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  1. Posted

    2 minutes ago, Tom Sewell said:

    Maybe someone told him... someone who likes white suits and fedoras. Take a look back at the meeting between Assistant Director Leifeld and Arthur. Why are they talking in a gym? Arthur works for Leifeld; if he wanted a confidential meeting, why not meet in one of their offices? Looks kind of like this scheme to let magic reset is just between them, doesn't it? Well, them and a that guy who likes white suits and fedoras.

    If this turns out to be true, and Raven finds out...

    Leifeld was assured by Arthur it would work, but he had doubts during that gym scene you mentioned, so Leifeld has that going for him.

    Also, I'm not sure he knows how Arthur knows if the source is Voltaire.

  2. Posted

    2 minutes ago, CritterKeeper said:

    No, but his dad is well aware that Tedd makes a habit of transforming into a woman.  Now, whether it's as bad as Tedd fears and his dad is mortified by this, or whether he's been protecting his son's privacy by not reporting his using the TFG and watches to gender-swap, remains to be seen.

    I think Edward only reports abilities, not personality traits, with Grace before the end of Painted Black a special exception. Box never said anything about Edward reporting personality traits.

  3. Posted

    1 hour ago, WR...S said:

    I'm surprised Arthur doesn't already know.  I guess Edward's embarrassment is enough to override "full disclosure"?  That's... horrifying.

    Tedd didn't tell his dad about his spell.

     

    25 minutes ago, CritterKeeper said:

    It's possible the change in magic the allows it to be revealed would mean Will is actually compromising, and letting magic become more widely used.

    Yeah. It's probably taking into account the circumstances of the tipping point, specifically "Fancy magic, fire and noise, all outdone, by humanity's toys". Magic probably realises that if it doesn't compromise, technology will make magic obsolete.

  4. Posted

    56 minutes ago, Drasvin said:

    He bought them in bulk. They're toy gadget watches that are meant to be cheap prizes for arcades. He just bought a bunch of them and started sticking magic into them. They're not even functional timepieces, just a plastic button on a plastic or rubber watchstrap. Presumably blank so the arcades could add their own decals to them cheaply.

     

    Which means the problem started with the watches he bought being simply low quality when he added magic.

  5. Posted

    2 minutes ago, Illjwamh said:

    Also, something that should have occurred to me before today but somehow didn't: Tedd was female when magic decided to change. Does that mean her choice was made for her, or will she keep the spell Pandora gave her?

    Even if Tedd lost the spell, she still has access to Uryuom technology.

  9. Posted

    17 minutes ago, CritterKeeper said:

    Perhaps a low sex drive, a dislike of physical contact, and/or a tendency to be exceptionally slow to commit emotionally is something that runs in the family?

    What about Susan's dad? They only part of that that applies to him is the not being committed part.

  10. Posted

    10 hours ago, Tuscahoma said:

    Of course, with the potential number of generations between Susan and Adrian, and the way Susan and Diane resemble each other, resemble Adrian, and Susan's father looks like Adrian, I have to say "What?!"  How much was Magic messing with things? Did a descendant of Adrian resembling him prompt Magic to shape events (similar appearance and birthday's and making sure Diane and Susan had the same inherited affinity)?  Was Adrian's romantic encounter manipulated by Magic.  I am hoping it was a huge set of coincidences that only lead to Susan and Diane resembling each other, cause otherwise, Magic is starting to sound just a bit... creepy. 

    I'm pretty sure the only influence Magic had was Susan's and Diane's appearances, and everything else is a happy coincidence for magic.

  12. Posted

    3 minutes ago, Scotty said:

    The other thing might be if Tedd were to learn what Pandora just did, she might decide that Immortals should be free of their Law because it's a stupid law that decided that protecting family was illegal, being free of that law seems to be Voltaire's main goal since he had stated contempt for it.

    That same law also protected Elliot, forcing Voltaire to find convoluted means around it. There has got to be a way to modify it to allow Immortals greater freedom to protect the innocent without also giving them greater freedom to harm them that isn't outright getting rid of the law.

  13. Posted

    11 minutes ago, Scotty said:

     

    Tedd will probably be a mix of negative opinions about the magic change and positive reinforcement from Elliot and Pandora and may end up being irrational about whatever she says about this which may end up working in Voltaire's favour.

    It's also possible Tedd could use this to achieve hers and Pandora's goal of giving magic to everyone. Magic may not want that, but as Elliot says, in the modern age where Magic can't be kept secret, it will have to compromise on it's desire to not be used by everyone.

  14. Posted

    2 hours ago, ijuin said:

    Today's page definitely makes a lot of Voltaire's motivations clearer. He wanted Tedd to be in a state of despair/anger/hatred in order to change how Tedd would influence the Magic Reset. Voltaire may even have predicted that Pandora would intervene in tonight's attack (and break Immortal Law in a way that would get her forcibly Reset) to save Adrian. What Voltaire probably did NOT count on though was Pandora's final trick of reversing the connection between all Immortals to exterminate the majority of the planet's Aberrations at one fell swoop.

    He was probably counting on the incident being the tipping point, but not how massive the incident would be.

    2 hours ago, Stature said:

    Still in a better dreamscape than when the magic whale barged in.

    Sixteen years. Not a lot of webcomics last this long. Still want the missing strips from the vault. :demonicduck:

    What missing strips?

  20. Posted

    2 hours ago, Pharaoh RutinTutin said:

    I had been thinking that part of the reason Susan's dad acted the way he did was because Adrian wasn't a father for him.

    Now we know that Adrian really wasn't the father of Susan's dad.

    Which means I need to find new people to blame for Mr Pompoms.

     

    Why? As CritterKeeper said, why not Mr Pompoms himself? He made the choice, not Adrian or any other ancestor.

  21. Posted

    4 hours ago, Tom Sewell said:

    I think you're right about lying on her hands because her chin looks like it's a little bit over her wrist. But it all depends on perspective, and as Dan said a long time ago, perspective is hard.

    But while I'm not as sure about weeping, I'm not ready to rule it out, and it really doesn't affect my mind-dump assertion much. 

    Where exactly did the Emissary of Magic mention that? It fits with Elliot's assertion that the WoM must choose between keeping the same strict rules which won't really keep humans from learning about magic again quickly, or modifying them--perhaps by biving all humans more natural resistance to magic, which is what Tedd hoped to do.

    http://www.egscomics.com/index.php?id=1834 Disco Wizard said that here.

  22. Posted

    2 hours ago, CritterKeeper said:

    It's interesting, although Dan openly based Moperville on his hometown of Naperville, we hardly ever see anything about the surrounding area.  No one talks about going into the City, no one refers to "a couple of suburbs over," at most they talk about going "out of town."  To me at least, it seems much more like the city I grew up in, which is downstate.  We have a few high schools, we have one main university and a community college, and we don't have a bunch of other suburbs that are right up against each other such that you can't tell where one ends and the next begins.

    Have we actually seen anything to indicate whether Moperville is a part of a larger metropolitan area?  Hmm, I may have to read through again.  Darn.

    Don't worry, I got something for you: http://www.egscomics.com/index.php?id=974