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We never got a good look at Big Mouth in human guise. Maybe Kangaroo Guy is Big Mouth. He seem thinner and his interaction with the one with scarf is different. Of course, can't be completely rejected. Signal, obviously. The distraction aspect might not be spelled, however the waiting for signal was spelled quite directly. And questioning the details of contract is not best way to get paid. Agree, and especially the scarf vampire looks like the maximize-survival type. The big mouth one, not so much. True. He might be good enough to detect Diane is not awakened yet. Holding Susan would be stupid, yes. On the other hand, we have precedent for vampire making mistake with Susan ... ... hmmm ... I'm not sure, lack of empathy doesn't necessarily mean not understanding it. However, you may be right about most vampires ...

So the "thinking about baseball" is NOT as universal as Ellen and Nanase pretends. Also, considering what Diane put Susan through, she got out of it easy if it will be just Susan making big fun of her. And finally, there IS woman baseball, isn't it? (I know I'm repeating myself but I still like my explanation) Anyway, wonderful interaction between Susan and Diane. ... Vampires. Ok, can't say I didn't expected them, but isn't this too early? Also, nice reuse of character. Now we KNOW he's not saving any kangaroos. And finally, he must be good in camouflage, as he apparently was walking towards Adrian last time we saw him. On second though, Adrian is primary target: he likely knows exactly where he is and is observing him, noticing Susan and Diane was just lucky bonus. Hmmm ... did he noticed them talking with Adrian? Will he try to use Susan as hostage? Or, if he's clever, Diane?

Well when outfit is part of game, it makes sense for everyone to start with same outfit. Hmmm ... gender is part of game as well, isn't it?

But neither by itself explains how reliable it was in Noriko's family. Sure, if there is just SINGLE sequence of wizard genes AND those genes are recesive, having both parents wizards can still guarantee the child will be wizard, but it would also be close to only way to have wizard child ... including the bootstrap problem of children of elf and human with no wizard genes not having wizard talent. If those genes are dominant, there is no reliability at all. Problem is that genetics is about mixing: allele will either spread to big part of population or will disappear completely. What magic wants - small but stable population of hereditary magic users - is impossible to do on genetic alone (not counting some sophisticated breeding programme). Meanwhile, the "nebulous magical bloodline" would be even worse: the moment new magic users stops being produced they will disappear pretty fast. Of course, with magic which has flair for drama, most likely option is that it cheats ; either it does manipulate fate to keep number of magic users at desired numbers (but that seems to require too much power for EGS magic) or it manipulates conceptions of magic users for same purpose, making the usual probability-based mixing not to apply. Alternatively, in the "not in genes" version, it simply modifies the hidden variable with strength of talent. Note that interesting possibility would be if awakening changed the probability your children would have talent. Directly in "nebulous magical bloodline" case, in case of genetics maybe AaBbCcDd will change to AABBCCDD after awakening. BTW: Mitochondria are inherited exclusively from mother ; if mitochondria-like organelles are involved in magic, they must somehow also be inheritable from father (meaning, get from sperm to egg) ... but that makes even more likely they would spread into whole population very quickly. Again, cheating would be required. Now ... everything would get more complicated when more than just wizards are evaluated. Is Susan's talent something like A_B_C_E_ or more like A_E_F_G_ ? What will happen if talents combine? What about Nanase? She has royal level magic, BUT she doesn't seem to be wizard; is it because her father is not one? Would that mean that A_B_C_ will makes you strong magic user but not wizard as you lack D? If uryuoum eggs are anything like most eggs on earth, they're packed with nutrients and stuff for the baby creature to grow and be born.(That's what the yolk of the egg is. It's embryo food!) The only question how to get the nutrients into the growing embryo. The uryuom egg might alter the embryo (or more simply force it develop in given manner) to ensure it can receive nutrients from the egg. Of course they are packed with nutrients ... but there is reason why eggs generally hatches in weeks and not months (unless there is some hibernation period involved): you can only pack limited amount there. I think that amount of nutrients required for normal nine month development of human embryo would be quite big. Now, obviously the uryuom egg might alter the embryo, either just to get the nutrients inside without mother's blood circulation system or even more to speed up the process. But ... that's what I was speaking about: it means that even if only DNA of one species was in the egg, it STILL wouldn't be completely that species, it would be Seyunolu and therefore it's completely normal for it to have Uryuom power. (I suspect there will be also lot of work with oxygen ; eggs do have pores in shell to exchange oxygen and carbon dioxide, but I have a strong suspicion that this mechanism wouldn't be enough to get required amount of oxygen for developing human brain. There is reason why lungs have area between 50 and 75 square METERS - for adult of course, not sure how much it's for newborn but I suspect it's still more than area of egg.)

We also don't need to invent new one when we still have the one from divorce we KNOW she has. ... did I forgot to put the allergy in quotes? ... oh right I did. I meant that her issue with sex may be related to her fear of touch. Oh. Right. We don't know if her fear of touch itself isn't caused by trauma. But do they always interrelate? Sounds like too simple rule ... Obviously, doing psychoanalysis of comic character who may be partially but certainly not fully inspired by problems author himself has* is unlikely to produce solid results. Doing psychoanalysis on real people is already hard. And we have very little information about how Susan was before the incident with vampire, much less divorce.** As I already said, logically the traumas from catching her father or vampire incident doesn't seem to be related to her touch issue, but traumas may not work logically so we can't rule that out completely. I just think that going into the other extreme and be sure that everything must be related is too much. (Sure, everything certainly contributed to her having limited social life, on the other hand she may not have better social life even without those issues.) * I don't think Dan has trauma from killing vampire. Although I might be mistaken. Or it might be less literal. ** And while her mother does, she might not get her therapy just because some difference in behaviour. Especially in EGS, where therapists are so hard to get. At least mortal therapists.

Even if it's caused by deep emotional trauma, it may be different trauma than the one involving vampire. You didn't explained why person couldn't have two completely separate emotional traumas. On the other hand, it seems more related to her allergy than to any trauma.

No offense but Jerry might be better than the people doing your therapy. Also, not everything went away.

Considering they can look however they want, even Dan's commentary implies that Hanma would have started her new life in a more adult form, but then adopted the 14 year old look to go with the anime conventions. I meant "originally" as "originally when deciding to replace her adult look with younger anime one".

The last sketchbook entry was April 22nd 2016, so a year an a half more like. ... right. Didn't checked the year. I think she was being an alien squirrel still. Like, handing a lamp on the "alien" part? That might be it. I think that costume could be made much better by Tedd.

I think it might make her general socialization worse without influencing the touching problem directly. It also postponed the realization that her touching problem is detrimental to her happiness. The disappearance of Susan's stare suggests that Jerry and his serenity spell (and his counselling) helped her a lot in overcoming the vampire slaying trauma. The touching problem remained. Yeah, but the woman only had her panties left on, no bra, so there was very likely skin on skin contact when she caught them. Still much less likely to cause trauma than if her caught them covered in sweat and possibly other bodily fluids ...

https://www.patreon.com/posts/single-sorceress-15130928 Yeah really hard to guess. Are those on table naked or just have very form-fitting clothes?

The body base age we are talking about is the one after just reseting. After that, an Iimortal can be whatever age he/she want's to be. Not necessarily right away. Changing shape is something Immortal needs to know how to do and likely requires some power, so freshly reset immortals might be limited in this regard. I think she chosen that look regardless to her actual age, but she may be more touchy with it when she's actually that old. Alternatively, she chosen for example 12 originally, decided to start "ageing" when reaching 12 and will likely decide to stop "ageing" or even revert back when reaching 18.

I suppose you talk about panel time because not only I refuse to believe healthy teenagers are doing that little with their sexuality, we have at least one example of characters obviously doing more than we were shown. Granted, how much more is open to interpretation, but still. Also, Catalina and Rhoda ALSO were doing more than shown. Not that the vampire slaying helped, but I would assume it would be noted if her touch phobia got noticeably worse after returning from France. So, I think she had it even before.

Pirate is best costume for Halloween. You can ask for candy without getting our of character. Not that her first idea was so bad ... Meanwhile, no idea what she was with Ellen. Yes. Would be good idea, we had no sketchbook for half year ...

Considering it's painful, I think it was just once and he looks differently in that form. It's definitely on spectrum. It may also be technically (biologically) defect but we don't understand embryogenesis enough to be sure about it, much less just think about fixing it properly ... and fixing it improperly has so bad sideefects that even just calling it defect is now stigmatized. Only if the sessions are done in EGSNP, otherwise the main comic would be nothing but until the sun goes cold. It could also be off-panel but it would be pity as it would definitely be interesting. Unfortunately, seems pretty obvious DGB doesn't have one and are afraid of allowing anyone without the clearance to get near them. Her touch phobia isn't THAT bad. She successfully hugged several people. But maybe it's the body fluid parts which scares her ... It would definitely help if we saw what things exactly is she imagining. Of course that's unlikely to happen ... Susan "likes to watch", but she caught her dad with another woman. I can see the experience being a reason that Susan would be wary of dating guys, the fear of them cheating, but I would have expected someone who experienced that trauma wouldn't want to even see others engaged in physical contact either. I would consider this to be sign that it is NOT from trauma caused by seeing her father cheating. Although traumas don't always work logically. Note that she apparently caught her daddy quite soon, they still had some clothes on.

Hmmm ... interesting. Only now I realized that even in previous Goonmanji they were sitting on floor instead of having the game on table. But they were sitting normally ... Catalina lying and Susan testing structural limits of her spine drives home the point how weird it is. Oh, and I don't think Catalina lying would actually reduce the chance of her being hugged by Susan. Without additional attraction, she wouldn't hug her anyway. With additional attraction, she will hug her anyway. No change. Immortals age: does this also apply to improper reset?

She might also try Justin, but I don't think that would change anything. Maybe she needs to think less and be more impulsive. Although even that may not work without being transformed. Also, this is second time Diane is sure she got incomplete answer. She should get used to it. On the other hand ... if the faces Susan was making were real, she might already had the answer for this. Why do you think so? Imagining Catalina as catgirl is completely natural, she's just THAT cat-like. ... wait. She also imagined Elliot as catboy. Ok, maybe she has.

The egg technically wouldn't NEED to do any extra work but how hard it's likely to check if it needs to? More likely, the egg works same way no matter how compatible the DNA is. Including morphing. Which works on Uryuom power. Regarding how, well, look at mitochondria - they are NOT in DNA, in fact they are separate incompatible symbiotic organisms ... or the infamous Midi-chlorians ... or, obviously, the answer may be "magic", or in this case Uryuom power. Personally, I would consider existence of Uryuom power mitochondria more likely than some equivalent for human magic, but even THAT can't be ruled out - remember that fairies are NOT human. (On the other hand, magic with flair for drama doing same mistake as Lucas doesn't seem likely ...)

No it wouldn't. Humans can't develop in egg. They need to spend several months in womb, consuming nutrients and oxygen from mother. It could be genetically 100% human but it would still be seyunolu. Also, it's quite likely that if you take DNA from say african person and european person, the child would be able to shapeshift between those two forms. Using, obviously, uryuom power. This is closely related to the "how it's possible that there are still people without magical talent left" AKA "failure to understand exponential" problem. However, it is possible that just the stronger affinity can surface. Back to chimeras: I don't think the affinity will completely disappear (although we can't rule it out either) but it is possible even person with magic talent needs to get over the uryuom power to connect with it. Obviously, shouldn't be that hard if the uryuom power is just from egg and not supported by DNA at all.

Technically, definitely, as Uryuom eggs works by mag- .... Uryuom power. Usable level, hard to say. Alternatively, if you meant to ask if human genes containing magic talent will activate in chimera, that might be even more complicated question ... Look at their ages. I don't think it's actually unusual for them to come out in back, kids of this age are even worse with statistics than adults.

I probably should have been more clear. I figured he could get through the barrier, but unless he has a magical source of fire resistance, he would be incinerated, or at least very badly burned. Assuming he didn't try some kind of ranged attack, which I would hope Adrian taught him some sort of ranged technique. Those come in handy when you can't get close to your target. I would assume he would try some ranged attack and seriously hurt Dex. Ranged incapacitating attacks are hard. The boar incident proves otherwise as I already mentioned. I doubt this. First, I think it belongs to William. Tedd even asked if he wants it back. Second, Edward can always confiscate it as dangerous device. That said, Edward would likely ask Tedd. He would also likely ask in way which would make Tedd agree. I would think in most cases, Edward would object more than Tedd. Meanwhile, if Edward would tell him HE knows the person, why would Tedd object? There are likely formal ways to contact the Paranormal Division which includes code words which gets you over people who would just reply "hahaha, is this a prank call?" to people with appropriate clearance. The head of the Paranormal Division doesn't need to handle ALL format requests and inquiries, but might decide to handle Adrian Raven's, like for example because he has noone who can deliver the laugh as he can. That sounds like the answer would be "why do you ask? Is this attempt to catch me on some inconsistency?" ... however, maybe it will work. Better chance to ask about Noah specifically I guess. We can also ask directly on twitter and/or tumblr (ok, I can ask over tumblr, not sure what accounts you have). Sometimes Dan does answer that way, although usually to matters related to current comics. I've got one answer ... out of four I think.

I think the fact that we haven't seen any greater chimera shapeshift into an Uryuom form without the help of a CMD says something though, at least we should keep this in mind for the next round of Q&A's and ask about it. No it doesn't say anything considering we only saw ONE greater chimera transforming - Grace. Vlad was greater chimera but we never saw him transform on his own, only Ellen transforming him, and Noah (IF he's greater chimera) we didn't saw transforming at all. Oh, and neither did we saw Archie transforming. Also, I'm not sure what you want to ask. The "Can Noah transform to Uryuom form" question is going to be labeled spoiler just like "Is Noah greater chimera", which it's obviously something which is supposed to be revealed later. Not that it wouldn't be good question, I'm just afraid we would need to wait for the reveal and then ask for details.

I imagine he would be incinerated. They have some natural abilities plus they are able to shift to any form ever given to them by CMD. Meanwhile, Grace can mix&match forms, but only due to her lespuko genes. Good point: while we don't know if chimeras have less Uryuom power before having their shapeshifting corrected, we also don't know if they don't. He could get him TF Gun as well, if it only occurred to him Edward has one. Well, he would also need to ask Edward for it, which might be hit to his pride, but I think Edward would lend it to him. (And there is additional issue of Adrian possibly deliberately keeping Noah secret from DGB.) Well they WERE able to speak when it mattered. However it's likely true Edward was Adrian's only connection in DGB - otherwise he would contact his other contact and not Edward. The shadow guy transformation seem to be more disguise than shapeshifting. And he might have two forms as Grace's siblings - he does have two different DNAs, Human and Uryuom, and while Grace doesn't seem to have specifically Uryuom form, Noah might.

Sarah? I know Lisa wondered that. Sarah also wondered it. ... ok. Adding to the new section on wiki I just spend an hour doing wondering how something so important can still be missing.

Those were just the basics, and Dan did go further on them with the commentary, also he said he'll elaborate more in commentary as the game progresses. So I'm sure we'll get at least 90% of it figured out by the end of it. Depending on how you count it, probably not ; there are 40 cards in the deck, not all will likely come in play and each seem to have some special side effect on it.