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Re: Clearing the Fog
Heh...i'd laugh my ass off if a creature with Magic Shield decided to
lair in that mine.
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On Thu, 6 May 1999, Steve Ames wrote:
>
> Way off base on several points:
>
> 1) even base teresium exists partly outside our dimension (is rules
> thus so that we can't make more using elemental mastery or some
> other spell). Since it exists in multiple dimensions at once it
> can't be magicall reporduced.
>
> 2) Teresium _MUST_ encircle someone for it to drain SU. This has as
> much to do with the circle as with the fact that its teresium.
>
> 3) Teresium has no effect on magic items as that would be base teresium
> able to affect higher magnitude teresium. Doesn't happen that way.
> It _CAN_ happen that way. Dan posted the formula. You can do the
> math and calculate how much teresium you'd need to dork with even
> a wimpy magic item.
>
> 4) Teresium _has_ been ruled to have an affect on magical effects. This
> has never been voted on or documents so that ruling went away when
> we all started playing by the rules. :)
>
> Remeber that we do not rule based on precidence anymore. We all
> agreed to this. If your new and didn't agree on this you should
> for the sake of consistency. Whoever co-GMd with you should have
> explained the ropes.
>
> > I'm going to have to argue with you Greg, since it seems that you are
> > currently making shit up. The only precident that I am aware of is that
> > any large amount of latent terisium (charged terisium is no longer on this
> > plane) will attempt to drain out magic from sources. A loop must be made
> > to suck units out of people (more recent ruling). The origins of terisium
> > are still "mysterious", but I know that I have thought many a time about
> > what would happen if adventurers found the dimension that terisium
> > coexists in. In short, terisium always trys to drain magic, and will
> > affect it in differing amounts depending on how much there really is on
> > hand. An ounce or two just isn't going to effect anything, but two pounds
> > might start.
> >
> > Jevan
> >
> > On Thu, 6 May 1999, Greg Mowczko wrote:
> >
> > > Ahh but how does that meteor get to the other dimension? As stated teresium
> > > is found in the fragments of Torandor. Torandor is in our dimension Avalon
> > > is not. How could it get there.
> > >
> > > Also you can bring teresium through the portal without a problem otherwise
> > > no one could get a magic item through ( albeit the terisium is in a charged
> > > state in an item ). The only reason that teresium may cause a problem is if
> > > you had ALOT or you could turn it into a large loop and encircle the portal
> > > compleately ( that might cause problems ).
> > > Greg
> > >
> > > > From jfernand@ecn.purdue.edu Thu May 6 11:44:46 1999
> > > > Date: Thu, 6 May 1999 11:44:29 -0500 (EST)
> > > > From: Joseph Rogelio Fernandez <jfernand@ecn.purdue.edu>
> > > > To: gmlist@cioe.com
> > > > Subject: Clearing the Fog
> > > >
> > > > In my summary I stated, "the party reopened trade to a tersium 'mine'".
> > > > There is no tersium trade going through the nexus, NONE(that I know of
> > > > since tersium can't go through the nexus). The trade going through the
> > > > nexus from Avalon is NORMAL trade like common goods. Yes, it is
> > > > defended(for those who asked). NOTE: the fact that tersium is being
> > > > mined does not need to imply that it has always been in the ground, simply
> > > > that it is there now.(meteor hits ground, meteor in the ground, mine to
> > > > the meteor.) If there are any other questions about the mine in Avalon,
> > > > just ask.
> > > >
> > >
> >
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