wizard. If Nanase's father is not wizard, she may not be one, despite still having hereditary magic talent. And she probably isn't, because if she would be, she would already learn some spell from someone else - it's not so hard, look how many spell TEDD learned. Nanase not being able to cast FV5 at this point suggest she's NOT wizard. Also, there was no need to mark Nanase as she was already close to awakening. They only marked Susan because they were not able to awaken her.

No no, that one got stored in an entirely different warehouse. Anyway, maybe this would be a good time to dig it out, seeing as it is apparently really good at frying Nazis. I think it's really good at frying people in general. The Nazis were just only one stupid enough to try. And it could easily be this warehouse.

How can we know the wand didn't activated some time ago and just waited for sensing peril - ok, I know, there was someone in peril all the time. If the wand use the same definition of "wizard" as we (or Edward), she isn't. She may have the talent but needs to awaken ... under CURRENT rules of magic. Which the wand doesn't use. So, hard to predict what will happen. Will she awaken anyway later? Although I suspect we already missed the opportunity to turn Ashley to magical girl. At least classical magical girl. Because in such case, the wand would have heart on end and Ashley would be already transforming. But in any case, SHE WILL GET MAGIC! I can multitask. Observe: Are those typos in the commentary deliberate? ... Ashley will get magic ... ... wait. Will she get 9E on wand which wants to help her? Or will the protector of library be asking in too scary way? Or will something else activate as well? ... also, will her magic be the kind which can get stuck if someone is transformed too long?

I know Dan played Chrono Trigger, Fallout and Mass Effect. I don't remember him saying anything indicating he played Diablo. Citation needed.

That Arthur said "The rest will have to be contacted following special procedure" suggests that it's not as simple as calling up Director Leifeld and say he needs to lock down every facility where supposedly inert artifacts are kept. He'd probably need proper evidence to back up his claim first but in order for that to happen, at least one of the "inert" artifacts needs to be viewed being active. Because it's not Director Leifeld who needs to be contacted. And, possibly, the person Y is not available on phone for security reasons. The difference I'm speaking about is that in bureaucracy, you may know all the steps but the final person won't talk with you when you didn't followed all steps. In secret operations, you don't know the steps because you are not in need to know and you will never see the final person, in fact you will ONLY do the first step and hope other people will do the rest of steps. Actually, something granting whatever wish they desire to first person around is worst case scenario and major disaster which needs to be prevented - or disarmed by sending some safe person to be the one. Of course, that person being Ashley is special exception and something which possibly saved the world. Well, most of world. Not sure about the hypocrites. However, imagine if someone like NotTengu - or SIRLECK - was around such artifact ... There are legends. While legends are rarely reliable source of informations, there is high probability that several items described as magical but tested negative will prove to be rendered inert by magic change. How dangerous that could be may be guessed based on the original description of those items. Excalibur. Ark of the Covenant. Holy Grail. Spear of Destiny. Mjölnir. Ring of the Nibelungs. Necronomicon. Book of Coming Forth by Day. Aegis. Caladbolg. Brahmastra. Talaria. Tarnkappe. Philosopher's stone. Gjallarhorn. And lot of others ...

http://www.egscomics.com/egsnp.php?id=757 Yes, seems Susan is completely in character. Lost in science and logic and ignoring others, now when the embarrassment is gone. Also, seems swimwear is still an option. Aaand, Dan, you can totally put the sport bra on Susan as well. Not you, but SUSAN wanted the bra to not be too low cut so she bought sports bra despite not looking for one originally.

Might not be that much bureaucracy, more like they can't contact facility X because they don't know how or where it is (too secret), they need to contact Y who will contact facility X ... IF he's not on vacation right now of course. Also, it's just potential threat. It's also possible nothing will happen (because the stuff they have is not artifact from old magic, or it's already discharged, or the conditions to activate it are obscure enough noone will do it by mistake) ... It would actually help if something WOULD happen - preferably small enough to be easily hidden, but big enough so they can use it as example.

She might not be "eeek"ing at whatever in the craft, but rather whatever it is coming from the diamond shards, notice the birdlike shape in panel 4. THAT might be the "hawk" Pandora warned about. I'm pretty sure Magus is the hawk. Arthur might find it prudent to even try to warn non allies of this development, better that everyone be aware than have someone think they might be able to take advantage of something. It MIGHT be better if enemy is NOT aware they just got new weapon ... I still think his concern about PTTAOLUTASF is not because it's close or because it's under his direct control (although both is true) but because it's the most dangerous place now. Or, at least most dangerous compared to how little security they had there ; artifact activating in facility which is SUPPOSED to handle dangerous artifact would be less dangerous because they are more ready for that. And as I said, warning museums is not worth it: it would cost lot of time better spent on other stuff, because the people being warned wouldn't know what to do with that warning. Better secure other stuff first and check museums later, hoping that they won't explode meanwhile, literally or figuratively. I think he doesn't have the chain mail anymore ... sure he has his sword but otherwise he will be in modern clothes.

Still not proven. Also, it's weird: usually when one object is enchanted by two spells, there is some interference, but the diamond worked correctly on Magus ... Abraham wouldn't make Ashley do the 9E. I do expect he will show up, but maybe later. Not similar, but still containing artifacts. Yup. At least the "allies". Enemies can explode I guess. (Ok, realistically, they probably don't have any usable communication to enemies.) Noone and it would be hard to warn them considering they are civilians and wouldn't know what to look for. Someone will need to check the museums eventually, but seems Arthur is now focusing on facilities with higher likehood of containing artifacts AND operated by someone knowing about magic.

LOD (Level of Detail). There are nails, but too smal to be visible, and there are more planking in still version ... Not necessary. The crate could be lot closer than Ellen. It can be same height as the one Ashley is hiding behind, and Ashley is NOT standing. Or maybe it's higher because perspective is hard . Yes No. Martian tripod is not magic artifact. ... are you implying the image changed? It's same since Monday 4:14 GMT ...

The government IS prepared for a Zombie Apocalypse. www.egscomics.com/egsnp.php?id=265 ... and it rarely happens. Meaning it already happened. Still, I think it's more dangerous than crater, especially considering the previous apocalypses were under limited set of magic rules - this one can work differently. Yup.

Oh! That makes sense and explains the connection between the evaporating dewitchery diamond and other problems. Hopefully Rorschach's fumes. I mean, Ashley definitely should hope that.

Ok. This is just extending the cliffhanger, we still don't know what happened ... hopefully next time. So, after dealing with most important place, Arthur thinks about who else needs to be warned (and presumably how). Still, Arthur, if you are worrying about craters, you are thinking small. Think zoombie apocalypse, or some other infectious stuff. And something is happening to the shards of diamond? And is important enough to warrant two images? Although it still may be red herring. The crate being opened, meanwhile ... which is on OPPOSITE side from the one we were suspecting earlier ...

It seems likely to me that once magic has come to be well known in the main EGS universe, police will be equipped with wands capable of casting "stun" spells (much like the stun setting on Phasers) that only those with the most powerful of magic resistance can withstand. They probably won't need deadly spells - if deadly force really is needed, it's canon that guns work just as well on magic users as on everybody else... Yes. Police doesn't need magic to use against criminals, it already has guns. It only needs to be protected against magic users, and high resistance is the basic there (some shield spells would also be useful). The stun wands are bonus, as they are probably safer than tasers.

People gain spells tailored to who they are though, while cops who turn out to be wizards can learn specific spells, most other magic users would build their energy by using wands, but learn new spells based on their actions and personality, also the definition of "reasonable force" might have to be redefined to include what types of magic would be reasonable in certain situations or police brutality via magic might be a thing. Note that the goal might be to just have cops trained enough to have magic resistance, so they wouldn't be vulnerable to magic using criminals ; that might happen sooner than awakening.

True. Although Kirk's time travel in stolen Bird of prey, probably B'rel class is more known.

Hmm, a totalitarian state that was aware of magic would likely demand to see spellcasters' spellbooks. Demand, yes. The fact she has magic would be one of many things she's hiding both from her family and from the state. His biggest problem was bad marketing. Yes. Good point that she apparently expected her hammer experience working better when translated to swords. Although I suspect there are several movies which totally suggest swinging with swords like with hammers ... Based on what we know about magic, other students were DEFINITELY getting closer to awakening, BUT there was probably some additional problem causing them to move slower than Elliot or Justin (Nanase is clearly exception, her hereditary talent gave her enormous advantage). With the pressing need to raise people's magic resistance, teaching people who didn't get any abilities yet might be more important. I imagine his methods would be tested by giving him big class of policemen who will be ordered to attend ... which would be very hard test indeed. Of course, this will only be tried until they find some more reliable method.

Don't worry, it only took me few minutes. ... so do I. Is easy because we have very little facts. Or another game.... Most strategic games and many others allow player to start reign of terror ... meanwhile, only few allow him to start democracy build upon principles of liberty, equality and fraternity. Even the Sid Meier's Civilization with it's "totally democracy but you remain in control for several centuries" doesn't exactly look fair ...

A good point there. However, neither one is the record holder; that belongs to the 15E scream by Melissa here and recapitulated here. To be fair, both of Ashley's screams were spontaneous while Melissa needed to take a very deep breath before her scream. That is record for human ; however ... the Goo wins with 31E. Who said "Occam's razor" and when? Dan - I think he was tweeting something commenting this page ... That's also possible of course, but the way he doesn't even think about it seems more like he has some specific in mind ... note that he was NOT mentioning any other place with artifacts - and I don't think all artifacts from previous magic systems are here, although probably most of them. Also, the proper containment team would need MUCH MORE firepower. Plus quite a few things it can't. Those are the ones I am really worried about. I don't know, it seems to me it would have to be something Dan's imagination could come up with. Not really. First, something can happen off-panel. Second, Dan could ask for ideas on twitter/tumblr. I think it would be easy to prove that multiple people brainstorming can come with something noone's imagination would be able to come up with alone. Enterprise is not capable of time travel on her own, the borg sphere helped.

It definitely makes more sense than transforming further, because this way she has control over it. Why bother with narcotics when you have My Little Pony form?

Not so random. Monster makes more sense than artifact ; it definitely must be something which is dangerous by itself. The guard was not warned to not activate anything, even accidentally - he was said to GET OUT OF THERE. Therefore, Ashley didn't need to do anything careless: it was supposed to start making problems even when only professional being present. As for how why Arthur ordered it so fast and knew about it in first place? It might be something obvious; some sort of monster statue or guardian statue which was supposed to move but system change prevented it before ... and Arthur might've been already thinking about it here and making mental note "I need to do something with it immediately after waking up" ... EDIT: Regarding fighting it together ... maybe Ashley will use some other artifact against it as well.

... yeah, good point, Terra usually beats him so it wouldn't prove anything ... ... aaaand artifact activated. ... aaaand Sybil really cared. Are all assistants in DGB secretly loving their bosses? (Also, yup: falling asleep in middle of work and not responding to attempts to wake IS worth calling ambulance ... and Will of Magic is lucky no seer was driving when it decided to ask for their opinions.) And finally someone acknowledged that being able to spell that acronym is hard. Apparently, Arthur panicked pre-emptively. "Complete lockdown" might take too long. Arthur might have some idea about what kinds of artifacts might be activating there and decided to do something safer (orbital bombardment comes in mind) or, well, thinks it's better to not risk the guard waiting there until the team who is actually equipped for this gets near. And no, I don't think the team got there already. It's more likely the artifacts are activating - or, being already activated, now did something which Ashley noticed. I don't think Ashley would react this way to people, Abraham included. This is 9E scream and Sirlect got just 12E ... well, at least it's not worse than Sirleck.

I wouldn't be that polite. I'm SURE that's what happened in Russia. He grew up there, yes. However, I don't think there is any US government left. While it might be just general Shade Tail isolating Lord Tedd, there was sort of post-apocalyptic feel in those few images we got of their world. My speculation is that there was big war there, possibly related to magic reset. Maybe magic reset with five thousand seers ... And Lord Tedd became Lord not only because he has the power, but also because the population of US is just one tenth of before-war, and that's only because US-based seers like Lord Tedd and Lord Arthur (deceased ; no provable connection to Shade Tail ) won ; other countries ended worse (*cough* Moscow sea *cough*).

This is always the problem with a dictatorship of any size. If there's power to be had, people who want it will act however they must to get it. This is why many third-world autocracies are run by extended family of the dictator. If Lord Tedd wants people around him he can trust he may well have to give up the power that attracts untrustworthy people to begin with. Actually, there is another problem with a dictatorship you failed to take into account: giving up power is something which happens when you die. I don't think Lord Tedd CAN give up power and survive that. Well, maybe if he escapes to different universe. Also, it would be irresponsible. Most likely, general Shade Tail or someone even worse would fill the power vacuum. Even if Tedd's power is based on some tools he is able to destroy so they won't end up in bad hands, it wouldn't help. Moving from dictatorship to something at least resembling democracy is hard and require some group which can be trusted. (Most real cases of moving to democracy involve giving power to group which claims to be democratic and when it turns it wasn't, well, better luck next time. It can be seen fantastically on France.) Do we have reason to think Nioi actually trying to eject/eliminate Shade Tail? My memory of the few comics with Lord Tedd, Nioi or Shade Tail in them is a little hazy. It's certainly possible, however. Well her original motivation of coming to main universe was to find out if Dr. Sciuridae is alive there and knows how to defeat general Shade Tail ...