If a toa was using an Iden to project his spirit, and someone walked up to his body and destroyed:
a) just the mask
b) just his body
c) both his body and mask
...what would happen to his spirit?
Personally, I would see it more as a computer virus.
But Lehrak used his staff to poison rocks... and a computer virus can't affect a rock.
Plus it was always said that the Lehrak's staff poison's everything it touches...and inanimate objects don't have any programming.
Probably not ... but on the other hand ... how much do we know about the nature of protodermis? Outside of EP, which we know occurs naturally, we do not know it to be a natural substance. We do not know how the GBs shaped it. Could it be something that has to be "programmed" in some sense to take on a particular shape and function? I don't know, but it's interesting to think about.
Yeah, it's very interesting to think about these things. Every "fantasy universe" has it's own rules that show how it differs from our own "real life".
On those rocks, they weren't made from protodermis though... they were regular rocks, created by Mata Nui's camo system. (right?) Speaking of his camo system, did it make the tropical island every time he landed, or only that last time when it broke? if it was only the last time, what purpose did the bohrok serve before then?
On the poison power, it seems to me that since it was a "poison" power, not a "neurotoxin" power, an "acid" power, or some kind of "virus" power, that it just makes whatever poison fits the target... for those rocks it was some kind of volatile glowing green fluid. Our world's natural laws might not always be applicable to BIONICLE's world, but that's the beauty of science: it's a universal idea. Every world has natural laws to be discovered.I'm having various technical issues with the reply system, anyone else having this?
But the camo system was designed by the Great Beings, and everything else they made was out of protodermis, so why wouldn't the rocks have been too? They only had to LOOK like they belonged on the planet they were on, there was no expectation they would be scientifically tested.
maletoaofwater wrote:If a toa was using an Iden to project his spirit, and someone walked up to his body and destroyed:
a) just the mask
b) just his body
c) both his body and mask
...what would happen to his spirit?
1) If you destroy the mask, its power shuts off and the spirit snaps back into the body
2) If you destroy the body, the spirit has no place to return to and will exist until it eventually degrades and breaks up.
3) See above -- it depends on what order they are destroyed in. If you do the body first, then doing the mask is a pointless exercise. If you do the mask first and then the body, you have still killed the character.
do you play mln and why and can you friend me piz
Hey Greg, what inspired you to write for the LEGO Group?
If Takutanuva dropped the door on himself and split back into takanuva and makuta, that must mean that door was closed again... so how did everyone get back to MN?
did the matoran go through Mangia to get to metru nui?
how did the toa metru get the airships to the island? i assume the airships weren't small... if there was a tunnel big enough, why didn't they take it the other times they went back and forth? and why, if it was big enough for airships to fly through, did nobody re-discover metru nui sooner?
jaxinator03 wrote:do you play mln and why and can you friend me piz
No, I don't. I used to do a fair amount of gaming, but I don't have the time these days.
herbapenguin wrote:Hey Greg, what inspired you to write for the LEGO Group?
I applied for a job and got hired.
Hi greg, i have a question question! 1 what does a noble avohki look like?
maletoaofwater wrote:If Takutanuva dropped the door on himself and split back into takanuva and makuta, that must mean that door was closed again... so how did everyone get back to MN?
did the matoran go through Mangia to get to metru nui?
how did the toa metru get the airships to the island? i assume the airships weren't small... if there was a tunnel big enough, why didn't they take it the other times they went back and forth? and why, if it was big enough for airships to fly through, did nobody re-discover metru nui sooner?
My recollection is that the door shattered when it crashed down, but regardless, there are multiple ways to get to Metru Nui. As for the airships, the books state they flew them through the tunnels. And the trip with the airships was when they got the rest of the Matoran out at the end of the 2005 story -- they did not go back to Metru Nui again after that until 2006 story. The airships were dismantled and the pieces used to build shelters on Mata Nui.
haystak1 wrote:Hi greg, i have a question question! 1 what does a noble avohki look like?
There's no such thing. The Mask of Light only exists as a Great Mask.
? Also, which Bionicle set do you like the most?
What about in the kingdom when takanuva had turned into a turaga?
Hi Greg will they make a ninjago and chima cross over
ScribeGT6817 wrote:
STARROCKS923 wrote:
ScribeGT6817 wrote:1) I believe we put that out as having been a gift from Mata Nui.
Wait a second. Takanuva and Gresh were talking BEFORE Mata Nui used up his final energy on Spherus Magna. Perhaps the language is the same, or pre-programmed into the MU inhabitants as an alternative language?
Why do you assume the gift would only be given when Mata Nui was using his final energy? Wouldn't Mata Nui have wanted them to be able to communicate if the Glatorian and Toa had to fight side by side?
I assumed that when you meant gift, you meant gift as in from when he used up his energy, not before then.