A spell that turns someone, even against their will, into a bomb

>A spell that turns someone, even against their will, into a bomb.
>If a living thing is caught in the explosion, they also become a bomb. Even if it just barely scuffs them.

If this was used for a terrorist attack in some modern setting, how bad would shit get? How many people could it kill? Pic very related.

Depends on the bomb radius and where it was initially set off.

>memetic spellcasting
you basically described the internet and cultural trends in general

Radius, initial detonation point and time, how much damage it actually does so we know if there's anyone left alive to actually spread it, there are a lot of factors here.

>Salami in the ashes of Norway

The OP never said they had to be alive, just living when the explosion hits them.

>Living thing
So every lousy microbe or bit of mold or plakton explodes in an ever expanding ring.

Bites the dusto

Depends on time delay, but you just created a virus with no biological barriers. Congratulation, you wiped out human race, or at least any form of civilization.

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It doesn't sound anything close to that are you deaf?

And also life itself. Don't forget that. Everything that makes up our bodies used to be peaceful inert matter doing nothing in particular and not caring about it either way. But then muh reproduction and muh feeding happened and we began to assimilate our very small corner of the universe into our collective of evil.

So basically, this is as fucked as that scenario in Invisible war with the nanite bomb that consumes all of Chicago or something when it should've technically consumed the entire planet.

You only have to look at the Corrupted Blood incident in WoW to see how bad this could get.

It depends on the radio of the explosion, cast on the right place it can cause a lot of trouble.

But op, the caster only wants to have a quiet life.

Need to set a damage the spell does. It also needs a duration.

Do I have a cat?

considering bacteria are living beings, and they exists everywhere. Pretty bad.

depends on the location, but easily kills everyone in a crowd- so kill counts of several thousand easily

Sooooo, Exploding Palm/Uliannas with those bracers that make the explosions apply the explosion?

But seriously, that would destroy any sort of festival in an instant.

>how bad would shit get?
It would get really fucking dark.

Also grass, pollen and any other plant matter

How long after becoming a bomb do they explode?

Immediately? Days later? Years? This is ultimately the most important question.