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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Agback" data-source="post: 2892671" data-attributes="member: 5328">That's the crucial issue. We aren't in the race to re-train, re-indoctrinate, re-equip, and re-organise the British Army to deal with dragons, spellcasters, magnetic mutants, and invisible assassins. It would probably be hopeless even trying to warn them of what to expect, because their likely incredulity would make them less ready: they wouldn't take the operation so seriously. It is going to be hard enough to get them to take guarding the Tor and the Well seriously. The best you can do is get the gear into the area and hope the NCOs improvise effectively. Fortunately, British NCOs are extremely good.Then we have to work ways to cover their weaknesses without our other capabilities.Everything depends on whether any one of the PCs can work the essential magic, or whether the particular one who is listed as knowing it has to do so. If it is the former, this could be very tough. The Army is scarcely any help against an invisible assassin or a wizard with Improved Invisibility.We need an Invisibility Purge on a Trigger, cast on the capstone, set to go off if anyone gets water out of the Well. And a string more around the perimeter set to go off if any well-water crosses the perimeter in their section. And another in St. Michael's Tower, set to go off if anyone speaks the opening words of the opening spell. And another on the concrete box we set over the phantasmal basin, to go off if anyone opens or smashes the box.I really like the idea of lowering a tub filled with ordinary water into the shaft of the Well, so that when anyone dips the Well they get that instead of Well-water.Question: does the water have to be taken from the Well itself for the spell to work, or can it be taken from the stream that flows from the Well through teh garden, from pools in that stream, etc.. Will bottled water from the Chalice Well suffice? I seem to recall that that is sold in the Newage shop near the entrance, so anyone in England might have some.</blockquote>

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