The Old Hack

I don't remember if anyone has brought this up, but it looks like whoever empowered Dex and gave him the jar pendant was trying to set up Pandora. This comic and this comic show that Dex's manipulator was willing to kill Noah. We now know that Pandora cares deeply about her family, and that she would never risk Noah given that he is Raven's ward. She believes that her great-Godson's girlfriend is practically family, so Noah must be, too.
If this idea has already been thoroughly discussed somewhere, I apologize.

I decided of my own free will to read Disquisitiones Arithmeticae, Gauss's famous 19th-century text on number theory.  Problem is, there isn't a public-domain English translation.  So...
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I might have lost my mind.

Wolf was going into a high-security area. Protocol probably is very simple: you want to go in (or someone is taking you in), you get scanned. It doesn't matter what-all is in there, or why you want to go in, or who you are.

That's really rude, you know. I have it on good authority that nine out of ten elder gods consider her one of the hottest eldritch horrors around.

Anyone dumb enough to be a dick is all too likely dumb enough to NOT follow procedure when it is actually important.

Yep. He who sees the power can manipulate the power, no matter in what form it exists.

Dangit. I was in the middle of making this thread. Stupid Wi-Fi signal...
So...show of hands. Who here thinks Tedd "more dangerous rarity" Verres is this rare type of wizard?
Back before the Crash, I speculated that Magic changing has to do with werewolves being a thing in the past but not the present.

The crappyness of WWII Germany radios and radars might well have cut the war by several months.  Never mind that their "codes" might as well have been in clear text most o the war.

Hm. 'Burbly' sounds a lot less ominous at least. Almost cheerful.
Maybe it is trying to summon ponies from Equestria?

I only said I was opposed to candidates that would horse around.
The opposition of a human, even a Pharaoh, means nothing to a hippo.
They do what they want, and I complain about them.
I do what I want, and they gore people who don't pay attention close to the river.
It all works out for almost everyone.

Dane to notice that while he was one of the earliest adapters, he wasn't the only one who practiced it. See: Imperial China, the Aztecs, and the Incas for proof-positive of this.

The new magic rice machine has a shorter cord than the other one and makes a lot more noise.  Nothing elder god like, just sorta burbles

I have personally been the pack mule for 3 stinger rounds, and on another trip 6 AT-4CS.  I was so glad when I made E-5 and got to be the gunner instead of the ammo carrier.  The book, BTW says that 2 stingers and 4 AT4 is a man load.  The book was written by a wimp.
Of  course that was well on 30 years ago.  I'm not sure I want to carry one of either of them today.

Well, if you are going to talk about awesome and puppies, you have to include this, from season 4 of Buffy the Vampire Slayer
 

That
was
AWESOME!!!

How many times have I said she's chaotic, which does not always mean evil?  I think it's one of my standard lines about Pandora.
 

The new dosage of cymbalta really seems to help keep the depression under control but damn I am out on my feet.

Big talk from the Pharaoh who was perfectly fine with basing his rule on a pyramid scheme.

 
I did give permission to edit with great force, but in the grammar thread.  No bad feelings all around.

Stinger?  I'll give you some one fired a missile at a cow, I knew of some one that used claymore mines to duck hunt with (in Vietnam)  But Stingers are surface to air missiles and need a positive heat lock before you can fire them, and generally don't work under 20 meters.  A cow isn't going to be making enough heat to get tone.  (shooting stingers was a side job in my storied career).

If I were a betting man, based on it being Denmark, I would say an "Panserværnsvåben" (which is what I would call an AT-4CS) or a Dyssekanon M/85 (Carl Gustav M3).  Being as how both of those are designed to muck up a main battle tank, I'm going to assume there wasn't much cow left, and what there was left was well past medium rare.
 

Those things are incredibly hard to butcher and have almost no useful meat, relative to their overall mass.

Big talk from the Pharaoh who was perfectly fine with basing his rule on a pyramid scheme.

I am opposed to any candidate who would be horsing around the entire time they are in office.

They are. I was just being an old anal-retentive stick in the mud and deliberately misunderstanding. It says in my contract I have to do it at least twice a week.

If the wrong type of people get hold of someone with that spell and can somehow control her, they are so powerful they don't need her to get at the codes. If the wrong type of people get hold of Sarah and only think they can control her, they are in a lot more trouble than they can possibly imagine...