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  6. Posted

    13 hours ago, InfiniteRemnant said:

     

    if grace's managing to render jerry temporarily speechless by repeatedly surprising him when they met is any indication, their precognitive/clairvoyant/whatever abilities definitely aren't passive or instant. they need to try, otherwise he would have known already whether he wanted to or not, and if they were instant he could have just 'checked' instead of asking questions.

    Immortal precognition can't be "true" seeing of future events, because that would be equivalent to information traveling backwards in time, which is forbidden in EGS. I think it's more like "ultra-accurate weather forecasting"--as Immortals grow more powerful and perceptive, they can integrate finer and finer details until they develop a Sherlock Holmes-like ability to get a whole picture from just a few obscure-seeming clues. At Pandora's level, she can probably also "see the threads of fate"--i.e. fully construct entire alternate scenarios based on options A, B, C, etc., and determine their approximate probability of coming to pass.

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  8. Posted

    1 hour ago, CritterKeeper said:

    How long before a Li'l Abner joke shows up?  Or is his appearance already a reference to the black-haired perpetually-19 character?


    Only if we can call Voltiare "Jubilation T. Cornpone". :D

    Anyway, his choice of the name "Voltaire" probably implies that he is not one of those who is far into the age-related insanity. The famed French writer named Voltaire (after whom this Immortal presumably named himself) was not prominent before around 1730, so this places an upper limit on when this Immortal chose then name. The choice of the name also makes it sound like he believes himself to be more "enlightened" than other Immortals.

    Note Sirleck's facepalm--while having Helena and Demetrius distracted from Elliot is a good thing for his plan, having them over-focused on hunting Aberrations obviously makes him more vulnerable.

    So, "Plan CM" apparently begins with inducing Sirleck (and Magus) to make a move. Either Voltaire has set a trap for them, or else stopping Magus/Sirleck's plans was not Voltaire's motivation for needing Elliot dead for "Plan A". I still think at this point that Voltaire's motive for killing Elliot was for the emotional effect that it would have on Tedd, Nanase, and the rest of "the pawns of Chaos" (i.e. all of our friends who were Marked or otherwise manipulated by Pandora).

    So, Dan has been planning this for six years, eh? *checks archive* That would mean that this was planned back when Sirleck was first introduced.

     

  11. Posted

    6 hours ago, Scotty said:

    Another option is he's assisting Lord Tedd, the goo was sent to kill Tedd but after the first attempt was thwarted by Elliot the goo needed to kill Elliot first, after the second attempt failed, maybe Lord Tedd called in a favour with the colonel here.

    Alternatively, if he is planning to make Tedd and Grace become more like Lord Tedd and General Shade Tail, then there are fewer better ways to send them on a slide down the slippery slope to the Dark Side than a Roaring Rampage of Revenge triggered by Elliot getting murdered.

  13. Posted

    Given the circumstances, if Edward were to find out about Tedd's Mark, it might help him to understand the gravity of the situation. It is well-known to Edward that such Marks reflect the Marked person in some way--either an innate talent or a strong desire that the person holds. Knowing that Tedd was marked with a gender-altering spell that resets Tedd's unenchanted base form rather than itself being an enchantment would do a lot to convince Edward that yes, the issue does reach down to the core of Tedd's self-image.

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  14. Posted

    Yes--the Worst Case Scenario that Arthur is trying to prevent is the sudden rise of a hundred thousand or more people like not-Tengu--jerkasses who find that they have/can get magical power and wish to use it for seriously nefarious purposes. Such a large and sudden flood of would-be aupervillains would overwhelm any attempt to thwart them until an equally powerful force of heroes could be trained.

  16. Posted

    Probably because Justin had, barely an hour before, appeared on the television news being interviewed about the incident. Edward probably felt that Justin needed a reminder to be careful about to whom he reveals information--Sarah is within the "need-to-know", but her sister Carol is not, and Carol's TV audience especially does not need to know.

  19. Posted

    One should only point a gun (or other ranged weapon) at someone when one intends either to shoot or to threaten to shoot them. When you are dealing with people rather than NPCs, a gun pointed at them gives them a reasonable suspicion that you intend to shoot, and motivates them to likewise draw their weapons in order either to get you to back down, or to shoot you first.