Detect Explosives. That should pick up every petrol tank in the vicinity ...

Any others?

Detect Blood (odd, there seems to be a few gallons where I'm standing)

for the more... interresting mage-types.. detect undergarments

Detect Errant User.

Detect Undead... I never seem to be able to find anything with this spell...

Detect winning lotto numbers.

Print out a book with all the possible lottery combinations.

Detect Detection Spells (for Anchoring something nasty, like a Nova spell)

Detect Iron (for elves who have that "traditional" allergy) ... better hope they originally specified "Cold [pure, unalloyed] Iron"

Keep them coming!

Detect Combat Spell (Hey! I'm getting something fwoosh Ow! Fucker!)

You suppose you could make a Detect Invisibility?

Sphynx

Sure, but it'd be resisted by the person, and the target number would be higher if the opposition was ... er ... out of sight.

Detect Sarcasm

Detect Conspiracy

LOL.. riggers' wet dream... Detect Traffic Cop

runner's dream: Detect Surveillance

Detect Conversational Landmine

"Honey, does this dress make me look fat."
*zap*
"oww.... Oh, look, I gotta go!"

Detect Trap. Linked to Detect Runners' Practical Application of Intelligence. ("Stupid fragging asphalt! Stupid hole!")

(Ack! My GM is gettting creative! These are from him - slightly edited by me.)

Detect Fire (self): For lodestar's co-workers.

Are you accident-prone? Tired of having what you are working on ruined because of an incidental cut?

Then get our new: Detect Injury (Self) spell.

Detect Bulldrek

"That Johnson musta come straight from the farm, 'cause my magesense is tingling!"

Detect Mana Warp.


Mage, "AAaaaaaooooaaahhhhaaaaiiiii!"

Other smarter mage, "Yep we are in a mana warp."

Detect Evil Gm:

"I got a bad feeling about this...."

Detect Plot Hook (don't scrag 'im - he's a PLOT HOOK)

Detect DEUS (there's a part and there's a part and there's a part ....)

Detect IE (currently being developed in game by the Lone Gunman and out
of game by Ancient History)

Damn spell mechanics...hey, Arcanum V! Laon me your copy of the Necronomicon. The Evil Dead/Evil Dead II/Army of Darkness version.

Ancient History casts Detect Artificial Intelligence

Damn! I jack in, log into the SCIRE, try to cast the spell, and all I get is a fucking headache, then I get dumped.

mage "i've got somethin!"
team" he found it, he found it!"
*team wanders streets, goes into a bar"
mage"AH HA!"*pulls rabbit out of hat*
*team slaps head*

detect hot chicks, the only real reason to be a mage is to get the ladies

Ohh man! school must be really hard in SR when having a mage principal.

Detect cheaters, Detect EXAM leakages

Detect marijuana in lockers/bags, Detect pornographic materials in lockers/bags

Detect Teachers having sexual relationships with students.

Detect Paranoia.

"Its everywhere, man..."

Shouldn't that be "Detect Virus"?

Is Windows A Virus?

No, Windows is not a virus. Here's what viruses do:

* They replicate quickly - okay, Windows does that.
* Viruses use up valuable system resources, slowing down the system as they do so - okay, Windows does that.
* Viruses will, from time to time, trash your hard disk - okay, Windows does that too.
* Viruses are usually carried, unknown to the user, along with valuable programs and systems. Sigh... Windows does that, too.
* Viruses will occasionally make the user suspect their system is too slow (see 2) and the user will buy new hardware. Yup, that's with Windows, too.

Until now it seems Windows is a virus but there are fundamental differences:

* Viruses are well supported by their authors, are running on most systems, their program code is fast, compact and efficient and they tend to become more sophisticated as they mature.

So Windows is not a virus.
It's a bug.

okay, so "Detect Bug".

its not just usefull in Chicago....