[PnP] re pnp digest vol 155, issue #5 - writing a spell book

[Scott Adams]

Not seen the movie.  if I recall.
But you make good point on the safety issue.
I like how groups will test rookies with live ammo, live swordsor 
such so it makes sense that books would have that degree of danger. :)


At 12:26 PM 3/15/2019, Bessie Hadley wrote:
>I kinda like your '3 pages/day' suggestion. Special care would be 
>necessary for documenting such information (& possibly the mage's 
>using a secret or supernatural language, which may not be a written 
>one, & need phonetic clues) As far as "MEL/EL" I haven't tried for 
>myself to decide how one is written yet, but if one has only a 
>beginner's knowledge & is careless about his/her written notes, they 
>may not survive the next effort fully intact. As such, part of one's 
>own safety would be a very accurate notation(s) for the spell & 
>would have to be carefully written out, to be discernible decades 
>later (and would there have been room for all the footnotes made 
>over time to be together, or would they be scattered. And, as you 
>suggested, the script could easily be a most careful, neat, flowing 
>one, that must be legible for the owner decades later. As one's 
>MEL/EL advance, the spells noted in a book would become stronger, or 
>last longer, have greater area of affect, etc & notes about such 
>changes should be documented for one's own safety (& that of his 
>companions). I begin to see how such a book might have notes about 
>one particular spell written in several places, if a mage has been 
>practicing many years, & finding a particular note could take time. 
>To be readable, it would need careful documentation in the first 
>place (including updated notes), so limiting written notes to 3 
>pages/day seems reasonable. One could easily have, I suppose, a 
>less-neat, personal journal that one jots quick notes in, for later 
>careful notation in the spellbook. The spell book might be carefully 
>stored away at the time, after all, and one wants privacy for such 
>secret notes. The spell book, after all, is the mage's own, not for 
>anyone else to use or misuse. So finding one could be a great 
>treasure, if from a long, successful career, or a trap, if the mage 
>was careless & blew himself or his friends up. (or he/she doesn't 
>want the book found and/or used by another) This subject is an 
>interesting one. Did you guys like Disney's live-action "The 
>Sorcereer's Apprentice"? That was an interesting tome - lol. Bess L. 
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