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1) Why is it called Sue Simulator?

2) How does fighting through hordes of Sues work in a text-based RP?

Have a crate of lembas.

Well, it's my birthday today. Turning slightly older than 20, but not quite 30.

Hello! It is me, Jellyity. I introduced myself about a month ago. (Maybe longer?) I am not sure how to word this, but, I have an RP idea. It is called Sue Simulator. The goal of the game is, there is a machine producing Sues. Players will have to fight through hordes of Sues in order to make their way to the machine, so they can shut it off. Is this a good RP idea?
I would like some feedback. Thank you!

Besides, this is the closest I will ever get to being Thor. :-P

Th isn't Thallium - it's Thorium. And I'm afraid it looks like Th(I) isn't stable - Thorium prefers the 4+ form.

Sorry.

(At least you won't explode; that's something!)

hS

... I guess you must be a mixture. And that means I can refer to the world's foremost authority on chemistry, nay, on science as a whole:



What If? is an excellent book which I highly recommend. Down on page 35, xkcd's Randall sets out to answer the question:

What would happen if you made a periodic table out of cube-shaped bricks, where each brick was made of the corresponding element?

Working through your name, in order of atomic number, these are his comments:

-The cube of hydrogen would rise upward and disperse, like a balloon without a balloon.

-The... nitrogen drift[s] around, slowly dispersing.

-[No specific comment on Molybdenum. It's pretty stable stuff.]

-[Actually no comment on Holmium, either. It apparently changes colour depending on lighting conditions, from yellow to red.]

So far, so good, but Es is a 7th-row element:

-[On the sixth row] you would die from what we might call "extremely acute radiation poisoning" - that is, you would be cooked.

The seventh row would be much worse.

[...]

Unfortunately for our project, the transuranic elements don't vanish quietly. They decay radioactively. And most of them decay into things that also decay. A cube of any of the highest-numbered elements would decay within seconds, releasing a tremendous amount of energy.

The result wouldn't be like a nuclear explosion - it would be a nuclear explosion.

...

At this point, I was going to reveal that you actually have an ace up your sleeve that might save you. Holmium, you see, is an aggressive neutron scavenger - it's actually used to poison nuclear reactors, to stop the chain reaction from running. So I was thinking it would dampen the explosion for you.

Except... Einsteinium decay isn't a chain reaction. It's just an everything-explodes-at-once reaction. So while the Ho would probably cut down on some of the elemental shrapnel, the Es is still gonna just go boom. :)

(Now, if I had the Ho, it would really help with my Uranium and Radon. Actually, Indium can fulfil the same purpose... but I've got the same Es as you, so I'm going to go boom anyway.)

hS

Remember that time a bunch of Boarders turned into radioactive elements and blew up?

Man, that was good times. ^ ^ ^

~NEsHoMoH

I like the way this one looks the best anyway. So I guess the next question is, just how big is the explosion? {= D

Ironic that the only color you don't mention for phosphorus is blue.

~NEsHoMoH

Tumblar is the website Tumblr. Exsoeva is X-over = crossover. Zeenotzed was a desperation move: it's just a pronunciation guide to Baron TZA's name (ie, American, not British).

I'm working on the categories now. :)

I think the map came after the place-name, so I'll try and correct the map rather than changing the Cyclopaedia. The Blulenc label... I have nooooo idea what happened there. Editing mishap?

hS

Triholmium (HoHoHo).

You have to ask yourself: why wouldn't you want to be radioactive? Particularly when the non- version involves compounds of neon, which is a bit tricky to pull off. ... unlike Einsteinium-Holmium compounds, obviously, those are childs' play. :D

PHOBOS... based on the MtG thing, phosphorus is a great start, because elemental P comes in a whole range of colours. White, yellow, red, violet, brown, and black are known, plus white phosphorus glows green. It's a whole rainbow!

You'll be pleased(?) to know I have tried, but can't make HO2PBS into an actual chemical structure. Sadly.

hS

No?

Element-spelling! My M is a problem. We've got Mg, Mo, Mn, Mt, Mc, and Md to work with. Looks like I'm getting molybdenum.

So, let's see... NeSHOMoH? Or, if I wanted to be radioactive, NEsHOMoH or NEsHoMoH?

PHOBOS can be spelled all upper-case!

~Neshomeh

[Checks]

It does and all! You are Thallous oxide, a toxic black crystal who reacts readily with water to make a yellow solution. You are used in high-temperature superconductors, and in certain types of glass.

^_^

hS, sadly not a real chemical.

Thallium Oxygen Thallium. Works neat enough.

HIErONYMoS GeRaUBaReAt? The first name works, but the latter is falling apart at the hinges.

Perhaps GeAuBaRg? Or GeRaUBrAt might be best...

You've managed to just about stay stable with HIErONYMoS, but GeRaUBrAt is stuffed with no less than three radioactive elements, plus a liquid element... plus, appropriately enough, Germanium. So I guess it's a gamma-radiating soup of Germanness.

In fact... yeah, no, Radium and Astatine are both alpha emitters; you're pretty much going to set off a Uranium chain reaction. Hope you like mushrooms...

hS, also exploding horribly if that helps

I was actually correcting my own previous post - I tried zinc for the Z at the end.

Since I’m prone to get the pronunciation wrong, I would like to have the following references confirmed:
Glausarie – Glossary
Hautew Gyd – How-to guides
Lhyst – Lists
Spyration – Inspiration
Hyparlink – Hyperlink
Larninkurv – Learning curve
Navbah – Navigation bar
Blulenc –Blue link
Rhedlenc – Red link
Eddataur – Editor
Tumblar – Tumbler
Eksoeva – (no idea)
Zeenotzed – (no idea)

Apparently I’m not allowed to create new categories. Required categories are:
Confederation of Diskord
Places in the Diskord
Baronies in the Diskord e,g, Barony PC
Buildings in the Diskord e. g. Eyem-Chaett
Castles in the Diskord e,g. Corro
Cities in the Diskord e. g. La Wunj
Geography of the Diskord e. g. Chuneil Mountains
Rivers in the Diskord e.g. Bhot
Roads in the Diskord? The Pankae Road may apply

Reewryght (spelled as on the original Riding of Sittorese page) is actually spelled "Rheewryght" on the map. Do you want to change the map(s), or should we rename "Reewryght" to "Rheewryght", and possibly also "Reeveshun Ridge" to "Rheeveshun Ridge"?

The Label "R. Blulenc" is duplicated above "Castle Fanvik"; you may want to keep only one of those when you change the map(s) to label the "Vaybek Road" and "R(h)eeveshun Ridge".

HG

Zink (English: zinc) and Zinn (English: tin) are two different elements.

HG

Now I even get to keep the E at the end. And I don't get blown up or poisoned.

Correction: the symbol for zinc is actually Zn. Is there such a thing as a mini-element?

That beats me and Ix hands down. Shockingly, I don't think you're even particularly toxic - I assumed Lanthanum would kill you, but apparently not!

We could probably make you a little more elegant... how about starting with tin, SnOWBLaZr? You could also soften the Z, and become SnOWBLaSe; Selenium is only toxic in large quantities.

hS

And I was almost successful - just that annoying R. The alternative is SNOWBLaZi, which sounds... worse.

What do Sulphur, Nitrogen, Oxygen, Tungsten, Boron, Lanthanum and Zirconium do together? I’m hoping it won’t blow anything up!