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  1. Posted

    8 hours ago, Scotty said:

    Magus knows, Pandora herself told him that she wanted him to kill Abraham because he hurt her son.

    Yeah, I miss remembered who gave Sirleck the info about Adrian.  Realized my mistake moments after I hit "Submit"

    But there is still a valid question there.  Abner was clearly just a tool for Stephen Voltert.  Does this immortal not possess the right information about Adrian, or is he leading Sirleck on a wild goose chase?

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    Problem is that a significant portion of what Sirleck knows about Adrian is wrong.

    This makes me think.  Does Magus really not know that Pandora is Adrian's mother?  I doubt that because before she set him adrift, she revealed her full name to Magus.  And Raven is not a particularly common family name.

    Could Magus be tricking Sirleck into attacking Adrian to teach Pandora a lesson the way she used Abraham to teach Adrian a lesson?

    Edit Oops. It was Voltaire, the Kentucky Fried Immortal, who gave Sirleck the incorrect info through Abner. Maybe Magus isn't that devious.

  6. Posted

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    From Dan's commentary

    And now it's just a matter of time until this decision to make sense of this one moment winds up evolving into a major plot point somewhere down the line. That tends to be how these sort of things go around here.

    By calling attention to this plot element, I now expect it to be meaningless in the long run.

    Or he is telling us that another immortal could step in and give Ashley a mark for one of those very minor spells?

    As for what to call Moperville residents?  I like Mopervillains.

  9. Posted

    10 hours ago, Drasvin said:

    I thought one of the major reasons for Immortal law was to prevent them from getting into fights with each other?

    It seems more like immortals are bound by some limits that are inherent to the magic system and some limits that are agreed upon conventions.  The limits the immortals encounter when dealing with mortals such as "Can not lie" on the Griffon's side of reality or "Guide and Empower" on the Moperside seem to be of the mutually agreed variety.  If that is the case, the immortal rules aren't about keeping them from fighting.  It is about where the immortals may fight and how they may use mortals in the fight.

    But if I'm right, then immortals could change their rules at any time.  All they would need to do is gather a quorum and debate the details with respect and restraint...

    ...The immortals are not changing their own rules any time soon.

  10. Posted

    Closing Ceremonies of the Rio Games

    They are in the portion of the show that pays tribute to the next host city.  Tokyo 2020.

    The section included a schoolgirl in plaid skirt cartwheeling across a busy intersection, Hello Kitty in a cheerleader costume, and the Prime Minister of Japan entering the stadium in Rio dressed as Mario and carrying a dragon ball.

    I guess I should be grateful it didn't include tentacle monsters,

  11. Posted

    1 hour ago, Tom Sewell said:

    Like this post if you want to see Bad Tom turned into a toad.

     

    1 hour ago, mlooney said:

    And what have female toads done to you to make you want to do that to them?  I mean, really, isn't being a toad bad enough with out asshole male toads showing up?

    Furthermore, why must amphibian transformation always be viewed as a bad thing?

    For example, Salamanders MUST have something going for them if their name was also claimed by beings of pure fire and the best kitchen appliance in any good steak house.

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    Why did I fail to notice this the first time.

    At the time we read about the battle with Tara, there was a fair amount of speculation (wishful thinking) that "Elliot Dunkel is The-Unfortunately-Named-Cheerleader-Themed-Super-Heroine" would not be reported beyond the mall.

    How often do comic books or cartoons make "Secret Identity Cover Up" a story?  In my experience, these stories almost always feel like a wasted issue or episode.  If we have learned anything from the news coverage of scandals, creating elaborate lies to cover up what has been discovered only makes it worse you.

    I hope Dan has the characters deal with the exposure rather than try to deny it.

  19. Posted

    So Pandora pops into the security office of the mall, distracts the staff into leaving the room, and watches the security camera footage from last night.
    She may recognize Voltaire and/or Les Immortels.  She will be impressed by Ashley.  She could have a few choice words about mall security.

    Or is that too reasonable?

    As for the Glasses, they probably stay in place the same way Teddy Roosevelt's glasses stay in place on Mt Rushmore.

    And why the question about Quebec.  Les Immortels are not French.  They are Québécois who just happened to be in Paris when Nanase and Susan encountered the aberration.  I have no evidence to support this claim, so it may belong in the poly tics thread.

  20. Posted

    Granted:  You can wish for anything you want as long as you are alive.  There is no guarantee of wish fulfilment.

    I wish NASA would develop safe, reliable, and cheap transportation that can allow humans and their cargo to travel at one tenth the speed of light in space and reduce the effect of gravity on the vessel within an atmosphere by up to 90%.

  22. Posted

    Just saw an interesting feature on Béla and Márta Károlyi.

    Not much new information.  Their lives have been so public since they came to the US that even casual sports fans already know quite a bit about them.  But it was still a nice tribute.

  24. Posted

    I never had the impression that Les Immortels were forcefully reset.  They just did not handle their own "death" well.

    As for their alignment?  They firmly believe that they are doing the right thing for the right reason by tailing Elliot.  Even if they don't know WHY they are tailing Elliot.  So they are probably "good".  Or at least their players checked that box on the character sheet.

    Their place on the Lawful / Order - Disorder / Chaotic spectrum is a little harder to determine.  We know that human law does not mean much to immortals.  And Immortal "law" appears to be laughably easy to work around.  So we might need to determine their attitudes regarding the ancient concepts of Order and Chaos.   Or perhaps we should consider their place on the Creative - Destructive spectrum proposed by the Erisian movement.

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    From The Principia Discordia.  Page 00063
    http://www.principiadiscordia.com/downloads/Principia%20Discordia.pdf

    The Curse of Greyface and the Introduction of Negativism

    To choose order over disorder, or disorder over order, is to accept a trip composed of both the creative and the destructive. But to choose the creative over the destructive is an all-creative trip composed of both order and disorder. To accomplish this, one need only accept creative disorder along with, and equal to, creative order, and also willing to reject destructive order as an undesirable equal to destructive disorder.

    The Curse of Greyface included the division of life into order/disorder as the essential positive/negative polarity, instead of building a game foundation with creative/destructive as the essential positive/negative. He has thereby caused man to endure the destructive aspects of order and has prevented man from effectively participating in the creative uses of disorder. Civilization reflects this unfortunate division. 

    Greyface is described on page 00042 of the Principia as a "malcontented hunchbrain" who deluded honest men into believing that reality was a straightjacket affair.

     

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