Re: Blue Fields

[Steve Ames <steve>]

This was quality spew. Yeah, I meant relative to whatever is giving
you your motion. ie whatever you would be stationary toward... err..
or maybe whatever "inertial system" that your part of?

We are part of our univseral system, our galactic system, or solar 
system, planetary system and the boat we are riding on. You are
relative to whatever is most _specific_.

Hence if your riding a boat, your relative to the boat. If your riding
my shoulder on this boat, your relative to me. If your on a starship
in intergalactic space, you are relative to the starship. If your all
alone in intergalactic space you are relative to the universe.

That would be my type three answer. Type (2) is simpler and we just
always say relative to the nearest planetary mass. This means being
blue fielded aboard a boat means the boat moves, you stay put. Being
blue fielded in space a little way from Jaern means you become a fixed
orbit feature of our sky :)

I'm still better with (3).

						-Steve

> Umm not necessarily If you had to be relative to whatever you were
> relative to when the blue field was cast this would also mean people and
> other objects in the vicinity so basically nothing could move.  I.E. if
> you were 5 feet above the boat in the center which also ment you were 3
> feet to the left of John and 2 feet to the right of Suzie, 6 feet in
> front of a Keg of ale etc.  None of these objects could change their
> location relative to the blue field so only mass movement in the exact
> same direction could be allowed (i.e. Suzie couldn't decide to go down
> into the galley for a snack).  If by item 3 you ment relative to one
> thing...How is that one thing chosen (biggest object in a blah foot
> radius or what).
>
>
> > My personal vote is for #3. But this does mean that if I'm carrying a
> > creature and then blue field it, it does stay with me until its un
> > blue-fielded... this could be used in munchkin manner.
> > 
> > 						-Steve
> > 
> > > This brings up a question. Why did the boat move out from around the
> > > blue field? There is reason to say it happens but the reason has
> failing
> > > points. You take that spot out of time it doesn't move but it does.
> > > Remember there is a relativity issue working here. If you blue field
> and
> > > don't remain relative to your immediate surroundings you would stay
> while
> > > your surroundings move simple. But the planet is also moving and I
> don't
> > > see blue fields shooting off into space. You stay relative to the
> planet
> > > you are on so why not to your immediate surroundings?
> > >
> > > Back with the old type-1 blue fields you could move them and they
> stayed
> > > relative to where you put them. They were indestructable but not
> unmoveable.
> > > Great party gag to blue field someone and then push them just off the
> ship
> > > and drop the spell. Splash.
> > >
> > > The only question is how is the relativity defined.
> > > >
> > > > Everyone more or less gets out OK, there is the FEEL of character
> death,
> > > > but no one got waxed.
> > > >
> > > > THAT'S the way drowning ought to be.
> > > >
> > > > -John
> > >
> > > Ahh the ememinant threat of death is good. The whole issue came up
> with
> > > the fact that some GMs made emanant threat become immediate fact.
> > >
> > > 						Greg
> > >
>