IN> "The Waters will Rise!" setting: Appendix I

[John Dallman]

In article 
<10d3b5c20804181030k4dd2b2bexfcb565ce38befcdc at mail.gmail.com>, 
st0fkillers at gmail.com (-=|horsefly|=-) wrote:

> An Elohite of The Waters can Resonate anyone in the same body of water
> as itself out to a number of cubic square feet equal to the Elohite's

Que? 

> The Friends of Man are still the biggest boon Heaven grants to
> sailors. No ship bearing a Mercurian will capsize or dash upon the
> rocks so long as a Mercurian remains aboard. Leaving a ship full of
> aquatic polluters amidst a storm is not Dissonant.

How about "No ship bearing a Mercurian will founder or be shipwrecked"? 

The intent is clearly that the Waters will not seriously harm the ship 
(although those on board it, or attacking it from outside can do so), 
but the working fails to cover cases that could be argued over, such as 
a ship simply working itself to pieces in high seas. Well-built ships do 
not do this, but The Waters are not in the engineering business. One 
suspects that some irreverent celestials call this "the inverse Jonah 
effect". 

-- 
John Dallman, jgd at cix.co.uk, HTML mail is treated as probable spam.