Broom of Flying = very slow space delivery?

[Paul Zagieboylo]

The broom of flying says that you can name any destination on the same plane (as long as you have a clear idea of it), and if it's not carrying a rider, the activation lasts until the broom gets there. If you've been there (maybe a trip through an aiudara?), could you use this to ship up to 30 Bulk of items to Castrovel? Very.... very......... slowly? I mean, sure, it only goes 4 miles per hour so it will take... um... quite a few millennia to get there. But there doesn't seem to be anything preventing it.

[Dr A Gon]

Paul Zagieboylo wrote:

I mean, sure, it only goes 4 miles per hour so it will take... um... quite a few millennia to get there

Sorry I am late. We overswept.

[Cordell Kintner]

There's no rules for how much cold damage you take in the cold vacuum of space, or how much fire damage you would take from the unshielded solar radiation, but I would say the broom would break pretty quickly in space.

[HumbleGamer]

"You mischiefs are through. I just sent evidence of your guilt straight to the capital's judge's office via my magical broom"

"How long have you sent them?"

"8 Hours ago"

"Well, there's plenty of time then..."

[Sibelius Eos Owm]

Cordell Kintner wrote:

There's no rules for how much cold damage you take in the cold vacuum of space, or how much fire damage you would take from the unshielded solar radiation, but I would say the broom would break pretty quickly in space.

I would not expect a broom to suffer much in the way of damage from the cold of space, especially without much in the way of atmospheric water to freeze. This is aside from the fact that there is no real convection to disperse heat, leaving it entirely to slow radiation over time (though we certainly have enough time).

Solar radiation, on the other hand, is unlikely to deal anything in the way of fire damage so far out as these two planets. Perhaps up closer by Aballon? Certainly there would be a lot of ionizing radiation which would inundate the broom, but I don't think it would be too damaging to a broom... unless perhaps radiation has an adverse effect on magic.

[Ixal]

Heat would be a problem without a good way to radiate it, it would build up over time. And outside of atmosphere the incoming radiation would be several hundred degrees Celsius "hot"

It also depends on how smart the broom is and if knows to intercept Castrovel or just points straight at Castrovel all the time which will result in a spiral course, lengthening the trip even more (I assume that the broom ignores gravity and is thus not required to use orbits and because of "magic" it does not need to match velocity with Castrovel, but instead gets adjusted to 4 miles per hour relative to Castrovel once its close enough)

If on the other hand assume that 4 miles per hour is not the top speed in space (relative to what?) but the broom acceleration the trip might not be all that long actually.

[Claxon]

I agree heat would be the problem, but not from entering the atmosphere and certainly not the cold.

You would enter the atmosphere slowly enough (magical flight) that you wouldn't generate too much heat. The main problem would be the solar radiation energy that would accumulate transiting between worlds.

[whew]

It might encounter wandering monsters ...

[Ravingdork]

Roughly 4,500 years if it's anything like the distance between Venus and Earth.

[Castilliano]

Ravingdork wrote:

Roughly 4,500 years if it's anything like the distance between Venus and Earth.

The variance in that would be very high.

The broom might even try to go through the sun!

In fact, that might be inevitable barring a lucky launch. The broom would most often try to cut across the middle, make little progress before trying to come back outside as the target planet returns. But the broom would be too slow so the planet passes by and the broom again tries to cut across the middle. This is much like when a faster adult runs circles around a toddler who keeps chasing, but can never catch.

One would have to launch the broom at such a position that its negligible speed would put it in front of the target planet's path, and I'm not sure that's possible unless the orbits overlap. Or one would time it so that the broom, even changing directions as the target planet orbits, happens to cross that path right as the planet sweeps back around.
Which is to say, one couldn't rely on the broom itself.

And I'm of the camp that the broom would survive space & radiation, albeit in poor shape. But yeah, events happen in RPG universes so that broom's dust.

You'd have more of a chance of awakening the broom and letting it gain levels as a Wizard to teleport there then for it to travel there physically. :)
Or wait until it's a Tsukumogami. Too bad if the transformation occurs in space. It might end up really pissed and with access the Dark Tapestry because this ain't Starfinder and the void remains Lovecraftian in PF2. "I've got a PACKAGE for you!"