Re: simple contest outcome

From: BEThexton <bethexton_at_...>
Date: Thu, 04 Sep 2003 13:07:45 -0000

Close only counts in horse shoes, hand grenades, and spell casting :)

But seriously, I think it makes a type of sense. Sure, you didn't invoke your god properly, or ask your spirt quite right, or properly practice the path of your saint....but the otherworld conditions happen to be favorable, and this time close is good enough to get some sort of juice. Maybe instead of a lightning bolt turning your target into charcoal you just get a big spark, or the fear spirit doesn't really go after the target very hard, or instead of perfectly knitting all the severed muscle and veins back together you only manage to kind of smoosh things together and staunch the bleeding. But it beats nothing.

Another day (or the next instant), when the gods, the omens, or whatever aren't as favorable, messing up the spellcasting like that could backfire on you. But be glad you got lucky this time.

--Bryan

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