by Pjeil on November 4th, 2013, 8:17 pm
Concept:Mage Tent
This idea recently came to me and I can't seem to stop thinking about it. If there are any flaws to this, go ahead and point it out.
Without further ado:
Concept: A mage tent is a small structure built primarily of shielding. Either layered or a shield with multiple tasks. The initial concept was a cross discipline approach by using webbing to provide a skeletal structure and using shields to cover the spaces between each web thread. Naturally shielding can not stand on its own, so it would need a structure to lie over, but shielding can stretch over open spaces, like doors and windows; thus the webbing. If a thread of webbing keeps can be used as an “anchor” for shielding, one would have an invisible protective structure. Thing is I am unsure how webbing and shielding would interact yet. I would like to experiment with this in character to find out, but that may be a ways off until my character has enough skill to attempt this.
Made of shielding, not plastic
With such a structure one would have a combination of protection and early warning system.. Shielding’s basic definition is to be tasked against djed to repel or admit a djed type. So this structure could naturally be able to repel rain or repel light for privacy (by making the entire structure either an opaque black or cut down on light by blocking certain colors). Something a normal tent would need to be able to do. It may also have an interesting function that a normal tent would lack: this structure could potentially protect from wild djed since both shielding and webbing can task untasked djed. The flip side of this is that it would provide a leecher with a lot of free djed.
As for my original idea of using webbing, I considered the process of webbing. It requires an anchor for the threads of webbing to be useful. So I figured stakes or poles. If one were to inscribe or carve out an anchor glyph on the head each of these poles and placed these into the ground, one can use the anchors to suspend the threads into the air, above the head, and make the skeleton structure. Then one can use these poles as the outermost boundaries of the tent, web until satisfied and shield over the whole.
If webbing is not an option, or if a character only has shielding available, then string and poles with hooks are definitely an option. Using string in this manner would be nearly identical to the process of webbing and has some potential pros. By using string instead of webbing one has to consume less of their own djed to create the webbing skeletal structure. Of course, this means that if one is not careful or is taller than the poles they may bump into the string and ruin the structure.
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Pjeil on December 19th, 2013, 6:07 am, edited 2 times in total.
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