Prelude picture

[caasi117]

why are we not talking about this? seriously. what is everything in this picture? what do you think of these new features?

[LadyV]

Because to many are pointing out things they don't like and debating them to death and still not coming to consensus.

I did like he pond, the geysers, and the crystaline structure. Now the creature is most interesting as most assume he is a troll. But if you note he is not underground. Maybe we have something new coming.

[boshaw]

Now the creature is most interesting as most assume he is a troll. But if you note he is not underground. Maybe we have something new coming.

It's a troll, just above for display purposes likely.
http://game.havenandhearth.com/hres/gfx ... roll/troll

[Audiosmurf]

The big guy is definitely a troll. I believe Jorb posted a picture of the model for trolls a while ago.

[Redlaw]

After reading a bit, I pound is a clay pit, should be a good find, the water spout is likely an underground/mountain thing, the crystal is likely a cave thing something new as a localized even for this game. Yes thats a troll wich is hinting on what they want to do for the cavern system.

[LadyV]

Now the creature is most interesting as most assume he is a troll. But if you note he is not underground. Maybe we have something new coming.

It's a troll, just above for display purposes likely.
http://game.havenandhearth.com/hres/gfx ... roll/troll

Or it's a new feature. The picture is at night by the shadows so who knows maybe trolls come out at night.

[Vaku]

Or it's a new feature. The picture is at night by the shadows so who knows maybe trolls come out at night.

Oooh, that'd be creepy.. Get some Grendel action going on...

Ðá se ellengaést earfoðlíce
þráge geþolode sé þe in þýstrum bád
þæt hé dógora gehwám dréam gehýrde
hlúdne in healle· þaér wæs hearpan swég
swutol sang scopes....

Gewát ðá néosian syþðan niht becóm
héän húses· hú hit Hring-Dene
æfter béorþege gebún hæfdon·
fand þá ðaér inne æþelinga gedriht
swefan æfter symble· sorge ne cúðon
wonsceaft wera· wiht unhaélo
grim ond graédig gearo sóna wæs
réoc ond réþe ond on ræste genam
þrítig þegna· þanon eft gewát
húðe hrémig tó hám faran
mid þaére wælfylle wíca néosan.

Then a powerful demon, a prowler through the dark,
nursed a hard grievance. It harrowed him
to hear the din of the loud banquet
every day in the hall, the harp being struck
and the clear song of a skilled poet....

So, after nightfall, Grendel set out
for the lofty house, to see how the Ring-Danes
were settling into it after their drink,
and there he came upon them, a company of the best
asleep from their feasting, insensible to pain
and human sorrow. Suddenly then
the God-cursed brute was creating havoc:
greedy and grim, he grabbed thirty men
from their resting places and rushed to his lair,
flushed up and inflamed from the raid,
blundering back with the butchered corpses.

(ln. 86-90, 115-125)

[MagicManICT]

Stalagmite... that's what the crystal is. Jorb mentioned it somewhere. Doesn't really look like a stalagmite, though, just a giant crystal formation.

Before I go farther, let me say "Sorry" for the nerd moment here and derail. Please ignore if you don't care, but I found the quote I posted below funny.

As just an odd observation from surfing the internet after digging up that link, I ran across this page: http://www.theodoregray.com/Periodictab ... index.html

Actually, when I say bismuth is the heaviest stable element, that's not entirely accurate: It's not stable. It was recently measured to be radioactive, but with the longest half life measured to date: twenty billion billion years. Which is to say, for all practical intents and purposes it is stable. But not quite. But then neither are quite a few other elements commonly thought of as stable. For all we know, all elements are ultimately unstable. Oh, and don't forget the sun is going to explode eventually too.

I'm more curious how they figured out that Bi is unstable with a 20 billion year half-life. Is there some recent developments in quantum mechanics that allow physicists to figure this stuff out? If so, why aren't we building breeder reactors to form more of these stable isotopes heavier than uranium? We might find some fascinating material properties that allow us to do things previously thought impossible by man.

[LadyV]

Stalagmite... that's what the crystal is. Jorb mentioned it somewhere. Doesn't really look like a stalagmite, though, just a giant crystal formation.

Before I go farther, let me say "Sorry" for the nerd moment here and derail. Please ignore if you don't care, but I found the quote I posted below funny.

As just an odd observation from surfing the internet after digging up that link, I ran across this page: http://www.theodoregray.com/Periodictab ... index.html

Actually, when I say bismuth is the heaviest stable element, that's not entirely accurate: It's not stable. It was recently measured to be radioactive, but with the longest half life measured to date: twenty billion billion years. Which is to say, for all practical intents and purposes it is stable. But not quite. But then neither are quite a few other elements commonly thought of as stable. For all we know, all elements are ultimately unstable. Oh, and don't forget the sun is going to explode eventually too.

I'm more curious how they figured out that Bi is unstable with a 20 billion year half-life. Is there some recent developments in quantum mechanics that allow physicists to figure this stuff out? If so, why aren't we building breeder reactors to form more of these stable isotopes heavier than uranium? We might find some fascinating material properties that allow us to do things previously thought impossible by man.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bismuth

[Turtlesir]

Or it's a new feature. The picture is at night by the shadows so who knows maybe trolls come out at night.

they're gonna replace the dryads.

I'm more curious how they figured out that Bi is unstable with a 20 billion year half-life. Is there some recent developments in quantum mechanics that allow physicists to figure this stuff out? If so, why aren't we building breeder reactors to form more of these stable isotopes heavier than uranium? We might find some fascinating material properties that allow us to do things previously thought impossible by man.

i'm pretty sure we're already doing that, you hear about strange new materials quite often these days.

am i the only one who thinks that crystal formation looks kinda like the strange crystal curio? would be pretty weird if that's the new stalagmite and they're gonna be placed every 10 tiles in caves...