On magic in Babbage..

[Softpaw]

As you can tell..I play a fairy being. My character has nature based magics and some healing powers.

I'm not entirely sure what would be considered an acceptable use of them here, if at all. What would be alright and what might fall near "god modeing"

[TriloByte Zanzibar]

Prestidigitation, alchemy, conjuring from the aether... all forms of mad science as I see it! I think so long as your skills and abilities don't spoil a storyline, there's plenty of room for loose interpretation. Of course, I'm not any sort of authority on the matter. ;-)

[DreddPirateBob]

well we have the cthulhu mythos running strong here, and Conan Doyle believed in Faeries, as did Wendy :)

i think its the usual argument of not saying "i raise them from the dead with a 'Raise Dead and they are fine and can tell us all the secrets' spell". In other games i have the rule of balence. Magic takes something out of you when used or takes time and preperation. some swap for unearthly powers is good for RP i think.

[Aeolus Cleanslate]

"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." - Arthur C. Clarke

I think that if we have what *seem* to be fairies flitting about New Babbage, any decent scientist is going to want to study them to see what makes them tick. And since the barrier between scientist and industrialist doesn't exist here, perhaps see if those techniques can be harnessed and turned into energy sources. Or medicinal products.

[Softpaw]

MEEP!!

*hides from those wanting to study and harness her*

[Norman von Pelt]

And thus, this is where I step in, aye?

*click-click*

(also note, my lover is a fae. Touch and die.)

[Softpaw]

Step in to keep me from being studied?

(Note..I'm married to a dragon :P I could say the same thing *giggles*)

[Norman von Pelt]

Indeed. (see bio ^^)

I don't strap a six, because I am expecting flowers and cookies. B-)

[Softpaw]

But flowers and cookies are soo good!

[Mara Razor]

*scowls at Mr. Cleanslate and reminds him that this particular fae has been known to rip people's spines out with her bare hands and is hell with a giant mallet*

[ZenRascal Mandelbrot]

I'm calling the path I follow "mad science" but as Trilo points out, so many of these disciplines are interwoven. If something I show up with looks to others like magic, I can always claim it came from a beaker in my laboratory. Mwuhahahahahaha

[Edward Pearse, Duke of Argylle]

As long as it's used responsibly, I doubt there would be an issue. After all our new Mayor is an elf!

One thing to be mindfull of is the fey allergy to cold iron. There's plenty of that in New Babbage.

[Doctor Obolensky]

He's a elf? Are you sure? I've also heard that he was a gnome, a undernourished mole-man, and just unfortunately lacking in height.