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What Causes Endless Night? Anyone know?
OZ:
I only asked because the original post asks " How do you put a city in the dark in such a way that even wizards would be stumped?"
For a city to be in eternal night one would need perhaps to suspend something in the sky above it like a never ending eclipse. Another possibility would be if someone found a way to bend light around the city so that the only light in the city was that which was generated internally. This would have the added affect of making the city invisible to those outside it. This deals with the old phenomenon that most tricks which turn you invisible would make you blind as well. With the whole city involved, you would be able to see each other, you just couldn't see outside the city and no one could see in.
Shecky:
Anyone out there checked out the Eberron campaign setting for D&D 3.5? I'm thinking the Manifest Zones (places where the "veil" between the planes is thin; different planes "leak" through in different places) as a point of departure if you want to do it just for a city. I still think bunging the whole planet to a different plane is a real EEP-inducer, though. :)
OZ:
This reminds me a little of Asimov's classic "Nightfall" but in reverse.
The Corvidian:
It could be an anti-light ward. Another suggestion, someone has made a perfect model of the city, and is using a version of contagion/sympathy to put up a never ending night.
Shecky:
--- Quote from: The Corvidian on June 18, 2008, 03:32:47 AM ---It could be an anti-light ward. Another suggestion, someone has made a perfect model of the city, and is using a version of contagion/sympathy to put up a never ending night.
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Oh, come on - think BIG! ;D
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