[Mason]

IIRC, me and a friend calculated that it would take a Force 80,000 Powerball spell to destroy most of the metroplex. With Great Ritual initiates by the score and a POWERFUL leader (The PC) performing ritual magic, blowing up all of Seattle would be possible. Just recruit an army of fanatical cult followers, and set it all up. Then have a spirit take all the Drain for the leader. What do you guys want to do on the insane and totally necessary side of magic?



BTW: Your GM will shoot you if you try this.

[ARC]

IIRC, me and a friend calculated that it would take a Force 80,000 Powerball spell to destroy most of the metroplex. With Great Ritual initiates by the score and a POWERFUL leader (The PC) performing ritual magic, blowing up all of Seattle would be possible. Just recruit an army of fanatical cult followers, and set it all up. Then have a spirit take all the Drain for the leader. What do you guys want to do on the insane and totally necessary side of magic?



BTW: Your GM will shoot you if you try this.

I was tempted to shoot you just for discussing it.

[KarmaInferno]

What do you think the Great Ghost Dance was?




-k

[The Wyrm Ouroboros]

A very powerful but delicate spell that needed to find the critical weak spots/trigger points to initiate a fast-cascade eruption of four volcanos, simultaneously.

'One becomes exhausted when using sorcery in proportion to the intricacy of the spell, not the amount of energy used ...'
-- Kiera the Thief, Orca, Steven Brust

While not completely true in Shadowrun, it has its comparisons.  Yes, great energy was required, but great finesse too; it's gotta be tough to set off only four volcanoes in the Cascade chain ...

[Red Canti]

This sounds like BBEG Material.

[Mason]

BBEG?

[The Doomed One]

BBEG?

Big Bad Evil Guy

[Elizara Dane]

A very powerful but delicate spell that needed to find the critical weak spots/trigger points to initiate a fast-cascade eruption of four volcanos, simultaneously.

'One becomes exhausted when using sorcery in proportion to the intricacy of the spell, not the amount of energy used ...'
-- Kiera the Thief, Orca, Steven Brust

While not completely true in Shadowrun, it has its comparisons.  Yes, great energy was required, but great finesse too; it's gotta be tough to set off only four volcanoes in the Cascade chain ...

Finesse...Like No matter how subtle the wizard, a knife between the shoulder blades will seriously cramp his style?

[CanRay]

Hell, I almost took a big chunk out of Seattle with just a bus.

[jonathanc]

IIRC, me and a friend calculated that it would take a Force 80,000 Powerball spell to destroy most of the metroplex. With Great Ritual initiates by the score and a POWERFUL leader (The PC) performing ritual magic, blowing up all of Seattle would be possible. Just recruit an army of fanatical cult followers, and set it all up. Then have a spirit take all the Drain for the leader. What do you guys want to do on the insane and totally necessary side of magic?



BTW: Your GM will shoot you if you try this.

I think the problem would  be finding that many Great Ritual initiates. Contrary to most PC groups, Awakened people are hard to find, and most of them are low-powered, some with little to no training. Those who rise to the level where they're initiating are likely to be intelligent, ambitious...not the sort of people who are easily led by a cult leader, though it's certainly possible. But still, you'd have to scour the continent to find enough initiates. It's not like you can grab a couple of street mages and drag them through initiation - that stuff's dangerous, and if they aren't strong enough for it, they could die (either in the process of doing enough adventuring to gain the karma, or during a metaplanar quest).

[CanRay]

*Cough*Ritual Blood Magic*Cough*

[Barskor]

Yep another reason not to live in the Barrens were you could round up houndreds of victems and kill them all in a spectacular blood bath, moats of blood filling ritual lay lines and signs of power consuming thier very souls and no one anywhere too care.

[CanRay]

Damn...  Maybe that's why the war in Bogota?

[The Wyrm Ouroboros]

Naaw.  In-game, Bogota has always been right at the edge between Amazonia and Aztlan; it was destined to become Stalingrad II: The New World.

Sounds like a new sim-game...

[Xzylvador]

*Cough*Ritual Blood Magic*Cough*

Wow, that's some nasty cough you got there man, especially the part where it sounds like blood magic... Maybe you should see a doctor.