elk, standing on the ridgetop, pupils wide as dinner plates, st. elmo's fire streaming off her antlers, staring straight up into the rain storm, transfixed by the moon

Humphreys, W. J. “Ball Lightning.” Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society, vol. 76, no. 5, 1936, pp. 613–26. JSTOR, http://www.jstor.org/stable/984750. Accessed 22 Jan. 2024.

casting lightning in tabletop and video games: zzzt!! sizzle crackle! nyeh heh heh!!! zzzt!!! [rotoscoped flickery lightning effect]

how casting lightning SHOULD work: your target explodes as all available energy earths itself through them. all targets within ten foot AoE of line to target are permanently deafened and temporarily blinded. all targets within fifty feet are deafened for 1d8 days. your sorceror acquires one Trauma Point

he has to wear a glove now