Re: Formation of Crystal Shells

Heya,

In our last episode, Danton May said:
>I'm creating a campaign setting called the "Constellation Wyrm," which is a
>huge pholgiston formation that is shaped like a dragon.  It is surrounded by
>a enormous void where there is no pholgiston, and contains thousands of
>crystal spheres.  Known space is somewhere off in the pholgiston in front of
>the dragon's face.  There is a NPC on my main campagin world, Drav, that has
>written a paper on how crystal spheres form.  It is posted below, and I
>would like comments about how to improve it.  It explains everything I could
>think off but why the pholgiston is flamable.  I haven't figured out how to
>add that detail in, yet.  Let me know what you all think.

        Not a bad theory.  It covers the basics of everything you'd
expect to find in a sphere.

        One comment I have is about the flamable phlogiston you mention.
Phlogiston can't be flammable.  If it was, it'd have burned up eons ago
when the first explorer left a sphere with a lantern dangling on the bow
of his ship.  If it requires oxygen to burn, than it wouldn't stop burning
until it's consumed all the air in an air envelope--flow travel would
drop significantly in this case.

        Any chance you could generalize the article a bit?  I'd like to
post it on BtM.  (BtM, for those who don't know, is www.darkwood.org/sj/.)

        Hope that helps. :)

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