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1. Effective? Sure. Efficient? Likely not, compared to (say) sending them into fireplaces or something. Safe? Heck no.1. But less effective. And less !!FUN!!1. Surely there's less destructive methods to get firejackets?For one, it would give us a few thousand firejackets. It could also be useful for creating some sort of white hot fire elemental. And perhaps we could use the heat to generate mana somehow?Acually, natural fusion would be a good way to produce extreme heat, which could be very useful, and there's no fallout or anything.How on Planet will we find a use for that much heat? Especially since we would need to generate a lot of heat to make the fusion start, plus a lot of hydrogen.
2. AKA a Collateral Damage Elemental if we use it near anything flammable.
3. Maybe, but again, there has to be a less destructive and more efficient way to do so.
4. Where would we get all that hydrogen?
2. Things on fire work better than things not on fire- Guild of Pyromaniacs
3. Not neccesarily, we would have to see.
4. It is literally everywhere. Hydrogen is a part of MH4, H20, and many other compounds, as well as being found in the atmosphere in small amounts.
Vacuum's probably not healthy for them...We should just toss some firejackets into a sun.And also in stars, which I'm sure we, as a god, could reach.We could power our mana on the suns' natural fusion if we could get some sort of generator up there...
And so begins the DSP
I'd like to question these numbers. Assuming a distance about equal to one AU, it would take a bit over 16 minutes, round-trip, to send firejackets to Sol.A hundred miles an hour will get them back in a fifth of that time - something like 200 years.Assuming a speed of 20/mph, it would take the firejackets 1061 years round trip.Assuming the sun is the same distance. But we could get them going faster than that.
two hundred miles, 100.
Four, 50.
Eight hundred and it's a measly 25 years.
Now, light speed - we can get them there and back in twenty seconds. Assuming that the atmosphere doesn't tear them up.
Greetings, honored Elder. I am Alexandus - a God of Life like yourself, but I have a particular affinity for the competition and evolution aspects of Life...it is my belief that without such things, all would fall to stagnation and entropy.Why, certainly! We truly hope that your creations can someday be as fine as Ours. We have a particular idea in mind.
Might we find common cause with each other?
They'll still be there when we get back.What if they do something while we're gone? Blace is pretty good, but he's no one-man army.
If they aren't, we'll either be fine since they upped and left, or something killed them all through some co-incidences. Either is an acceptable risk.
1. Surely there's less destructive methods to get firejackets?For one, it would give us a few thousand firejackets. It could also be useful for creating some sort of white hot fire elemental. And perhaps we could use the heat to generate mana somehow?Acually, natural fusion would be a good way to produce extreme heat, which could be very useful, and there's no fallout or anything.How on Planet will we find a use for that much heat? Especially since we would need to generate a lot of heat to make the fusion start, plus a lot of hydrogen.
I don't get any bonuses for being a four-armed dragonperson?Your -3 in intimidate says otherwise. You're kind of cute, in a way. Far too adorable to be terrifying in any way.Look at all of these tanks.I dunno, a scaley four-armed guy with kukuris in each hand breathing fire, cold, or lightning at you seems kinda scary.
And none of them is near as frightening as that one meek skillmonkey :3
-1. But I am very small. It is hard to scare someone when you only reach their knees. But, I breathe fire. Has to count for something...If so, I get even more of a something from breathing fire, cold, AND lightning. And not being small.
Acually, natural fusion would be a good way to produce extreme heat, which could be very useful, and there's no fallout or anything.How on Planet will we find a use for that much heat? Especially since we would need to generate a lot of heat to make the fusion start, plus a lot of hydrogen.
Look at all of these tanks.I dunno, a scaley four-armed guy with kukuris in each hand breathing fire, cold, or lightning at you seems kinda scary.
And none of them is near as frightening as that one meek skillmonkey :3
I don't know how it works, either. He's pretty mutable, with a pair of mutations he can change at any time.I see you as more of an OP character (28 AC?) that serves DPS role. But it's your character, I don't know how it works exactly.Do scouts have healing? My character is more of a tank than a healer.I'm...kind of a tank. I have DR, fast healing, and an AC of 28, not to mention immunity to fire and resistance to electricity and cold and spell resistance and reflection to boot, so I'm a rather nonstandard tank. So, yay, meatwall.
Oh, we're doing fusion?We can manipulate heat, and atoms fuse at high enough temperatures. And fusion (it's not fission) typically uses hydrogen, the most abundant element ever.We don't have any fissionable material and don't know if we can manipulate atoms anyway.I suppose that is an acceptable waste of our power.QuoteYou might be able to break apart large molecules if you're careful. Splitting one atom with another doesn't really work. At best we'd fuse them and make an H-bomb. At worst we just wasted a bunch of energy fusing iron together. The reason nuclear fission works is because the atoms are 1) very unstable 2)free neutrons do the splitting 3) You've got a critical mass of it lumped together so that the chain reaction can occur 4) Without said chain reaction we won't be doing any atom splitting, at least not without an enormous investment in energy on our behalf for very little gain, especially if we're after certain elements. Seriously, it would be much cheaper to just buy the shit.I have a sneaking suspicion you have just led to the creation of the medieval H bomb.
BRING ON THE HEAT!
Also, GWG: Dogs are considered property under the law. And were, in fact, 'made'(in a manner of speech) to be subservient to humans. Is that so wrong?Considering that dogs are not sentient? Not so much as it would be for the troglodites. Also, we're not just enslaving a species under your proposal--we'd be creating a race for the sole purpose of enslavement.
I'm not saying we allow our people to mistreat and murder them willy-nilly(would you murder your dog(if you had one)?), but we would do well with a race of workers to tend to menial tasks.Why on whatever planet this game is set on did you call them slaves if you didn't imagine using them anything like slaves?
Hell, if we can build them to have no attachment to family members, and love working, it'd work out fine. In other words: is it wrong to force a robot to work if it's been programmed to love work?No, but it is wrong to program a fully sentient robot to love work.
Also, if we do go this way, it's worth noting our internal economy will tank due to free labor(Romans?). Especially if everyone has bugs working for them. That or we end up with an all-powerful aristocracy(like the South in ye olde days) controlling everything economically with their free labor.Oh geez.
