If you can make a castle float permanently, surely it would be no great stretch to make the local equivalent of a freight elevator. Just a stable slab of rock that will float either up or down along a prescribed path, and can be triggered by some simple mechanism. At least, that's what I would have done. Alexx Alexx Kay Opinions expressed are my own and not necessarily those of my employers alexx at world.std.com http://world.std.com/~alexx [On Oscar Wilde:] "When he started going in for "rough trade," he used to tell intimates that he was "feasting with panthers." I used to think that was hyperbole until you consider what a starving thug would resemble when presented with a champagne supper in a private room at one of the better restaurants. -- Dave Sim in correspondence with Alan Moore about _From Hell_