Air travel in Avlis

Flax · Post by **Flax** » Fri Aug 03, 2007 7:12 am

I have been trying to put together an interesting back story for a new character and have been unable to find any mention of artificial flight in Avlis.

Do any sorts of flying machines exist?
If they do exist, what are they like? Are they like balloons or airships or jet planes or something else entirely? What sort of knowledge would the general population of Avlis have of them, or would it differ largely by location? Would people know of them even if perhaps they haven't seen them, or are they exotic gnomish contraptions that very few people would see the use of?

If anybody could enlighten me at all it would be much appreciated.

Flax

Marleh · Post by **Marleh** » Fri Aug 03, 2007 8:02 am

The only artificial flying I have ever read about are these postings by DM Aeveras.

http://www.blackdagger.com/viewtopic.ph ... highlight=

As you can guess from the post, these mops aren't readily available.

There are plenty of stories about riding dragons and Shaada Sand Lizards in flight, and certainly lots of portal-hopping, but I can't think of anything written about dirigibles or airships or hot air balloons or anything of that sort, sorry.

Fire Monkey · Post by **Fire Monkey** » Fri Aug 03, 2007 10:52 am

There was a mechanical dragon built by M'Chek during the war. Can't remember if it ever actually flew and I am pretty sure that no one ever rode it whilst it was flying, but I guess technically that could be a mechanical form of flight. Deider would know more, it was his plot.

Ensoleille · Post by **Ensoleille** » Fri Aug 03, 2007 12:49 pm

There are"brooms of flying" somewhere IG -- I'm not sure where, I saw one on a p-merchant.

silverfields2 · Post by **silverfields2** » Fri Aug 03, 2007 12:52 pm

There are some small flying machines guarding a portal.

PlasmaJohn · Post by **PlasmaJohn** » Fri Aug 03, 2007 1:06 pm

Marleh wrote:There are plenty of stories about riding dragons and Shaada Sand Lizards in flight, ....

sand lizards don't fly. Swim, yes, fly no.

The flight assumption may be due to how the NWN dragon model works. I suppose WYSIWYG may force a retcon.

gwydion2 · Post by **gwydion2** » Fri Aug 03, 2007 1:35 pm

Hala had airships, though I've not been there in a long time.

Never seen any equivalent on Avlis, beyond the occasional personal devices already mentioned.

Marleh · Post by **Marleh** » Fri Aug 03, 2007 5:37 pm

PlasmaJohn wrote:
Marleh wrote:There are plenty of stories about riding dragons and Shaada Sand Lizards in flight, ....
sand lizards don't fly. Swim, yes, fly no.

The flight assumption may be due to how the NWN dragon model works. I suppose WYSIWYG may force a retcon.

http://cts.avlis.org/User:Yantri/Shaada ... rical_Info

Here is the information relating to flying sand lizards. There was information shared IG about it.

Also, one of the Shaada's special attacks is the wing buffet, where it takes flight, though I'd have to find out more about what that entails.

KaiRal Windspar · Post by **KaiRal Windspar** » Fri Aug 03, 2007 5:46 pm

Which is from Nob, originally, an excerpt from a Bestiary or some other project.

Sephira · Post by **Sephira** » Fri Aug 03, 2007 8:27 pm

gwydion2 wrote:Hala had airships, though I've not been there in a long time.

Never seen any equivalent on Avlis, beyond the occasional personal devices already mentioned.

Still got 'em

They're the boats of Hala.

PlasmaJohn · Post by **PlasmaJohn** » Fri Aug 03, 2007 9:01 pm

Marleh wrote:Here is the information relating to flying sand lizards. There was information shared IG about it.

Also, one of the Shaada's special attacks is the wing buffet, where it takes flight, though I'd have to find out more about what that entails.

Yah, don't mind me, I mis-remembered a conversation I had with somebody about them

Flax · Post by **Flax** » Sun Aug 05, 2007 1:32 am

Little bump hoping someone on the night crew might be able to shed some light.