Re: OOC Thread VI
In reply to Fenix (msg # 85):
There are a lot of unmentioned factors I would probably consider.
Morph to Same Race as a bod skill includes things like tadpoles and caterpillars becoming frogs and butterflies, and most magic detection spells won't pick up that this butterfly used to be a caterpillar. Of course, it also includes the ability to change your physiognomy to look like someone else, but it's still what we would call a "natural" ability. A cuttlefish can blend perfectly with the sea floor, but it's still a cuttlefish; some octopi disguise themselves as other dangerous creatures such as sea snakes, but despite this apparent morphing ability they still would detect as ordinary versions of themselves. So in that sense it very much depends on what the spell detects.
Of course, it could be a sweeping detection spell that really does say that this creature doesn't originally look like this, or should look like something else--something like a truth detection. In that case some bod morphs would be detectable. If, though, the creature is in an "ordinary form" both ways, that probably would not be detected by most magical detection spells.
Assuming the spell can detect all morphs, I would ordinarily assume that it detects the most recent one first.
Also, your final morph here was that he was magically morphed to a human that was identical to his original form. That means the original magical morph was not undone; this is a person who has been morphed several times, and even if we're detecting only magical morphs he has morphed twice, once to something inhuman and again to human.
The question is, if the original magic morph is dispelled, does he return to his original human form. Again, the answer is probably that the body morphs haven't changed what creature he was, and therefore the only issue is if somehow someone magically morphs him back to that form, is he restored to the last body he had?
And the other question is, since he learned a bod morphing skill in the other body, does he bring it with him to this one? That would mean that there were significant changes to his body that are not visible but very real.
=============Hopefully this helps. I did not even bother to try to understand it. Like Clint Eastwood said...a man has to know his limitations.