*lurks around at the GM's, holding his Grim Reaper Scythe* So who am I working with again, and could someone link me to the existing TitanPad?

On a side note, whats everyone doing for Turkey Day?

...wait, hold on. Question. How is Goliath's flamethrower going to deal with the Acalya? Unless the flame is fully capable of atomizing breakouts and latent spores, hes just going to melt the solid crystal structures into a liquid form. Quartz melts at 1610 Celsius, and I can assure you, the Acalya are much harder than that. But the "plague" the Acalya carries is still active. So, instead of poisonous trees, you'd have poisonous slag.

@Dawnscroll

By the way, where is this Acalya forest anyway? Just curious is all.

*lurks around at the GM's, holding his Grim Reaper Scythe* So who am I working with again, and could someone link me to the existing TitanPad?

On a side note, whats everyone doing for Turkey Day?

Are you implying that we have things to do for Thanksgiving? We're rp'ers, we don't do things in real life, we have stories to write out.

On a serious note though, I dunno. It really depends on what my family wants to do, which is usually just go to a restaurant to eat, then laze around the house.

@Bright_Ops it's the dead tree marker on the map. NOW IF ONLY SOMEONE WOULD UPDATE THE CHAR TAB.

@Dawnscroll

By the way, where is this Acalya forest anyway? Just curious is all.

Everywhere.....

On a side note, whats everyone doing for Turkey Day?

Working on my bootleg Angry Marines some more.

...wait, hold on. Question. How is Goliath's flamethrower going to deal with the Acalya? Unless the flame is fully capable of atomizing breakouts and latent spores, hes just going to melt the solid crystal structures into a liquid form. Quartz melts at 1610 Celsius, and I can assure you, the Acalya are much harder than that. But the "plague" the Acalya carries is still active. So, instead of poisonous trees, you'd have poisonous slag.

It depends on the chemical and physical composition of Acalya.

I assume there must be a reasonable degree of complexity to Acalya to be biologically active in the way described. Acalya is optimised to operate at ambient temperatures. Melting it (2000 C was my estimate for a thorough melting) should be adequate to destroy this higher order structure. Glass transition temperature, recrystallisation into different crystal phases and whatnot.

2000 C liquid phase with an oxygen-containing atmosphere is also an excellent place for chemical reactions to occur. Acalya, being biologically active, must be more complicated than, say, pure silica, so there are probably a bunch of things Acalya can be chemically transformed into. If Acalya contains any carbon whatsoever, it will also burn at those temperatures.

Also of note, melting it is far more effective at stopping the Acalya than smashing it, which is what everyone else has been trying to do.

Even if Acalya survives melting, the resultant slag will have a much lower surface area than a forest and thus produce spores much more slowly.

If that still isn't adequate, then I can have Goliath heat the Acalya to whatever temperature is needed to destroy it. Goliath has in excess of 50 GW of thermal energy to throw around with that flamethrower. It all becomes a trade-off between temperature and rate of forest clearing.

If that still doesn't work (or if the temperatures required are prohibitive for large-scale work), then I'll have Teknall change tactics. He has more options.

P.S.

@Dawnscroll

By the way, where is this Acalya forest anyway? Just curious is all.

http://imgur.com/a/Tv8yb
The areas marked in blue are the major outbreaks.

Ironic, Amartía takes after the god he hates the most, his own father.

I was thinking of creating a creature to eat and denature the acalya, but I guess what you bring up is a decent set of questions.

Do acalya function purely through some kind of protein dealio, or is there some kind of god-might or magic holding it together?

And Farxus is now in the world! Rejoice! (or not... up to you really.)

And Farxus is now in the world! Rejoice! (or not... up to you really.)

BULLY TO YOU! NOW WE MUST CELEBRATE BY COMMENCING ANSCHLUSS

Lauder brought up an interesting query.

How would Thanksgiving, or any family gathering, go amongst Vestec and his children?

Or the entire divine family, for that matter. (You know, the not dead or mad ones)

Lauder brought up an interesting query.

How would Thanksgiving, or any family gathering, go amongst Vestec and his children?

Or the entire divine family, for that matter. (You know, the not dead or mad ones)

I feel like it would be great... Food wise anyway. It would be an interesting gathering a food as well.

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I feel like it would be great... Food wise anyway. It would be an interesting gathering a food as well.

You know, technically, Vestec is Faux's Granddad.

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You know, technically, Vestec is Faux's Granddad.

...Thankfully we don't have an In universe version of Christmas yet. There is something deeply disturbing about what 'Grandpa Vestec' could get up to while dressed in a santa outfit.

"Logos! Amarty is throwing potatoes at me again!"

"Kinesis, when are you going to get yourself a nice man?"

"Ilunabar, she is too busy helping me around the house to go chasing boys. Harrumph."

"Vestec! Get out of the kitchen! I don't want your help!"

"Come on Toun, I just want to put in my pumpkin pie! It's got a surpriiiise..."

"NOOOOOOOO!"

"Toun, let Jvan help you, you're too stressed."

"THE TURKEY IS RUINED!"

"Oh, your turkey is always dry anyway, what's wrong with a few extra succulent drumsticks."

"Are you growing tentacles from the food again?"

*Lifprasil leans on one hand and forks at his broccoli* "Every damn year."

@Muttonhawk

Meanwhile, Ull'Yang is that crazy uncle who Lif has never met or even seen what he looks like, yet shows up precisely, militarily on time, carrying a generous gift of wild Brush Beast game. Just plasma-shot. By him.

During cocktail hour, he drinks genuine Galbarian beer, straight from the barrel, before innocently asking if anyone still remembers Vowzra [uses the ensuing silence to demand loudly that dinner be served “on Time”].

@Vec And when he says that, Belru perks up in the next room and bangs against the locked door all like, 'what about me!? Remember me?'
But everyone pretends that they can't hear her because all her presents come at a price.

"Logos! Amarty is throwing potatoes at me again!"

"Kinesis, when are you going to get yourself a nice man?"

"Ilunabar, she is too busy helping me around the house to go chasing boys. Harrumph."

"Vestec! Get out of the kitchen! I don't want your help!"

"Come on Toun, I just want to put in my pumpkin pie! It's got a surpriiiise..."

"NOOOOOOOO!"

"Toun, let Jvan help you, you're too stressed."

"THE TURKEY IS RUINED!"

"Oh, your turkey is always dry anyway, what's wrong with a few extra succulent drumsticks."

"Are you growing tentacles from the food again?"

*Lifprasil leans on one hand and forks at his broccoli* "Every damn year."

Lifprasil later decides to conquer the dinner table and beyond out of spite.