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What does "magic" mean? [Read carefully, you can't change your vote]
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<blockquote data-quote="Lakesidefantasy" data-source="post: 8472738" data-attributes="member: 6682043"><p>The background magic of the environment?</p><p></p><p>It took me a while to figure out what you might mean by that statement.</p><p></p><p>In a fantasy world where creator gods can actually exist, the world, and all of its environments (a swamp in this particular case), was created by the gods with--magic. The instantaneous magical act of creation could be likened somewhat to the cosmic background radiation all around us in the actual world, foiling attempts to detect weak magical signals like that from a mimic.</p><p></p><p>Far out man.</p><p></p><p>This is just the kind of thing I don't like doing--making sense of nonsense. It's futile really. For instance, the dwarven High Canter believes, no, strike that, He know with absolute certitude that the gods created the world brick by brick over a period of 3,167,238 years; and if you dig deep enough, you will find perfect specimens of these bricks still true in form, unlike those that surround us, now ground into dust that blows across the plains. Then again the elves of the Biworld believe, no, they enact and embody creation persistently with every thought throughout time in an ever-expanding loop of divine nothingness.</p><p></p><p>The halflings--well they're just in awe of the whole thing. </p><p></p><p>What a trip. <img class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" alt="🙃" title="Upside-down face :upside_down:" src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f643.png" data-shortname=":upside_down:" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Lakesidefantasy, post: 8472738, member: 6682043"] The background magic of the environment? It took me a while to figure out what you might mean by that statement. In a fantasy world where creator gods can actually exist, the world, and all of its environments (a swamp in this particular case), was created by the gods with--magic. The instantaneous magical act of creation could be likened somewhat to the cosmic background radiation all around us in the actual world, foiling attempts to detect weak magical signals like that from a mimic. Far out man. This is just the kind of thing I don't like doing--making sense of nonsense. It's futile really. For instance, the dwarven High Canter believes, no, strike that, He know with absolute certitude that the gods created the world brick by brick over a period of 3,167,238 years; and if you dig deep enough, you will find perfect specimens of these bricks still true in form, unlike those that surround us, now ground into dust that blows across the plains. Then again the elves of the Biworld believe, no, they enact and embody creation persistently with every thought throughout time in an ever-expanding loop of divine nothingness. The halflings--well they're just in awe of the whole thing. What a trip. 🙃 [/QUOTE]
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