MEME #1: RANDOM MAGICAL EFFECTS

[divinefist]

THE RANDOM MAGICAL EFFECTS MEME

"Your teeth turn brick red and then you turn into a bear for a week."HOW:

1. Start a thread with your character.
2. Other characters reply and generate a random effect. If you need a scenario, RNG it.
     2b. OPTIONAL: generate your own random effect, just because.
3. Tag other characters, generate more stuff, etc.
4. Shenanigans.
5. Yes you still have loveless ears and aren't in your home world have fun with that.

SCENARIOS:

1. ADVENTURE: You have just reached the end of some ancient, mystical ruins in search of the magical artifact hidden deep within. Weird shit happens as soon as you try to take it (collapsing ruins/boulders/Indiana Jones theme optional).
2. CURSE: You have angered a wizard/witch/powerful faerie/omnipotent entity/incredibly stereotypical gypsy/all of the above, somehow, because you're probably a horrible person. The next day you discover you've been cursed.
3. SPELLCRAFT: You have acquired a magical spellbook and decide to test it on yourself or someone else. The results are probably not as desired.
4. OUCH: You were bitten by a werewolf/cat/bear/dog/falcon/tiger/whatever the hell else is in there. There may or may not be some additional side effects.
5. RITUALS: You attempt to consort with demons/other entities of questionable morality and fail spectacularly-- either the ritual backfires, or they just don't like you.
6. THE BEES: It is not actually magic but a science experiment gone horribly, horribly wrong.
7. LOST: You are lost. Loster than the people on Lost. You are lost for words for how lost you are. So lost.
8. DRUG-INDUCED: I'm freakin' out man...
9. LET'S DO THIS: Roll two more numbers. Both of those things just happened at the same time, somehow. If you roll a 9 again, roll two more numbers and keep stacking them (ex. you roll a 2 and 9, then you roll again to get 5 and 6, which means you combine 2, 5, and 6).
10. Writer's choice.

Taken and modified from bakerstreet memes: bakerstreet.dreamwidth.org/8867.html

Comments

[hooray]

Oh really? I'm glad to hear such a young man taking interest in the field of science.

[I am home now and my long coat is open?]

[newtestament]

Of course! In this age of the telegram, it's all the more important to get involved!

[~GAZE~]

[hooray]

Well, I look forward to seeing your research a few years down the line, then. It's good that young people like you are getting more interested in the workings of the world.

Tell me, what did you think when you read my research on atomic weight?

[Shower me in cold hard science, William.]

[newtestament]

That it was brilliant, of course. You departed from the historical norm and took the idea that chemical combination always occurred in the simplest possible manner, deducing that particles of different proportions can combine to create chemical compounds that can be represented by whole number ratios. My only complaint is that you did not note down enough of your work in how you arrived at your numbers, and that a workshop notebook had to be found to piece the facts together.

[hooray]

If I were more adventurous, I'd say something like "but it adds to the mystery of it".

Realistically speaking, it did little more than cause controversy.

[Hear that? "Realistically speaking". Oh John Dalton talk dirty, dirty realism into my ear.]

[newtestament]

Nevertheless, the controversy was overcome by hard facts eventually.

[oh you're so suave Mr Dalton, give me some more of your hard... facts...]

[hooray]

Of course. Factual evidence will always be the strongest founding point of knowledge. The only difference is how we look at it, based on other evidence. That is the purpose of science, after all: to assemble the pieces of the puzzle that is the universe, and understanding how each piece must be posed.

[That could be an innuendo if one so pleased, but there really is nothing as truly arousing as the bliss of knowledge and fantastic science. John Dalton is no ordinary science hooker - he is the highest class of pleasure one can experience within the atomic community.]

[cookiecrumbler]

[william i'm not sure you understand how hard i'm judging you right now

just

saying. ps draping]

. . . So you're willing to discuss matters that have already been decided, but when it comes to puzzling out new mysteries, you won't give it any aught? How disappointing, if that's the sort you associate with.

[newtestament]

[someone is just jealous. ps ~dusting~ Sitri away]

I never said any such thing, Sitri. If you listened to Mr. Dalton properly, you would understand that uncovering mysteries through science is a careful and slow process.

[hooray]

Mysteries are simply truths that have not made themselves clear to us. The more we understand the base structure of everything, the more we will understand how everything pieces together.

[Man look at the weight of those atoms. And by atoms I mean cojones.]