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Re: Airships (Re: Magic/Majick section of CW)
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Wed, 15 Nov 2000 22:51:59 GMT
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In lugnet.castle.org.cw, Pawel Nazarewicz writes:
> > Anyone have any comments or suggestions?
> >
> > Wilson
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> My problem is how to justify the existence and operation of airships. As
> first I thought "Magic!", but that doesn't really do the concept justice. My
> next thought was that each airship has to have crystals (found in the AQ and
> RR sets) which have levitation powers. They are hooked up to special
> levers and such - making them independent from any magician and single source.
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> Better yet - there could be a special chair that one could sit at and
> channel their thoughts through the crystal - making the airship only as
> stable as
> its captian - making it almost a living object - like a mecha almost.
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> The fun with that would be that a mountain with these or source of them
> would be highly desirable and hard to find. If you want to go further, the
> chrome armor on the knights might be carved from these crystals - giving
> them the power to levitate and fly. "Death from above!" The idea of
> opening up the airs through a controlled means (via crystals) adds a fun
> demension to the whole world.
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> Anyone else given this thought?
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> -- Pawel
What if it was a highly advanced civilzation that has degraded back down to
medieval technology? This could explain amplification crystals in a world
full of castles and knights. These would also be hard to find or desirable
because they cannot be reconstructed.
Rob
robo2705@hotmail.com
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