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  1. Posted

    30 minutes ago, Scotty said:

    If he even knows that Greg busted down the door, Greg seemed to do a pretty good job fixing it.

    The other thing is, how would he go about "whitelisting" Ashley when he's never met her personally? I'd think he'd need some way of having whatever is protecting the house tell that Ashley is Ashley?

    Ever wonder why Ashley's parents decided to move to Moperville from California? The family might have already be in the database of Edward's oh-so-secret magical organization. They might even be in that organization. They could be magic users with the same "problem" as Edward and Noriko: Having a child who seems to have little or no magic potential.

    Whether or not Ashley's parents are magical spooks, Arthur has taken a personal interest in Ashley, so she would have had a background check by now if she didn't already have one. And, of course, Arthur has already arranged for Ashley to train with Tedd.

  2. Posted

    46 minutes ago, Scotty said:

    I don't really expect Dan to continue this scene and have Rhea get involved.  I'm also certain that Susan will protest, but that doesn't have to be shown. Monday's likely going to cut back to the party.

    I wouldn't bet any cookies against that, but Dan might surprise both of us. Bringing in Rhea and her friends, or Mr. Tensaided, or all of them have potential for both comedy and plot advancement. Plus, Dan may not have inspiration for the next scene at the party yet, and he does have several obvious hooks for more misadventure at the video store. 

  3. Posted

    47 minutes ago, ChronosCat said:

    I do hope that we don't get any other party crashers; the more characters in the story, the harder it is to balance pacing versus giving everyone the attention they deserve.

    You have a point, but in counterpoint, there were actually more characters at Grace's birthday party. Besides the Main Eight, we had:

    •  Magus, or the Other Ellen
    •  Helena
    •  Demetrius
    •  The Demonic Duck
    •  Matt Cohen delivering the pizza

  6. Posted

    I save all the comics in this series and I try to put in the titles Dan uses on Tumblr. And occasionally instead of a few random characters at the end of the saved filename, there's another title: This one is "secretsquirrel".

    What's next? Morocco Mole? 

    For a long time, in my head canon, I've thought that Susan's mom is approximately as much in the dark about Susan's magic as Nanase's mom is about Nanase's magic. First of all, the hammers that Susan was using all the time in the early comics. Second, Susan likes to have Little Nase  and now her other fairies around. It's not very credible that Susan's mom could be completely ignorant of both of these phenomena.

    What I'd like for Friday is for Rhea, Rick, and/or Elijah to home in on the familiar voices of Diane and "Diane" and say something like "Talking to yourself now?"

  7. Posted · Edited by Tom Sewell
    store, not story

    22 minutes ago, Darth Fluffy said:

    I probably would not have gotten "duck" from "quack" without the commentary, it's a bit too convoluted and comes across as a non sequitur.

    Maybe the Demonic Duck is in the store? Diane is in serious need of distraction...

  9. Posted

    2 hours ago, Pharaoh RutinTutin said:

    Also, is the style of Diane's wig supposed to resemble Akiko?

    Perhaps, but why would Dan do that? There's no indication in canon that Diane even knows Nanase has a little sister--or even that Susan knows, though it doesn't seem credible that Susan wouldn't know after knowing Nanase for three years.

     

    3 hours ago, Scotty said:

    Well Susan is with her and this would be a confirmation that Diane still hasn't mentioned the whole "I've found a biological relative" thing to Rhea yet.

    I'd agree with that. Will Diane successfully avoid Rhea, Justin, and Elijah? Doesn't seem likely. However, it seems likely that RJE have been to this video store before and would have met Susan before, or seen her reviews, or both, but haven't made the connection yet.

  18. Posted

    6 minutes ago, Darth Fluffy said:

    Noriko may not want further attachments; I'm guessing she did not marry Van's father. Van is quite a bit younger than Tedd, and was called by Magic Tedd's half-sibling, so Edward is not Van's father. Unless Noriko and Edward have been keeping in touch, I don't see how Edward would know about Van. Noriko, for her part, appears to want no contact, possibly feeling that a clean break is less hurtful. (I'm not sure that's true, but I can see why she might think so.)

    Whatever Noriko wanted, now Van knows about Tedd. That's a plot point that can't be ignored.  Any schemes to keep that secret from Van ha' gan a-gley.

  19. Posted

    3 minutes ago, Scotty said:

    Not only should the whole "I cannot get someone pregnant"bit have come up if Noriko tried to have an affair with Adrian for the purpose of getting the apprentice she desired, but last we saw of Adrian and Noriko, he was trying to get her to focus on her family rather than career and tradition, so either Edward caught then in a moment that he assumed was an affair when it really wasn't, or maybe that talk made Noriko believe that she had failed as Tedd's mother and she decided it was best that she leave.

    If Noriko left shortly after that scene, Tedd would have been too young to remember her. 

  20. Posted

    2 hours ago, Scotty said:

    That's the thing, Tedd has told Edward that he's a Seer, which means that he must have told Edward about the fact that he'd been resisting the wand as a baby and I can only guess but Tedd might have even forgiven Edward and Noriko for thinking he had no magic potential. I think the only thing not really known is what made Noriko leave and why Edward and Adrian aren't friends anymore, but Edward would have to know that Tedd now knows something happened and it's only a matter of time before he asks about it.

    Long ago in our time, and last spring in Moperville (in Death Sentence), Adrian Raven told Grace that he was the reason Tedd's mother and father would never get back together. The natural conclusion would be that Adrian had an affair with Noriko. But would that mean Adrian is Van's father? Probably not since Adrian thought it was impossible for him to father children until a couple of weeks ago, although that's a surprise Dan may be waiting to spring on us. I don't think Edward has ever said that Immortals can't have children.

    Noriko may not have married Van's father, but given how attached Van is to his "mum", she has been raising him, possibly doing a better job than she did with Tedd. Maybe Adrian had something to do with Noriko going to Europe, where she met someone, and, Van. We don't have any idea whether Edward knows about Van, but given how tightlipped Edward is, he could have been keeping Van a secret from Tedd, much as Noriko seems to have kept Tedd a secret from Van.

    Possibilities like this are why I like the idea of Noriko and Van unexpectedly showing up at the party. Probably won't happen, but maybe Tedd will talk about them.

  23. Posted

    5 minutes ago, Scotty said:

    But Ashley wasn't there when Andrea talked about it, just when Tara first mentioned it.

    But Ashley was with Nanase while she was using her fairy, and complimented Nanase when Elliot returned with Nanase's latest fairy doll. And it was Ashley that guessed why Nanase was having difficulty summoning a fairy to talk with Elliot as Cheerleadra. Ashley has met Nanase only once, but Dan has put in a lot that would make us think that Ashley should remember Nanase

  24. Posted

    Does Ashley pay that much attention to fashion? Enough to dress up for her internet girlfriend, and enough to leave her jacket in Elliot's car on a winter night for her first date with Elliot because she didn't want to look like a marshmallow.

    A cookie for Scotty for remembering "Princess Power" from when Ashley was kidnapped by Sirleck and Magus. That was two weeks ago in story time.

    And Ashley not only saw Nanase, she talked with Nanase. So she doesn't remember Nanase's voice? Well, maybe not just from "Hi", but...

     

  25. Posted

    I don't buy this. Remember "Princess Power?" Ashley is very visually oriented; look at all the attention she pays to fashion. Dan has dug himself a hole with this stunt, unless he's going to introduce memory erasure into EGS, which doesn't fit at all into the context he's built up.