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Oh, I do agree; I really was just Wild Mass Guessing (which I realise that I may not have made sufficiently clear—my apologies if this is the case).

edited 30th Apr '15 8:03:37 AM by ArsThaumaturgis

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It's a good one, though. Agent Cranium being related to Sarah would make sense.

edited 30th Apr '15 8:10:43 AM by TobiasDrake

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Thank you. ^_^

I do still prefer my previous theory that Pandora, Sarah and Tedd are all blood-related. (... Do immortals have blood?)

It's a little less likely, granted, but I find it more fun. :P

edited 30th Apr '15 3:41:29 PM by ArsThaumaturgis

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Trouble is, Immortal-human breeding ends with elves (half-immortals), as they are apparently infertile. Maybe you could do some tampering with a Uruyom egg or something, but it's not going to happen naturally.

Wait... tech like the TF gun was designed for reproductive purposes. Presumably an elf could use one to transform into a fertile human being, with a chance of transferring some magic genetically...

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Good on yer Tobias, you had it right.

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Avoiding the obvious troll attempt...

For the main comic, I feel like that's Ellen trying a bit too hard to not be like Elliot. Of course, she could be doing that just to get a rise out of Nanase (which she totally would do) or Diane (who kinda deserves it).

For NP, first, that last panel is how to tempt without being too heavy-handed. Much better.

For Tobias being right... yeah, even though I don't trust everything Pandora says, I'm inclined to believe her this time. In this case, it wouldn't behoove her at all to lie. Since it's in her own interest that Sarah use the spell as much as possible (to corrupt Sarah or to use Sarah as a pawn in something else), it wouldn't make sense to limit Sarah's use of the spell (by area, in this case) unless the limit was not imposed by Pandora herself.

Something I also just realized - Pandora is specifically giving out effects that are very subtle at this point. The three we've seen of late are Luke's aura sense (outside of hijacking his senses, not sure how anyone besides Tedd could pick it up), Tedd's Gender Bender ability (which could be overlooked based on the fact that he already had that via the TF gun) and Sarah's reality bubble (which Pandora apparently can't check up on). In short, Pandora's trying to hide for the moment while setting things up. I suspect that the two amnesiac immortals are the ones she's hiding from, but there are a few possibilities.

Also, I can see just how Sarah's going to be found out. If her power eats up a noticeable chunk of magical energy, anything that can detect ambient magical energy (admittedly, so far, apparently only the whales) would be able to detect said drop... and whoever's at the epicenter of it.

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I see potential conflict a-brewin'.

This power is something Sarah's wanted for almost as long as we've known her. Not necessarily this spell, but she's been distressed by her muggle uselessness for a long time now.

As the crew investigates into the source of the ambient magic energy in Moperville, there may come a point when "Find out where the ambient magic comes from" is replaced by "Stop the ambient magic." It is in Sarah's best interest that the latter objective not succeed.

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Well, conflict or personal growth. It's been impressed upon Sarah multiple times (most prominently by Jerry) that there are upsides to being a mundane in a magical world. Sarah hasn't taken to it, but maybe she'd finally see the wisdom of that and would willingly give up the chance at power.

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This also gives us the potential for Sarah to not just use the spell but greatly abuse because if something does happen to the magic supply she'd want to be able to use it naturally without it as soon as possible.

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Ellen's been a good source of humour of late, I'm finding; today we have her "wait, what" face in the fourth panel and her reading of the Aesop in the last. ^_^

(Most of my other thoughts on both the main page and the NP page have been covered by others, I believe.)

Obvious troll attempt? If you mean my mention of Ellen being cute while eating, I meant that only as teasing, not trolling, I believe... :/

I apologise if that wasn't conveyed. :/

edited 1st May '15 7:50:29 AM by ArsThaumaturgis

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Is it me, is dan getting lazy? I swear the last page featuring ellen biting a pizza could be a cropped version of this page. just flip the eyes.

edited 1st May '15 8:23:37 AM by stevebat

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Nah. I examined them. They're freakishly identical but I'm not 100% sure it's a copypaste job, there are enough differences in the details to say they're not the same.

Make no mistake, Shive is lazy, but not in that particular way.

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I'm inclined to agree with Mousa: the two panels are very similar, but there nevertheless are differences—look at the shading of Ellen's hair above her right ear, the detail of the ear itself, and the toppings on the pizza, for a few examples.

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Glad I wasn't the only one wondering why she keep taking a bite of the the pizza she'd already eaten.

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I mean, Shive is being lazy in that he's just modeling off of the first bite of a piece of pizza each time, rather than a more realistic modeling involving the pizza getting smaller with each bite. Copy/paste, though, not unless he put quite a bit of effort in image manipulation (and if you're going to put in that effort, put in the effort to draw a pizza slice missing some bites).

I suppose one could assume that Ellen either is eating pizza that fast, or she's just taking one bite out of each slice of pizza. The former seems a bit unlikely (that's more Nanase's gag), and the latter's just plain rude.

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Actually, the pizza is getting smaller each bite. Look it close and you will see it. A easy way is to count the pepperonis. The first image had 3, the second 2 and a half, and the last only 2.

edited 1st May '15 12:53:29 PM by Heatth

Ellen takes small bites.

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Building off of that, Ellen doesn't actually take bites: her mouth works more like a grinder or woodchipper, continuously mulching whatever is fed into it. "Nom" is just the sound of the works moving into gear after loosening to allow speech.

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Yeah, Ellen is apparently taking some really small bites then - that pizza only barely looks smaller, and I thought it was due to zooms in and out rather than consumption. Well, at least she isn't eating one bite out of each slice.

This. This is why you have a demonic duck.

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\*snrk* Ashley. Ashley. Look first, point second. XD

(And while we're at it: just tell him why you don't want to head to the bookstore!)

Regarding Ashley losing her sense of time while in bookstores, I've actually done something similar myself, albeit in a home and with a video game. In short, I was there to work, was shown a (at the time) cool new game, and ended up unwittingly using most of my time there playing it. ^^;

edited 4th May '15 8:00:54 AM by ArsThaumaturgis

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I suspect everyone has some activity that they do which causes them to lose all track of time (I have several; I'll leave it at that rather than run down my list of hobbies).

Though since you mention it, it seems a bit strange that Ashley has an entire rant about labels but can't seem to say that she gets easily distracted for long stretches of time in bookstores.

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Maybe she just doesn't want to admit that she's one of those people who will sit down in the aisle and read the entire book like this is a f*cking library rather than pay for the damn thing.

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Guys, I found the former bookstore employee!

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Uh, yeah. That's totally despicable. I surely never did that, for three whole books of a series. Nope, not me.

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