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From:     Bryce Perry <sandchigger@?????.com>
Date:     Wed, 7 Jan 2004 10:20:19 -0800
Subject:  Re: short questions
--- smu anonymous <sxoa@?????.com> wrote:
> 1.  Does defiller magic kill infinity vine?  Infinity Vine is immune
> to death affects so thats why I'm currious.

I would say that it does.  Defiler magic isn't so much a death effect
as it is... and I'm having trouble describing it here... a connection
to negative energy which breaks down plants on a cellular level.  Like
cancer.

> 2.  Do accelerators (I don't think I spelled that right, but those
> are the weapons that launch stuff really fast and look like a big
> sextant), transform whatever is put into them into a uniform
> substance?  I ask this because the damage is the same no matter what
> you put in, be it snow or steel.  I can also see no reason why green
> slime or mold would be killed simply by launching it, which it
> explicitly says it does.

I don't think they change everything into a uniform substance, I think
they simply ACCELERATE (thus the name) whatever is put in them to such
a high velocity that no matter what it was when it went in, the effect
is the same.

Example:  If I threw a quarter at you from across the room, it wouldn't
hurt (unless I sent it through your eye or it got stuck in your nose or
whatever, there are always crazy exceptions), but if I dropped that
same quarter off the Empire State Building and it hit you, I imagine it
would hurt quite a lot (or not, it might kill you instantly).  Why?
Because force = mass x acceleration (I think... I haven't taken any
science courses in a good long while).


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SubjectFromDate (UTC)
short questions    smu anonymous    07 Jan 2004 11:00:10
Re: short questions    Bill Olander    07 Jan 2004 18:15:04
Re: short questions    Bryce Perry    07 Jan 2004 18:20:19
Re: short questions    Lawrence Thompson    08 Jan 2004 07:35:20
Re: short questions    Danton May    08 Jan 2004 22:32:18

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