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Originally posted by Sparten Be creative. Here is a tank landing ship of wwii fame, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tank_landing_ship Make something like that for your time, almost all culture had ships that could pretty much hit the beach, here is your chance to make yours.

Originally posted by pekau If it is fantasy world, can't magic somehow solve all the solutions?

It could, but I don't want to make magic overpowered. A spell to make a six-ton monster fly or teleport it would be an extremely powerful weapon.

Remember, just because you have magic in your world doesn't mean you can do anything. The story still has to be consistent. This is not a silly cartoon I am writing, where magic is just a plot device with no governing logic. It all has to fit together. If I give my characters a powerful spell to use in one chapter, that spell will still exist in every subsequent chapter, which might give my characters power I don't want them to have.

Edited by Spectrum - 28-Sep-2007 at 12:48

Originally posted by rider Lol... Why not sail it over the sea in a barge at the first place?

Barges are pretty slow and clumsy, aren't they?

Originally posted by rider Or at least have it swim over the sea..?

It's 200 km. Quite a long way to swim, even for a strong monster.

Originally posted by Paul Have you considered chopping it up into small pieces with an axe, liquidizing it in a blender, then pouring it into several barrels and shipping in a cargo ship?

Have you considered chopping it up into small pieces with an axe, liquidizing it in a blender, then pouring it into several barrels and shipping in a cargo ship?

thats a great idea deadkenny, because it would add a very visual element to the written action, and is very plausible as it is suitably quick, simple and efficient to be emploted in quick offensive action..Sorted I think

Originally posted by Spectrum Actually, I mentioned this in my opening post. The Cortio can swim, but I am worried that a six-ton monster leaping off the ship might cause it to capsize.

Lol, quite right.  Well obviously reading all the way to the last sentence of a longer post isn't a strong suit.  ;)  However, that does simplify matters a bit.  If the only issue is getting it off the ship, even into deep water, then it's simply a matter of weight transfer.  As the beast moves to one side of the ship, it will need to be 'counterbalanced'.  Part of the 'crew' of the ship would do quite well in this regard.  The 6 ton beast could be countered by 80 members of the crew, or so.  As the beast approaches one side of the ship, the crew would shift to the opposite side.  As the beast moves down the 'ramp' it's weight shifts off of the ship and onto the 'raft', the 'counterbalancing' members of the crew can then shift back towards the centre of the ship.  You'd want the base of the ramp places towards the centre of the raft, to 'disribute' it's weight evenly there.  Once you've got the beast onto the raft you can 'lift' the ramp and do whatever you want.

Originally posted by Spectrum So set up a ramp that leads down to a big raft? Yeah, that sounds pretty good. From the raft he can then jump in the water and swim ashore....

Lol, well if the 'beast' in question can 'swim', couldn't it simply 'jump' off the side of the ship and swim to shore?  I was assuming it couldn't swim, hence the need for some 'method' for getting it ashore.  The idea of getting it onto the raft (via a 'ramp') was so that the raft could then be floated in closer to shore - i.e. shallower water than the big ship could enter.  Of course, at some point even the raft will 'hit bottom'.  However, at that point the 'beast' should simply be able to 'walk' the rest of the way to shore, barely getting it's feet wet in the process.

I believe that it was loaded to the ship in a city with docks...

How did the beast get on the boat in the first place? How it leaves will have to adhere to this as a pre-requisite.