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The Dresden Files => DFRPG => Topic started by: Bubba Amon Hotep on June 29, 2010, 11:38:04 PM
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Simon reached into the small knapsack at his side and with drew a zip lock baggy. It contained a single ball of play grey playdoh. His colleague looked at him funny. "101 wizarding uses," Simon grinned, "Stick around long enough you might see me use them all."
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Simon pulled a small piece of playdoh from the ball he carried with him, and smashed it against the glass office window. Modern electronic surveillance equipment didn't like his wizards aura. But Simon had read about the basic workings and managed a spell that had a similar result. Walking back to the parking ramp he fashioned the remaining playdoh into a rough bowl and forced his will into it. Sound vibrated things. Such as the Window, and such as the playdoh. The small chunk on the window was "connected" in spirit to the bowl of playdoh he now held to his ear.
"You hear the ocean?" asked his colleague.
"No," Simon shushed. "I hear the phone conversation. They are ordering lunch, but we will soon know more about them."
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"We are going to loose them," Simon's colleague shouted. "You will never be able to hit them with any magical mojo in all this traffic."
"Don't worry." Simon reassured the youth, as he pulled out his ball of Playdoh.
"That again?"
"Before they took off, I placed a little bit under the caps of their valve pressure stems." Simon stated, drawing in power and focusing on the ball of playdoh he held in his hands. "Figured I could use it as a tracking spell. But this will be more fun." Simon began whispering words of power, words of fire, and words of destruction. Once enough had collected at the points on the vehicle ahead of them, he released the link. The small pops of energy ruptured the valves on all four tires and the speeding vehicle slowed to a stop.
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Bugs
Walkie Talkies
Targeting points
Trackable Item
Landmines
Ritual Circle
voodoo doll
Anyone got any others?
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I have no new ideas right now but I just wanted to say how cool of an idea this is. It totally works within the rules and has a very Dresden Files feel to it.
Nice work!
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I LIIIIIKE!
What happens with Silly Putty?????????
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I've got a focused practitioner npc "Kaboomamancer" that could use your Playdoh to blast open a door like a breaching charge. Mold some around the door handle. Step back. Kaboom!
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Take a bit of play-doh, put a put of your spit or blood on it, then stick bits of it everywhere to throw off a tracking spell.
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as a grenade.
as a remote explosion...
you got most of them covered... great idea.
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Shape it into a little person or animal and animate it as the world's smallest golem.
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If you make homemade playdoh you can make a huge batch of it to maximize the potential divisions from the "core batch"
You could even relay. If you break off two pieces, you can do something to the core and get the effect at whatever other pieces you target, but if you use a piece you can't affect other pieces. But if you use a piece to target the core (contained in a circle specifically for this purpose) you could relay through it from your piece to any other pieces.
The only downside is it's only good til the stuff dries out.
Ultimately, definitely more cost effective to make your own playdoh for wizarding.
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Improvised Focus for conjurations/summoning : Shape it like what you want to call/create, so you can call it forth more easily.
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Ilsidario stormed out of the meeting, the keychain already starting his car as he did so. I didn't know what was up myself, but there had to be a reason Simon was smiling. He winked at me and held up what looked like ... well ... basically a four-sided dice made of playdoh.
"You know how you put magic into one thing and then it goes out, right?" the wizard asked, knitting his brows as he focused on the little caltrop.
"Right." I said, still utterly mystified.
"See, what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna bake this one, which, with enough umph, will bake all its little friends."
"Okay." I looked around the room. "So ... and?"
"Well ... we only wanted Ilsidario not to leave, right?"
"Right."
"What if, quite suddenly, his car is surrounded by razor sharp caltrops?"
I heard loud profanity about twenty five feet away. Maybe the vampire wasn't storming away quite as fast as he had wanted to.
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Nice. Hadn't thought about using magic to harden the playdoh. ;)
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"What are you doing?" asked Simon's colleague as he watched Simon continue to smash a chunk of playdoh against his wallpaper. "Are you getting a blood spatter off the wall, so you can track the person?"
"No." Answered Simon, frowning at the wall and smashing the lump of playdoh harder.
"Have you already linked to another chunk of the playdoh, and you are pushing here so the effect will happen there?"
"No." Answered Simon, once more frowning at the wall and smashing the lump even harder.
"Well, I give up what are you doing?"
"Trying to get this stain off the wall," Grinned Simon. "Its been bugging me for days now. You do know that is what playdoh was originally invented for right?"
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This is good. Thanks.
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Nice. Hadn't thought about using magic to harden the playdoh. ;)
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"What are you doing?" asked Simon's colleague as he watched Simon continue to smash a chunk of playdoh against his wallpaper. "Are you getting a blood spatter off the wall, so you can track the person?"
"No." Answered Simon, frowning at the wall and smashing the lump of playdoh harder.
"Have you already linked to another chunk of the playdoh, and you are pushing here so the effect will happen there?"
"No." Answered Simon, once more frowning at the wall and smashing the lump even harder.
"Well, I give up what are you doing?"
"Trying to get this stain off the wall," Grinned Simon. "Its been bugging me for days now. You do know that is what playdoh was originally invented for right?"
ROFLMAO
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An earpeice communicator between you and your team.
There also may be a way to put an enchantment on it to make it act like a babel fish, but that would take a bit of knowledge and some time, and probably only one language per "fish"
You could throw a bunch somewhere and project your voice through it, so your voice seems to be coming from one place or many places.
Also, a bunch in a room could also be used to triangulate the sound and tell you where everyone was in the room, and if you were really good, the triangulation could, a combination of emitting and listening could be used as a form of sonar to help you travel through a space in the dark (and if you think that's too farfetched, there's a Real World method some blind people are using to locate obsticals in their path by clicking their toungs and listening to the echos).
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A heating element so you can have hot running water.
Four pieces on the wall, two top and bottom corners, corresponding in the movie theater. Watch movies at home.
As a receiver for satellite TV.
As moldable keys to open locks.
To replay a scene in a area. Like Mab did.
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A controlling agent (for the black magic practicioners among you)
Form the playdoh into a form of food, sausage or peas or as pastry.
Glamour said playdoh so that it resembles and tastes as it looks
Use the ingested playdoh to control your subject.
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A variation on the controlling idea: let the subject ingest the playdough and then have the practitioner reclaim it as part of the whole. One playdough sized hole in the subject. Similar to the John Hurt scene in Alien.
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A variation on the controlling idea: let the subject ingest the playdough and then have the practitioner reclaim it as part of the whole. One playdough sized hole in the subject. Similar to the John Hurt scene in Alien.
Or, as it is Playdoh, the John Hurt scene in spaceballs.
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Playdoh placed on a book. Earphones plugged into Playdoh. Audio books read by James Marsters. :)
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Or, as it is Playdoh, the John Hurt scene in spaceballs.
# Hello my baby, hello my honey, Hello my ragtime gal .... #
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A heating element so you can have hot running water.
Four pieces on the wall, two top and bottom corners, corresponding in the movie theater. Watch movies at home.
As a receiver for satellite TV.
As moldable keys to open locks.
To replay a scene in a area. Like Mab did.
I think the heating element is the best idea yet!!! (do you think some day Harry will get one of those solar black box water heater thingies?)
As a Television... a bit harder. I don't know if I'd want to spend the time putting all those tiny balls of red, green and blue playdough next to each other. Then you got to think NSTC, PAL, HIDEF. All those different Row and Line numbers...
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As a Television... a bit harder. I don't know if I'd want to spend the time putting all those tiny balls of red, green and blue playdough next to each other. Then you got to think NSTC, PAL, HIDEF. All those different Row and Line numbers...
Just use TV a carcass (no insides). Just let the glass doorknob do the projecting. ;)
The only wizard who doesn't have to worry about format changes. :D
Steampunk Wizard. Sounds like fun.
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Simon reached into one of his pockets and pulled out a small film case. working quickly he fastened the piece of playdoh from the canister to a nearby wall.
"In cases like these I like to use some of my special stock." With that Simon and I Started running again.
Big n' hairy was catching up with us quick, unlucky for him as he passed the inconspicuous doh Simon took the small amount of playdoh he had left and shouted "FORZARE!"
The baddie not only flew through the wall of the hall but we also heard the shattering of glass from the Refrigerator sized hole it made on it's way out.
"Had that piece attached to the front of my car collecting energy for a week."
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Simon reached into one of his pockets and pulled out a small film case. working quickly he fastened the piece of playdoh from the canister to a nearby wall.
"In cases like these I like to use some of my special stock." With that Simon and I Started running again.
Big n' hairy was catching up with us quick, unlucky for him as he passed the inconspicuous doh Simon took the small amount of playdoh he had left and shouted "FORZARE!"
The baddie not only flew through the wall of the hall but we also heard the shattering of glass from the Refrigerator sized hole it made on it's way out.
"Had that piece attached to the front of my car collecting energy for a week."
hehehehe
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You could mould it into a mouse shape, enchant it so that it moves like a mouse and use it to snoop on other people.
The mouse took life, and once I had set it down scurried off towards the building. I watched as it wriggled inside a small crack in the door, the tail the last thing to thread its way through. I squished a small amount of the remaining doh into my ear and triggered the link. Conversations came and went as it ran through the house, until it finally came upon the room where they were speaking. As the two men talked I wondered how I could give the next one a pair of eyes.
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How about using it to disguise yourself?
A. Roll it around in your hands so that it's as warm as you and covered in dead skin cells, then place it on your face to change the shape of your nose, cheeks, chin and forehead. You'll be ugly but unecognisable.
B. If you're more artistic, you can create a sculpture of your face and then mold it in to how you want to look.
This trick may also work with allies and enemies. May also work with body shape and species. :)
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^I liiiike. ;D
Could you use different shades of playdoh around your eyes that would change your eye colour?
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yes, but would option B result in a playdoh mask, or an actual alteration of your facial structure, thus hurting like a Bee-yotch?
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Option B would be an actual alteration of facial structure, drastic changes might be done with ectoplasm (aka spiritual playdoh) or perhaps a magical anaesthetic would be part of the spell (in which case, a counterspell would really hurt!)
As to coloured playdoh, well it might help to cast the spell but it wouldn't be a necessity in my opinion but hey, who knows :)