In the case for Fire Magic, for example, he could expand an ordinary Goa to give off the impression that he was casting Al Goa. Conversely, by thinning out an Al Goa to appear like a meager flame no bigger than
"After speaking with him for nearly a day and a night, I chose to travel with him across the world to this great city of Altdorf, to this very College, to beseech the brother Magisters of this Golden Order for the opportunity to prove myself worthy of be
He uses his powers to help others. “I was outside a party with Thandie Newton,” the magician tells me. “She asked for a lighter. I didn’t have one but I made one appear. She kissed me on the cheek and I thought, ‘I’ll never wash my face again’.” We do not know ...
powers possessed by Dr. Faust. Upon one occasion the philosopher, being apparently in a playful mood, threw his mantle over a number of eggs in a market-woman's basket, causing them to hatch instantly. At another time, having fallen overboard from a small boat, he was picked up and ...
“It was this idea that there are these invisible mechanics that you could learn to create astonishing moments.” DelGaudio fixed his attention on the book he got from Zeezo’s: S.W. Erdnase’s The Expert at the Card Table, something of a sacred text in card-manipulation and sleight-of...
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Having a hierarchy of wishes gives fodder for the story in your game, letting PCs alter their local reality with their wishes, but leaving the option of seeking out higher powers to grant the wishes spoken of in legends. A suggested hierarchy is wishes from spells or magic items, followed ...
While she never disclosed how her powers worked, she became known as a magicienne and top vaudeville entertainer. During this time there were a number of other imitators or magnetic performers, each copying the other. Hypnotism and electricity were new phenomena that offered the opportunity for pe...
"Spellbound they gathered, far and near to scan, the weird powers of this wondrous man". London: J. Weiner, ca. 1915. Horizontal half-sheet (30 x 20") depicting a performance from the magician's perspective; Soo stands on stage, while wide- eyed spectators look on. A. 5,000/7,000...
I wonder, as I stand in line, if the Dumbo ride will be too much for me—if this decades-old feeling of utter devastation and loss will suddenly be unearthed, in time-capsule form, and do me in. This is yet another of Disney’s powers: it touches caches of emotion that you may ...