Fetzen

Spells in the Dark: The Shadow Queen (18+ For dark and suggestive themes)

I don't want to burn down forests. I just want my character to have a good fist fight with Ky

GENERAL 1X1

@CandySatan You remember the RP we've started eight months ago with a rather similar plot to your Medieval Fantasy plot idea ?

Spells in the Dark: The Shadow Queen (18+ For dark and suggestive themes)

It's the Chernobyl forest. It's just that noone has yet found the plant itself because it's so grown over and ruined and noone has yet re-invented the geiger counter :o

Spells in the Dark: The Shadow Queen (18+ For dark and suggestive themes)

I'm Beanstalk, not a witness of attempted suicide!

~~~ At the tavern ~~~
_{Mainly interacting with @Dark Light}

Jared had been sitting at the bar, innocently giving away his coins for something he had hoped would help him soften the negative impact of what had happened earlier this day when suddenly... all hell broke loose. It occured behind his back, but the loud sound of it made him spout the liquor in his mouth all over the place in front of him. Yet, having turned around on his stool, the sight of what happened made him think that Abigail probably would have other things to worry about than removing some sticky substance littering the table.

Like, for example, the entire mess caused by the rapid chain of events he had missed before turning around. The last thing Jared was able to see was some kind of woman - apparently a witch, given that he simply couldn't imagine any hunter pulling of such a show just for some conflict with one of his colleagues and that there were some other things around here hardly explainable without magic - limping out of massively damaged tavern and leaving on a flying broomstick.

Now that really had the quality to deteriorate the man's already severely impaired mood even more. He just had wanted to get himself drunk and an individual which should immediately be subjected to applicated darwinism (reason: too stupid to live) had utterly destroyed it. How many other hunters were around here who just had wanted to enjoy their victory over the gnome assault and have a good time ?

Yet... there was something else around here. Something that didn't match the smell of holy water, wolfsbane, lavender or alcohol. In fact one couldn't deny a striking similarity with the stench of eviscerated entrails, though there was a certain spicy note in it that indicated that it were non-human ent...

"Beanstalk!"

Given that there was noone else coming even close to eight feet, Jared immediately felt addressed by the callout. It came from a familiar direction, but the sight given when facing it was so ugly that he had turn away twice before finally being able to permanently look at it. Jared pulled up the facemask again as far as he could, the thing now almost reaching his eyes.

Glass of broken vials scrunched under his feet as he approached Ky. Needless to say that he didn't take the direct way, but one riddled with evasive maneuvers around whatever 'soft' materials and reddish liquids were lying on the floor. Luckily his hands were still covered in the leather gloves, so he could allow to brace himself at the table as he leaned over it, looking down at the other man.

"Zero. I think the count is zero. I've not yet beaten up any blithering idiots who were told to stop what they are still doing today. Though, admittedly, I'd still prefer leaving that witch to your elaborate handiwork than preventing you from continuing it with that gnome. Have I made myself clear ?"

Spells in the Dark: The Shadow Queen (18+ For dark and suggestive themes)

@WeepingLiberty Do you expect me to post something now or is Abi still willing to help him get drunk after this mess ?

Nocturne

@Blubaron45 Done. Hope that was what you had in mind.

Nocturne

Hatuum nodded in silence, but full of purpose. It was always a good thing to explicity signal the contractee that one did agree with his terms, thereby formally making the deal. The assassin firmly believed that this was true even if one's employer told that the contract would be regarded as accepted implicitly by showing up at a certain location at a certain time.

Then he could see the elder vampire leave. There was no point in trying to stop her to ask more questions - he probably would have done it if it had not been her. The information provided could very well be regarded as sparse and he wasn't happy about it. Yet... if it was the elders themselves wanting to hire him there were good chances that the payment would be equally high-ranking, even if the job was bound to be difficult, too. What a lucky decision it had been to go here... Definitely worth listening to all this political gibberish!

Hatuum turned his head and attention back to the mercenary leader. "Alright. I'll see you at the allotted rendezvous point then ? Greetings..." He nodded towards Amiartys in a friendly manner as well, then slowly accelerated to make his way out of the building. The assassin deliberately restrained himself to a snail's pace: If the other man would feel the urge to add or ask something - he'd still have the opportunity to do so right now. Otherwise however Hatuum would leave. There was a lot to prepare for he'd not go on this mission without his own equipment.

Spells in the Dark: The Shadow Queen (18+ For dark and suggestive themes)

@Fetzen

Jared was crouched down so its highly unlikely he'd be cut by glass being that a window should be at least 2 - 3 feet off the ground.

@Noxx

He wasn't crouched. He sat ordinarly on a stool in front of the counter for he had just delivered payment for the second beer and the room he had requested prior. Also gravity will alter the shard's trajectory significantly as long as we're not talking about really breakneck speeds (at which we'd face a bunch of other problems).

A railgun in general is pretty easy to make especially if you control electricity. You need two parallel railings that can conduct electricity being two of her fingers probably the pinky and the index finger generate a fair amount of electricity if the projectile (like a coin) can be magnetic it will jump forward the speed of which will be increased the longer it travels (You can make one in your own home with two pieces of thin iron rod, an electrical plug and a coin) just remember middle finger for B-field, thumb for direction of force, and index finger is for direction of current then match vectors.

@Noxx

I am aware of the principle of Lorentz' force. It doesn't have much to do with the item being magnetizeable at all. Every charged particle (that is... protons or electrons) can be subjected to Lorentz force even if it is free floating in vacuum as long as there is a relative velocity orthogonal to the magnetic field's vector. If that would not be the case we wouldn't sit here because no electric generator installed at any power plant in the world would be able to actually create electricity in its copper windigs. And several types of electric motors wouldn't work as well.

Applying the principle of Lorentz' force one can see that a railgun can't work by creating a current that flows in the coin in a circular pattern because the sum of Lorentz' forces would balance out itself. So it is like you said: The current has to be passed from a rail to the projectile, flow through it and then dumped out of the other rail. And this is the point were constructing an effective railgun capable of producting muzzle velocities we're talking about both here in theory and in your post becomes very difficult:

On one hand you have to make create a very, very good electric contact between the rails and the projectiles as possible because every resistance in the way of the current surge will generate a lot of heat: the thing could jam due to thermal expansion of the rails, it could explode because air is heated up rapidly, it could fuse together with the projectile because metals start to melt. Normally good electric contact is achieved by using soft, highly-conductive material like gold-plating (like on your PC expansion cards) in combination with a decent amount of force pressing the contact areas together to flatten any microscopic roughness. There is a reason why this stuff sometimes is a pain in the ass to insert. On the other hand you don't want much force involved, because you need low friction as well. And then all of this has to be maintained even during the violent acceleration phase.

And that's the point where your idea of using a coin-finger-combination completely falls apart.

• A coin isn't necessarily made out of good conductors. Highly probably it is even covered in smudge like fat, dirt, sweat... All of which quite poor conductors.
• The human skin resistance is in the several hundreds or even thousands of Ohms.
• You want to blast the coin out between your fingers while holding it strong enough for it not to drop ? That will generate a lot of friction (a.k.a. injury) in the firing process, added to the thermal stress caused by using high-resistance 'building materials'.
• Last but not least you don't replicate a bunch of electrons in one finger and collect them in the other. Even in a capacitor there is always as much current going out as it is going in because electrons hate each other and push themselves around if it get's crowded. So by letting a super-high current flow through your hand you'd electrocute yourself quite effectively.
• According to Newton's second axiom, you would expose yourself to the same mechanical stress as the coin (a.k.a. recoil).

Your railgun in a hand has the potential to amputate that hand in a quite violent manner. Pushing around electrons just by far isn't enough to fix the problems listed here.

If you want to dive into physics one could also consider the fact that a magnetized coin passing through a highly-conductive hunter's net at extreme speed will cause a magnetic flux going through the meshes of the net with an equally extreme time derivative. That is... it will induce currents like an electric generator. And what happens to a generator when it suddenly has to deliver a high current ? That's right, it slows down if it's no longer propelled, because it is delivering power! In this case the power is lost as warmth created by the currents in the net. If one would want to go really deep into this scenario one might shed a light on this effect as well, but I am unwilling to do that because the entire scenario is garbage.

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@WeepingLiberty I know the system from the old RP, but there it wasn't entirely left to the silent self-judgement of everyone so I thought I had missed something. Sorry.

*is very demotivated-ish right now*

Spells in the Dark: The Shadow Queen (18+ For dark and suggestive themes)

By the way... master level ? adept ? What are you talking about ? I thought there have been no assignments/talks about the system yet or did I miss something entirely in the character creation process ?