| From: | L Canthros <lobo1@****.COM> |
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| Subject: | Re: Magical surgery? |
| Date: | Fri, 11 Apr 1997 20:35:23 EDT |
writes:
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>The spell design system suggests that it's possible to do permanent
>shapeshifting-- I don't recall anything in the Grimoire that says you
>can't do that-- but I'd argue against permitting such spells. (You
could
>make a *lot* of money with permanent "Turn to Elf" spells that you could
>cast on Elf Posers...)
Or you could do some serious revenge making on a Humanis member with
"Turn to Ork" Permanent:)
>However, one possibility does occur to me: should it be possible for
>spells such as "reshape bone", "reshape cartilage", "remove
scars", and
>"remove fat cells" to work permanently? These are all things you can do
to
>a person through surgery-- you aren't transforming cells so much as
>rearranging them or removing them.
Of course, such a spell would only be Permanent in the same way the
"Healthy Glow" is permanent, it only lasts until the body returns to it's
original state. But you could also create spells like "implant
(cyberware/bioware)", or "repair (organ)" . . . Definitely open to abuse
(because magical surgery can be assumed or interpreted as being less
invasive and having reduced Essence/Body Index costs).
>If this is possible, it suggests that there may be magical "plastic
surgeons"
>out there who can arrange for a new face for you much more quickly than
>a traditional surgeon. (It might be possible to rearrange voice boxes,
>too, changing your voice print, though it would be extremely difficult
to do
>so for the purpose of matching someone else's voice print.)
Fingerprints
>and retinal prints I'm not so sure could be easily reshaped, and cell
>scans would still match, but it could serve as a nifty step in changing
your
>identity...
I could see specific spells capable of such changes . . . but perhaps
with the reasoning that the body will eventually return itself to its
original state . . .
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