On Thu, 7 Aug 2003, lazarus wrote:
> On Thu, 07 Aug 2003 16:24:09 -0700 (PDT), you wrote:
> >The Orb knows where you are, so it can tell you. Teleportation probably
> >requires this capability. Vlad in fact refers to "coordinates" at some
> >point in _Jhereg_, I believe.
> >
> > ...
> >say two fixed sorcery mirrors somewhere which you can bounce a wave off.
> >If the Orb's timing is fine enough (and I guess it would have to be) then
> >instead of the frequency-adjustment thing you can just do a ping and have
> >it measure the time. All assuming the speed of sorcery isn't infinite.
>
> Is there any textev for this, or are we speculating? I totally agree
> that this would be an effective and completely plausible effect, it'd
> just be neat if we had support for it.
We have teleport coordinates, as noted above, and we have common sense
(as Paarfi says, he doesn't always bother to describe to us [in exquisite
detail {or it would be exquisite if he could finally get to the point}
things we know must happen]). I routinely claim support with rather less.