Re: Blue Fields

[Wright Frazier <khelek>]

Oh, another thing, don't know if it was clear or not, but I ment to
imply that BFs would be relative to the nearest large mass object(planetoids,
large asteroids, truely huge space ships, gravity wells), and never
change.  So if you get BF'd out in deep interstellar space, you'll probably
get attached to the nearest large asteroid, and go drifting off with it,
though I imagine any ship truely capable of interstellar travel more than
creates its own gravity well from shear mass, or if not, from artificial
gravity.  But as has been said, thats neither here nor there.  Hell I'm
not even sure elemental magic will work outside of the Jaernian system.

The main thing I'm goin for is that it should be attached and stay relative
too the nearest large gravity generating object.  That way its a reasonable
definition without the cludge sound of 'it stays on the boat', and makes it
so that they are 'attached to gravity wells', even if the makers/casters
of the spells do not know it.  They just know that the spell effect stays
on jaern, or in REALLY rare cases, it stays on Mournglade/Obenar/Bastador/
interplanetary rocks that they were standing on when they cast it.

Wright

> > I like Steve's version of #3 ( part of it was my idea ). It also allows
> > for blue fields in spaceships ( not that we have any but you know ).
> > I'm on a boat therefore I am relative to it. The fly on my parrot on
> > my shoulder is relative to the parrot. If the fly jumped off the bird
> > it would change its reletivity to that of the planet. So the best way
> > to get people off your boat is to blue field them as they swing over.
> > The rope falls away and they hang in the air.
> 
> In Wright's type (2) world getting people off your boat is even
> easier. A quick pause time and they're history. You sail on, battle
> averted while the other boat has to stick around so their comrades
> don't fall in the puddle. Brutally efficient.
> 
> A variation on type 2... if you don't have a planetary sized object
> it could go relative to whatever you do have at that point (ie
> starship). Being relative to the planet has a lot of simplicity advantages.
> I still like #3 though :)
> 
> 						-Steve
>