2013-05-17: [CT] It's Cold
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2013-05-17: [CT] It's Cold
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Re: 2013-05-17: [CT] It's Cold
Provided he's in a fairly slow moving and calm part of the stream, maybe it was hot enough to melt some rocks a little in the vicinity? Maybe he was holding some rocks that the spell heated up, that he could then drop into the water around him.
I dunno.
I dunno.
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Re: 2013-05-17: [CT] It's Cold
If it worked then it definitely killed all the fish in the surrounding area. Turning a cold river into steaming bath water has got to be bad for the environment.
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Re: 2013-05-17: [CT] It's Cold
Well, this is Ian we're talking about. Seeing the consequences of his actions and avoiding collateral damage were never his strongest suits, were they?
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Re: 2013-05-17: [CT] It's Cold
I remember Lina Inverse doing something similar ... but it was a pond, not river, and she is crazy powerfull.
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Re: 2013-05-17: [CT] It's Cold
Without getting all physics-y, catgirl-killing-y, etc., I don't think there would have been much effect. For one thing, the area of effect is limited, and most fish won't stick around when a large, clumsy terrestrial beast gets into the water. (Furthermore, some of the ones that might, i.e., the ones with a bad habit of swimming up one's important bits, are probably better off cooked anyway.) For another, the temperature increase required to turn "cold" water into "warm" water suitable for bathing really isn't that great, as anyone who's tried to regulate jacuzzi temperature down to the tenth of a degree (which users can notice) will tell you.dark_lord_zagato wrote:If it worked then it definitely killed all the fish in the surrounding area. Turning a cold river into steaming bath water has got to be bad for the environment.
However, the other point --
-- is certainly sound. This was a harbinger of things to come, in terms of Ian not thinking things through on an immediate, "tactical" scale, even though he'd planned carefully for the long term.Immanio wrote:Well, this is Ian we're talking about. Seeing the consequences of his actions and avoiding collateral damage were never his strongest suits, were they?
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