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[Sprin]

Ah yeah, so far no injuries other then a tree collapsing ontop of the barreks and blowing a hole into the roof.

The training guys were not pleased...

[Glass]

*groans*

I feel like a surgeon trying to get all of this information out of you. You're supposed to be the doctor, Sprin, not me. I don't want to feel like a surgeon.

[Sprin]

From a medical stand point we don't know the cause of spontanious combustion, we just know it happens and sometimes people get hurt, then we rub some goop on them and they go home.

[Sprin]

Anyway I'll write the annuel report of what happened and include the uploaded save before the end of tomorrow, however the story will be written up a bit later, due to a little research I want to do before hand hehehehe.

[Carefulrogue]

Journals of Carefulrogue Lancegales, Citizen of Necrothreat

9th limestone, 552

Well, I've finally arrived to this outpost.  Not really sure what to make of it.  It's got wooden ramparts rising up out of the forest, trees are cleared up to the edge of it, and a lot of everything is on fire.  I've asked around why the forest is on fire (and why no one has bothered to attempt to control the blaze,) only to find out little.  There are hints of darkness about this place.  I'm not sure what to make of it. 

I'll ask around a bit, and see what I can find out.  The lack of care for the blaze is worrisome.  I get the disgust with hippies, and the issue with the war and all, but to let a resource go to waste is, well, wasteful.  We could make stakes and bins and barrels out of the lumber, or use it to secure more of the land from the dead. 

Still, I think there is promise here.  Against the dead we aren't always given every advantage possible, and yet we're progressing well enough.  We'll make it.

[Glass]

From a medical stand point we don't know the cause of spontanious combustion, we just know it happens and sometimes people get hurt, then we rub some goop on them and they go home.

I see that I will have to be the one who does the diagnoses then.

Spontaneous combustion occurs when an entity has spent excessive amounts of time at an intersection of three or more ley-lines, causing an excessive buildup of magic energies due to the fact that living beings are exceedingly good conductors of magic energies. These energies, however, then have nowhere to go if the entity leaves the cross of the ley-lines, and so will attempt to discharge to any nearby object that can accept the charge. Typically, this means that contact with another living thing, or a ley-line, will help to prevent the discharge of magic energies in more dangerous fashions.

However, there are a few examples where this discharge can result in significantly more dangerous results. For example, magical discharges into plants is known to cause fires well and often; it is for this reason that mages try to avoid going out much, as it would be dangerous for them to find themselves caught in a forest fire caused by their own stored magic. In addition, some people simply act as "magic sinks": regardless of their charge, they will continue soaking up magic energies until it discharges itself in a spectacular manner. Examples of such spectacular discharges include exceedingly improbable quantities of luck, in either direction (such throwing a knife and it killing 4 people before returning to your hand, or getting out of bed only to find that the entire fort is dead and your bed is suspended on a pillar above an enormous pool of magma), the random development of magical powers, the relatively benign "strange moods" that dwa forumites are known to occasionally experience, and the aforementioned spontaneous combustion.

If you think that you can claim the "we don't know the cause of spontaneous combustion", then you need to go back to school and apologize to your magic theory teacher for not paying attention in class. We've known what causes spontaneous combustion for decades.
EDIT: Just to be clear, the above is Erin.

[Sprin]

Mate I am literally from 200 years in the past

[Glass]

Mate I am literally from 200 years in the past

...ah. Yes.

That whole botched operation.

*Sigh*

I should like to suggest that you join Imic at the lessons that I hold.

[Enemy post]

We've known what causes spontaneous combustion for decades.

That's just what the politicians want you to think.

[Sprin]

We've known what causes spontaneous combustion for decades.

That's just what the politicians want you to think.

They're bought out by big chainsaws

[Glass]

We've known what causes spontaneous combustion for decades.

That's just what the politicians want you to think.

They're bought out by big chainsaws

Let me rephrase that: I figured out what caused spontaneous combustion decades ago.

That research is a significant portion of the reason why I am no longer a member of the Teal Sling. Or the Blanketed Construct, for that matter.

There were exploding cows, and they didn't much like that.
Amongst other exploding things and entities.

[apiks]

During every necrothreader siege everything burns because the necrothreaders shoot flames at the slightest confrontation.

As for the quotes on the OP, I'm not sute whether we'll havr the space for it since the endings are also in it. There'd also need to be a way to qualify good "quotes" and somebody to look back retroactively.

The most popular quote would be "Well Bollocks." Popularized during the intro of Necrothreat II, if anybody os curious.


I see my control over Sprin is working. We're not dead yet. Muhaha

[Gwolfski]

What is the stupidest thing I could do on my turn?

[apiks]

What is the stupidest thing I could do on my turn?

Start living outside.

[Gwolfski]

What is the stupidest thing I could do on my turn?

Start living outside.

Thank you.