@JinxMoonstone I'd love to be added to all the pinglists for this (including future years and winner announcements <3). I'm already glad my brain allowed me to absorb the instructions this year in time to feel ready for go time :D
One side question: In the rules it says no using magic to cheat and such, but notes creativity can be involved (which I took to mean you can only RP magic if you're using it creatively and not to RP cheating). However, in the announcer's RP post it seems to say that all magic is disallowed and you will be disqualified for it? So because I'm a super literal person, I'd love some clarification when you have time on the following question regarding those two notes:
I definitely get no RPing magic to do anything that feels like cheating (Like giving yourself a magical speed buff or using magic to interfere with your opponents), but is it no magic at all or you'll be disqualified? Like if one of my characters used illusion magics to create sparkles and sound effects or something during their own ice skating show, is that allowed? Or like you make a particularly good jump down the ski slope and do a little magical firework of victory to show off (that doesn't provide you some kind of advantage)?
I suppose weaving magical displays into your figureskating might count as something you can't do since it's bound to add extra flair to an aesthetic competition, but at the same time you could do all the astounding magical lightshows in existence - if you fail to actually pull off the ice skating tricks (without magic, of course), you're not gonna win the figure skating anyway.
Thank you for your patience regarding me verbose desire for clarification on how much creativity is allowed with magic, if any, when it is not being used to cheat/for creative aesthetic purposes.
Edit to add: I don't mean any of this as an argument for allowing magic if all magic is disallowed, just trying to explain where I'm confused if it is the case that some magic is in fact allowed so long as it's not cheating.
One side question: In the rules it says no using magic to cheat and such, but notes creativity can be involved (which I took to mean you can only RP magic if you're using it creatively and not to RP cheating). However, in the announcer's RP post it seems to say that all magic is disallowed and you will be disqualified for it? So because I'm a super literal person, I'd love some clarification when you have time on the following question regarding those two notes:
I definitely get no RPing magic to do anything that feels like cheating (Like giving yourself a magical speed buff or using magic to interfere with your opponents), but is it no magic at all or you'll be disqualified? Like if one of my characters used illusion magics to create sparkles and sound effects or something during their own ice skating show, is that allowed? Or like you make a particularly good jump down the ski slope and do a little magical firework of victory to show off (that doesn't provide you some kind of advantage)?
I suppose weaving magical displays into your figureskating might count as something you can't do since it's bound to add extra flair to an aesthetic competition, but at the same time you could do all the astounding magical lightshows in existence - if you fail to actually pull off the ice skating tricks (without magic, of course), you're not gonna win the figure skating anyway.
Thank you for your patience regarding me verbose desire for clarification on how much creativity is allowed with magic, if any, when it is not being used to cheat/for creative aesthetic purposes.
Edit to add: I don't mean any of this as an argument for allowing magic if all magic is disallowed, just trying to explain where I'm confused if it is the case that some magic is in fact allowed so long as it's not cheating.
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