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    4 hours ago, Zathael said:

    1) The shrink magic and growth magic will interfere with or cancel each other out over time

    I think you are correct, because putting the cookie in her mouth made Rhoda start growing (note there only seems to be one bite out of the cookie and she's still chewing). I think putting shrunken Catalina in the jacket of enlarged Rhoda is gonna be all sorts of hijinks-inducing.

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    3 hours ago, ijuin said:

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nylon-eating_bacteria

    These bacteria have developed the ability to digest nylon, a substance believed not to have existed anywhere on Earth in bulk quantities before 1935.

    As an aside, the fact that a strain of bacteria has developed this ability, implies that we could engineer bacteria to biodegrade our waste plastic, although that would bring with it the drawback that we would have to use a coat of some sort of paint to protect plastic against them in the outdoors (as we do for wood).

    As with so many things, evolution beat us to it. ;)

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    11 minutes ago, mlooney said:

    Voltaire has been shown to be a lying liar who lies.

    His vow means exactly diddly over squat

    I dunno, he might be serious. JBICD pointed out in the previous thread that Voltaire already baited Elliot into potential suicidally reckless behavior. Since the vow only applies to actions going forward, this might be the only plan he has right now that involves Elliot dying. And it still leaves him free to try having any of Elliot's associates killed, regardless of what Elliot might be tempted to do when such situations arise. He's might be completely honest about this; if he's already set the plan in motion, he really isn't trying anymore. It's up to luck and fate.

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    40 minutes ago, The Old Hack said:

    At least they would be over very, very quickly. So would the problems of most everybody on the continental land mass you happened to be on at the time.

    Nah, it's not that bad. While a 60 kg (global average) person would wipe out Texas, I doubt Canada would feel a thing. An 80.7 kg person (average North American) could pretty much remove Spain and Portugal from the maps, but I'm confident that Romania would probably be fine. Lousy tourists.

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    42 minutes ago, Tom Sewell said:

    Perhaps it surprised Pandora that Nanase didn't kill him, and that inspired her to try to use Magus to get Edward to do it.

    She expected Abraham to live, even though she didn't want him too. She planned that all ahead of time. Surprising her is incredibly rare. Even her nap times have an error margin less than 1% of 1%.

    42 minutes ago, Tom Sewell said:

    I think it should also be noted that Pandora didn't kill Magus. But she could have.

    And it now occurs to me why Voltaire would feel safe next to Tedd and Grace: He could think that Pandora won't use her full power on him when it might hurt or kill them.

    Hmm... Could she, though? We know he doesn't sleep or breathe, and presumably doesn't eat or drink. Is he even really alive right now? Agreed on her not actually trying to kill Magus and Voltaire's meat shield idea being likely.

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    3 hours ago, Tom Sewell said:

    Yes, if she actually wanted it used again. I don't really see Pandora being that devious now that we know it was Voltaire who was manipulating Dex. What she seemed to have in mind was scaring Adrian; I don't think she thought he would be hurt so badly. Either that, or motherly instincts overruled all else, something not limited to mama bears defending their cubs.

    I'm not following you. She said it was important to Magus's future revival, and we have it on good authority that she wants (or at least wanted) him free eventually. She described abandoning Magus after brutally shredding him as "a bit of a tantrum", so it's unlikely that she planned to abandon him at that point. I see no reason to infer that she was being dishonest. Indirect, certainly, but not deceitful.

    I do agree that killing Abraham was always part of the plan, but her stated reasons are more than sufficient to justify it.

    I'm not sure how the Dex incident ties into the statement about her deviousness.

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    On 8/26/2016 at 4:05 PM, Tom Sewell said:

    Perhaps Pandora's plan was to kill Abraham all along. Perhaps the reason no one can destroy the Dewichery Diamond is that it's linked to Abraham--destroy one, destroy the other.

    But this is contradicted by her pointing out that Abraham needed to die for two reasons, one of which was to keep him from interfering the next time the Dewitchery Diamond was used.

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    Sizing issue & adding quote.

    4 hours ago, Scotty said:

    But when Noah came in, the dragon switched focus, and kept that focus, chasing Noah back to the Dojo, Justin can't fly, what was to stop Dex from having the dragon hover out of reach and launch another fireball towards Cheerleadra's location?

    Noah forcibly switched the dragon's attention, and beat it to death (it got better). It only hit him when he was distracted, and by then Justin was coming back to the scene. Then Noah announced that he was going after the summoner to deliberately lure it away.

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    32 minutes ago, The Old Hack said:

    I did find a much simpler way of preventing Hitler from getting into power, one that did not involve shooting him. All you needed to do was to look for him while he was still a painter, pretend to swoon over how magnificent his paintings were and buy them for enough money to set him comfortably up. If you wanted to make sure, surround him with admirers of his art. He'd be ensconced in the burgeoisie and live isolated from the poverty and want that originally lured him into politics. By the time the key years rolled about he would not have the apparatus he needed even if he changed his mind by then.

    That way lies madness.

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    2 hours ago, mlooney said:

    Actually it's canon that Tedd's TF guns and things made from it's tech have a limiter.  Notheing says that non TF gun magic can't do that.

    Most size changes have a protection limited, canonically.

    5 minutes ago, mlooney said:

    Depending on who you ask, sapient is like pregnant, either you are or you are not.  Not really much of a middle ground.
    Which raised some ethical questions about Homo sapiens treatment of whales, the great apes (other than h. sapiens), crows (well, all of Corvus, not just crows),Elephants (both Loxodonta africana and Elephas maximus) and octopuses. To some Canis familiaris and Felis catus might be added to that list. I'm not a PETA member, and in fact hate them, but I try real hard to be members nice to that list.

    I'm really hoping that I'll be able to eventually take a language course in Dolphin. Click-click-whistle-click 101 would be the best.

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    3 hours ago, CritterKeeper said:

    How's this....Voltaire will blithely reassure them he doesn't want to kill Elliot any more, and then go on to explain at least somewhat what Pandora is up to, and the fact that she's been trying to make Magic well-known and available to everyone.  He'll have reasons why this would be Bad For Everyone, which Edward will likely agree with, and try to talk them all into helping him foil Pandora's evil schemes.

    ...

    Voltaire's explanation of why he wanted to kill Elliot should be interesting.  Either the Main Crew finally learn about Magus's existence (and are Les Immortals still watching Elliot, and will that remind them why?), or he'll invent something, likely something that casts Pandora in as bad a light as possible.

    Very much this. And he'all probably hint at Sirleck as her pawn instead of his.