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[RAM]

Establish a sympathetic bond between a magically stunted fractal formation and an absolute mass concentration. The fractal formation will require a displacement effect so that its presence is separated from its substance so that its substance can be reliable influenced by control measures including a permanent but variable suppression field. Place the unstable object in the presence of the fractal formation and reduce the suppression field.

The entropy nullification effect of of the absolute mass concentration will flow out of the fractal formation in accordance with completing the formation's stunted progression, to the limit of the magnitude of the nullification effect that is permitted through the suppression field, thus establishing the diameter of the entropic nullification...

Obviously this will need to be monitored for degradation of the suppression field. Should the field weaken sufficiently then the absolute mass concentration will have too much entropic nullification leached from it and explode with the force of a million million suns, but you weren't actually living in the vicinity of the black hole anyway, so what does it matter? It just means that you safety field failed and you need to hook it up to a new source of entropic nullification before your potions explode...

[crazyabe]

PTW, May make suggestions.

[Egan_BW]

Establish a sympathetic bond between a magically stunted fractal formation and an absolute mass concentration. The fractal formation will require a displacement effect so that its presence is separated from its substance so that its substance can be reliable influenced by control measures including a permanent but variable suppression field. Place the unstable object in the presence of the fractal formation and reduce the suppression field.

The entropy nullification effect of of the absolute mass concentration will flow out of the fractal formation in accordance with completing the formation's stunted progression, to the limit of the magnitude of the nullification effect that is permitted through the suppression field, thus establishing the diameter of the entropic nullification...

Obviously this will need to be monitored for degradation of the suppression field. Should the field weaken sufficiently then the absolute mass concentration will have too much entropic nullification leached from it and explode with the force of a million million suns, but you weren't actually living in the vicinity of the black hole anyway, so what does it matter? It just means that you safety field failed and you need to hook it up to a new source of entropic nullification before your potions explode...

Nanomachines, son.

[crazyabe]

Have a priest of a god of Chaos bless several glass boxes so the least likely thing is much more likely to happen, then have several large unintelegent humanoids store the potions, it is most likely the whole room will go BANG and thus nothing will explode.

[Egan_BW]

Store them in a room along with mundane volatile explosives, so nobody can prove it was the magical ones that went up.

[NJW2000]

...great deals of magic are inherently fairly unsafe in this universe. As is blatant terrorism.




Okay, next one! Fairly old one, this. You've gotta prepare a room or something for a beast that can hypnotize and mentally control anyone that looks directly at it, and has a lot of dextrous tentacles. Some specialised tentacles are very thin, and quite weak, and given some time will work their way through imperceptibly through someone's ear to their brain, allowing them to control the person.

The beast is extremely intelligent, about the size of a horse, and people must be able to observe and preferably access the creature.

[Egan_BW]

Paint it pink and give everyone earmuffs.

[RoseHeart]

"great deals of magic"

[RAM]

Pfft, "great deals of magic". It's just borrowing a tiny little bit of nature from a black hole from hundreds of light-years away... Or did you mean like, if magic gives you a great deal, like, a Create Icecream spell that requires half as much bioenergy to cast as can be obtained from consuming the created icecream?

Put them on a table in an underground cool-room, magically immobilise the crate, then disintegrate the table.

[RoseHeart]

Pfft, "great deals of magic". It's just borrowing a tiny little bit of nature from a black hole from hundreds of light-years away... Or did you mean like, if magic gives you a great deal, like, a Create Icecream spell that requires half as much bioenergy to cast as can be obtained from consuming the created icecream?

Put them on a table in an underground cool-room, magically immobilise the crate, then disintegrate the table.

+1
that was beautiful....

[somemildmanneredidiot]

Magically reinforced "one way" mirrors compose of the walls, flooring, and ceiling of the room.  Through in some magic lighting and there you go.

If such things don't mundanely exist, I suppose conjuring a solid steel room, 6 inches thick all around, with magic sensors placed on each wall, corner, ceiling, and floor in such a fashion as to provide all around vision on the subject, all linked to different scrying glasses in an observation room which is not connected to the containing room in any other potential fashion, should work. If we're concerned about feeding it, there should be a spell or two that can set up to allow one to summon food into the containing room without actually entering it.

[syvarris]

Spoiler: Fond memories of Hephaestus (click to show/hide)

Make some sort of periscope goggles which are worn on the head and allow forward vision via multiple reflective mirrors.  Have them be part of a large hood which is drawn over the shoulders and upper torso, then tied tourniquet-tight around the thorax and arms.  The only holes in this outfit should be for the torso and arms; the only way to get a tentacle into them is to squeeze past a tourniquet.  There should be several spares, so multiple people can go in at once, and a compromised outfit doesn't halt experiments.

The beast should be kept within a cage strong enough to hold it.  Maybe locked if it can't pick locks, but preferably welded.  The cage should be within a room that has only one entrance, which leads into a short hallway which has another door around a corner, leading to a quarantine room.  The beast's room should have one glass wall (or solid wall with reinforced windows, if the beast's tentacles can break glass) with an observation room on the other side; this room should have no direct connection to the beast's room, but should still be treated as if it did, with the same procedures.  The only exit leads to the same quarantine room as the beast's room's exit.

Standard procdure should require at least two people enter whenever a person enters within sight of the beast, at least one of whom should be in the observation room.  For every person who enters within sight of the beast, at least two people are assigned to wait in the quarantine room, and examine the people who return.  If anybody has a ripped or loose outfit after leaving the beast's containment, they are locked in a cell (we have cells, don't we?) until they can be magically examined for mindfuckery.

Finally, there should be a time limit on how long a person can spend in the beast's area.  Mostly so the tourniquets don't kill their arms.



...I'd like to have people wear a full chainmail suit which has been electrified, but that's probably too expensive.  This should work fine, though there's no easy way to handle the beast just grabbing and strangling people.  I'd suggest parading disposable people in front of it before anyone important enters, preferably making sure a few of them are sadistic jerks.  If it murders them, punish it strongly, but don't try to save the people.  If someone important has to enter, make sure they don't act any different from the regular non-sadistic shmucks.  Hopefully it'll just learn that killing people gets it nothing, by the time important people have to interact with it.

Maybe a literal magical dead man switch could be included in the outfit, which electrifies the beast's cage if it kills someone.  Just as long as it doesn't weaken the cage.


Oh yeah, and if it isn't too expensive, a scrying device to watch the beast from quarantine would be nice.  Doubly so if there could be a button to shock the beast in case it attacks someone.  If scrying is reliable, this could entirely alleviate the need for an observation room.

[NJW2000]

Paint it pink and give everyone earmuffs.

This would work surprisingly well. You'd have to keep reapplying the paint, but that's not too much of a problem.

Magically reinforced "one way" mirrors compose of the walls, flooring, and ceiling of the room.  Through in some magic lighting and there you go.

If such things don't mundanely exist, I suppose conjuring a solid steel room, 6 inches thick all around, with magic sensors placed on each wall, corner, ceiling, and floor in such a fashion as to provide all around vision on the subject, all linked to different scrying glasses in an observation room which is not connected to the containing room in any other potential fashion, should work. If we're concerned about feeding it, there should be a spell or two that can set up to allow one to summon food into the containing room without actually entering it.

Okay, lets stop using magic to solve all our problems. In the next example, you're no longer a wizard.

Spoiler: Fond memories of Hephaestus (click to show/hide)

Make some sort of periscope goggles which are worn on the head and allow forward vision via multiple reflective mirrors.  Have them be part of a large hood which is drawn over the shoulders and upper torso, then tied tourniquet-tight around the thorax and arms.  The only holes in this outfit should be for the torso and arms; the only way to get a tentacle into them is to squeeze past a tourniquet.  There should be several spares, so multiple people can go in at once, and a compromised outfit doesn't halt experiments.

The beast should be kept within a cage strong enough to hold it.  Maybe locked if it can't pick locks, but preferably welded.  The cage should be within a room that has only one entrance, which leads into a short hallway which has another door around a corner, leading to a quarantine room.  The beast's room should have one glass wall (or solid wall with reinforced windows, if the beast's tentacles can break glass) with an observation room on the other side; this room should have no direct connection to the beast's room, but should still be treated as if it did, with the same procedures.  The only exit leads to the same quarantine room as the beast's room's exit.

Standard procdure should require at least two people enter whenever a person enters within sight of the beast, at least one of whom should be in the observation room.  For every person who enters within sight of the beast, at least two people are assigned to wait in the quarantine room, and examine the people who return.  If anybody has a ripped or loose outfit after leaving the beast's containment, they are locked in a cell (we have cells, don't we?) until they can be magically examined for mindfuckery.

Finally, there should be a time limit on how long a person can spend in the beast's area.  Mostly so the tourniquets don't kill their arms.



...I'd like to have people wear a full chainmail suit which has been electrified, but that's probably too expensive.  This should work fine, though there's no easy way to handle the beast just grabbing and strangling people.  I'd suggest parading disposable people in front of it before anyone important enters, preferably making sure a few of them are sadistic jerks.  If it murders them, punish it strongly, but don't try to save the people.  If someone important has to enter, make sure they don't act any different from the regular non-sadistic shmucks.  Hopefully it'll just learn that killing people gets it nothing, by the time important people have to interact with it.

Maybe a literal magical dead man switch could be included in the outfit, which electrifies the beast's cage if it kills someone.  Just as long as it doesn't weaken the cage.


Oh yeah, and if it isn't too expensive, a scrying device to watch the beast from quarantine would be nice.  Doubly so if there could be a button to shock the beast in case it attacks someone.  If scrying is reliable, this could entirely alleviate the need for an observation room.

Good grief. I guess this is inconvenient enough to be allowable though.




Right. In the next example, you are no longer allowed to use magic, because you're too overworked and nobody else has a licence.

You have to store a certain material with the following properties:

Magnetic
Density:17 g/cm3
Nonconductive
Melting point Degrees Celcius 1020
Boiling point Degrees Celcius 3348
Capable of spontaneously turning into static electricity and then back again after a short time. So of course, if it gets to anything earthed, it will flow into the ground and never be seen again.

[RAM]

Remove the arms and legs from a troll and make it semi-permanent by capping them off with something solid and held in place with greater force than regeneration can provide. Seal the lower exits from the troll's stomach. Nail a grounding pin into the top of the troll's stomach to have the material return to the storage area. Hang the troll from the roof using a rope. Store the material inside the troll.

I swear, if you ask us to be ethical next time...

[Maegil]

Take a large glass jar with a cork lid.
Line the lower half of a glass jar with metal foil, both on the inside and the outside.
An optional step is to drive a metal nail through the jar's cork, with a length of chain capable of reaching the bottom, and ground the outer foil - it won't affect the storage capability, but can be used to access the electricity.
Put the material inside the jar and cork it.; to be on the safe side seal the lid (including the nail) with paraffin wax.

Yes, that was a Leyden jar.