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Ok so what sort of things can break the bonds if mental alpha and beta waves can't?(by the way I have no idea what those do)

[/QUOTE] That means you could do that but it the character would have to use mana/aether/magic. By the way there are actually 6 states of matter: solid, liquid, gas, plasma, complicated chemistry/physics, and even more complicated chemistry/physics. You'd be better off using a a fifth element or having mana/magic/aether be a pure energy or pure life force, something that all living things would have and would drift throughout the universe.[/QUOTE]

You're thinking it would work better as a pure energy like light or electricity? Ok well that could work since people already have electricity in them so it wouldn't be too much to assume that they have some natural magic. How would they access it? I also wanted magic to have the effect on the mind close to the way drugs do, especially wild magic. I really want to work some downsides into tapping into magic.


S-WO. I think that could create some good writing and some epic battles. Personally I like to have more control over my control but I would be willing to give it a try.

 

A friend of mine is an intermediate in specific magical arts. He tells me that there is a source of electrical current in our bodies called bio energy, in a sense we have something called the force in our bodies only 100X weaker than a jedi or sith. He tells me that meditation could somehow activate such powers, but it takes years of practice, he also has a way to never get sick and in the years that I have known him he's never been sick, not ONCE!

 

Electricity and light aren't pure energy. Light is energy moving in the form of an electromagnetic wave. and electricity is just moving electrons. Pure energy doesn't truly exist, that's why magic fits the bill perfectly. Plus life itself doesnt have a very good scientific explanation so having pure energy/magic be the defining factor in what makes things alive allows people to already have it. Also, they could be able to sort of manipulate and control the magic using those brain waves. And they could use those brain waves to control the magic to break those bonds (brain waves probably couldnt break bonds, they're just electrical signals) so that you can change potential into kinetic. For that drug-ish effect you could have the brain waves be mentally stimulating (in a druggie sort of way) or mental straining (like it hurts if you use it too much, just like normal fighting, if you fight too long you get tired and your muscles start to hurt.


... i have to take that "Bio Energy" with a grain of salt Deathblade...

 

so you don't believe me, that's okay I'm just reiterating what I heard.

 

yep, dont believe a word of it

 

yeah I'm sure you don't Honor

 

So you're suggesting a type of Chi magic, based on a person's life force? That could work. It would drastically change the type of animals I was thinking of putting in, but that might be a good thing. Are there any thoughts on what the properties of pure energy would be if pure energy existed?

[/QUOTE] Also, they could be able to sort of manipulate and control the magic using those brain waves. And they could use those brain waves to control the magic to break those bonds (brain waves probably couldnt break bonds, they're just electrical signals)[/QUOTE]

Any reason why electrical signals can't break bonds? I'm sorry if I'm asking you basically to repeat your classes online but this is stuff I never really got exposed to at school.

[/QUOTE] so that you can change potential into kinetic. For that drug-ish effect you could have the brain waves be mentally stimulating (in a druggie sort of way) or mental straining (like it hurts if you use it too much, just like normal fighting, if you fight too long you get tired and your muscles start to hurt.[/QUOTE]

The drug thing was me thinking they were pulling in a foreign source. I was going to use it to explain why dwarves loved beer so much and why they were always a little odd since they would be wading through areas high in magic. I might just change that aspect of them.

 

Think Dr. Manhatten from Watchmen, that's about as close to pure life energy that I could think of.

 

Well i was thinking not so much chi as life itself. And if it messes with your animals you can always just do what you were going to. And pure energy would probably be something like, well, magic. If you look at it from a scientific stand point it could do anything given the proper amount and control except create things from thin air (though if you wanted to build a rock you could use the dust floating around in the air...)

electrical signals can't break bonds because they don't hold any energy, its just information; data. It'd be like trying to break a door down by listing binary sequences, it has no force behind it. You can only manipulate things with data, that's how computers and brains work. And i havent really learned much of this from school, this is just the knowledge that i've accumulated over the years of watching the discovery channel.

You could still use that aspect, just have the air there have an unusually high magic concentration, the excess of energy would have odd effects on their minds (excesses of just about anything does that). How that explains their affinity to beer... I dont know.

 

The problem is I'm trying to create a world as close to reality as possible. Watchmen didn't really bother much with science. Or economics for that matter. Or politics. It's really not a realistic vision at all. It is badass though.

Yeah, conservation of matter and all that. I already knew about that one. I think I'm going to have to use this for the time being at least. On the plus side I can create elementals which I had thrown away as being impossible. Lets here it for beings made of pure magic.

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electrical signals can't break bonds because they don't hold any energy, its just information; data. It'd be like trying to break a door down by listing binary sequences, it has no force behind it. You can only manipulate things with data, that's how computers and brains work. And i havent really learned much of this from school, this is just the knowledge that i've accumulated over the years of watching the discovery channel.[/QUOTE]

hmmmmm. I'm gonna have to read up on this one. Electricity is simply electrons floating free of Atoms right? That sounds like it's made of energy, at the very least the energy of momentum. Oh well. Wiki to the rescue. At some point when I feel motivated.


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You could still use that aspect, just have the air there have an unusually high magic concentration, the excess of energy would have odd effects on their minds (excesses of just about anything does that). How that explains their affinity to beer... I dont know.[/QUOTE]

It was more they are constantly in withdrawal and beer helps reduce the symptons. I think it's called transferrence, when you trade one addiction for another.

Thanks for all your help. I think I have a pretty good idea of the world now. Look for it to appear as an RPG in late april.

 

Awesome. BTW moving electrons have energy, but something like an electrical signal doesnt carry enough energy to break bonds (I.E. if you run electrical currents through water you get Oxygen and Hydrogen. But if you you try to send your homework into water via usb cable you get nada. Electrical signals don't hold enough energy to do anything except hold data.)

 

SO if a person could somehow send enough electricity from their head it would work? well now I have to look into whether or not that would kill a person or not.

 

think about it this way: electrical signals for brains and computers=cherry bomb; electrical currents for breaking water bonds=light-mid classed military missles; lightings=hundreds of hundreds of atom bonds.


That may not be entirely correct but it should give you an idea of the difference.

 

Crappy

 

What is of the dry spell as of late in the RPG section, it's drought season here and it ain't even summer yet?

 

Seriously. Donde estan?

 

friends and fellow roleplayers, I'm sorry to say that my grades this ending quarter have been unsatisfactory. Thus my comp time is going to be limited to me being on it during study hall and break period at my school, and maybe if I have enough time after school in the library. Sorry guys, I'll see you all on monday, hopefully.

 

Sorry to hear that DB. I'm on vacation here on Miami, that's why I haven't posted that much.

 

Then time stopped. Forever.

 

wow this is overly pathetic. The reason, everyone left, where, I can't say.

 

Gah, I dissappear for ages and my RPG does indeed get on the board. I take it three weeks of no interest isn't a good thing, right? Am I too late?

 

Actually, I don't think you could've chose a better time to loose interest. The RPG board has been at a near-standstill for a few weeks now.

 

It really has...

 

Through out your ideas if you have good ones. I'm reviewing the ones on here. Baron, I saw yours and asked you if you still want it up or not. I'm fine with it.