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<blockquote data-quote="MonkeezOnFire" data-source="post: 8142370" data-attributes="member: 6784845">I could see someone tinkering with the magic of existing sending stone and making a series of breakthroughs to improve them. First improve the rate of communication by removing the limits on the number of words spent and eventually the number of times messages can be sent over them. Then experiments are conducted where more than two such stones are linked together so that when one sends a message all other stones in the network receive it.As increasingly large networks of stones are created with their limits removed it will naturally come up that some will want to limit the messages they receive. By now there are multiple groups of magic users experimenting with the stones so one group decides to limit noise by designating only a few stones in the network as broadcasters while other stones can only listen. Another group adds functionality for a stone to set its channel so that only stones set to the same channel receive each others messages. After much debate about which method works better eventually some enterprising individual just combines them and creates a network of stones so large that just about every family in their home town has a receiving stone. Broadcast stones are given to important citizens of the town. The town crier no longer has to yell in the square and now reports news through the stones. The tavern keeper likes to broadcast live music whenever a musician rolls through town.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="MonkeezOnFire, post: 8142370, member: 6784845"] I could see someone tinkering with the magic of existing sending stone and making a series of breakthroughs to improve them. First improve the rate of communication by removing the limits on the number of words spent and eventually the number of times messages can be sent over them. Then experiments are conducted where more than two such stones are linked together so that when one sends a message all other stones in the network receive it. As increasingly large networks of stones are created with their limits removed it will naturally come up that some will want to limit the messages they receive. By now there are multiple groups of magic users experimenting with the stones so one group decides to limit noise by designating only a few stones in the network as broadcasters while other stones can only listen. Another group adds functionality for a stone to set its channel so that only stones set to the same channel receive each others messages. After much debate about which method works better eventually some enterprising individual just combines them and creates a network of stones so large that just about every family in their home town has a receiving stone. Broadcast stones are given to important citizens of the town. The town crier no longer has to yell in the square and now reports news through the stones. The tavern keeper likes to broadcast live music whenever a musician rolls through town. [/QUOTE]

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