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Re: Not clear on the concept
« Reply #15 on: April 10, 2008, 09:02:00 pm »

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Re: Not clear on the concept
« Reply #16 on: April 10, 2008, 09:21:00 pm »

The flying Lead plate mail strikes the Uranium colossus in the upper body!
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Re: Not clear on the concept
« Reply #17 on: April 10, 2008, 09:32:00 pm »

quote:
Originally posted by falsedan:
<STRONG>The Romans got lead poisoning from using lead pipes and boiling juice in lead cauldrons to get lead acetate (sugar of lead)

Skin contact with lead is nowhere near as dangerous as ingesting lead!</STRONG>


True, but platemail covers the majority of your skin, thats a lotta contact. I imagine there would be some skin transfer, considering a hardened military dwarf will go a lifetime with his armour on. (2-3 years at least :P) But you are right, the lead buckets, barrels, kitchens, and bins are what getcha.

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« Reply #18 on: April 10, 2008, 09:54:00 pm »

Look, if you're voluntarily wearing lead plate armor, I don't think you can blame the lead plate armor for your brain damage.
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« Reply #19 on: April 11, 2008, 02:06:00 pm »

quote:
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True, but platemail covers the majority of your skin, thats a lotta contact. I imagine there would be some skin transfer, considering a hardened military dwarf will go a lifetime with his armour on. (2-3 years at least :P) But you are right, the lead buckets, barrels, kitchens, and bins are what getcha.</STRONG>



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« Reply #20 on: April 13, 2008, 05:22:00 pm »

Soo... Yeah it seems kinda wonky that he'd use LEAD for the armor and IRON for a decoration.

But it's a suit of armor to test the manhood of any young dwarf!  Have him trot out in that thing to hunt goblins, and he'll be Ultra-Mighty in no time!

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« Reply #21 on: April 13, 2008, 09:20:00 pm »

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True, but platemail covers the majority of your skin, thats a lotta contact.

There would be little to no skin contact. When it comes to armor, clothes and padding tend to go over every bit of skin that it will fit on.

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« Reply #22 on: April 16, 2008, 03:33:00 am »

quote:
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There would be little to no skin contact. When it comes to armor, clothes and padding tend to go over every bit of skin that it will fit on.</STRONG>


Im thinking of the large amounts of clothing dwarves tear off of each other during sparring. Ive had more than 1 elite wrestler go nude under their armour.

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Re: Not clear on the concept
« Reply #23 on: April 16, 2008, 05:58:00 am »

I like how this guy was making a joke about the use of lead as the armor and iron as the decoration, and everyone goes off on separate tangents about radiation, likelihood of lead poisoning, and other assorted nonsense.
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« Reply #24 on: April 16, 2008, 09:20:00 am »

quote:
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<STRONG>I like how this guy was making a joke about the use of lead as the armor and iron as the decoration, and everyone goes off on separate tangents about radiation, likelihood of lead poisoning, and other assorted nonsense.</STRONG>
If it had been zinc armor with adamantine decorations, this never would have happened.
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Re: Not clear on the concept
« Reply #25 on: April 16, 2008, 09:31:00 am »

You just can't predict what people are going to focus on in a topic.
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« Reply #26 on: April 16, 2008, 09:07:00 pm »

But I guarantee you it wouldn't be radiation, in the hypothetical I posted.  This is a statement I stand by.
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