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The sad thing is, she's probably pretty good at the magic side of SCIENCE. She made muskets out of freaking ribbons somehow, and that enchantment stuff she tried to teach us was self-taught, right? As long as we're not bringing grief into it she'd be fine.
 
How many times will I have to smack your SCIENCE boners away. Seriously, I know it's SV and love of shiny + SCIENCE, but 90% of SCIENCE plans are terrible ideas.
100% of Mumi involving plans are terrible ideas.

And yes, while my attitude towards this may be somewhat "No fun allowed", I'd prefer that over SCIENCE induced Bad End or other fuckup.
 
Sighted, chill. It's just in good fun right now. No one is seriously suggesting we deour souls for a power up.
 
Sightedjt said:
90% of SCIENCE plans are terrible ideas.
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I'll agree with that statement, but that's no reason to stop with the suggestions.

Yes, 90% of SCIENCE ideas you can dismiss as people having a laugh via exaggerated Victor Frankenstein impersonation - but some ideas, no matter how absurd, can lead to inspiration; you've just got to peel away the layers of the Rule of Funny and the Rule of Cool to get to the solid core concept.

For lack of a better example, the whole growing spare bodies thing: peeling away the funny image of a wall of Sabrina-clones, or the cool factor of having a backup body that you can switch to if a witch gets lucky - you can see to core concept 'how far does magical healing go?'

Thus far we've seen a head/brain and entire lower body be 'regrown', but the mechanics are not understood. Is it stimulating the production of new cells, or is it an undoing of the injury (reversal of causality) or some sort of direct 'magical energy' -> complex physical material replacement? And why is healing so perfect? Rin can't be that good at anatomy to know what she had to rebuild and Homu ain't a neurosurgeon.

Depending on what you find out, you might be able to apply 'healing' differently. If it was stimulating cell growth, perhaps we could improve our own healing by focusing specifically on the cell, or tissue, or organ, or system level - guiding what we want to happen to make it occur faster.
Or if it was a reversal of causality - can you heal things that aren't alive? Like repair cracks in a soul gem?
Or if it is direct energy -> matter, could you build things with magic (not enchantment, but more conjuring)?

Even silly ideas can be useful. And it's the silliest ideas that result in the most amazing applications - purely because of the "what the hell were they smoking when they came up with this?!" factor. And if nothing else, they make for amusing omakes.

TL;DR: 90% of SCIENCE plans are terrible ideas. That does not mean that they are worthless. Let imagination run wild and trust that everyone can recognise when an idea is a bad one.

P.s. I'm also assuming that there is a distinct difference between LOLMADSCIENCE and proper methodical testing and analysis of our own powers (a.k.a. lowercase - 'science' ) and that the second of the two has no objections in the proper time and place.
 
EtchedSteel said:
THAT MAKES SENSE, the PMAS playerbase is witch kissed. Oh snap! :o
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Oh, THAT'S how I got to Sayaka quest. Clicked on the quote in Loops's post and got linked back there.

PhantomFractions said:
I'll agree with that statement, but that's no reason to stop with the suggestions.

Yes, 90% of SCIENCE ideas you can dismiss as people having a laugh via exaggerated Victor Frankenstein impersonation - but some ideas, no matter how absurd, can lead to inspiration; you've just got to peel away the layers of the Rule of Funny and the Rule of Cool to get to the solid core concept.

For lack of a better example, the whole growing spare bodies thing: peeling away the funny image of a wall of Sabrina-clones, or the cool factor of having a backup body that you can switch to if a witch gets lucky - you can see to core concept 'how far does magical healing go?'

Thus far we've seen a head/brain and entire lower body be 'regrown', but the mechanics are not understood. Is it stimulating the production of new cells, or is it an undoing of the injury (reversal of causality) or some sort of direct 'magical energy' -> complex physical material replacement? And why is healing so perfect? Rin can't be that good at anatomy to know what she had to rebuild and Homu ain't a neurosurgeon.

Depending on what you find out, you might be able to apply 'healing' differently. If it was stimulating cell growth, perhaps we could improve our own healing by focusing specifically on the cell, or tissue, or organ, or system level - guiding what we want to happen to make it occur faster.
Or if it was a reversal of causality - can you heal things that aren't alive? Like repair cracks in a soul gem?
Or if it is direct energy -> matter, could you build things with magic (not enchantment, but more conjuring)?

Even silly ideas can be useful. And it's the silliest ideas that result in the most amazing applications - purely because of the "what the hell were they smoking when they came up with this?!" factor. And if nothing else, they make for amusing omakes.

TL;DR: 90% of SCIENCE plans are terrible ideas. That does not mean that they are worthless. Let imagination run wild and trust that everyone can recognise when an idea is a bad one.

P.s. I'm also assuming that there is a distinct difference between LOLMADSCIENCE and proper methodical testing and analysis of our own powers (a.k.a. lowercase - 'science' ) and that the second of the two has no objections in the proper time and place.
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Going to point out that spare bodies would also be useful for Hildegard and her kin...they need something to wear, after all.
 
Higure said:
Oh, THAT'S how I got to Sayaka quest. Clicked on the quote in Loops's post and got linked back there.


Going to point out that spare bodies would also be useful for Hildegard and her kin...they need something to wear, after all.
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Well, maybe not DIRECT clones, though.

If direct clones are viable, I vote we try to see if we can get clones from a combination of two peoples' genetic contributions.
 
Direct clones should be fine, if we can't regenerate a body from a Soul Gem. The aesthetics can be fixed if we find a Magus who specializes in appearance alteration...someone in the area must have wished to be prettier or something, considering these are teenage girls.
 
Also, I wonder if the GM could give us an inventory of the witches we grief-seeded and their natures, as well as our grief marble count.

We also probably need to offload some marbles soon. Like, maybe 50 percent?

We should ask Coobie if a Coobie corpse would work for offloading them, or if we need a live one.

Edit: If ONE witch is too unstable to build a meguca from, can we take bits and pieces of other witches until we can build a more stable meguca?
 
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