Star Ranger4 Wrote:well... I seem to recall that the effects pretty much dont kick in until the second time he plays a 'new' song. The impression I got is that the first time he listens to it, he can tell if it makes his mage gift sit up and take notice of it; but his gift wont actually MANIFEST whatever effects those are until the second time through.If you go back and reread that part, you'll see that he has his tuneplug in when he goes to the concert at Hot Legs. The tuneplug allows him to listen to music while his metagift does not manifest. His metagift still pings the song, but it doesn't go active.
its kind of like rendering a 3d model. first time is the 'bake' where you do precomputations (or his mage gift basicly decides what effects and how they will manifest, etc) the second time is the actuall render/Casting.
a good example of this happens when he gets taken to a Priss and the Replicants concert in DW 2. First time he hears "Konya wa Hurricane" he can 'Feel' his magegift lock onto it, and he has a feeling what its probably going to do; but he doesn't know for sure until a night or two later when he actually casts it. This happens offscreen, but is referenced at the start of the next chapter about unusual weather in the Canyons, which one eventually realises meant a minature hurricane filling Doug's normal AoE through iterpretation of "System PLAY! and I opened myself to the node".
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