Fantasy Trip Illusions

[JohnPaulB]

I was going through my old Space Gamer mags and reread Issue #25, Martin Halbert's article Everyday Life in The Fantasy Trip.

I was blown away by a comment he made in it. He said that any below average IQ wizard that had Image spell could whip out a Mona Lisa that was "indistinguishable from the original, except it would be destroyed by touch. Anyone knowing the image spell can laugh at the concept of cameras."

Wow! What this means is that you could

• "Project" a painting from your memory onto a wall,
• "Playback" a conversation you had,
• "Emanate" the smell of flowers in springtime.

After seeing the monster terrorize the neighborhood, instead of trying to describe it in words, you can "show" the investigator what happened.


It'll be as accurate as your capability, barring faulty memory. And you can do this for 1 minute (or longer if you continue it). And as I recall, Images can't be disbelieved, so it can be as unreal as it needs to be. They aren't fighting it. However, it should be entertaining or they will throw rotten tomatoes at it (touch it), it'll be gone.

You can be a 4D videocamera for espionage, entertainment, research.

The sky's the limit ... er, until your drop from exhaustion.

Some other ideas about Images:
And since smell highly influences taste, you could almost have someone taste butterscotch.
In a dark room, you could create an image of a torch on the wall and illuminate it.
Can't see around the corner? Create an image of a mirror on the other side.