Detrot Police Department Manual

 Act One, Chapter 20: Rolling in the Aisles

Excerpt from Appendix H: Subsection B.44 of the Detrot Police Department manual

Magical Contamination

Areas of "Magical Contamination" are defined as self-sustaining zones of significant and unpredictable magical influence; usually the result of miscast high-power spells or zones of catastrophic emotional turmoil. They are only rarely created artificially. As the results of magical contamination can range from the debiliating to fatal to worse than fatal, the deliberate creation of magical contamination zones is regarded somewhere between ‘felony’ and ‘war crime.’

DPD Policy states the following actions be observed by all officers regarding entering a zone of magical contamination:

1) Don't do it.

2) Seriously, don't do it. The Detrot Police Department is not screwing around. Do you like having one head and a torso not made out of a citrus fruit?

3) If circumstances dictate you really must, determine the source and origin of the contamination prior to entry and prepare accordingly. Magic being what it is, the origin may tell you what to expect. Dealing with a massacre site haunted by the vengeful dead should be approached differently from a site accidentally contaminated by an overzealous baker attempting to go all-out for a royal event. In one case, fondant and wax paper are likely to do you very little good; in the other, they may be your salvation.

4) Magical contamination seems curiously drawn to dramatic irony. Under no circumstances should you utter any phrase along the lines of “How bad can it be?” or “What’s the worst that could happen?” whilst inside a zone of magical contamination, as this can result in you being immediately rendered into glue.