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To an extent.

While I don't disagree that it's likely, we only have the word of two lying liars who lie on that one killing his victims.

Conversely, Greg isn't keen on hurting the innocent either. The dozens of fire guys distracting them would have been a good plan as long as Grace and Greg tried sticking to peaceful resolutions with Dex, because if they spent long enough on it, they might have talked him down. Another dragon might have injured Dex in the fracas, or either Greg or Grace might have tried holding it off while the other got through to Dex, and three almost certainly would have KO'ed Dex or perhaps drained his power too fast for it to be replenished before the spells ended.

I chalk it up to them having the same basic needs as Andrea when it comes to a place to stay hidden. Basically, she's meeting them as they arrive and pick a lair, rather than after they've been there some time. Which would make Helena and Demetrius all the more likely to have her stay right there rather than actually help get her home. Plus, Sirleck is proof of concept that aberrations don't necessarily have to kill their victims (directly). Also, there's the fact that not all aberrations are guaranteed to be blood-suckers, and vampire was the term Susan used to make it easier to explain to Sarah and Grace about the single specific one from France so it's weird having all the characters talk about them like that.

I used to think so too, but then I noticed Abner using the same phrase that Dex was muttering right before blasting at Noah, Dex's "now" questions seemed to count down to Elliot and Grace showing up, the bulldog dragon isolated Elliot, blasted into traffic on command causing Elliot to have to block instead of dodge, and then moved to finish Elliot until Melissa stepped in. Killing Dex might not have been the original plan, just an effort to cover up Voltaire's involvement when he couldn't finish Elliot. The pithos might have been a message to Pandora, perhaps signifying that this was the hope of the world rather than what she's attempting. I'm not sold on this theory, mind. It has a lot of holes due to lacking information on what Voltaire was up to at the time and how long he's been against Pandora. That same comic implies that the same person who gave him the pendant was the one controlling him, though, and while it's difficult to be certain, I think you can see the top of the mark when Dex puts on the pendant in panel 2. Also, he noticed the mark Friday and summoned his fairy on Saturday, but it wasn't until Tuesday when he summoned the fire guy that we see any evidence that he had the pendant. We see in Legends of Celida that Tedd already has multi-function watches, so I would think he's probably been working on them for more than the twenty-odd days since the attack. (Admittedly, I can only confirm a minimum of ten days between him saying he's making sense of magic and using that watch. I thought it was nine, but then I noticed panel 3 would fall on a Saturday if it was successive days, so the book bag means there has to be at least one day skipped.) Plus Raven didn't think it was crazy enough to be her, and if there's anyone who should know... Yeah, the more I think about it, the less certain I am of Pandora being the one behind the pendant.

Point on the maximal duration being unlikely to be a set time limit. She probably kept it running with calories against Abraham and hospitalized herself basically from starvation. Seems a little weird that they didn't have an IV going, since she likely would have been unconscious from arrival up to that point.

In the comic I linked above, Nanase explicitly says "We used up the ambient energy around here, so we're going to lose these forms soon." And not-Tengu deliberately baited Nanase into using it because it had a limited duration. Nanase could also seem to feel the clock running out on them, since she knew the forms shouldn't last long without the extra energy. Bracing themselves as they feel it coming accounts for them not talking during the switch back. They might have been able to force it to stay longer based on the Abraham fight, granted (to me it always looked like the relief that Ellen had woken up knocked her out of focus and the form), but I see allowing the spell to end at its normal duration as different from actively choosing to end it. Might just be one of those definition things.

Actually, they lost the forms because the ambient magic was used up, and they didn't have enough to keep the forms going very long after that. Aside from that, I'm in total agreement.

I have to disagree with this. Ellen copied Nanase's form, but it started out as her normal form, then transformed into the Guardian Form, complete with all the abilities that the spell gives Nanase when she's using it, and it lasted as long as the spell did for Nanase. Ellen totally copied the spell.

Sorry, I should have emphasized the "even if" to clarify that I meant it as a hypothetical option, not a verified one. I just meant to contradict the claim that there had to be more to it than just watching, given we had Tedd's word on that being possible.

Earlier at the mall: Floating Elf Jesus (a.k.a Voltaire) (quite loudly): This girl, Ashley, is the potential mate of German Dark I spoke of in my riddle. Since it's part of Edward's cunning plan for Ashley to speak to reporters, at least one of them is going to ask her whether the Immortal was lying about her being Cheerleadra's potential mate. Maybe Ashley can call in the Demonic Duck? Or she can get flustered at being labeled "superheroine's potential mate" instead of "young woman who assists heroes with her God-like soccer skills and who may or may not be romantically interested".

We have Tedd stating that he is clearly not a wizard because he had been around some spells so often he'd have learned them without trying. So repeated exposure is a possible method of learning them, even if study and practice is also a method.

Average public school size 1999-2000 The average in the US was 752, the average for Illinois (wasn't Moperville based on Naperville?) is 713. Quarter for the grade, double for the two schools, halve for just girls, so 188/178, with 26,280 twenty minute blocks in a year. So somewhere in the vicinity of 45-49% of it happening at least once on those numbers. Hair and eye colors are something we shouldn't try to estimate, since additional natural colors are possible in the EGS world. And, as observed elsewhere, magic is a huge dork and might deliberately be trolling everyone.

I don't think these assertions are supported by the comic.

Yeah, really all the Birthday Paradox shows is how plausible Edward's coincidence theory is for explaining the birth times (remarkably). Our info is insufficient to address the whole of it. Of course, "switched at birth" seems as unlikely as the separate mothers thing. Wikipedia shows only three discovered cases so far this century. Although one of those was a case of one identical twin accidentally being switched to a random family, which seems oddly relevant. If Susan was switched out to a family while the real Tiffany Pompoms was given up for adoption in her place alongside Diane, that explains everything without having to mess with the cheating father.

Assuming I'm doing my math right, the probably tops 50% when you hit 158 people (365 days, 48 half hours per day for 17,520 half hours in a year; may have been better to do it as 00:00-00:30, 00:01-00:31, etc, but this should be a decent enough approximation). In a town with two high schools, I would expect to have way more than 158 people in the same grade across both schools. So you're definitely edging in to the "very likely" territory.

Looks like I have to adjust my stance about "Rhoda's little secret" not being her magic. Kudos to those who called it correctly!

Oh! Ellen's Copy beam spell could be learned by any wizard, then used to copy Cheerleadra until the appropriate time! An illusion to look like Rose Elliot until it was time to 'transform' completes the set-up, and Bob's your uncle! As a side note, I'm going to start calling Nanase's dad "Bob".

Yeah, and Negi stops the teachers from using it on Chao, so we don't see it working there either. (Wilhelm used something similar on Kotaro, which didn't last.) But if the weirdness censor were itself a magical effect, the spell would be redundant for mundanes. Also, the spell from the blimp, the one that would have made everyone more receptive to the idea of magic existing, would have been irrelevant too. They would have needed an area dispelling effect targeting specifically the censor rather than something to make people just chill out and accept less evidence than normal. Hmm... Now I'm wondering about the time Negi got his arm turned to stone. Does magic resistance in EGS work the same way? Would there be that tipping point where a spell works slowly enough on a person with high resistance that it's actually riskier than just letting it happen all at once?

I think Cap meant using so many pronouns when talking about multiple persons to whom the pronouns could reasonably refer (Tedd, Edward, Elliot). It's pretty clear who they refer to, though. I only remember that for flying on the staff. Chisame was pretty freaked out by all the crazy right from her first appearance, there was a school club dedicated to keeping track of the giant glowing tree, and Negi had a spell that was basically the MIB neuralizer (not that I remember it ever working offhand). But with Ashley meeting Tedd, we might get to see the age-changing pills from Negima eventually.

So, basically, yes. It's all perspective.

And hot. Sad and hot. He's probably thinking about how his dad would react to his magic mark. Still, I think Edward has it right in panel 5. Most people will dismiss guy-Elliot in favor of the pink-haired girl-Elliot. Tensaided is an edge case, because he already associated the two and seems to feel that actually knowing a super is way more important than ogling one.

Good call. Not sure how I forgot that scene.

In my home state, the cut off for write-in candidates to sign up is the end of this month. I suggest we register George Carlin, because there's technically no requirement that a candidate be living, only that the VP takes over if he dies in office, and it's not like he could mess anything up. Sure, you could argue that he couldn't discharge the duties of the office while dead, but he (or the VP and a majority of the Cabinet) also has to inform Congress of this in writing for it to take effect. If we get a really lazy VP to go along with this and President Carlin never selects a Cabinet, bam. We're golden. Yeah, Diane probably knows. She is sneaky and clever. She'll probably just run into Catalina and Rhoda one day while they're out on a date and just casually say "If you break her heart, I'll EAT yours" before wandering off.

She's keeping it a secret in general so it doesn't get back to Diane, not just keeping it from Diane. I fully agree that it's just for that, but it's still not openly known. And while Pandora might be making a shrinking pun, a secret only kept to avoid one person knowing IS kind of a small one. Big secrets would be like having the Presidential candidates replaced by alien replicants from beyond the Moon or a Volkswagen Beetle coming to life and winning races.