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5 years 9 months ago #1 by Cryptic
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    • What might the easiest way a mage of the Whateley-verse to create a magic mirror ala Disney's animated Snow White be? The ideas I had where bind a spirit into it, or effectively a magical AI (really complex spell).
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    5 years 9 months ago #2 by Astrodragon
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    • By far the easiest way would be to bind a spirit or demon.
    A magic AI would be theoretically possible, but why do all that work when you can just enslave an entity to do the work for you? :P
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    5 years 9 months ago #3 by null0trooper
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    • Astrodragon wrote: By far the easiest way would be to bind a spirit or demon.
    A magic AI would be theoretically possible, but why do all that work when you can just enslave an entity to do the work for you? :P


    You say "enslave" like it's a bad thing. I like to think of it as "provide intangibly-compensated contingent asylum on the material plane".
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    5 years 9 months ago #4 by Kettlekorn
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    • The easiest way? Scrape the back off a mirror, mount it over a hole in the wall, and hire some shlub to sit in the other room with the lights off until needed. Provide them with a magic eight ball, some horoscopes, Google, and maybe a bit of something-something to get their creative juices flowing. Add a fog machine and some draperies, et voilà!
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    5 years 9 months ago #5 by Sir Lee
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    • Weeeel... it depends on how reliable you want your magic mirror to be. The one in Cinderella was supposed to have absolute knowledge of anything happening in a radius encompassing at least the entire kingdom -- and a fairly developed aesthetic sense too, so it would be able to tell who was "the fairest of all".
    Your magic mirror will be only as good as the spirit you put in it. If you get a spirit with no taste, or some sort of weird fetish (like old overweight hunchbacked midgets), how can you trust its opinion regarding who's the "fairest of them all?"
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    • Sir Lee wrote: Weeeel... it depends on how reliable you want your magic mirror to be. The one in Cinderella was supposed to have absolute knowledge of anything happening in a radius encompassing at least the entire kingdom -- and a fairly developed aesthetic sense too, so it would be able to tell who was "the fairest of all".
    Your magic mirror will be only as good as the spirit you put in it. If you get a spirit with no taste, or some sort of weird fetish (like old overweight hunchbacked midgets), how can you trust its opinion regarding who's the "fairest of them all?"


    Or worse *shudder* a politically -correct mirror...
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    5 years 9 months ago #7 by null0trooper
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    • Kettlekorn wrote: The easiest way? Scrape the back off a mirror, mount it over a hole in the wall, and hire some shlub to sit in the other room with the lights off until needed. Provide them with a magic eight ball, some horoscopes, Google, and maybe a bit of something-something to get their creative juices flowing. Add a fog machine and some draperies, et voilà!


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