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Re: Inherent Vice
« Reply #15 on: September 21, 2016, 09:41:37 pm »

Establish a sympathetic bond between a magically stunted fractal formation and an absolute mass concentration. The fractal formation will require a displacement effect so that its presence is separated from its substance so that its substance can be reliable influenced by control measures including a permanent but variable suppression field. Place the unstable object in the presence of the fractal formation and reduce the suppression field.

The entropy nullification effect of of the absolute mass concentration will flow out of the fractal formation in accordance with completing the formation's stunted progression, to the limit of the magnitude of the nullification effect that is permitted through the suppression field, thus establishing the diameter of the entropic nullification...

Obviously this will need to be monitored for degradation of the suppression field. Should the field weaken sufficiently then the absolute mass concentration will have too much entropic nullification leached from it and explode with the force of a million million suns, but you weren't actually living in the vicinity of the black hole anyway, so what does it matter? It just means that you safety field failed and you need to hook it up to a new source of entropic nullification before your potions explode...
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« Reply #16 on: September 21, 2016, 09:43:28 pm »

PTW, May make suggestions.
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« Reply #17 on: September 21, 2016, 09:48:20 pm »

Establish a sympathetic bond between a magically stunted fractal formation and an absolute mass concentration. The fractal formation will require a displacement effect so that its presence is separated from its substance so that its substance can be reliable influenced by control measures including a permanent but variable suppression field. Place the unstable object in the presence of the fractal formation and reduce the suppression field.

The entropy nullification effect of of the absolute mass concentration will flow out of the fractal formation in accordance with completing the formation's stunted progression, to the limit of the magnitude of the nullification effect that is permitted through the suppression field, thus establishing the diameter of the entropic nullification...

Obviously this will need to be monitored for degradation of the suppression field. Should the field weaken sufficiently then the absolute mass concentration will have too much entropic nullification leached from it and explode with the force of a million million suns, but you weren't actually living in the vicinity of the black hole anyway, so what does it matter? It just means that you safety field failed and you need to hook it up to a new source of entropic nullification before your potions explode...
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« Reply #18 on: September 21, 2016, 09:53:08 pm »

Have a priest of a god of Chaos bless several glass boxes so the least likely thing is much more likely to happen, then have several large unintelegent humanoids store the potions, it is most likely the whole room will go BANG and thus nothing will explode.
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« Reply #19 on: September 21, 2016, 10:08:53 pm »

Store them in a room along with mundane volatile explosives, so nobody can prove it was the magical ones that went up.
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Re: Inherent Vice
« Reply #20 on: September 22, 2016, 01:42:05 am »

...great deals of magic are inherently fairly unsafe in this universe. As is blatant terrorism.





Okay, next one! Fairly old one, this. You've gotta prepare a room or something for a beast that can hypnotize and mentally control anyone that looks directly at it, and has a lot of dextrous tentacles. Some specialised tentacles are very thin, and quite weak, and given some time will work their way through imperceptibly through someone's ear to their brain, allowing them to control the person.

The beast is extremely intelligent, about the size of a horse, and people must be able to observe and preferably access the creature.
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« Reply #21 on: September 22, 2016, 01:47:03 am »

Paint it pink and give everyone earmuffs.
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Re: Inherent Vice
« Reply #22 on: September 22, 2016, 01:47:10 am »

"great deals of magic"
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« Reply #23 on: September 22, 2016, 03:35:42 am »

Pfft, "great deals of magic". It's just borrowing a tiny little bit of nature from a black hole from hundreds of light-years away... Or did you mean like, if magic gives you a great deal, like, a Create Icecream spell that requires half as much bioenergy to cast as can be obtained from consuming the created icecream?

Put them on a table in an underground cool-room, magically immobilise the crate, then disintegrate the table.
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Re: Inherent Vice
« Reply #24 on: September 22, 2016, 09:06:16 am »

Pfft, "great deals of magic". It's just borrowing a tiny little bit of nature from a black hole from hundreds of light-years away... Or did you mean like, if magic gives you a great deal, like, a Create Icecream spell that requires half as much bioenergy to cast as can be obtained from consuming the created icecream?

Put them on a table in an underground cool-room, magically immobilise the crate, then disintegrate the table.
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« Reply #25 on: September 22, 2016, 12:49:05 pm »

Magically reinforced "one way" mirrors compose of the walls, flooring, and ceiling of the room.  Through in some magic lighting and there you go.

If such things don't mundanely exist, I suppose conjuring a solid steel room, 6 inches thick all around, with magic sensors placed on each wall, corner, ceiling, and floor in such a fashion as to provide all around vision on the subject, all linked to different scrying glasses in an observation room which is not connected to the containing room in any other potential fashion, should work. If we're concerned about feeding it, there should be a spell or two that can set up to allow one to summon food into the containing room without actually entering it.
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Re: Inherent Vice
« Reply #26 on: September 22, 2016, 09:02:07 pm »

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Re: Inherent Vice
« Reply #27 on: September 23, 2016, 03:13:01 am »

Paint it pink and give everyone earmuffs.
This would work surprisingly well. You'd have to keep reapplying the paint, but that's not too much of a problem.


Magically reinforced "one way" mirrors compose of the walls, flooring, and ceiling of the room.  Through in some magic lighting and there you go.

If such things don't mundanely exist, I suppose conjuring a solid steel room, 6 inches thick all around, with magic sensors placed on each wall, corner, ceiling, and floor in such a fashion as to provide all around vision on the subject, all linked to different scrying glasses in an observation room which is not connected to the containing room in any other potential fashion, should work. If we're concerned about feeding it, there should be a spell or two that can set up to allow one to summon food into the containing room without actually entering it.
Okay, lets stop using magic to solve all our problems. In the next example, you're no longer a wizard.

Good grief. I guess this is inconvenient enough to be allowable though.







Right. In the next example, you are no longer allowed to use magic, because you're too overworked and nobody else has a licence.

You have to store a certain material with the following properties:

Magnetic
Density:17 g/cm3
Nonconductive
Melting point Degrees Celcius 1020
Boiling point Degrees Celcius 3348
Capable of spontaneously turning into static electricity and then back again after a short time. So of course, if it gets to anything earthed, it will flow into the ground and never be seen again.

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« Reply #28 on: September 23, 2016, 03:46:59 am »

Remove the arms and legs from a troll and make it semi-permanent by capping them off with something solid and held in place with greater force than regeneration can provide. Seal the lower exits from the troll's stomach. Nail a grounding pin into the top of the troll's stomach to have the material return to the storage area. Hang the troll from the roof using a rope. Store the material inside the troll.

I swear, if you ask us to be ethical next time...
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« Reply #29 on: September 23, 2016, 06:35:18 am »

Take a large glass jar with a cork lid.
Line the lower half of a glass jar with metal foil, both on the inside and the outside.
An optional step is to drive a metal nail through the jar's cork, with a length of chain capable of reaching the bottom, and ground the outer foil - it won't affect the storage capability, but can be used to access the electricity.
Put the material inside the jar and cork it.; to be on the safe side seal the lid (including the nail) with paraffin wax.

Yes, that was a Leyden jar.
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