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[master_troven]

Alexander leads Nick into a well appointed living room, with a pair of large plush couches facing each other in front of a massive burning fireplace. A small table with a glass covering on it sits between the two of them. The floor is hardwood with a thick persian rug on it. Sleeping on one of the couches is a small brown fire lizard. There are two doors in the room, one to the right and the other to the left. Both entrances are dark. Tall bookshelves line the walls and are stuffed with books and other interesting things, like a war hammer, a pair of bateranges, a collection of jewels, a set of rings and hundreds of other things from different universes. It is apparent that Alexander is a pack rat of the highest order. Nothing seems to be set in any particular order, but it is EVERYwhere.

In a corner is a skeleton of some sort of monsterous humanoid with the head of a bull. Next to it is a knight's black armor, missing it's arms and legs and coated in blood. There are several shields above the fireplace and an umbrella stand has swords sticking out of it. There's a liquor cabinet against one of the book shelves with all sorts of interesting shaped bottles.

Tossing his cloak onto a couch, he said, "Sorry about the mess. I don't get many visitors."

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[master-troven.livejournal.com]

"Oh yes. The climate," He nods understandingly. "Wet and clammy?"

[accidental-evil.livejournal.com]

"Yes, like I said, by a lake. And it storms every day- the thing we're unburying attracts lightning at an enormous rate."

[master-troven.livejournal.com]

"How terrible." he leads him over to the couch. "What are you trying to unbury?"

[accidental-evil.livejournal.com]

"Well, there are these hemispheres- made of silver, or a metal like it. They attract the lightning. I'm going to take them to Ancelstierre and put them in a construct I've had built and join them together, to make them into a steady power source." His eyes light up as he talks- he's obviously excited.

[master-troven.livejournal.com]

"Really? That'll run on electricity from the lightening that's attracted to it?" he sounds genuinaly interested.

[accidental-evil.livejournal.com]

"Yes! It'll be more efficient and cleaner than any source we've found yet." Of course, it'll also destroy the world. Sigh. These new energy plans always have downsides.

[master-troven.livejournal.com]

"How will you control the input?"

[accidental-evil.livejournal.com]

"Well, we'll have regulating devices on the power cables, of course. I don't think we'll be able to control the amount of lightning it gets." Nick's looking around for his brandy now.

[master-troven.livejournal.com]

Alexander hands him a glass of brandy. "How will you prevent an overload, if you can't control the amount of lightening it gets?"

[accidental-evil.livejournal.com]

He sips it. "Well, we'll have to set up some way to siphon off the power before it gets too much, of course."

[master-troven.livejournal.com]

"Of course," he has another brandy. "Is there a way you could prevent lightening from striking the hemispheres?"

[accidental-evil.livejournal.com]

"I don't believe so. They seem to attract it naturally- I'm constantly frightened for the safety of the workers digging them out, but they seem to avoid the lightning quite handily."

[master-troven.livejournal.com]

"What if you were to cover it with something? And only expose it to the sky when you need energy."

[accidental-evil.livejournal.com]

"Well, it's barely exposed now, and the lightning has been coming since we started digging."

[master-troven.livejournal.com]

"Was lightening hitting it before?"

[accidental-evil.livejournal.com]

"No, it wasn't. It started after we started breaking through the layers of 'wards' that were around the hemispheres." Nick finishes off his brandy.

[master-troven.livejournal.com]

"There's your answer then. Get someone to set up new wards."

[accidental-evil.livejournal.com]

"Well, that would greatly impede the process of getting them out, as they're actual, physical layers."

[master-troven.livejournal.com]

"Mmm... no, when you set up the hemispheres. Create moveable wards." He sips the brandy. "Like a roof that you can open and close."

[accidental-evil.livejournal.com]

"Well, if the wards are, as they're claimed to be, 'magic', they won't work in Ancelstierre at all."

[master-troven.livejournal.com]

"No? That's interesting. Magic doesn't work in Ancelstierre?"

[accidental-evil.livejournal.com]

"According to all accounts, any so-called 'magical' device that's taken beyond the Wall- the border between the Old Kingdom and Ancelstierre- stops working entirely, as does any spell."

[master-troven.livejournal.com]

"That IS interesting! A magical dead zone. I should like to see this world."

[accidental-evil.livejournal.com]

"I can take you sometime. You can meet my guide in the Old Kingdom, Hedge. He knows a lot more about it than I do." Nick laughs.

[master-troven.livejournal.com]

"I'd like that a lot," he said, musing over his glass of brandy. "So, tell me, what do you think of this hallucination?"