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Re: Question on Spell skills Chech out Killer Shrike's Magecraft magic system here

Re: Interesting Megastructures Or you could build a Smoke Ring. On purpose. See the Integral Trees by Larry Niven

Re: Interesting Megastructures In Iain M. Banks's novel Look to Windward, an interesting megastructure is featured, but only vaguely described: the airsphere. Basically, it is two HUGE (on the order of a brown dwarf) spheres stuck together, filled with breathable atmosphere, spinning for gravity. It is surrounded by several "sun-moons," moons with huge spotlights on them to provide light, moving around the airsphere and shining at different intensities, in a chaotic pattern. It moves around the core once every galactic year (forgot how long that is, but its hundreds of millions of years) Inside, the most important creatures are the Megalithic entities: huge (kilometers long) gasbag creatures that are the equivlant of solid land, great living, moving islands in a sea of air. On their surfaces and inside, they support ecosystems, of symbiotes, parasites, residents, and several races of sapients, sometimes guests from the outside. They are hundreds of millions of years old (the airspheres were built by an Elder Race billions of years ago), and are very open- but inscrutable. Very friendly, but kill one and you'll be hated till the end of time. The spheres contain other creatures, too, winged and gasbag. They have, at the bottom, a detrius neck, to which falls waste, which is ejected every few millenia, leaving moon-sized droppings, in a ring through the galaxy. An airsphere can be a fascinating, very alien vista for players to visit, even the setting of a campaign, possibly one involving an empire trying to take over the sphere, versus its biotech-using inhabitants.

Re: When caught in a time paradox, what happens? One possibility is the occurence of what I call a "Chronal Ghosting." Basically, when you cause a person or object's existence to be unlikely, but not impossible, their particles, in a phenomenon similar to quantum tunneling, spend part of their time not existing (or, more accurately, being wherever they "would" be), flickering at an immeasurably fast rate, but not all at once. The upshot of this is that if this causes the subject's density to fall below a certain threshold, the become immaterial (Desolidified), like that hologram guy from Quantum leap. In fact, I might just incorporate this into my space opera setting (which has extensive reality-manipulation technologies, the least of which being FTL and time travel)

Re: Exotic Methods for Executions? No, it was in the first one, at that tower place... this wizard guy made molten lead flow in the guy's bones.