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<blockquote data-quote="Elon Tusk" data-source="post: 8588878" data-attributes="member: 6875235">I don't think that the &quot;instantaneous&quot; duration for the entire spell is the important part of this discussion; it doesn't matter how long all of the spell effects take in total. The question revolves around whether the caster reappears before the damage from the boom happens. The use of the word &quot;after&quot; shows that the teleport and the boom are 2 parts of the spell happening at different times during the spell's duration. The question is whether the boom portion of the spell can interrupt the teleport portion, which can only happen if the teleport is not immediate. We do have a clue regarding the speed of teleport based on the original spell of that name which describes it as happening &quot;instantly,&quot; which is the definition of immediate or &quot;without gap in time or space.&quot; If we ignore the most common definition of &quot;instantly&quot;'/immediately,&quot; and say that there is a tiny moment of time that the description doesn't mention, then it should be applied to both the &quot;instantly&quot; happening teleport and the &quot;immediately after&quot; boom. To say that one instance of this spell's immediatel/instantly is longer than the other, ignoring the order of the sentences and the use of the word &quot;after,&quot; seems to add complication to game that tries to use plain languahge and simplify, using outliers from other genres or non-standard definitions in order to add something to a spell that the spell description does not give any indications of happening.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Elon Tusk, post: 8588878, member: 6875235"] I don't think that the "instantaneous" duration for the entire spell is the important part of this discussion; it doesn't matter how long all of the spell effects take in total. The question revolves around whether the caster reappears before the damage from the boom happens. The use of the word "after" shows that the teleport and the boom are 2 parts of the spell happening at different times during the spell's duration. The question is whether the boom portion of the spell can interrupt the teleport portion, which can only happen if the teleport is not immediate. We do have a clue regarding the speed of teleport based on the original spell of that name which describes it as happening "instantly," which is the definition of immediate or "without gap in time or space." If we ignore the most common definition of "instantly"'/immediately," and say that there is a tiny moment of time that the description doesn't mention, then it should be applied to both the "instantly" happening teleport and the "immediately after" boom. To say that one instance of this spell's immediatel/instantly is longer than the other, ignoring the order of the sentences and the use of the word "after," seems to add complication to game that tries to use plain languahge and simplify, using outliers from other genres or non-standard definitions in order to add something to a spell that the spell description does not give any indications of happening. [/QUOTE]

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