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Originally Posted by StevenH
The nail growth aspect does have some grim implications on its use. Your example is a clever use of a side effect; very clever.
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To be fair, as the book was written from Elfangor's (the andalite) perspective, we don't know if Loren (the human) skewered the thing on purpose, or if it just sort of happened. The former is, of course, entirely possible - the kids in
Animorphs can be outright
vicious when needed, although the earlier books do downplay this a bit - but there's no way to tell. The entangled-in-hair bit was obviously an accident, but of course beating it to death was
not.
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Originally Posted by StevenH
I had been toying with the idea of having the effect of the spell affect feathers, but on second thought, I don't think I will.
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That's probably a good call.
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Originally Posted by StevenH
I have this image in my head of a mage casting Hair Growth on a duck (thinking he can make a wagon-load of down) and ending up with a featherless but hairy duck because the magic didn't know what the structure of "feathers" was, and sort of "did its best" to approximate.
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That sounds
hilarious. I wonder what duck hair would go for? I'd have it visually resemble platypus hair, for obvious reasons.