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Originally Posted by wmervine4
My main question is, would this use of Earth to Air compromise the structural integrity of the tower causing a collapse? If so, how long would this take? Seconds? Minutes? Would there be a way to avert this disaster?
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The tower itself should be fine, the stresses causing it to stand up should be carried in the walls, not the intermediate floors. This is generally true, putting holes big enough for humans to fit through in the wall of anything really ought to require an Architecture roll to not bring part of the structure down and fill said hole and the surrounding area with rubble.
The ceiling/floor that has been compromised might come down - timescale on that could be seconds (or less) - but since that amounts to the party mostly dies (and the enemies on the upper floor may have a reasonable shot at survival even if they are in a self sacrificing mood) you probably don't want to do that.
If you want to discourage this sort of exploit in the future, you can go with some local weakening - have just a bit of the surrounding structure collapse on the caster immediately, inflicting a die or two of damage, and the floor give way under anybody who enters a hex adjacent to the hole (dropping them out of the fight for a while and inflicting the 1 story falling damage, and widening the danger zone) from there on out.