Comment by ashendawn

Road-trip!!!!! It's a shame Ember's not in a sphere, then they could roll her! Could they change the shape by casting??? Idk what the rules are on casts over casts....

Reply by Shazzbaa

I mean, if anyone has a "change the shape of a wall of force" spell, it'd probably fly, but I'm pretty sure that doesn't fall into the specialties of any of our friendly neighbourhood runewriters here. xD

The "rules" on casts over casts are that they work unless you're trying to directly oppose existing magic, and then it depends on who's stronger. So like, three examples:

- Jonan uses a spell to break someone's leg, and a different healer tries to heal the person's leg. If the rune casts, it works, because there's no active magic there -- Jonan used a spell to do the breaking, but there's no magic keeping it broken.
- Severian turns into a tiger, and a different shapechanger uses a spell to give him purple polka-dots. If the rune casts, it works, because the purple polka-dots, while they alter the tiger, don't actually oppose Severian's magic -- Sev's just trying to be a tiger, there's not any "no purple polka dots" magic there.
- A fire elemental creates magic fire; another fire elemental tries to suppress it. Because this is direct opposition, then it would depend which runewriter is more powerful. "Power" is a really nebulous concept and there's not really a way to measure it -- it's mostly just understood that the guy who can summon a forest fire is probably more powerful than the guy who can summon a candleflame.

Reply by Jade

This makes a lot of sense. It's a good rule of thumb for a system.