Flavour of Magic
Flavour of Magic
Type: NoncombatMP Cost: 10
This spell will allow you to bring your mystical being in line with the elemental forces that underly all things: earth, wind, fire, water, and heart. Wait, I mean hot, cold, sleaze, stench, and spookiness. And what's the deal with 'heart' anyway? How does that make any sense at all?
Forces pasta spells to have a single element of choosing (40 Adventures)
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| Source: | Guild Trainer |
| Price: | 14,000 Meat |
| Class: | Pastamancer |
| Level: | 14 |
This skill needs its in-game message specified via the "usemsg" parameter; see {{Skill}} for more details.
Obtaining this skill gives the player five spells that show up in the skills menu:
- Spirit of Cayenne (hot)
- Spirit of Peppermint (cold)
- Spirit of Garlic (stench)
- Spirit of Wormwood (spooky)
- Spirit of Bacon Grease (sleaze)
Whenever you cast one of this spells, you receive this message:
You concentrate, meditate, regulate, the number eight, and cast (selected spirit). Your entire being is suffused with the (selected spirit), pushing away all thoughts of other spirits (especially the Spirit of St. Louis.)
References
- The elemental forces mentioned are a reference to the cartoon show Captain Planet. The powers that combined to form Captain Planet were, in order, Earth, Fire, Wind, Water, and Heart. Oddly enough, they are not listed in the correct order in the skill description. Perhaps the order they are in is a result of wanting "Earth, Wind, and Fire" to be in that order.
- The name of the skill could be a reference to the first Discworld novel "The Colour of Magic". In the Discworld universe, the number eight has powerful magical properties and importance.
- The "Spirit of St. Louis" mentioned in the casting text is a blatant reference to the airplaine Charles Lindbergh used to make the first solo non-stop flight across the Atlantic ocean in May 1927, the Spirit of St. Louis.
- "concentrate, meditate, regulate, the number eight," is a reference to "Mediate" by INXS (where the entire song is rhymes ending with the "-ate" sound).
- In physics, eight is the second magic number.
- Then again, it could refer to the eighth level of consciousness identified by Timothy Leary.
- Alternatively, in another connection to Discworld, "eight" is unsafe for wizards to say.
