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Question Mark Pt 3 is the twenty first storyline chapter in EGS:NP. It started with EGS:NP Comic for 2015-04-08 and ended with EGS:NP Comic for 2015-05-18. It's canon and follows after the first part, although not immediately.

Summary[]

At night with Sarah was trying to sleep and not having much success. Then Pandora Chaos Raven appeared before her (as small girl, floating, with light) saying that she almost didn't mark her and that she can't even really watch what Sarah is doing with her spell.[1]

Sarah complained about Pandora making light without warning. Pandora was surprised by her reaction to ancient being of tremendous power, and Sarah explained that she reacts to paranormal stuff in one of two ways: curiosity or sass, and Pandora got sass because she hurt Sarah's eyes. Pandora replied that she made good decision with Sarah.[2]

Sarah asked Pandora why she marked people but Pandora refused to answer. She instead explained the less apparent part of the spell, starting with how dangerous it is:[3] not directly, but because she can discover things people kill over.[4] She specifically warned her to not tell Edward Verres,[5] mentioning that he would be likely to add that to her file in DGB[6] and that the last person with this spell was strong-armed into government work.[7]

Then she talked about how Sarah can abuse the spell for frivolous fun:[7] with enough practice, she can move in the simulation ignoring laws of physics, make whatever changes she likes and even make the people act out in illusion of autonomy. The disadvantage is that the more she changes, the less accurate the simulation becomes[8] - her imagination and expectation starts to affects even things she didn't wanted to change. For example, when checking for magic marks, finger snapping their clothes away could result in seeing mark that doesn't truly exist, while manually undressing them or switching bodies with them would be more accurate.[9]

Sarah's reaction to switching bodies told Pandora that she switched body with her sister. Sarah responded that that part of the spell is on a hair trigger.[9]

The third point is that Sarah actually has affinity for this spell. Sarah mentioned that another immortal (Jerry) didn't find that ([10]) and Pandora explained that this affinity is hard to detect and that Sarah doesn't have enough power to use it,[11] only being able to cast it inside the Moperville's high ambient magic area, and that if she wants to awaken and have magic after this anomaly disappear, or elsewhere in the world, she needs to use that spell a lot.[12] Pandora specified that using the spell in rapid succession would be less effective for that purpose. She also mentioned that she was unsure if Sarah would awaken or become abloe to cast the spell without ambient energy first since the spell is powerful and Sarah's power is weak.[13]

Pandora then mentioned that the original idea with the shape of mark was to troll Sarah, because she expected it would take longer for her to find out what it does. Sarah blushed realizing that Pandora saw her naked, and Pandora reacted that she's hundreds of years old so it's nothing new to her.[14] Sarah remembered the 200 years limit ([15]) and asked how old Pandora is, and Pandora answered little more specifically: that she is answering question to her age with 299 for a few centuries now.[16]

When Sarah asked how often Pandora watched her and her friends, Pandora mentioned that other immortals may also be observing Sarah and her friends, and that as long as they abide by certain agreements, immortals are only seen when they wish to be seen, and that includes other immortals,[17] though young immortals haven't learned to be undetectable.[18]

Pandora finished by saying she wanted something in return from Sarah: to not be boring. Then Pandora disappeared with her light.[19]

Sarah concluded that she would not sleep that night.[20]

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