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Message: <blockquote data-quote="On Puget Sound" data-source="post: 5136679" data-attributes="member: 68988">One way I describe the reliably fatal Vicious Mockery from our gnome (inspired by Terry Pratchett):When the Gods spoke the World into being, their words became rock and river, beast and tree, star and sky and all the things we see.  Everything that is real began as a word, and remains real only because the Gods remember those words.But Gods are busy, and remembering every blade of grass, every grain of sand, is tiresome even to the infinite, so they put lesser servants in charge of remembering the words to keep everything in existence.  And these servants can be distracted.  A clever bard can sometimes persuade the powers that a particular being is insignificant, that forgetting about it would not harm the fabric of reality.  And so the word is forgotten, and the being...doesn't exactly die, or disappear.  It just loses its importance to anything else.  It can no longer be heard or seen, or affect anything, unless someone makes a particular effort to notice it.  And of course, since it is unimportant, no one does. So he kills things with VM by persuading the universe that they don't matter any more.</blockquote>