Re: elemental power

From: Derrick Chilton <D.C.Chilton_at_bham.ac.uk>
Date: Thu, 6 Jun 1996 09:22:39 +0100


>From: "ian (i.) gorlick" <igorlick_at_nortel.ca>
>Date: Wed, 5 Jun 1996 16:36:00 -0400
>Subject: elemental suggestions

>3. Give Elementals a Fatigue Limit
>
>One of the reasons that elemental power systems are so destabilizing is that
>they run forever with no stops or fuel. Change this and they may be less of a
>problem.
>Possibly huge rituals involving many participants and hundreds of MP could be
>used to artificially reinvigorate an elemental and keep it working.

Here all the Mostali would do is have Nilmergs sacrificing MP to the "Engine" and the infernal machine would run forever, short of metal fatique, but then the repairer gremlins would see to it that the defective parts were replaced. The life time of the machine would be that of the Nilmergs and repairers.

Derrick...

'Sunrise Wrongside of Another Day'

                                                    "Kilminster"
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