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Butterfingers · 01-23-2003, 02:35 AM

Long before there was D&D, there was **Drumroll** a game called Chainmail!

One of the mission packs involved taking out a Wizard that had captured The Machine of the Gods. It was not called the Machine of Lum the Mad, but, it does not take a genius to figure out the connections.

It is possible to move the machine with out damaging it. There was a quest pack put out, I can't remember the name, but, it was a high level quest series where you had to recover The Machine. (Same discription as the one in Chainmail) And you found out later it was the Machine of Lum the Mad. In the British versions of the same mission pack, it was The Machine of Lumm the Madd. You see, when activated properly, The Machine does not actually move. The universe moves around it. The Machine stays in one spot and the whole universe shifts around till The Machine is where it wants to be.

It is interesting to note as well, that Planar Spheres were created by Gnomes who stole the technology and modified it for their own version of space and planer travel. The Planar Sphere never actually moves. It always stays in a fixed location, the universe and the planes move around it until you arrive at where you want to be. It makes my head hurt trying to think about how the physics to this might work, I don't recommend to anybody trying to figure out if this is physically possible. However, the shortest distance is not from point A to point B. The shortest distance between the two points would be achieved if you folded them into each other creating a juxtaposition of the two points in the exact same space of each other. Somehow. Argh... Here comes the headache. Or most famous scientist Albert believed this was possible and could even be done with out breaking the laws of relativity. Stephen Hawkings disagrees mightily, thinking the only way to do this would be to create a wormhole effect, and, much like swinging a long flexible object, like say, a string or a lasso, grabbing the wormhole by one end and causing it to whip around and spin, making one end of it revolve much faster then the other end, warping time and space between the two points so much that eventually, the wormhole would collapse on it's self, one end sucking in the other until the two points coexisted in the same place of existance overlapping one another, causing time and space to break down and possibly creating something called a nether vortex, which is a lot like a black hole only far worse. This is a tear in the fabric of the universe it's self and God only knows what might happen.

Ouch... Stabbing pain behind eyes... Thankfully, we can do this in a Fantasy World with no real consequences.

01-23-2003, 02:35 AM	#14
Butterfingers Drizzt Do'Urden Join Date: November 30, 2002 Location: Five Flagons Inn Posts: 633	Long before there was D&D, there was Drumroll a game called Chainmail! One of the mission packs involved taking out a Wizard that had captured The Machine of the Gods. It was not called the Machine of Lum the Mad, but, it does not take a genius to figure out the connections. It is possible to move the machine with out damaging it. There was a quest pack put out, I can't remember the name, but, it was a high level quest series where you had to recover The Machine. (Same discription as the one in Chainmail) And you found out later it was the Machine of Lum the Mad. In the British versions of the same mission pack, it was The Machine of Lumm the Madd. You see, when activated properly, The Machine does not actually move. The universe moves around it. The Machine stays in one spot and the whole universe shifts around till The Machine is where it wants to be. It is interesting to note as well, that Planar Spheres were created by Gnomes who stole the technology and modified it for their own version of space and planer travel. The Planar Sphere never actually moves. It always stays in a fixed location, the universe and the planes move around it until you arrive at where you want to be. It makes my head hurt trying to think about how the physics to this might work, I don't recommend to anybody trying to figure out if this is physically possible. However, the shortest distance is not from point A to point B. The shortest distance between the two points would be achieved if you folded them into each other creating a juxtaposition of the two points in the exact same space of each other. Somehow. Argh... Here comes the headache. Or most famous scientist Albert believed this was possible and could even be done with out breaking the laws of relativity. Stephen Hawkings disagrees mightily, thinking the only way to do this would be to create a wormhole effect, and, much like swinging a long flexible object, like say, a string or a lasso, grabbing the wormhole by one end and causing it to whip around and spin, making one end of it revolve much faster then the other end, warping time and space between the two points so much that eventually, the wormhole would collapse on it's self, one end sucking in the other until the two points coexisted in the same place of existance overlapping one another, causing time and space to break down and possibly creating something called a nether vortex, which is a lot like a black hole only far worse. This is a tear in the fabric of the universe it's self and God only knows what might happen. Ouch... Stabbing pain behind eyes... Thankfully, we can do this in a Fantasy World with no real consequences.