This thread seems to have served its purpose.

stop telling us to lock topics

yeah, why would you lock it when new members come and still have their opinions on this topic that they want heard?

YEA! Like poor little me... I'd have to say that this is a useful forum...

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Please don't bump topics unless you've something to add to it that isn't spam.

People absorb the magic over generations, gaining first resilience, then (very) minor abilities of Spirits, like sight on higher planes.

Like the resistence gained by mosquito's against DDT over the years.

...uh weird example but does explain it...

Wow.
I guess it does...
Cool.

But it does remind me of a certain summer where the flu and West Nile Virus came, which does easily match with the commoners; they were born with certain abilities, from which the magic came leaking into the air and food and drinks the mothers eat/drink; the mosquitoes were born in water, so they got the diseases from leaks in us humans system.

Another good one though I have never heard of it before.

Amazing how magic can be explained with Mesquitos.

Mightbe that's where JS got the idea from.

Quite probably got an annoying bitch bite and how he had heard about West Nile, got freaked out (quite contrary to Luciene's Hero Stroud) and then used it in his GE book.

Hm, I wonder what other weird ways he came up with ideas?

Evarinya wrote: Hm, I wonder what other weird ways he came up with ideas?

my mind automatically jumped to bacteria when i read the conversation between Kitty and Bart. if you continue to use the same drugs on bacteria, over time they become resistant i.e. MSRA has anti-biotic / drug resistant strains that are deadly. the same with tuberculosis (also a bacteria); if you discontinue your course of anti-biotics, they have time to become resistant to the drug (and can be passed to others when you cough, hence spreading the resistant strain).

anyway, that's how i always thought of resistance. like bacteria and drugs, if commoners are exposed to magic for long enough they eventually become resistant to its effects.

.russian ROULETTE wrote:

Evarinya wrote: Hm, I wonder what other weird ways he came up with ideas?

my mind automatically jumped to bacteria when i read the conversation between Kitty and Bart. if you continue to use the same drugs on bacteria, over time they become resistant i.e. MSRA has anti-biotic / drug resistant strains that are deadly. the same with tuberculosis (also a bacteria); if you discontinue your course of anti-biotics, they have time to become resistant to the drug (and can be passed to others when you cough, hence spreading the resistant strain).

anyway, that's how i always thought of resistance. like bacteria and drugs, if commoners are exposed to magic for long enough they eventually become resistant to its effects.

Thats what we have have been discussing in the last page, though with different examples.

But the drug resistant example was good.

nathanielandbartimaeus wrote:Thats what we have have been discussing in the last page, though with different examples.

i know. i was just adding another one that he could have got his inspiration from.

Right....
Ummm
So...
YeaH....
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