this is a thread to attract SE4 forumers to the first Dungeon Oddessy roleplay thread

[Krsqk]

Yep, the "the" is supposed to be there. Of course, I did leave open the possibility of a thumb.

[ August 28, 2003, 21:11: Message edited by: Krsqk ]

[narf poit chez BOOM]

did Arther ever carry any evil ring of power?

that joke assumes you've read lotr.

[narf poit chez BOOM]

lead into gold, Jack? i have a feeling i should go 'tsh, tsh', so tsh, tsh.

[ August 30, 2003, 08:18: Message edited by: narf poit chez BOOM ]

[Jack Simth]

Originally posted by narf poit chez BOOM:
lead into gold, Jack? i have a feeling i should go 'tsh, tsh', so tsh, tsh.

As far as Jack is concerned, gold is little more than worthless ash, and he will treat it as such. Sure, it's pretty and lends itself well to jewelry (holding a harnessed uncertainty jewel on a finger, for example), but beyond that he's just going to bury it as garbage when he's done burning the lead.

Besides, it was an alchemist that discovered the process, and that was the touted goal of alchemy way back when it first started. Of course, after the process was discovered on Jack's world, the goal became turning gold into lead, as that was the new currency metal....

[ August 30, 2003, 08:57: Message edited by: Jack Simth ]

[narf poit chez BOOM]

you do realize now where going to have to do a financial revelution as well as a magical one, don't you?

[Jack Simth]

Originally posted by narf poit chez BOOM:
you do realize now where going to have to do a financial revelution as well as a magical one, don't you?

The transition could be smoother than you might think; at first, the only a few things happen: lead suddenly beocomes very valuable to mages, mages become more powerful, and mages get a new supply of gold. However, it is a destructive use of the lead, so over time there is progressively less lead and more gold in the system, making lead rare and gold common. Moreover, as people catch on that mages, especially the power hungry variety, are willing to pay well for lead (the process would return 95% of the weight of the lead in gold, so they would have much gold available for buying lead) lead is going to go up in value overall as people begin to charge more, and gold down in the same as it becomes more common. This would accelerate as magic becomes more commonly known, and after a while you'd get a gold/lead standard debate similar to the gold/silver standard debate that happened in the US a long while back. However, the above factors would continue to press the issue, and sooner or later people would start switching currencies, although there would likely be a transitional period where both made for perfectly acceptable currency. It could readily be a slow change, rather than a sudden revolution.

Besides, it may not affect MOTMA much; if only a few know the technique, it would cause no more impact than a few productive gold mines. The value of gold and lead would change locally, but globally things would stay about the same for a long, long time, unless the technique spreads.

[narf poit chez BOOM]

a bunch of power-hungry mages won't want to get there hands on a new power source? gonna have to keep it a secret in that case.

[ August 31, 2003, 00:58: Message edited by: narf poit chez BOOM ]