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2019-11-13, 07:05 AM (ISO 8601)
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2019-11-13, 07:07 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: OOTS #1186 - The Discussion Thread
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2019-11-13, 07:20 AM (ISO 8601)
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2019-11-13, 08:28 AM (ISO 8601)
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Originally Posted by Sian;24256790Belkar should probably [get a drinking problemLast edited by Lord Torath; 2019-11-13 at 08:28 AM.
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2019-11-13, 08:32 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: OOTS #1186 - The Discussion Thread
Belkar is drunk, not wasted. It's not a minor difference.
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2019-11-13, 09:08 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: OOTS #1186 - The Discussion Thread
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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2019-11-13, 09:14 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: OOTS #1186 - The Discussion Thread
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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2019-11-13, 09:26 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: OOTS #1186 - The Discussion Thread
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.
Ever wondered how many games are mentioned in the comic? I have listed them all in a geeklist: https://boardgamegeek.com/geeklist/2...es-order-stick
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2019-11-13, 09:55 AM (ISO 8601)
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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.
I believe this is also about the Titanium Elementals.
Because RC's got passing grades in Chem.
Well, there was a Paladin of Slaughter in the 3.5 Unearthed Arcana, and it's in the SRD.
The subject shall not be reminded of The Event.Last edited by Petrocorus; 2019-11-13 at 09:56 AM.
Que tous les anciens dieux et les nouveaux protègent la France.
Resistance Data in MM, Volo's, MToF. -- -- Petrocorus's 3.5 Paladin Builds List. -- -- French vs. EnglishOriginally Posted by King Louis XIII in The Musketeers
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2019-11-13, 10:36 AM (ISO 8601)
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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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2019-11-13, 11:16 AM (ISO 8601)
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"Our party death toll was a negative number" amazing
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2019-11-13, 11:41 AM (ISO 8601)
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2019-11-13, 12:00 PM (ISO 8601)
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2019-11-13, 12:24 PM (ISO 8601)
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"Choo choo! Let's get this airship on the road!"
favorite line in a while
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2019-11-13, 12:32 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: OOTS #1186 - The Discussion Thread
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).
Source: I come from a family full of mechanics.
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2019-11-13, 12:32 PM (ISO 8601)
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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.]
Elan, we're going to Magnetic Santa, not True Santa.Last edited by Jay R; 2019-11-13 at 12:40 PM.
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2019-11-13, 12:52 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: OOTS #1186 - The Discussion Thread
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?)
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.Last edited by bunsen_h; 2019-11-13 at 01:05 PM.
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2019-11-13, 12:56 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: OOTS #1186 - The Discussion Thread
1. I'm in, in the very unlikely scenario where you and I live near each other.
2. Super jealous that you have a copy of Primordial Soup. I lost access to my copy years ago and cannot find a replacement anywhere....
3. I feel like we are just a page or two away from the end of the book. seems legit this time.Now, Back to Lurking!
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Belkar's Death Countdown best guess: 31/49 days used before Belkar is gone forever more! - updated to morning at 1190!
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2019-11-13, 01:11 PM (ISO 8601)
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2019-11-13, 01:14 PM (ISO 8601)
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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.
So what? Should we compare our argument of authority?Que tous les anciens dieux et les nouveaux protègent la France.
Resistance Data in MM, Volo's, MToF. -- -- Petrocorus's 3.5 Paladin Builds List. -- -- French vs. EnglishOriginally Posted by King Louis XIII in The Musketeers
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2019-11-13, 01:16 PM (ISO 8601)
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Wait, since when do trains exist?
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2019-11-13, 01:20 PM (ISO 8601)
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2019-11-13, 01:22 PM (ISO 8601)
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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.Que tous les anciens dieux et les nouveaux protègent la France.
Resistance Data in MM, Volo's, MToF. -- -- Petrocorus's 3.5 Paladin Builds List. -- -- French vs. EnglishOriginally Posted by King Louis XIII in The Musketeers
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2019-11-13, 01:25 PM (ISO 8601)
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2019-11-13, 01:28 PM (ISO 8601)
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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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2019-11-13, 01:28 PM (ISO 8601)
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2019-11-13, 01:33 PM (ISO 8601)
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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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2019-11-13, 01:39 PM (ISO 8601)
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Chekov's fuel lines.
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2019-11-13, 01:40 PM (ISO 8601)
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Que tous les anciens dieux et les nouveaux protègent la France.
Resistance Data in MM, Volo's, MToF. -- -- Petrocorus's 3.5 Paladin Builds List. -- -- French vs. EnglishOriginally Posted by King Louis XIII in The Musketeers
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2019-11-13, 01:52 PM (ISO 8601)
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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.