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Howard Tayler / Disco is back!
« on: August 19, 2011, 04:06:38 AM »
I love the "foreboding comparison" from yesterday... and here's Johnny! er... Max!
Disco, disco duck!
Disco, disco duck!
"Magic is what makes fantasy fantastic," someone says, "you can't apply rules to them or else it loses wonder!" I respond, "Sure, but if you want to write them you will certainly want to know how they work." Writing is all about execution, and I find applying some basic laws of physics to magic systems make them more understandable and realistic. Here, I'm going to outline my basic method for developing a magic system.
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Caxiao means "coffin" in Portuguese, at least as spoken in Brazil.
It also more generally means "container," so it's a bit more like the English word "casket." I imagine linguistic drift and merge giving us this word for the tiny, bed-only hotel rooms like they have in Tokyo.
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How you like to read Schlock Mercenary?
It does make you wonder what the difference is between genuine imitation and imitation imitation.
So his eyes were in the last place he looked, but not a bag.Quote
Ugh! That's terrible.
You're going to hit me...
In the last bag he looked at