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Message: <blockquote data-quote="NoOneofConsequence" data-source="post: 758276" data-attributes="member: 5400">Something that hasn't been raised in this discussion is "call anchors". These are devices that everyone wears on their belts. They're clockwork and have to be reset every hour or so. If they don't get reset then they fire an anchor into the ground. The idea is, if the call sweeps across you and you lose control and start heading south, once the clock winds down in the mechanism, the anchor fires and you get stuck. Once the call passes your never more than an hour's walk south of where you started. With this device in the party's possession (not to mention all npcs), a no-save effect is not so bad - after all, anchors only fail rarely.The other thing, since the call always draws mammals southwards, most towns are built with dead end streets to the south so people in towns just walk into walls - no getting lost.Also, it's not just evil whales, but evil carnivorous whales and dolphins. There's a scene in one of the books where someone describes the feeding frenzy on the coast as the mammals just march to their deaths.</blockquote>