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Glantrian Bureaucratic Agency (GBA)

by Robin

12 Eirmont 995AC
Document Sorting and Transport aid request 1254-AB, GBA, Overall Aid Document Transport
12 Yarthmont 996AC
Document Sorting and Transport aid request 45774-FrAB after 1254-AB, GBA, Urgency Overall Aid Document Transport.
12 Vatermont 997AC
Urgent; Serious request for Document Sorting and Transport aid 23.422 TR after 45774-FrAB after 1254-AB, GBA, Urgency Overall Aid Document Transport. Added Note; A decline in able and trustworthy documents transporters stagnates the transport of all documents between the different agencies. Serious Threat to Bureaucratic efficiency threatened.
27 Kaldmont 998AC
URGENT!!! request for Document Sorting and Transport aid 4.2201 QTs after 23.422 TR after 45774-FrAB after 1254-AB, GBA, Urgency Overall Aid Document Transport. Added Note; The recent strike of able and trustworthy documents transporters arrested the transport of all documents between the different agencies. Bureaucratic efficiency seriously threatened. We can't rely on Scabs anymore and no other Aid is available.

12 Nuwmont 999AC
Record of political debate on Bureacratic difficulties regarding the GBA Strike last Year of Document Runners.
Speaker of the House; The goverment is threatened, we are on a serious collapse. Our means of control, and maintanance of the population and the bureaucratic mechanism is crashingt. Within a few month the system will fall apart and implode into an Utter Chaos.
Speaker of the Parliament; Chancellor of the Princes Prince Volospin Aendyr; Is there no easy solution? aren't we capable to do something about this bureaucratic nightmare?
Prince Morphail Gerevitch-Voslany; It took me three hours just to get a licence to get to the Loo. This is rediculius.
Prince Étienne d'Ambreville, the Headmaster of the Great School of Magic; We can invent a spell to do that. Magic always solves ev'rything, Mais Oui??
Speaker of the House; Then By Rad, lets do that, this is serious. Do we agree.
Combined Princes; Overall; Yes. 1 Neutral, 1 opposed
Speaker of the House; Would be 4 months enough to device such magic?
Prince Étienne d'Ambreville, the Headmaster of the Great School of Magic; Probablement oui
Speaker of the House; Then let it be done so.

13 Flaurmont 999AC
Glantrian City News; Great School of Students succeded to bind a temporary motive power and directional control to a document, by adding a stamp charged with magical encodings.

The messengers, who were afraid by losing their jobs will be reschooled and equipped with a ful set of magical destination stamps. No longer they are required to run the city, and can stay within their offices, as the documents will travel by themselves.

14 Flaurmont 999AC
Registring Document Sorting and Transport aid 15.3 Vd after Political decision 12-NM 999AC after 4.2201 QTs after 23.422 TR after 45774-FrAB after 1254-AB, GBA. The stamps succeed and the system works...with some minor troubles
25 Flaurmont 999AC
Registring Document Sorting and Transport aid Add-on 2B at 15.3 Vd after Political decision 12-NM 999AC after 4.2201 QTs after 23.422 TR after 45774-FrAB after 45774-FrAB after 1254-AB, GBA. The Adding of a command word activating the stamps magic seriously increase effectiveness, Now Documents can be sent in bulk

Only out of the city transport still has to be done by messengers.A new law must prevent capturing travelling documents. and keep acces ports open.
GBA advice, all doucuments must be send in enveloppes, and not open to public, messages may be magical in themselves by hiding or camouflaging or warbling messages, the enveloppes will protect the possible magical messages from any dispell or antimagic (until opened)

Final details of a stamp of Bureaucratic document transport.
By appying the spell "Transport document: to a special ink on prepared stamp with destination locations any document released after using a preset command word will travel by flight to that destination.

Transport Document
3rd level spel (derative specialised form of Fly and Animate Onject)
Range; 1 mile linear distance between Origin and destination (the speel allways cause tge scroll to use the fastest and most direct way, circumventing blockades.
Altitude Flying between 10 and 40'
Motive speed; 180'/round.
Casting range touch. caster must put a hand in the ink, and holding the Mold and a stamp made from the mold in the other.
Save; None, motive activation suspended when active rain or winds over strength 5 are active. Will continue moving if already activated and these circumstances do appear.
Use; Mark and charge by using a stamp (wrong stamp will send document to wrong destination) activate motive power in bulk by Command word on a stack of prepared stamped dociments/enveloppes.
Casting Time; 1 Hr Activation word will be added in the final sentence of the enchantment as chosen by the caster
Components; A stamp, A stamp mold (the original negative), and any ink. The stamp ink will be enchanted causing the Letter to follow the inked stamp to its stamp mold.
Can be cast only to a special enchanted ink, Stamp Mold and stamps. (Ink ; useful for 10.000 documents 500gp, Stamps each single one (over 80 variants currently exist officially and at least 4 unofficially) 100 GP
Documents affected weigh less than 5cn (including Enveloppe, must be less than 1 square foot (folded is allowed to decrease size) and travel no more than 1 mile from its source to origin to destination
Effect; The spell binds the spell motive magic to the document by the ink and orders it to move to its destination as determined by the stamp added to it. The Documents will stack themselves on arrival. The spell is activated by a pre -chosen command word and release. Documents captured during flight, will continue to try to escape and continue its mission as decreed.
The spell's activation does not work during rain or at winds higher than windstrength 5. Documents require an open access to the destined location or will stack themselves just before that blockade. If rain or strong wind appears after activation the document will still fullfill its travel course as decreed, yet the ink or paper may be damaged accordingly. Documents take beyond its transport range will also be dispelled as with a normal spell, Documents stamped with a destination beyond its distance limit will not be able to detect its location and will flatter a round , then dispel itself automatically.
Any exposure to Dispel magic or Antimagic will cause the papers to stop moving as decreed and lose all magic. Magic of the document itself will remain if covered in an enveloppe. All stamps magic will dissapear from the document as soon as it arrives at its destination. The stamp will remain however visible, yet without magic.
Each destination of a stamp requires an open boxx with the negative stamp of the stamp used to deternine its destination. This will be like a permanent marker made from the mold which made the stamps. as such only one mold exists, and multiple stamps may exist to each destination.