+Oltux72 he/him Posted March 3, 2022 Posted March 3, 2022 It seems all spores react to water and getting them onto your inner membranes can cause bad things like blocking your airways. So you should always guard your airways and eyes. The obvious way to do so would be goggles and masks. But why do you want to inactivate the spores? Your food and drink is wet. What is the point of putting salt into it? If a spore of Verdant sprouts, you can still pick it out of your dinner or drink and all is well. Lets look at the exact text: Quote The spores were only dangerous if you got them wet. Which is rather a problem, considering the number of wet things that leak from human bodies, even when they’re healthy. The least bit of water would cause the spores to sprout explosively, and the results could range from uncomfortable to deadly. Breathe in a burst of verdant spores, for example, and your saliva would send vines growing up out your mouth–or, in more interesting cases, into your sinuses and out around your eyes. The conclusion to which I am pushed tortures the text quite a bit. They sprout explosively, but not immediately. So you get spores into your drink and you turn into a bush minutes later. Or do we get told here that it is water inside a human body that causes the sprouting, not just any water? Or does he tell us that salt and silver also kill vines already sprouted?
Zibus Posted March 4, 2022 Posted March 4, 2022 It does say "burst" so probably such a dramatic outcome only comes from inhale/ingesting a large number at once. Since they don't seem to constantly wear protective gear, perhaps the air itself around the rock is generally salty enough to kill them? And the occasional stray spore you breathe in isn't too bad? I imagine when you're actually on a boat you'd definitely want to cover up. Boats get water from the island which has to be dug up from underground, so I imagine its any water source. Don't think we get any explicit idea that salt and silver are effective after sprouting, but I would imagine they are.
+Bzhydack he/him Posted March 4, 2022 Posted March 4, 2022 There seems to be some water-level tolerance when spores will activate. Air contains some water all the time, how many depends on many factors, can be more than 20g in 1m^3. But seems like only smog is causing problems, but they are only briefly mentioned, so are not very important.
+Oltux72 he/him Posted March 4, 2022 Author Posted March 4, 2022 2 hours ago, Bzhydack said: There seems to be some water-level tolerance when spores will activate. Air contains some water all the time, how many depends on many factors, can be more than 20g in 1m^3. But seems like only smog is causing problems, but they are only briefly mentioned, so are not very important. Yes. These people, however, have 87 uses for plywood. Wood must be cheap. Hence it must rain at least in a lot of places. What happens to the activated spores?
NameIess Posted March 4, 2022 Posted March 4, 2022 (edited) 5 hours ago, Oltux72 said: Yes. These people, however, have 87 uses for plywood. Wood must be cheap. Hence it must rain at least in a lot of places. What happens to the activated spores? Considering there has to be a law that you can’t leave the rock, there’s probably large areas of land in other places where trees can grow safely. And if it rains over the ocean, it probably makes a lot of plants. Edited March 4, 2022 by Nameless
StormingTexan he/him Posted March 4, 2022 Posted March 4, 2022 4 hours ago, Nameless said: Considering there has to be a law that you can’t leave the rock, there’s probably large areas of land in other places werewolf can grow safely. And if it rains over the ocean, it probably makes a lot of plants. Wait there are werewolf on this planet?!! 1
NameIess Posted March 4, 2022 Posted March 4, 2022 1 minute ago, StormingTexan said: Wait there are werewolf on this planet?!! Oops. I was on mobile. Fixed now . 1
StormingTexan he/him Posted March 4, 2022 Posted March 4, 2022 Just now, Nameless said: Oops. I was on mobile. Fixed now . It maid be laugh!
Mat he/him Posted March 4, 2022 Posted March 4, 2022 8 hours ago, Oltux72 said: Yes. These people, however, have 87 uses for plywood. Wood must be cheap. Hence it must rain at least in a lot of places. What happens to the activated spores? We don't know for certain that all 12 aethers have a reaction to water in the same way Verdant does. Trees easily could be native to other oceans and islands, and is transported to the places where it isn't. I imagine that Mem used water while trying to remove the aether from Mraize's clothes, and it didn't do anything there. I'm aware the situations are far from the same but the stain was pink and not grey. 1
Thaidakar the Ghostblood he/him Posted March 4, 2022 Posted March 4, 2022 3 hours ago, StormingTexan said: It maid be laugh! the grammar police has arrived. 2
Frustration Posted March 5, 2022 Posted March 5, 2022 3 hours ago, Thaidakar the Ghostblood said: the grammar police has arrived. Yew no wat, eye want u too haft two deel width dis.
Thaidakar the Ghostblood he/him Posted March 5, 2022 Posted March 5, 2022 13 hours ago, Frustration said: Yew no wat, eye want u too haft two deel width dis. *rage* 1
+Oltux72 he/him Posted March 5, 2022 Author Posted March 5, 2022 18 hours ago, Matrim's Dice said: We don't know for certain that all 12 aethers have a reaction to water in the same way Verdant does. Why then did she consider the butterfly suicidal although it did not fly over a Verdant sea? 18 hours ago, Matrim's Dice said: I imagine that Mem used water while trying to remove the aether from Mraize's clothes, and it didn't do anything there. I'm aware the situations are far from the same but the stain was pink and not grey. That was a finished aether whose spores it had come from had already reacted to water.
Mat he/him Posted March 5, 2022 Posted March 5, 2022 18 minutes ago, Oltux72 said: Why then did she consider the butterfly suicidal although it did not fly over a Verdant sea? I mean, I’d be surprised if Verdant was the only aether with a reaction to water, but even if it is I imagine the other aethers are dangerous in their own way. It’s also possible that Tress doesn’t know the properties of the sea the butterfly was over, since she literally lives on a rock, in which case she would be assuming the other sea has the same properties as Verdant (or at the very least that the other sea is dangerous). I’m not sure how much she knows about the other seas. 22 minutes ago, Oltux72 said: That was a finished aether whose spores it had come from had already reacted to water. Ah, that does make more sense. Thanks.
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