Phil and Hue continue to learn about how Phil’s powers work, and they are continually impressed by the methods that the null ability uses to protect it’s user. So areas recently affected by magic hold enough magic still to be prevented from having an effect on the Null. If a rock were to be thrown into the air with magic and then left for gravity to do it’s thing, it would loose momentum and fall to the side because it had recently been touched by magic. Yet, some things act differently. Why do some thing stop and drop, while other things return from where they came? Why was Lia able to control water into a fluid and gaseous form around Phil? Is it possible that the null power can somehow determine what is a negative effect of magic and a positive effect? Or is there something more behind it? Is Sage done asking questions? Or is he just getting started? Yeah he’s done, later folks! ^_^
“you obviously undid part of the hole” oh obviously hue.
so phil has a undo button…neat
This is too much, i am crying….
“Is Sage done asking questions?”
Sage is never done asking questions. Ever.b
Phil is a cheating hacker!
Phil is Imagine Breaker… If you get that reference you get 10 internet cookies.
“By the power of Google, I command you!”
Or simply S-E-Space. Free Robe DLC if you get this one.
Magicka? That’s the combo for “Nullify”.
Eeeyup.
Touma is way cooler than Phil. But Phil is way more fortunate.
Agreed. Touma’s stuck with Index. Phil’s stuck with Kate. There’s really not that much of a contest there. 😛
Touma does have a little Misaka on the side though, so it’s not all bad. Of course, he also ends up in the hospital a lot more often…
i dont know i think id rather have 1 Kate then Index and Misaka together, and i thin id rather have Phils friends over Toums
What if I were to throw Kanzaki Kaori into the mix?
I don’t know, I think Touma is more fortunate, while Touma has lots of bad luck, he also has insanely good luck, just not the kind of luck you would normally notice, including crowley making a bad decision related to him, and being liked by at least three beings who could wipe the floor with anyone in Yosh, and one who is essentially a god. Phil on the other hand, seems to have plain old good luck, with his friends, and enemies.
arent alot of internet cookies bad?
Ithink my comment up and vanished o.o since i dun see it here….
Hmm might have to go back and reread some earlier sections. I’m wondering if phil’s powers are possibly sentient or something similar?
Welp, that pretty much answers my questions. The energy of Magic doing work is stored, so work is undone in the presence of the Null, causing entropy to decrease.
Aaand that’s the second law of thermodynamics out of the window. For every one we fix, we break another….
Also, cue Phil running around the hole filling it in like dragging a window across a frozen Windows Background, leaving behind images of itself. I can see it and now you can too.
Phil is seriously Bink from the Xanth series, lol.
yes, but more free time
This is sounding more and more like Bink from the Xanth series, minus the ability doing everything it can to prevent itself from being known; Phil’s ability doesn’t care who knows
So, he didn’t so much as “fill in” the hole as he did “un-dig” it.
who here would like an undo button on things like phil? … me!
Phil is just full of surprises ^_^
So Phil can never walk over a magical tunnel or he will trap anyone in it. So what happens when something is in the space Phil ”undigs”?
Nope, not exactly, defining Phil’s power is more complicated than that. But some people are on the right track ^_^
Well I’m sure I’ll undersand eventually. At least by the time you deem it fit to point at it and say ”This is how it works”.
I guess Phil is kind of like superman in that he has all these powers but only discovers them when it’s convenient.
Except he doesn’t have multiple powers, just one with a oddly broad use. 😛
Can he project his powers unto others, making them immune to magical effects as well?
This would be a perfect time for phil to skip around the hole refilling it anti-magically saying “neener neener” all the time
Is there something more behind it? Is Sage done asking questions? Find out after the break!
Phil’s power is a lot more complex than it seems when summed up as ‘an immunity to magic.’ It makes my head hurt a little but a lot of thought has clearly gone into this- true devotion and a really interesting (and seriously cool) story mechanic. XD
Phil’s subconcious theory for the win if his subconscious thinks it should harm him it wont