Re: Blue Fields

[Jevan Furmanski <furmansj@expert.cc.purdue.edu>]

Everything is effected by gravity.  Make no mistake.  Photons...  if all
magic is is just another form of energy, then it is effected by gravity in
some way or another.

Has anyone checked on the latest version of blue fields from Dan?  This
should be pretty clear.

Jevan

On Wed, 4 Nov 1998, Greg Mowczko wrote:

> > From: 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.
> 
> You are the one that brought the whole Gravity well thing up Wright. The
> player/adventurer doesn't need to know about them but the GM would need
> to know about them if you wanted your relativity based on that.
> 
> > 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. 
> 
> As Steve brings up you can't use gravity wells since a Blue field is
> massless thus totally unaffected by gravity. Therefore what determines
> relativity has to be conceptional. I do lean towards the spew below.
> 
> > 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
> 
> 						Greg
>