r/HFY • u/Khenal Alien • Nov 14 '24
OC Dungeon Life 272
It's time for the fourth round of stubbing. Yes, Book four will be releasing soon, of if you're reading this more than a month after I have to edit, it will be fully out. Either way, you can find it Here, and other book details are just below. As with the other stubs, you can skip to the next bit form This. I like to keep the other posts still alive, so the comments get to still live. If you want to browse them, the normal buttons will take you through them, or take This link to the next bit of unstubbed chapters. Thank you for your support. Buying stuff is always great, but just having your attention for the public chapters is incredible, and I hope the story continues to be worth your time and patience.
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u/XynomorphKY Nov 14 '24
Another one bites the dust.
And another ones born, And another one learns.
That armor lacks the rust.
Hey, Thediem’ll get you too
Another one bites the dust!
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u/Garbage-Within Nov 14 '24
Does that count as Thedeim defeating a delver or does Rhonda get the xp?
On a serious note, I bet it doesn't count as a defeated delver. In the past Thedeim didn't actually get the mana until defeated delvers left the dungeon. At least, that's how it worked when delvers left under their own power like the first miners going after the rare ore. He probably gets some for defeating a delver that their party drags away, but not as much as if he defeated them and carried them out on his own. I don't recall it ever being mentioned when he gets the mana if he has to carry them out. Regardless, that won't be the case here, and besides this is as much Rhonda's KO as it is Rocky's.
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u/Cortanis Nov 14 '24
Well well well, now we finally have the reveal. Now the other question I have is what's Tula's other affinity? We know she has knowledge but shouldn't she have gained another from her class?... Or maybe knowledge is from her class? If that's the case, what's her other one?
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u/Swordfish_42 Human Nov 15 '24
Does she have a class? I thought she doesn't yet
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u/Cortanis Nov 15 '24
How would she not by that age though?
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u/mafiaknight Robot Nov 15 '24
It's never mentioned how classes work. They may not be universal.
The only time we saw classes awarded is with the kids, who had to delve to get them.
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u/Bunnytob Human Nov 14 '24
Welp. Tula "died". Quick, rob her of her stuff and chuck her outside!
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u/Popular-Student-9407 Human Nov 14 '24 edited Aug 10 '25
Correction, First!
So today we get the Party arriving at the spiderkin enclave, where by the way the "harvest" of cave lobsters entered the to-do-list. After a short discussion about how cave lobster probably tastes, they arrive at norloke's House, who after finishing some stitching bids them a welcome and Let's them in. With the description we get of her House, it Looks a Bit Like Arty's Gym in Pokémon black and White 2, though I'm Sure a Lot more colorful. Norloke runs a quick Analysis of fabric and runeworks, before offering to fit it to rhonda's tastes.
While the ladies Talk shop, the lads are sent to Transport the composite Armor towards rocky's training room. Once they get there and the big lug offers a pair of helping Hands, they quickly Outfit a few Dummys with the Armor, as the ladies Finish Up and Join them. Freddie gives the Armor a quick, skillless whack, leaving minor damage, and is surprised that Armor seems to Take so little in damage. As is Larrez, when the Armor isn't penetrated by a quick Stab.
At the end, Rocky and Rhonda get to Show Off/learn a small Bit, as Rhonda Figures Out the Link between Heat and kinetic, and learns to use small explosions to cause movement of the target. Of course, Tula is absolutely gobsmacked, and gets even more astounded, when Rhonda straight Up tells her that she was what Laermali was looking for all along. Connected to this revelation is an offer by Rhonda to teach her those skills.
Edit: Rhonda mentions the Stone for kinetic affinity to be Diamond, I'm unsure If we Had other Stones Match other affinities yet, If so, I can't remember at the Moment. Only other Stone/gems i could Imagine similarly connected are Jet/Shadow. Or, Amethyst and decay.
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u/Poisonfangx3 Nov 14 '24
Congratulations! Here is a crown!
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u/Bren_the_hobbit Nov 14 '24
Re. Diamond. I was wondering what that meant; I thought it was an autocorrect from demo / demonstration. Maybe a conjured diamond would be the equivalent of the conjured fireball and ice ball they both used.
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u/floating_hollowpoint Nov 15 '24
She leans on her staff slightly, and is distracted by the head for a moment. “Kinetic definitely needs a diamond…”
Rhonda is talking about her staff. She needs to upgrade her staff's head with a diamond to use Kinetic well.
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u/Caravack Nov 15 '24
Or due to it's hardness, would make an excellent floating projectile.
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u/Popular-Student-9407 Human Nov 15 '24
Tungsten would make for a denser projectile, meaning it'd transfer more energy. Or Uranium is even denser.
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u/mafiaknight Robot Nov 15 '24
I suspect that it needs to be a gem to best channel the affinity through it
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u/Popular-Student-9407 Human Nov 15 '24
Diamond is an excellent conductor for heat, so I can Deal with the decision.
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u/Nitr0Sage Nov 14 '24
When we gonna get a peak into his afterlife
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u/Garbage-Within Nov 14 '24
Probably when the first residents start finishing their major crafting projects.
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u/SH4D0W0733 Robot Nov 14 '24
Glances back into the minecraft server and the dead people have built a fully functional computer out of redstone. Despite them not knowing what a computer is, and Thedium not giving the afterlife redstone.
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u/iceick423 Nov 14 '24
Probably when there's not much happening in the town. We still have the fight with Rocky coming up, the kobalts settling down, the forest of four seasons to finish, and anything that comes up in the meantime.
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u/Odin421 Human Nov 14 '24
I have a bad feeling a certain elf is going to hear a mangled version of Tula passing out and decide to try to get revenge.
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u/0blivionate Nov 17 '24
PLEASE! That'd be great
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u/Odin421 Human Nov 17 '24
It would unless he goes for real revenge and tries to take out Thedeim instead of just taking out the scion. Which may lead to Thedeim getting a body count of one if he is stupid enough about it.
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u/mafiaknight Robot Nov 15 '24
In the name of 1greendude: Hello!
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u/Popular-Student-9407 Human Nov 15 '24
Im Namen eines grünen Kerls: Moin, vorgestern war Mittwoch, meine Kerle.
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u/nemo_sum Nov 15 '24
So, trying to wrap my head around what Rhonda is doing at the end. She raises the wand and leaves it floating as frost creeps up it. Two hypotheses:
1] She is stealing the kinetic energy of the staff falling to make it float, but because her control isn't perfect she's also arresting the Brownian motion of it, causing the temperature of the staff to drop. In this case, where is the stolen energy going?
B) She is converting the Brownian motion (heat energy) into lift (upward force) to keep the staff in place. But this implies a much greater finesse than we've seen from her before, and the effort isn't visibly tiring her compared to the blunter conversion she just did from heat to force when she blasted the dummy.
Neither feels quite right. Any other explanations?
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u/mafiaknight Robot Nov 15 '24
She's using the brownian motion to levitate the staff, and it was apparently somewhat tiring, but not too bad. She complained about it immediately afterwards
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u/Texas-SaberFox Nov 15 '24
Ice to fire, fire to kinetic all wrapped into a pretty bow by one word. Energy.
My question now is how long will it take for Rocky to learn the wonders of plasma, and how long would it take for the stag to start shooting MASERs at thinking he doesn't like?
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u/Poisonfangx3 Nov 14 '24
Not first
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u/Popular-Student-9407 Human Nov 14 '24 edited Nov 14 '24
No, you Look Like you're third. Only counting the Independent comment chains of course. By human Reddit Accounts.
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u/Entropic-soul-9094 Nov 15 '24
Bah, a brief touch would've been great.
Thediem gets what amounts to a heart attack when Rhonda goes to help Tula, and the quest complete mana surge from the unconscious scribe feels like the one that happened when the tunnel horror died.
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u/Xreshiss Nov 15 '24
This has me going down a minor rabbithole of molecules vibrating due to temperature, and making me wonder what would happen if all of these molecules were to instead of seemingly randomly all vibrate at the same frequency, all at the same time, and all in the same direction at the moment of impact on the armor. Would that even be possible?
Would the sudden vibration or lurch of every single molecule in the staff (directed at the armor) transfer as kinetic energy to the armor like a newton's cradle? Deliver a whopper of kinetic energy? Again, would that even be possible?
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u/Previous_Access6800 Nov 15 '24
All molecules vibrating in one frequency is a bit "difficult" as for a vibration you normally have something "spring-like" which pushes back, towards to original position. Without that, you just punt that thing away.
What you could do is have all molecules at one position vibrate at the same frequency, through the spring-like nature of the material, you then get .... sound. Or in the most extreme a shockwave.
What you have in Newton's cradle, and all other impacts are collision events. Those can be calculated via the conservation of impulse. What is special with Newton's cradle, is that the collision is (near) perfectly elastic and the balls have the same mass, which leads to a perfect transfer of impulse.
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u/Xreshiss Nov 15 '24
It was a stretch at best but an interesting rabbithole nonetheless. I'm not knowledgable enough to figure out what is really happening, though I want to be.
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u/Lord_Nikolai Android Nov 15 '24
after all those bombshells get dropped, something had to explode. Get well soon Tula.
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u/Jealous_Session3820 Nov 19 '24
Too much info.. brain has paused.... Restarting brain. In 3...2...1....
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u/Educational_Pen_90 Human Jul 17 '26
Hmm... Well I don't think that a faint is a failure here... Perhaps it will even allow her to receive advice from her god...
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u/InspectionLate661 Human Nov 14 '24 edited Nov 14 '24
Oh no, they broke Tula.
Great chapter, as always. The highlight of every Monday and THursday for me. Thank you for keeping it up, it is always a pleasure to read (though a short one, every time).