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Unprovoked attacks against Mortals are definitely forbidden, and it's probably forbidden to directly kill a Mortal outside of specific circumstances (though as has been said, "you'd be surprised what you can live through"). It's very likely also that taking direct control of a Mortal's body or thoughts is forbidden, though making the Mortal more suggestible seems to be a loophole (e.g. with Dex). As a general principle, perhaps it is that an Immortal may not directly force or compel a Mortal to act in a certain way, but nearly anything goes in terms of influencing Mortals to do things as long as the Mortal can reasonably be considered to have chosen the action. Pandora could give you a gun, and could say all sorts of things to persuade you to use it, but the actual trigger-pull is your own action.

Having not been to Alabama, I can't say.

In regards to people taking justice into their own hands against an attacker vs. calling in the professionals, it wasn't really until the 19th century with communication and transportation methods faster than riding-on-horseback that governments were able to strongly enforce the government-monopoly-on-use-of-force outside of cities--"frontier justice" such as stereotypically happened in the American Old West often meant that the "capture, arrest, and detain" part of law enforcement had to be carried out by the local population themselves since there weren't enough police, and then they would (ideally) haul the captured suspect before the Judge for trial. This depends heavily on your definition of "Politics". Certainly there has always been influence-trading and debates amongst the ruling groups in royal courts and such, but the whole "pandering to the masses, promising 'a chicken in every pot', etc." type of politics came about with the rise of widespread suffrage, such that the "poor, unwashed masses" were allowed to vote for national leaders. This wasn't all that common before the 18th century--prior to that, only landowners usually got to vote in national elections, where such existed at all (and "landowner" usually had a minimum land value qualification such that merely owning a cheap house in town was not enough to qualify).

TV Tropes calls this effect "Seinfeld is Unfunny". Basically, it's when something becomes imitated so much that people who see enough of the imitations become jaded and start to see the original as just another imitation.

Ooh, pricey. The only computer that I've ever owned that was more than $1,500 retail price was the IBM PC-AT (Intel 286 processor running at 8 megahertz, 1 megabyte of RAM, dual 5.25 inch floppies and a whopping TWENTY megabyte hard drive) that my father brought home when I was barely old enough to read, back when such a model was bleeding-edge. Since he worked for IBM at the time, he got an employee discount on it. Anyway, it was the first computer that I learned to use, with ye olde DOS 3.1. Ouch, now I feel old.

I think that the longest I've managed to sleep was about forty hours, though it was interrupted a couple of times by having to go to the bathroom. I was awake just barely enough to be aware that I had slept from Monday till Wednesday rather than Monday till Tuesday.

Yup, and that basically makes Pandora literally Tedd's "Faerie Godmother" (or "Grandmother" if you prefer). I think that part of Pandora preferentially Marking/empowering Tedd's friends is that she wants them to be strong enough to face the coming battles that will occur when her Apocalypse kicks into high gear. She knows from Blaike's death that she can't directly protect everybody, and so, as with Adrian, she wants them to have strength of their own. That doesn't preclude toying with them for fun, of course--though any serious danger that she puts them into will be ones where she expects them to survive. Think of Mxyzptlk or Q tormenting people in order to "train them".

Hmm, does Disco Wizard know that Pandora is the one who has been Marking people? If he doesn't know yet, then will he find out?

The possibility of running away also depends on the attacker's motivation in attacking you. If the attacker is merely defending his territory/patrol route from intruders, then he probably won't pursue you. On the other hand, if he has "wants you dead" as a high priority, then your only chance to escape without disabling/harming him is to get him to lose track of your location.

Not interested in running around grinding for a few more levels, huh?

In short, he was bluffing and she called his bluff.

You do such a good job of impersonating a human that I would have thought that you were the upgraded T-888 model instead.

ISIS also wants us to believe that they represent all Muslims, so rhetoric such as Trump's proposal to ban all Muslim immigration is playing right into their hands.

Pandora is unlikely to be in favor of Elliot's death, seeing as how he is her grandson's best friend and confidante.

That is indeed the rarest of skills.

Well, both griffins whom Diane has met were powerful mages and warriors--even the one who was expressly "not a fighter" thought that destroying six Vampires unassisted was hardly worth mentioning. They were both quite intelligent, with the one who "just slashes things" being no mental slouch herself. That would count as "way cool" in a lot of people's books.

Not Danish, but DAN-ish, perhaps?

Thank you.

I'm sorry, what means "twee"? I don't think it's part of the vocabulary where I come from.

I think that the most important parts of communication are minimizing ambiguity and avoiding overuse of vocabulary foreign to the audience. The goal, after all, is for the audience to understand your intended meaning.

We have no information on how quickly Elves reach adulthood, but given that Adrian's "true form" appears to be in the equivalent of his thirties at most, I think that Elves do not naturally age beyond that.

Thank you, Hack. His recent post does inform us that he is still unwilling to act in a civil manner here.

Given what we know about most of the cast members who might be dating him, Greg himself is likely to be the one victimized.

Ok, I always have trouble remembering that name.

I thought that it was Voltaire posing as Abner who told Sirleck the name "Adrian Raven".