Dragaera

floating castles

Tue Sep 2 09:21:24 PDT 2003

On Tue, Sep 02, 2003 at 11:18:01AM -0500, "Iain E. Davis" <feaelin at kemenel.org> wrote:
> > 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.

No.  There is too much risk of creating Conan with that method.  
(See the "wheel of pain").

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