I think this is a good idea, but I would be wary of many of the suggestions in this thread which seem to be snowballing into "let's just hardcode battle RP."

All cabals have RP restrictions and powers. Despite the occasional roar of the crowd, I don't think villagers are any more or less corrupt then any other cabal when it comes to following dogma. I say this because the same people who play a rager and accept communes from paladins (which I have never seen nor heard of IC) will roll an Imperial next month and attack people in town. It's the player, not the character/cabal that is the culprit. In fact, someone who plays serial villagers is probably the last person that will ignore the tablet in this way.

In fact, battle has a leadership position (drillmaster) whose sole responsibility, as far as I know, is to police and enforce village dogma. If people see ragers getting worded by a paladin and don't do something IC about it, they are part of the problem. If it is consistently reported and nothing happens, the drillmaster is the problem. If the drillmaster is consistently a problem, then the problem is actually the commander for not replacing him. And the wheel goes round and round.

This is how a character based world should function. The people are in charge (imms and players) and it becomes a product of their efforts or lack thereof. I think it's lazy for players to expect the immortals to control all the behaviors we don't like through intense policing and/or hard coding. Things work themselves out, just like cabal bandwagons. Ragers or any other caballed char that consistently thwarts their responsibilities is not going to be successful.

Players need to start taking some responsibility for the world. Ask yourself what you have done IC to change any of the things we constantly complain about on the forum and/or to the imms.

Now that the rant's over, I'd say that some portals affect the physical world (joining two distant lands by folding space for example) and not the user who merely walks across a threshold. Others clearly act on the user and I think in those cases that if a rager used it with his spellbane up, he would be scattered about thera like a bird that dies in the sky. But the sickness is cool too.

Saagkri