sumkidy
2013-11-07, 01:39 AM
I have devised for my game a book called "The Book of Potatoes". Written on the first page is "Want to be a mage? Simply turn this page, read the words and lo, spuds of magic in you shall grow!"
This book is actually a fraud. It itself is actually a magic item, an enchanted book written in the fey tongue (which is always in rhyme). It translates itself to the reader's tongue (remaining in rhyme). The pages contain 'spells' in the form of rhymes which when read aloud have a particular effect.
I need some help coming up with short rhymes or bits of poetry (using any ambit and rhyme scheme) for these spells.
I've thought of a few so far:
Summon Potato:
Potato brown
Potato blue
Eat the first
Or you shall spew!
Effect depends upon the word used [need ideas for an edit here]:
One potato
Two potato
Three potato
*any one-syllable word which must rhyme with “four”* (WARNING! Do not EVER say four!)
Eg: Lore will tell you more than you ever wished or needed to know about potatoes; Bore has a half chance of creating a hole in the ground big enough to fit a potato or of temporarily making the closest person into a boring couch potato
Summons an expanding potato which is then thrown at the back of the reader’s head from behind:
Perfect, behind the subject,
Ontological and morphological,
Telescopic and gyroscopic
Alacritous,and suddenly tonitruous
Terse, a trick so perverse
Occipital, deliciously despicable
(The slower this is read, the bigger the thrown potato will be [the page has an notation advising to read this one slowly]) When the reader is not holding the book they cannot cast any of the spells.
This book is actually a fraud. It itself is actually a magic item, an enchanted book written in the fey tongue (which is always in rhyme). It translates itself to the reader's tongue (remaining in rhyme). The pages contain 'spells' in the form of rhymes which when read aloud have a particular effect.
I need some help coming up with short rhymes or bits of poetry (using any ambit and rhyme scheme) for these spells.
I've thought of a few so far:
Summon Potato:
Potato brown
Potato blue
Eat the first
Or you shall spew!
Effect depends upon the word used [need ideas for an edit here]:
One potato
Two potato
Three potato
*any one-syllable word which must rhyme with “four”* (WARNING! Do not EVER say four!)
Eg: Lore will tell you more than you ever wished or needed to know about potatoes; Bore has a half chance of creating a hole in the ground big enough to fit a potato or of temporarily making the closest person into a boring couch potato
Summons an expanding potato which is then thrown at the back of the reader’s head from behind:
Perfect, behind the subject,
Ontological and morphological,
Telescopic and gyroscopic
Alacritous,and suddenly tonitruous
Terse, a trick so perverse
Occipital, deliciously despicable
(The slower this is read, the bigger the thrown potato will be [the page has an notation advising to read this one slowly]) When the reader is not holding the book they cannot cast any of the spells.