Re: Blue Fields

[Steve Ames <steve>]

> Why would someone need to know about a gravity well?  The VAST majority
> of these spells were developed on Jaern and have probably never had
> their effects documented on anything BUT a large mass object.

True. But you'd become acquainted with the concept of relativity pretty
fast as soon as you blue fielded someone aboard a boat and it didn't do
what you expected (ie it stayed still while the boat moved through it).
If you blue field someone on a boat you expect them to turn blue and
transparent... you don't expect them to _MOVE_.

A blue field is out of our time. It doesn't have mass and so is not
affected by gravity... at all. Its affected by magic that was
defined by the caster. As such perhaps the caster is subconsiously
defining its relativity during the time of casting. Perhaps the caster
could _consiously_ set this relationship. 

Perhaps simpler still... its set relative to the caster. Not physically
relative but conceptionally relative. If we are both on a boat you'll
move with the boat. If I'm on land and I blue field you on your boat
as you go by, you are moving relative to me and will move with the boat.

I think a finesse or 4 might let you redefine this somewhat (ie relative
to the ocean instead of the boat, relative to me physically (ie a shadow),
etc...). But the default is relative to whatever it was moving with most
specifically. I do not believe that you can ever declare someone relative
to anything outside of Jaern as that would allow instant death spells
for whole areas of peoples. Badness.

						-Steve