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Comments thread for "The Laws of Magic: Part 3 of 8"
Priscellie:
On the other hand, there's the following conversation between Harry and Bob in Fool Moon. There's no mention of the illegality of such an act...
--- Quote ---What are we doing, now?" Bob sniggered. "More weight-loss potions?"
"Look, Bob," I said. "That was only to get me through a rough month. Someone's got to pay the rent around here."
"All right," Bob said smugly. "You going to get into breast enhancement, then? I'm telling you, that's where the money is."
"That isn't what magic is for, Bob. How petty can you get?"
"Ah," Bob said, his eye lights flickering. "The question is, how pretty can you get them? You aren't a half-bad wizard, Dresden. You should think about how grateful all those beautiful women will be."
I snorted and started cleaning off a space on the center table, stacking things up to one side. "You know, Bob, some of us aren't obsessed with sex."
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Of course, that was way back in the second book, and the magical rules have changed a bit as Jim has grown as a writer. Just thought it bore mentioning. :D
iago:
Plus, Bob is not that much up on the whole human morality thing. There's nothing saying Bob won't occasionally advocate breaking a Law.
SoulCatcher78:
--- Quote from: iago on June 20, 2007, 07:27:54 PM ---That spawns an interesting question to be put to the forum, then: can you think of any grey areas where accidental transformations might occur?
What about transformations that aren't into animal forms -- twisting someone's body (perhaps robbing them of the use of their limbs), but still leaving them a thinking person?
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*cue angent Smith voice* Mr Anderson ( I sooo couldn't help that one).
Accidentally sealing someone mouth shut (or worse yet, their throat) when what you were trying to do was Silence them. Wild talent mistake rather than a full on Wizard screw up but still a possibility.
Matrix Refugee (formerly Morraeon):
--- Quote from: SoulCatcher78 on July 12, 2007, 03:48:27 AM ---*cue angent Smith voice* Mr Anderson ( I sooo couldn't help that one).
Accidentally sealing someone mouth shut (or worse yet, their throat) when what you were trying to do was Silence them. Wild talent mistake rather than a full on Wizard screw up but still a possibility.
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Great minds -- or "Matrix" fans -- do think alike!
Kristine:
--- Quote ---That spawns an interesting question to be put to the forum, then: can you think of any grey areas where accidental transformations might occur?
What about transformations that aren't into animal forms -- twisting someone's body (perhaps robbing them of the use of their limbs), but still leaving them a thinking person?
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Let me count the ways...But really, I think flegling wizards might have a few accidental transformations. If I wanted to change myself into a lion but I really don't know too much about lions I might end up a human with a tail, a mane and long teeth. It would also stand to reason that untrained magic users who are not under the supervision of a trained practitioner (read; future warlocks/sorcerers and/or headless corpses) might tell their friends about their new found powers and, like 'the jedi mind trick', try the 'Disney - Sword in the Stone' -Merlin with Aurthur, tricks. Once again if the newly minted mage doesn't know that much about the animal he is trying to transform the person into, his/her friend could wind up the one with the fangs, mane and tail. Then comes the question of how to change them back - do they know every aspect of the friends apperance? Would the friend look like how the magic user thinks they look? If you can't visualize what they had looked like clearly will your friend end up looking like melted wax? Can you use a picture for visualizations for both the change to and from? If you don't know how gills work can you transform someone into a fish?
I can see alot of these things being a GM's call in the game or you would need and 'accident' transformation table.
Other circumstances where transformations might be 'accidental':
1. Fledgling wizard (I think they would need more training for this one) is a lifeguard and when he/she can't save a drowning person transforms them instead into something that can breath water with the logic that they are better off changed than dead.
2. Fledgling practioner knows a friend who is in a bad home situation - abuse, neglect, basically unhappy - and changes friend into a 'stray' dog to adopt, with the thought to change the person back when authorities stop looking for them.
3. Fledgling practioner knows someone with a degenerative disease or birth defect (scoleosis, club foot, cleft palatte...etc.) and tries to 'cure' the problem by reshaping the flesh.
4. Fledgling practioner tries to give themself and or friend the ability to fly but visualizes a bird instead of wind and kenetic energy.
that's a few I can think of...
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