IN> Corporeal Song of Entropy

[William Keith]

On Apr 4, 2009, at 8:36 PM, Blossom INRD wrote:

> Two quick questions about the Corporeal Song of Entropy:
>
> 1)  Can the singer deliberately lessen the effects below the CD?
> My preliminary ruling:  No.

I'd actually say yes.  In cases where the CD controls the duration, p. 
15 of the Liber Canticorum lets the performer limit the duration to an 
upper threshold (though of course he might roll less).  It would not be 
unreasonable, I think, to extend this concept of "pulling your punch" 
to other CD-controlled effects.

> 2)  What counts as an "object"?  A single plant?  What about a heap of 
> dead plants?
> My preliminary ruling: a single living organism.  A compost heap also 
> counts as an object, though, within reason.  Similarly, even though, 
> say, a vat of wine contains many organisms, the whole vat can be 
> speed-aged.

Instead of aging the organisms usually involved in the maturation 
process, I'd simply say the object itself is aged into the usual 
results.  I'd be broad-minded about "object," too.  You wanna age a 
city?  Go for it.  None of the objects or people in it age, but the 
bureaucracy gets just a little more entrenched in a rut.  De-age one 
paint flake on the back corner of the canvas, and then suggest the 
human test that one for forgery?  Sure.  Now the test comes out false 
and the rest of the canvas is still pristine of celestial intervention.

> In general, I think it falls under the fact that Songs are kind of 
> abstract, and tied to conceptual notions of things...rather than being 
> scientifically precise.

Very much so.  Songs are art.  Be generous in your artistic judgments, 
I'd say, both for players and NPCs.

William