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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Shayuri" data-source="post: 4222261" data-attributes="member: 4936">"True...yeah...okay..."Thessaly rubs her temples as she thinks."What about a transformation then? We drain the electrical potential...then transmute and release the energy in some other form. Sort of like magical judo; we use their strength against them. Still that's still two distinct things squished into one spell...""Okay, lets back up. Any weapon pretty much relies on releasing SOME kind of energy in a..." she claps her hands, shockingly loud in the quiet office, "...quick, violent burst. For guns it's chemical energy. Energy weapons have other kinds of energy, but it still has to be released in intense little packets... What if we make a spell that imposes a cap on how fast energy can be released? It wouldn't interfere with things like metabolism, because that's already a slow, steady release. But something like a gun, or a capacitor bank that releases huge amounts of energy all at once would be forced to do a slow, gradual release instead. So the gunpowder wouldn't explode...it'd just burn slowly, not pushing the bullet out. The energy weapons would either not work, or shoot harmless, low-intensity beams that stayed on for a few minutes as all that power discharged over time."</blockquote>