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Chapter 5 Drop
Snark Knight:
--- Quote from: Mira on July 01, 2020, 10:41:18 AM ---I don't think there are any magical wizard cures for Murphy. LTW's medical degrees are all from vanilla medical schools if I remember correctly. Wizards heal more quickly because of their make up not because of any magical medicine.
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The Alphas seem to have figured out limited adaptations of shapeshifting to healing. They can close wounds quickly - it's not perfect and leaves considerable scars, but that's better than the alternative. But it's not clear Murphy has even the limited potential it would take to learn the werewolf spell, or that their healing would do her any good by the time she put in the years of practice to catch up to the Alphas.
Vriah:
--- Quote from: Yuillegan on July 01, 2020, 03:53:03 AM ---Not to mention, WHY is it that magic is so bad a healing? Harry has bent gravity, manipulates elemental forces, breaks into minds and souls etc. He can even cross space-time and travel across the world like walking through a door (followed by some confusing and sometimes semi-dangerous terrain). But knitting skin and bone together is hard? Repairing ligaments is hard? I get that JB needs Murphy to be injured for the story. But the reasons stated for healing being tricky have NEVER been very convincing. I am not sure why either. It isn't hard to work into a relatively hard magic premise. The things modern science can do now is already incredible. I would expect wizards to at least be that good, if not better. But Harry won't look anyway.
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The things modern science can do now are incredible - but the methods of getting there left a lot of dead patients along the way. And modern medicine still has a huge mortality rate despite all of our advances. In a system where the governing force of magic is famously unforgiving of things like mistakes and accidents, I can understand how medical magic would advance at a snail's pace. If you're using magic to heal a patient and mess up, you've just violated the First Law. Muggle medicine has thousands of doctors and researchers to advance their practices - wizards have a handful of people that all risk the death penalty if their experiment in cell regeneration goes wrong.
Mira:
--- Quote from: Vriah on July 01, 2020, 05:10:58 PM ---The things modern science can do now are incredible - but the methods of getting there left a lot of dead patients along the way. And modern medicine still has a huge mortality rate despite all of our advances. In a system where the governing force of magic is famously unforgiving of things like mistakes and accidents, I can understand how medical magic would advance at a snail's pace. If you're using magic to heal a patient and mess up, you've just violated the First Law. Muggle medicine has thousands of doctors and researchers to advance their practices - wizards have a handful of people that all risk the death penalty if their experiment in cell regeneration goes wrong.
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We are also talking a forty or forty plus woman, age affects extent and length of recovery. There are amazing noninvasive types of surgery now that account for swift recovery. Joint replacement is also being perfected, I find it odd that if Murphy's knee is as bad as described they don't just replace it.
--- Quote ---The Alphas seem to have figured out limited adaptations of shapeshifting to healing. They can close wounds quickly
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Murphy isn't a shape shifting Alpha, they start out being able to manipulate their bodies from human to wolf.. Murphy is a forty year old vanilla human, she cannot manipulate any of her cells. Don't know if it matters or not, but all the Alphas were also teenagers when they learned this spell, young bodies, more adaptable.
Regenbogen:
I still think, Murphy will be taking up a coin some day.
There is the healing. Her being a ragged angel in the Sight, could be foreshadowing of a fallen angel.
And Harry's sex dream in Skin Game. This could have been a mislead. We were supposed to think it meant that Lasciel is back, but it could also have meant that Murphy will be one of the nickleheads soon. I have written that theory down somewhere here.
I still have a feeling this wouldn't be so far fetched.
And it would screw up Harry so lovely. ;)
Poor Harry.
And I loved the chapter. But they should have ignored the door. ;D
edf:
--- Quote from: g33k on July 01, 2020, 02:24:59 PM --- No, Harry mentions the idea -- "getting Faustian" -- and Murphy shuts that down "firmly."
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That discussion is what made me think of it... Also, wasn't Summer described as the force that polices Winter? Murphy has always put what needs to be done ahead of Harry (and other past relationships). She makes a pretty good safeguard against Harry in a few ways. Harry couldn't bring himself to use his might against her, but she doesn't have the same hangups (or priorities).
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