> > On Sun, Aug 03, 2003 at 07:25:17PM -0400, Alexx S Kay <alexx at TheWorld.com> wrote: > > > > > > On Sun, Aug 03, 2003 at 03:25:40PM -0400, Alexx S Kay <alexx at TheWorld.com> wrote: > > > > > On Sun, Aug 03, 2003 at 12:13:21PM -0400, Alexx S Kay <alexx at TheWorld.com> wrote: > > > > > > > Well. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > That was fun. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > [SPOILERS below] > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > [snip] > I find the idea of 714 witches in a large number of circles > chanting continually in shifts for hundreds of years for no > better purpose than to hold up Morrolan's castle when a small > amount of sorcerous research would doubtless be able to achieve > the same effect automatically ... Who needs research? Presumably the spells used to make the old floating castles are still well known. Of course, it's also known that under rare circumstances, they can fail rather catastrophically. I think it's not inconceivable that Morrolan would keep his 1000+ witches chanting all the time simply as an active backup mechanism, even if he did use the old-style levitation spell. After all, there's no real cost to *him* to do that, and he's certainly not above inconveniencing large numbers of (to him) unimportant people (such as soldiers in an army), on what amounts to a whim. Heh. Maybe part of the reason he's so interested in Elder Sorcery is because he wants a third redundant system for keeping his castle up :-) > substantially uncool. Coolness is subjective, so I cannot argue this matter.