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pinup Pinup: Saturday, November 5, 2016 (Tall Ashley Sequence)
hkmaly replied to Howitzer's topic in EGS Sketchbook Discussion
Of course if it's green tea is it gun powder style or loose leaf? And what of smoked teas? ... you think it was tea leaves which caused that effect? Obviously, it's some exotic mineral which the Tea just concentrated while the asteroid is spreading it. -
Diane was probably the only wild card of the four of them, she wasn't supposed to drink the punch, but if Jerry hadn't interfered, she would have been enchanted as well. Then again Jerry's interference was something Not_Tengu could not have predicted. There was nothing "wild card" on her. Jerry's interference was unpredictable and without him, she would be sure to drink. He apparently had been observing Susan long enough to know the right things to say when he first approached her. Of course it wouldn't have been hard in Susan's case considering her reputation as Hammer Queen and the review show, but still, I'd say he did it with all the girls he dated before Susan. He was probably only choosing girls who were relatively easy to target. He only tried Susan because despite her reputation, she was vulnerable. It might've worked if not for Justin.
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pinup Pinup: Saturday, November 5, 2016 (Tall Ashley Sequence)
hkmaly replied to Howitzer's topic in EGS Sketchbook Discussion
Seems Sarah is not only one who wanted to be ... taller. (I hope Sarah was affected too. Wait ... if she wouldn't, she would totally get watches for this form and claim she was.) Also, I'm not sure which social media would require first image. Linkedin? I think third picture is respectable enough for most social media. Not speaking about the non-respectable pictures people post on social media too, sometime "worse" than the fifth. (Worse from the respectability point of view. I consider it great image.) -
While Not_Tengu would be stalker material, I don't think he ever personally stalked Nanase. Indirectly, looking at interviews and such, sure, but I don't think that would tell him enough. On the other hand, he couldn't predicted they discover Diane is Susan's sister either, of course. I wouldn't be surprised if bad Tom tried stalking her to find out this.
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pinup Pinup: Friday, November 4, 2016 (Mall Elliot and Ashley)
hkmaly replied to Howitzer's topic in EGS Sketchbook Discussion
If you mean "Ellen would be affected despite Elliot never kissed her" if the epidemic would spread, yes, obviously, Elliot kissed Nanase and Nanase kissed Ellen. Hmmm ... wait. What if the epidemic moved in time normally, but with time zero being not now, but Elliot's awakening? That would exclude all Nanase's boyfriends, in fact likely Nanase herself ... affected would be Sarah, Carol, Ashley, Catalina, from her Rhoda, ... from Sarah likely Tedd and Grace ... and that would likely be all. Ok, too boring. -
Being out of continuity doesn't mean they never lived in Moperville, Lisa could have got her law degree from Moperville College. Occam's razor says them living somewhere else is more probable. It would actually make sense if they would comment the events "from future", as in "the events in comics would few years later became target of investigation and/or preparing documentary movie and they are involved in that". It would then make sense they moved to Moperville for that. But it was directly said it's happening out of continuity and they are communicating with current versions of characters, so, no: the Amanda and Lisa who are doing the Q&A are not in Moperville because they are not in the same universe and/or plane of reality. If not for Amanda being referred related to the radio-in-clocks, we could say she doesn't live in the same universe AT ALL. WITH that reference, if we take it as canon, she (her canon in-continuity version) can be anywhere. Possibly in Europe
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It's a common sense though, Ellen agreed to abide by Mama Kitsune's conditions for being able to go to the party and Nanase asked that Ellen keep to that agreement, if Ellen went against that, I wouldn't blame Nanase for being mad. That was actually handled well: They talked and Ellen even joked about it. The dangerous bit would be if Ellen stopped behaving naturally and started trying to predict what might make Nanase mad instead. That's how abusive relationship works. Either she exaggerated or she didn't realized it wasn't really about hair. Yes, it seem that way so far. Still, I think that correctly predicting if and why Ellen would or wouldn't be drinking on that party would require immortal. Especially considering Nanase's "I suddenly regret agreeing to no alcohol".
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Remember that the Q&A are out of continuity. Being out of town is detail compared to that.
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I suspect Elliot and/or Ellen would have said something, at least once to either Tedd, Grace or Nanase about it. Not sure about Elliot, it would take him some time to close mouth, but Ellen, yes, definitely.
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That's irrelevant to what Not_Tengu would believe, he would have known the legal drinking age and knew that Nanase and Ellen were underaged for it. If Nanase wasn't going to drink, chances are high that Ellen wouldn't drink. Weeeeell ok, he might guessed correctly for totally incorrect reasons. ... I seriously hope that's not the direction their relationship is going.
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I think she would have looked to see why it worked when she thought it shouldn't have, although I do expect to hear what Pandora has to say about it soon. She would looked just after we last saw her, yes. Did you read the commentary of that? Either it's fantasy, or it's not really Lisa and Amanda, they just look similar. Or ... maybe that happened in the past. Wait, they have same school uniforms as current cast ... She does use the past tense here when talking about her own mark. http://www.egscomics.com/egsnp.php?id=521 True. I remember noticing this back then, but I forgot since ... but that wouldn't explain why Pandora didn't noticed.
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pinup Pinup: Friday, November 4, 2016 (Mall Elliot and Ashley)
hkmaly replied to Howitzer's topic in EGS Sketchbook Discussion
... the text is funny, but otherwise I think the "epidemic" was better and this feels like "already saw this". But if it won the polls ... Personally, I would consider more logical if it spread to anyone he will kiss in future and anyone they kissed, as real epidemic, but it's true that this "everyone he kissed in past" would be more funny as he's not likely to kiss so many people now ... unless he use Heidi again. (Also, while Nanase trying to fix the issue while transformed would be more funny, without the "everyone they kissed" part it would be pretty simple case for Charlotte's angels, probably easier than lockpicking gorilla.) -
pinup Pinup, Saturday November 5, 2016 (Rental Guard)
hkmaly replied to Scotty's topic in EGS Sketchbook Discussion
I'm lucky Patreon takes so long to look at the picture (I need to save it then open, it doesn't show directly in browser). It took me few seconds after reading the text to realize the "rental guard" is pun on "beach guard", but I still realized it before the image shown. I'm not sure how can Dan be so sure it's just one character daydreaming about that. Let's see: Elliot. Tensaided. Catalina. Susan. Nanase. ... If I would be forced to choose one, then Catalina would be most likely, but IMHC* all of them. *In My HeadCanon -
I could accept (in fact, I'm totally accepting) that she forgets she's not wearing anything in Tedd's basement, but outside? That would need to be very hot summer. And based on when MV5 happened, it wasn't last summer. Maybe next summer? Makes sense. Actually, no. Her walking around nude doesn't confirm there is any relationship present. Doesn't disprove it either, of course
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From what I understand, I think a better way of describing this is, rather than violates vs. not violates the laws of physics, the difference is whether she interacts with the virtual world as she would normally interact with the real world without magic (e.g., walking around, picking things up with her hands, etc.), vs. willing things to change. Body switching would of course be an exception because that's not a way one can normally interact with the world without magic. Good point. It is even possible that if Sarah WOULD have some (other) magic, she would be able to use it without lowering accuracy. There is specific ability of "willing things to change", which apparently have some threshold to activate, so it doesn't happen on stray though but she needs to concentrate on it. And this ability lowers the accuracy. Meanwhile, body swap is category by itself, because Sarah is not physically in simulation. She just starts with POV matching her real body and she can change the POV (where she's looking from) to anyone else. And, apparently it has almost no threshold, it happens without any though, hair trigger indeed.
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Even he doesn't consider the mark spell counting as his own. And we don't even know if it's still possible for him to awaken because of this or if he'd even get new spells if he did. He doesn't, but he can control it as other people control their own spells. And I think he IS awakened, it's just that his awakening works differently - won't show on the analysis want, won't give him spells, ... Unlikely. That would mean it's already decided how the new magic system would look, and I think how it will look depends on what will trigger the change ... Doubt it, like I said, if he did his research, he would have known enough about Ellen that if Nanase wasn't going to be drinking, Ellen likely wouldn't be drinking either, he didn't really expect Charlotte to have been drinking as well, though he was probably still a bit disappointed that she didn't. ELLEN didn't know she wouldn't be drinking few minutes before arriving. Especially considering they would try to be extra careful to not harm them ... ... I suppose by "long term" you mean starting the hour after he kill Nanase (according to his plan, I mean) and will go to "celebrate" it.
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... would explain it quite nicely. I was going to suggest that, but I can't think of any reason Pandora wouldn't notice that, I know she said she hasn't paid much attention to Rhoda, but she at least knew that Rhoda had become aware of her mark and spell, and told Catalina about it. I would think just looking at Rhoda would have told her whether she had awakened or not. Unless she awakened WHILE casting the spell. Like, it wasn't just determination filling her ... Amanda doesn't live in Moperville, if she's living in the main continuity at all (I know, she was mentioned once). We can't assume that all of Moperville has a fetish for short busty girls. My point was that she will be sexy (and likely get some attention and some head-turning) but it wouldn't be anything which would make people talking about that super-sexy person they met today. Mall Girl Elliot MIGHT've made someone talk about her even if he didn't changed to Cheerleadra ...
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Still, Tedd didn't believe that he should have been able to resist even his own spells, note he even resisted whatever it was that happened to Nanase's hair that affected Sarah's hair but not his. He was convinced that of the three of them, Sarah should have been the most likely to have resisted it. He believed he wouldn't ever GET own spells. But, when he OBVIOUSLY get one ... not technically own, but still under his control ... I completely agree with the FIRST case being him disenchanting himself and that it's related to his rarity. I just wanted to note that the SECOND case wasn't. Hmmm ... this is actually good question. I don't think mind control will affect natural enchantment resistance, but the immediate disenchantment might be something he consciously need to activate, so mind control might prevent him doing that. Of course, unless there is another part of his dangerous rarity which makes him immune to mind control or something Yes. That makes it a passive resistance which is what I was trying to get at, there's 2 ways to resist an enchantment, passively and actively, passive resistance is just natural resistance, it affects the natural duration of an enchant Might help if you would be using Tedd's terminology instead of applying your own and trying to divide the resistance in other ways. Note that I'm not sure about how natural the enchantment resistance is. No, that's the "active" one which is affected by surprise. At that point, ALL THREE were expecting there will be fight and therefore unlikely to be surprised. No specific "being prepared for anything" is needed, although it might help even more. If they drank the punch, Ellen's and Nanase's guard would have been down, they likely would have fallen victim to the enchantment as well, it may have required more energy to keep them enchanted but considering the ambient energy levels... Hmmm ... you may be right, that would count as surprise. Unless "being counted as surprise" is incompatible with the "oblivious to gradual change" part ... They would then resist more, but NotTengu might be able to counter that by pumping more energy to the spell. He might've been counting on ELLEN drinking it. On the other hand, getting them under his control might. I think Ellen's worry about being trapped there was justified. But, yes, the look was likely for Noriko, after all, he briefly considered making them look like Tedd, but it would interfere with other things he wanted to do with them ...
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... would explain it quite nicely. What rumours? That she has secret sister? I don't think someone would get the idea she can change height, not even in Moperville. While true, this is city where people like Nanase and Ellen lives. She will likely get less attention than Mall Girl Elliot (which might still be enough for some middle-jinxs, true).
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I repeat: in both parts of second case, it was HIS spell (well, not his own, but mark spell, but still). This kinds of spell USUALLY comes with way to turn it off immediately (unless you are fighting with energy build ups). So he didn't needed his dangerous rarity to end it. For start, there are two kinds of resistance: general spell resistance which resist the spell while being casted and applies to ANY spell (and normal people have it nearly zero), is affected by surprise and makes you not be affected at all, and specific enchantment resistance, which (obviously) applies only on enchantments, is resisting WHILE enchantment is in progress, even normal people have it at usable level and affects how long the enchantment will last. So, yes: changing default forms would be harder to resist and it would never end on its own, meaning target would require assistance to revert it. There isn't any evidence that there was any type of resistance but plenty of evidence that none of them were aware that anything was wrong, even after the enchantment was broken, none of them were aware that anything had happened The enchantment resistance is not conscious process. They were not aware because they failed resisting. In fact, it their enchantment resistance would be affected, they would likely use their own energy to PREVENT end of that enchantment (although ... they might not have enough energy for this to be noticeable). To be more practical: Diane has no training so she would be affected by the punch just as others. But I don't believe Nanase or Ellen would.
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Edward also had no idea what angle Arthur was coming from with his appearance on TV after Cheerleadra's first appearance, it's possible that despite being a VIP in the paranormal world, Edward might not know all the intricacies of what the agency is doing. He was probably appalled to learn what Arthur told Cranium about "occasional casualties", and I have no doubts that Cranium told Edward about that. He was not only VIP in the paranormal world, but also the HEAD of the local branch of agency, and Arthur had that position before him. If Arthur started something Edward doesn't know about, it would be after he returned into this position. Of course, unless the agency is much more evil than it seems and the "excessive force" was just pretence to get him out of that position. Still, I don't think Assistant Director Liefeld lied to him, and generally, I don't think naive person can get at so high position. Also, I would assume that if Arthur fired Cranium and Wolf for insubordination or something we would know about it. Meaning, he likely need to work with group of people who were used to how things worked under Verres, and they may not like some changes but would certainly told something if agency turned evil ... ... starting with Cranium, who would certainly told Edward if something even worse would be happening.
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Possible, Sarah would at least know that if she opens a door and there's an outline or a shadow, that there's someone there, she wouldn't be able to tell who it was though or interact with them in any way and trying to fill in the gap would alter the accuracy of the simulation. Well, she can guess, she would see how tall that person is, but yes. Edward was surprised when he tested Tedd's watches and found how much ambient magic was around. So, unless they started to depend on it in last half year ... Lot of people are benefiting, but most wouldn't even realize they do (look at NotTengu). And people who know enough to realize how much magic is around would also know enough to realize this is making the city magnet for aberrations and other mages and wouldn't likely be so sure making it stay is good idea. Also, from story point, I don't think we need any more complications.
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Technically, she IS directing her hands on herself (thighs, to be exact). Simpler might be her trying to enlarge herself clothes and all (now that she "knows" that she can change the size of clothes with a person). Default Rhoda is only a hair away from five feet tall, so she could grow by 25% or so and still not be big enough to attract attention from strangers (making her 6'2" or 6'3" tall--just above Justin's height). Of course, this assumes that she is not recognized by anybody who knows her, and Murphy's Law says that she will be . . . I'm not sure if it would be simpler but I definitely think this is what she is about to try. ... true ... maybe she's just so optimistic? Probably yes, but I don't think it would be related to Rhoda's spell.
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Yeah, her watch enchantment ended first because she had higher natural resistance, but Tedd's tests prior to that basically stated that the duration of an enchant wasn't static, that you could tell someone how long an enchant should last, and it would last that long, or not say and it would last half as long. Tedd also stated not being sure if resistance could be completely counteracted for someone who doesn't want to be enchanted, as in forcing someone into a form and telling them that it would last a day but because the enchanted didn't desire to be enchanted, they could resist it to a shorter duration. I don't think anyone else would be able to resist it like Tedd would though. It does seem that psychology plays a part as well though, but I think actively desiring to end the enchant would lower the duration more. The way he formulated the information made less likely Nanase would subconsciously prolonged it. Note: The first case is Tedd disenchanting herself and might be part of dangerous rarity. The second case, however, is him ending his own spell, which is normal and any magic user can do that, even Catalina if she just tried. Why not? if you don't know that you're enchanted, how can you resist it? There's even an NP story related to oblivious enchantments. Because it sounds like chicken & egg problem ... and too OP. And that NP story was about reality warping, not enchantments. They only needed to use up all the energy because they were not powerful enough to just break few cars on his head and knock him out that way. And the flying and his form needed more energy than the student enchantment. I think if he would notice what's happening, landed safely and transform to human on his own, he might be able to keep the enchantment going ... of course, Nanase could easily knock him out then. You could put the spell on the package of powder the punch was made from. Or the bottle of booze added to it. Something like that, yes. Or perhaps the BOWL itself was enchanted and you could just keep refilling it. Sure they were oblivious to the fact that the people around them are changing, but their subconscious definitely tried to resist slipping under a mind control. It just failed to resist because their resistance was not strong enough. Booze usually IS liquid.
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It's an easy way how to make the infodump funny. No, the simulation only becomes less accurate when Sarah forces it to do something that violates the (non-magical) laws of physics, with the exception of bodt switching. As long as she sticks to mundane interactions with the simulation, it retains its accuracy. Body switching doesn't violate laws of physics any more than the fact that the original Sarah is moving in frozen world. It's clearly one of those subtle diseases magicians can come down with, you know like Witches Nose, Compulsive Monologuing, Fairy Twinkle, or Post Traumatic Spontaneous Pulverization. Wait wait, compulsive monologuing is not limited to magicians, ANYONE can catch that. It's also common secondary infection caused by someone with Primary Protagonist Syndrome being around, and symptom of Companion Syndrome. Clothes counts as part of person wearing them, but I wonder how often it will happen that someone who resisted being included in simulation would be surrounded by something which would make apparent someone is there. For start, after it starts snowing ... wait, actually, even if it's raining, the silhouette should be clearly visible. Possibly, but they wouldn't know what spell it was or what direction it came from. They likely dismiss the sensation unless they already suspect someone around is using spell like this. Yes, if Sarah would stay on one place and cast the spell repeatedly, sufficiently experienced mage would be able to find the room she's in. I don't think single mage could get more exact, maybe if multiple people surrounded her ... Nearly zero. People capable of realizing what's happening are too powerful to became dependent on it. Also, how many experienced magic users you expect are around and not part of DGB? I would assume Edward personally knows every magic user in city who had magic before Pandora started marking.