Rain of Colorless Fire!

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#1

Elendur

Jun 09, 2005 10:49:29
In keeping with June's fire theme:

What exactly would colorless fire look like? Is grey? Or is it invisible, like when alchohol burns? That could be a handy spell, say, in wall form.
#2

caeruleus

Jun 09, 2005 12:00:31
I always imagined shimmering heatwaves. That's not invisible, but it has no color.
#3

zombiegleemax

Jun 10, 2005 13:24:11
There is an epic spell called colorless fire (IIRC) in the Epic Level Handbook. I don't remember how detailed the description is, but the spell is obviously based on the Rain of Colorless Fire. The spell itself will level more than a city block.
#4

caeruleus

Jun 10, 2005 23:25:45
There is an epic spell called colorless fire (IIRC) in the Epic Level Handbook.

Do you mean rain of fire? It says nothing about the color (or lack thereof) of the fire.
#5

Elendur

Jun 11, 2005 9:29:27
I think colorless fire should be grey. If it were invisible fire, they could have called it rain of invisible fire(or unseen fire, whatever).

Or does grey count as a color?
#6

ripvanwormer

Jun 11, 2005 18:05:29
I always imagined shimmering heatwaves.

Me too. Flickering distortions in the air, burning and melting everything it touches.
#7

zombiegleemax

Jun 12, 2005 4:04:19
Do you mean rain of fire? It says nothing about the color (or lack thereof) of the fire.

Yea, I meant rain of fire. I didn't have my books on me at the time I posted. You are probably right about the description though. I don't recall for certain whether it stated anything about the color of the fire. However, I'm still fairly certain this spell was modeled after the RoCF.
#8

Elendur

Jun 13, 2005 10:34:18
Ok I admit invisible is cooler than grey. So since it's rain, and thus liquid, does it stick to stuff? Like kids?
#9

Greyson

Jun 13, 2005 21:49:57
I always imagined shimmering heatwaves. That's not invisible, but it has no color.

Count me in as supporting this notion, too. Like the heat waves rising off of a scorching landscape.

Perhaps there were literal drops, like watery rain, that accompanied the descending inferno. Except, it was not water, but superheated droplets of plasma that ignited in explosive bursts upon impact. Blown out of control by the waves of heat, that themselves were magnifed in temperature as firestorms raged.

Sounds terrible.
#10

zombiegleemax

Jun 17, 2005 15:28:44
I've always thought it was made up of greyish colored wisps of flame that fell to the ground, not burning, but sucking the life out of anything and everything it touched, leaving the grey lifeless husks of plants, animals, and pretty much anything else behind, to break apart and cover the area in a fine grey dust that can never support life, or may even continue to suck the life out of anything that enters the sea of dust (but at a much reduced rate).
#11

zombiegleemax

Jun 18, 2005 10:56:53
I always see it like a translucid liquid that ignite a very translucid flame i contact whit a solid.
#12

zombiegleemax

Jun 18, 2005 13:30:09
You know, there's a picture of it in the LGG. Not that it's in color or anything, but flames surrounding the "rain" are very apparent.