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[scapheap]

*Stare at GWG* Yes wear the highly dangerous gear.

And if you backstab X, my horse is eating your soul, little one.

Left to the middle room.

[Weirdsound]

"We can haz no problem then. I liek to put stabz on peeplez necks and iballs. Not bak. I promises nawt to put stabz on mastah's bak. Whorses no liek eatin kobod sol anywaays."

"Grrrrrrrrrrr...."

[Powder Miner]

Yes, Albus! Now that you have those fangs, you are the true KILLING MACHINE OF DESTINY!
Noone can stand in your way now, Albus!
NOONE!

[Dariush]

"Grrrrrrrrrrr...."

Translation: "I will rip out your guts and feast on your eyes. Er, if you touch my master, that is. Though probably in any case."

[GreatWyrmGold]

We don't need the short sword if we've got a uranium...uranium is better than steel, right?

Using a weapon made of uranium does not sounds healthy for us in the long term.  Maybe we should keep it to sell it to someone who doesn't know what radiation is.

Specifically noted and handwaved.

Uranium is extremely heavy.

We're sitting on a dog, it'll bother us less than it would the cutebold.

And radioactive. The radiation shouldn't bother us much - it's alpha particles,

Aside from physics, the GM's handled the handwave.

but uranium is also pretty toxic. You probably shouldn't hold it in your hands for too long or breathe in its vicinity.

Don't we have gauntlets and such?

So uranium really isn't better than steel to make a sword out of. Very few things are better than steel to make swords out of. You could use uranium for anti-materiel bullets and such, but not swords.

From the genre where Iron>Bronze, I don't think that this is much of an issue. Especially since IRL, swords were as much to break bones as to cut people.*
<sub>*Results may vary by type of sword.

Assuming that we've divvied up the gear:

Head north. Wonder how we got in without a nearby exit.</sub>

[BunnyBob77]

I'm pretty sure the uranium weapon isn't safe, judging by our totally-not-evil kobold party member telling us it is safe, followed immediately by an evil laugh.

[Xantalos]

Hey, maybe we should give it to him!
Mwehehehehehe

[Harry Baldman]

The problem is that uranium isn't just toxic on touch, it emits other stuff as it decays. Notably radon gas, not to mention other things as well. So holding it with us, even in a lead suitcase and whatnot, is still not healthy.

Also, you don't use a sword to break bones any more than you use a mace to give people gashes - it happens, but that's hardly what the thing is for. And swinging a sword made of uranium is bound to be tough on the wrist. Stuff is about as dense as gold, and I'm not really convinced it's durable when not alloyed - very few pure elements are.

[IronyOwl]

The problem is that uranium isn't just toxic on touch, it emits other stuff as it decays. Notably radon gas, not to mention other things as well. So holding it with us, even in a lead suitcase and whatnot, is still not healthy.

Also, you don't use a sword to break bones any more than you use a mace to give people gashes - it happens, but that's hardly what the thing is for. And swinging a sword made of uranium is bound to be tough on the wrist. Stuff is about as dense as gold, and I'm not really convinced it's durable when not alloyed - very few pure elements are.

I wouldn't worry too much about its realistic properties.

I'd worry, as BunnyBob mentioned, about the ominous foreshadowing.


Insist that Fig-Gnasher tells us everything he knows about uranium gear.

Also, go upper left to the chaos shrine. Leave no loot behind.

[Xantalos]

No seriously. Why not give Kobold's McDevious the uranium gear as a gift?

[Harry Baldman]

And yes, if we're using fantasy radiation, even worse stuff is likely to happen.

No seriously. Why not give Kobold's McDevious the uranium gear as a gift?

So yeah, do this. Just the armor, though.

[Dariush]

Okay, I know how to check how uranium works in this universe.

1) Tie or tape the sword to the kobold;
2) Tie him up so he can't move;
3) Hang him from a tree (by his legs, we don't want a dead kobold, and neither do we want an escape one);
4) Observe the results in several days.
IT'S A FOOLPROOF PLAN GUYS

-1 to giving him the sword. He's just going backstab us. Hooray permanent debuffs.

[Harry Baldman]

Okay, I know how to check how uranium works in this universe.

1) Tie or tape the sword to the kobold;
2) Tie him up so he can't move;
3) Hang him from a tree (by his legs, we don't want a dead kobold, and neither do we want an escape one);
4) Observe the results in several days.
IT'S A FOOLPROOF PLAN GUYS

-1 to giving him the sword. He's just going backstab us. Hooray permanent debuffs.

Both of those are actually good ideas, I believe. Particularly since one of them involves utilizing the cutebold as a test subject and possibly have him get eaten by wild animals.

[IronyOwl]

-1 to giving him the sword. He's just going backstab us. Hooray permanent debuffs.

This does concern me, as does mutating him even if he's not going to backstab us. I don't think we want a tankwall kobold.

Or maybe we do. I'd lean towards keeping him light or at least medium, though.


We don't have several days to spare, though. >_>

[GreatWyrmGold]

Okay, I know how to check how uranium works in this universe.

1) Tie or tape the sword to the kobold;
2) Tie him up so he can't move;
3) Hang him from a tree (by his legs, we don't want a dead kobold, and neither do we want an escape one);
4) Observe the results in several days.
IT'S A FOOLPROOF PLAN GUYS

For the record, I'm opposed to this plan.

Recall: I suggested giving us the armor, to mitigate backstabs. Even if we presume treachery, which I won't, the kobold can't be stupid enough to just attack us. We've also killed two of his companions with ease, within his sight, and came within a slightly lucky roll of killing him.