[Torg] Fish in water with bicycle (Four-case contradictions)

[Stephen John Smoogen]

2008/2/6 Benn Grant <benn at 4efix.com>:
>
>  I need a reminder (because I looked it up and am still a little confused),
> what happens when a high tech axiom device is in a low tech axiom world and
> an inhabitant grabs the device and tries to use it.  The user knows how the
> device works, having seen the PC use it.
>
>  For example, a group of Starfleet officers is in a cosm with low tech but
> high magic axioms.  One of the wizards grabs a phaser and tries to use it.
> This is a Four Case contradiction, isn't it?  The tool's axiom is higher
> than that of the user AND the cosm.  As I understand it, there are some
> variables, such as whether the user is P-rated or not, and is the zone/area
> the user is Pure, Dominant, or Mixed.  What are the different possible
> results for success and failure under those varied conditions, and what's
> the best-case worst-case options?  In any of those situations, is there any
> chance for the user to Transform or Disconnect?  Or is the down side in each
> possible instance limited to Transformation of the tool (ie, from a phaser
> into a slingshot, or something)?
>

http://www.sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=2710

The wizard using the phaser is a 4 case in a Dominant and Mixed zone.
It would require him to put up a reality bubble in a Pure zone.

In the standard rules, I think there are no other downsides than he
probably has a high reconnection number but no bonus/penalty on it.
House rules vary on it.


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