Why don’t they ever put the items with the evil beings sealed in them in a heavy container with padding, then drop it into the middle of the ocean? It’s like they want them to be unsealed later for story purposes or something!
That’s only effective until the saltwater eats away at all of the seals, at which point it’s free again. Ancient vaults containing artifacts of fell power and their incumbent curses comprise one of the most popular adventure story archetypes. The point is, it’s only gone until someone stumbles across it, and now it’s _un_gone, and worse, the hapless stumbler has no idea what’s going on.
Why don’t they ever put the items with the evil beings sealed in them in a heavy container with padding, then drop it into the middle of the ocean? It’s like they want them to be unsealed later for story purposes or something!
mystical sealing spells require the magic of plot contrivance
That’s only effective until the saltwater eats away at all of the seals, at which point it’s free again. Ancient vaults containing artifacts of fell power and their incumbent curses comprise one of the most popular adventure story archetypes. The point is, it’s only gone until someone stumbles across it, and now it’s _un_gone, and worse, the hapless stumbler has no idea what’s going on.
The bottom of the ocean is pretty inaccessible even if the container rusts away.
But that doesn’t stop the thing from getting out when the seal corrodes away…
If the container itself is flimsy enough to corrode away, escaping it is inevitable.