Re: whale

[Jevan Furmanski <furmansj@expert.cc.purdue.edu>]

On Wed, 17 Jun 1998, Steve Ames wrote:

> > In regards to the whale rumor that was wandering around Rougtero, the whale
> > has been slain.  A new actor by the name of Cefo Rehab, however, has become a
> > regular to the Hellfire Club.  He's easy to find, being a few scraps of flesh
> > in an adamantite jar (currently).
> 
> New whale rumor... the dead whale, having been darklocked to preserve
> it, will be turned into an undead vessel/weapon.
> 
> > I was also wondering about how regular spells affect excessively large
> > creatures.  The whale I ran this past weekend was more than a kilometer long
> > and my plan was to have it engulf the party.  I was wondering, however, if
> > spells such as Suspend Time would affect it due to it's immense size.
> 
> They just work :) Pure magic.
> 
> > I think that Lyle's ideas about non-iron armor being lighter are good.
> > However, wouldn't platemail made out of less adamantite to give the same
> > protection as iron still weigh just as much?  From what I have heard, adamant
> > is much heavier than iron and would still adversely affect strength and
> > agility.
> 
> Density of metals. Don't know much about the properties of adamant. If
> its much heavier it makes it less useful for weapons... in today's 
> society we use titanium which (in most regards) is lighter and stronger
> than steel for a lot of things... once you leave metals and switch to
> manufacturered materials such as fiber-anything, ceramics, or, on the
> far end, buck strands, your strength/weight ratio goes way up. All I
> know about adamant is that it's strong :) I don't know about teresium's
> physical properties either. Its probably in the AQ glossary somewhere ;)
> 
> 						-Steve
> 

As far as I see it, weight has little to do with movement restriction,
given the little swimming test this weekend.  The only advantage I see in
steel and adamantite, is that steel is far more malleable than iron, and
Adamantite has nearly infinite malleability since it is "unbreakable".
This is analagous to Rob's character's gold leaf plate (about 1 atom
thick) that was adamanted.  I don't know how that was ruled though.  For
movement increases, Kevin mentioned a huge amount of armor smithing and
anatomy skills to make more effecient plates (Maximillian Plate). 

Jevan F.