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How many little kids have you told there's no Santa today? But, yes, it could be just a dream, unless Dan decides otherwise. Well ... sometimes it's not his decision but his forgetfulness.

Ellen's knowledge of Japanese is limited to calling her attacks with weird names, as taught by sensei Greg. She doesn't have vocabulary to understand what Akiko was saying, and might have problem following spoken language anyway. Yes, plausible and kind of neat, maybe, but I'm not married to the idea or even going steady. In the middle of his rant Voltaire talks about luck, how lucky he was to find Dex, how lucky to find a gullible griffin (Tara). Even if Voltaire travels to other universes, there are lots of other possible and plausible universes, even as GURPS alludes in its core sourcebook about alternate history, world hopping, and time travel, Infinite Worlds. I'm not sure if that's what you were heading to, but personally I don't think Voltaire did it because while it would match his modus operandi I don't think he is able to. Based on how bored he is, he either can't travel universes or is very limited in that travel. I still suspect that he lied about being from the other half of universe. (Wait - did he even said he is? Or was that just something we speculated about?) He may also be English jerk or whatever else. He didn't shown that much french and was speaking English most of the encounter. Ellen accusing him of being French monster could've been just jumping to conclusion. Or, well, the dream was just random dream which hinted Lord Tedd history just for narrative purposes. He already realized how important it will be in second edition of Hobbit, but yes. I think Dan had said at one point that he lost the notes he had on the language which is why he hasn't bothered to use it for a while now. But someone did create an English to Uryuomoco translator. Though it's not completely accurate. I think someone had posted a translation of the dialog in Tedd's dream but that might have been before the great server crash. And I would add that this dictionary is likely based on what Dan said in forums/commentaries which are lost now. Uryuomoko wasn't supposed to be undecipherable and second reason why Dan stopped using it was that he realized it doesn't really add anything to the comics when he uses language people are supposed to translate back to English. It's hot and I'm tired here. Could you help me out by pointing out where there's a Dan-definitive Seyunolu is? I'm not sure if they're a type of hybrid or another alien race. When a Uryuom egg is used to house multiple DNA sources, the resulting child is a 'seyunolu', 'chimera' in english. I suspect that it's actually Uryuom term for ANY hybrid, but the prophecy was definitely related to chimeras created from Uryuom eggs. That might be relatively safe bet considering we may never learn about more than five universes. Six if you count AF4. And we may never know enough about Beta universe or Magus universe to confirm if our Grace exists there.

Grace: "Uh ... Mr. Verres can explain it much better than me."

Pandora? Seriously, I too was just thinking that it was the goo that started everything, thus Lord Tedd would have been the catalyst to getting everyone together. But then I remembered that Pandora catching Magus predated the goo, and it was Pandora that told Magus how to get a physical body again. Of course getting Tedd to zap Elliot and then finding out about the dewitchery diamond would have happened differently because Grace wouldn't have been around if the goo never happened. Maybe Pandora knew about Lord Tedd and timed things to happen when they did? Maybe she set up Helena and Demetrius to follow Susan and Nanase to France because she knew there was an active vampire there that would pick up on Susan's affinity and try to kill her, I dunno if she'd go as far getting the vampire itself to attack Susan though. Actually I was thinking about Helena and Demetrius but you're right about Magus being also sort of important. Pandora doesn't need to know about Lord Tedd directly: how long was Lord Tedd's demon nuclei searching for outer shell and for Tedd? Maybe she "catched" it as well. Maybe she was ready to do something else newsworthy to help Grace find Tedd and then the goo showed up and she used the opportunity. Or, well, maybe it's just narrative. Beta Tedd believed that Lord Tedd was trying to kill other Tedds. If Lord Tedd realized that he was a Seer with the ability to bend the world to his will, the fact that he knows about alternate universes makes me think he believes that his alternates are also capable of such power, "weak Tedd" could be referring to the fact that our Tedd hadn't realized his potential yet and thus he was assumed to be vulnerable still. I also think that Dan might have got the idea of Lord Tedd wanting to kill all other Tedds from the movie "The One". Beta Tedd might be mistaken - Nioi, for example, has different opinion on Lord Tedd. Also, well ... maybe Dan originally made Lord Tedd based on The One movie, then got better idea and retconned it. Eh ... while the theory that they are unable to recognize if two humans are similar unless they can detect their magic potential is technically possible, you might also consider alternative. Not necessary. There are ways how to have siblings without having parents or childs (although I can't remember anything really popular usable as example). Alternatively, just because immortals CAN have all of that doesn't mean they have. In any case, Earth doesn't seem to be flooded with immortals, which suggests they don't multiply much if at all. (Not speaking about fact Griffins might've been mistaken, of course.)

Quite likely even Rhoda can't target Grace and her clothing with single spell. She can obviously use multiple spells and target the clothes separately. You mean this didn't? Rhoda is also S-class talent and quite good in resizing various body parts. I'm not sure if there is something Ellen can do and Rhoda not. Except flashlight, Rhoda certainly can't do that.

Elliot didn't even know Nanase was Tedd's cousin until after they broke up, and when Edward first saw her, it was like he hadn't seen her in a few years, so it's safe to say the three of them never hung out. But that's mainly due to Elliot keeping the fact that he was dating Nanase a secret from Tedd and Sarah, Elliot's parent's apparently knew about Nanase though as Nanase knew Brownie and the fact that she was able to make a fairy doll inside Elliot's house means that she had been there before, so way to be a jerk in leaving your friends out of the loop Elliot! Hmmm ... and it was actually SUSAN who called Nanase into the battle with Goo. Sure, Elliot was preoccupied, but it's possible that without LORD TEDD of all people Nanase would never become part of main 8 (and Ellen might go crazy). Well ... ok, they MIGHT meet later when Grace would be going into school - wait. Grace only found Tedd because the news about Goo. Although we know that general Shade Tail found Tedd as well, it might've been later. Ok. I'm ready to suspect some immortal helped the main eight to form. We don't know which doesn't mean they don't have anyone else. "Pretended to fill"? It's not official job position. He filled it, but with different outcome. Yeah ... it would be quite a jump but not an impossible to make considering what Sarah managed to jump. (Or leap) If Beta Tedd took her up on her suggestion, it likely wasn't first time (remember how often our universe Edward is out of town - enough for Tedd to learn to cook in female form) and it was likely with protection, just like in previous cases. Yeah ... Dan likes red herrings almost as much as real foreshadowing. Well yeah, even we have no clue what Voltaire's end goal is, but it that it does require a seer with a unique condition, despite the fact that there are other seers, Tedd was chosen for a reason, maybe of the other seers, Tedds the only one that's for now still eligible for the second purpose. Heka had stated that if Pandora's assessment of Tedd wasn't favorable, he'd have sabotaged Tedd's eligibility. So my guess is Lord Tedd was eligible for the second purpose and General Shade Tail is exploiting it. Voltaire might want to exploit it as well. Other eligible seers might be harder to manipulate in direction Voltaire needs - for example, because they don't have so much experience with magic already. Quite likely, seer with little to no knowledge about how it works now will make little to no change to status quo. Meanwhile, if no seer would be eliglible, it would mean the failsafe failed, so I don't think that would happen. And then not doing anything for centuries? That would make him very bad at planing. ... ok, it is possible. Well ... maybe we interpret the "kill weak Tedd" incorrectly. Maybe killing Tedd is not only option. Maybe the goo is supposed to be some sort of test, to kill weak Tedds and force the others to start powering up. Lord Tedd's criteria for which Tedd is weak might be flawed, but his goals might actually be related to magic reset and relatively good. So how confident is Voltaire that he can withstand this, or at least avoid Pandora long enough to get the unspecified "they" who are supposed to finally listen? Well ... he might feel his chances are better with Pandora furious instead of Pandora calm but still angry at him. I would assume that Tara and Andrea can judge human relationship similarly well. Also, Tara identified Ellen as Elliot's twin, so she isn't completely clueless. But there must be some reason WHY. I mean, if it's Voltaire's motivation, it's pretty generic. Why would Dan make Pandora Voltaire's sister? Just because the storyline name?

No. I want my unawareness to reproduce, Multiply until the world is filled with unawareness. World is ALREADY filled with unawareness. Yours will have it hard against all the competition.

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Yes, when they were little kids. People can drift apart, through no fault of either of them. We know Elliot is pretty passive; he and Sarah didn't even speak for several days, while they were supposed to be dating, because Sarah was waiting for him to call her. If Tedd had stayed near-mute, he wouldn't have been any competiton for Elliot's attenton versus people he'd meet at ASMA, school, etc. Elliot isn't most people. He wouldn't abandon him because unlike Sarah he would be afraid something would happen to him. Also, Tedd IS going to school with him. He wouldn't likely spent as much time with him, but still wouldn't let him go evil. No, I think it's not just drifting apart. I think Elliot is dead in Lord Tedd's universe AND his death was one of events which put Tedd on track to become Lord Tedd.

Yes. Her save wasn't exactly stellar but good enough. No, our Tedd is Lord Tedd's sister Although who knows, maybe Lord Tedd is genderfluid as well? (Hmmm ... as far as we know, our Tedd doesn't have sister, but DOES have brother.) She might had relatively good idea when Blaike was alive, but since then ... well, Adrian already commented that. She desires magic for the fun, IMHO. She doesn't seem to go on any dangerous quests unless someone leads her there ... Also, we already knows it's Elliot and Grace who is keeping the group good. Without Elliot and with Grace replaced with General Shade Tail, well ... maybe THEN Sarah went to dark path. She DID like goth ... No. Elliot was his friend even when he was muttering a lot, which means BEFORE TFG, in time Nanase though he was mute. But, his second oldest friend is IMHO Sarah and she's only friend with him due to Elliot ... Nanase is his cousin but might never hang with him without Elliot ... Justin would likely transfer to different city without Elliot ... Susan got into group due to Nanase, so indirectly by Elliot again ... He might be very alone with general Shade Tail as only friend, TF gun or not. To "her normal" maybe.

http://www.egscomics.com/egsnp.php?id=638 Well, she WAS not aware of this on New Year Eve, but she could discover meantime - oh wait that was less than month ago. In that case it makes sense. Shrinking is clear - she's already on limit. And I guess you can't get more blonde than blonde. Not sure why muscles, it could be used as example of how single beam muscles makes person stronger but double beam muscles don't make her more stronger, just looking worse. And heavier? Heavier Nanase isn't even as fat as George ...

The fire monster wasn't really hot, much less burning. There IS possibility there is magic component of Cheerleadra shielding - no matter if Elliot is or isn't aware. But I agree there doesn't seem to be any real fire in that either. Which we shouldn't generalize, but we can take it as another proof there wasn't real fire inside buldog dragon fire. Nothing about other monsters, but definitive confirmation this one was mostly magic. Also, suggests that the reason WHY the fireball disappeared was drama, specifically will of magic's flair for drama. Hmmm ... maybe we will have less stuff like this after reset? Seems unlikely, but if the question would be "would all projectiles created by magic we will see in EGS be considered summoned entities" it would be harder to answer. Griffins didn't summoned anything fire-looking and the vampire had something looking as classical bombs ... (there are lot of things which certainly exists in EGS world but Dan doesn't want to show them in comics ; sometimes he deliberately leaves the door open, as with the "timetravel is only thing we know for sure can't be done with magic")

Based on Dan mentioning what Ellen is NOT canonically aware of, I would assume she IS canonically aware of most of those abilities. She already mentioned she has multiple beams in canon. And yes, we can expect that some of those beams will be used when dealing with Vampires ... I'd modify that slightly, because of what I think an enchantment is: an effect of a spell, that requires ongoing consumption of magical energy to sustain it. Not all spells create enchantments, the most obvious example being Tedd's changing default form but the first apparent example being Tamashii Gekido. Yes, obviously the description would be only correct for spells which creates enchantment. Also note that only Tedd can shrug off an enchantment instantly - for most people, enchantment resistance is about how fast they get rid of it if they don't want it to keep going. This actually depends on fireball. Fireball might be magic fire which disappears when you remove the magic, or it can be real fire just held together by magic. Or something between that. Maybe the fireball will cool down and disappears in half of second if you remove magic. In extreme case, removing magic from fireball can make it explode. Although that's more related to attempt to dispel it middle-flight: if it hits you, it explodes anyway and the magic is not targeted to you so you can't resist it.

I'm sorry. My computer does not accept or give cookies. The fact you are logged in on this forum proves that's not true. I am thinking that maybe they don't have any. The magic analysis wand registered near zero for Tedd, whereas Luke's magic prowess detection spell obviously detected something amazing about Tedd (even if it was just that he has enough power to create feedback in the detection). It would seem the Agency might not have the technology to detect Seers. You would think if they had one, they would be studying him or her to figure out how to find more. Just a thought. Honestly, they might not even know that Seers exist. They might know they exists from historic books but not know enough about them to know how to identify them. Would be funny if they would be searching for seer and actually HAD one and just not realizing it. Hmmm ... she just said Tedd has exceptionally good spell resistance. Maybe he can ... As long as the only thing of her which is on hair trigger are dramatic speech it's manageable. Of course, I suspect it already isn't the only thing ... but we didn't saw anything worse yet, not counting the case with werewolves. Remember that she described Tedd to Heka - she knew lot about him for long time, including the "lots of energy" part.

I'm pretty certain the difference between the two is that Spell resistance is the ability for a person to resist an attempt to enchant them, and enchantment resistance applies to being able to shrug off an enchantment after it's been applied. What I'm not completely certain of is if they are actually 2 separate types of resistances, or 1 type that works differently depending on the situation, like a spell has more power when it's cast so one would have to resist more to prevent them from being enchanted, but if they end up getting enchanted then they can still shorten the duration (unless it's permanent like changing a person's default form) by resisting it. It's gotta be a matter of willpower "I will not be enchanted" and "I will not stay enchanted" kind of thing, different situations, but still the same method of resisting. One obvious difference, as mentioned in that link, is that surprise impacts spell resistance but not enchantment resistance. Most likely, there are other modifiers which apply differently, but to rephrase the question, we don't know if "base" person spell resistance and enchantment resistance is always same, if they might differ but usually are similar or if there is commonly difference. (Alternatively, if one can train one but not the other, in a way how one can train upper body and not lower body although generally is recommended to train both.) Even Tedd's ability to shred any enchantment may be matched with just as high ability to resist spells, in fact Pandora mentioned something like that.

I think that the idea is that magic is too dangerous to be available to general public is 1) Considered really important in DGB - no matter if true, their fears of being overwhelmed by lot of bad guys getting dangerous spells seems real 2) Hard to explain to said public, considering everyone would quickly find out several ways how magic can help the public even if it wouldn't be him getting it. 3) Also, keeping magic secret might be (declared by Supreme Court to be) against first AND second amendments. Even if Leifield didn't do anything "unofficial" he wouldn't want to get public, he may be high enough for being endangered if the basic premises of organization would be found unacceptable. In fact, even Arthur Arthur might be high enough.

Even if she was aware of being able to use both hands to make her spells more difficult to resist, it still wouldn't have worked on Not_Tengu, so really the only effect it would have had would have been to make us speculate if she got a new spell that required both hands. I think DAN didn't known about that option when drawing it. But yes it wouldn't change much. Dan could even SAY that using both hands make the spell harder to resist in commentary to keep most of us from speculating (not everyone reads the comments of course). Personally I would guess that higher resistance IS sideefect of his form, on the other hand he WAS aware he will be fighting another magic user so he might've been prepared. Note that while Noriko was able to get him, it wasn't easy as they though she might be ONLY person capable of getting him. And that was without ambient magic. He is not some just-get-magic-let-me-try-it person - he started like that but now he's experienced. So, high resistance makes sense. BTW it was his spell resistance, not enchantment resistance.

It is also possible Liefeld didn't agreed with Arthur's plan until the Abraham incident convinced him it's needed / worth it. Also, regarding "other excuse" ... it's possible he would WAIT for other excuse. He might've already be waiting for some time. I think that Dan went to the trouble of drawing all that exercise equipment  he complains about because he wanted this scene to take place at a public gymnasium to give an excuse for Carol Brown to overhear the discussion. Notice that in the first panel when Arthur is telling Leifeld that this gym isn't the most secure location for the discussion while looking to his left. When the view widens to show the gymnasium, Arthur is still looking to his left, and he seems to be looking at Carol Brown, whose eyes have widened, unlike the dude that Leifeld is checking out. First, even agency gymnasium might be mostly containing people with LOWER clearance than Arthur Arthur and Liefeld - higher than public gymnasium but not on the super top secret level they speak on. Second, I would still say she's not Carol Brown. Third, he's looking at her ass. Note that Voltaire MIGHT be less obvious than when he was stopping Ashley helping Elliot. His plan with Dex, for example, didn't involved giving out his identity, much less plans. And yes, deporting Adrian might've been professional jealousy. Or, like, learning jealously? I mean, he might've been jealous he didn't had as good teacher when he needed him (or EVER). Or he just considered elf to be too risky person to have around. Either the assistant was supplied to him by HR, or he hand picked her, and just because he hand picked her doesn't mean it was because he prefered the way she looked, she could have been someone he knew personally and gave her the job because he knew she'd do it well, or maybe he picked her to give everyone else the impression that he wasn't the kind of person that would watch ladies exercising in the gym. Even if he hand-picked her, he had limited options. There may not be anyone more attractive with required clearance. Or, maybe he picked her BECAUSE he know that when he picks blonde he would be too distracted to work properly. Despite lot of jokes, I don't think recognizing people by their asses or other parts of bodies is effective. It's the face which makes recognizing easiest, we evolved that way. That's what I'm wondering. The agency has a bunch of trained and experienced mages who would lose their magic. Any police-type organization relies heavily on being able to bring more training and experience to bear on a problem than nearly-any of the people causing the problem have, and a reset will take that away. The agency will have to find the new magic-users, scope them out, recruit them, and then give them any necessary procedural and teamwork training, while the newly-developed versions of Not-Tengu will simply start magically doing evil. If most magic-users in agency have actual talent/affinity, they will lose the spell but not magic - so they won't need to recruit new ones, just re-train the ones they have. Still doesn't seem like good idea. Maybe they expect the wands will keep working? Even if it's not true, there may be some reason for them to expect that. Like, if magical items certainly older than last reset still works, they may expects wands to work as well. Yup, IF the agency would have some seer, they would know enough about him to recognize Tedd as being one as well. And I think Edward has clearance high enough to know about it AND enough personal connections they wouldn't consider not telling him for conflict of interest being good idea.

You really CAN'T make something impact something else at .999c unless you speak about particles. At that speed, the bonds holding the projectile together are completely irrelevant and it moves so fast it can fly several meters before it starts fusing. No way something as small and sparse as bread would stop it. And while the idea of using relativistic speeds (just little smaller) to get marmalade INSIDE the bread is appealing, you need to remember that when the atoms DO hit they FUSE, meaning it won't be marmalade (or bread) anymore (probably will be mostly consisting of magnesium). Also, the energy will sublimate both the bread and marmalade.

... may still mean wizards without own spells are more common than seers.

Well ... actually, I'm not sure ... maybe if you would put enough current into the superconductor and it would be bent around the bread it would warm it with induction alone ... but the principle of superconductor is that it will NOT get hot when you put current into it, while principle of toaster and/or electric kettle is that it WILL get hot when you put current into it.

That wouldn't work. Basically, there are places in CPU where you NEED to disappear the energy which brought the signal. NAND gate, for example. Obviously, there are non-deliberate energy loses as well, but I wouldn't be sure which are bigger. Also, the temperature of CPU core is not "room", it's "boiling water" ... or "boiling oil" in case of GPU. Although ... if we WOULD build CPU on room-temperature superconductors, it would likely require completely different construction which MIGHT have less thermal loses ... Superconducting toaster will leave the bread cold.

Definitely. Maybe Pandora is talking about the second purpose right now? Just a guess, but it does seem like she's talking about more than just the first purpose there. She's talking about him having lot of energy which she already knew WHEN MARKING LUKE. I suspect that Leifeld might have understood Edward's feelings at the time, and that he only injured Abraham which mean Edward still had some restraint, but if Edward had actually killed Abraham after Abraham had already surrendered, then Leifeld might have had to take more drastic action. Yes, I would be afraid of that as well.

So can Grace on occasion. Yes - and even if she means it seriously. In fact, while Pandora can do the "insane" angle better, Grace looks more dangerous there than Pandora here, IMHO.

And it would be even worse if her attempt succeeded, probably. I'm pretty sure she predicted how THAT meeting will go based on her already having the plan to empower Moperville in progress. And unlike the Magus case, she didn't looked that much angry. Also, Voltaire's setup was pretty convincing on itself. I don't care why but I do hope she'll tone down. Or at least disappears and let Tedd think about it. Yeah ... Pandora can be very dramatic. Did she get that from magic?