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From:     Lawrence Thompson <lthockey@?????.com>
Date:     Wed, 7 Jan 2004 23:35:20 -0800
Subject:  Re: short questions
--- smu anonymous 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).

Actually, as has been recently shown on Myth Busters, once an object
reaches terminal velocity, thats it, it wont do anymore damage. The show
used the penny off the empire state building myth to show that a penny
will not even brake the skin let alone bones or cause death....unless by
some freak happenstance just as likely if the quarter was thrown across
the room.

None of this of course has anything to do with the game or game
mechanics of course just something interesting I thought id pass along.



LT



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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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