A totally legit announcement

[breakaleginhalf]

Okay, so, what even happened on that one?

Besides, like. Everyone getting mad at Fuckface McGee and proving Jean-Paul Sartre right on the whole "hell is other people" thing. Or one of the Princes knowing about Travelling and Arcana now.

[Gil you can't just slide that in there like literally anyone except you and Raidou knows that--]

Oh, actually - don't go busting in on Arcana spaces without knocking first right now, 'cos apparently you're at a very real risk of being turned into flash-frozen helium, according to Magician.

Comments

[modernliterature]

Ja, I'm not getting frozen no matter what, so nobody worry about that - but what's helium?

[breakaleginhalf]

...not the question I was expecting.

Helium's a kind of gas - regular air contains like, trace amounts but it's mostly oxygen, nitrogen and carbon dioxide, helium's its own thing completely. Mostly on my world it's known for making your voice go squeaky when you breathe it in, since it's lighter than normal air.

[modernliterature]

Carbon. That's - coal, ja? And it's in the air?

I knew air had essence of nitroaerus and mephitic air - that's the kind you breathe and the kind that chokes you - but I didn't know there were that many parts of the element.

[breakaleginhalf]

Remind me to send you a periodic table later. In the modern-slash-future worlds we've named a few hundred elements.

[modernliterature]

I would like to see that. Where I'm from we have about eight.

[breakaleginhalf]

Yeah, your time is like- earth, fire, air, water, uh. Metal, light, dark and time, maybe?

[He is absolutely mixing up several sourcebooks, he's sure.]

[modernliterature]

Light and dark, maybe, but not what I was thinking of. Metal and time, no. Metal's just earth and time is something completely different.

Adjacent elements combine into para-elements - ice, ooze, magma, and smoke. Elements with more light or darkness in them become quasi-elements, which is another eight but nobody really thinks they count, because they aren't embodied by any spirits of their own, and neither are light and darkness themselves.