"Squeaky-Pie, I squeakin' hate your brother," Freezeplay smacked off another snowmonster's head with another freezeball. "I know, I know," sighed the blue mousicorn in resignation. "You'll have to get in line." _____
Squeaky-Pie (left) and Spazzy-Boom (right) help Squeaky-Pie's high school friend, the winterized mousicorn Freezeplay, battle some snowmonster minions sent to wreak wintry havoc by Squeakinuff, Squeaky-Pie's brother and the real sociopath of the family.
I think I overdid this one. My connection wasn't terribly helpful, either.
That was one hilarious sequence. Calvin's parents wondered if their son needed a psychiatrist.(I always thought he was a psycho, esp. when he sent the car rolling into a ditch !)
That was one hilarious sequence. Calvin's parents wondered if their son needed a psychiatrist.(I alw
I was rushing to watch FLUSHED on ABC and only had 1-2 minutes. I didn't get to say everything. Watterson had done a Spaceman Spiff strip, but no syndicate was interested in circulating it, so he added it to Calvin & Hobbs as one of his classroom fantasies (when he was supposed to be paying attention to the teacher !).
I was rushing to watch FLUSHED on ABC and only had 1-2 minutes. I didn't get to say everything. Watt
A good point, but where's the dramatic tension if they can just snap their fingers and the snowmonsters all melt? ;p
In more detail, none of the three are capable of such magics. Freezeplay is a winterized mousicorn, so heat-oriented spells are beyond her. Spazzy-Boom only knows the air elementalism spells needed for him to fly and stay aloft. Squeaky-Pie is more oriented toward healing spells and basic thaumaturgy. And Squeakinuff (our off-screen villain) is more capable at spellcasting than the three of them so knows how to stymie magical solutions.
Plus, there's too many snowmonsters, and spellcasting is a lot harder to learn and do than it looks. A fire elementalist could take out twenty of them before running out of juice, but what of the other fifty or so? What if takes a while to figure out how they work so they don't keep reconstituting themselves? What if Squeakinuff has other things to throw at them?
Although there are a rare few mousies who could pull one off, a solar ray-type spell is beyond even Squeakinuff's skills.
Sometimes, physical effort or a mix of physical and magical is better than only magical, even if they might take longer. And sometimes, the characters just don't think of it.
But mostly, it's for the dramatic tension. :p
A good point, but where's the dramatic tension if they can just snap their fingers and the snowmonst
Perhaps, but this isn't D&D nor are they professional adventurers. And they do have spells they can use. Freezeplay may not be able to use heat-based spells, but she can use cold-based spells, like turning snowballs into frozen-solid freezeballs or creating icicles (like the one Spazzy-Boom is holding) for use as weapons. Plus, Freezeplay was in Little League back in school, before her thermal tolerance dipped too low. Still, the snowmonsters are easy to reconstitute as long as there's raw materials around unless the trio figures out their weak spot.
Perhaps, but this isn't D&D nor are they professional adventurers. And they do have spells they can
It's the Frosty hats, actually. If there's enough snow in them, they can animate a snowmonster. If you can't break the hats, you can render them useless by tipping them upside down.
Freezeplay can physically tolerate warmth to a degree (else how would she survive summer?), but her spells are a different story.
It's the Frosty hats, actually. If there's enough snow in them, they can animate a snowmonster. If
She used her pitching in conjunction with her magic, yes. Naturally, she didn't back in Little League, of course. That would have been cheating. :p
That's true about the hats. Then again, the snowmonsters are just cheap mooks whose real advantage is their numbers. Expanding this into a full-blown story would require other challenges and a Big Bad to defeat (Squeakinuff has no real agenda beyond screwing around with other mousies).
She used her pitching in conjunction with her magic, yes. Naturally, she didn't back in Little Leag
Speaking of snowmen. In my EMPERORS OF THE NORTH POLE, before you reach Santa's palace, you must win past a huge mob of mindless fighting snowmen. You will get pelted with snowballs a few times before getting past them. The wizard Yormommy pent them there so their mindless mayhem will never spread elsewhere, esp. to the town of Twodeadanimals, the last outpost of humans.
Santa has a clock that slows time almost to a halt. He also knows SPATIAL DISTORTION, to fit all the toys,etc., into one bag, and to stretch chimneys. This spell is used at Domdaniel school to maximize space. (whole mansions inside closets)
Speaking of snowmen. In my EMPERORS OF THE NORTH POLE, before you reach Santa's palace, you must win
My snowmonsters originally came from some art I'd once made for a player-made mini-world uploaded to the MMOSG Furcadia. I'd created snowmen with top hats and snow-blasting bakoozas that I imported into Furcadia's editors to finish up. The snowmeanies were meant to hide in snowbanks with only their hats showing until a player wandered close to them, whereupon the tops of their heads would peek out. If the player stepped in front of the snowmeanie, it would pop out fully and shoot a snowball out of its bazooka at them, all while growling comically. The snowmeanies were supposed to be part of a maze puzzle, but I don't think the concept was ever finished properly due to time constraints.
My snowmonsters originally came from some art I'd once made for a player-made mini-world uploaded to
I established in my own fan-fics, that NO wizard is master of ALL magics - except Easelman and his daughter Sephira, and they are not even remotely human anymore, more like cosmic forces that can coalesce into human form when desired.
That your mousies are all specialists is NOT surprising.
I established in my own fan-fics, that NO wizard is master of ALL magics - except Easelman and his d
Definitely true. Differences in temperaments, life experiences, interests, and simply not having enough time in their lives all influence their spellcasting abilities. This is pretty much true for all my worlds. Baksrit from Winterfur is probably meant to be my most powerful publicly established mage character when she gets older, but even she won't know a majority of the magics of her world.
Definitely true. Differences in temperaments, life experiences, interests, and simply not having en
The spell to summon Frosty involves a hat,a scarf and a body, shaped from snow. Then the spell is recited.(This was done at the end of COMEDY OF TERRORS.)
The spell to summon Frosty involves a hat,a scarf and a body, shaped from snow. Then the spell is re
That's pretty much how it went with the snowmonsters, only the bulk of the spellwork is printed in the hats or the scarves. The spoken spell was basically just the equivalent of voice-activation with password.
That's pretty much how it went with the snowmonsters, only the bulk of the spellwork is printed in t
