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 Post subject: 11/22/06 Urrk! No... It's fine
PostPosted: Tue Nov 21, 2006 11:04 pm 
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So I wonder if we're gonna find out what's wrong with her, or if it will just be glossed over as a 'half elf thing'

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I'll place a bet for "glossing over".

What I'm interested in knowing is whether or not Meji and Ian are going to join the picture soon, they were after all going to travel so Santauriel.

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So I wonder if we're gonna find out what's wrong with her, or if it will just be glossed over as a 'half elf thing'

Tuberculosis is looking like a good bet. Nasty.

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Fun. She is doing a Hyatt.

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 Post subject: Re: 11/22/06 Urrk! No... It's fine
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So I wonder if we're gonna find out what's wrong with her, or if it will just be glossed over as a 'half elf thing'

Tuberculosis is looking like a good bet. Nasty.

Or asthma, or emphysema, or some bizarre lung mutation...


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Her lungs are infested with mice?
Or mindworms!

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She just choked a little while swallowing is all

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I'd bet T.B. as well.

It would fit right in with the 'western' theme that we're approaching now. At least visually.

... At least for Riley. And other things as well.

... That and Riley's halfelf resistance to magic makes treatment blah blah blah.

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glossed over as a 'half elf thing'


Voting this. They aren't main characters and to give more screen time to a set of characters that at most might watch Ian and Meji approach their cart before healing all of the half elves in their little enclave, seems odd.


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Chaz wrote:
So I wonder if we're gonna find out what's wrong with her, or if it will just be glossed over as a 'half elf thing'

Tuberculosis is looking like a good bet. Nasty.

Or asthma, or emphysema, or some bizarre lung mutation...


I only know of TB where the victim can cough up blood and still walk. Asthma and empysema are nasty but don't usually have coughing up blood as one of the symptoms, not while the victim is still mobile.

She's begining to look like a female Doc Holliday.

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Slamlander wrote:
BloodHenge wrote:
Boss Out of Town wrote:
Chaz wrote:
So I wonder if we're gonna find out what's wrong with her, or if it will just be glossed over as a 'half elf thing'

Tuberculosis is looking like a good bet. Nasty.

Or asthma, or emphysema, or some bizarre lung mutation...

I only know of TB where the victim can cough up blood and still walk. Asthma and empysema are nasty but don't usually have coughing up blood as one of the symptoms, not while the victim is still mobile.

Lessee, here . . . :-?

Dammitalll, someone put a call in for House, MD.

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Dammitalll, someone put a call in for House, MD.


You called?

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Nono, he was obviously looking for a house in Maryland.


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...nice. I already like these characters, and this is only the second comic with them in it. I'm wondering if they're from the same village as Ian..? Maybe they will see him flying across the sky with Meji and start to wonder, thus sparking their own adventure to investigate...

Edit: Oh, they are from the same village. And more ellipses!! ... ... ... ...

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Looked up the symptom under the fancy medical term, "hemoptysis." Looks like there are actually a number of thngs that can cause people to cough up blood other than tuberculosis. Not sure if any are actually the result of birth defects, although "various heart problems" could certainly fall under that.

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There are many underlying disorders that can cause hemoptysis (coughing up blood), ranging from heart problems to trauma to infections to lung disease. Worldwide, tuberculosis is the most common cause of hemoptysis. In industrialized countries, the United States included, the most common causes are bronchitis, bronchiectasis, and bronchogenic carcinoma. In patients with AIDS, the most common cause of hemoptysis is pneumonia. In about 15% to 30% of cases, the underlying problem is never found—undiagnosed hemoptysis is commonly referred to as idiopathic hemoptysis. Other etiologies (causes) include pulmonary infarction or embolism, various heart problems, vascular disorders, pulmonary AVM , trauma, and many others, several of which are described in the following paragraphs.

found here http://www.pulmonologychannel.com/hemoptysis/causes.shtml

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Arteriovenous malformation (AVM)
AVM is a congenital (present at birth) childhood disease characterized by the presence of abnormal arteries and veins throughout the lungs. The abnormalities cause internal damage to the lungs and eventually cause loss of function.

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 Post subject: Re: 11/22/06 Urrk! No... It's fine
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Slamlander wrote:
BloodHenge wrote:
Boss Out of Town wrote:
Chaz wrote:
So I wonder if we're gonna find out what's wrong with her, or if it will just be glossed over as a 'half elf thing'

Tuberculosis is looking like a good bet. Nasty.

Or asthma, or emphysema, or some bizarre lung mutation...


I only know of TB where the victim can cough up blood and still walk. Asthma and empysema are nasty but don't usually have coughing up blood as one of the symptoms, not while the victim is still mobile.

She's begining to look like a female Doc Holliday.

You raise a good point. I didn't notice the blood the first time I looked at the comic.


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yeah, my vote also goes to: "non-specific half-elf afflliction, as yet incurable by conventional & magical healing methods Syndrome"*. Just like nearly all the other half-elves introduced in the comic so far, with the possible exception of Meji. (although her exaggerated behavorial instabilities could be a manifestation of that also).

I include Ian into that bunch, because prior to his encountering the Pedagogusi (sp), he showed similar signs, first seen here when Ian said his body was resisting certain types of magic: http://www.errantstory.com/archive.php?date=2003-07-21 (and for that matter, Meji said that she has been having trouble with some similar magicks herself in the same strip).

Instead of trying to determine the specific medical causes of Leah's particular manifestation of the aforementioned "syndrome", why not just agree that to some degree, ALL half-elves are either affected from birth in some manner, OR have a very high rate of predetermination for it, and that the cause is due to some kind of genetic wonkiness between Elven and Human genes.

Granted, there are some incidental half-elven characters shown in parts of the comic (especially those regarding the history of the half-elves) where no visible physical manifestations are seen, but that doesn't exclude the possibility that they may have had some kind of psychological/emotional/mental abnormalities, nor does that exclude the possibility that there may be some cases where such a genetic abnormality may prove to be of benefit to an afflicted half-elf in some way (eg. ranging from possible resistance to various harmful ("black") magicks, to being able to "see" wavelengths of light extending beyond the normal visible light spectrum (ie. infrared & ultraviolet), to having a prehensile catgirl-style tail, for all we know.

Who knows? (well, Poe and Impy would, but you know what i mean)

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 Post subject: Re: 11/22/06 Urrk! No... It's fine
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Chaz wrote:
glossed over as a 'half elf thing'


Voting this. They aren't main characters and to give more screen time to a set of characters that at most might watch Ian and Meji approach their cart before healing all of the half elves in their little enclave, seems odd.


Ahem.
Jordan Kennedy and Bush Moneymaker...

Need I say more?

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Gambit3le wrote:
trVekor wrote:
Chaz wrote:
glossed over as a 'half elf thing'


Voting this. They aren't main characters and to give more screen time to a set of characters that at most might watch Ian and Meji approach their cart before healing all of the half elves in their little enclave, seems odd.


Ahem.
Jordan Kennedy and Bush Moneymaker...

Need I say more?


Those were the main characters. Hence why they got all of the screen time.


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trVekor wrote:
Gambit3le wrote:
trVekor wrote:
Chaz wrote:
glossed over as a 'half elf thing'


Voting this. They aren't main characters and to give more screen time to a set of characters that at most might watch Ian and Meji approach their cart before healing all of the half elves in their little enclave, seems odd.


Ahem.
Jordan Kennedy and Bush Moneymaker...

Need I say more?


Those were the main characters. Hence why they got all of the screen time.


I think his point was, they started out as extras and *then* got all the screen time, becoming the main characters by displacing the old ones.

ES, though, seems a bit more thought-out than EN was (at least early EN), so I doubt that will happen again here.

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