Re: rent-a-bod

[Orion Furmanski <thelaw@expert.cc.purdue.edu>]

On Fri, 30 Oct 1998 Flightgod5@aol.com wrote:

> Far be it from me to bring up one of my own chars especially after the
> fact but how does the fact the elementals have no body affect a trasnmog.
> Ie is body needed to transmog. What is to prevent someone of like rate
> 1000 (???) from transmoging into Ra? Don't say it's b/c nobody has seen
> the gods b/c there are chars that have.
> 	Also what about spells that affect body?
> 	Greg said that They have a psyeduo body. That is they take up
> their element but can choose to exchange it for different types. Ie
> Terovervo can give up some iron to have some Dimond in his body.
>                               \\|//
>                               (o o)
> ...Keith M. Klumb.........oOOo.(_).oOOo.........................
> 
> {Joel Replies}
> Because Transmogrify doesn't create deities.  All it does is allow you to
> shift around life force in your body into different areas to produce different
> skills.  Gods are quite beyond mere creature abilities in my opinion, even if
> they sometimes use them to eliminate troublesome adventurers.  Not to mention
> Ra would probably come and squit you if he found out you were trying to steal
> his thunder.  Correct me if I'm wrong, but aren't diamonds very dense and
> don't they take coal to create and not iron?  No matter what yer made of you
> still have a set volume.  
> 
> Joel
> 
> 

Well, I suppose you could transmog to LOOK like Ra, if anyone even
remembers what his true form looked like. He started out humanoid, right?

Orion F.