[ SECRET POST #3718 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3718 ⌋

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[Criminal Minds, Stephen Walker]


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[Death in Paradise, Humphrey/Florence]


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[The NeverEnding Story]


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[Beyoncé]


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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

If magic was real, would you rather:

Only be able to do it for a short amount of time, say a day, but the effects last as long as you want/forever, or

You can do magic for your entire life, but the effects only last a day.

[morieris]

do it for my entire life.

[kaijinscendre]

My entire life. I can renew spells and such.

[diet_poison]

definitely the second with the info we have. there's no reason not to pick that.

[(Anonymous)]

Does everything hit the reset button at the end of the day, like say I magicked up Godzilla or materialized a ten tonne anvil on top of Ian Duncan Smith's crotch. I get that Godzilla and the anvil vanish at the end of the day, but does the Godzilla damage to London repair itself and the dead politicians and royals come back to life, or IDS's nuts grow back and he forgets the pain too?

Because if it is the latter then I'll take magic for a day only but have the effects last forever and I'll just work fast through the list, but if the knock on effects perpetuate even when the cause then I am cool with magic for the rest of my life and just being imaginative about how I cause the damage.

[(Anonymous)]

Damage caused won't vanish, but if you make gold out of autumn leaves or something, it'll be gone the next day, and you'd be out of luck if you wanted to start a Godzilla breeding farm or whatever.

[(Anonymous)]

Fuck it, I'll conjure a new Godzilla every morning at 6am then. I don't need to make gold directly, as long as the damage remains and documents people were magicked into signing (but crucially not the documents themselves) remain even after the magic cancels.

You don't need to breed Godzillas or conjure gold when you can cast a spell to make the former appear every day, nor cast another to make someone sign already existing documents or publicly propose new policy and still have those remain after the magic compulsion wears off. And if they want to recant I can always recast again too. No need to be so direct.

[shortysc22]

My entire life.

[skeletal_history]

The latter. It seems like it would be more useful this way, and I wouldn't have to live with years of regret over what foolishness I had chosen to do with my One Day of Magic.

[(Anonymous)]

I could eat forever for free, whatever I wanted. So of course I'd choose my entire life! :D

I could do more with it, too, because I could give people food as well. Yes, it would only last one day. It would be like manna! Free food for people who need it...I wouldn't have to take over the world or change it, just have this amazing gift, food that lasts one day only, and I could give it to whoever I wished.

No doubt there would be more amazing things possible, or perhaps fewer if the magic couldn't create food, but I think it would have a lot of possibilities.

[(Anonymous)]

See I was thinking that the "lasts forever" magic would be more useful to help people because of things like curing cancer, and I'm not sure creating food would work because it would just vanish out or their intestines or whatever at the end of the day. But you could bankrupt the diet industry.

[(Anonymous)]

But how long does it take to digest and get energy from food? I think you could survive, if it wasn't imaginary food. Imaginary food could definitely bankrupt the diet industry, though! That would also be great!

Curing cancer would definitely be awesome. Hm. How about you cure cancer and I give free food to people??

[(Anonymous)]

(me again) I think that if the effects of food last, the energy digested from food within 24 hours would be real. And I'm going to get hungry again the next day anyway, so it's not like it's really going to be wasted or disappear, right? No more than any regular food, I think?

Anyway I wouldn't want to put all farms and restaurants and such out of business, but free food could help a lot of people around the world...and I think it would be good to put the beef business out of business: no more factory farms, cruel living conditions for livestock, or cow emissions hurting the planet. There would be "meat" it just wouldn't come from raising and killing animals; it would come from magic.

I think the current way people grow food needs some work. Too much of it is unsustainable. Would free food to everyone who needs it (assuming I could handle the logistics) destroy the food industry altogether? I doubt it; one person, no matter how organized, couldn't magic enough food for every single person every single day! And I'm sure most people who can afford to would rather choose when and how they get food. It's only certain industries I'd want to target/replace. And mostly I'd want to help hungry people.

I'm thinking about this too much...

[(Anonymous)]

See, I would take the "lasts forever" option, and make a cornucopia that spits out cornucopias until there's one for every person on earth. Every time a kid is born, the nearest cornucopia spits out a new one for them. And the food they make would be indistinguishable from real food because it's never magicked away. And then the "day to day" option people could bankrupt the diet industry, too.

[(Anonymous)]

OOooOOOoooohh~!!

[(Anonymous)]

Both presents potential challenges, really.

If I do a permanent spell, but later change my mind, I'd be SOL.

But if I have to do daily upkeep, I might end up doing something important -- like, say, try to keep someone from dying. That means I'l have to be ready to go with the magic every day of my life, and can't be out of commissioned for even a day.

Ultimately though the second presents fewer risks for someone like me. I change my mind a lot.

[(Anonymous)]

My entire life. Mostly because I don't have much in the way of grand ambitions, so I don't have many one-off forever spells I'd want, but I would absolutely be on board for free light, free heat, possibly free food every day of my life, the ability to fly whenever I wanted to, the ability to turn invisible whenever I wanted/needed to, the ability to punt people who attack me across a street when I needed to, etc. There's like a gazillion small aspects of my life that would be so much easier/better/more fun if I had magic forever. Even healing people or something, for quick emergency magic the ability to cast a stasis spell and then a teleport spell to drop them in the emergency room would at least help. Won't help with longterm illnesses, but there's science for that, and a lot of small magic for day-to-day life might help the ill person as well. There's just a lot of possibility with a constant access to short-term spells that isn't there with a one-off long-term one.

Also, just on a personal level, how hard would it be to know magic for a day and then give it up forever again?

[(Anonymous)]

I'd do the "lasts forever" option, because it specifies "forever or as long as you want," so if I made a terrible mistake I could stop it. Or on my one magic day I'd make a magical undo button so I could fix my fuckups later. I wouldn't have magic anymore, but the button would still work. And I already mentioned this in a reply, but I'd make cornucopias at a ratio of 1 person= 1 cornucopia, and every time a kid was born, the nearest cornucopia would spit out another one for the kid. And since the magic would never fade, the food would be indistinguishable from the real thing.

After i did things like heal every sick person on earth at once, sequester a shitton of carbon in soil, remove all the plastic from the oceans, dump everybody's nuclear weapons and reactors into the sun, and put a breathable atmosphere on the Moon and Mars, I'd spend the rest of the day making powerful magical artifacts. And doing all the maintenance and repairs to my house that I can't afford or do myself, before it collapses in a pile of termite droppings. Also I guess I'd make myself immune to magic unless I gave non-coerced permission so I wouldn't be at the mercy of the day to day people. Fuck it, I'd just set up "no enchanting people without their permission" on my one day. And for the cornucopia thing and anything else like it I'd have to make sure they couldn't be taken away from their owner so no one could starve anyone else.

And I would totally make unicorns and dragons and griffins and stuff, except I'd probably have to make them poisonous so they weren't immediately targeted for folk medicine ingredients. Unicorns could shed their horns every year like deer do their antlers and dragons could shed their scales like birds molt for a non-lethal for people--or dragons or unicorns--magical cure.

[(Anonymous)]

There was a fantasy book about that, If I Pay Thee Not In Gold, where conjuring only lasts a day. Though I hadn't read it in forever and had to look it up, Piers Anthony was one of the writers so that probably explains some of the weirder sexism stuff I remember from it.