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<blockquote data-quote="BiggusGeekus" data-source="post: 256520" data-attributes="member: 1014">Obligatory geek trivia:* The Mississippi river is fairly calm.&nbsp; It is also very windy.&nbsp; Mark Twain noted that sometimes when a guy felt like taking a walk he'd disembark where the river would start to make a turn and meet the boat at the other side of the giant &quot;U&quot; the river was currently making.* Adventure idea (also from Twain):&nbsp; Look again at that giant &quot;U&quot; which represents the curve (the river is actually making something more like an &quot;s&quot;, but never mind that now).&nbsp; The farmer at the bottom of the &quot;U&quot; has some fantastic land that is surrounded by lots of water.&nbsp; What some scalywag could do (and historically this happened in America during the 19th century) was to buy land at the top of the &quot;U&quot; before the spring rains.&nbsp; &nbsp; He would then dig a very large trench connecting the points of the &quot;U&quot;.&nbsp; See what's going to happen?When the spring rains came and the river starts to flood, the water will rush down the point of least resistance: which is now the trench!&nbsp; The river does the rest of the digging for him and shortly the guy at the top of the &quot;U&quot; now has some very valuable property and the guy at the bottom has property that isn't so good anymore.&nbsp; The adventurers could be asked/hired do do something to prevent this or correct it with powerful magic.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="BiggusGeekus, post: 256520, member: 1014"] Obligatory geek trivia: * The Mississippi river is fairly calm. It is also very windy. Mark Twain noted that sometimes when a guy felt like taking a walk he'd disembark where the river would start to make a turn and meet the boat at the other side of the giant "U" the river was currently making. * Adventure idea (also from Twain): Look again at that giant "U" which represents the curve (the river is actually making something more like an "s", but never mind that now). The farmer at the bottom of the "U" has some fantastic land that is surrounded by lots of water. What some scalywag could do (and historically this happened in America during the 19th century) was to buy land at the top of the "U" before the spring rains. He would then dig a very large trench connecting the points of the "U". See what's going to happen? When the spring rains came and the river starts to flood, the water will rush down the point of least resistance: which is now the trench! The river does the rest of the digging for him and shortly the guy at the top of the "U" now has some very valuable property and the guy at the bottom has property that isn't so good anymore. The adventurers could be asked/hired do do something to prevent this or correct it with powerful magic. [/QUOTE]

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