drwoning/blue fields

[Keith Klumb <kklumb@expert.cc.purdue.edu>]

I should say that we should keep the drowning issue simple (no offense
John, I did like your write up). But that is one of the nice things about
AQ no need for 6 manuals, and we are trying to keep it this way.
	The way it seems to be leaning to is that if you are in water you
get and oppurtunity to make a swimming check (whatever it may be) and then
you have one round to do something else. You might have been lowering
yourself into the water off of a boat. You get into the water and realize
you can't swim as well as you thought you could (missed check). You now
have 1 round to either try swimming again or to grab onto the boat you
just lowered yourself off of. If you still aren't swimming after your 1
round and you didn't take the round to cast gills, then you begin
drowning. You go unconsious one round later and you have x rounds till you
are dead (b/c it is documented that if you pull someone out of the water
within 5 minutes of them starting to drown they can still be saved, in
RL) We'll assume you don't die immediatly after you go unconcious.
	Seems pretty straight forward to me.

	I'm just going to try and sum up the problems that are being run
into with the blue field ideas. The spell essentially takes someone out of
our frame of time. Now for sake of gaming ease the planet doesn't move
away from them b/c (insert good reason here). Even though in theory in RL
that's what would happen, if you are taken out of time you stay still in
an astonomical sense.
	Just no one really likes the idea of 'I blue field you, wait a day
till the planet is x miles away from where you were stopped in time, and I
drop my blue field, you die in the vacum of space. Have a nice day :-)'
	Thus this whole gravity issue seems to be everyone making up a
reason why you still stay somewhere over the ocean b/c that's where I blue
fielded you.
	So I think what the issue is is just how movable or imovable is a
blue field?

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