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* '''Reconstructed''': Life Energy becomes a metaphor for slavery. The quantifiable value of life prompts people and witches to treat it like [[Real Life]] organ theft/selling, as they desperately try to "turn back the clock" and fight "Life Energy Slavery" and theft with any means available. |
* '''Reconstructed''': Life Energy becomes a metaphor for slavery. The quantifiable value of life prompts people and witches to treat it like [[Real Life]] organ theft/selling, as they desperately try to "turn back the clock" and fight "Life Energy Slavery" and theft with any means available. |
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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 ''[[A Wizard Did It|magic]]'' phelgm, but [[Clap Your Hands If You Believe]] turned it back into phelgm. |
* '''Zig Zagged''': People have a spiritual juice that makes them go, except it turns out to have been phelgm, only it's ''[[A Wizard Did It|magic]]'' phelgm, but [[Clap Your Hands If You Believe]] turned it back into phelgm. |
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* '''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 [[Doing in |
* '''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 [[Doing in the Wizard|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 [[Real Life]]. Aurora is just another health scammer. |
** There is no magic of any kind in the setting at all, and diseases work the same way as they do in [[Real Life]]. Aurora is just another health scammer. |
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* '''Enforced''': The story has vain and evil witches who want to live forever, so Life Energy is included. |
* '''Enforced''': The story has vain and evil witches who want to live forever, so Life Energy is included. |
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