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  1. Posted

    1 hour ago, Catprog said:

    No Tedd's not doing anything that risks a system change.

    How would Tedd know? Just the day before yesterday in story time, he was asking "How does magic work?"

    I think maybe that magic detection  wand that can't detect Tedd's magic doesn't work because Tedd came equipped with a new magic operating system, one that updates itself. Nobody else has the update. Yet.

    So why is the emissary fooling around in Grace's mind instead of Tedd's? I've got a new angle on that. Remember the magical space whales, and how they could only get into Tedd's mind less than a second? If Tedd changes his magical environment continually, that could be all they could manage.  So the ultimate purpose could be get Grace to get to Tedd, whether or not space whales are pulling the emissary's strings.

     

  2. Posted

    Let's see. "Magic Itself" wants everything humans "know" about magic to become wrong. Tedd has an uncanny insight into magic. Could his insight mean he's actually changing the nature of magic? Now that would qualify as a far more dangerous rarity.

  4. Posted

     Maybe we should bring Sherlock Diane onto the case.

    Pandora's son seems to think his mother marked Dex and gave him the pendant. I'm thinking Pandora did mark him to give him a fairy friend, but that someone else who knows about Pandora planted that amulet. And why would Adrian tell Noah something that he might not believe? How about suspecting that at least one other immortal was listening. And why would Adrian think that his mother didn't do it? Well, maybe he isn't sure, but it didn't seem to him that his mother would lead Dex to destroy himself--whoever was controlling Dex at the dojo tried to get him to kamikaze. Notice Dex is talking about "the greater good."

    Is there someone besides Pandora who might be working for "the greater good?"

    Well, besides "magic itself" and maybe Voltaire, how about Arthur J. Arthur? Here are two reasons I think he's more than incompetent. First, Edward Verres' in the middle panel of the bottom row here after the first appearance of Cheerleadra in the news. Second, what Arthur J. Arthur says to Cranium while Cheerleadra, Noah, and Justin are confronting the dragon. What could be his motives?

    • Provoking the change in magic. If the "rules" of magic change for humans, there shouldn't be any more not-Tengus for awhile. Of course, this would also mean The Government couldn't use magic, either, unless The Government thinks it will get a special deal from "magic itself."
    • Setting Adrian against Pandora. Arthur J. Arthur has an animus toward Adrian. Remember, Arthur tried to have him deported to Russia.
    • Arthur ain't Arthur. Isn't Arthur ridiculously old to be a human? Maybe his feud with Adrian goes back more than one human lifetime. Maybe he's become a vampire? Or he's possessed? Check for pods...
    • Arthur is an Illuminatus. That is, Arthur is a member of, or even the boss of, some vast conspiracy, something in the nature  of the Knights Templar, Skull and Bones, or The Phone Company.

  5. Posted

    I make the key phrase in all this exposition is "for humans." This could clue Pandora that "magic" isn't some all-powerful entity because by implication Immortals don't have any limitation on their magic except what they have agreed on among themselves. It isn't a long jump from there to the conclusion that the "magic" the Emissary thinks he's speaking for is really a coalition of Immortals or even just one Immortal--Voltaire comes to mind. And if half-Immortals fall in the human category for this purpose, Pandora is going to war.

    Still no clue why Grace would be the chosen prophet. Except maybe that part-uryuoms' magic is of a different nature and while as a part-human, Grace would have to make ridiculous efforts to gain human-type spells, as was explained somewhat long-windedly in the last Q&A. Unless, of course, "magic itself" changes the way magic works for humans, or at least for Grace. Or something.

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  6. Posted

    1 hour ago, Pharaoh RutinTutin said:

    Sarah receives a generous scholarship offer to a small college no one knows anything about while all the other schools to which she applied send rejection letters?

    Has to be IOU (Illuminati University--you're not cleared to know what the "O" stands for.) I think maybe Noah has already met the Dean of Metaphysics.(I would like to put in a link to the page where Noah is caught reading How to Sell Your Soul for Power, undoubtedly one of the best-sellers at the IOU campus bookstore. But I just can't seem to find it among the 2200 or so pages I've saved.)

  7. Posted

    On 8/1/2016 at 7:02 PM, hkmaly said:

    Only one who can apparently change shape freely is Elliot.

    Didn't Grace transform into a half-Jeremy form without the TF gun? The pigtailed-form Tedd transformed into in Squirrel Prophet might have been a form he created with his weird tech earlier, but he doesn't remark on that, despite having huge insights into his new power, including the power to transform others. And Ellen's copy spell can copy anything alive, including cats.

    Gee, do you think maybe they all could have a shapechanger ancestor back there somewhere? Maybe even the same one?

  8. Posted

    10 hours ago, Tom Sewell said:

    Dost thou mean thou asked The Shive? And He answered that verily it was Before the Goo (BG)?

    Well, there's a reference to "Before the Goo" set in October, so it would seem to be consistent, except that The Shive labeled the first panel of Pandora's wake-up as "October, the Previous Year." Previous to what? The main storyline has advanced past New Years.

    You know, we could really use a consistent dating system for story time. And it should have a Year Zero to make the math easier. Year Zero would be the Year of the Goo. -1 EG (Era Goo) would be the year that guy quit the Anime Martial Arts Academy. Susan would have been born at the very beginning of -17 EG, and will probably get her first doctorate in 10 EG. And maybe Elliot will graduate from Moperville North by then, because you know he'll be held back.

  9. Posted

    On 8/1/2016 at 8:35 AM, ijuin said:

    I find it quite believable that Elliot would be willing to have sex as a girl with a boy-Ashley.

    If Ashley asked, probably. Elliot would probably believe that his sex changes followed the pattern of Tedd's TG gun: That he couldn't get pregnant if he was female for less than 24 hours. Probably he could find out if that's true or not by reading his spellbook, but as we all know, Elliot doesn't check his spellbook very often.

     

    2 hours ago, Vorlonagent said:

    "Mom, Dad?  I just found out I got my boyfriend pregnant..."

    Oprah would come out of retirement to interview the family, even if Oprah doesn't exist in the Moperverse. If any human can jump to another universe, it would be Oprah.

  10. Posted

    On 8/1/2016 at 8:35 AM, ijuin said:

    I find it quite believable that Elliot would be willing to have sex as a girl with a boy-Ashley.

    If Ashley asked, probably. Elliot would probably believe that his sex changes followed the pattern of Tedd's TG gun: That he couldn't get pregnant if he was female for less than 24 hours. Probably he could find out if that's true or not by reading his spellbook, but as we all know, Elliot doesn't check his spellbook very often

  11. Posted

    1 hour ago, Vorlonagent said:

    I see a lot of "mild mannered" Elliot in Psych Student Pandora...

    As do I, and also that like the first time MME (Mild Mannered Elliot) appeared, the transformation happened without either Pandora or Elliot being aware of making the change.

  12. Posted

    19 hours ago, hkmaly said:

    The way the story with Blaike was told, doesn't seem Pandora had anyone before or after Blaike.

    I agree, it doesn't seem that way. What I was actually thinking at the time was that Voltaire might be a rejected suitor, or even a stalker. And, as Ellen has pointed out, stalkers are not always big on revealing themselves. Or an "ex" in the sense of Nanase's or Diane's many, many boys they dated once or twice and then pretty much forgot.

    But I do have a new thought: Voltaire might have known and grown attached to Pandora before her last reset. Since according to Jerry memories of past lives are more like knowing something from reading a book, it would mean that Voltaire could be older, crazier, and more powerful than Pandora. He might even have set up Blaike's murder.

    Still, he doesn't show at all in the title page. Does he? 

  13. Posted

    10 hours ago, Changer said:

    I have a concern that when he explains why he is there, Pandora will get some kind of loophole to attack him because he is "directly interfering with her plans".

    I don't think Pandora really wants to attack him--though if there's a loophole, she'll see it and probably tell him about it, reinforcing the two warnings she's already given him.

    Even if my theory about him being Abraham doesn't pan out, I'm wondering now if Pandora didn't set up the fight between her son and Abraham to teach both of them lessons--and maybe Magus as well. She didn't kill Abraham or Magus despite her white-hot anger.

  14. Posted

    I'm going to start this thread with:

    Tony as Captain Kirk trying to make out with Lavender. Why?

    • Kirk seducing alien women is a meme so established that Shatner himself satirized it in Escape From Planet Earth
    • I can see Tony imagining that he could be Kirk
    • Tony kind of looks like he has Kirk hair. And wouldn't it be great if Tony's already wearing a rug in high school? (This has nothing to do with my starting to lose my hair in high school.)

  15. Posted

    On 6/23/2016 at 11:02 AM, ijuin said:

    Anyway, we're not certain if Uryuoms have been around humans for a human to have an Uryuom as a long-forgotten ancestor instead of just a grandparent or great-grandparent.

    Mmmm....could be....

    1 hour ago, ijuin said:

    I thought that one was Cranium indulging in cosplay, with Dan hinting at Wolf's "fetish" for aliens.

    Well, it's not canon anyway, nothing in the Sketchbook is supposed to be, unless and until The Shive says different. And I concede that if it were canon, cosplay would seem the more realistic explanation. But this is EGS. Since when has reasonableness gotten in the way of fun? How about Cranium pretending to cosplay when she really is an alien-human hybrid?

    Speaking of sexy aliens, what's Lavender doing now? Did she follow Edward into his new job, or stay on the staff that Arthur Arthur took over, along with Wolf and Cranium?

  17. Posted

    1 hour ago, hkmaly said:

    Hmmm ... when Pandora speaks about being "practically married", how traditional she is? :)

    Well, if she was conforming to human norms when she was with Blaike, maybe one of those norms was marriage. Having lived as close to a human life as an Immortal could, I think Pandora might have a deeper understanding of humans than any other Immortal.

  19. Posted

    I've just been looking through the thread Things You Only Noticed on Reread, and read that Ellen V5'd herself while she was talking with Nanase, Diane, and Charlotte in So a Date at the Mall. It's not explicit but Ellen sure does look chest-enhanced and her hair is suddenly a lot longer.

    So I'm wondering how long it's going to take Diane to ask to be V5'd. Before or after she finds out her sister has had the procedure at least once?

  21. Posted

    Abraham makes a particularly good candidate for the Disco Wizard because it gives Pandora an opportunity to confront him again (although Abraham wasn't aware Pandora tried to get Magus to get Edward to kill him (Abraham.) Assuming Pandora doesn't kill him, it would give her an opportunity to reconsider her actions--including what she did to Magus. Which gives her a reason to check up on Magus, and maybe give him some help. Which could lead Pandora to becoming aware of Sirleck--assuming she doesn't already know about him. With Pandora looking more and more law-abiding (to Immortal law, at least), I don't see her knowing about Sirleck's involvement and, at minimum, warning Sirleck to limit his activities to possessing rich assholes and embezzling.

    Besides, Sirleck is standing behind her in the title page, isn't he? Where she couldn't see him? Unless she's actually facing the other way, defending everyone else, like the giant in one of Goya's paintings. But even if she is, that's supposed to be hinting at future events.

    BTW, I just found two more of Sirleck's eyes in the title page. And after only a month!

  23. Posted

    My guess is that the Emissary/Disco Wizard is Abraham, whose physical form right now is really, really stoned. And this wouldn't be the first bonehead mistake he's made, would it?

    I'm also wondering if Voltaire is an ex of Pandora's. And I'm wondering why there isn't anyone behind Sirleck in the title page. Sirleck is a really powerful vampire/aberration, but also a very canny one. Voltaire was trying to manipulate him into attacking Adrian, which is definitely something that will get Pandora's fullest attention and something that Sirleck wouldn't dream of doing if he knew Adrian was Pandora's son. Why would Voltaire do this? Pick one or more:

    • To get Sirleck killed.
    • To get Adrian killed.
    • To provoke Pandora into such an egregious violation that other Immortals combine to destroy her, or at least force her to reset.

  24. Posted

    12 hours ago, CritterKeeper said:

    Tom, your theory sounds more like Elliot is the Apple of Discord, thst is, the one that everyone wants.

    Excellent point, but Ashley is sure fertilizing that thar apple tree, ain't she?

    BTW, in a fanfic I never got around to putting up, I toyed with the possibility that Ashley got Elliot pregnant, which froze his gender and kept him from going to the prom with her. But I gave Elliot a break--he'd just got his period.

  25. Posted

    36 minutes ago, Scotty said:

    Ashley has yet to officially meet the rest of the gang

    Particularly Grace, with her mark-sensing. Think I said something about this.

    37 minutes ago, Scotty said:

    Edward would likely want to do a background check on her

    He'd like to do background checks on everyone, but unless The Shive is going to spring a surprise on us with no foreshadowing, I don't think Edward would have done one yet. And there's the thing about him no longer being the head of the local Men in Black; Arthur is. Even if Grace has been a student at Moperville North all along, the high school has a lot of students, and only Susan seems to have noticed her at all before the day Ashley caught Elliot transforming.

    Of course, Edward still could ask Agent Cranium to look into Ashley outside official channels, or make his own investigations, with or without magic. And, of course, he's going to interrogate everyone who's met her.

    Another grown-up who might take an interest in Ashley is Nanase's mother (and just when is The Shive going to give her a name?!) We know Mrs. Kitsune knows much more than Nanase thinks she does. And with at least half the same genes as Noriko, I kind of think she could have some magic. I'm pretty sure that she's been reporting all sorts of things to Edward, and maybe even getting some information back. Between faked seizures.

    If I were scripting this as a soap opera, I'd have Mrs. Kitsune pick up on Nanase's suspicion of Ashley and interpret it as jealousy, inspiring hopes that Nanase still loves Elliot and will return to Elliot and/or heterosexuality.

    Speaking of Nanase's suspicion of Ashley, it's kind of off-putting that it really isn't revealed until almost the end of So a Date at the Mall. Does she really have some lingering attraction to Elliot? Or discovered that she has an attraction now? There was a big hint in MV5 that Sarah is still strongly attracted to Elliot. Anyway, maybe we'll see some development of this like the jealousy of Sarah toward Nanase in Hair.

    Hmm. I think I might have a new possible meme here:

    Ashley Is the Apple of Discord

    Nanase is going to voice her suspicions about Ashley to Susan, who probably will support Ashley, since she already decided it wasn't right to block Ashley when she wasn't sure she could make a move on Elliot without hurting Sarah. Diane could go either way; she didn't show any hostility to Ashley, but she does feel close to Nanase, and I think we're all pretty sure Diane would really like to see if she could at least date Elliot sometime. Edward's going to be suspicious--a given--unless he's got yet another BIG SECRET. Ellen's on Ashley's side; she even arranged to keep Diane away for the date at the mall. Of course, it didn't work out that way, but...

    Anyway, Ashley seems to have potential to be fairly disruptive without trying.