Tracked down the opening just for that. And yes, Mio does indeed look badass. Of course, she shouldn't be able to keep up with the rest of the girls without magic, but it's Mio, she's not going to let a little detail like that get in the way of doing what she was born to do.

Matrix Dragon, J. Random Nutter

Hopefully even Trude won't try to lug that thing into combat!

(Considering what Erica can do with an MP-40.... but that's not really fair, she was on a chocolate buzz at the time. :-)

Humm. EPU is about my only contact with fandom these days.

>Inazuma, who has Timid Mouse Mode and Get Your Murder On Mode, which
>is always good times. (put on your war paint)
>
And also "Are you sure there's no such thing as a Vampire" mode. :-)

>That scene makes me kind of sad. Poor Nipa, 30 seconds of screen time
>and they spend most of it blaming her for an accident that was
>manifestly not her fault.

Poor girl obviously has luck -20. :-( Maybe she needs to take a spirit quest and find out who put a curse on her. That was the Suomus Misfits, right? So getting her striker fried was much more of an issue than "I'll just add a new 109 to the requisitions list." Also, Suomus.

Another impression I got from the movie is that the magical bonus to damage the Witch's guns get persists (at least for a time) even removed from the witch and her striker. Yoshika could barely pick up Hattori's Type 20, but still got a kill with it.

>--G.

Willard

In the movie? No, that was the 502nd JFW. Nipa isn't in the Suomus Misfits, their storyline (from the original novels) is set much earlier in the war. (Ursula was in the Suomus Misfits, she was 11 at the time.) Come to think of it, I'm not sure any of the Suomus Misfit Squadron's witches were actually Suomi. Their operations officer was, but she wasn't a witch.

>Another impression I got from the movie is that the magical bonus to
>damage the Witch's guns get persists (at least for a time) even
>removed from the witch and her striker. Yoshika could barely pick up
>Hattori's Type 20, but still got a kill with it.

The (very sparse) background info is unclear on whether the witch is actually doing anything to the weapon when shooting it, or if it's just that the ammo is enchanted. (In OWaW I'm proceeding under the assumption that it's kind of both‐the ammunition is treated to be more receptive to wielder magic.)

--G.
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