If this wasn't the biggest vindication of Belegar's policies there ever was, I don't know what is.
I think completely taking K8P is a bigger example. This only counts as a major example if it turns out the three hundred dwarves we rescued wouldn't have run out of air before conventional rescue could be brought to bare. That said it's still a big deal.
@BoneyM
iirc you said that there were about 600 people on the ship originally?
Knocking on the doors should be enough to tell if there's mostly water or air behind them.
Cast substance of shadows on a stick then push it through and see if you can pull it back.Mathilde did not have a 24-hour voting period to bounce ideas off a QM. Mathilde was holding her breath in pitch darkness and hearing the hammering of hundreds of desperate souls, so she acted.
Cast substance of shadows on a stick then push it through and see if you can pull it back.
Of course that relies on her bringing a stick down with her, which I don't think she did so she'd have to surface and ask for one.
And potentially means more chain casting increasing the risk of danger. So it might balance out anyway.
Ah, the 'then there was a fusion bomb approach to boat rescue'.SoS failing doesn't neatly weld the two objects together. The result is unpredictable, often dangerous, and very likely to result in a no longer watertight door.
If this wasn't the biggest vindication of Belegar's policies there ever was, I don't know what is.
@BoneyM Does the ship have speaking tubes?
They should be possible technology wise, but I don't know if dwarves use them.Speaking tube - Wikipedia
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Note for future endeavors, a stick with smokepowder on one edge. Stick it through a wall, and if there's light it goes of and creates shadow.SoS failing doesn't neatly weld the two objects together. The result is unpredictable, often dangerous, and very likely to result in a no longer watertight door.
@BoneyM , I have an idea. What if we opened a very small hole with our runesword, so that only a very small amount of water would leak in... but we could look inside? We would be able to rescue them faster than the leak fills any room we try that on.
More like it fails in unpredictable ways, which MAY have something be crushed, or fuse, or become something else entirely.Note for future endeavors, a stick with smokepowder on one edge. Stick it through a wall, and if there's light it goes of and creates shadow.
Two issues with that.@BoneyM , I have an idea. What if we opened a very small hole with our runesword, so that only a very small amount of water would leak in... but we could look inside? We would be able to rescue them faster than the leak fills any room we try that on.