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** Aurora's spells to restore her beauty and extend her life don't suck out young maiden's Life Energy, but instead cause a FreakyFriday body switch.

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** Aurora's spells to restore her beauty and extend her life don't suck out young maiden's Life Energy, but instead cause a FreakyFriday body switch.FreakyFridayFlip.
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* '''Exaggerated''': Life Energy is a magical cure all that Aurora markets over late-night TV infomercials, promising it can restore HitPoints, cure StandardStatusEffects, rejuvenate the vain, grant longevity, and cure gout.

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* '''Exaggerated''': Life Energy is a magical cure all that Aurora markets over late-night TV infomercials, promising it can restore HitPoints, cure StandardStatusEffects, StatusEffects, rejuvenate the vain, grant longevity, and cure gout.
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* '''Inverted''': People don't lose Life Energy as they age, they instead accumulate "Death Energy", which causes illness, aging, and eventually death. Extracting "Death Energy" can prolong life and cure illness.

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* '''Inverted''': People don't lose Life Energy as they age, they instead accumulate "Death Energy", which causes illness, aging, and eventually death. Extracting "Death Energy" can prolong life and cure illness.illness, but it cannot be destroyed and must be stored in something. That something will invariably degrade, and cannot hold more than a certain amount of death energy.
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* '''Exploited''': ???

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* '''Exploited''': ???If life energy can be stolen, then it can also be detected, quantified, and possibly synthesised. This is useful for, say, emergency response, diagnosis of a terminal disease, or as a way to effectively make people immortal.
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* '''Zig Zagged''': People have a spiritual juice that makes them go, except it turns out to have been phelgm, only it's ''[[AWizardDidIt magic]]'' phelgm, but ClapYourHandsIfYouBelieve turned it back into phelgm.

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* '''Zig Zagged''': People have a spiritual juice that makes them go, except it turns out to have been phelgm, only it's ''[[AWizardDidIt magic]]'' phelgm, but ClapYourHandsIfYouBelieve turned it back into phelgm.phelgm... or did it? Scientists analyzed the phlegm, and yes, it has. But then people discover a new bodily fluid: Choleric. However, that turns out to be a hoax. [[OverlyLongGag But then...]]
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* '''Defied''': Aurora explains she doesn't steal Life Energy or anything of the kind, her magic rejuvenates and enriches by other means. Like creating illusions, or replacing her blood with mercury to always shine and flow brightly.[[note]]Anyone who mentions it's highly poisonous and scientifically impossible gets turned into a frog)[[/note]]

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* '''Defied''': Aurora explains she doesn't steal Life Energy or anything of the kind, her magic rejuvenates and enriches by other means. Like creating illusions, or replacing her blood with mercury to always shine and flow brightly.[[note]]Anyone who mentions it's highly poisonous and scientifically impossible gets turned into a frog)[[/note]]frog.[[/note]]

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* '''Downplayed''': ???

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* '''Downplayed''': ???Aurora only steals a small amount of Life Energy, and her victims have enough to stay alive. It's enough to keep her young, though.

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* '''Justified''': ScienceIsWrong, and there is an actual [[LiquidAssets bodily liquid]] that can be removed and ingested to heal/harm a person.

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* '''Downplayed''': ???
* '''Justified''': ScienceIsWrong, and there is an actual [[LiquidAssets bodily liquid]] that can be removed and ingested to heal/harm [=heal/harm=] a person.



* '''Deconstructed''': Aurora comes to view human life as a commodity that can be bought, sold, bottled and drunk. As the poor sell their youth to the rich, society is destroyed as the poor are cannibalized and the rich become immortal.
* '''Reconstructed''': Life Energy becomes a metaphor for slavery. The quantifiable value of life prompts people and witches to treat it like RealLife organ theft/selling, as they desperately try to "turn back the clock" and fight "Life Energy Slavery" and theft with any means available.



** All this "Life Energy" bunk is just snake oil masquerading as cosmically significant metaphysics. All of its effects are either placebos, hypnotic, or misattributed with [[DoingInTheWizard completely rational explanations.]]

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** All this "Life Energy" bunk is just snake oil masquerading as cosmically significant metaphysics. All of its effects are either placebos, hypnotic, or misattributed with [[DoingInTheWizard completely rational explanations.]] ]]



* '''Defied''': Aurora explains she doesn't steal Life Energy or anything of the kind, her magic rejuvenates and enriches by other means. Like creating illusions, or replacing her blood with mercury to always shine and flow brightly.[[hottip:*:(Anyone who mentions it's highly poisonous and scientifically impossible gets turned into a frog)]]

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* '''Exploited''': ???
* '''Defied''': Aurora explains she doesn't steal Life Energy or anything of the kind, her magic rejuvenates and enriches by other means. Like creating illusions, or replacing her blood with mercury to always shine and flow brightly.[[hottip:*:(Anyone [[note]]Anyone who mentions it's highly poisonous and scientifically impossible gets turned into a frog)]]frog)[[/note]]



* '''Deconstructed''': Aurora comes to view human life as a commodity that can be bought, sold, bottled and drunk. As the poor sell their youth to the rich, society is destroyed as the poor are cannibalized and the rich become immortal.
* '''Reconstructed''': Life Energy becomes a metaphor for slavery. The quantifiable value of life prompts people and witches to treat it like RealLife organ [=theft/selling=], as they desperately try to "turn back the clock" and fight "Life Energy Slavery" and theft with any means available.



* '''Played For Drama''': Everyone knows how long they have to live from birth, and barring accident or suicide, it is set in stone.

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* '''Played For Drama''': Everyone knows how long they have to live from birth, and barring accident or suicide, it is set in stone.



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* '''Subverted''': Aurora sucks the life energy out of her victim, and the victim dies. However, Aurora doesn't seem to be getting any better.

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* '''Subverted''': '''Subverted''':
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Aurora sucks the life energy out of her victim, and the victim dies. However, Aurora doesn't seem to be getting any better.



* '''Averted''': All this "Life Energy" bunk is just snake oil masquerading as cosmically significant metaphysics. All of its effects are either placebos, hypnotic, or misattributed with [[DoingInTheWizard completely rational explanations.]]

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* '''Averted''': '''Averted''':
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All this "Life Energy" bunk is just snake oil masquerading as cosmically significant metaphysics. All of its effects are either placebos, hypnotic, or misattributed with [[DoingInTheWizard completely rational explanations.]]






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* '''Conversed''': "You'd think all these people [[NatureAdoresAVirgin crazy over virgin]] Life Energy realized they could get more octane per gallon if they drained someone who's been around the block a few times, IfYouKnowWhatIMean."

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* '''Conversed''': "You'd think all these people [[NatureAdoresAVirgin crazy over virgin]] Life Energy realized they could get more octane per gallon if they drained someone who's been around the block a few times, IfYouKnowWhatIMean.times."
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Back to LifeEnergy.

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Back to LifeEnergy.Don't worry, this [[LifeDrain procedure]] [[BlatantLies won't hurt]] at all! [[LifeEnergy Where are you going?]]
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* '''Played For Laughs''': Since everyone has a finite amount of Life Energy that goes down with age and lifestyle, witches and wizards dump the magic spiel and become "Efficiency Experts". [[FantasticScience Carefully measuring]] just how "Life Fuel Efficient" a given diet, exercise or even lifestyle change is for a client.

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* '''Played For Laughs''': Since everyone has a finite amount of Life Energy that goes down with age and lifestyle, witches and wizards dump the magic spiel and become "Efficiency Experts". Experts", [[FantasticScience Carefully carefully measuring]] just how "Life Fuel Efficient" a given diet, exercise or even lifestyle change is for a client.

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* '''Subverted''': Aurora's spells to restore her beauty and extend her life don't suck out young maiden's Life Energy, but instead cause a FreakyFriday body switch.
* '''Double Subverted''': OrIsIt? MaybeMagicMaybeMundane is the order of the day.

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* '''Subverted''': Aurora sucks the life energy out of her victim, and the victim dies. However, Aurora doesn't seem to be getting any better.
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Aurora's spells to restore her beauty and extend her life don't suck out young maiden's Life Energy, but instead cause a FreakyFriday body switch.
* '''Double Subverted''': OrIsIt? MaybeMagicMaybeMundane is Subverted''': ...but then the order of the day. effect kicks in a month later, and Aurora is young again.

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* '''Subverted''': All this "Life Energy" bunk is just snake oil masquerading as cosmically significant metaphysics. All of its effects are either placebos, hypnotic, or misattributed with [[DoingInTheWizard completely rational explanations.]]

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* '''Subverted''': All this "Life Energy" bunk is just snake oil masquerading as cosmically significant metaphysics. All of its effects are either placebos, hypnotic, or misattributed with [[DoingInTheWizard completely rational explanations.]]Aurora's spells to restore her beauty and extend her life don't suck out young maiden's Life Energy, but instead cause a FreakyFriday body switch.



* '''Averted''': Aurora's spells to restore her beauty and extend her life don't suck out young maiden's Life Energy, but instead cause a FreakyFriday body switch.

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* '''Averted''': Aurora's spells to restore her beauty and extend her life don't suck out young maiden's Life Energy, but instead cause a FreakyFriday body switch.All this "Life Energy" bunk is just snake oil masquerading as cosmically significant metaphysics. All of its effects are either placebos, hypnotic, or misattributed with [[DoingInTheWizard completely rational explanations.]]

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** There is no magic of any kind in the setting at all, and diseases work the same way as they do in RealLife.

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** There is no magic of any kind in the setting at all, and diseases work the same way as they do in RealLife. Aurora is just another health scammer.
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** There is no magic of any kind in the setting at all, and diseases work the same way as they do in RealLife.
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**Blood?
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* '''Justified''': ScienceIsWrong, and there is an actual bodily liquid that can be removed and ingested to heal/harm a person.

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* '''Justified''': ScienceIsWrong, and there is an actual [[LiquidAssets bodily liquid liquid]] that can be removed and ingested to heal/harm a person.

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