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  9. Posted

    2 hours ago, mlooney said:

    The DoD/CDC planning for Zombie attacks was a training on how to make plans.  They made it so over they top that if/when the press found out about it there wouldn't be wild stories about "The Army is taking over Texas" or something like that.  People still freaked.  Seems that people expect the DoD to have a plan for everything, but freak out if they find out they do.

    The classical method of zombie-ness being spread to people who are bitten but not eaten is also a good proxy for a highly virulent plague which is not airborne, but which spreads very easily via casual contact.

  12. Posted

    I don't know about insurance where you live, but where I live, once you have the required liability coverage (i.e. covering any damage you might do to other people's cars/property/bodies in a collision), a lot of insurers allow you to add coverage for other kinds of damage "a la carte"--fire, flood, quake, storm damage, vandalism, etc. Some do offer package deals that cover several causes for less than buying them all individually, but the customer generally gets a choice of what to get coverage for.

  17. Posted

    As Arthur said, the real danger is not of people learning about magic per se, but rather of it becoming known that any idiot can Awaken if they are determined enough. Both Magic and DGB want to prevent the kind of scenario mentioned in Pandora's former-life memory, where armies (or gangs) of Mages decide to terrorize and/or subjugate Muggles on a large scale.

  20. Posted

    Well, the Stone Age does come before the Bronze Age, and the 1960s were also part of the "Rock Age" (as in Rock and Roll)...

    Although a major part of why 1960s-70s American comics were so superficial was due to the Comics Code Authority and the banning of sex, drugs, graphic violence, and such themes as "letting the bad guys ever win" or "portraying heroes as less than moral paragons", and by extension, "portraying villains as sympathetic or anything besides morally depraved". This led to the simplistic and repetitive "the flawless heroes defeat the vile villains before the end of each episode" format, lacking in any moral complexity.

  21. Posted

    7 hours ago, Vorlonagent said:


    I don't know how well Earth-1 magic was resisted with willpower,  It's been too long.  Superman's will is usually considered exceptional.  Some DC lore has Kal-El as planned to be a Kryptonian Green Lantern candidate, but I don't remember if that was pre-Crisis, post-Crisis, or both.

    I believe it was pre-Crisis. Bronze Age, specifically.

  22. Posted

    4 hours ago, malloyd said:

    If Elliot is all that pivotal, did he even consider starting with *talking to Elliot* and convincing him?  Might have worked, especially if he were approached alone rather than in this (much more skeptical) group and told something suitably slanted (the rules do after all still allow Voltaire to lie).
     

    That would not work if his real aim was how other people would react to Elliot being murdered. For example, all of Elliot's friends might go on a Roaring Rampage of Revenge, and the Rampage itself was the real reason for killing Elliot.

    I think that I am starting to see the overall positions that Pandora and Voltaire are taking. Pandora wants to shift the balance of power in favor of Mortals by spreading around the Magic, while Voltaire wants to shift the balance in favor of Immortals. However, both of them have a final goal of giving their kind (and their kin) more latitude to act--Pandora by allowing the more-permissive set of rules for interacting with Mages to apply more often (as opposed to the more-restrictive rules for dealing with Muggles, especially the ones who are supposed to be kept ignorant of the very existence of magic), and Voltaire by getting the rules themselves loosened.

  23. Posted

    51 minutes ago, StarCreator said:

    This was my thought as well. This seems to me to be the first hint of Voltaire's motives out of all his appearances. I'm not sure we've been given enough information to figure out why eliminating Elliott would accomplish such a thing. But then again, we also don't know why Elliott is apparently also the key to Magus's leaving his current residence.

    He did refer to his current plan as "a complicated mess", so perhaps he is trying to create such a disaster that it will sway the opinion of the Immortal community towards "We might have prevented this disaster if we had been able to intervene directly". Making Pandora completely lose herself with rage (e.g. by wrecking the lives of her "extended family" such as Tedd, etc.) and go on a hugely destructive rampage might be the key to this.

    As for the "got lucky with Dex and Tara" part, when one is an Immortal well past the customary reset date, one is able to forecast the hurricane that will be created by the flap of a particular butterfly's wings. He may have been "lucky" in the sense of such optimal people being available for him to manipulate, but that's more a matter of being lucky that gold nuggets are in the river in the first place as opposed to being lucky in finding them given that they already exist.

  25. Posted

    Either Catalina is so catlike already that nobody notices the difference, or people are just not paying sufficient attention to her to register it.

    What's odd is that Rhoda hasn't reacted, given that she is paying quite a lot of attention to Catalina . . .

    Also, who here saw that Pandora was still wearing eyeglasses in the fourth panel before reading this post?

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