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Enchanting guns and other tech items?
strangething:
--- Quote from: Lanodantheon on July 30, 2008, 07:04:11 AM ---Magical computers just can't work. Not because "It is technology, therefore it cannot work around a Wizard" but because of the magnetics. I've honestly thought about telling you you would need to Macguyver a motherboard and make computer components that run on magic and you would need to be a sensitive, but in the end it comes down to Magnetics. The Hardware of a PC can be duplicated, but the software cannot be. Wizards wipe magnetic storage devices and therefore could not be in the vicinity of a normal hard drive let alone tiny magnetic devices such as Processors with BIOS on them. Without the ability to store and access information, a computer cannot work. Therefore, no magic computers.
Although if I were a wizard I would just get a really long extension cord and go through a lot of mice and keyboards if not make a keyboard out of a typewriter and Macguyver a Trackball.
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Put the CPU in a Faraday cage, as well as the magic circle. A 60's vintage dumb terminal just might hold up better than a modern mouse and keyboard. Our hypothetical technomancer would have to be Unix geek. (Makes sense...)
Stephen:
We know normal magic has a murphonic effect but not that necro magic does nor that fae magic or any other nevernever magic does.
So a gun made and enchanted by the troll smiths (or dwalves, etc if they exist) 'might' resist the murphonic effect better than mundane materials.
If the fae can make a universal unbinding then they maybe able to make a specific murphonic block (which seems like a bad luck curse).
If a gun was your 'holy item' and venerated by many would the collective faith magic embued in the gun cause it to always work when needed, shoot straight, hit well, etc.
As you can see my idea would be to play the advantages of atypical magic forms of which there has been only minor mentions (and there are enough gun enthusiasts to make up a cult).
Stephen
TheMouse:
A faerie gun might resist the effects, but that begs the question as to whether such a thing would exist. The Sidhe seem to go for anachronistic arms and armour when it comes time to throw down. The same seems to be true for the common faeries. You'd need an odd confluence of events to produce a faerie crafted gun.
MacsNewBrew:
--- Quote from: TheMouse on August 20, 2008, 03:27:19 PM ---A faerie gun might resist the effects, but that begs the question as to whether such a thing would exist. The Sidhe seem to go for anachronistic arms and armour when it comes time to throw down. The same seems to be true for the common faeries. You'd need an odd confluence of events to produce a faerie crafted gun.
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Also, steel, or Cold Iron is not something the fae would touch with a ten foot pole. I'm not saying that the theoretical firearm couldn't be made of other stuff (what are their swords made of again), but it would not be something you could just get made without a very heafty price------nevermind, that opens some interesting options for character background and creation.
--- Quote from: Stephen on August 20, 2008, 10:44:26 AM ---We know normal magic has a murphonic effect but not that necro magic does nor that fae magic or any other nevernever magic does.
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Dead Beat's plot development has the mule hiding the Word of Kemmler's location on a thumb drive so Cowl and the likes wouldn't screw him over. Didn't Butters have to put up a circle to get a GPS signal during the Darkhallow? I can't remember if we have seen fae magic around tech before...
I couldn't see a gun having so much veneration that it has a power of faith, unless it was the hypothetical M1 Garand that assinated Hitler. Even then, we would still be talking about a historical artifact, famous maybe, but not something that has a direct connection with peoples' faith.
Stephen:
--- Quote from: TheMouse on August 20, 2008, 03:27:19 PM ---A faerie gun might resist the effects, but that begs the question as to whether such a thing would exist. The Sidhe seem to go for anachronistic arms and armour when it comes time to throw down. The same seems to be true for the common faeries. You'd need an odd confluence of events to produce a faerie crafted gun.
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Oh I wasn't thinking the gun would be a fae idea but as Nic designed the anti-wizard manacles and presumably had troll-smiths manufacture them I was thinking some human would commission the fae (or other nevernever magic capable being) to manufacture the gun.
As an idea it seems entirely plausible but the issue of paying is a big unresolved thing (but some craftsbeing do interesting creations for the sheer challenge).
It also seems to me that one of the Summer/Winter knights would be interested in such a thing (most Summer knights are killed by the Winter knight and Winter knights are into killing) and we know Fix is willing to use guns and is mechanically minded.
Stephen
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