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[Talvieno]

wierd... You would make a very epic "secret agent" kind of person, in my opinion.

[wierd]

I sometimes wonder... if I was fabulously rich, and didn't have morals, just how evil of a super villian I could be.....

Then the realization that supervillians run every major corpoation already sinks in, and I feel depressed.

As for being a secret agent?  No thanks. Mortality rate is far too high.

I do have to admit though... a dangerously large part of me really wants everything to come crashing down in a global reset of civilization.  There is far too much graft and cruft in the works, held in place because somebody someplace profits frm bilking the system.  Only a clean slate would ever hope to fix it.  (Look at NYC for a clearcut example of how a city should not be run.)

[Eric Blank]

Don't forget the politicians! Now they need some hefty "ritual cleansing" (leave none alive. none.)

California ends up being the stereotypical hippy state because they export only insanity and hippy-like behavior to the rest of the country, and everybody hears about the wacky shit they do, while the normal human beings among the population are of course being quiet and polite like normal human beings should. Or maybe they're just scared they'd be murdered for not being peaceful enough...

[WillowLuman]

Evidently you do not live in CA. Also, NEVER conflate the Bay area and the Los Angeles area.
The crazy state we hear about all the time is Florida. Back in my birthplace of Idaho they are convinced that the entire rest of the country is crazy.

[Corai]

Concentrated Derail^tm is known to cause cancer in the state of California.

We should harvest it and spread it on their fields. That'll have the fuckers panicking, sueing everyone and banning everything until they divulge into a mass of screaming children rolling on the floor balling their eyes out.

Pansy damn elves...

Im no elf!

[wierd]

Evidently you do not live in CA. Also, NEVER conflate the Bay area and the Los Angeles area.
The crazy state we hear about all the time is Florida. Back in my birthplace of Idaho they are convinced that the entire rest of the country is crazy.

I didn't visit LA, or any of northern CA.  My exposure was limited to the bay and santa cruz areas.

I have been told they are radically different, but the valley and bay areas were crawling with "interesting people".

Very interesting people.... very interesting.

[Talvieno]

Very interesting people.... very interesting.

Interesting... That's what I say when testing syndromes...

[Corai]

The derail is done, this great thread is dead.

Now as you <ABANDON FORTRESS> I will eat your corpses which seem to appear as you flee.

[Cellmonk]

Concentrated Derail^tm is known to cause cancer in the state of California.

We should harvest it and spread it on their fields. That'll have the fuckers panicking, sueing everyone and banning everything until they divulge into a mass of screaming children rolling on the floor balling their eyes out.

Pansy damn elves...

I'm in the bay area, and can agree that among us there are many elves. *cough* mill valley *cough*.
But San Francisco is very Dwarven to me. People keep to themselves, are annoyed by crying children, kill those who do not silence their children, and make cool murals of cheese.
Of course they let elves live and draw flowers on the cheese, but that's only in return for pet unicorns.

Please give California a reason to sue someone. We are in desperate need of public funds.

Edit: If anyone thinks California as a whole is an elfy state, I've got four words for you: Lawrence, Livermore, National, and Laboratory.

[WillowLuman]

Why do all our governors cut education? My !!CHEMISTRY!! class was somewhat lacking.

But I digress. I live in hope that Oliolli will post the next chapter soon.

[wierd]

Ok.. to get back on track:

You can synthesize metallic aluminum by electrolysis of aluminum ore, dissolved in molten chryolite, using carbon rod electrodes.

There are many aluminum ores in the game that dwarves don't know how to process. Given the absurd price for aluminum, our fortress could corner the market.

In addition, once cheap metallic aluminum is available, cheap aluminum oxide is also available.

While a handy abrasive, I was thinking more in lines of "genuine cultured sapphire and ruby".

Sapphire and ruby are both corundum. Eg, aluminum oxide. The difference is in which metallic oxide forms a replacement in the crystal lattice.  Ruby has chromium oxide, which can be harvested from chromite.  Sapphire contains iron oxide, which is easily sourced.

To produce the gems, you need clean hydrogen and oxygen gas.  We have electricity, and carbon rod already since it is implied we are making aluminum, and that we have purpetual motion hydroelectric generators.  We can get hydrogen and oxygen through electrolysis and compression. Efficiency isn't terribly important, given copious free energy.

The hydrogen and oxygen gas are carefully burned just on the surface of a boule of melted powder, which is very slowly lowered via a "puck". As the boule moves away from the flame, it crystallizes.  As the flame is applied, new powder is sprinked on top of the boule to melt. This creates a long, thin ruby or sapphire.  Depending on the size of the boule, you can slice it into wafers.

Sapphire (and pure corundum) can be used to fashion semiconductors, in small batches, if you have lasers.  Ruby crystal can be coaxed into acting as a laser gain medium, if you know what you are doing.

(That in addition to cornering the ruby and sapphire market.)

Due to all this crazy that I have tucked away in my head, I suspect that the local true dwarves would be picking me apart after a few momentary lapses in keeping my yapp shut. Being fond of industry, ad knowing several industrial processes well enough to demonstrate them (sulfuric+boric acid annodization ftw! Multistep gold electroplate for added awesome, and synthentically prepared gemstones and mass production of aluminum metal, and I am sure a statue is in order.)

After this initial brain picking, I would retire from the limelight to make soap and the like, because it is relaxing and rewarding.... up until explosives get mentioned, then the mad scientist hat goes on again. Nitrocellulose, celluloid film (hollywood time!), nitroglycerine, napalm, and squibwires later, when dwarves are busy playing with flamethrowers and claymore antipersonel mines (and pornographic movies), I would get to relax in comfort again, unless somebody asked about poisons, and then the whole trainwreck happens again.

I would be "that guy" that everyone either loves or hates, because he seems to know everything, but really just wants to sit at home and do nothing with it, except make small handicrafts.

Think a male version of martha stewart, with added bombs and deadly poisons in the kitchen, and you have my basic persona.

[Eric Blank]

We should combine our knowledge and make shaped charges in figurines of unicorns to sell to the elves and left in mock fortress sections for goblins to "plunder" and promptly explode.

[Corai]

Line the walls with TNT. My [TRAP_AVOID] will allow me to survive the TNT.

[kisame12794]

Stuff.

You sound like me, only I don't make explosives, I make sharp pointy objects.

[The Unicorn Killer]

I say we dig WAY WAY down until we strike Magma. Then we go and take this thread seriously. Oh wait, we're Bay12 Forums users. IMPOSSIBLE!