Quote:robkelk wrote:But consider the following:Quote:Proginoskes wrote:With all the prohibitions (never do this, never do that, never do the other thing), I'd say "prevent".
Effect: I'm not sure if this should prevent dumbass attacks, or inflict them.
Quote:The little boy's mother was off to market. She worried about her boy, who was always up to some mischief. She sternly admonished him, "Be good. Don't get into trouble. Don't eat all the cabbage. Don't spill all the milk. Don't throw stones at the cow. Don't fall down the well." The boy had done all of these things on other market days. Hoping to head off new trouble, she added, "And don't stuff beans up your nose!" This was a new idea for the boy, who promptly tried it out.(Cribbed from the Wikipedia project essay, "Don't stuff beans up your nose".) Of course, the logical conclusion from that reading would be that this song inflicts a dumbass attack on the portion of Doug's psyche responsible for song interpretation, which is slightly worrisome. (If he listens to this song immediately before hearing a new power song, he winds up with something absurdly powerful but with a long list of trivial actions that immediately end the effect? Or, under the same conditions, the song interpretation gets inverted, with things like getting ice or water powers from a song about fire?)
Or maybe it just causes all cats, dogs, snakes, gerbils, and frogs within Doug's AoE to burst into flame without being harmed. (They don't enjoy the experience, but they're ultimately just annoyed. Anything at least as flammable as paper that happens to be near a flaming animal, however…)
Or maybe it's a metasong, turning the next song into the ability to suppress abilities similar to the one it otherwise grants. ("Don't play at throwing lightning bolts; you'll only fry some hardware. Where you apply a million volts, you'll surely find a scar there. To think you'll aim a mighty zap by simply pointing is a trap! Don't play at throwing lightning bolts.")