Re: Regular Day-Night - proposed SJ spell

In <URL:news:local.spelljam> on Thu 24 Aug, Nils Jeppe wrote:
> 
> On Wed, 23 Aug 2006, Dreamer wrote:
> 
> > This spell is useless and will not work anywhere where the
> > day-night cycle is between forty-eight hours long and twelve
> > hours long.
> 
> And why not? That is pretty arbitrary.

The reason for that is that this spell produces a 'regular' 24-hr
day, and those times are half that day length, and double it, so
they are too close to 'regular' be able to be altered.


> I still think such a spell serves no purpose in the first place.

Plants from Maj will expect to live and grow in a Maj-like day.

Try and grow them on Selene and you have 14-days of sunlight,
which they might be able to tolerate, followed by 14-days of
night, where they will likely have to become nearly completely
dormant, or die.

Are you claiming that in some way this being a SJ universe will
mean that this is not a problem?  I'm afraid that I don't follow
your logic...


Another application would be somewhere where there is very far
from enough sunlight, and you open a continuous portal to the
elemental plane of fire, to act as an artificial sun.  You may
not want to keep opening and closing this portal, to provide day
and night, so you use this spell as well.

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