Grrl Power #1471 – Curb avalanche
“Say it ain’t so, doc! I only came in with a case of magma!”
“I’m sorry, Mr. Fuji. It’s definitely diamonds. On the plus side, the tumor removal should pay for itself.”
“Doc, do you ever think it’s weird our economy values tumors so highly?”
“I think it’s weird humans wear our tumors on their fingers and necklaces and ears.”
Aaaand scene.
Sydney probably meant to say “gregariousness,” which means someone who is highly sociable, outgoing, and fond of the company of others. Garrulous means being excessively talkative, especially about trivial or unimportant matters. Arguably, both words apply to Sydney, though the latter is rarely meant as a compliment.
Corite is what happens to copper when it’s “mana infused.” It has all sorts of neat properties that I haven’t quite figured out, but it’s great for smithing and enchanting. Infused metals “evolve” into new materials, you know, steel becomes adamantite, gold becomes orichalcum, etc. I’m sure Dabbler might bring it up at some point.
Final version is up, both at TWC and Patreon.
Sexy bodymod news lady Gail has a special one-on-one interview with Tournament Quarter finalist Saraviah Nightwing! And if you subscribe to Gail’s Space Patreon, (which, due to the vagaries of Earth and Gal-Net’s DNS servers, happens to be the same as the Grrl Power Patreon, go figure) you can see that same interview in the nude!
Double res version will be posted over at Patreon. Feel free to contribute as much as you like.
Now I want a lesson in fantastical metallurgy. Mana-infused uranium!
The A-10 Thunderbolt Ii AKA Warthog would be even MORE devastating…
Add in a magical reload system, replacing the fired rounds with fresh ones, and it will be unstoppable….
Not so much it’s a slow plane , with an heavy structure , and it’s vurnerabel to german buildings -1988 Remscheid A-10 crash-.
A Rafale with the ame for his 30 mm canon is more interessting due to the fac a rafale caries only 125 30×150mm round (Explosive ones) on his GIAT 30M 791 witth muzzle velocity of 1,025 m/s (3,360 ft/s), which amounts to a muzzle energy of more than 127 kJ from the mass of the projectile alone (not taking into account explosive chemical energy). The max rate of fire is 2500 rounds/min.
The A-10 as a GAU-8/A Avenger witha 30×173 mm with a maximum rate of fire of 3,900 rpm a muzzle speed of 3,324 ft/s (1,010 m/s) and a muzzle energy of just over 200 kilojoules.
More destructive but less accurate on rapid moving targets .
The 30 mm of the rafale could can, however, pierce the cockpit and parts of the flight-control systems are protected by 1,200 lb (540 kg) of titanium aircraft armor, referred to as a “bathtub” tested to withstand strikes from 23 mm.
The GIAT 30M 791 rounds are more destructive individually than the Sukhoi Su-25 Grach -frogfoot – Gryazev-Shipunov GSh-30-2, more accurate and with a superior rate of fire.
And in a dogfight between a ground attack aircraft and a more agile twin-engine, canard delta wing, multirole supersonic fighter aircraft it’s a disadvantage.
I like the Hog anyway just because it’s such a silly idea. Build a giant gatling cannon and then build a plane around it.
Silly? It seems like a practical design philosophy to me.
It fulfills it’s role very well. Not every thing that flies has to go fast. Sometimes you want something that can take it’s time to absolutely make sure that the target is F*cked up. The Warthog does that.
We had to move the cockpit; it was in the way of the huge honking gun.
“I had an A-10 when I was in the Air Force.”
“Really? What was its name?”
“Its name was BRRRT.”
Was the plane named “Ernie”? Because that would be funny.
Plane’s name was BRRRRRRT….
Pilot’s Callsign is Ernie…
Add shielding and change out the main gun for one that fires hard light rounds, or something along the lines of mini-nukes like Eats Chicken had blasting blue balls (I said it ;) ) that act like a nuke.
The A10 Warthog:
To some, it’s a slow, tough plane with an awesome gun.
To others, it’s an awesome gun made even more awesome by being able to fly.
Uranium -> Ruin
If you want to click on this, it’s an Excel spreadsheet I’ve made up with a lot of mythical and fantastical materials from various stories, including my own. You might find it an entertaining read. It uses D&D 3e as kind of a basis for things. I add to it as I find new things worth putting in.
If you want to click on this, it’s an Excel spreadsheet I’ve made up with a lot of mythical and fantastical materials from various stories, including my own. You might find it an entertaining read. It uses D&D 3e as kind of a basis for things. I add to it as I find new things worth putting in.
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/195xKHdReAhUC9cXGxmXVwY-xqMJbVG7b/edit?usp=sharing&ouid=106992895283495023750&rtpof=true&sd=true
“File not found” comes up.
Just curious: are you Red from OSP?
With pearls of wisdom like those….
What in the world is that floating disconnected in front of Sydney? It looks like a cross section of a mitochondrion with a bite taken out of the bottom.
I believe it’s a steak on a fork (or some other similar implement) that she’s feeding to Woof.
Frix is a Woof.
Oops, my bad. I apologise to Frix.
In the last panel, Sydney got distracted and is holding the steak too high to feed Frix.
Steak on a Spork held by Syd from episode 1469
I think DaveB was trying to keep her hand busy in the scene.
It looks like Frix is not appreciative of the steak being just out of reach :)
The bite out of it and his full mouth suggest otherwise
Being able to take a bite out of a steak without applying tension is really impressive. Either that or 3D-printed steak is easier to bite through than natural steak. And Frix is definitely not applying tension, because Sydney’s grip is way too relaxed to provide opposing force. I can’t even get a bite that clean out of a roast beef sandwich.
I would guess that a synthesized steak can be at any desired degree of toughness or tenderness, probably beyond the range of natural steak in both directions.
the real question is, why bother printing a bone section if you are synthetizing it from scratch?
Maybe Sydney is teasing Frix by letting him get a taste and then holding it out of reach. Hey, if that’s what floats their boats I’m not one to judge.
Or maybe Sydney just got distracted and didn’t lower the steak so Frix could get at the rest of it. That seems more typical of her.
It’s a steak, and her distracted mind is preventing her from feeding her poor Woof space-boyfriend more of the steak.
Geeze, am I that bad at drawing steaks?
It looks perfectly fine for a 3D-printed steak.
A real steak would not have a defined retaining wall. Unless it was a recipe that involved wrapping a cut of meat in something else (like bacon or breading), but usually those wouldn’t have bones inside. Nor a well-defined circular hole where a bone was removed, with a weird blue ring holding its shape.
If you wanted it to look like an authentic cow-grown steak, the best route would be a T-bone cut.
Thinking about it, the steak’s shape has a distinct resemblance to a slab of ham. (Google search spiral cut ham.)
I found a steak cut guide (weirdly as an item listing on eBay), and the closest match is a shank cross cut.
https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/6W4AAOSwq0hmX4aA/s-l1600.jpg
To be honest I immediately clocked it as being a steak, but had to seriously zoom in to see the fork/knife/whatever that was holding said steak, since it seemed like it was just floating there.
The first frame where the steak shows up the fork is mostly hidden behind Sydney’s garrulousness.
Bottom left frame isn’t doing the fork any favors either; only on the last frame the bottom end of the fork is visible enough that you could spot it if you were not zooming in heavily.
I suddenly want to put all my space bucks on Eats Chicken! I won’t. I still think Max will win, but EC looking like the dark horse!
It will take more than that to de-feet Eat Chicken.
Diamonds are not cancer. They do not spread. And mountains don’t die from them. Unless humans destroy the mountain to get them.
So humans kill mountains to get diamonds, just like orcas kill sharks just to get the liver.
MMMM, love me some liver and onion. Shark liver is high in Vitamin A and makes a darn fine lubricant for some liquid cooled engines and Radial engines. Oh it’ll work fine in a sleeve valve air cooled radial.
Orca are sharks… just in case you still believe the false name “Killer Whale” (they are, in fact, Killers of Whales {and the Welsh})
Orcas are cetaceans, aquatic, air breathing mammals, related to dolphins and whales. Sharks are cartilaginous fish, they breath water.
Yes. But also no. Because I’m going to be all nitpicky because this is the interwebs, and thus it is my right to be unnecessarily picky by the laws of the net.
While they ARE in the order Cetaceans, they are in the Family ‘Delphinidae’ (oceanic dolphins). So they’re related to whales in the same way humans are related to chimpanzees. Same order, different family.
Wait, dolphins can be found outside of oceans? o_O
There are River Dolphins. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/River_dolphin
Nope. They’re not sharks. But they’re not whales either.
They’re dolphins. Seriously – they’re the largest member of the dolphin family.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5bERJd432IE
They’re called Killer Whales because, when they were discovered, it was them killing whales, so they were called ‘Whale Killers’ or ‘Killer of Whales.’ Then somehow it got switched around to Killer Whales, when they just dropped the ‘of’ because of language transfers, despite them being the largest member of the dolphin family, not whales.
They are cetaceans, which puts them close enough to whales. If I interpret that clade diagram on Wikipedia correctly, (not a biologist) they are closer related to sperm whales than sperm whales are to blue whales.
Their ORDER is Cetacea. Their family is Delphinidae (ocean dolphins). Family is a closer relation than Order.
With Sperm Whales and Blue Whales, Blue whales are Balaenopteridae (rorqual) family, but also a suborder called Mysticeti), while Sperm whales are Cetacea, but also a specific suborder called Odontoceti (toothed whales), and family Physeteridae, so yes, in that respect, orca are closer to blue whales than sperm whales are. But only because Blue Whales have those pleats in their jaws that let them filter out the water from massive gulps of krill. Most other whales are just as distant from orca as sperm whales are, except for the rorqual whales (fin whales, humpback whales, sei whales, minke whales, bryde’s whales, and blue whales).
Today I am playing George Castanza, a marine biologist, and I will be checking the beaches to see if there are any beached whales with a golf ball lodged in their blowhole.
Cetacea are all whales. There are two parvorders: Toothed whales and Baleen whales. The toothed whales have a family, Delphinidae, which includes all dolphins and porpoises. The Orca (Killer Whale) is the largest species of dolphin. It is also the apex predator of the ocean, as nothing in the ocean hunts orca, putting them at the top of most oceanic food webs.
Thank you, knew they weren’t whales
And we all know that dolphins are the “arseholes of the sea”, just look at how they like to ‘play’ with porpoise
Ages ago, on Dr. Demento’s radio show, he played a song called “Wet Dream”, full of fishy puns. You’d like it.
And, as mammals, Orca have always been more closely related to whales than to sharks. Just my 2 centences.
I’m thinking kidney or gall stones. Relatively small, but hard and sharp. Hard to judge where a mountain would be on the pain factor though.
I wonder how sentient Eat Chicken is. I mean, it has to be intelligent enough to register for the tournament unless it has an owner that’s capable of containing it. It doesn’t seem to absorb intelligence at least, only abilities and properties and such.
I also wonder if it was created artificially or if it was found on some planet, and in the latter case, if it was the apex predator in its environment.
I assume it won’t keep its new abilities forever because otherwise its species would be incomprehensible.
I’m kinda imagining if it’s not capable of advanced thought than Eats Chicken is extremely dangerous and I could see something capturing it and putting in this tournament as a way to try and kill it.
I am really curious now about the origins of EC considering how insanely powerful and versatile its abilities are and with how feral it appears to be.
Imo, Eats Chicken is bio-metallurgically engineered, a kind of cyborg that includes living metal, a la the T-1000 or Colossus. It is too bizarre to not be manufactured, probably by a company like the one Dilbert works for. It would contain some kind of On/Off switch to keep it under control, and has the brain power of a chicken. In the competition it operates on reflexes and instincts for mayhem. It is likely a result of 3 or 4 corporate projects merged together for lack of progress and/or funding. A combination of sound ideas, mission bloat, and serial mismanagement, Acme Industries introduces: Eats Chicken!
No way Dilberts employers would be competent enough to create something like this. Waste the money it generated, more like.
Nah, I’m saying it has a flaw somewhere and Maxima will defeat it. I’m thinking the flaw is insufficient intelligence, and that it isn’t remotely piloted either. So far that makes Eat Chicken funny, which is the real goal here. :)
IMO, most likely it was artificially created in a lab somewhere specifically for entry into this contest; a biological construct similar to Rambo Barney in the first round. Maybe semi-intelligent, maybe remotely piloted. A remote pilot is most logical based on what we’ve seen. I don’t think scanning and re-creating those weapons is feasible, but separating the pre-existing weapons it ate and pushing them out through the body is. But how would a semi-intelligent beast know what things were weapons vs not? How would it know how to fire them? An intelligent remote pilot would be able to do this.
Corite sounds like it should be a component of Orichalcum (Red, White and traditional Golden) and/or Hepatizon (black), which in Fantasy are all (or should be) magical versions of Bronze.
I thought at first that corite was a misspelling of corium, the mix of melted steel, concrete, and fissionable material you get when the core of a reactor melts down, like the Elephant’s Foot in Chernoble is made of.
I thought he meant “Contrite ” and it was some sort of allegory.
I’m still surprised Sydney did not volunteer for the Arena for leveling purposes. Or at least bemoan all that free exp.
That’s uh…. that’s very valid. I guess the thought just hasn’t quite occured to Syndey/Dave.
Or perhaps she prefers safety over xp. For all we know the orbs might not “pay out” if it’s practice or specifically done for the purpose of leveling?
Sydney was specifically doing level-grinding on the Alari homeword, so we know that works for unlocking orb points.
They are still trying to keep her possession of the Orb secret for the Galaxy at large.
All that really means is she would need a disguise. I recommend a hard light hologram that sits just inside her shield, and makes her appear to be a living sphere (like Pac Man or the Cool Aid pitcher). Then no one can see the orbs. The only real limiter in that regard is that Syndey was on Fracture Station (and as I recall she caused a space ship collision), so someone might recognize any power sets she used there.
What might be a bigger concern is that we know Sydney’s shields have a limit, because they went into warning mode when she took a blast from the invaders that wiped out Sciona’s home world.
It would work amazingly right up till the point anything attacking Syd annoyed her, and then the string of explitives shouted out of the orb would probably reveal the whole scheme, even if it was disguising her voice.
She did shortly consider grinding exp. on the Alari homeworld, but quickly abandoned the idea due to fact she did not like the idea of dying the moment she slipped up.
That, and the fact she has only two hands which seriously limits her options if she has to keep her shield up at all times just to survive: you’d want to have three hands minimum here to keep your protection (shield) and movement (flight) available at all times.
She did enough experience grinding to get what she needed. She considered staying to grind out more upgrades but decided it was too risky — she had a plan that would work until the enemy figured it out and then she’d be in trouble (p671).
Frix begging to be fed is so adorable!
Poor space doggo boyfriend.
It reminds me of Alex toward the end of “Clockwork Orange” when he is lying in bed and being fed by the politician.
I thought Steel became mitherial and Diamonds become adamantite.
Generally, yes, but he might be confusing adamantite with the comic book metal adamantium
Aluminium or titanium becomes mythril, probably.
Tolkien’s mithril is “True-Silver”.
I looked it up since I know nothing at all about LOTR, but mithril is apparently known as ‘moria-silver’ or ‘truesilver,’ and the closest real-world equivalent to its description would be titanium, according to Tolkien, who once said that he drew inspiration from titanium, which was the new ‘wonder metal’ of his day (since it was very difficult and expensive to refine into usable metal until the mid-20th century).
There was a time when aluminium was worth more than it’s weight in gold (it’s why that big pointy column in Washington DC is capped by it)
I mean… orchicalcum is a known alloy in the real world at this point…
In 2015 and 2016 some orichalcum ingots were discovered. The ingots were of course imprecisely made as metallurgy wasn’t a fine science in ancient times, so the content varied slightly.
The 2015 ingots were analyzed to be composed of 75–80% copper and 15–20% zinc, with the rest, single digit % to <1% nickel, lead, and iron.
The ingots found in 2016 were measured with ICP-OES and ICP-MS and had around 65–80% copper, 15–25% zinc, 4–7% lead, 0.5–1% nickel, and trace amounts of silver, antimony, arsenic, bismuth, and other elements.
This happens to confirm an old theory of how to interpret Pliny the Elder's description of how the alloy was made, that the "earth" he spoke of being mixed in with pure copper was zinc.
Copper and zinc gets you brass. Oricalcum may have been an old name for brass or a special version of brass with various trace elements.
Also, on the topic mana-infused metals, what makes gromril?
And is it only metals that evolve when they get mana-infused?
And Jiopaba mentioned uranium above, what about different isotopes?
As for diamonds in a living mountain, they are probably the equivalent of artery hardening, not cancer.
Hmmm, at the level of technology displayed by the galactic peoples, diamonds would be dirt cheap. I mean, mining gas giants where it rains diamonds should be easy peasy. Matter of fact, all elements, their various minerals and combinations should be inexpensive. What is the galactic currency and on what is it based?
Diamonds are on the verge of becoming dirt cheap right now
They would be now if a certain company didn’t have a virtual monopoly on production and really good marketing.
One possibility is that the currency is energy-based. Just look at Earth, one of the more valuable things is oil, an energy source. Nations go to war over oil the way they don’t for gold or diamonds.
1- some cancers are viral induced
2 – herpes causes warts
3 – in Mount Atrocious warts and tumors are jewels, Therefore
Diamonds are Forevet
Hep-B causes liver cancer, my kidney cancers were caused by a lead poisoning I had as a kid. They found lead in both tumors they removed. My wife has Alpha‑1 Antitrypsin Deficiency, which not only causes her inability to heal her lungs and liver, but can allow some ugly types of diseases that most people defend from.
This is a far safer outcome than if EAT-CHICKEN consumed part of Mount Atrocitous and inherited its size.
It did gain the metal it ate while escaping from under mountain-man’s foot. so it gains from whatever it eats, scary.
Dabbler strides up to the whiteboard, tail swishing, laser pointer already on.
She clicks it twice just to annoy Max.
“Alright class! Today’s topic: endothaumic reactions — or, as I like to call them, ‘the reason you don’t try to mana‑infuse tungsten in your garage.’”
She draws a big circle labeled IRON.
“Now, in boring, mana‑poor universes like this one, iron is the heaviest element you can make with gravity‑powered fusion. Past that, stars throw up their hands, say ‘nope,’ and explode. Very dramatic. Very messy. Ten out of ten, would watch again.”
She draws a second circle, bigger, shinier, with sparkles: ADAMANTIUM.
“In the Manaverse, iron is just the collapsed, low‑mana version of this beauty. Adamantium is the last naturally stable mana‑infused metal. Up to this point, mana infusion is exothaumic — it releases structured magical energy as the element reorganizes into its perfect form.”
She taps the board.
The sparkles get more sparkles.
“But! Try to push past adamantium and the universe says:
‘Oh, you want to break the laws of metaphysics? Cute.’”
She draws a jagged line and writes ENDOTHAUMIC ZONE in big red letters.
“Beyond this point, mana infusion becomes endothaumic — meaning it consumes more mana than the resulting material can store. The lattice collapses unless you stabilize it with:”
She ticks them off with the laser pointer:
“A god,”
“A cosmic event,”
“A dimensional shear,”
“Or someone with a death wish.”
Sydney raises a hand.
Dabbler ignores her.
“Think of it like this:
Iron is the last stop on the fusion train.
Adamantium is the last stop on the mana‑fusion train.
Everything heavier requires either divine intervention or catastrophic stupidity.”
She flips the board to a new diagram: HYDROGEN → AETHERWATER.
“Now, fun fact! Mana‑infused hydrogen becomes aetherwater, also known as the ‘waters above the firmament.’ Yes, that firmament. Your ‘Book of Genesis’ wasn’t wrong, it was just badly translated.”
She winks.
“From the Manaverse perspective, this whole universe is running in low‑mana safe mode. Your elements are the collapsed, degenerate versions of their real forms. Iron is collapsed adamantium. Silver is collapsed mithril. Gold is collapsed orichalcum. Hydrogen is collapsed aetherwater.”
She caps the marker with a flourish.
“So if you ever feel like reality is a little dull?
That’s because it is.
You’re living in a cosmic budget motel.”
She clicks the laser pointer off.
“You can still have a lot of fun in a budget motel.”
One nit to pick. Adamantine is usually accorded as a version of tungsten, not iron. As a matter of fact, iron is something you alloy with pure adamant to create adamantine.
Adamantium is a Marvel material that isn’t really even a true metal, famous for being Wolverine’s bones.
Dabbler (winking, with a tail swish):
“You’re right … but the issue isn’t my metallurgy. It’s my translation matrix, which … through absolutely no fault of my own … was originally calibrated (if you know what I mean) by a very yummy human who spent his off‑duty hours reading every RPG sourcebook published between 1978 and the present. Not a Greek scholar. Not a metallurgist. A fanboy. A dedicated one, both buff and imaginative, but still…
For the record:
Adamas in ancient Greek meant “unconquerable,” not “+3 hardness vs. slashing damage.”
Adamantine was a poetic catch‑all for “unbreakable cosmic stuff.”
Adamant was sometimes diamond, sometimes meteoric iron, sometimes whatever Zeus or the plotline required.
Adamantium is Marvel’s fault. I want to delete it from my matrix, but what if they make another movie that’s actually good. It could happen. Statistically improbable, but not impossible.
So yes, my matrix occasionally maps “adamantine” to “fantasy tungsten,” because reconciling sixty years of comic‑book retcons with three thousand years of mythic metallurgy — often contaminated by memetic overflow from mana‑rich tourists — requires the sort of post‑graduate research that bores me (and not in the good way.)
Honestly, we’re all lucky it didn’t translate it as “vibranium‑adjacent unobtanium with plot‑driven density.” That’s what happens when you let humans near the calibration settings.
There’s a long list of magic metals and how rare they are and where you can or cannot find them. I really love the idea of just having magic infused normal metals changing instead of just finding them wherever. This is going into my D&D game, thanks Dave
If you click on the link I included above, Energized materials are what it’s all about! So many different ways to make materials AND stay consistent to the periodic table…
What if diamonds are mountain gall-stones…
“i guess it is because i’m under lots of pressure at work lately”
Heh, Maxi in the first panel nope-ing it out of there :P
Do you blame her? You got some weird creature spraying the area with all manner of weapons fire you have no clue of what it can do… it’s a tactical retreat to figure out the best way to deal with a wild card, the mountain man tried and got a hole ate through a foot. For a dangerous idiot being, I’d fire a half-dozen nukes and stand WAAAAAAAAAY back until there was no movement. If a stone so much as rolled off another I’d fire at least 2 more…
“I say we take off and nuke the site from orbit. It’s the only way to be sure.”
– both Hicks and Ripley and repeated by probably several thousand fans who loved the line.
You sure you want to do that? There might be few *gulps* followed by at least half a dozen nukes flying your way/in random directions from the target…
Some people have waaay too much time on their hands. Excellent! Don’t ever change :-)
Never said blamed her, just no one else seemed to have noticed doing a u-turn
It occurs to me that win or lose, this tournament is a nigh peerless opportunity for the all-devouring chicken to power up with a range of top-tier materials, tech and abilities.
No, Sydney. Gemstones are mountain arthritis.
“I’m afraid you have Geodes… but luckily they appear to be benign. Still, I would recommend you lower your volcanic material intake”
Ooooh Ouch! If Corite Veins are what give the man-mountain its mobility, that was a potentially crippling attack on one leg by (H)ate-Chicken!
If Eat-Chicken does not get it’s own spinoff, I riot
Now I’m left wondering just how weird/painful it feels (depending on the nature of your nervous system) to have something eat through your foot. In human anatomy, that would be just plain horrific. How does it feel as a sentient mountain? Does it itch? Tickle? Neither?
Originally came here to talk about Orichalcum being a real name for a real thing… But then started to wonder if you’ve heard of the extra special Really Old Lead (TM) that scientists all fought over?
It actually DID “evolve”!
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/ancient-roman-lead-melted-down-explore-frontiers-physics/
I feel like diamonds would be more like kidney stones
Hey, @DaveB –
was the doctor in your scene above… Mount Sinai?
Just curious.
Maxima/Ixah is practicing the fine martial art of “Let’s you and him fight!”, also known as, “the enemy of my enemy does the lion’s share of the work for me”
The answer, for humans, is that it wouldn’t feel different.
I have bones in my arm and cartilage in my nose / ears and they feel the same.
Likewise the center of my arm (with bone) feels the same as 2″ from the center of my arm (not bone).
Humans are biologically programs to ignore the banal stuff. Like how you can’t see your nose or feel your heartbeat most of the time.
If the bones / cartilage / muscles got damaged then oh yea I would feel it.
People who get brain surgery get their skull replaced with titanium and “patients ask is whether they will be able to feel the titanium plate. In most cases, once the initial healing period is over, patients report little to no sensation from the plate itself. The scalp and surrounding tissues gradually adapt to the presence of the implant, and many people forget it’s there most of the time”
Thanks… inttitanium . com OK, maybe a little bit biased but it seems legit enough.
yeah seems accurate enough
– I only have one thumb joint in titanium – but awareness of it faded over the first few months, and by a year or so, was really only aware at impact or major weather changes. Weather responsiveness eased over a few years, and has only just been picking back up again after a couple decades.
MOUNTAIN CANCER!!!!!!
I feel like a gem vein would be less like a tumor and more blood related, something analogous to a clot, scab, or scar tissue. After all, they form when a specific mineral gets into a crack and crystalizes, filling in the crack.
It took me way to long to realize that the contestant name EAT-CHICKEN is a reference to the concept that “everything tastes like chicken”.
Good brain? Taste good?
Chicky is like fighting one of the Umbra from Monster Train.
I think the walking mountain would have been better off kicking Eat-Chicken than stepping on them.
So.. eat-chicken is what it eats. Now guns and copper/corite. And chicken, maybe. For how long though? If it comes into the contest as a clean slate (except for chicken), what happens to make it so, instead of having all the elements of everything it ate before?
Makes you wonder what happens if it throws up.
man, i would go crazy if the bug i step on suddenly start to munch its way thru my leg
Corite threw me for a bit; For a second, I was thinking it was a real substance (it’s not; I was probably thinking of Corium or curite). Adamantium works fine, because while the name comes from Adamant (archaic name for a diamond), it’s it’s own, fictional, thing. Orichalcum, however, I find amusing to no end, because Orichalcum, while often considered mythological in the past, is a real material- a type of brass.
Logically, I know it’s the mythical meaning, and that it just shares a name with the actual stuff, but it’s funny to think
that mixing copper or steel with mana gets you mythical materials, while mixing gold with mana gets you… brass (which, ironically, is mostly copper… so you could theoretically infuse it with more mana to get corite).
I have said it before and I shall say it again, calling someone a chicken to imply they are cowards is an established misnomer of note. Anyone who has unwittingly fought a chicken against their will has lost and anyone claiming to the contrary is lying.
And yes I speak from experience.
That all being said, pity the poor fool who thinks that a space chicken of all things is also somehow easy prey, as has been displayed here, twice. Methinks that Max has an opponent (more than Vehemence prior) worth her full effort again and I am here for it.
Funny you’d say that mana infused gold becomes orichalcum, given that orichalcum’s etymology means “mountain copper”.
>> steel becomes adamantite, gold becomes orichalcum
Uh, excuse me?
The proper fantasy metals equivalents are:
Adamantine – wolfram
Mithril – aluminum (extremely lightweight yet durable)
Orichalcum – likely copper alloy with some titanium.