MAGIC CACHE STASH
I have been told there are several different types of magic and here are a few I would like to share with you. Figure the key to this puzzle and it will lead you to a container filled with magic wands, from there you will recieve a final clue how to get to the final cache. Making for a great and magical caching adventure. The first and favorite of the magics is PLANAR MAGIC. Peculiarities of planar magic include such things as the problems of iron metal. Apparently, a large concentration of iron around you, if it is sufficiently close like it would be in the wearing of metal armor, will disrupt the field around your person. Such ferrous metal will cause tenuous magical fields to collapse and cannot support the continued amplification of energy. As this problem with the proximity to iron falls off as the inverse of the fourth power of the distance between you and it, you really must be wearing the iron "around" much of your body and not simply holding some or standing next to some iron. (So an iron brazier will not bother you, nor will that iron sword on your belt, for example). You could even cast spells in a metal room if it were big enough (say, with at least one wall more than a few feet from the mage). This fact is used to good effectiveness when a magic user is forced to wear metal, or surrounded by a very, very close cage of metal (like an iron maiden) to keep them from using their spells. In fact with PLANAR MAGIC, other metals may be employed, but they are not typically available (who makes bronze armor during the Iron Age)? Such armors are not as strong, durable, and probably weigh even more. But under this explanation it may be possible for very rich mages who also happen to be very strong and who also do not care about their spells going off at the End of every round to buy, maintain, lug around, and wear armors made from other metals than iron. Of course, by the time they are rich enough to afford that, they may already have better magical protections (Armor as a spell, or magic items of protection). Next is OTHER KINDS OF MAGIC. Naturally, there may be other kinds of magic. I don't know everything that goes on in my own world so why should I know everything that goes on in yours? I just feel better knowing some apparent anomalies of the rules were, or potentially could be explained away in my universe. If you feel any of these things are useful, feel free to take them and use them in good health. Now, as promised, if you'd like to see a complete write-up of an example for Divine Magic, follow the link to the Athenian Clerics. Now onto the next, RUNIC MAGIC. Runes are natural forces of the universe. Their secret is known only to a few. They are found in Norse Mythology more than anywhere else. Odin, All Father of the Norse gods, hung himself from a tree for nine days and gained their secret. Now for the last I'm sharing, RANDOM MAGIC. First, a bag of beans gets a handle on what the future is or will be. Then it creates a situation that would make such a future impossible. Now the universe abhors a vacuum. Likewise, the universe abhors even more strenuously a temporal paradox. All surrounding energies of the universe start to converge on this apparent temporal paradox in order to correct the problem. This can usually be seen as an unusual light show of sorts on the astral plane. Now it is at this time that the bag of beans uses some of the gathering energy to get a handle on the future. (It may do this as it is outside of linear time). After that, when more energy has accumulated to correct the paradox, the bag of beans taps in and uses some of that energy to make the predetermined future a practical impossibility, thus causing the up coming paradox in the first place. Finally, since the universe has access to near infinite energies, the paradox corrects itself and the future is set straight again. But just before that, the bag of beans taps in again and uses some of the considerable energy to create the bean that caused all this in the first place. It is also at that time when the bean achieves temporary sentience and creates the initial conditions within itself to know the future in the past, and to cause the paradox later that created itself just now. Anything requiring intelligence is accomplished at this time, before sentience is lost. Also, RANDOM MAGIC in addition to creating itself, there is a random side effect in the form of what ever the bean manufactured to create the paradox. This is what the adventurers see and deal with. Now this bean, and its brothers, after the use of all such beans in the bag, disappear and eventually end up in the past where it was found in the first place. Finally, it may sometimes happen that this first bag of beans creates another bag that may someday create this first bag of beans. Now you understand.
Good luck and as always I hope you enjoy the adventure.
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