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Eagle_eye

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Roll to rewrite the dictionary
« on: January 06, 2013, 05:35:52 pm »

You are a master linguomancer, or were, until an unfortunate usage of imprecise language transformed your attempt to get ahead in a competition to a request for a head. Through sheer luck, not only have you maintained the continuity of your consciousness, but the head was that of a young linguomancer's apprentice. Unfortunately, such clever tricks as landed you in your present situation are well beyond his/your capacity. Indeed,the young man was evidently only able to swap the most basic of nouns. Nonetheless, it is a start.

You find yourself in the wilderness, alongside a freshly decapitated corpse. There is dense foliage all around.

Spells:
      Novice Noun Swapping

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Spinal_Taper

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Re: Roll to rewrite the dictionary
« Reply #1 on: January 06, 2013, 05:59:46 pm »

The foliage is now berry bushes.
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Eagle_eye

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Re: Roll to rewrite the dictionary
« Reply #2 on: January 06, 2013, 06:05:32 pm »

You are unfortunately incapable of performing adjectival transfiguration, but you do transform the trees and shrubbery into bushes. All the plants in a small radius around you are now bushes, though fortunately not the grass directly under your feet.
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javierpwn

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Re: Roll to rewrite the dictionary
« Reply #3 on: January 06, 2013, 06:09:39 pm »

Turn gravity into gravy
Turn planets into plants
Turn hair to hare
« Last Edit: January 06, 2013, 06:13:39 pm by javierpwn »
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Spinal_Taper

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Re: Roll to rewrite the dictionary
« Reply #4 on: January 06, 2013, 06:12:52 pm »

Change the leaves into charcoal. Change the bush into a house.
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GreatWyrmGold

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Re: Roll to rewrite the dictionary
« Reply #5 on: January 06, 2013, 06:16:18 pm »

Turn gravity into gravy
Turn planets into plants
Turn hair to hare

+1, +1, +1, assuming a Suggestion-game-type format.
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Re: Roll to rewrite the dictionary
« Reply #6 on: January 06, 2013, 06:18:26 pm »

There is no discernible effect.

Unfortunately, you misspeak and swap word order. All the plants around you have been turned into small planets, and now coat the ground.

You transform your hair to little strips of hares. Not only that, but the effect has mysteriously achieved some sort of magical resonance, and a hare you see nearby now has tiny hares where it once had hair.

You turn the leaves into charcoal, and quite effectively. Indeed, so effectively that there is no sign of any living plantlife for miles around. You have killed the entire forest.

You speak, and the nearest bush transforms into a spectacular mansion, complete with a marble fountain and serving staff.
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Re: Roll to rewrite the dictionary
« Reply #7 on: January 06, 2013, 06:22:08 pm »

Change servants to slaves. Change water to drank. Yes that is spelled properly.

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Re: Roll to rewrite the dictionary
« Reply #8 on: January 06, 2013, 06:22:16 pm »

Turn grass into linguinomicon
Turn dirt into stone
Turn charcoal into coal
Turn stone into tar
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Eagle_eye

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Re: Roll to rewrite the dictionary
« Reply #9 on: January 06, 2013, 06:27:48 pm »

You transform the servants. Congratulations on ruining some perfectly happy lives.

Unfortunately, you are not capable of Verbing.

There's no grass left. You turned it all into planets.

You transform the dirt under your feet to stone.

You turn the charcoal into coal. Unfortunately, it was pure coal, and the impurities in the charcoal are forced out, flying off and killing your slaves.

You attempt to turn stone into tar. The fountain briefly turns black and begins oozing, but then returns to its prior form.
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GreatWyrmGold

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Re: Roll to rewrite the dictionary
« Reply #10 on: January 06, 2013, 06:34:40 pm »

Turn Verbs into Nouns.

"Verb" is a noun.
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Re: Roll to rewrite the dictionary
« Reply #11 on: January 06, 2013, 06:36:14 pm »

Alas, you are only a novice linguomancer. The manipulation of abstract concepts is far beyond you.
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Re: Roll to rewrite the dictionary
« Reply #12 on: January 06, 2013, 06:37:57 pm »

Turn "linguomancer" into "god".
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Eagle_eye

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Re: Roll to rewrite the dictionary
« Reply #13 on: January 06, 2013, 06:38:49 pm »

Your name is now god.
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« Reply #14 on: January 06, 2013, 06:50:10 pm »

Turn god into God
Turn mansion into castle
Coal into villagers
Sun into moon
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