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  1. Posted

    The sword is a case of her summoning an item from her chest.

    The Stun Hammer is a separate spell and doesn't require a hammer in her chest.

    Nase is technically a summon from her chest, but the spell was heavily modified by mixing with Nanase's magic and she can summon multiple fairies.

    So, the question is whether Susan is incapable of summoning extra weapons or whether each extra weapon summoned weakens previously summoned ones?

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    7 hours ago, Maginomicon said:

    I joined largely just to post this.

    Ever since I started following this comic, years and years ago, I always felt (knew, really) that this issue... this topic... was THE moral question of the entire webcomic series. Given the power to help millions of transgender and genderqueer and genderfluid and other non-binary people around the world, the restriction of gender-transformative magic / alien technology to so few people... so few (in this light) socially-irresponsible children... people who take for granted what they have here, is an utter travesty.

    Mr Verres has no excuse, certainly. Tedd has little excuse, but they and their father grew up taking for granted their situations. I have been continually amazed however that Grace has not picked up on this issue yet. She made specific targeted efforts to learn about humanity's worst hours, but seemingly has failed to realize the severity of the tragedy of what every trans person has to go through every day now? Trans people in our modern age are persecuted, suffer, and even die every day because of something they did not choose.

    This topic is so important to me (although I am not trans) that if EGS does not do this topic justice at this juncture, if it does not treat it with the somberness it deserves, I don't know whether I'll be able to continue reading it at all, continue to respect it at all, and especially whether I'll be able to continue recommending it to my non-cis friends.

    I think it is unfair to say that Mr. Verres has no excuse.

    First, you have to consider that the purpose of having a "veil of secrecy" in a comic like this is to maintain some semblance of "our" world.  And in our world the government just voted to take away basic health care from millions of people for no reason.  It is not hard to consider that in the Shiveverse there is a large part of the government that is against using tech or magic to help people.  Especially people that they don't believe exist or don't believe should exist.  Verres has limited power to help people...pretty much his only choice would be to break the veil and I doubt that would work.  It certainly would sink him in a hurry.

    Second, Uruyuom tech is inherently time-limited.  I don't believe we've seen any cases of a permanent transformation without mixing it with other magic or using it on a natural shapeshifter.   I wouldn't doubt that there are good hearted people who are trying to figure out a way to use the tech to help trans people (without revealing the existence of Uruyuoms to the public), but the time limitation would make that quite difficult.

    And the fact that magic itself doesn't want to be widely known limits your ability to use magic to achieve the same effect.  Even assuming that Tedd's permanent spell isn't something as rare as he himself is.

    I wouldn't be surprised if this story goes into some of the reasons why magic and Uruyuom tech isn't used to help everyone, not just trans people.  It's gotta be something Dan has thought a lot about.

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    It's actually amazing how many people I've seen complain that Bethesda didn't give the Legion a "good ending" (by which they mean an ending as satisfying as any of the others).  They genuinely think that the Legions methods should have been able to result in a better world.

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    No, Melissa's done with Justin.  All settled now.

    I'm not sure Susan will quite so eager to leave her mother alone, barring what she finds out about the Diane situation.  I kind of wonder whether she and Diane would end up sharing an apartment?

    What they need is a big ol' rooming house where they can all live together.