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Crazy Wilhelm:
Not sure if this is precisely the proper place to ask, but what's the Fourth Law say about a simulated reality scenario? Creating a false life and false experiences for a child, for instance, to create a fictitious "past" for the subject in question? Questions of magical viability aside, how illegal is something like this? No direct mental coercion or force, just the dynamic deception of the senses into perceiving a series of places and events that are entirely imaginary as true and visceral.

blackstaff67:
If you mean generating illusions via Spirit that anyone can see, then simulated reality is fine.  A wee bit unethical (I know the movie you're thinking of  ;D ) especially when applied to children, but probably not an out-and-out 4th Law violation...though the Wardens would probably be watching you and making a dossier.

Tedronai:
Even 'beaming' the illusion directly to the sensory aparatus of a specific individual such that only that person experiences the false stimuli shouldn't likely be lawbreaking, so long as you don't skip the sensory organs and jump straight to inserting the illusion into the mind (which really would be much easier, and who's to say those Wardens will ever find out, or are even right when they say it's a bad idea...*evil-grin*).

Crazy Wilhelm:
Cool, thanks for the input. I kinda thought that it might be okay, albeit veering pretty hard into the dubious realm of questionable pursuits. I figured if there was nothing invasive or coercive about it, heads wouldn't necessarily have to roll.

Tedronai:
Do keep in mind that it is entirely plausible for the point at which 'heads need to roll' to be entirely distinct from the point at which souls begin to be corrupted, and that either one of them might plausibly precede the other.

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