#eldritchguy

[markrosewater]

What's more likely: Visit to the sliver homeplane or a sliver planeswalker card?

Visit to Sliver homeworld.

[toolusingmammalgirl]

For the immortality vs indestructibility question: If you're indestructible nothing can harm you except for those things the magical aura choses to ignore. For example: someone shots you? The energy moves through you and dissipates without causing injury (If you are in the void of space the energy is emitted as heat from your body) The same for lava, explosions, radiation and everything else that woud change the entroy of your body save for biological reasons. You still need to eat, drink etc...

Pt2 What the indestructibility aura doesn't protect you against are the effects of biological degradation: thelomere shortening, free radicals, protein misfolding, DNA duplication errors. The reverse is true if you choose agelessness. The aura selectively affect causality so that the nanomechanisms of your body never fail. DNA polymerase never read a base while in an anomalous conformation, telomerase start to work where its needed, free radicals never steal electrons from proteins and so on.

There’s still probably some clever way to Munchkin these powers, but I’ve read enough cautionary tales about immortality to just take the indestructibility. I don’t want to become a Doctor Manhattan-style ascetic, I’d rather have a reasonably normal life where I can do really cool stuff with no chance of harm.

[toolusingmammalgirl]

Would you rather be indestructible but still able to die of old age or ageless but still able to die a traumatic death? For the sake of this question let's consider a magical aura that selectively reduces entropy/prevent local destruction and is able to distinguish between damages that are considered by humans as external and as effects of aging.

I’d love to see how much I can Munchkin this, but first I’ll need to know the rules.

What are the limits of my indestructibility? What’s the definition of “traumatic death”? If my aura “reduces entropy”, doesn’t that mean I can break physics at will?

About the last clause: human medical knowledge changes and improves. The boundaries between “external” and “effects of aging” are pretty wavy. Is this aura the Magical Arbiter of the difference between the two? If it is, I’d sell that information and retire happily, living out a comfortable life without any of immortality’s pitfalls.

[Also, if you want to read a great story about creative superpower abuse, this is the best one I’ve come across in a while.]

[asktraineryellow]

...I've got enough work on my plate as a dexholder! Nevertheless, Pokemon Rangers are strong and courageous people, and I admire them for their work. 

((man who needs to party on new years; drawin' asks is where it's at!

also i've never played any of the ranger games and everything i know about them is from the anime OTL))