Preperations

Astral · Post by **Astral** » Tue Nov 15, 2005 11:08 am

maxgoof wrote:
Or, as wayfarer said, if it is a lux capacitor holding 1.21 gigawatts of lux power!

someone's been watching Back To the Future again ^^,

Aurrin · Post by **Aurrin** » Tue Nov 15, 2005 11:25 am

Ah, yes, one of our favorite phrases in the computer lab. If anyone asks a question, it's almost certain someone else (not asked) will shout back:

"one-point-twenty-one jigga-watts!!!"

lol

Yuoofox · Post by **Yuoofox** » Tue Nov 15, 2005 11:27 am

Rock salt? Perhaps he's making ice cream.

Shyal_malkes · Post by **Shyal_malkes** » Tue Nov 15, 2005 11:49 am

be warned, I think Astral's already had too much of, well, something...

best not to mention ice cream or he might start getting ideas.

Mwalimu · Post by **Mwalimu** » Tue Nov 15, 2005 12:13 pm

Rock salt is basically sodium chloride, just not as pure as table salt.

I doubt if Quentyn would leave the device in an outdoor location near the luxfont just because he needed a place to put it. I think it's a pretty safe bet that he left it where he did so it could collect lux. I wonder how heavy that thing is. Quentyn is probably not in the best shape to be moving something big like that around.

After what we all expected, I'm surprised Quentyn had nothing broken and all of his body parts intact. And I'm particularly surprised the Royals didn't take his journeyboots. (Dunno about his glimmer rope - did he even have that with him while he was with the Royals, or was it in his backpack with Squidge the whole time?)

Astral · Post by **Astral** » Tue Nov 15, 2005 12:28 pm

shyal_malkes wrote:be warned, I think Astral's already had too much of, well, something...

best not to mention ice cream or he might start getting ideas.

*Comes belting in from outside* Did someone say Ice cream!

Wayfarer · Post by **Wayfarer** » Tue Nov 15, 2005 12:32 pm

mwalimu wrote:I doubt if Quentyn would leave the device in an outdoor location near the luxfont just because he needed a place to put it.

His leaving it near the luxfont for purposes other than lux would only work if folks would for some reason stay away from the spot because it was the luxfont, which means that the luxfont would be the cause of the spots isolation, and the isolation would be the element for which the spot was chosen.

So I guess my question needs to be, is there any reason a spot right under the luxfont would be avoided because it was right under the luxfont. (There might not be, of course. That's why I'm asking.)

Astral wrote:*Comes belting in from outside* Did someone say Ice cream!

Well, technically, you did just now.

The JAM · Post by **The JAM** » Tue Nov 15, 2005 12:49 pm

[...unWARP!]

Good evening.

The symbol for copper is Cu.

And in all of this......

Why

doesn't

he

go

ask

Kestrel

or

Fen

for

HELP????

Doink · Post by **Doink** » Tue Nov 15, 2005 1:18 pm

I guess it never occured to him. But I guess he's trying to live up to the Questor name, as the Questors in the history books probably worked alone.

BlasTech · Post by **BlasTech** » Tue Nov 15, 2005 1:35 pm

I guess he might not want to get them involved in this for their safety, they might get hurt and quent is probably happier accepting the risk on his own, even if it does make it a bit harder. Either that or he views it as his fight alone

Anyway, im just going to throw out my 2c about the barrel ...

Id lean towards the idea that its a battery and not a lethal bomb for a few reasons.

Firstly, i just dont think Quent is a killer, we know that he doesnt pride himself in taking a life (just check the gragum saga) and even if he is being affected by his bond i think that that is only manifesting as a strong determination to get it back rather than a "im gonna kill them all" psycho trip. Even causing gratuitous injury is beyond what i think he's morally capable of.

Secondly, like maxgoof said, copper and salt are two specific ingredients in a galvanic cell (aka battery) ... all right, so the salt is meant to be in solution and there needs to be another metal for the anode but i think it lends itself more to the idea of a battery than an explosive. (although the lux capacitor idea is a good one ... im i dont know enough about the chemistry of a capacitor to decide about that but maybe its similar to half a battery?)

Finally, he mentioned that he'd done alot of similar projects in school ... now i dont know about you guys but our teachers never let us within 50 feet of any explosives during chemistry, let alone teaching us how to make the stuff (something about chemists = pyromaniacs or something similar

)

Also, id expect the chemistry needed to make an explosive in our world would be just as difficult as doing it in his, ie it wouldnt be "deviously simple" ... again, another reason why id back the idea of a battery or a charged capacitor.

anyway, thats the end of my 2c for now ... i guess the idea of quent killing someone out of revenge is just something i feel strongly enough about to object to in three different ways.

*jumps off the soapbox and goes to find the icecream before Ast can finish it all*

Fusion · Post by **Fusion** » Tue Nov 15, 2005 4:21 pm

I think he is going to try and burn out the tappers with it. That way WC can charge so the next time he attacks, it's fun time!

SolidusRaccoon · Post by **SolidusRaccoon** » Tue Nov 15, 2005 5:13 pm

Aurrin wrote:Ah, yes, one of our favorite phrases in the computer lab. If anyone asks a question, it's almost certain someone else (not asked) will shout back:

"one-point-twenty-one jigga-watts!!!"

lol

I use techno bable myself, keeps an air of mystery around me, also keeps me from telling the user just how simple and boneheaded the mistake was.

"Ah the kernal got tripped up by the RAM and the heisenberg compensators, it could have happened to anyone"

And I use the Scotty rule.

Me: "Sorry Mr. Nelson, it will take at least an hour to get your PC working again"

15 minutes later

Me: "Good news, I was able to get it done faster"

Nelson: "You sure are a miracle worker!!!!"

LoneWolf23k · Post by **LoneWolf23k** » Tue Nov 15, 2005 5:23 pm

I also doubt that Quentyn wants to kill anyone..

...destroy everything they have and beat all of them into bloody, but survivable lumps, perhaps...

...but no, not killing them.

...After all, if they're dead, they can't live on to tell everyone who kicked their tails, now can they?

MAcbeth · Post by **MAcbeth** » Tue Nov 15, 2005 5:23 pm

Personally I am less worried about the "bomb" (although all the talk about rock salt does remind me of that scene in Kill Bill) and more concerned with his rune covered wacking stick.

Mikhail Dragoslav · Post by **Mikhail Dragoslav** » Tue Nov 15, 2005 6:40 pm

SolidusRaccoon wrote: And I use the Scotty rule.

Me: "Sorry Mr. Nelson, it will take at least an hour to get your PC working again"

15 minutes later

Me: "Good news, I was able to get it done faster"

Nelson: "You sure are a miracle worker!!!!"

So you always multiply your estimated repair time by a factor of four?

DracoDei · Post by **DracoDei** » Tue Nov 15, 2005 8:59 pm

MAcbeth wrote:Personally I am less worried about the "bomb" (although all the talk about rock salt does remind me of that scene in Kill Bill) and more concerned with his rune covered wacking stick.

It is called a Wackadu if I remember the spelling right. A dirt simple weapon with that multiplies the force of impact, but also has a delitarious effect on the structure of the weapon (they tend to go 'bang' into splinters after a while if I remember correctly).

Shyal_malkes · Post by **Shyal_malkes** » Tue Nov 15, 2005 9:19 pm

first off,

MAcbeth! welcome to the forums!

be sure to hand in your sanity at the front desk,

don't start a nuclear war in front of Wayfarer,

and whatever you do, do not feed solidus after midnight...

more on topic, if a wackadu is going to splinter and break after too long, then be sure to make more then one!

I'd go for a self burning/burn accellerating piece of driftwood with a 3 second timer on it, just activate with a little pulse of lux and throw!

Madmoonie · Post by **Madmoonie** » Tue Nov 15, 2005 10:16 pm

Just when is it ever a good idea to feed Solidus?

BlasTech · Post by **BlasTech** » Wed Nov 16, 2005 12:02 am

tuesdays i think ...

Catherine_Puce · Post by **Catherine_Puce** » Wed Nov 16, 2005 12:35 am

Something tell me that The royals will remember all their life the moment where our little questor come back and turn the place upside down for his sword. This will be nasty. And for your information he doesn't need a pipe bomb. He collect enough of fish poppers to blow up the whole building if he mix them with a little of water.

C'est propablement un condensateur surpuissant qu'il a construit.

S.P.P.