OOC - magic homework for you!

[sythyry]

Your assignment, if you choose to accept it, is to pick (by whatever means appeal to you) one or more spells on the following list of spell names (kindly supplied by Mx Flame) and write suitable descriptions of them in the gaming or magical system of your choice.

Should you choose not to accept this assignment, seven domestic pigeons will not be harmed.

1. Locate Dislocation
2. Terrible Wrath
3. Inflict Minor Traps
4. Stinking Ball Of Good
5. The True Terrible Anathema
6. The Lesser Liturgy Of The Evil Eye
7. False Skin Of Acid
8. Judicious Tempest
9. Doomed Spray
10. Greater Doom Terminate
11. Major Curse Vision
12. Unusual Beam
13. Transmute Binding To Energy
14. Rust Self
15. Improved Swarm Of Corneas
16. Repel Vacation
17. Dominate Krypton
18. Change Tongues To Explosion
19. Spectral Swarm Of Augury
20. Speak With Healing
21. Transmute Fear To Winds
22. The Petulant Binding
23. Improved Arouse Explosion
24. The Niobium Malediction
25. Supreme Cloud
26. Sloppy Symbol
27. Menacing Pattern Of Rope
28. Pomegranite-Eating Shield
29. Prophet's Pattern Of Eyes
30. Blast Of Status
31. True Walk On Doom
32. Improved Oust Food
33. Pattern Of Emotions And Helping And Fear
34. Mass Invisibility To Venom
35. Pilgrim's Swarm
36. Hapless Blast
37. Dr. Michael Sauron's Cage Of Wilting
38. The Boundless Wrath Of The Weird Wizard
39. Minor Inflict Respectable Wonton Soup
40. Limited Wheel Of Anguish
41. See Tomato
42. Resistance Globe To Vulnerability To Status
43. Beautiful Icosahedron Of Snares And Pits
44. False Blast Of Vegetables
45. Breathe Hash Browns
46. Jar Cone
47. Speak With Scroll
48. Spray Of Living
49. Minor Shield Of Immunity To Blurring
50. The Fast Despair Of Donald Duck
51. Minor Dark Foul Up Ice
52. Improved Restoration Circle Against
53. Disruption Tether
54. False Orgone Nimbus
55. Diminish Grouse
56. Extradite Miso
57. Artsy-Fartsy Storm
58. Improved Enrage Dragon
59. The Minor Maddening Bane
60. Major Minor Blade Of Dwarf's Constitution

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[hydra-velsen.livejournal.com]

Change Tongues to Explosion

This spell is a rather interesting counter-spell to the popular "Tongues" spell (A common spell which allows one to either speak all languages, or lick flagpoles safely in winter). Change Tongues to Explosion works by simply altering the words actually emitted during speech using the normal tongues spell, so that, for instance, were one to intend to speak the phrase "I like to coddle my pet oyster" in ancient Yibbish, the phrase actually uttered would be (And do not read this aloud!), "Yix Ben Bal Xen Quasio Scorchius Megudus Yogtha Ral Be Ouchius Flambe", which every housemaid knows is the chant used to open a small portal to the plane of fire.

This is indeed a small portal, occurring just in front of the tonsils, and a tad behind the uvula, which causes the afflicted orator to suddenly gout a nine meter blast of lead-melting flame from his mouth. Although this does not harm the speaker, anyone within a 30 degree forward facing of him will suffer from ninth-degree burns and a slight discoloration of their carbonized bones.

The effects of this spell can last for up to three minutes, and every ten seconds of sustained speech while belching flames has a five per-cent chance of causing a lesser fire elemental to appear.

This spell, cast on one's self immediately after the more garden-variety Tongues spell, can also be used as an effective weapon, and has identical effects to the targetted version, except that there is a ten percent chance per ten seconds of a lesser fire elemental appearing. Reciting truly awful poetry during the spell's duration such as "The Ballad of the Lusty Goat" will raise the chances of an elemental appearing to fifty percent per ten seconds, the temperature of the flames by 1200 degrees, and when said elemental appears it will be an enraged colossal magma elemental which will attack anything resembling a poet, or a goat. A truly fantastic weapon, especially if your target is either of these!

Reagents for this spell are a handful of dry kindling and a set of earplugs, especially if the "enhanced" version is to be employed within earshot.

Stinking Ball of Good

The polar opposite to "Delicious Cube of Evil", and its only known direct counterspell. Stinking Ball of Good requires a lengthy ritual beforehand to charge a plain rubber ball with magical energies, which causes it to absorb pure goodness into itself, effectively becoming a minor, single-use artifact.

The downside (or upside, if that's what turns your crank) is that the ball becomes a slimy nodule of indescribable reeking hideousness, smelling of a mixture of sulfur, skunk rectums, rotting meat, wet dog, open latrines, and politics. No bag, container, or box can keep the odious perfume at bay, and thus having this item in your possession makes it absolutely impossible to sneak, hide, or have any friends. Even after using or discarding the item, you will continue to reek for several days, or until you take a good hot bath with soap.

To use the item, you must give it a good hard bounce on the floor, at which point it will not bounce at all, but rather crack open like an over-ripe melon, and release brilliant rays of happiness, joy, and all-pervading sense of peace and well-being. The surliest ogre can be calmed into blissful contemplation of life's wonders, and raging demons will offer the user flowers and compliments. Even the most evil creatures of all, such as toy poodles, will lose their bite to some degree, though true, uncompromising evil such as this will dull the item's immense powers, so that these beasts will merely stare at you disapprovingly, mostly due to the smell.

Duration - The item's effects last for five minutes per level of the leader of the creation ritual.

Reagents - Twelve teddy bears, eleven roses, ten bags of sugar, nine bags of spice, eight vials of everything nice, seven snails, six pails, five puppy-dog tails (not from poodles), four happy thoughts, three warm hugs, two fluffy kittens, and a rotting carcass packed with lye.

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