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  2. Posted

    10 hours ago, ijuin said:

    Star Blazers is a horrible mangling of the Space Battleship Yamato series that it was derived from. They took all of the Japanese-ness out of it (including renaming the Yamato to the Argo) for the sake of making it more "international".

    My wife watched Star Blazers for years, so my knowledge of that one series exceeds my interest in the entire genre.

    The name of the ship was Yamato. Never, not once, Argo.

    (Unless they did a remake or something after she stopped watching it.)

  4. Posted

    Well, with Moperville's reputation, any magic-aware person with two brain cells to rub together should expect there'll be at least one or two wizards and/or immortals around town. Or maybe other aberrations who won't appreciate the competition for food or the increased chance of triggering a hunt. Or... lots of other possible reasons for an aberration to want his presence undetected.

  5. Posted

    5 hours ago, Anonymous_Person said:

    My account got deleted somehow in the change over

    ALL accounts got deleted in the changeover.

    Or, to be more accurate about it, the list of users didn't get copied.

    At present the whole place has been rebuilt from scratch. We're hoping that our kind site administrators will manage to recover some or all of the old site from backups and have a way to load it in, so at least we can read the old stuff. (And maybe get back the former collection of emojis.)

  7. Posted

    I note that on no occasion has either griffin said anything about their world's human nobility in general, or about magic among humans in general. Just that the royal family is a strongly magical bloodline, and that Nanase's magic is strong enough it's hard to imagine her not being part of that family (which implies that really strongly magical people born outside that family tend to be adopted or married into it).

    So maybe magic-users of, oh, Susan's current level are a dime a dozen. This seems likely for the world in general, although not necessarily for humans, considering Tara was able to intimidate an Ancient into temporarily leaving our world - and she's a knight, not a wizard.

    As for making the little fairy appear being impressive - in itself somewhat, but the fact of its persistence more so. You see, technically there's nothing theoretically wrong with violating the law of conservation of matter and energy... temporarily. But that violation has to later (and usually not much later) be undone. Ellen's and Elliot's shape-changings get undone. All of Susan's, Dex's, and Abraham's summonings get undone.

    Nanase's fairydolls don't get undone, even when cut in half. And creating matter takes a HUGE amount of energy. The energy of the A-bomb explosion at Hiroshima was nowhere near sufficient to create an entire fairydoll.

    Flying takes energy too, but vastly less than matter-creation (and far less for a fairydoll than for a human figure or guardian form). That energy could plausibly be tapped from the environment. Or if it is created, its un-creation can be done inconspicuously.

    (Oh, and Ashley? Put your phone on speaker... too bad Elliot in his current condition doesn't know how to do the same and possibly can't.)

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    14 hours ago, CritterKeeper said:

    I have very occasionally needed to add acetaminophen to the ibuprofen to do the job, a combo recommended the by my doc the one time years ago I put my back out so I know it's safe.  Thank goodness we live in an era of cheap and readily accessible pain meds!

    If you can actually find any, replace the straight acetaminophen with Percogesic. It has an extra ingredient that helps the pain-killers be a little more effective.

    (I find it annoying how often the good over-the-counter drugs that actually do the job for us suddenly become very difficult to find. If they were being dropped due to recently-discovered side effects they would disappear completely... instead they go from being available, often in several brands, in practically every pharmacy to being a bottom-shelf item in only a few pharmacies. Percogesic for pain, chlorpheniramine maleate for allergies...)

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    2 hours ago, Scotty said:

    Just wait till we start busting out the puns.

    That already happened before you posted. For example:

    5 hours ago, Sjmcc13 said:

    I figured that was what the white space in the middle of her chest was for. It is the display area, conveniently placed where many eyes are drawn...

     

  12. Posted

    54 minutes ago, Circe said:

    I would like to see a storyline in EGS where someone is permanently changed.

    ...

    EDIT:  Of course there is the storyline with Hedge and Vladia....but we have not seen them in a looooong time.

    {cough}Ellen{cough}

    36 minutes ago, CritterKeeper said:

    Mildred?  I thought she was Elliot's Mild-Mannered Alternate, Emma...

    I thought we had named her Velma, after the character from Scooby-Doo.

  14. Posted

    43 minutes ago, Scotty said:

    Susan's disadvantage is not just that she doesn't know she's adopted, but that her childhood is marred by catching her dad with another woman, and the divorce afterwards. Diane has long accepted the fact that she's adopted, finding out she has a biological sibling is probably something she figured could be possible so it wasn't a large shock to her. Susan finding out she has a biological sister would mean that her parents had been hiding an important part of her life from her. I don't expect her to take it well, which is sad considering how much I like Susan.

     

    Wonder if it's possible for one person to have two angst-induced awakenings.

  18. Posted

    If you want to see a rather impressive collection of webcomic fanfic, take a look at the Wapsi Square Fanart subforum. It's mostly fanfic, many of them collaborative. A few of the most recently completed ones have been bundled as PDFs; one of them runs about 500 pages. The canonical comic is really just a jumping-off point.

    (I've contributed... let's see... a sentence to the 500-page one; the concept and second half of an addendum to another one; and I'm the main author of one that is currently in slow progress.)

     

    Addendum: This post contains a recommended-order-of-reading list for the (31, including the two the original list-builder left out) Wapsi fanfics. I will mention that if you haven't read the comic, the first one won't seem to have much of a point. It's an author-insert of the writer visiting Minneapolis and encountering some of the locations and characters that are canonical in the comic but don't necessarily exist in reality.

  19. Posted

    2 hours ago, hkmaly said:

    Unfortunately, Elliot is not Seyunolu and doesn't get new forms from TF gun, so designing some wouldn't help him. He would need to get such form as new spell, and he's not likely to.

    I think he could do it with his existing "any woman he can imagine" spell - he just needs the possibility pointed out to him, followed by maybe practicing it enough that he can easily get it right.

  20. Posted

    2 hours ago, hkmaly said:

    Justin wasn't around when Edward was waving around with the awakening detection wand. Apparently, sharing information or not, it didn't occurred to him that if he's not sure, he should simply let Edward test him.

    Justin apparently wasn't even marked yet, let alone awakened, when that was going on. He's had no obvious reason to think that has changed, other than Luke's word - and Luke thought he was marked, which at that time he wasn't because by then he was already awakened.

     

  21. Posted

    16 minutes ago, LivewareProblem said:

    With spellbooks, skim-reading has real life consquences. Hopefully he'll learn now; after all, don't they say "third times the charm"?

    Since the things are apparently created on demand by immortals (and maybe wizards, or else Mr. V keeps a stock on hand), they really SHOULD come up with a better way of notifying the owner of changes.

    After all, simply adding or removing a three-letter word (particularly "not"), or exchanging one three-letter word for another (example: "one" to "two" or "six"), can be a HUGE upgrade to a previous spell. And it isn't something likely to be noticed in casual observation. For that matter, even if the owner does re-read the entire book every week it could easily go unnoticed.

  24. Posted

    On 3/6/2016 at 4:39 PM, mlooney said:

    No one seems to be reading their spellbook.  Nanase didn't notice an upgrade, Susan didn't know she had either an upgrade or new spells, Justin doesn't know he HAS a spellbook, and of course Elliot hasn't been reading his.   The only mage of the main 8, in canon, who we haven't seen not know something about their spells, is Ellen.

    The spellbooks don't just magically materialize in the possession of people who've just awakened. Jerry gave Susan hers, Mr. V gave Elliot and Ellen theirs. How they get the spellbooks is unknown; maybe wizards and immortals can create them. (Nanase has had hers for a while, if how she got it was shown then the Immortals gave it to her in France but I don't think it was shown.)

    Nobody has given Justin one yet because nobody except Pandora knows he's awakened and she mostly isn't being that obvious. (HE doesn't know he's awakened - if Pandora gave him a spellbook, he would know.) So he's currently in the clear regarding keeping up with changes to his spellbook.