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((Of course not. Alistair is the Maria, who was the one complaining about Selina not spending time with her.))

"Hi, Ali!" Angel hugs him.

She is not successful.

She keeps looking, because seriously Elf what the heck? Next thing you know Alistair will complain about Angel never spending time with him.

Because all references to the Four Horsemen can be traced back to NetHack.
...Time for a conspiracy theory involving crazy things like time-travelling PCs, Jesus knowing modern English, and NetHack ever getting updated again.

A certain amount of RP would be expected.

Usually players do not take on the role of a particular god...

Hm-hm.


Also, applying.

The Amulet of Yendor is currently in the collection of the legendary witch Scathach.

War knows not to mess with that witch. She trained one of his greatest soldiers.

...It's a reference to Nethack.

Do any of us have that spell?

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((Like I said, Star Wars is one of the precursors of modern sci-fi. And by your logic, Einsteinian Roulette is even more firmly in the category of fantasy than Star Wars, because it calls its magic magic and never really tries to explain it.))

((Actually, that is something that occurred to me. It's got magic (space magic and STEPHEN HAWKING'S shamanic rituals), evil spirits, prophetic hallucinations, it's even got its own version of cessation of progress. Though I do believe the name of space magic is something that came from the players and piecewise just rolled with it. I don't think anybody in the actual setting who isn't a PC calls it that. And it's not that it doesn't try to explain it, it merely makes it very difficult to find out anything about it. So, without knowing the underlying knowledge of the matter, it's hard to gauge how fantastic ER actually is.))

((So, wait. You're saying that if there could be an explanation for the "magic," we can't call it fantasy?))

((No, he's saying there explicitly IS an explanation, but we aren't high enough on the chain of knowing things to know what it is. What you're saying is like going "oh the government won't tell me the codes to the nuclear missles, so clearly they don't exist" ))

((There's always an explanation, it's just a question of:
A. how deep it is
B. if the readers are ever told
C. if the author knows
Hence, your current argument places all fantasy under sci-fi because magic has an explanation that a nice Renaissance and a couple centuries would find.))