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Tom Sewell
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There's no proof Vladia would still have trouble transforming. In fact, there's really no indication she was hurt in any way when Ellen zapped her from Vlad to Vladia. The way I look at it is that Vladia hated being an inhuman monster, and that's the reason she won't transform. But to defend someone she cares about? Eventually we may find out about that. Say, what ever happened to that guy who tried to rob Sarah and Grace at the mall?
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Not really a problem. Edward pointed out to Tedd that there are people whose job is filling up wikis with nonsense. Probably Edward is one of them.
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Being a guy, Dan already has the real Curse of Eternal Youth. That's where you don't look like a 10-year-old; you just act like one, or at least act as if you aren't as old as you are, and refuse to perceive the signs you are getting further and further from the bloom of youth, signs like: Younger people calling you "sir". That unconscious grunt that comes with strenuous activity like bending down. Actually voting. Not being asked for ID. Relaxed fit jeans. Carrows. Younger people calling you "Dad." Much easier to count your teeth. Easier to comb your hair. Harder to find your hair. Oh, there it is, in your ears. And I actually didn't crib any of these from Dave Barry books. Knowing who the hell Dave Barry is/was. Worse, realizing he's only three years older than you.
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Sarah was shown with a sombrero at least once before, but I lack the energy to look it up tonight. The will of magic can't exist without the use of Magic because the will of Magic is magic. I'd be concerned too. That sounds more like the interminable "Dies the Fire" series by S.M. Stirling. The only magic-replaces-technology story that really works IMHO is Fred Saberhagan's Empire of the East stories, which are about forty years old. A world without video games? Definitely not one of Dan's worlds.
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More educational would be one-day gender and race transformation wands..
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I don't think Shadowrun is a very good match for Magus' world; I don't think it has any dragons running for President (and winning!)
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And have the Top Men check on the Ark of the Covenant.
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I would like to point out that Magic hasn't said how long "too long" is. And that it is quite possible Magic perceives time differently.
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So, what happens to Voltaire now? Well, the answer always comes down to "whatever Dan wants to happen," but I'm going to spin out some possibilities: Voltaire disappears again to be brought back as a continuing adversary. Dan gets however how time he wants to figure out how to use him again. Voltaire gets de-fanged by losing most or all of his powers. This could already have been done by the Will if it has jurisdiction over Immortal magic, or it might be done by the hundreds of Immortals who are likely to be upset that it is Voltaire's machinations that provoked Pandora into forcing them to reveal themselves and kill Aberrations whether they wanted to or not. Being forcibly reset would do all this, but if it's complete, Voltaire is essentially a new person, and it would be unfair to punish him further for what he did when he isn't who he was any more. Voltaire gets ripped apart. The problem with this is Pandora is going to be weaker when she comes back, and even if she remembers quite a lot, she might not have fingered Voltaire before she reset. (Good chance that figuring out Voltaire was behind the attack on Adrian could be part of a future storyline.) Voltaire gets turned into a talking cat. We've only had one talking cat so far (Ellen).
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I'd like to remind the rest of you that I'm on the record that I think Voltaire had some contact with Arthur and is the reason Arthur knew a change in magic was coming and why.
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One of the factoids few Americans know and/or care about is that people who are accused of witchcraft are still being killed, notably in Indonesia, the country with the largest majority Muslim population on the planet. I wonder if Dan will address this issue in any way if he allows the existence of real magic to become public in the Moperverse. And there is that verse in the Bible about not letting a witch live. Touchy religious controversy aside, a lot of people would be afraid of magic users, or jealous of, or eager to exploit magic and magic users. Looks much like the answer to Cranium's prayer that Moperville will not become another Roswell is turning out to be an emphatic "No." Let's review some personal magical-secrecy issues left unresolved for our characters: Rhoda still hasn't told anyone but Catalina that she has magic, most especially Diane. Luke--remember Luke?--could sense magic, though we don't know for sure he knows its magic he's sensing. Susan hasn't told Catalina or her mom she has magic. Catalina hasn't told anyone we know of that she has magic (she didn't have to tell Rhoda). Besides finding out Mr. Raven is her father, is a wizard, and is hundreds of years old, Diane knows that her grandmother is Pandora, that she's a natural vampire killer, that griffins are real, that Elliot is Cheerleadra...maybe it would be easier to list the secrets Diane doesn't know about. I wonder if she has even noticed Noah yet; they've never been shown interacting or even referring to one another. But that seems likely to change soon. Sarah hasn't told her family as far as we know; certainly she hasn't told Carol yet. I
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The only people in the organization who we know that knew a reset might be coming soon are Liefeld and Arthur. Quite awhile ago I pointed out that they were talking about this in a gymnasium rather than one of their offices, probably because they didn't want anyone else in the division to know about it. What odds to you think that Dan will go on to the next part to demonstrate the minor change in magic instead of more riveting exposition? That's for the Q&A which will almost certainly follow the end of Sister 3.
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Actually the British are the ones who came up with the sticky bomb. The German equvalent was attached with a magnet. But the Germans went on to develop the first really effective one-man antitank weapon, the Panzerfaust. There were two fast battleships escorting the Japanese carrier groups. Yamamoto was aboard Yamato with other battleships far behind, but these were all old and slow, basically similar to the old battleships which had been so useless at Pearl Harbor. It's unclear what he expected to do with this enormous force; it burned an lots of scarce fuel and would have been able to do little more to turn around and return to Japan if it actually reached Midway. Maybe Yamamoto thought America wouldn't really risk any more of its navy after this battle and this would be his last chance to be in another gunfight (he'd lost two fingers at Tsushima fighting the Russian navy in 1905). Halsey did something quite similar two years later at Leyte Gulf. A slight correction: Yamamoto was killed in April 1943, not 1944, by P-38s flown from Guadalcanal.
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But Japan didn't get peace with Russia on its terms. Teddy Roosevelt orchestrated the Treaty of Portsmouth in such a way that Russia wasn't obliged to pay the reparations Japan was counting on to pay for the war. If Russia had been forced to pay those reparations, it couldn't have paid for the military buildup that made it a threat to Germany in 1914. And that is how Teddy got his Nobel Peace Prize.
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What Tedd is basically doing here is expanding on Elliot's premise: Magic is going to have to change it's own rules if it wants to play with humans at all. And considering that the will of magic seems to be the just the will of human magic so far, the only way to deny humans magic completely could be to destroy itself.
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Tedd has exposited almost solidly for two pages now. I think that may have at least equaled Edward's record, and Tedd might not be finished. However, the hands-down champion of exposition is Grace. Remember this from Sister (1)?
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Looks like Tedd has his own barrel of exposition. Daddy should be proud.
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To which sport do you refer? The former head of General Motors was on Wait Wait Don't Tell Me a few years ago when he explained why he had to change the name of the Buick LaCrosse. Seems it's a term in Canada for "a form of self-entertainment."
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The Germans might have won the war in 1915 with their first gas attack--except they faced a Canadian division. The Moroccan troops next to them ran away. One should always keep in mind that the national sport of Canada is hockey.
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I believe this marvel would be Franz Conrad von Hötzendorf. However, he had stiff competition in the "Most Marvelous General" competition of that war in Luigi Cordona and Douglas Haig.
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If you want to trace powder trails leading to World War I, there are a bunch. Bismarck laid one of them by picking a war with Denmark in 1864. You see, the mother of Nicholas II, last tsar of Russia, was a Danish princess named Dagmar. To give old Otto due credit, he tried to rub out another powder trail, maybe the biggest, the annexation of two French provinces seven years and two wars later, but for once he couldn't talk his Kaiser, Wilhelm I, into seeing Bismarck's way.
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I wonder if Pandora's final spell covered both sides of Earth...
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Catspaws has gone on for a year and a half now and we still haven't dealt with the cat.
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I was under the impression that Copenhagen was basically a bicycle-and-tram city. But I've never gotten much north of Madrid.
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Google Maps also says it's 715 miles from Naperville To Peculiar, MO.
