RE: teresium

[Daniel Lawrence <dan@aquest.com>]

Steve,
	I extrapolated the formula from the two examples given, and then cleaned up the examples a bit so it is clearer. Here is the re-written section from the advanced magic chapter:
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	Terisium's next state is the one that we can see and manipulate.
We arbitrarily assign this a magic energy of +1, making this the
standard to measure life force used to change Terisium magic states.
Terisium@+(1) appears as a dull grey metal, which has the strength of
iron, and can be worked by metal smiths. When formed into a loop or
sphere, it acts as a reverse energy pump, draining magic within the loop
back to its native plane. The rate of the drain is proportional to the
smallness of the loop, and the amount of Terisium@+(1) used.

	Manacles made of Terisium@+(1), made from one ounce of
Terisium@+1 per manacle, will drain elemental and divine units from its
wearer at a rate of about 12 units per round. A one ounce thread of
Terisium@+(1) around a 15' radius room will drain 1 unit from anyone
within this room per minute. A spell caster thus affected will notice
the loss.

	For the Mathematically inclined, this figures out as:

	# of ounces
	----------------           X    12     =   # of drained units/round
	radius in inches

-----Original Message-----
From:	Steve Ames [SMTP:steve@ns1.cioe.com]
Sent:	Tuesday, August 25, 1998 9:03 AM
To:	gmlist@ns1.cioe.com
Subject:	teresium


Greg says that Dan found a book reference that already says how much
teresium drains per round, etc... *sigh* He apparently found it _days_
ago. In any case, if everyone want to look at their books into the
"advanced magic" section. It talks about how many SU manacles drain and
how much it would drain at a given radius. Apparently there is some
formula that takes the radius of the circle and the amount of teresium
into account.

I don't know this forumula but would like to see it (and a clarification
in the earlier magic section (the player section) about the affects) so
we can hack it apart :)
[Daniel Lawrence]  Hack away.

							-Steve