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  2. Posted

    7 hours ago, hkmaly said:

    I still think the story is better this way, but if Nioi is supposed to be good character, she's not doing it well.

    I also suspect this was a case where too little dialog made trouble -- if Nioi had justified her "baby soul" theory with (in-story) rock solid evidence e.g. "We've done it before and it always worked, we've skipped it before and we still have nightmares about the results," then a drastic step like that would feel more reasonable, and Nioi giving such a justification would imply that she knew and admitted that such a step needed a lot of justification.

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    2 hours ago, The Old Hack said:

    Still another way of putting it is that she flooded Ellen with an entire lifetime of memories without her informed consent, which however well intentioned can still only be classified as a violation of her mind and spirit.

     

    Were those additional memories immediately merged into her personal history, or were they initially "as if read in a book" and only became really a part of her when and if she decided to accept them? That would be a way to provide the necessary experience with a lot less violation -- plus, she could assert her individuality by picking and choosing those she wanted to accept.

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    27 minutes ago, The Old Hack said:

    Entirely so, but I think it is equally possible that it was because the genetic manipulation done by the company was so bungled that it damaged Vlad's natural shapeshifting abilities. (This is my preferred headcanon but it is based on nothing else than my own story conceptions, so please feel free to ignore it.)

    Bungled by overloading. Birds, bats, and ... was there a leopard in there, as well as Human and Uryuom? Just being alive to begin with should credit Vlad with a win.

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  6. Posted

    On 2/21/2018 at 8:17 PM, ChronosCat said:

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    Perhaps one day young children will be routinely deliberately exposed to a variety of (harmless) spells to build up their resistance, much like children get a number of different vaccinations these days.

    Tedd could produce one-day transformation wands with pointed ears, cat ears, cat whiskers, puppy tail, green skin, etc. (just one small transformation per wand) for vaccination purposes....we could have play groups with every grade-school child showing a different trivial transformation.

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    1 hour ago, hkmaly said:

    Anyway: I think that Uryuom power is not able to affect clothes (that's why they developed special stretchy fabric as their work clothes instead) and that no spell will be able to teach Grace how to overcame this limitation.

    The trick would be to get the clothes to morph themselves...perhaps a wand sewn into an inside seam with as much energy as Tedd can store in it and a single spell: Stretch/Shrink to fit the person wearing you.

  8. Posted

    21 minutes ago, Vorlonagent said:

    here's a question: Suppose what magic thinks is a small change actually *is* catastrophic for human magic-users?

    All magic must now be used by gestalt beings with at least three components. What do you mean, all humans are individuals? What's an individual?

  9. Posted

    On 02/09/2018 at 11:24 PM, Don Edwards said:

    And Hilbert's Hotel, while mathematically perfect, doesn't rate high for customer satisfaction - making all the already-checked-in guests move to another room every time a bus arrives...

    They actually have a great rating so far -- it will be an infinite time before they fill up. Unfortunately for them, mathematicians can post downvotes based on expected poor service at infinity...

  13. Posted

    Would the magical equivalent of a Dyson sphere be a series of "empowering shelters" laid out along the paths magic follows (does EGS have ley lines?) where magic users can sleep and absorb some usable magic before it finds it's way to a "drain" area like Moperville and gets recycled?

  14. Posted

    Arthur is in an excellent position for an Appeal to Force "argument": He can threaten Tedd's father's job; Tedd's access to alien technology; and possibly Tedd's, his father's, and his friends' freedom.

    Of course, the Will of Magic just might recognize really blatent coercion and stop listening to the person using it...

  15. Posted

    55 minutes ago, CritterKeeper said:

    What the heck is the dark stuff between her mid-thighs?  Did he mean to draw excessive pubic hair, or is it just an unfortunate lack of perception that it would appear that way?

    It's the silhouette of the tiny mouse form she is transforming out of.

  19. Posted

    What about a usually beneficial, ethically neutral spell to improve strength and health by scooping up excess energy -- all the prospective abberation needs to do is overpower it with an intentional disregard for where, how, or from whom the energy is taken.

     

  22. Posted

    I'm seeing this more as a "mother bear" who has lost her sense of proportion and barely remembers that tearing apart someone only indirectly related to a threat to her family might be crossing the line...some member of her family may need to make an impassioned plea not to flash-fry that private investigator, for example.

  23. Posted

    27 minutes ago, Don Edwards said:

    As I understand things, most species of octopus have two common characteristics:

    1) the male dies shortly after mating

    2) the female guards the eggs until they hatch, starving herself in the meantime; by hatching time she's so weak that critters she normally eats - let alone anything nastier - can easily eat her.

    Considering they literally give up their lives for the next generation, I can't see them running up massive debts - that their children and grandchildren will have to pay - for current luxuries.

    This puts a good lower limit on future planning, but inadvertantly puts a strict ceiling on accumulation of wisdom with age -- no one who has raised children is around to advise future generations.