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    Quote Originally Posted by Emanick View Post
    While phosgene, mustard gas and sarin gas are even worse than chlorine gas, I very much doubt that any of them exist in elemental form in the OOTSverse.
    What if Redcloak has found out how to make compoundentals?

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    Quote Originally Posted by hamishspence View Post
    I presume they are referring to the chlorine elemental:

    http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0457.html
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    While phosgene, mustard gas and sarin gas are even worse than chlorine gas, I very much doubt that any of them exist in elemental form in the OOTSverse.
    I had forgotten about the Chlorine Elemental, but still, shaping it into a monster that has to grab people to hurt them and can be killed is very tame compared to how chlorine was used in real life.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Drascin View Post
    His wisdom is so low that when he gets a minus from drinking he overflows into the high end of the scale. Like how in Civ 1 Ghandi's warlike score was so low that when you gave him an extra minus to warmongering he flipped to the other end of the scale and became a nuclear-toting psychopath.
    I remain unconvinced. He molested Vaarsuvius when he was drunk on new year. The consequences considered, that wasn't a wise course of action, unless you mean to imply that he is a masochist and wanted to be subjected to explosive runes on a daily basis.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Sian;24256790Belkar should probably [get a drinking problem
    as well, as he's much more reliable and sensible when drunk
    I think V would beg to differ.
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    Belkar is drunk, not wasted. It's not a minor difference.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Mad Humanist View Post
    I have never before in my life wanted to get drunk, and certainly not to such a precise degree as to match the level of drunkenness Roy is holding right now. I would need to be drunk enough to spontaneously say what Roy is saying, but not so drunk I could not remember the lines.
    In the unlikely event that you’re looking for advice on how to achieve that state without drinking... in my experience, simply staying up for a couple of days will roughly duplicate those effects. You’ll have to be in a socially stimulating, relatively relaxed setting, though.
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    Maybe it's the familiarity with musical comedies that gives Belkar particular insights on the sounds produced by railway vehicles, but I'm not surprised that he knows the noise made by a train.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Emanick View Post
    In the unlikely event that you’re looking for advice on how to achieve that state without drinking... in my experience, simply staying up for a couple of days will roughly duplicate those effects. You’ll have to be in a socially stimulating, relatively relaxed setting, though.
    So basically you advising me to play through my entire boardgame collection. Of course finding people to participate could be difficult but in principle I like your thinking.
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    Quote Originally Posted by The Aboleth View Post
    I really think the point of that scene was to show the crew's relationship with Andi being normalized (because their Captain, very bluntly, pretty much said to do exactly that). I don't think the fuel lines bit was anything more than an excuse to get Andi into the scene and show the reader, "Bandana was serious when she told Andi she'd keep her aboard as long as she (Andi) stuck to her job."
    You may be completely true. I just tend to believe that when a secondary character mention something potentially dangerous, this is foreshadowing.

    EDIT: Also, the fuel lines aren't leaking. The question was whether or not to reduce pressure in the fuel lines, not fix a leak.
    Overpressure lines are not that far away from becoming leaking lines.

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    Either I don’t understand what you are referring to or you don’t know much about chemical warfare.
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    I presume they are referring to the chlorine elemental:

    http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0457.html
    I believe this is also about the Titanium Elementals.
    Because RC's got passing grades in Chem.

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    He's multiclassing Paladin???
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    Quote Originally Posted by Fyraltari View Post
    I had forgotten about the Chlorine Elemental, but still, shaping it into a monster that has to grab people to hurt them and can be killed is very tame compared to how chlorine was used in real life.
    Eh. The whole thing where the gruesome chemical agent is now alive and will seek out victims to kill could be seen as pretty horrifying. Obviously real life atrocities will always be more horrible than fictional ones, but in concept, an animated corrosive cloud is worse than an inanimate one.

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    "Our party death toll was a negative number" amazing

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    Quote Originally Posted by ijuinkun View Post
    True. Kendro died fighting the Likable Death Worm, but his friends cheered since his method of death assured his ticket to Valhalla. Also, Durkon and Minra did need to get Resurrected/Raised.
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    Quote Originally Posted by ijuinkun View Post
    True. Kendro died fighting the Likable Death Worm, but his friends cheered since his method of death assured his ticket to Valhalla. Also, Durkon and Minra did need to get Resurrected/Raised.
    Also, a lot of dwarves at the Temple of Thor.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Petrocorus View Post
    Overpressure lines are not that far away from becoming leaking lines.
    Still doesn't change the fact that they are not currently leaking, which is what the poster asserted. As long as the pressure is relieved, the lines are unlikely to spout a leak (at least in the real world in which the Rules of Drama aren't basically a literal force of nature).

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    Quote Originally Posted by Reboot View Post
    Pity they wouldn't work IRL, since Magnetic North (a) moves and (b) is quite some way south of True North.
    But we have no evidence that their destination is True North rather than magnetic North, or that the two are different in this world, or even that the compass is magnetic, rather than a magic item made with the Know Direction spell.

    We don't even know that "True North" even exists in this world. Perhaps the world is stationary and the sun revolves around it. Then True North, defined by spin, wouldn't even exist (although it could be defined by the rotation of the fixed stars around the earth -- if the stars are fixed in position relative to each other).

    [And it wouldn't surprise me to learn that Julio had a special compass made that always pointed to the next destination.]

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    Elan, we're going to Magnetic Santa, not True Santa.
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    Quote Originally Posted by LadyEowyn View Post
    Redcloak does mention [URL="http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0543.html"] Though if someone did introduce magic-powered industrialization, it would be Redcloak. He’s got the right combination of intelligence, scientific knowledge (he’s already introduced chemical warfare in pretty much its most Evil form), and practicality. It’s sheer good luck that he hasn’t hit upon the idea of summoning a uranium elemental yet.
    I've held a piece of uranium, rod-shaped, about half a kilogram (~ 1 lb.) IIRC. It wasn't even warm to the touch. I don't recall if it was natural uranium or depleted. (My boss at the time had had a lot of experience with radioactive materials, and was perhaps a bit too casual about the hazards.) At any rate, a uranium elemental would cause more harm through toxicity than from radioactivity unless it was enriched, or unless one spent a long time exposed to it. Would a uranium elemental be contaminated by the daughter products: radon, radium, etc.? (EDIT: Special breath weapon, radon cloud?)

    Quote Originally Posted by gerryq View Post
    Easy to find within a few hundred kilometres, if Stickworld is like Earth. Close to the magnetic pole, the field points down rather than North, and it also (I learned today) wanders up to 80km from its mean position daily as a result of interactions with charged particles from the Sun.
    Huh. As in, the Earth's magnetic field is shifted around a bit by those interactions?

    I'd expect it to also matter just how well-balanced and well-constructed the magnetic compass is. If it's perfectly balanced on a perfect point, it'll always point towards magnetic north. Otherwise, the directional force would be fighting the friction and whatever gravitational force results from the imperfections in the device. I've seen several so-called compasses that were all but useless; they didn't tend to point even north-ish most of the time.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Mad Humanist View Post
    So basically you advising me to play through my entire boardgame collection. Of course finding people to participate could be difficult but in principle I like your thinking.
    1. I'm in, in the very unlikely scenario where you and I live near each other.

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    3. I feel like we are just a page or two away from the end of the book. seems legit this time.
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    Elan, we're going to Magnetic Santa, not True Santa.
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    Quote Originally Posted by The Aboleth View Post
    Still doesn't change the fact that they are not currently leaking, which is what the poster asserted. As long as the pressure is relieved, the lines are unlikely to spout a leak (at least in the real world in which the Rules of Drama aren't basically a literal force of nature).
    Indeed. As long as the pressure is relieved. And that the lines are in good conditions.
    But the lines may not be in good condition after the ordeal with the giants, the pressure may not be released easily, and the rules of drama are in effect.

    I'm not saying that you're wrong, or that something will happen.
    I'm saying this may be a foreshadowing, and something may happen.

    Source: I come from a family full of mechanics.
    And i am a fluid mechanics with 5 years of experience on gazeous and cryotechnical lines at the Space Center and 5 years as a high school and undergraduate school science teacher.
    So what? Should we compare our argument of authority?
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    Wait, since when do trains exist?

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    Wait, since when do trains exist?
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    Quote Originally Posted by Rootbeer Guy View Post
    Wait, since when do trains exist?
    Very possible those multiple reference to trains (that others have found along the comics) were a reference to Eberron, and some other fantasy setting with magical train.

    Or maybe just one of those joke that reference things in Real Life that don't exist in Ootsverse but the character know about nonetheless. Like "orientation package", or webcomics.
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    Quote Originally Posted by bunsen_h View Post
    I've held a piece of uranium, rod-shaped, about half a kilogram (~ 1 lb.) IIRC. It wasn't even warm to the touch. I don't recall if it was natural uranium or depleted. (My boss at the time had had a lot of experience with radioactive materials, and was perhaps a bit too casual about the hazards.) At any rate, a uranium elemental would cause more harm through toxicity than from radioactivity unless it was enriched, or unless one spent a long time exposed to it. Would a uranium elemental be contaminated by the daughter products: radon, radium, etc.? (EDIT: Special breath weapon, radon cloud?)
    One pound of uranium isn't going to do much, no, but the thing about radioactive materials is that they possess a quality called "critical mass"- the smallest amount of material required to sustain a nuclear chain reaction.

    Of course, once I started looking up some numbers, I learned that Uranium 238, the most common isotope at 99% of all naturally-occurring uranium, does not have a critical mass, and has a half life of nearly five billion years, or "roughly the age of the Earth."

    Plutonium 239, however, which can be relatively easily made from Uranium 238, has a critical mass of 10 kilograms, which is a sphere almost ten centimeters in diameter. A Plutonium elemental, once killed, would almost immediately turn into a nuclear fireball that turns everything in a hundred mile radius into glass and ashes.

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    Quote Originally Posted by The Aboleth View Post
    Still doesn't change the fact that they are not currently leaking, which is what the poster asserted
    Only after you asserted that the entire airship is a cigar.

    But let’s not bicker and argue about who killed who. This is supposed to be a happy occasion!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Petrocorus View Post
    Very possible those multiple reference to trains (that others have found along the comics) were a reference to Eberron, and some other fantasy setting with magical train.

    Or maybe just one of those joke that reference things in Real Life that don't exist in Ootsverse but the character know about nonetheless. Like "orientation package", or webcomics.
    I'm leaning towards the latter as well. Just found it to be in the uncanny valley of 4th wall breaking where I wasn't completely certain if I missed out a setting defying one in the background. Like, a structured corporate environment with orientation packages within a fantasy setting is unlikely, but not impossible. Actually, what I'm going with now is that dwarven booze unlocks a dormant psychic ability in humans and halflings to perceive different dimensions not yet devoured by the Snarl.

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    Chekov's fuel lines.


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    Quote Originally Posted by Rootbeer Guy View Post
    I'm leaning towards the latter as well. Just found it to be in the uncanny valley of 4th wall breaking where I wasn't completely certain if I missed out a setting defying one in the background. Like, a structured corporate environment with orientation packages within a fantasy setting is unlikely, but not impossible. Actually, what I'm going with now is that dwarven booze unlocks a dormant psychic ability in humans and halflings to perceive different dimensions not yet devoured by the Snarl.
    Many posters think it is related to Eberron (and may be true) because of the Giant's personal history with Eberron.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Reboot View Post
    Pity they wouldn't work IRL, since Magnetic North (a) moves and (b) is quite some way south of True North.
    Oh yes... As someone who's learning about land navigation, the difference between true North, magnetic North, and map North (that is a thing, believe it or not) are all factors in successfully navigating from point A to B. Failure to adequately account for that can lead a person astray... Or leave them stranded.

    It does make me wonder if the compass has some kind of Know Direction effect... Or as speculated by other posters, if the magnetic and true North poles are the same.
    2B or not 2B, that is... a really inane question

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