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Keith&Co. said:
Loren Pechtel said:
... and are telling God what to do with it!
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Which, since the operator is supernatural, would be an invocation spell.

It's not an evocation as i cannot directly affect the disposition of any non-corporeal component of the device, but need an intermediary.

Might be a divination, if i somehow detect or determine that at some future time, God is GOING to consign the device to eternal damnation....

But, yeah, directing occult beings to take action is definitely spell-casting.
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Divination is spell casting? I thought it was unaffected by PPE?
 
Loren Pechtel said:
It's only spellcasting if you are using some sort of magical power to do it. No magical power, it's just a request. Perhaps a prayer.
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Evocation is using the magic directly. Fireball. Using a grasshopper keg to jump.
Invocation is subcontracting the magic manipulation to a supernatural being. Rain of frogs sort of stuff.
 
Keith&Co. said:
Loren Pechtel said:
... and are telling God what to do with it!
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Which, since the operator is supernatural, would be an invocation spell.

It's not an evocation as i cannot directly affect the disposition of any non-corporeal component of the device, but need an intermediary.

Might be a divination, if i somehow detect or determine that at some future time, God is GOING to consign the device to eternal damnation....

But, yeah, directing occult beings to take action is definitely spell-casting.
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This is a tricky one. To confuse matters further let me throw two more schools in: conjuration and enchantment. Conjuring supernatural being and enchanting them to do your bidding (like charm).
 
Not sure if God was ever conjured...except by accident, of course. Eat an apple, BAM!, there he is, reviewing the instructions posted on the apple tree.

Kinda like the only time the Commanding Officer seems to know there's a ship's lounge is when you're watching porn there...

As for enchanting Him... Probably the easiest way would be reverse psychology. "Gosh, I hope no one were to condemn the AIM software and all who wrote it, maintain it, and the brain dead booby that bought it to eternal damnation. That would be disappointing in the extreme."
 
Keith&Co. said:
And now, unable to return to that building, i have to put in the paperwork to go remote until i retire.
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My request to work remote again was disapproved. Manager says they need me and my special point of view around.

But then he tells a story about some character on a TV show he's watching. "And they've got genitalia hanging down to here." Taps his leg just above the knee. Before he can go on with the story, i ask, "Male or female?"
"Huh? What?" Everyone ELSE laughed, but he hasn't come out of his office since.

Gonna make our quarterly performance review difficult if he can't look me in the eye....
 
Patooka said:
Keith&Co. said:
Gonna make our quarterly performance review difficult if he can't look me in the eye....
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I suspect that depends on where he looks instead.
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Good point!
Just told the wife to put 'salami, suitable for trousers' on the shopping list.

ETA: Just explained why.
She has the same manager, but she does not want one.
 
I may...have a problem.

So, my wife bought and assembled the Easter Sheep Lego set. A cute little sheep standing with flowers... She decided she wanted to make a Black Sheep version.

I was on the Lego site and wondering how hard it would be to find the parts necessary to change the sheep from white to black. Got the online building instructions, looked up the first part...
It's difficult to substitute parts on the Lego site. They list parts by part number, but they don't clearly spell out the name really easily. The dark purple and dark brown and black and dark blue pieces can look really similar.

But i know a hobbyist site that sells individual pieces in any numbers required, AND lists them by color. You look up a 601220, it'll tell you the official name is a plate, smooth, round 1x1, and all the colors available, and the part number of the same part in black is 49399. Very convenient.

So convenient, i went in to my wife's home office and said, "i don't mean to take away ANYTHING of you completing this project, or insinuating myself into your creative effort, but i appear to have created a spreadsheet. All the parts listed for the Eastersheep, quantity required, the part numbers for the black version where they exist (oddly, the spring flowers do not come in black), and a calculator for the total cost of ordering each part online. I looked up the prices for about the first 10 pieces before i realized i was intruding."

"You did all that, what.... By accident?"

"Pretty much. What? YOU never wake up out of a fugue state with a customized spreadsheet nearly completed, including notes in the margin for how the intended user should interpret the data?"

"............................................................................................................................................. No."

"Oh. How odd."

She SAYS i'm not in trouble. As long as i haven't actually ordered any of the parts. And i haven't. Yet.
 
I am going to tell my coworkers, tomorrow, that i have kept my wife naked for 24/7.
She knows this, and works in the same office.
She is going to grudgingly tell them it is true - i stole all the bathroom towels during her shower yesterday.

On Saturday, the 24th of July.

Five god-damned minutes of nudity, threats and giggling. Well, one of us issued threats, one giggled.

Only one was nude, though i did offer solidarity... It was rejected in favor of a request that i come within arm's reach.

So she could kiss me because it was such a good joke. Ha, and ha.

I felt that closeness was contraindicated by the very short interval between the profanity and the more saccharine tone of voice.
 
Two coworkers somewhere in the company got married. I'm not sure how they actually reached the conclusion they did, but she didn't want to change her name to his after the marriage, and he didn't want to change to her name... So they both filed to change to a completely new name they picked.
Now my manager doesn't ever remember the new name and refers to Mark as 'Name Change Guy.'

Now i'm tempted to change my name legally. To 'I Changed My Name.'

"I changed my name!"
"Really? What to?"
"I Changed My Name."
"I know... But what to?"
"I Changed My Name."
"God damn it, WHAT TO?"
"I Changed My Name."
 
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