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#209601 gingerninja 666 Thu, 31st May '12 2:04:36 AM from Aboard The Damocles

@what

Oh... see I think that sounds weird coming from her actually.

Was it me, or was Twi's voice higher in the pilot?

"Contests fought between two masters are decided instantly. An invisible battle is now raging between the two of them." Lulu vs Schneizel

#209602 Dark Link 313 Thu, 31st May '12 2:11:51 AM from Los Angeles

Do you like AJ's accent in CRISIS, ginger?

#209603 gingerninja 666 Thu, 31st May '12 2:18:31 AM from Aboard The Damocles

Well, yeah. It's part of why I think she's really in character. Everything sounds like something she'd say.

I always find that Rainbow is probably the hardest one to put a speech pattern too. I think it took the author a few chapters to get it down right, but she reads pretty good now too.

Oh, here's a headscratcher: (I just remembered that this bugged me when I read the chapter)

Twi mentions that she can't turn rocks and dirt into food with transfiguration (at least not without the food itself being MADE of dirt and rocks.

IN FPK SHE TURNED A ROCK INTO A TOP HAT!

edited 31st May '12 2:18:54 AM by gingerninja666

"Contests fought between two masters are decided instantly. An invisible battle is now raging between the two of them." Lulu vs Schneizel

#209604 Cookoo Thu, 31st May '12 2:18:51 AM from A Cuckoo clock

Well, crap. My brother told my friend that we were both bronies. I didn't wish for him to know, at least without knowing what the show was first. As I expected, he mocked us alot. I should stress that its not serious mocking mind you, he doesn't actually think it's bad I watch it, just weird, which is fair enough. Now though, I wish to find a way to convince him that the show is actually good. I don't need him to become a brony himself, I just want to show him why I watch it. Any tips?

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#209605 Swasfews Thu, 31st May '12 2:19:30 AM from New York

@ginger. Would you eat a top hat?

* I dunno, it would just be too easy that way?

edited 31st May '12 2:22:06 AM by Swasfews

#209606 gingerninja 666 Thu, 31st May '12 2:20:19 AM from Aboard The Damocles

@Swa The point she was making in that chapter was that she can't change one material into another.

yet that's exactly what she did when she changed that rock into a top hat

edited 31st May '12 2:22:23 AM by gingerninja666

"Contests fought between two masters are decided instantly. An invisible battle is now raging between the two of them." Lulu vs Schneizel

#209607 Dark Link 313 Thu, 31st May '12 2:25:00 AM from Los Angeles

Well, with the top hat, it only stayed in top hat form while she was focused on it, so it was kind of a temporary Transmogrification spell, more like illusion magic. One would think that to permanently change it so that the rock you turned into an apple stays an apple, requires a bit more effort or is actually impossible.

Just my two cents.

#209608 gingerninja 666 Thu, 31st May '12 2:29:15 AM from Aboard The Damocles

Her dialogue in that scene seemed to imply that she wasn't finished with the spell before becoming distracted. So I figured that once she was done, the clothes would've stayed like that permanently

... I don't know, even if that wasn't the case it still bugs me that the top hat thing (and turning LEAVES INTO A SUIT) wasn't at least mentioned

edited 31st May '12 2:31:47 AM by gingerninja666

"Contests fought between two masters are decided instantly. An invisible battle is now raging between the two of them." Lulu vs Schneizel

#209609 Dark Link 313 Thu, 31st May '12 2:30:27 AM from Los Angeles

Well, then it might like Swas said, and it's more what she turned it into. Maybe top hats and coats are a-okay, but food isn't?

#209610 Moe Dantes Thu, 31st May '12 2:30:43 AM from the Land of Classics

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As for the top hat... weirdly it seemed like the spell required Spike to focus too. Why would that be the case?

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#209611 gingerninja 666 Thu, 31st May '12 2:32:30 AM from Aboard The Damocles

I think it would've been cool if maybe she COULD create food out of dirt, but that it'd probably turn back into mud and rock in their stomaches (which would be dangerous)

Focus... BE the pimp

edited 31st May '12 2:32:55 AM by gingerninja666

"Contests fought between two masters are decided instantly. An invisible battle is now raging between the two of them." Lulu vs Schneizel

#209612 Dark Link 313 Thu, 31st May '12 2:35:42 AM from Los Angeles

Perhaps that was her implication?

#209613 Moe Dantes Thu, 31st May '12 2:36:40 AM from the Land of Classics

On the other hand, a transmogrification spell that only works as long as you're focused would be kind of useless.

I mean suppose Spike were dancing with Rarity in that hat. Surely he'd lose his concentration and suddenly have a rock on his head.

And... what about those mustaches Twilight made in Boast Busters?

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#209614 Applelight Limited Thu, 31st May '12 2:37:17 AM from Manehattan to Canterlot

Thanks ginger. That's an awesome collection!

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#209615 gingerninja 666 Thu, 31st May '12 2:37:21 AM from Aboard The Damocles

Her implication was that she could make dirt into the SHAPES of cupcakes, but she couldn't actually change what it was made of.

I meant that she could ACTUALLY create cupcakes and such, but they'd revert as soon as she stopped focusing

Note how she only used that spell on guys

edited 31st May '12 2:38:07 AM by gingerninja666

"Contests fought between two masters are decided instantly. An invisible battle is now raging between the two of them." Lulu vs Schneizel

#209616 gingerninja 666 Thu, 31st May '12 2:40:19 AM from Aboard The Damocles

@Moe It could be useful for doubling your everyday colthes as armour

"Contests fought between two masters are decided instantly. An invisible battle is now raging between the two of them." Lulu vs Schneizel

#209617 Moe Dantes Thu, 31st May '12 2:44:19 AM from the Land of Classics

Yup.

So is it just me or have the rules of magic seemed kind of... inconsistent?

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#209618 Dark Link 313 Thu, 31st May '12 2:46:14 AM from Los Angeles

Within the show? Yeah, they're a little... odd, sometimes. Sometimes magic can do all sorts of stuff, other times it's pretty awkward.

I think the author of CRISIS just said "hell with it" and at least tried to keep magic within his own verse consistent.

#209619 gingerninja 666 Thu, 31st May '12 2:46:21 AM from Aboard The Damocles

They have? I don't think they've ever tried to give magic a definite system of rules...

And maybe it's like science. Different rules apply to different branches of magic

"Contests fought between two masters are decided instantly. An invisible battle is now raging between the two of them." Lulu vs Schneizel

#209620 edvedd Thu, 31st May '12 2:47:10 AM from Over there. Maybe?

A little.

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#209621 gingerninja 666 Thu, 31st May '12 2:49:03 AM from Aboard The Damocles

Again, like what?

"Contests fought between two masters are decided instantly. An invisible battle is now raging between the two of them." Lulu vs Schneizel

#209622 Dark Link 313 Thu, 31st May '12 2:50:36 AM from Los Angeles

Well to be fair, the show never tells us what magic can and cannot do, so as far as we know there are no limits. Starlight Shadow certainly seems to operate under that pretense.

#209623 gingerninja 666 Thu, 31st May '12 2:53:41 AM from Aboard The Damocles

@Dark She embraces the VOID

I still think that's brilliant.

Twi is powered by her friends.

Starlight is powered by complete emptiness

"Contests fought between two masters are decided instantly. An invisible battle is now raging between the two of them." Lulu vs Schneizel

#209624 Dark Link 313 Thu, 31st May '12 2:56:13 AM from Los Angeles

Heh heh heh, still waiting to see the 'Yeah, the void between your LEGS' joke.

#209625 Kyler Thatch Thu, 31st May '12 2:56:30 AM from the bottom of my heart

I don't need him to become a brony himself, I just want to show him why I watch it. Any tips?

Watch it in front of him. He already knows, anyway.

...unless you are the Mongols.