One usage of the Note can only directly cause one death; it seems to me that any aftereffects have to be so far away that the writer cannot be in control of them. You could cause a massive fifty-car pileup, but no one else involved would be more than lightly
injured.
The Note cannot create overtly supernatural events, and in general, there are uncertain limits to its ability to twist probability. In all cases, if any part
of your request is beyond it, it defaults to death by heart attack in forty seconds, even if other parts of your request were feasible.
Airborne Ebola could work if there is such a thing, but again, no one but the named victim would actually catch it. Likewise, it could do the alien thing only
if there already were alien invaders on site.
Here's a list of the rules
that, as far as I recall, is both complete and accurate.
--Sam
"Oedipus is hurt and last night I almost had a lucid moment."
injured.
The Note cannot create overtly supernatural events, and in general, there are uncertain limits to its ability to twist probability. In all cases, if any part
of your request is beyond it, it defaults to death by heart attack in forty seconds, even if other parts of your request were feasible.
Airborne Ebola could work if there is such a thing, but again, no one but the named victim would actually catch it. Likewise, it could do the alien thing only
if there already were alien invaders on site.
Here's a list of the rules
that, as far as I recall, is both complete and accurate.
--Sam
"Oedipus is hurt and last night I almost had a lucid moment."