Your favourite kind of magic?

[Izanagi009_v1legacy]

I think this Escapist article is worth a read. [http://www.escapistmagazine.com/articles/view/columns/criticalintel/10302-I-Hate-Magic] It very neatly and intelligently summarises what I've been trying to say throughout my last few posts.

What, doesn't that sound similar to what Index uses for its magic: rituals and spells grounded in interpretation of scripture or folk lore?

regardless, we may be looking for different things. You want broad interpretation of the world while I want a more systematic approach

speaking of which, did you read the index wiki and some of the spells in it? it is kind of hard to explain what the spells are like without being too much of a fan.

 

[sageoftruth]

Divination for me. If any important questions come up, like "Where did I leave my keys?", "What will happen if I take this job?", "Which company should I invest in?", "Is the guy who cut me off a jerk or just having a bad day?", etc. I'd just divine the answer.

Entropy(manipulating probability) is just plain better.

"I'll find my keys in the next place I look.", "This is the winning lottery ticket.", "The robber's gun is going to stovepipe and he's going to slip and break his neck when he tries to pursue me."

It is, in many ways, but there's still some things that I'd feel much better just knowing. With the power of Divination, perhaps politics actually would make some sense. I could watch a debate and know exactly when people are lying for once. I can't use entropy to make my party win if I don't even know which party I want to win.

 

[Cerebrawl]

Divination for me. If any important questions come up, like "Where did I leave my keys?", "What will happen if I take this job?", "Which company should I invest in?", "Is the guy who cut me off a jerk or just having a bad day?", etc. I'd just divine the answer.

Entropy(manipulating probability) is just plain better.

"I'll find my keys in the next place I look.", "This is the winning lottery ticket.", "The robber's gun is going to stovepipe and he's going to slip and break his neck when he tries to pursue me."

It is, in many ways, but there's still some things that I'd feel much better just knowing. With the power of Divination, perhaps politics actually would make some sense. I could watch a debate and know exactly when people are lying for once. I can't use entropy to make my party win if I don't even know which party I want to win.

But then with divination you'd only know which one you'd want to win, and have no way of making it happen(assuming we're stuck with just the one type of magic).

And don't bring up mundane ways of manipulating the vote, the corrolary is that there's mundane ways of getting the information, like wiretapping, bugs, hacking email, etc.

Sidenote is that mind magic is better in this case as you can both find out what the politicians goals are, and affect them directly. Heck doesn't matter who wins if you can just make the winner do what you want them to.

EDIT: Oh and entropy: "the politician will think the mike is off when it's not and reveal his real intentions". / "someone will leak his backroom deals to wikileaks/news site".

 

[sageoftruth]

Divination for me. If any important questions come up, like "Where did I leave my keys?", "What will happen if I take this job?", "Which company should I invest in?", "Is the guy who cut me off a jerk or just having a bad day?", etc. I'd just divine the answer.

Entropy(manipulating probability) is just plain better.

"I'll find my keys in the next place I look.", "This is the winning lottery ticket.", "The robber's gun is going to stovepipe and he's going to slip and break his neck when he tries to pursue me."

It is, in many ways, but there's still some things that I'd feel much better just knowing. With the power of Divination, perhaps politics actually would make some sense. I could watch a debate and know exactly when people are lying for once. I can't use entropy to make my party win if I don't even know which party I want to win.

But then with divination you'd only know which one you'd want to win, and have no way of making it happen(assuming we're stuck with just the one type of magic).

And don't bring up mundane ways of manipulating the vote, the corrolary is that there's mundane ways of getting the information, like wiretapping, bugs, hacking email, etc.

Sidenote is that mind magic is better in this case as you can both find out what the politicians goals are, and affect them directly. Heck doesn't matter who wins if you can just make the winner do what you want them to.

It's settled then. We need a master of entropy and a master of divination to join forces. Together, we'd literally be God.

 

[Wyatt Wilkerson]

I would go with a sort of life death biology control type thing. lost in the woods i can grow a plant with my will alone, a person attacks me cleave their very cells causing massive gashes of dead flesh to form on their body.

 

[Fifty-One]

I was always impressed with the concept of Van Hohenheim's light transmutation from Fullmetal Alchemist. So I'd say magic that allows you to manipulate light.

 

[Peterpan]

Mine would be to summon anything out of thin or heavy air. Then when you are in a cell you can summon a key. In a fire? Summon water. Drowning? Summon scuba stuff. Want some money? Summon it. Want a girlfriend? Summon one. Want to leave? School summon a hologram. Want the test answers summon them. In a fight summon a gun. Hate someone? Summon a safe above their head.

 

[Jolly Co-operator]

Wind magic. I don't like attracting a lot of attention, and I could at least work subtly with wind.

 

[Denny Crane]

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