The Old Hack

She says as much. She just doesn't want to risk it.

Kind of like greyhounds. I've seen video of a running greyhound. They are amazing, beautiful creatures. An online friend of mine owns one and it can run much faster backwards than she can run facing forward. It loves being chased but has to give the silly slow two-legs a big advantage for it to be fun.

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.)

I am not precisely stunned, no.

Or loosens their clothes.

I understand Chuck Norris prefers snakes.

I thought it was the job of the regular Wiki posters to do that.

Very good point. Note to all forumgoers here: no matter what you do, do NOT buy Samsung Galaxy S7 transformation wands.

This one is already in TVTropes. It is called 'Cursed with Awesome.'

Magic's weak spot is understanding individuals. People in general would stop using magic. Individual ambitious would-be wizards would continue like no tomorrow. They would likely also die in droves but there would always follow more to replace them. Fred Saberhagen's Empire of the East series and many of the following books are all excellent. I once ran a roleplaying game with this as a premise. The idea was that the players were supposed to stop and reverse the process before it became permanent. There was a neighbouring dimension with a world much like ours and due to an overlap the world barriers became porous. Close to the rifts forming as a result the two different sets of laws clashed. Magic stopped working in the magic world and science stopped working in ours. Worse, magical phenomenae got loose in our world. The good thing, from the POV of the players, was that the science stuff they brought along while exploring the magic world worked over there. The players won in the end though it was a tight race. I have always been a bit sorry that we never got a chance to play out the aftermath. So many people had died and so much damage had been done that much of Denmark had turned into a post-apocalyptic wasteland. (Thankfully for the rest of the world, the effects had not yet spread outside Denmark's borders by the time the players successfully fixed things.) It would have been really interesting to play a game where the players were part of a reconstruction effort and had to deal with lingering effects. For example, one idea I had was that magic still worked in certain areas. My best memory from the game was when the players were chased by a huge horde of zombies. This happened to be in the city of Aalborg which we lived in at the time. There was this plaza where you could always be sure to find hundreds of bicycles parked. Bicycles still worked so my players quickly stole some and left the zombies in the dust. They turned a corner and gave a sigh of relief. Moments later, they had a huge OH SHIT moment as they saw a massive mob of zombies all on bicycles turning the corner in rapid pursuit. (We made SO MANY bad jokes about that, by the way. This happened to be while Tour de France was going on and the pursuing mob instantly got named Tour du Mort. The leading zombie was of course wearing a yellow shirt and the players argued about whether being undead counted as a form of doping... it went on and on.)

I look at stuff the majority of voters want here in Denmark, then I look at our government, and then optimism crawls off to die.

I suspect they would quickly be outlawed. Because, you know, they would be harmful to the children. Sigh.

I admit that I can't get that bit about ancient magical devices and wands beginning to work again out of my mind. That one alone has endless story potential. "So, Will? Would there be any immediate effects of old magical devices beginning to work again we should be concerned about?" "Hmm. The Animated Chess Pieces of Shuma-Gorath would come alive again and follow instructions. That might upset the people in British Museum a little." "That doesn't sound so bad." "Oh, and the Pillars of Infinity that once kept Atlantis from sinking will regain their potency and make it emerge from the ocean anew." "Okay, that is a bit more concerning." "Of course, its re-emergence will cause tidal waves and the oceans to rise one and a half meters, and the Stygian Basin in the middle of the continent will somewhat lower your planetary albedo with a resulting world average temperature increase of approximately three fifths of a degree celsius." "AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!! Gotta keep your priorities straight.

That sure beats a dog and pony show.

That's going to be a blow to its pride.

Well, we do already have Magic and Alien/Technology as possible Origins now. I am sure Mutant and Natural could get a leg in.

Or maybe City of Heroes, World of Warcraft or Overwatch.

That must be why you rarely see one in charge of loans and reinvestments in banks.

Goldarnit, wasn't that hurricane bad enough? >.<

*grabs the List from /me* *writes down Pharaoh's name, underlines it three times and then puts a cartouche around it* *hands List back to /me*

And with the additional delight of system 1 coming back into play again with all its wands and devices working, so you will have TWO competing systems of magic PLUS an unknown but thankfully smaller number of devices of even older systems functioning anew. Anyone want to see if you can actually control the winds with Kusanagi, the Imperial Japanese sword? This way is better. At least you have smaller numbers and will not have two systems of magic spreading at the same time. It may not seem ideal but it is what the Gooniverse is stuck with.

I guess I'd better mobilise my army of hate-trained attack duck-billed platypi, then. *sigh*

It is tagged with 'Weather', just in case people didn't realise what the thread was about. No, I don't get it, either.

Oh cheer up. It could be worse. It could be raining. Where I am, I mean. *looks out the window* ...I should have kept my big mouth shut.

Commentary wrote: WoM: I cannae change the laws of magic! Tedd: Err, you just did. WoM: ... WoM: ...I cannae change them any more!