PocketNinja

Oh wow, just realized.  Once Magic goes public and knowledge of transformations becoming permanent is common, we will see humanity start to really change.  Imagine a world full of people who realize they can become whatever they want by magic.  Stronger, handsomer, furrier, taller, smaller, different colors, extra sets of things, whatever.  Generations from now, humans might not be recognizably human anymore.

Magic's weak spot is understanding individuals. People in general would stop using magic. Individual ambitious would-be wizards would continue like no tomorrow. They would likely also die in droves but there would always follow more to replace them.
 
Fred Saberhagen's Empire of the East series and many of the following books are all excellent.
I once ran a roleplaying game with this as a premise. The idea was that the players were supposed to stop and reverse the process before it became permanent. There was a neighbouring dimension with a world much like ours and due to an overlap the world barriers became porous. Close to the rifts forming as a result the two different sets of laws clashed. Magic stopped working in the magic world and science stopped working in ours. Worse, magical phenomenae got loose in our world. The good thing, from the POV of the players, was that the science stuff they brought along while exploring the magic world worked over there.
The players won in the end though it was a tight race. I have always been a bit sorry that we never got a chance to play out the aftermath. So many people had died and so much damage had been done that much of Denmark had turned into a post-apocalyptic wasteland. (Thankfully for the rest of the world, the effects had not yet spread outside Denmark's borders by the time the players successfully fixed things.) It would have been really interesting to play a game where the players were part of a reconstruction effort and had to deal with lingering effects. For example, one idea I had was that magic still worked in certain areas.
My best memory from the game was when the players were chased by a huge horde of zombies. This happened to be in the city of Aalborg which we lived in at the time. There was this plaza where you could always be sure to find hundreds of bicycles parked. Bicycles still worked so my players quickly stole some and left the zombies in the dust. They turned a corner and gave a sigh of relief. Moments later, they had a huge OH SHIT moment as they saw a massive mob of zombies all on bicycles turning the corner in rapid pursuit. (We made SO MANY bad jokes about that, by the way. This happened to be while Tour de France was going on and the pursuing mob instantly got named Tour du Mort. The leading zombie was of course wearing a yellow shirt and the players argued about whether being undead counted as a form of doping... it went on and on.)

I do like the reference to Susan as "tall Diane"!

Someone call the Vatican, the Imperial Omyouji, the Van Helsing family, all the shamans, the Freemasons, the priests of all major religons, and reconvene the Round Table. And prepare to reopen the crypt of Merlin. We MIGHT have an emergency here.

While my hate level on Voltaire was fairly high to start with, he's really my number one hate target that's a fictional character right now.
 

Which was codswallop and just an example of bad translation. In the original the verse spoke of a poisoner, not a witch. I daresay there is an important difference.
If anyone here feels like reading an interesting article about how translation errors or deliberate mistranslation can create a world of trouble for a holy text, I highly recommend this article.

In an odd way, I was wrong about Van. He isn't there to contribute a viewpoint. He is there to contribute emotion. He can even do that without words, and he does it well. I'm glad.

This isn't going to go smoothly is it?
And Tedd and Van being half-sibling would be the safe bet. On the other hand, if I bet against that and they turn out to not be siblings, then I would get all those cookies. Decisions decisions...

She's a poodle. Shouldn't she get a poodle skirt?

Why not Mr. Pompoms?

A world altering crisis has just occurred and Tedd's first reaction is to take a nap.
Tedd is my hero.

Poor Adrian.  He's lived such along time, and his mother was the one constant, the one person who's been there the whole time.  Even when they weren't seeing each other, he knew she was out there.  He may even have wanted her to reset, although he never said anything to imply it.  And now, she's gone, and she's likely told him all about resets and that she'll basically forget him, that his mother will be gone if she resets.  He's an orphan now.
Which is basically what happens to every child who outlives their parents.  Even if they're eighty and their parent was a hundred.  Does multiplying those numbers by ten or twenty make any real difference?

Personal theory is she's using her power and the connection to hijack the Reset process in order to actually remain herself through the change.  
It'd be less of a Reset and more of, I dunno....  Oooh, we can use the word Regeneration, I bet!  
Say, is that a demonic duck in a funny blue box over there?

/me takes a list of names.  
Notes "1st for the year"'
/me commands 2 packets of red pepper.
 

The BBs migth do more damage than normal for their anti-vampire qualities as well.

Appropos of nothing, friends showed me about half the first season of "Assassination Classroom" this weekend...

How about a relatively low powered, purely mechanical. air riffle?  Perhaps a Red Rider BB Gun?
It may not do much damage to most humans, but Susan could put out a vampire's eye with that.

PLAYTESTING!

Susan already has four self-critical voices. Any more and she'll need a second head like Zaphod Beeblebrox.

And there's always the classic, "I am a figment of my own imagination."

All the world's a stage, and I shall sit in the gallery and throw peanuts!

Oooh! Oooh! I know the answer to that one!
"All the world's a stage, and we but players!"

I never build anything with more than one story because it is so hard to keep my stories straight.

Otto von Bismarck said that one is better off not knowing how two things are actually made: sausages, and laws.

I'm not sure a human could tell a ditzy squirrel from a non-ditzy one.   The term "squirrelly"  was invented for a reason.

According to Nioi, it treated a colour changing spell and a temporary rejuvenation spell as a curse. I think that durn thing is way too trigger happy on the false positives.