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Uhhh ... how exactly was Rhoda sitting? Wait. That's probably what the "Rhoda's position makes less sense" refers to. Unless it refers to fact that you can't really be in this position without having the legs broken. Also, yes, this "acting without thinking" would match Ditzy more ... on the other hand, acting too fast and leaving thinking behind MIGHT match the energize card.

There is also chance that you would spontaneously be lifted feet above the ground and hold there ten minutes by Brownian motion. The chance is small, very small, but not zero. (EDIT: Wait, it probably wasn't Brownian motion ... it must've been something quantum-based ...) Maybe noone left but Noriko was not careful and he heard how she complains about his lack of magic powers? Ok, this doesn't fit with the "Nanase is the seer" theory, but otherwise it could work. Obviously. But I tried the more interesting possibilities. Hmmm ... no. She was only able to make such stunt because of how old and powerful she was. She wouldn't be able to do it several hundred years earlier. I meant that Pandora doing it in different city delayed it for about a year so it happens after Ellen's graduation. I doubt that's the case since the second life universe had Kaoli rather that Nioi, Nioi had to search for an AU that had both Ellen and a version of her duplicate in it for her plan to work. Also, there is little causality problem with that. But ... note that she likely searched for the universe starting from HER universe, not ours. In that way, it's possible that Lord Tedd universe is more similar to the second life one than to the main one ... wait. Not likely. Uryuom being in open makes unlikely General Shade Tail will be created. Unless Nioi is NOT from Lord Tedd universe ... Very likely.

Actually, Second Life Tedd was never as low as our Tedd seemed too, and presumably that was WITHOUT TF-gun. Maybe his mother didn't leave? Maybe it was her sister who left? And NANASE is the withdrawn misdetected seer? Or maybe she wasn't misdetected and left with her mother? The fun think is that with how little informations we have about that universe, we can speculate almost limitless. Or she did, but Adrian Raven was not teaching in Moperville. Maybe Arthur Arthur SUCCEED in deporting him to Russia, or at least annoyed him enough he decided to not stay in US. While it was Pandora who caused most of incidents which caused the magic reset, truth is that the situation was getting more and more volatile. It wouldn't be weird if the event with Pandora eradicating most of Aberrations happened in second life universe just few months after Ellen's second life ended.

That's what I meant by "indirectly". You might've noticed that I agreed with that part of your theory. Just remember that just because it's programmed doesn't mean it's computer. Note that without Grace (with Uryuom in open it's unlikely she would seek Tedd), Nanase and Susan and with Ellen spending time singing in band instead of in ASMA and never touching a dewitchery diamond, there is not exactly reason for Tedd to ever start researching magic. It's possible the meddling is simply happening in other part of that world with different people. Or, well, maybe Nanase is still taking part in it Note that he started shorter and wound up taller than "their" Tedd. There seem to be differences, and realistically speaking, Uryuoms fighting in revolutionary war by itself would cause so many differences anyone being similar would be more likely coincidence.

I would say that a clothing-only card would (as it would be an enchantment on the clothing), but a clothing-and-something card probably would not, or at most would function as a clothing-only card (the entirety of the card's effect would count as a single enchantment, so it would have to affect Grace and she's immune to enchantment). ANY card is actually complex enchantment combining changing the look of target person, changing the look of their player piece AND additional effects on game. How THAT would work on Grace is hard to predict without actually seeing the "source code", in other words we would need seer to look at it. Unlikely. The card will PROBABLY still work on her player piece. If it wouldn't, then the initial enchantment would fail as well, meaning Grace can't take part in the game at all. Hmmmm ... Come to think about it, it says Grace is not enchanted by TF gun and Ellen's magic. There is still possibility that other kind of enchantment can work on her, although Tedd's failure to make any suggests that all enchantments transforming her are going to be intercepted by her Uryuom power ... ... I remember reading something more about the mechanism but not sure where ...

I am informed that my conception of a mistranslation in this instance may itself have been shaped by a political argument. Thus I fear that this postulate of mine is suspect given that this was something I read years ago in sources no longer readily available to me. Given that it most certainly has also been affected by erosion of my memories and how I wanted the argument to be, I am afraid I have to retract it. Hard to be sure if it was or wasn't shaped by political argument, but google returns lot of instance of that ... for example this one. It also returns article about how it's correct translation, although this one ends with "God has seen to it that we have a clear translation in His preserved words in English, the King James Bible" which doesn't exactly sound convincing. I also found a third one, which is not clear in if it's about herbal medicine or sorcery, but it IS clear that the word was gender neutral - and that "live" was "live among you" - so it wasn't supposed to call for killing them. The third source also mentions that the verse was used in 373 to accuse Gnostics, which definitely supports my suspicion that no matter what it originally said, it's was misused politically so long ago we don't have reliable sources of what it said before that.

Just because it seems more similar to computer system than to human intelligence doesn't necessary means it's an computer system itself. In fact, as a humans, we are quite good at recognizing when something is not thinking as humans. We are worse at recognizing when something is not thinking as computer. In fact, flair for drama? Not something computers usually have, even indirectly. I don't think it's running on a physical computer system in any reality. On the other hand ... you may have point that it was programmed, as opposed to naturally evolving that way. Those objectives seems to be at least partially forced to it from outside. The incident she was praying about didn't. With the immortals wiping out aberrations everywhere, it's possible that Moperville will NOT be considered "source" of the problems, in fact. It's also possible the seer in question was on the path of that horde and was acting out of self-defense. In past, "magic going public" was always going to be "one group of people will get magic and will use it against others". People were much more patriotic in past, and even if they wouldn't, there simply wasn't way for magic to spread over whole world without group of magic users actively spreading it ... and such group would likely be CONQUERING the places it spreads the magic to, simply because in past when big group of people travelled long way it was almost always army marching to war. There might still be war. But for first time, it is actually possible for magic to spread peacefully at least to SOME places. I agree that Tedd isn't so much better than seers in past. Tedd is the first seer who has circumstance on her side. Well ... he, Arthur and Van. Those two are only seers we can compare her to, and Tedd is winning that comparison ... but being better at argumentation than two people, one of whom is child, is not exactly "impossible". I would suspect this mistranslation was one of the deliberate ones. I wonder if the Paranormal Division is even the group responsible for Uryuom relations and hiding their existence? Wolf and Cranium are out of the loop when it comes to Uryuoms, and Wolf has been outright told there are no such thing as aliens (even if he doesn't believe it). This suggests there are actually two Masquerades - the Masquerade hiding magic and the Masquerade hiding aliens - and that Mr. Verres and his superiors (as well as the Main 8) are unusual for being in on both Masquerades. I suspect the Paranormal Division only handles magical and Inderdimensional threats, while some other group which Mr. Verres is also a part of is responsible for the alien Masquerade. Considering Lavender works with them, I think someone was making fun of agent Wolf ... or his need to know changed. It can easily be the same ORGANIZATION taking care for both - which is supported by Mr. Verres being in charge of both as head of paranormal - but individual agents may STILL not know everything. Information is handled on need-to-know basis and Agent Wolf and Cranium - at least near the start of EGS - were not in need to know about Uryuom. Not really. Seers are still supposed to only teach selected few. Even if those thousand seers would be informed, it would still be too few of them to teach every person on planet - or even just as many people as is currently taught calculus, for example. (I mean differential and integral calculus if that's not exact by itself.) Seers actually wouldn't be qualified for managing, more like for research. They would certainly be in high demand from everyone knowing about them. Which practically means Arthur Arthur will attempt to convince Tedd to work for DGB. Also, I think even relatively cooperative immortals wouldn't want to pledge ironclad contract. Certainly not the ones we know about. The closest you get to immortal forced by vow to cooperate will likely be Pandora after reset working with Sarah - likely in Tedd's lab, because where else ... question is if it would be Tedd's lab in his basement or new shiny one DGB will prepare for him.

On one hand, it can be argued that if Göring had correct intelligence, he might not be making so bad decisions. On the other, well, that pressure to deliver optimistic results didn't appeared out of nowhere, did it? I'm sure that reacting to bad news in way which doesn't make your subordinates afraid to notify you of real problems is on evil overlord list ...

... that doesn't sound like Churchill did it deliberately to save RAF. Is it even possible to give it to someone not in British/Commonwealth forces? Sure, Charles Wooden got it, but while German-born, he WAS in the British Army at that point.

While possible, it would be coincidence if they would be ready to go public exactly now after the reset attempt. That's the more paperwork I speak about. Case can be made that government already regulates magic user, just in secrecy. Even if knowledge that anyone can get magic gets public, it doesn't mean that government is required to help people learn magic and add it to standard (public) education system. Firearms training is not part of standard education either, is it? Actually, even driver's education isn't, based on this article. Magus's universe have not only public magic, it also have dragons as serious danger, and magic is likely widely used there. Yet we can't be sure that magic is taught to majority of people there: the school Terra and Magus were visiting might've been special school. Also, it's not like it would be logistically POSSIBLE to teach everyone magic even if someone would decide so: not enough teachers.

Yeah, but the way Tedd had been trying in the past was using magic that targeted Grace herself, to others the enchantment radiated outward to affect clothing which obviously doesn't work for Grace because she doesn't get enchanted. BUT what if spells had a reversed effect, like targeting clothes radiates inward to the person wearing the clothes. In theory that might work on Grace, it'd be a chain effect, zap clothing with morph spell, clothing morph gets imprinted onto Grace. Sigh. It could work in transforming her, but it still wouldn't allow her to morph something which is not part of her. At least not based on how was Dan always explaining where the problem is. Grace's morphing was always, even after being fixed with TF gun, closer to what is possible using physical laws. In fact, even the TF gun is "weaker" than spells. Case in point, Rhoda has spell which can shrink person more than TF gun can. Right. Elephant is not just animal, it's animal and physical. Elephant Ashley probably weights more than human normally does, and sitting on knees doesn't put the weight on them correctly. Also, we don't necessary talk about fracture. Can be dislocation or some ligament tear. Or just big bruise. If the transformation is fast, it's effectively impact.

Oh yeah, and webbed hands/toes might suggest that Tedd's made aquatic (eg: mermaid) or amphibious (eg: frog) forms. ... or amphibious mermaids. Read it again. You'll need a SPELL ... I suppose it would either be a dynamic spell which is able to morph the clothing when Grace starts to morph, or, well, the reason she can't use watches is she can't power them. Maybe she would be able to use proper wand. Of course, it WOULD be technically possible for Grace to morph say her hair into clothes ... but that would be different loophole. And it wouldn't help her change the clothes she already has - those are not part of her and therefore she can't morph them. Although Grace might like the idea that she's technically naked yet appears clothed ...

Not either pursuing the Luftwaffe out of British airspace nor attempting to otherwise interfere with them in German airspace was. The decision to keep as much of the fighting as possible where Britain's own pilots could be recovered but the Germans could not recover theirs most certainly was. And a very wise one, at least until Britain went from air parity to air superiority or better yet air supremacy. Right. Possible but not done options needs to be considered part of strategy, despite that part mostly consisted of things NOT to do.

We know Tedd has a lot of cat forms, but we haven't seen any fox forms, or elephant, or honey badger have we? I think we did saw fox forms ... but probably not in canon. Nevertheless, it was implied he was giving all sorts of interesting forms to her, and I think fox wouldn't be so hard to appear on list, although it wasn't mentioned. Elephant and honey badger might be little more exotic ... No. Grace can never get clothing morphs herself and normal spells which include clothing don't work on her BECAUSE she can't morph clothing. Only way Grace's clothes can be changed is if the spell directly targets clothes and JUST the clothes, no matter who is inside - it would probably need to work even on clothes on figurine. Then the CLOTHES will be enchanted, while GRACE still wouldn't. It is actually good question if the clothing cards would work on her.

They will probably also still be trying to hide how versatile magic is - given how spells are obtained, it is in their best interest people don't realize what can be done with magic. People getting fireballs is actually less dangerous (considering there already ARE weapons capable of causing similar damage) than people who get spell like Sarah and would be using it to obtain national secrets, or people with spells like not-Tengu who go into politics. On the other hand ... magic made public can make their job easier: lot of extra terrestrial stuff can be "explained" by magic user making practical joke. As long as magic is public but rare they can still handle it, although with more paperwork. With more magic users, however, they will be forced to give wand to normal police so they can solve some easy crimes themselves ...

I think at that point Ashley was just looking for an excuse to have Rhoda shrink her, cus you know Ashley would want to. Of course. Question was if Rhoda would want to. It's probably good that this isn't canon, I would think that the game would still be able transform Grace, she would want to play by the rules anyway and not shift out of anything, but at the same time she'd be getting a load of new forms to use outside the game. Assuming she wouldn't already have all of them from Tedd.

Actually, we don't know that. Grace is never enchanted, remember? The game might completely block magic interfering but be unable to do anything with Uryuom power. I don't think so. The timeline doesn't match.

It was the strategy of Air Marshal Dowding who was the man who devised the entire air defence system of Britain. He was the one who pushed through the construction of the heavily defended RADAR stations that allowed the RAF to detect incoming air raids ahead of time and intercept them. The idea was to let the Luftwaffe penetrate into Britain, then attack them when they were turning back and short of fuel. While this allowed the Luftwaffe the opportunity to drop their bombs it also made them far more vulnerable to RAF interceptors in dog fights. The entire system Dowding created was extremely complex and required minute coordination by ground personnel heavily trained to map out Luftwaffe incursions, keep track of them, keep track of all RAF planes available and choose which to commit against which incursion. So yes, there was a great deal of strategy involved. I'm not saying there was no strategy used in battle for Britain. I just suspect that Luftwaffe flying above hostile soil was not result of that strategy. Them not leaving that hostile soil, THAT certainly required some effort. ... I was referring to some movie about the battle for Britain where those foreign RAF pilots were mistaken for Germans. If they had had M. C. Escher on their design team, maybe he could have come up with something! Well they would at least have the plans. Not sure how good was M.C. Escher with realization.

They just needed to build a heavy light plane of medium weight, with a broad wingspan able to fit through narrow spaces... This reminds me my pending request for 1.5"x4" phone with 7" display. ... Except display CAN be rolled. That heavy light plane would require exotic matter.

Not necessarily. It IS true. I doubt Magic understands human morality. It's already been established it can't fully understand mortals. Tedd had to repeat everything they said in a way Magic could comprehend to get it to see their point. Arthur though, yes, I'm also wondering how he'd react to all this. Maybe it comes later? Arthur already reacted. He said that it's what they've been saying previously. Nothing Tedd said is new to him. Isn't the important question not when Arthur works but when Assistant Director works? I'm pretty sure that's the idea. Will still be relatively slow to get from that to actually OBTAINING magic. I think only people in DGB who knew about magic reset were Arthur Arthur and Assistant Director. And it would be similar or worse elsewhere. Seems knowledge about reset was lost quite well. I suspect that will happen on next page. Still, Tedd would likely prefer it to the reset. One of the possible options is raising of magic defense of normal humans, which he wouldn't have any problems with ... Edward's tried to dissuade Tedd from wanting to make magic public, I would expect that Arthur and Liefeld have both told Edward how secrecy is important to the safety of the general public, Liefeld could still say that Edward failed to impress that upon Tedd. That would require active malice from Arthur. He's experienced director. I'm sure he would be able to report what happened in way Assistant Director barely notice Tedd's name there, OR maybe in way which makes Assistant Director approve Arthur's request to immediately start recruiting Tedd. It's not Tedd's fault there are thousand seers, and not only Arthur agreed with Tedd, he agreed EXPLICITLY because NOT making magic public would actually make it public FASTER.

That was the Devil's Dilemma the air powers faced. Their green pilots had to learn so many things the hard way and the loss rate was horrific. This was actually a key part of the defence strategy of the Battle of Britain: lure the Luftwaffe into fighting all its battles above hostile soil where every plane shot down meant that pilot and crew would be lost/captured whereas surviving British pilots only had to take the bus back to their base and climb into a new airframe. The Luftwaffe never did completely recover from the losses it suffered then. Was that really "strategy" and "luring"? I though the Luftwaffe was flying there on it's own, based on Hilter being optimists. BTW, You forgot about surviving pilots of other nationalities, like Poland, Czechoslovakia, Belgium, South Africa, France ... who might actually have some problems taking that bus. On the other hand, maybe if he survived USA would get to Moon sooner. Maybe even Mars. He should've been injured instead.

After the game, there wouldn't really be any reason - ... wait, Ashley will still be bigger than Rhoda. Also, Susan is not losing time. With energize, that talk was likely too long for her. ... poor Rhoda's knees ... does the game protect against injury in such incidents? Well, it should. Imagine if it would be ELEPHANT and Heavy instead of just Heavy. Good we are playtesting it.

Well, they would be able to destroy that important base US had there? Oh wait, it would already be destroyed by their aircraft at that point, if they wouldn't lost the battle.

IIRC, the Japanese had no shortage of surface ships, including battleships, at Midway. Hmmmm ... they seem to had five battleships there which DIDNT ENTERED THE BATTLE. And two which did. None of those were sunk. They must've been furious big battle is happening around and everyone ignores them ... Wait. Yamato WAS there. Not from start but arrived later ...

That's what I mean by the string being too short. ... but it might be due to this as well, yes. I don't think the war was long enough to train skilled new pilot from scratch even if started right on beginning. Anyone who only started flying in war was trainee at best. Like, here they boast they can make someone civilian pilot in "only" three to four years. You need more experience to be fighter pilot. (Of course, that doesn't stop any side of war to putting people into airplanes with much less training.)