{"id":381,"date":"2003-06-07T14:30:30","date_gmt":"2003-06-07T18:30:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/longestnow\/games\/"},"modified":"2003-06-07T14:30:30","modified_gmt":"2003-06-07T18:30:30","slug":"games","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/longestnow\/games\/","title":{"rendered":"Games"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Lavi 01<\/STRONG>  —  Aging with time, youth to death, certain skills expand with mastery of realworld trivia (music, craft, geography\/direction, herbalism), age can be suspended with expensive cryogenics while away, rejuvenated with elixirs of life, and rendered irrelevant by final death [with perhaps the possibility of warped, limited undead life].<\/P>
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   Gear, language<\/STRONG>, geography <\/STRONG>and maps, race and culture, animals and plants and natural disasters are all from reality, present and historical, throughout the ages (not a cultish period <\/STRONG>piece).  Details matter to survival and comprehension.  <\/P>
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   Bodies change significantly, continuously — puberty and growth, skill development, active body manipulation, cosmetics and disguise and illusion, injury and metamorphosis.  Injuries of all natural kinds are possible — to external limbs, internal organs, pulse and breath, all the senses (distortion and removal), sixth senses (and hypersensitivity).<\/P>
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   Natural spells affect the landscape.  Rare spells are indeed rare — hoarded and traded, difficult to transcribe to a tome.  Grand spells are similarly rare — requiring items unattainable in bulk — and affecting life, atmosphere, weather for miles or even continents around.  Cantrips are just that – made to look just like real spells, without the final side effects.  <\/P>
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  Illusions of all kinds exist — what people think of their own traits, of the world around them, of dangers and safey, of others — with significant side effects, even unto coma.<\/P>
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  Battle spells are serious and penetrating.  Clothing, skin, gear, terrain can all light on fire, become acidic or swampy or icy, vision, sound, and smell can be hazed or whited\/blacked out by explosion, smoke, glare, flash, or splattering goo; distractions as a side-effect can alter reaction times, concentration, grip.  <\/P>
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  Psychic interaction is deep and startling.  Overlays of psychic or astral impressions, clairvoyance and clairaudience are powerful interfaces,  conveyed with care.  <\/P>
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  Figuring out what is happening around you is a major aspect of life.  Smell, touch [both via description] and especially sound<\/STRONG> are extra diagnostics to help clarify what you can see around you.  Reflexes help save you from disaster and surprises, and can be enhanced with practice and spider-sense.<\/P>
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