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<blockquote data-quote="Mad_Jack" data-source="post: 6990690" data-attributes="member: 6750306"><p>I'm thinking, since you're planning to use crystals (and the Spelljammer thing), that once they're triggered, they glow with a bright light and a crystaline chiming sound and slowly start turning everything around them into crystal as well, in a radius that increases by <em>X</em> miles per day up to<em> X</em> radius... </p><p>Every living creature within the initial "blast" radius is instantly crystallized. Things outside the initial radius but within the expanding radius have<em> X</em> amount of time to either run like hell to get out before they begin crystallizing, or to destroy the crystal and thus stop the process. Everything turned to crystal remains so for at least a thousand years.</p><p>They're magically made from the same crystal as the crystal spheres themselves (originally designed to create new crystal spheres as a means of terraforming, never meant to be set off <em>inside</em> an already-existing sphere), and if you have enough of them or a big enough one, you can turn an entire crystal sphere into a solid glass marble floating in the phlogiston.</p><p>Ancient half-accurate whispers of the use of smaller-scale versions have given rise to the legends of fantastical crystalline cities and such. The migrations of ancient peoples may have been them fleeing the effects of such a device.</p><p></p><p>Depending on how you want to play it, perhaps the devices the bad guys have/are after are smaller versions of the ones that destroyed the entire world in a single night. Prototypes, or "backpack" nukes or something. Just big enough for them to lay waste to a hundred miles each.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Mad_Jack, post: 6990690, member: 6750306"] I'm thinking, since you're planning to use crystals (and the Spelljammer thing), that once they're triggered, they glow with a bright light and a crystaline chiming sound and slowly start turning everything around them into crystal as well, in a radius that increases by [I]X[/I] miles per day up to[I] X[/I] radius... Every living creature within the initial "blast" radius is instantly crystallized. Things outside the initial radius but within the expanding radius have[I] X[/I] amount of time to either run like hell to get out before they begin crystallizing, or to destroy the crystal and thus stop the process. Everything turned to crystal remains so for at least a thousand years. They're magically made from the same crystal as the crystal spheres themselves (originally designed to create new crystal spheres as a means of terraforming, never meant to be set off [I]inside[/I] an already-existing sphere), and if you have enough of them or a big enough one, you can turn an entire crystal sphere into a solid glass marble floating in the phlogiston. Ancient half-accurate whispers of the use of smaller-scale versions have given rise to the legends of fantastical crystalline cities and such. The migrations of ancient peoples may have been them fleeing the effects of such a device. Depending on how you want to play it, perhaps the devices the bad guys have/are after are smaller versions of the ones that destroyed the entire world in a single night. Prototypes, or "backpack" nukes or something. Just big enough for them to lay waste to a hundred miles each. [/QUOTE]
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