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ChronosCat
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https://www.egscomics.com/comic/falsekings-145 Well, it looks like things are about to get very interesting/exciting... I wonder, can both Tedd and Grace see through Po's illusion?
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https://www.egscomics.com/comic/falsekings-144 This guy seems new at the job.
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My first thought was Cobra Bubbles from Lilo & Stitch. My second thought was Bubbles from Powerpuff Girls. Also, it's been a long time since I've had a chance to say something like this: Yay for bubbly background in panel three!
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NP Comic for Saturday, May 23, 2026
ChronosCat replied to Amiable Dorsai's topic in EGS: NP Discussion
I'm assuming Arthur doesn't know Serena because she's support staff and not an active agent. That being the case, I fear he may promote her to an agent only to find that now he doesn't have anyone competent to answer the phones... -
https://www.egscomics.com/comic/falsekings-140 Diane's motives are confirmed, while Tedd learns once again that he underestimated how small magic can make a person.
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https://www.egscomics.com/comic/falsekings-141 After all that waiting for the pancakes, we cut away just before they're delivered. I'm disappointed. It surprised me to see Hope call Chess (to paraphrase) not that complicated. I remember as a kid finding it quite complicated, at least compared to anything I'd played before; while I did eventually learn the basic rules, I never really thought to re-evaluate it. Thinking on it, I have played a number of more complicated games, but generally I tend to feel like they're too complicated; I prefer games with relatively simple rules but lots of room for strategy.
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https://www.egscomics.com/comic/falsekings-137 This comic raises a possibility I hadn't considered: could Rhoda not realize she's become uncommonly powerful? (I'm sure she knows what she's capable of, but she doesn't know what others are capable of, so she may not know her power is currently greater than the average magic user...)
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https://www.egscomics.com/egsnp/paraphone-002 Are Pirate Ghosts a common phenomena? Or does Serena have some psychic/magic ability to sense things the people she's talking to know but haven't told her? Either way, I appreciate the call-back to one of my favorite early NP storylines. (Now if only we'd have a return to that AU one of these days...)
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https://www.egscomics.com/comic/falsekings-139 Mother bear instincts: activate!
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https://www.egscomics.com/comic/falsekings-138 So, we're putting aside the question of Rhoda's power level for now, to focus on how Tedd knew (and other related important news).
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There's also the issue of knowing how good "15th level" is. I've heard that in many tabletop RPGs that would be a big deal. However in most video game RPGs that's a fairly low level.
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https://www.egscomics.com/egsnp/cinder-170 This comic about sums up my contributions to the forum the past six or seven months...
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https://www.egscomics.com/egsnp/paraphone-001 New storyline: Paranormal Helpline And we have a name for the DGB receptionist we saw a little while back: Serena. I like her attitude.
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https://www.egscomics.com/egsnp/cinder-171 And so the tale of Cinder-Tedd concludes. I almost wish Dan had told the Epilogue in more detail, but on the other hand this story has been going on quite a while and it's time for something new. Either way, I really enjoyed this one; in fact I consider it one of my favorite EGS storylines of all time. It's also one of my favorite tellings of Cinderella (it would even be in the running for my favorites if the lost slipper hadn't turned out to be entirely pointless, as I found that rather disappointing). Huh. It just occurred to me that this story-line started with the tale of Rhodopis, which was all about a lost sandal. And then the sandal winds up not being important in this version of Cinderella. That's actually a neat contrast. I wonder if Dan planned it that way?
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https://www.egscomics.com/comic/falsekings-136 That's quite the ringing endorsement by Grace there... I'm rather surprised Grace actually said out loud what she did in the second panel. In fact I looked multiple times to make sure it was a word balloon and not a thought balloon, and that the edges of the panel weren't rounded.
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A week ago (Mar 26), James Tolkan died (age 94). I know him as Principal Strickland (and his ancestor Marshal Strickland) in the Back to the Future movies, and as the grumpy cop in the Masters of the Universe movie. Despite the fact that they weren't the most sympathetic of roles, I really enjoyed watching him play them. Of course he played plenty of other roles, but mostly not in things I've seen.
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Oh yeah, I remember how sometimes you could see the shrine through the bars, but had to find another way in. Still, the hidden paths weren't very far away from the central building (or if I remember correctly, sometimes they were still at the base of said building, just in a spot not visible from above), so cutting across to the center still saved a lot of time and effort. One of the things I love about BotW and TotK is all the ways there are to play them. I learned where the Master Sword was from the Dragon Tears flashbacks, and very soon afterwards built a high-flying Zonai device to go retrieve it (and succeeded). I had no idea at the time that I was skipping a quest in doing so. A bit later, I stumbled upon the area leading up to the final boss while exploring, and decided to challenge him despite the main quest not having directed me there yet. I had an extra boss to fight first (which I assume is the boss of a dungeon I haven't been to yet), but I still managed to win.
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I don't remember any barricades; in fact my in BotW my strategy for the labyrinths was to climb to the top (using climbing gear and stamina-enhancing food/potions), navigate to the center on the top of the maze, look around to see which side of the central building had a door, then drop down there. Of course it wasn't always quite that simple, as some of the labyrinths had a mini-maze inside the central building, or hid the entrance into said building, but walking across the the labyrinth still saved a lot of time. (And then I would render my time-saving pointless by thoroughly exploring the labyrinth to find all the treasure and gear hidden in the maze.)
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NP Comic for Saturday, Sep 27, 2025
ChronosCat replied to Darth Fluffy's topic in EGS: NP Discussion
I'm sure a big part of the problem is Dan's writing process. Based on commentary, social media posts, etc., while he plans out stories in advance he doesn't nail down every detail, and he rarely has the final script worked out more than a couple pages in advance. This means he doesn't have much of a chance to go over what he's already written looking for what can be cut. -
The point of the ball is to find a woman who can produce an heir for the Prince. Now with magic Cinderella's birth sex can be worked around, but until Cinderella has confirmed that she would be willing to stay in feminine form for nine months or so (or we learn there is a convenient Uryuom egg they can make use of), it remains to be seen whether Cinderella is the sort of match for Prince Elliot that Adrian is looking for.
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My guess is the entirety of False Kings will be before the finals, and some of the cast not having met Hope yet will be an important plot point (one which makes dealing with Voltaire's plans more challenging).
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As of this month, GoComics no longer allows people to read strips more than two weeks old without a subscription... and I had been in the middle of reading the archives of a couple comics (and was planning on reading more in the future). To be fair, in the old days you would have had to buy a newspaper or comic collection to read comics (barring borrowing one from someone else or the library), and they aren't charging all that much. But on the other hand, with the way things are going in the US these days I expect my finances to become very tight pretty soon...
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Political Discussion Thread (READ FIRST POST)
ChronosCat replied to The Old Hack's topic in Off Topic Discussion
I've also heard he declared tariffs on Antarctic islands inhabited only by penguins. -
While cover art not matching the story of the book is nothing new, in the case of the Dragonriders series the early editions tended to have pretty accurate art, so it's even more annoying that the art for more recent reprints is less faithful to the books.
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Way back when the Will of Magic was giving Grace dreams to warn her about what Pandora had been doing, Grace was given a set of images referencing various magic marks Pandora had given people. I seem to recall one of the implying size/shrinking magic, and that Grace somehow deduced that Rhoda had it - but couldn't prove it. While Dan does usually draw them chronologically, not only are there exceptions, but the "Hope" storyline started well before the Double Date. For that reason I suspect the Double Date hasn't happened yet. (Though I suppose it could have happened during Hope.) It seems to be becoming increasingly common (or at least is in style) for dragons to be depicted with four limbs, the front ones being wings. (One of the many things that bugged me about the Hobbit movie trilogy was that Smaug was given that body design when he really should have had the classic dragon design; Tolkien even drew him with six limbs in his own illustrations! Also I was recently looking to replace one of my Dragonriders of Pern books and was frustrated to see the cover-art for the latest reprint give the dragons and fire-lizards only four limbs when it's made very clear in the text of the books that they have six limbs.) As for your PS, there unfortunately isn't any central place we all hang out besides this forum, and there are only a couple people here I personally have other ways of getting in contact with. At any rate, it's barely alive; last I knew it's still not possible for anyone new to sign up, and it's been well over five years since we've had any contact with anyone higher up than The Old Hack. (I suspect those times the forums were down for days, weeks, or months were because it took that long for anyone with the power to do anything about it to notice anything was wrong.)
