> From: Alexx S Kay [mailto:alexx at TheWorld.com] > 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. Or in the same vein, not use magic at all. Simply have a elevator with Teckla with big muscles to provide the "power" through a pulley-system.