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[Unholy_Pariah]

Altered my actions slightly.

[Fr0stByt3]

To the fort!

[Xanmyral]

So I just realized something. One more success with diamond then I can literally not fail at using diamond with Glassco's will. Ever.

Will Piecewise even bother rolling then? Even the lowest result is a four.

[ArchAIngel]

So I just realized something. One more success with diamond then I can literally not fail at using diamond with Glassco's will. Ever.

Will Piecewise even bother rolling then? Even the lowest result is a four.

Overshots. 6+3. You speed up the ship so much you break the sound barrier, and die from the overpressure.

[flabort]

Except there is no overshots. Just stronger and stronger results... sure, going high enough might result in essentially an overshot (OK, 6+3 would probably be that), but they are not INTRINSICALLY overshots (He wouldn't break the sound barrier, but he may be unable to react fast enough to steer) (I used that word right, right?).

Edit: Also, just remember even a four or higher on a Black Hole is an overshot, in most cases.

[Unholy_Pariah]

So I just realized something. One more success with diamond then I can literally not fail at using diamond with Glassco's will. Ever.

Will Piecewise even bother rolling then? Even the lowest result is a four.

Overshots. 6+3. You speed up the ship so much you break the sound barrier, and die from the overpressure.

Cue clockwork force based inertial dampeners being installed on all future vessels, space travel ahoy.

Also thats another reason that all my vessels will be minions, they dont require rolls to manouvre.

[Xanmyral]

Note to self, figure out how to give sentience to ship to flex three minion slots. Ponder if its as simple as "make diamond sentient, base intelligence in skull on ship figure head, make snarky."

Also, its only going to get worse from here really roll wise, I can no longer fail after one more passed roll. I don't even know how crazy things might get maxed Green covenant might be, I might be getting a plus six on my rolls or some crazy shit like that. I don't know what maxed stats are, just that there is a cap however, so probably that plus three more.

I really need to turn myself diamond eventually. Then full blown crazy can happen. Then no death from overpressure, yay! Speed up the ship as fast as I want! No eardrum will be safe from the breaking of the sound barrier due to fast!

[ArchAIngel]

Note to self, figure out how to give sentience to ship to flex three minion slots. Ponder if its as simple as "make diamond sentient, base intelligence in skull on ship figure head, make snarky."

Also, its only going to get worse from here really roll wise, I can no longer fail after one more passed roll. I don't even know how crazy things might get maxed Green covenant might be, I might be getting a plus six on my rolls or some crazy shit like that. I don't know what maxed stats are, just that there is a cap however, so probably that plus three more.

I really need to turn myself diamond eventually. Then full blown crazy can happen. Then no death from overpressure, yay! Speed up the ship as fast as I want! No eardrum will be safe from the breaking of the sound barrier due to fast!

Copycat. Also, watch out for rainbows if you break the sound barrier. SCIENCE! will occur.

[Xanmyral]

Coping who, the fungus guy? Nah, he's got his own thing going on with his fungal battle mech.

Will do on the rainbows, I'll make a diamond prism to toss at one of them to see what happens.

[ArchAIngel]

Coping who, the fungus guy? Nah, he's got his own thing going on with his fungal battle mech.

Will do on the rainbows, I'll make a diamond prism to toss at one of them to see what happens.

Copying ME! I have a diamond body. Grumble.

[Xanmyral]

So does Pariah. So does a lot of people, actually. I'm honestly surprised so many people have diamond stuff, but I can see the reasons why. Same reasons I wanted a diamond ship: Strong, isn't conductive, won't melt easily, can hold an edge (kinda).

Just makes the fact that Glassco has complete and utter control over diamond a valuable commodity.

[Angle]

So I just realized something. One more success with diamond then I can literally not fail at using diamond with Glassco's will. Ever.

Will Piecewise even bother rolling then? Even the lowest result is a four.

I'm already at that point, remember, and he still rolls for me. Also four is only barely a success.

[flabort]

Hmm. I thought diamond WAS conductive, as it is pure carbon, in a rigid grid shape with lots of gaps - maybe not as many gaps as graphite (REALLY conductive, made of layers of hex-shaped holes), but electrons don't really travel through gaps, they swing along, Tarzan style, between atoms. Which, in my mind, would make Diamond's structure more conductive to electron travel, making simply more conductive. 
Someone who paid better attention in classes could probably say better then me. I may have skimmed over that section in order to read more on the Organic Chem sections of the textbooks. 

[Xanmyral]

Beats me. I've been basing its non-conductivity due to being similar to a rock I assume, which even then might not be true (stone being conductive that is). In which case I got no idea how to avoid conductivity beyond trying to fix the bad points of it.

@Angle: Yeah, I thought you were at that point as well last I checked. Guess he will still roll then, although the outcomes won't change much I'd wager.

[flabort]

Huh. A quick google-and-wikipedia tells me a couple things. I was sort of right; They ARE excellent conductors, but only of HEAT. You'd do better insulating yourself with air then diamond. They are NOT good electrical conductors. Blue diamonds, which have boron impurities, are good semiconductors (And would be good for making computer parts), and the surfaces of artificially created diamonds (Not the similar-to-a-diamond-but-not-really kind, real diamonds) are REALLY good conductors due again to flaws (hydrogen this time).
Using the diamond word and the Blue Crystal word together in a spell with a shape (like sword or box) would probably result in an interesting hybrid that conducts electricity really well (Especially if you added Rothon), but you didn't pick diamond for that property; you picked it for the opposite.