Re: Mammoth -> Horseshoe Crab/pump helm logic.

With regards the pump helm, first I must make apologies. My players
blatantly stole the idea from the goblins. After the third or fourth
invasion attempt by the scro and all their big nasty friends my players said
"hey we don't even have to leave home for these guys to come try to take us
over! Why are we going to all the expense of buying Arcane helms that we
don't use?" so, with much research and development and money, my players
finally reverse engineered one and figured out how it works. I'm guilty, I
went along with it. it made sense. 
	The first and hardest fact to realize is that all matter contains
magic, or more correctly is magic. Three states of matter are solid, liquid,
and gas. But fourth and fifth states exist, plasma and magic (energy). A
wizard converts the magic she/he has stored into matter every time he casts
minor creation (or any other spell for that matter). All we are doing here
is converting matter from one form to another. Magic to solid. Solid to
liquid. Liquid to plasma. Etc. Furnaces convert magic stored in items
(potential energy) to motive force(kinetic energy). Pumps convert matter
itself into magic(potential), then into motive force(kinetic). The next step
is to understand that anytime matter is converted to energy(magic) its
atomic makeup can be rearranged into anything else. This is the third
principle of alchemy. It all boils down to the premise that pumps and
furnaces act like atomic reactors. Burning a material to release its
potential energy in a kinetic form. If this sounds too far around the bend
then ask yourself how does a spell battery hold spell levels and how does a
major helm convert a wizards spells into motive force? They are both just
matter conversion devices. Heck the goblin pump even looks like an atomic
reactor core. Seems to work the same way too. Burn the fuel until all the
free magic is released then convert the remainder into magic for motive
force. The books imply that the goblin pump is a less efficient form of
furnace, but I think the reverse is true that it is in fact more efficient
in that it can convert matter as well as spell energy.

V/R FC2 Riley, James R. 
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