My understanding of the closing & Dormal was that you did the ritual as you were leaving port and, if the ritual failed, the full effects of the closing hit you - ie. you were almost certainly sunk, eaten, electrocuted (gigantic eels you know), battered, hewn and anything else you can think of. That is, you didn't make it. This is why one employed someone with a good Open Seas ritual level :-) Oh, and the ritual ensures that *they're* on the boat with you as well! MGF means that the ship probably just makes it back to where if left from though.
In most (?) of Gloranthan waters, the closing came pretty close to the shore hence *no* mucking around the coast at all, even in dingheys, let alone something big enough to successfully trade with. Those societies cut off really were cutoff - noone came in/out via the sea. IMG, YGMV. There were some places IIRC where staying in sight of land was enough - Choralinthor Bay I think among some others?
Rob
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