(TFT) orbs

[srydzews@ix.netcom.com]

I've never thought too much about the orbs, but the recent 
discussion makes me think I should have.  A couple of ideas:

1) While having one may directly grant the wielder certain
powers, it probably isn't their main function.  It would be
silly to just give 'artifact' level items to wizards (aka 
megalomaniacs) and just hope that they won't decide to go 
their own way with them.   (Either that or there must be 
some way for Thorsz Central to shut them down, which 
evidently they can't....of course, such things can perhaps 
be circumvented...)

2) What I'm thinking is that perhaps the globes allow 
their wielders to share power in some way--for instance, 
say you had fifty border outposts, each with a controlling
wizard and a rather small force of troops.  Now assume 
trouble erupts at one of the outposts -- ogres come raiding
or whatever.  If the orb at the outpost under attack would 
allow its user to communicate with all the other orb-wielders,
and all the other wizards could, say, cast AID through their
orbs to the guy under assault, he would have a fairly unlimited
supply of fST to power spells for that battle--normally 
impossible without taking a couple dozen apprentices to the 
battlefield.  

Of course a wizard could briefly achieve the same result with 
ST batteries, but their slow recharge means that the wizard 
couldn't keep this up for long if there was a determined 
assault.  With 50 wizards' regen rates backing you up you 
could cast spells literally non-stop, all day.  Also, the communication aspect encourages the wizards to work together
instead of striking out on their own.

3) Orbs and the Rule of Five...hm...needs more thinking.  But 
I will say that if the orbs break (or 'bend') the rule in some
way that may be the key to why accumulating a number of them 
is so potentially powerful.  










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