exploratory kidnapping

[alicornucopia]

In this room are two women, one gray and sixty years old, one just thirty and red-haired, both wearing elaborate outfits. The younger casts a spell.

In this room is now also a third person. (On whom the elder woman promptly also casts a spell, which she had at the ready.)

Comments

[missnicegirl]

"Well, if the wards are big enough to cover the whole country, we might be able to make them pick up spills from inside their active area and prevent anyone else from doing that and then people outside Esmaar wouldn't be able to interrupt our supply by building their own recyclers, and there are plenty of ialdic dragons living in Esmaar right now... And if it wasn't getting enough power, anyone with high output could sit inside it somewhere and deliberately spill power at it."

[alicornucopia]

"These wards are little; do you think country-sized ones won't be any more expensive? Also - it's fairly important to be able to put the wards down, or at least make them selectively ignore people. Otherwise they make it difficult to have tourism and go grocery shopping and so on. Need to build that in."

[missnicegirl]

"I expect country-sized ones to be more expensive, but it's hard to tell how much more without trying it, I guess..."

[alicornucopia]

"It's okay if we can only go up to city-sized, that's what the state of the art is, but if that's too expensive to cast we have a problem."

[missnicegirl]

"I guess if we want to test these things, there is conveniently a whole bottom of the world to go around warding bits of."

[alicornucopia]

"There is, it's very handy. Oh, hey, I could probably do ialdae just fine in natural form, easier to mark city sized boundaries from the air..."

[missnicegirl]

"Yes, I don't see a reason why it should matter what shape you're in for ialdae's purposes. I guess wizardry has those gestures that are probably hard to do without hands."

[alicornucopia]

"Yeah. We could probably adapt it for claws - there's separate gestures for fey and merfolk, and leonines manage the standard terrestrial all right with practice - but basically if I want to cast I use human form."