These small brick sized items where made by one of Lord Caasi’s apprentices to impress a kitchen wench and was quickly capitalized on.
These items look like a copper ingot about the size of a brick, and have a hollow crystal sphere set two thirds of the way down. The sphere is half filled with Philosopher’s Mercury mixed with water, and the brick itself has that sheen giving when alloyed with Philosopher’s Mercury. The top of the item has the symbol for top cut into it, but is otherwise unblemished. The item comes in two parts, the first being the copper brick, and the second being a dark metal box that the brick fits into.
The item repels water up to three feet away in a semi-sphere emitted from the bottom of the brick. The alloy with the metal, and the mixure in the crystal sphere “filter” out all noise ecept the one sound that will make it work right, so no matter where it is, or what all is “hearing” the only time it will stop working is if there is NO noise at all. This allows people to work with it, and it can be placed in the box that comes with it to keep it from working at all. When these items are attached to the inside hull of a ship or boat, it allows the vessel to float on a cushion of air, negating friction with the water, while still allowing the boat men to use oars, poles or sails.
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June 8, 2005, 23:06
June 8, 2005, 23:29
June 9, 2005, 8:18
June 9, 2005, 9:22
Are the boatmen required to make "brrm, brrm" noises?
What am I missing here?
Interesting idea but, given what the Mercury does, I'm not entirely convinced it will work - unless I've misunderstood the Mercury of course (which is quite possible).
Definitely has some potential but I'll hold off voting until I'm clearer on how it all works - please clarify.
June 9, 2005, 9:55
June 9, 2005, 12:52
"What shall we do with a drunken sailor?"
June 9, 2005, 13:42
June 9, 2005, 18:26
June 10, 2005, 7:30
Cool concept, dig the steampunk (or.. uh... alchemy-punk?), plus one for effort gives you a...
4/5.
June 27, 2005, 8:08
The "cushion of air" would displace a mass of water equal to the weight of the ship.
The ship/"cushion of air" would still have to push through the water.
It would not significantly improve the boats performance.
1/5
June 27, 2005, 8:37
June 27, 2005, 20:59
I mean, think about it- almost all of the items on our boards are MAGIC for Cthulhu's sake, and you decry this one for not being true to real-life physics?
I dunno', man, I dunno'.
To each his own, Stormy. (Can I call you Stormy?)
June 27, 2005, 21:04
July 28, 2005, 20:45
You'd still need something producing constant noise even if it's just wind, and a silence spell could really turn the tide if two of these boats were engaged.
November 29, 2005, 21:04
The link to the mercury is not working now.. I'll have to find that manually, but maybe someone could fix that some time.
I like the idea of the mercury, and I like the idea of the brick to stop the vibrations.. a floating boat is a nice idea.
November 30, 2005, 4:06