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Forum Name: Our Witches at War/Gallian Gothic
Topic ID: 87
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#2, RE: GG Book 2 Act II: La Grande Rencontre
Posted by Peter Eng on Sep-24-20 at 11:42 PM
In response to message #1
>> "Big bro's cooking tonight. Something called 'pizza'?
>> I've never heard of it, but Meiling seems excited," she added with a grin.
>
>Two questions unanswered: How good of a home pizza chef is G
>(especially without, one assumes, specialized equipment?)And are the
>Scarlet sisters right-thinking sentient beings who enjoy pizza, or
>heathens who deny its inarguable tastiness?
>

Assuming pizza followed the same course in this universe that it did in ours, it's possible that they've never eaten pizza like Gryphon's making.

Wikipedia: "...until the late 19th or early 20th century, the dish was sweet, not savory..."

>> Gryphon chuckled and finished tying his shoe. "Indeed. I'm even a count!"
>
>I forgot about the (mostly honorary though with Kaiser Fritz who can
>tell) ennobling G received until now. The question is, when Remilia was
>being dramatic about her own, did -he- forget, not want to tempt fate
>and possible vampiric irritation, or just save it as an ace in the
>hole in case of emergency?
>

I just checked the date stamps. He arrived at Maison Écarlate two days before the Kaiser signed off on Gryphon's ennoblement, and Gryph didn't find out for a while after that, because snail mail.

>> Her magical sensitivity to patterns of force and power, even operating at its
>> subliminal out-of-combat level, was whispering to her that the tiny woman
>> standing here laughing and bantering with her witches was a formidable
>> presence, one who could be a powerful ally or an implacable enemy, and Minna
>> would much prefer the former.
>
>Is Minna the only witch likely to have mojo radar, or just the most
>sensitive?
>Also, always a good idea to not poke the bear, especially when it
>seems happy. Though I don't think Remilia's temper is quite that
>Mercurial.
>

It seems logical to spread that specialty around, so there's probably other witches with her specialty of enhanced situational awareness in other Joint Fighter Wings. Whether or not there's enough is probably impossible to answer.

>
>Also, given all the commentary about how fraught this maneuver is,
>repeating it, and seemingly planning to do so more often, seems like a
>bit of tempting fate. But I may just be paranoid due to other authors,
>and, you know, real life.
>

Well, he is working on it. I suspect that Gryphon's idea of best results is finding somebody who can figure out how to undo whatever's been done to Maison Écarlate so he doesn't have to loop himself in order to get a night with Remilia. He probably sent out letters seeking specialists on that first thing, but with speeds being limited as they are, it'd probably take two or three months to get somebody in the area, especially since long-term temporal displacement and the removal thereof is not a combat specialty.

On the bright side, it's already been two months...

Peter Eng
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