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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Whimsical" data-source="post: 2797621" data-attributes="member: 3976"><a href="http://www.d20srd.org/srd/spells/animalMessenger.htm" target="_blank">Animal messenger</a> can be cast by a 3rd level NPC druid for 60 gp, or a 4th level NPC ranger for 20 gp. The range would be as far as the animal can go in three days for the druid, or two days for the ranger. NPCs with good Handle Animal skill can train carrier pidgeons to ferry messages between stations that they have set up. Probably for less than 20 gp per message.Series of crystal balls would be very cost prohibited for common use.The key to the telegraph was discoverd by a necromancer when he discovered that whenever he moved a finger on one of his animated skeletons, the same finger on the other hand mimicked its motion, even though the hand was not connected to the skeletal body. He then determined that distance was not a factor for this strange effect after experimenting with several distances and between various barriers. After working to create a simpler spell that just worked on the fingers, he came up with a 0-level cantrip called animate finger which a spellcaster could cast on one of the fingers, move it up and down, and the paired finger would replicate this movement for a short duration even if it was thousands of miles away. This was the birth of the telegraph.</blockquote>