From:	Michael Orion Jackson <moj0001@****.ACS.UNT.EDU>
Subject:	Re: Death Spells
Date:	Tue, 20 Jun 1995 13:07:08 -0500

On Tue, 20 Jun 1995, Todd James Gillespie wrote:

> New subject. I don't know if any of you read the Wheel of Time
> series by Robert Jordan, but there are several scenes in there that show
> something I think should happen, that being last blast magic. There are
> times where people who are so ridden with pain, loss, shock, etc. reach
> out to the magical energies and, knowing it will kill them, channel an
> incredible amount of magical energy to destroy whatever. Such as when
> Ellisande obliterated the Dreadlords of the Dark One's army when her
> husband and the entire Manetheren army were destroyed. Or when Lews
> Therin realized that in his madness he had killed all of his loved ones,
> he tried to pull all of the Source to him, obliterating himself and a
> volcano rearing up to mark his tomb. I'm only in the 3rd book and I just
> got out of class, so I can't think of any other references, but good
> enough. Anyway, I'm thinking, what about when of two runners emotionally
> close, one is killed (probably brutally), the other (who of course is a
> magic-user) flips out and obliterates the killers, or makes a city block
> explode, or casts a toxic wave so huge it puts a fraggin' huge hole in the
> side of the aztec building. Does anyone have any suggestions to running
> that?
>
Yeah. Cast fireball, throwing all of your mana save a few green into
it. Cast channel. Channel off all of your life into the fireball.
You'll die, but then again so will your oponnent. (Unless he counter
spells the fireball or spell blasts it (yeah right, a fourty point
spell blast)). End result: you both buy argricultural property
measuring 4 by 8 by 10 deep.

Sorry, I couldn't resist the Magic example. It was just too tempting.

In the SR sense, though, it is possible to cast a "death" spell:
learn Hellblast at a force five or six times your magic attribute.
Then cast it sometime. It'll utterly waste its targets, but the
drain will literaly kill you. The base drain for Hellblast is D and
, because the force of the spell exceeds your magic attribute (after such
modifiers as fetishes and focuses and exclusive-spell status have
been taken into account), the drain affects you as physical damage.

Mmmmmm. Gotta love the sent of fresh charbroiled hamburger. (Imagine a
force thirty Hellblast. Then imagine what that hellblast/30 did to the
mage casting it. Not pretty.)

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