Richard Hopkins wrote: > UNIVERSAL SEASONING aka SECRET SAUCE > This makes everything smell and taste great. You can sprinkle this on a > target and monsters will go after it in preference to all other prey. For some inscrutable reason this reminds me of the Magic Boot Wax from one of the Cugel stories. A pot of this special wax is enough to cover one pair of boots. If said pair of boots are worn, and are used to kick an object, that object (regardless of size and mass) acquires a sort of anti-gravity. A very light kick will just make the item light, like a puff of down -- it will rest lightly on the ground, but it can be effortlessly lifted by a breeze or a hand. However a good swift kick will cause it to float rapidly up into the air -- at one point Cugel escaped by kicking a large canopy bed and turning it into a impromptu sky-boat. Unfortunately, floating objects are at the mercy of the winds. The boot wax wears off (and the boots lose their magic) after a few days. The duration of antigravity depends on the vigor behind the kick, and may last anywhere from a few minutes to a week or more. There is no way to shorten this duration, and it takes practice to learn how hard to kick something to achieve a particular result. As the effect wears off, the object loses altitude and eventually settles gently to the ground. Mike ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Mike Harvey gm@dsl-only.net (formerly bing@iccom.com) http://members.dsl-only.net/~bing/ ---------------------------------------------------------------- GMAST Home Page: http://www.phoenyx.net/gmast/
