Thoughts upon rereading D-Genesis - there will be spoilers, of course.
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@Isshou said in Thoughts upon rereading D-Genesis - there will be spoilers, of course.:
Maybe Keigo needs to spend quite some time on the 10th floor collecting Darkness Magic VI orbs... give everyone they need to protect a hellhound of their own.
muashahahahah!
As the flavor text said
You shall open the doors of Hell, calling forth your servants. In the end, you shan’t be able to return them, and thus, the surface shall become a paradise of darkness. -
Volume 3 next.
In retrospect, ttl's cover art is intriguingly spoilerific in a manner such that there's no freaking way you'd be able to figure out in advance. -
I've commented concerning Naruse being a sharp cookie?
She just sprang the "Notice which must be posted at the leased property" bit, and got such a ho hum reaction that she gleefully taunted them concerning their having a solution to the Difficulty of Slimes.
All they could do was sit there and take it.
Parties, stats, and Making.
Kei does something nice for Saito and Ryoko...and Miyoshi castigates him for pushing them beyond single-digit explorers in their abilities.
The only one with higher states is...Kei.
Uh whoops!
I suspect Naruse is starting to think all you need do is hint at a Skill Orb and wait a couple of days and D-Powers will deliver.
Naruse has now learned of Naruse's involvement with D-Powers; on the other hand, Naruse was aware of her sister's association with them considerably earlier.
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"Testing, testing, do you read?"
D-Cards, parties, telepathy, and admissions placement testing.
Oh...joy.Saiga remembered the "flaw" Naruse reported concerning the stats measurement device D-Powers was funding the development of.
Inability to detect stats is de facto proof of not having obtained a D-Card.
D-Powers can provide the device needed.However, even if this did work out, D-Powers would firmly oppose being called saviors. When Saiga imagined their displeased expressions, he broke out into a delighted smile.
Let's just say that D-Powers is a never ending headache for Saiga.
He's ecstatic at the opportunity to return the favor. -
Comic Market...with the Smiths.
So, if they all had D-Cards and formed an extended party, would they be PSmIth?
apologies to Phil FoglioAll your libraries are belong to us. | Those who do not read shall not eat.
Help me, Satomi-san. You're my only hope. | Fight! Yurika!
Croquettes, Baguettes, and Books, oh my! -
Following how Rokujo Komugi gets approved by Saiga for contact with D-Powers...man, is her LUK ever effective.
Reality is bent in her presence, and she hasn't a clue; it's just how things are.
Saito actually said it.
“All right! Yay! Yaaay! With Yoshimura around, I’ll be invincible!”
"I'll be invincible!" is the death flagiest death flag ever.
This is before her expedition to the tenth floor of Yoyogi, which resulted in the first appearance of The Phantom.
Midori wears glasses.
Miharu doesn't.
This places me in quite the quandary, as normally I'm fully on Team Glasses.
But it's Naruse Miharu....ttl does good artwork...
Seeing Miyoshi disappear into the kitchen, Simon leaned forwards and began speaking in a hushed tone.
“Does this room have any measures against bugging? Wiretapping?”
“Come on,” I responded. “You know the answer to that.”
And indeed he did; he agreed that if his country wasn't penetrating their precautions no one else was either.
This made it much easier to 'talk to himself' in the presence of Miyoshi and Kei and not be concerned with his breach of security being detected by his superiors.
The Volume 4 reread is now complete.
Volume 5 awaits.All your libraries are belong to us. | Those who do not read shall not eat.
Help me, Satomi-san. You're my only hope. | Fight! Yurika!
Croquettes, Baguettes, and Books, oh my! -
@Geezer-Weasalopes said in Thoughts upon rereading D-Genesis - there will be spoilers, of course.:
Comic Market...with the Smiths.
So, if they all had D-Cards and formed an extended party, would they be PSmIth?
apologies to Phil FoglioShouldn't that apology go to Wodehouse? :)
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@Crey said in Thoughts upon rereading D-Genesis - there will be spoilers, of course.:
@Geezer-Weasalopes said in Thoughts upon rereading D-Genesis - there will be spoilers, of course.:
Comic Market...with the Smiths.
So, if they all had D-Cards and formed an extended party, would they be PSmIth?
apologies to Phil FoglioShouldn't that apology go to Wodehouse? :)
Buck Godot, Zap Gun for Hire : PSmIth Second volume in the series by the renowned Phil Foglio.
PSmIth is a hive mind, the result of a multigeneration experiment in human development; the PSI being the indication that "Smith" is a psionic entity.
So given Asha's bodyguards being thought of as "Smith", a reference to Will Smith's performance in Men in Black, if they formed a party and were thus in telepathic communication the proper reference term would become "PSmIth"...Having just done a search on "Smith" and "Wodehouse"...
The possibility that Phil Foglio was aware of Rupert Smith cannot be discounted; Foglio is the creator of Girl Genius as well as being a fan of funny in all forms. It would be difficult to believe he hadn't come across Wodehouse.
I, however, wasn't familiar with Rupert Smith; I've read little Wodehouse, and that several decades back and purely as a result of reading Scream for Jeeves, a Wodehouse/Cthulhu pastiche collection written by Peter H. Cannon published in 1994. -
@Geezer-Weasalopes Ah sorry, haven't read the Phil Foglio book. The first thing that came to my mind was "Leave it to Psmith" by Wodehouse when I saw your post. Purely based on name, unlike your actual chain of associations. :)
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It was then that I realized we had completely made up our minds to train her. Even though, looking back on it, we had absolutely no obligation to do so. There was the matter of Mining, but we could have worked out something else.
Maybe that was just the start of Komugi’s tremendous LUC stat taking effect.Hokay.
Kei did consider that they were being influenced by her LUC of 41.@Crey said in Thoughts upon rereading D-Genesis - there will be spoilers, of course.:
@Geezer-Weasalopes Ah sorry, haven't read the Phil Foglio book. The first thing that came to my mind was "Leave it to Psmith" by Wodehouse when I saw your post. Purely based on name, unlike your actual chain of associations. :)
While I've been amazed by how many folks in the JNC forums appear to have similar background in US & British SF & Fantasy &c to me, that's not always the case.
This was a somewhat obscure reference.
It's a somewhat obscure work, relatively speaking.All your libraries are belong to us. | Those who do not read shall not eat.
Help me, Satomi-san. You're my only hope. | Fight! Yurika!
Croquettes, Baguettes, and Books, oh my! -
@Geezer-Weasalopes said in Thoughts upon rereading D-Genesis - there will be spoilers, of course.:
"I'll be invincible!" is the death flagiest death flag ever.
So much truth here!
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@Geezer-Weasalopes And here I thought it was a reference to Phil Foglio, old school illustrator of Magic the Gathering cards.
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@Outinthegardener said in Thoughts upon rereading D-Genesis - there will be spoilers, of course.:
@Geezer-Weasalopes And here I thought it was a reference to Phil Foglio, old school illustrator of Magic the Gathering cards.
Same guy.
Phil's been involved with a lot over the years.
As can be seen in a perusal of his Wikipedia entry.
Quite a lot, in fact.I've met him, once, at a convention in Portland, Oregon.
He's a very nice guy in person. -
@Geezer-Weasalopes said in Thoughts upon rereading D-Genesis - there will be spoilers, of course.:
@Crey said in Thoughts upon rereading D-Genesis - there will be spoilers, of course.:
@Geezer-Weasalopes Ah sorry, haven't read the Phil Foglio book. The first thing that came to my mind was "Leave it to Psmith" by Wodehouse when I saw your post. Purely based on name, unlike your actual chain of associations. :)
While I've been amazed by how many folks in the JNC forums appear to have similar background in US & British SF & Fantasy &c to me, that's not always the case.
This was a somewhat obscure reference.
It's a somewhat obscure work, relatively speaking.One I rather liked, though. :) It's a crying shame the final Gallimaufry arc never got a collected release, and the next-to-last issue had poor distribution and was very hard to find.
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@Travis-Butler said in Thoughts upon rereading D-Genesis - there will be spoilers, of course.:
@Geezer-Weasalopes said in Thoughts upon rereading D-Genesis - there will be spoilers, of course.:
@Crey said in Thoughts upon rereading D-Genesis - there will be spoilers, of course.:
@Geezer-Weasalopes Ah sorry, haven't read the Phil Foglio book. The first thing that came to my mind was "Leave it to Psmith" by Wodehouse when I saw your post. Purely based on name, unlike your actual chain of associations. :)
While I've been amazed by how many folks in the JNC forums appear to have similar background in US & British SF & Fantasy &c to me, that's not always the case.
This was a somewhat obscure reference.
It's a somewhat obscure work, relatively speaking.One I rather liked, though. :) It's a crying shame the final Gallimaufry arc never got a collected release, and the next-to-last issue had poor distribution and was very hard to find.
It got an ebook release.
All three have, in fact.
Available via DriveThruComics.
Their TopatoCo shop only has the first two volumes. TopatoCo deals in hardcopy. -
@Geezer-Weasalopes said in Thoughts upon rereading D-Genesis - there will be spoilers, of course.:
@Travis-Butler said in Thoughts upon rereading D-Genesis - there will be spoilers, of course.:
@Geezer-Weasalopes said in Thoughts upon rereading D-Genesis - there will be spoilers, of course.:
@Crey said in Thoughts upon rereading D-Genesis - there will be spoilers, of course.:
@Geezer-Weasalopes Ah sorry, haven't read the Phil Foglio book. The first thing that came to my mind was "Leave it to Psmith" by Wodehouse when I saw your post. Purely based on name, unlike your actual chain of associations. :)
While I've been amazed by how many folks in the JNC forums appear to have similar background in US & British SF & Fantasy &c to me, that's not always the case.
This was a somewhat obscure reference.
It's a somewhat obscure work, relatively speaking.One I rather liked, though. :) It's a crying shame the final Gallimaufry arc never got a collected release, and the next-to-last issue had poor distribution and was very hard to find.
It got an ebook release.
All three have, in fact.
Available via DriveThruComics.
Their TopatoCo shop only has the first two volumes. TopatoCo deals in hardcopy.Right, collected physical release was what I was talking about.
The first two (along with the MythAdventures adaptations Foglio did) got very nice color releases on quality paper; the third arc was just released in b&w on typical cheap comic book paper.
Never knew DTC did ebook releases, tho.
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@Travis-Butler said in Thoughts upon rereading D-Genesis - there will be spoilers, of course.:
@Geezer-Weasalopes said in Thoughts upon rereading D-Genesis - there will be spoilers, of course.:
@Travis-Butler said in Thoughts upon rereading D-Genesis - there will be spoilers, of course.:
@Geezer-Weasalopes said in Thoughts upon rereading D-Genesis - there will be spoilers, of course.:
@Crey said in Thoughts upon rereading D-Genesis - there will be spoilers, of course.:
@Geezer-Weasalopes Ah sorry, haven't read the Phil Foglio book. The first thing that came to my mind was "Leave it to Psmith" by Wodehouse when I saw your post. Purely based on name, unlike your actual chain of associations. :)
While I've been amazed by how many folks in the JNC forums appear to have similar background in US & British SF & Fantasy &c to me, that's not always the case.
This was a somewhat obscure reference.
It's a somewhat obscure work, relatively speaking.One I rather liked, though. :) It's a crying shame the final Gallimaufry arc never got a collected release, and the next-to-last issue had poor distribution and was very hard to find.
It got an ebook release.
All three have, in fact.
Available via DriveThruComics.
Their TopatoCo shop only has the first two volumes. TopatoCo deals in hardcopy.Right, collected physical release was what I was talking about.
The first two (along with the MythAdventures adaptations Foglio did) got very nice color releases on quality paper; the third arc was just released in b&w on typical cheap comic book paper.
Never knew DTC did ebook releases, tho.
The conglomerate that comprises the DriveThruWhatever storefronts has pretty much all of their stock as ebooks; at least I've no recollection of coming across anything that was hardcopy. That could just be that I've not been looking for physical so my eyes glazed over, who knows.
Donning/Starblaze were the initial publishers for the first two graphic novels, while the MythAdventures adaptations were published by WaRP Graphics (Wendy & Richard Pini's publishing house.) The Gallimaufry 8 issue comic was published by Palliard Press, which Phil co-founded. The Buck Godot stuff is being reissued under the Airship Entertainment label; Airship starts as digital and then goes for Kickstarters to fund hardcopy, I don't know if there's enough interest to fund the third Godot volume to their standards. Airship distributes via TopatoCo for physical and DriveThru for digital, as their primary venues as best as I can tell.
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Decided to reread a bit.
Book 1 Prologue:
“The surrounding scientists hurried over to shake the hand of Dr. Theodore Nanase Tyler, who had led the experiment.”Um what? Nanase? Is there some extra Japanese connection being foreshadowed here? I completely missed this before and nothing has come of it yet through book 5.
Book 1 before using Making, Keigo notices that his high quality green tea tastes different. This is something I did not notice before. What I am unsure of is why he thinks so, as we will shortly learn that his massive SP gain has not been distributed to any stats. I can think of easy explanations had his SP been distributed, but other than getting his D-Card and a massive amount of SP, nothing should be affecting him. Right after the rebar killed whatever was down at the bottom of the dungeon, it did say he felt his body lift up. I assumed this just to be a reaction to the gaining of all the SP, but putting this together now it implies something more.
Book 1 while talking to Iori after the Water Magic orb acquisition, Major Terasawa realizes the possibility or Making based it being on the watchlist.
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@sorvani said in Thoughts upon rereading D-Genesis - there will be spoilers, of course.:
Book 1 while talking to Iori when she gets Water Magic, Major Terasawa realizes the possibility or Making based it being on the watchlist.
Iori didn't get Water Magic. It went to three "old" guys.
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@Almond-Magnum said in Thoughts upon rereading D-Genesis - there will be spoilers, of course.:
@sorvani said in Thoughts upon rereading D-Genesis - there will be spoilers, of course.:
Book 1 while talking to Iori when she gets Water Magic, Major Terasawa realizes the possibility or Making based it being on the watchlist.
Iori didn't get Water Magic. It went to three "old" guys.
Yeah, I worded that bad. I meant at that meeting. Edited my post.
