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Which Lucky Charm do you choose?

heart
0
No votes
shooting star
1
2%
horseshoe
3
6%
clover
16
33%
blue crescent moon
3
6%
unicorn
20
41%
rainbow
4
8%
red balloon
0
No votes
Obligatory Hasselhoff option
2
4%
 
Total votes : 49

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Alcala-Cordel
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Postby Alcala-Cordel » Mon Mar 08, 2021 1:25 pm

Hmm. Looking at the options, a few things come to mind for each of them.

Heart: Big Night at the Museum vibes, even if I can control what it happens to. I can't puppeteer them, they're separate entities. That's gonna backfire.

Shooting star: Would be fun, though it leaves me wondering how fast I'd be able to go.

Horseshoe: There's no way I'd be able to comprehend where I'm going at lightspeed. Not only would I run into something and die, the force I use might cause a nuclear explosion. No thank you. Besides, if you put all that aside the teleportation one would just be easier.

Clover: Really cool, but still unreliable. It would lead me to take massive risks, and at some point I'd take a risk and fail.

Blue crescent: Get your mind out of the gutter. I'd love to use this to steal things and further my political agenda, and while teleportation could potentially be better for those things I think this one's safer. I'm going with this one, even if I have to be naked for it to work

Unicorn: I don't trust myself with that kind of power, I'd lose control of my head and ruin everything.

Rainbow: Does air move out of the way when i teleport somewhere new, or does my body get filled with oxygen and dust every time? Would teleporting into a wall kill me instantly, or would it be slow and painful? The potential advantages this poses over invisibility are negated by the risks.

Red: This would be awesome, but I wouldn't really be able to go anywhere that a trained diver couldn't go. The pressure of the ocean depths wuld still kill me and human skin is not meant to be underwater for extended periods of time so it's not like I could live down there.
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Postby Xmara » Mon Mar 08, 2021 2:05 pm

The Free Joy State wrote:
Infected Mushroom wrote:... what?

Why is this a thing? What a random power. Who would suddenly go... “‘Kay I’m going to pick the superpower that lets me breath under the water.”?

What’s the point?

You could go deep sea diving and gathering treasures from sunken ships, or -- in a non-plundering sense -- exploring the lost depths of the Titanic (and other notable wrecks if that's your thing) and photograph them so they are not lost to the ages. It would be invaluable for oceanographers studying reefs and undersea habitats.

Assuming said power also protected you from the bends.

Just use the unicorn charm to turn yourself into a mermaid (or give you a magic object that does the same thing if you can’t turn yourself into things). Problem solved.
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Postby Xmara » Mon Mar 08, 2021 4:03 pm

Neanderthaland wrote:The unicorn charm is objectively the best, as demonstrated by the excellent webcomic A Better Place

Although I'd be tempted to get the "running faster than the speed of light" one. This breaks physics in all kinds of interesting ways, and I'd be interested to see how that works. It's very likely that doing this, even for a second, would destroy you and everything around you in atomic fire.

With the unicorn charm you could create magic shoes that let you run faster than the speed of light.
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Postby Infected Mushroom » Tue Mar 09, 2021 4:26 am

I would take the unicorn charm, and use its power to make the IM Verse real

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Postby The Blaatschapen » Tue Mar 09, 2021 4:30 am

Infected Mushroom wrote:I would take the unicorn charm, and use its power to make the IM Verse real


Do talking sheep exist in your IMverse?
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Postby Valentine Z » Tue Mar 09, 2021 4:30 am

Ahh... hmm, narrowed down to three choices:

1) Unicorn
2) Horseshoe
3) Clover

I'm gonna have to go with the Unicorn charm!
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Postby Infected Mushroom » Tue Mar 09, 2021 4:33 am

The Blaatschapen wrote:
Infected Mushroom wrote:I would take the unicorn charm, and use its power to make the IM Verse real


Do talking sheep exist in your IMverse?


Yes

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Postby Comerciante » Tue Mar 09, 2021 4:41 am

Ya'll be weaksauce.

Embrace the F A S T. Teleportation is cool. But it will never feel as cool as breaking all the laws of physics to in a single moment achieve lightspeed.

Then die.

But hey you gotta go fast.
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