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Garr8 · 2012-01-20 21:09:15

Im writing an adventure fantasy, the main character, Achcuahtli, is trying to return to a city, but the path is blocked by a boulder, I'm trying to come up with a way for them to get the boulder out of the way? How wold u resolve this?

imnotbob · 2012-01-20 21:10:59

Rock climb
LIKE A BAWS

Or cry
Because crying solves everything
;-;

Wickimen · 2012-01-20 21:12:02

Like, walk around it
Or if it's on a cliff's edge build a catapult
Launch rock off path and into canyon
Cause avalanche big_smile

PlutoIsHades · 2012-01-20 21:12:34

Climb the boulder.
Go around it.
Use a lever and lever it out of the way.

DisasterMaster · 2012-01-20 21:24:11

Parkour it out baby, that ALWAYS works.

Garr8 · 2012-01-20 21:43:22

One of my cahracters is a shaman named Tlaloc who knows earth magic, i have considered him moving the boulder aside with magic, but i figured that would be too simple

Wickimen · 2012-01-20 21:44:13

Why can't they walk around it?

bananaman114 · 2012-01-20 21:48:45

explosives solve all problems

EDIT: this is a pretty simple obstacle, don't make him go way out of his way to get around it smile

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Garr8 · 2012-01-20 21:50:01

bananaman114 wrote:
explosives solve all problems

EDIT: this is a pretty simple obstacle, don't make him go way out of his way to get around it

The story is set in the Copper Age, WAY before there were explosives.

Wickimen · 2012-01-20 21:53:55

Wickimen wrote:
Why can't they walk around it?

bananaman114 · 2012-01-20 22:04:27

Garr8 wrote:
bananaman114 wrote:
explosives solve all problems

EDIT: this is a pretty simple obstacle, don't make him go way out of his way to get around it
The story is set in the Copper Age, WAY before there were explosives.

But uh
magic never existed

if you can have magic my friend
you can have explosives

Garr8 · 2012-01-20 22:07:11

i know but i already laid down the rules of magic, which i believe i could use to move the boulder somehow. I have considered Tlaloc creating a chasm, but then the characters would fall in. And the culture the story is set in is based of the Aztecs, so explosives would make them seem too high tech.

imnotbob · 2012-01-20 22:33:28

Garr8 wrote:
i know but i already laid down the rules of magic, which i believe i could use to move the boulder somehow. I have considered Tlaloc creating a chasm, but then the characters would fall in. And the culture the story is set in is based of the Aztecs, so explosives would make them seem too high tech.

Them falling in would be great!

"TLALOC YOU IDIOT!"

soupoftomato · 2012-01-20 22:35:31

First, make the names pronounceable by humans.
Second, have all the Aztecs started to worship soap yet, like I told you to make them?
If so, he lubes up the rock with soap and it is now easy to slide!

If not, make a gigantic side quest that consumes more than half the book in search for somebody they've been told can move it.

bananaman114 · 2012-01-20 22:35:45

Garr8 wrote:
i know but i already laid down the rules of magic, which i believe i could use to move the boulder somehow. I have considered Tlaloc creating a chasm, but then the characters would fall in. And the culture the story is set in is based of the Aztecs, so explosives would make them seem too high tech.

let me see your logic
magical explosion: too high tech
magically creating a cavern to drop the boulders: makes sense

soupoftomato · 2012-01-20 22:39:55

bananaman114 wrote:
Garr8 wrote:
i know but i already laid down the rules of magic, which i believe i could use to move the boulder somehow. I have considered Tlaloc creating a chasm, but then the characters would fall in. And the culture the story is set in is based of the Aztecs, so explosives would make them seem too high tech.
let me see your logic
magical explosion: too high tech
magically creating a cavern to drop the boulders: makes sense

He's assuming all explosions are made with modern methods such as C4, gunpowder, etc.

Garr8 · 2012-01-20 22:56:06

soupoftomato wrote:
First, make the names pronounceable by humans.
Second, have all the Aztecs started to worship soap yet, like I told you to make them?
If so, he lubes up the rock with soap and it is now easy to slide!

If not, make a gigantic side quest that consumes more than half the book in search for somebody they've been told can move it.

I like the part where the fall in, so i'll add that part and they have to use their wits to get out. But im not spending half the book on an unnecessary side quest. The story is about Achcuahtli searching for his father's soul stolen by the death god. And the names are supposed to be alien sounding because its Nahuatl (Aztec)

bananaman114 · 2012-01-21 02:23:04

It would be so much easier just to have them blow the boulder up with magic, man.

nathanprocks · 2012-01-21 03:33:10

use telekinesis... takes practise though

PlutoIsHades · 2012-01-21 06:23:04

Wickimen wrote:
Wickimen wrote:
Why can't they walk around it?

Scratch

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