Need help protecting a Decanter of Endless Water used as a fountain in my town!

[Piratecat]

The PCs found a corridor completely blocked off by a wall of decades-old stale oatmeal, infested with monstrous centipedes...

That's SO COOL!

 

[Tsyr]

Ya know, thinking about it...

30 gallons a round is 300 gallons a minute.

18,000 gallons an hour.

432,000 gallons in a day.

157,680,000 gallons in a year.

That's one hell of a sewer system you better have. Never mind the long-term reprocutions on the local environment from a quarter of a billion gallons of water appearing from nowhere and being introduced into the ecosystem each year.

 

[Gez]

On a tangent, what about the environmental impact of all these decanters endlessly flowing? The sea level should begin to raise, after all these millenia... (Of course, you can always create a permanent one-way gate toward the Elemental Plane of Water at the maximum level you want water to raise to, so...)

 

[WonkaMania]

Ya know, thinking about it...

30 gallons a round is 300 gallons a minute.

18,000 gallons an hour.

432,000 gallons in a day.

157,680,000 gallons in a year.

That's one hell of a sewer system you better have. Never mind the long-term reprocutions on the local environment from a quarter of a billion gallons of water appearing from nowhere and being introduced into the ecosystem each year.

Well, I hadn't entirely thought of that.. lol! Perhaps I can just modify it so it isn't quite so much water that is flowing out of it, but it's still a 20-foot tall geyser, or, it's only in "geyser" mode for the afternoon/early evening 8 hours of they day, and otherwise it's in fountain or stream mode.

There's some *great* responses to this thread, and I thank you all for all of them! I think at first, I will have it as just a Decanter that's mounted at the top of the fountain surrounded by iron bars and glued with the Soveirgn Glue. This way, I can have it as a plot-hook down the road that someone *does* steal it for unbeknownst reasons. Whenever that is resolved, a new one is built with the ideas that have been presented here!

Thanks all!

~Wonka

(Oh, and I *love* that spoon-oatmeal idea!)

 

[Hypersmurf]

That's SO COOL!

Even better was the way they were absolutely convinced it was some form of Ooze they weren't familiar with... they spent quite a while lobbing flasks of oil at it, and that sort of thing, before deciding that maybe it really was just a big lump of hundred-year-old porridge...

They actually took the time - some number of hours - to dig their way through the porridge to the back of the kitchen to investigate the couple of magic auras they detected. As well as the spoon, there was also a magic swizzle-stick that uses Prestidigitation to add flavour to oatmeal. So for the old inhabitants of the temple, they didn't have to live on something that tasted of cardboard...

The PCs have been carrying both items around ever since. And they usually remember to get a pot out at about quarter past five. But from time to time, when things are tense and they've all been distracted with more important things, someone will ask "Hey, what time is it?", and the halfling will moan as she realises she'll have to de-porridge her backpack again...

-Hyp.

 

[Hypersmurf]

I think at first, I will have it as just a Decanter that's mounted at the top of the fountain surrounded by iron bars and glued with the Soveirgn Glue.

Don't forget the strip-searches!

-Hyp.

 

[WonkaMania]

The PCs have been carrying both items around ever since. And they usually remember to get a pot out at about quarter past five. But from time to time, when things are tense and they've all been distracted with more important things, someone will ask "Hey, what time is it?", and the halfling will moan as she realises she'll have to de-porridge her backpack again...

-Hyp.

Positively BRILLIANT!!!

 

[GreyShadow]

That's one hell of a sewer system you better have. Never mind the long-term reprocutions on the local environment from a quarter of a billion gallons of water appearing from nowhere and being introduced into the ecosystem each year.

Just have your town by that lake that's rumoured to be bottomless. Rumours are true.

Or up river from said lake.

 

[Gez]

I've a big inland sea that's rumoured to be bottomless IMCW.

It's both true and wrong, since the bottom is actually a giant nexus toward the elemental plane of water. Below the nexus, there's earth, but you can't ever reach it.

You know you're on the boundary of the planes when one of your eyes may see the cliff, while the other see only water everywhere. It's tricky.

Of course, given the depth you have to reach, your eyes are likely to not be able to see anything. It's dark, and the pressure is more than most abjuration spells can handle.

 

[Hypersmurf]

I've a big inland sea that's rumoured to be bottomless IMCW.

It's both true and wrong, since the bottom is actually a giant nexus toward the elemental plane of water. Below the nexus, there's earth, but you can't ever reach it.

What if you're Dimensional Anchored and Iron Bodied?

-Hyp.