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The Dresden Files => DFRPG => Topic started by: Drazha on July 28, 2010, 12:26:38 PM

Title: Fire Laser
Post by: Drazha on July 28, 2010, 12:26:38 PM
Can someone post the passage from Dead Beat that describes Luccio doing her fire laser spell?
Title: Re: Fire Laser
Post by: John Galt on July 28, 2010, 12:29:56 PM
A laser would be earth evocation.  Lucio just casts a concentrated fuerzar
Title: Re: Fire Laser
Post by: Deadmanwalking on July 28, 2010, 12:43:48 PM
Quote from: John Galt on July 28, 2010, 12:29:56 PM
A laser would be earth evocation.

Or Spirit, what with it being Light associated.
Title: Re: Fire Laser
Post by: John Galt on July 28, 2010, 12:51:10 PM
True.   But then its more the wizards will imitating a laser.  A wizard would have to have control of em fields to produce a real laser.
Title: Re: Fire Laser
Post by: Drazha on July 28, 2010, 12:53:25 PM
you guys are digging way to deeply into the laser remark. It's just a faster way of saying "hey her fire blast is so concentrated that it acts like a laser and cuts things instead of just blasting things and catching them on fire".
Title: Re: Fire Laser
Post by: Crion on July 28, 2010, 01:13:41 PM
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Fire lashed from her left hand—not a gout of flame like I could call up, but a slender needle of fire so bright that it hurt the eyes to see. She swept it in an arc at thigh level, and every one of the zombies coming behind went tumbling to the ground amidst crackling sounds of shattering muscle and singeing meat.

Nothing spectacular there, but I think that's the quote you are looking for.
And yes, it is just having fire uber concentrated to a small point. I think it may have been at least referenced again in a later book, but the scene isn't coming to mind.
Title: Re: Fire Laser
Post by: CMEast on July 28, 2010, 02:32:41 PM
In game terms I think it's equivalent to an extremely high discipline roll on a low(ish) power spell.
Title: Re: Fire Laser
Post by: ralexs1991 on July 28, 2010, 02:35:39 PM
Quote from: Crion on July 28, 2010, 01:13:41 PM
Nothing spectacular there, but I think that's the quote you are looking for.
And yes, it is just having fire uber concentrated to a small point. I think it may have been at least referenced again in a later book, but the scene isn't coming to mind.

the one you're thinking is when harry used soul fire to cast a fire spell the width of his first two fingers
Title: Re: Fire Laser
Post by: Crion on July 28, 2010, 02:39:11 PM
Quote from: ralexs1991 on July 28, 2010, 02:35:39 PM
the one you're thinking is when harry used soul fire to cast a fire spell the width of his first two fingers

There's that, and there was one other scene in Changes where Harry
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But I mean with Luccio, actually. I'm not sure if she does so in a later book or not; I know she does it again in Dead Beat, when she fires a shot over Harry's shoulder to hit a zombie, but anything beyond that isn't clicking offhand. . .
Title: Re: Fire Laser
Post by: Myrddhin on July 28, 2010, 02:44:08 PM
Quote from: Crion on July 28, 2010, 02:39:11 PM
But I mean with Luccio, actually. I'm not sure if she does so in a later book or not; I know she does it again in Dead Beat, when she fires a shot over Harry's shoulder to hit a zombie, but anything beyond that isn't clicking offhand. . .

Well, there's also the scene in Turncoat
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But beyond that, I can't think of any other on-screen uses of her offensive magic.
Title: Re: Fire Laser
Post by: Crion on July 28, 2010, 02:53:43 PM
Quote from: Myrddhin on July 28, 2010, 02:44:08 PM
Well, there's also the scene in Turncoat
(click to show/hide)

But beyond that, I can't think of any other on-screen uses of her offensive magic.

Thank you, Myrrdhin. You just confirmed that I'm really not as crazy as I assumed myself to be ^_^;
Title: Re: Fire Laser
Post by: bcillustration on July 28, 2010, 04:09:11 PM
We have a technomancer scion of Hephaestus / caster that uses light as one of his elements, lasers are his primary offensive rotes.

fun stuff!
Title: Re: Fire Laser
Post by: ballplayer72 on July 28, 2010, 04:28:46 PM
Quote from: bcillustration on July 28, 2010, 04:09:11 PM
We have a technomancer scion of Hephaestus / caster that uses light as one of his elements, lasers are his primary offensive rotes.

fun stuff!

you can only do that if the verbal component of the spell is *pew pew pew*  ;D   
Title: Re: Fire Laser
Post by: Tsunami on July 28, 2010, 05:35:35 PM
So... and to actually help out the OP with what he asked for  ;D
here's the quote from Dead Beat:

Fire lashed from her left hand—not a gout of flame like I could call up, but a slender needle of fire so bright that it hurt the eyes to see. She swept it in an arc at thigh level, and every one of the zombies coming behind went tumbling to the ground amidst crackling sounds of shattering muscle and singeing meat.

I'd say it's a zone attack.... since it would have had to be one HECK of a spell to fit into the spray-attack mechanics and still be strong enough at each target to kill it.

EDIT: ... and to make a Fool of myself, i realize after i posted this that the quote was already there... Yay Me!
Title: Re: Fire Laser
Post by: CMEast on July 28, 2010, 05:43:44 PM
Not a fool at all Tsunami, your italics made reading it far more dramatic, allowing me to really conjure up the image of a zombie horde being cut down by Luccio's awesome control of fire magic. Why, I can almost smell the burnt meat...
/me is off for a bacon sandwich
Title: Re: Fire Laser
Post by: Crion on July 28, 2010, 05:49:50 PM
No worries, Tsunami; I tossed it in a quote box, and let's face it, who reads those? :-p

And CMEast, think you can grab one for me while you're at it?