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Double Date - 71 - HD
🕑 Added 2024-09-12 03:00:04 +0000 UTCSuper fast magic
A spell is never late, nor is it early. It is finished being cast precisely when the wizard means it to.
Which is five rounds from now. Somebody tank so I can do this thing.
Commentary
Sometimes there's no natural way for characters to point out exactly how long something took, and that's when narration gets an arrogant grin on its face and nonchalantly walks in.
Tired Rhoda
I'm not THAT concerned about "power scaling" nonsense in EGS. Being super powerful doesn't make that much of a difference to the story, particularly given any ability can potentially be countered in various ways.
THAT SAID, the ability to shrink someone to the size of a doll IN ADDITION to other things THAT quickly? Yeah, Rhoda doesn't get to do that without getting winded. It is officially "a thing she can do", but not for free.
That, and Catalina was DEFINITELY caught by surprise, so there's also how well this would go if someone had their guard up.
(Sorry, Rhoda, it was very impressive, I'm just trying to have a LITTLE balance here.)
Word of ME! is the speed at which she did this was a considerable factor in how taxing it was. Naturally, people can ignore word of ME!, and I can't stop them, but I'll be writing based on word of ME!, so future comics will support this word of ME! if it comes up again.
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Comments
Dan Merget
I doubt Lucy has enough context to understand what she saw. IIRC, she's never knowingly seen someone cast a spell. Even if she saw Rhoda point her arm at Catalina, she doesn't know that's what spellcasting looks like in EGS. For all she knows, EGS spellcasting looks like Harry Potter, D&D, or ATLA. Not to mention that her mind is probably too overwhelmed by "OMG I've never seen anything like that" to focus on anything else for a few seconds. OTOH, between Diane's experience with magic and her innate Sherlockiness, she's probably already jumped to "That was a spell. Rhoda has size-change magic? Oh, THAT'S how the boar got big!"
John Trauger
Winded Rhoda still looks very cute...
Erin Halfelven at BigCloset
I like how messed up is Catalina's hair in panel one. It looks like it's confused, too. :) Which way did he go, George? Which way did he go? :)
Dan Shive
They both saw. Lucy has further questions, however.
Foradain
I received and read this during our Kineticist's turn. Pathfinder revised, if anyone is interested. ^_^
Andrea Andrew
Diane saw that. Looks like Lucy didn’t, though.
