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Theory of Lotus: The Mysterious Decay of HMS

This discussion thread is based on the fact that the skill 'Holy Magic Shell (HMS)' blocks purple bomb which is one of the insta-kill skills used by the evil Black-Mage-Commander-Who-Wears-Pajamas (BMCWWP) a.k.a. Lotus.

Quick background intro:
Yesterday my buddies and I were in our usual weekly BMCWWP raid, there was a moment when I noticed I lost my HMS buff, so as a veteran Lotus raider I gave a quick glance at my keyboard quickslots and found out my HMS skill was still on cooldown. After 1.618s I got the mixed feeling of 68.3% deja-vu, 95.4% chronophobia and 99.7% obsessive-compulsive disorder, since BMCWWP’s bomb attack isn’t capable of consuming all HMS counts unless you deliberately catch all of them, and HMS buff shouldn’t time out before it resets its cooldown for such a professional Lotus runner who has a buff duration of 214.7483647% as me. This creates a spiral paradox of cause and effect, which mentally paralyzed my lovely cute character and, panicked, she unconsciously walked into two purple bombs consecutively which resulted in her first death by shock bombs in her entire BMCWWP career.

After all, as a faithful follower of mechanistic philosophy, I vetoed the conjecture of BMCWWP being capable of dispelling HMS with an unknown action at a distance, after careful inspection of the replay video, I realized I lost the HMS buff when I was standing on the green plate casted by BMCWWP, right after I casted HMS. Obviously, the green plate somehow accelerated the decaying process of HMS, which is (again) obviously, not intended since there is no such concept as "attacking" for a plate lying on the floor which deals no damage.

tl;dr: I wonder if any Lotus runners have observed something similar, i.e. the green plates on the floor casted by Lotus consuming your shell count.