[Dragaera] Teleport Shipping

[Philip Hart]

On Thu, 28 Jan 2010, Ken Koester wrote:

> There are other issues.  If you are a principal in a Jhereg turf battle & 
> have already decided to burn down the business of a rival, why not teleport a 
> chunk of stone atop it instead?

We may have in fact seen that tacitly - but anywhere threatened gets 
covered by teleport blocking spells - how high up they reach, and how easy 
it is to send to coordinates x, y on the surface plus z large enough I 
don't know.


>  Same if you have a spot of "work to do: 
> difficult to revive someone whose brains are a thin smear on the pavement.

Vlad fears this in _Dzur_.  And it's not any different from any projectile 
spell far as I can see, with inherent difficulties about aim, defensive 
spells, and messing up the Milieu.

> For that matter, how about a snatch racket?

Vlad says in _Phoenix_ he doesn't believe it's possible to teleport 
someone involuntarily.


>  Or teleportive theft?  What need 
> for a Kiera, if you can just grab an item & if necessary replace it without 
> anyone the wiser?

I think I'm missing something here.  And see _Orca_, pg. 165, where Kiera 
discovers a teleport monitor.


> It's been a while since I read =Dragon=, but I don't recall any bulk movement 
> of troops or supplies into the staging areas, before they move into 
> spell-forbidden territory.  Yet this would be a natural use for the method; 
> military logistics are both supreme and troublesome.

One would need a staging area under one's control, having alerted the 
enemy that you've put a bunch of materiel there.