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WAG on murphyonic effect
Quantus:
There's also a simple yet massive difference in scale. Binder can use a cell phone and looks middle-aged while having been alive for over a century. Molly could not so much as use a phone or iPod and she's on the low-end of raw power on the Council.
jonas:
--- Quote from: dspringer1 on August 08, 2017, 06:17:10 PM ---It is a truism of the Dresden universe. Every creature has weaknesses. The Fey do (iron), the vamps do (sunlight or true love), loup Garou have inherited silver, etc. Wizard's weakness vs technology is just their weakness.
If this is a universal law, then it cannot be assigned to someone as weak as Mab (in the grand scheme of things...)
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Is it a weakness though? Consider, if you get enough practitioners all over world wide(say 3-4) then Technology becomes obsolete, NOT the other way around though. So, weakness or...? ???
raidem:
I have the WAG that Murphy gets inserted into a time loop to take the place of Mab. And perhaps even a Mother Murphy possibly getting inserted for one of the Mother's. Then we have a Murphyonic irony where the effect is in part due to either Murphy.
Quantus:
--- Quote from: jonas on August 08, 2017, 06:28:56 PM ---Is it a weakness though? Consider, if you get enough practitioners all over world wide(say 3-4) then Technology becomes obsolete, NOT the other way around though. So, weakness or...? ???
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Not going to happen unless the Wizard-to-Vanilla ration shifts pretty hard, and by then it would have moved on to some other effect.
But the original theory proposed was that all these effects (Murphionic effect currently, but the Fire and Milk and Warts issues previously) where all put in place specifically to make Wizards easier to identify, that the Fae "are limiting mortal practitioners any way they can".
jonas:
--- Quote from: Quantus on August 08, 2017, 06:33:12 PM ---Not going to happen unless the Wizard-to-Vanilla ration shifts pretty hard, and by then it would have moved on to some other effect.
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Instead of throwing me another hypothetical for us to argue about, what about just the singular point made? Wizardy trumps technology, not the other way around.
--- Quote --- But the original theory proposed was that all these effects (Murphionic effect currently, but the Fire and Milk and Warts issues previously) where all put in place specifically to make Wizards easier to identify, that the Fae "are limiting mortal practitioners any way they can".
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That would imply a being capable of altering magic and how it interacts with mortals itself. Kinda steps on the toes of the woj magic has no 'consciousness' connected to it. I see no other way a being could take such control over the very fabric of mortal magic itself. I mean the idea it used to be controlled by an entity gets in a loop hole, but actively defines it? If anything TWG and his order of business seems to take precedent upon magic, especially when you compare mortal lawbreakers with those immortals that define the balance.
I think my theory covers all those things you mention, except fire, am I missing a passage on fire? Milk, warts, technology...fire? ???
*all those things at their historical points of entry were defined by a belief or superstition based in an idea behind bad luck even the bug in the proverbial machine.
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