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[UoN]Sentinel
Profile Blog Joined November 2009
United States11320 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-04-19 22:35:47
April 19 2010 16:36 GMT
#1
In school, my teachers have always told me to put everything in my own words to understand it better. Well, the spells in StarCraft are no exception. Here's my take on every spell in the game:

Zerg:
Dark Swarm: The Defiler never takes showers. Because of this, he has zerglice all over him. If he sneezes, the lice can go into the air, and deflect other people's bullets. Note that firebats' fire just cuts right through the lice so they do full damage under swarm.

Plaguuuuuuuuu!: The Defiler can also vomit and spray his junk all over the enemy, making them take damage.

Consume: All McDonalds restaurants are controlled by Terrans, so the Defiler has to settle on other Zerg to keep him energized. I really love to think that Plague is just 3 half-digested zerglings being sprayed at the enemy.

Consume Addendum:The Defiler is anorexic, so you have to pay him minerals via research before he can use Consume properly.

Plaguuuuuuuuu! Addendum: And this would make him bulimic as well.

Burrow: Zerg ground units can dig a hole into literally any surface, including a freaking space station. Well, except the Ultralisk. He's too fat.

Infest Terran Command Center: Each Queen has built-in hacks that give free Infestation upgrades to Terrans within.

Parasite: Each Queen also carries portable maphacks that can be used on enemy units or critters.

Ensnare: Each Queen has a third hack that slows other units down to Normal speed while everyone else is on Fastest.

Spawn Broodling: Queens love to hack. So they got another ability: Kill any unit instantly. Of course, this doesn't work on spaceships because spaceships are too fast, and doesn't work on robots because robots have built-in antihack.

Terran:
Heal: The Medic can heal biological units by looking at them. That's how hot she is.

Restoration: As well as removing any ailment that units have.

Optical Flare: Finally, if the Medic pulls up her shirt, she can blind enemies.

Cloaking: Ghosts and Wraiths are jerks. You can tell it by their voices, as well as if you click on them enough. So leave it to them to shoot defenseless enemies while invisible.

Lockdown: The Ghost's DIY rifle can also completely fuck up the entire circuitry of any unit. The circuitry can still be healed by the Medic, however, because the circuitry loves internet porn.

Nuclear: In 500 years, the world leaders will say, "FUCK NUCLEAR SAFETY. MAKE BOMBS. NOW."

Yamato Cannons: The only thing more badass than "BADDLEKRUZER OPERAYSHUNAL" is being able to do 260 damage in 3 seconds.

Defensive Matrix: And the only thing sadder is having 250 of that damage absorbed by a stupid shield.

Irradiate:You know how when you take a shit on an airplane, the sewage is stored until the plane lands? Well the guys up at the Science Vessel just use a hatch that spills it all on enemies. Oh, and the sewage is radioactive.

EMP Shockwave: Takes out shields and makes spellcasters tired. 'Nuff said.

Stim-Pack: I actually have a problem with this one: How do steroid injections increase the fire rate of an automatic rifle?

Protoss
Psionic Storm: When the High Templar rubs his massive balls together, they create lightning that kills anything in its path.

Hallucination: He can also throw a bong at the enemy, and make the enemy think there's more enemies, and actually fire at them.

Archon Meld: If the need arises, two Templar can sex and make an Archon in 20 seconds.

Dark Archon Meld: Dark Templar saw this and were like, "WTF why do they get to have sex in the middle of battle?" They tried to do the same, and the Dark Archon is red from the internal bleeding.

Stasis: What, your spaceship can't trap any given unit inside a giant icecube?

Recall: It's my army and I want it now! With those words, J.G.Tossworth configured all Arbiters to make the Zerg rush look slow by comparison.

Feedback: Dark Archons can get hungry, and so, they feed off of others' energy. I mean, Science Vessel, do you really need that 75 points to drop your radioactive shit on my forces?

Mind Control: It's really easy to be tricked into taking orders from a giant ball of gas.

Maelstrom: Like Lockdown, but it works on biological units and crappier.

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zeratultassadar
Profile Blog Joined April 2010
Australia30 Posts
April 19 2010 17:05 GMT
#2
LOL this is very good stuff!!!
JodoYodo
Profile Blog Joined May 2009
Canada1772 Posts
April 19 2010 17:11 GMT
#3
Haha I like how you can rationalize everything but not Stim Packs. Adrenaline maybe?
Dance dance dance 'till we run this town!
ieatkids5
Profile Blog Joined September 2004
United States4628 Posts
April 19 2010 17:16 GMT
#4
On April 20 2010 01:36 [UoN]Sentinel wrote:
Mind Control: It's really easy to be tricked into taking orders from a giant ball of gas.
.

hahaha i laughed out loud at this one
OreoBoi
Profile Blog Joined December 2008
Canada1639 Posts
April 19 2010 17:20 GMT
#5
On April 20 2010 02:11 JodoYodo wrote:
Haha I like how you can rationalize everything but not Stim Packs. Adrenaline maybe?


The problem is, how would adrenaline make the gun fire faster?
lgd-haze
Profile Blog Joined January 2009
Sweden547 Posts
April 19 2010 17:32 GMT
#6
On April 20 2010 02:20 OreoBoi wrote:
Show nested quote +
On April 20 2010 02:11 JodoYodo wrote:
Haha I like how you can rationalize everything but not Stim Packs. Adrenaline maybe?


The problem is, how would adrenaline make the gun fire faster?


The gun still fire as fast. However, the marine shooting it takes less recoil damage, hence doesnt get exhausted in between the rounds.
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SpiritoftheTunA
Profile Blog Joined August 2006
United States20903 Posts
April 19 2010 18:44 GMT
#7
The funny thing is that your plague description matches the lore pretty well.
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IndecisivePenguin
Profile Blog Joined October 2008
United States771 Posts
April 19 2010 19:00 GMT
#8
HAHAHA excellent! It's always fun when people interpret the game elements, especially as comically as you have.

Btw, I think I might have figured out the stim pack!

On April 20 2010 01:36 [UoN]Sentinel wrote:

Stim-Pack: I actually have a problem with this one: How do steroid injections increase the fire rate of an automatic rifle?



You notice when marines attack, they fire in like bursts. Like chugga-chugga chugga-chugga chugga-chugga (repeating). (Okay that's like the noise of a train. Hahaha)
I suppose that even that even though they have automatic rifles, they fire in bursts so that the accuracy is better. The recoil might usually be a bit much for the marines, causing the slower rate of burst fires. But with stims, they can handle it! And then they burst fire faster!

I don't know, that's all I could come up with. Nice read!
Kenpachi
Profile Blog Joined August 2009
United States9908 Posts
April 19 2010 19:45 GMT
#9
lol this is awesome
Nada's body is South Korea's greatest weapon.
xiaofan
Profile Blog Joined July 2006
United States513 Posts
April 19 2010 19:46 GMT
#10
little known fact: the stim is actually injected into the gun itself
Kenpachi
Profile Blog Joined August 2009
United States9908 Posts
April 19 2010 19:48 GMT
#11
On April 20 2010 04:46 xiaofan wrote:
little known fact: the stim is actually injected into the gun itself

how do marines get hurt :s
Nada's body is South Korea's greatest weapon.
IndecisivePenguin
Profile Blog Joined October 2008
United States771 Posts
April 19 2010 19:53 GMT
#12
On April 20 2010 04:48 Kenpachi wrote:
Show nested quote +
On April 20 2010 04:46 xiaofan wrote:
little known fact: the stim is actually injected into the gun itself

how do marines get hurt :s


and how do they run faster? :s
gaizka
Profile Blog Joined August 2008
United States991 Posts
April 19 2010 20:13 GMT
#13
The stim pack makes the reflexes of the marine responde faster so he aims and shoots faster
DreaM)XeRO
Profile Blog Joined December 2008
Korea (South)4667 Posts
April 19 2010 20:40 GMT
#14

Heal: The Medic can heal biological units by looking at them. That's how hot she is.


i loved this
cw)minsean(ru
KF91
Profile Blog Joined March 2007
Canada221 Posts
April 19 2010 20:41 GMT
#15
On April 20 2010 01:36 [UoN]Sentinel wrote:
Irradiate:You know how when you take a shit on an airplane, the sewage is stored until the plane lands? Well the guys up at the Science Vessel just use a hatch that spills it all on enemies. Oh, and the sewage is radioactive.

Dark Archon Meld: Dark Templar saw this and were like, "WTF why do they get to have sex in the middle of battle?" They tried to do the same, and the Dark Archon is red from the internal bleeding.


I found these two to be hilarious XD. Good job with the whole thing; they're pretty fun to read :D
starfries
Profile Blog Joined July 2009
Canada3508 Posts
April 19 2010 20:55 GMT
#16
the marines have to load the rifle by hand so stim makes them reload faster
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Hypnosis
Profile Blog Joined October 2007
United States2061 Posts
April 19 2010 21:05 GMT
#17
The guns are burst fire. Higher rate of fire = faster bursts
Science without religion is lame, Religion without science is blind
SilentCrono
Profile Blog Joined March 2010
United States1420 Posts
April 19 2010 21:07 GMT
#18
lmao i cried laughing so hard at the medic's heal ability! haha!
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[UoN]Sentinel
Profile Blog Joined November 2009
United States11320 Posts
April 19 2010 22:02 GMT
#19
TBH I was going to post this in the BW Forum but I thought I'd get flamed. Thanks for the warm reception.

Yeah, I tried to make them as funny as I could, and if I could make them funnier, I'll edit them in.

At any rate, the marine in the intro movie had no problem firing his rifle on full automatic.
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