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  1. Posted

    What if they could both keep the big guns out of civilian hands, and also make Great Magic possible to a chosen few with uniquely sane and rational characteristics? Give everyone lesser magics, like minor telekinesis and ball-of-light spells, or self-focused gender-change spells and furry spells, to allow everyone the sort of self-actualization Tedd's blessed with on a daily basis (with adjustments to keep self-transformation spells from being abused to escape authorities), but keep the big guns like Greater Fireball or Summon Dragon or Raise Undead as works which require a highly rational mind, expensive and time-consuming rituals, and a very steep learning curve.

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    Re: illegal to buy a gun:

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    “Sales of handguns and ammunition for handguns are limited to persons 21 years of age and older,” the ATF’s official Federal Firearms Regulations Reference Guide states. But the agency's regulations only apply to federally licensed firearms dealers, not to non-professional private sellers.

    “A high school senior in most states can go to a gun show, go online, or any other place that they might find a private seller and lawfully purchase a gun that they couldn’t otherwise at a gun dealer,” explained David Chipman, a former ATF special agent who now works with Mayors Against Illegal Guns.

    “That is correct," confirmed George Semonick of the ATF. "Under federal law, it's not unlawful for an 18-year-old to posses a handgun," Semonick explained to Salon, though some states have their own age requirements for handgun possession.

    https://www.salon.com/2013/02/05/18_year_olds_can_buy_handguns/

    All she needs to do is go to a gun show. Her mother might support it if she says it's for "self-defense" against men, bringing up national assault statistics and such.

    Re: guns being too Lord Tedd

    Susan could explain it to him as basically a phaser. Set permanently to stun if he wants to.

    Re: grenade launchers

    Anarchist's cookbook, or have Tedd have a long and frank discussion about self-defense, aberrations, and the current state of magical affairs with his dad and the DGB in general. Heck, Sarah and Elliot could even build their own as part of a ripoff Mythbusters or Man At Arms thing, just call it a "potato launcher" instead and manufacture the actual grenades offscreen.

    After all, the best defense is a good offense. If the gang wants to stop getting into life-threatening situations where their friends and family are in danger, maybe it's time to pull a Noriko and take the fight to the monsters themselves. They can't hurt you or your family if they're all dead.

  3. Posted

    4 hours ago, ChronosCat said:

    Finally, why would Aberrations want to raze Moperville to the ground? This particular group are hired assassins, and their contract encouraged them to limit how many people they killed besides the target. And Moperville isn't exactly the only place where Hunters and other magic users live, so it's not like they could kill off all their enemies by blowing up Moperville.

    I don't know, aberrations in general seem really concerned about Nanase, Tedd, Diane and Susan; the griffons think Nanase is a princess based on sheer magical potential alone; Not-Tengu wanted to rip and tear to prevent a second Noriko; Voltaire seems to want to bring about Lord Tedd by any means necessary.

    On that note, why hasn't Tedd created a magitek gun, perhaps to augment his gauntlet? Gauntlets are cool and all, but a line-of-sight auto-target multi-target instant Avada Kedavra or Petrificus Totalus seems more useful and flexible. Noriko's shown with lots of weapons, but they seem to be all old-fashioned, when you'd expect a legendary monster hunter to carry the magical equivalent of mini-nukes and chainsword machineguns for taking down necromantic zombie dinosaurs or elder dragons. Is it sentimentality over practicality, preferring to kill with style and poise? Are most monsters immune to bullets, requiring very specific holy swords forged with the nails of the True Cross dipped in holy oil blessed by the Pope to kill? At least have silver shotgun rounds for werewolves, or blessed garlic powder smoke bombs for vampires.

  4. Posted

    Wait, so if this is becoming THAT kind of comic, why stop at revolvers and hunting rifles? With the cast getting actively targeted by inhuman aberrations, and superior firepower being shown to beat magic any day, why doesn't Susan keep an arsenal of pistols, grenade launchers and full auto machine guns in her chest next to her swords, maybe loaded with extended clips of magical armor-piercing bullets? Heck, why don't aberrations just raze Mopersville to the ground with black market plastic explosives and thermite? Is there some sort of "MAD" agreement keeping the place from going full Dresden Files?

  6. Posted

    Maybe they could go on a storyline or quest to the other side of the world, find Magic Itself and bind it in chains of will and nails of creation, and MAKE it the slave of Mankind now and forevermore. Becoming Lord Tedd actually sounds like an excellent idea right now. Maybe this is how it starts. The fever. The rage. The feeling of powerlessness that turns good men... cruel.

  9. Posted

    Heart is an AWESOME power, I don't know what Pandora is going on about. Can you imagine the sort of things emotion sharing, pain dulling and minor healing powers can do? How does Magic define "minor" anyhow? Cataracts are "just" thin layers of milky tissue clouding the lens, but a minor spell later, and suddenly a blind man can see. A lot of back pain problems can be solved with a "minor" adjustment to the arch of the foot. Pain dulling can help others or yourself push beyond the normal "safe" limits of the human body for superhuman strength and endurance in exchange for long periods of bed rest and a shorter length of time before arthritis and other problems set in. Muscle mass is built up by healing "minor" tears in the muscles. Imagine what emotional sharing can do in building up confidence on one hand, or utterly tearing someone apart in an interrogation on the other.

  10. Posted

    41 minutes ago, CritterKeeper said:

    I think you meant to link to this comic.

    I don't think Magic can do "anything."  Best analogy might be a mosquito or biting fly.  A horse is a lot bigger and stronger than a biting fly, but they can't see them well enough and move fast enough to bite them, and they may not be able to swat the fly hard enough with their tail to kill it.  They can't invent a tiny cannon capable of shooting down just that one fly, nor can they build a box and lure the fly inside -- they are limited in what they can do.  But a lot of animals will deal with one persistent biting fly by rolling in mud, thus caking their skin and blocking not only that one individual insect but also all the other flies, mosqutoes, gnats, etc. in the area.  The system change is going from bare furred flesh they can get to easily, to mud-caked skin the insects have a hard time finding a way to get through.  I'm sure if enough critters stayed caked in mud long enough, so that it became the usual, then the insects would evolve ways to deal with the change; likewise, humans will eventually figure out how a new magic system works, but in the short term, they'll be at a severe disadvantage compared to now.

    So humans are... parasites, feeding off of a living force of nature... as humans are wont to be, it seems.