So, you're telling me that you're using a befunge-esque* spell-programmer?
Befunge?!?!
Seriously...
*Okay, it's not nearly a tenth as bad as befunge, but that's what it kinda looks like.
Is befunge-esque bad? It sounds like it's bad. But yes, it appears to be befunge-esque. Proves my hypothesis that at this point of time it is impossible for human to have single original thought that has not been thought by anyone else ever before. My quest for sensible magic system you can research resulted this time something like this.
But you are correct in almost all other accouts.
3 is
modify property and C on
speed, although I'm wondering if it's good way to represent it as such.
I like that you could technically make some kind of wicked-looking heiroglyph with that. If you had the time to replace letters and numbers with purpose-made glyphs, it could be really immersive.
Yeah, it would be very easy to do. I have been thinking that too.
Let's add more symbols. What you can do with these?
So~ this might create a ball of kitten, and launch it forward at a speed of 100 m/s
Alternatively, it is either a flame in the shape of a kitten, or a burning kitten. Or a ball in the shape of a kitten - that last one's gonna give a backlash, I fear, because it sounds midly impossible.
All of that, by changing 1! single part of the equation. Better never teach that kind of magic to our dorfs then.
0
V
1<G<B
V
2<3<C<X<X
It creates a
ball cat and launches it forward at a speed of 100 m/s.
Cat is sustained, but I'm not sure what it would mean in this context. Perhaps it's immortal cat, not having need to eat or drink...
1<G
^
0<F
A rather unique spell devised by the spell-blade assassins of Snoogar (who devoutly believe that everything hideous must die so that adorableness can live) this spell is used to quietly dispose of bodies by transmuting dead tissue into cats. Once cast on a corpse, the spell continues until the body is consumed, generating a pile of adorable kittens in the process.
Surprise your friends and start the party with a bang by using this on the main course at tonight's dinner party! Kittens for everyone!
Well, that was fun. Back to work.
Create would make stuff from nothing, so this continuously creates cats. Interpreting this system can be hard because in this case
sustain is modified by
flesh and it doesn't make sense.
Sustained by flesh would make sense, but by what flesh it is sustained? No, this doesn't work with
flesh as expressed. If we have
transmute represented by symbol 5, then we could have it.
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F>5<G
This would continuously transmute existing flesh into cats until there's no longer flesh to transmute. Though this brings question, is flesh being transmuted cats or are cats being transmuted into flesh? Well, cats are already flesh (and bones) so it makes more sense to move from board term to more precise term.
Without
sustain it would transmute only one cat's worth of flesh.
Yes please.
F
V
1<0<1<D
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Does this continuously duplicate the caster? I'm not sure.
Create sustain create sustained caster flesh. No, doesn't work. First
create doesn't have any indication what it creates. If we drop it and turn sustain around, then we get this:
F
V
0>1<D
^
0
This creates new immortal chunks of caster's flesh as long as spell keeps going on. If we drop
flesh then it would make immortal copies of caster. Immortal in sense they wouldn't need food or water to keep living.
D > 4 < G
I am now a kitty!?
(I may or may not be doing this right )
Combine caster and existing cat. You are a furry now. An amalgamate.