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Heh, and here when you said medium-rareium I thought you were going to say it was a metal that was only sorta uncommon.

Not obvious at all, actually. Unless you mean to say that having gold is a WoW reference.
Meat as a currency is a KoL reference. Metal named after meat is not.

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1) Elemental Rebalancing - Forget that nonsense you learned in chemistry, every object is made up of the four elements, and the balance between them is what gives things their unique properties. With your mastery of the elements, you are now able to tamper with that balance. Hope you know what you're doing.

2) Molecular Meddling - You can only take things apart and reassemble them in so many different ways in the macro scale. But with an electron microscope here and a nanobot there... well, you can make shiny new toys out of the stuff you've already got.

3) Canadium - cold
Cranium - phychic
Electrum - electric
Thompsium - acid (after Hunter S. Thompson)
Venerabum - sonic (If it's too loud, you're too old)

Terracottite - brittle (to be combined with other things as in modern body armor)
Pedantium - large number of minor effects
Ireite - +melee (play on Pyrite)
Pandamonium - random effects (watered-down version of what makes the Dreampants and Sports bra)

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Shouldn't pandamonium make you better at kung fu? Skadoosh!

Pentium. Obviously taken from Intel, but also can be a derivative of "pent up anger" or "penta-" as in 5.

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1) Hot Tempering: Using a little fire and a lot of frustration you can make any metal you want better, stronger, and... umm better. Afterward you feel a little tired.

2) Remanufacturing: You're a little tired of the current product you're using right now and decide to remake it so it's even better than before. When you're done, you're proud of your work and show it off to your friends who are unimpressed, because it's still the same boring product, just with a few changes.

3) Annoyium - When you smack it into something it makes a loud squaking noise that would wake the dead.
Foreignite - A Metal from another country
Hungrite - It looks like food and makes you hungry, but everytime you bite down on it you chip a tooth. Your dentist will not be happy with you.
Nonexistium - A metal that doesn't exist, but it's right here so what do you do with it?
Shortium - A metal that falls short of being the right size to do anything with

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Sneezium (play on Caesium): Named for the dwarf who discovered it (or possibly for the fact that if you so much as sneeze around it you're in trouble), sneezium is the most reactive of all the alkali metals.

When attacked (if you are wearing equipment made out of sneezium): [Opponent]'s attack penetrates the thin layer of tarnish on your sneezium [equipment]. The exposed sneezium violently oxidizes, and a jet of flame burns [him/her/it] for X (fire) damage.

Unfortunately, you would also be dealt fire damage if you fumbled while wearing sneezium items, and there would be a small chance that the sneezium would catch fire and burn you every combat round. The good news is that sneezium weapons will deal fire damage to your opponent even if your attack is parried.

Maybe there could be other volatile metals that for some reason dealt other forms of damage. Borrowing a name from Jesus' post: "The canadium rapidly endotherms, freezing your opponent for X (cold) damage!" Then the Elementalist's ability could be to transmute sneezium into the other elemetals.

And then the Gadgeteer's ability would be to construct an oxygen-free environment where the metals could be safely manipulated. Complete with an oxygen-free welding torch. Hey, it could happen, right?

cowardium or (cowardicium) - makes items that increase foe toughness
audacium or (audacitium) - makes items that decrease foe toughness
potencium - increases strength
obstinacium - 25% chance of not being defeated on a 'killing' blow
acutium or (acuticium) - increases dodge

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"tinker"
1. add rocket fuel
2. light match and blow object up
3. ????
4. cool new stuff!

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By the way, the month is wrapping up very quickly so if you've got ideas, get 'em out here. You've got only 3 days (including today) left, so make it quick. Unless Ryme wants this to extend.

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Elemental power: Raggedy Annealing
Gadgeteer power: Particle Exceleration

Metals:
Crepusculum
Kelvar (maybe a cold metal as opposed to infernium's heat)
Aurichalcum
Obsidium
Quarksilver

Based on the periodic table, you could upgrade titanium to zirconium, and then to hafnium. (Either a whole sheet of hafnium or half a sheet of wholenium).

Lots of great ideas have been posted already. Nice work, everybody!

- The Leopard

1. Elemental Or Gadgeteer [really kind of works for both]: Synthesis

2. Gadgeteer: Ameliorat(e/or/ing)
or, a much more simplier word: Develop

Various stuff [radioactives!] (they're not metals though...)
Diameti(um/te): Twice the radioactivity and lifetime as radium
Odinum: Sort of like Thorium, just more magical and missing an i.

and.. uhh.. I don't really got anything.. sorry.
Titaneel plastium!

Okay, I'm going to call this closed. Obviously it'll take me a few days to go through the list and pick out some of the top candidates. I'll post here as soon as I've got some decisions. Thanks to everyone who submitted entries!

Since not everyone is in on the know, I'm going to go ahead and unofficially post the results.

Not quite sure where he got the two skill names from, they don't appear to be listed, but he went with
Elementalist: Do Stuff To Stuff
Gadgeteer: Make More Stuff


and the elements he went with were all inspired by K3.
1. ballsium
2. ballsium
3. ballsium


Yes, you heard right, he's going to use the same name, AND DESCRIPTION, for all of the elements. He said he's thinking about reusing some old images too, or recycle some.

Some choices for the images right now, are the stroopwafel's. Abaddon Charm [but greyscaled], Ball of wax, berry pills, etc.

Anywho, Congratulations to K3.

Omnomnomnium was a favored one. You forgot that.

Disclaimer: Val is a liar.

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If you're going to spoil things, at least get them right, Val.

1. ballsium (234)
2. ballsium (235)
3. ballsium (238)
4. ballsium (571) (an apparent play on U-571)

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I'd like to take a moment to thank everybody else who participated. This the second bounty win I've been involved in, and I'd like to announce I will no longer be participating.

This may be shocking, but I want a chance for the little people to achieve their dreams too. After all, who is to say that just because you're so awesome, nobody else should be able to do well in life?

Also- be willing to make compromises. You won't see Cock-and-Ballsium in the game- Ryme's still the boss and you need to concede to certain things. You may feel like God- but there are always people a /bit/ higher than you on the ladder of success.

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Valera forgetting to take her pills again, tsk tsk

Stand clear everyone. I'm detecting dangerous levels of bullshitium in this thread, well in excess of OSHA standards. A hazmat team has been dispatched.

Sorry, contest's over.

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I think the bullshitium went to his and Val's heads.

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Truth.... maybe

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Vincent DeMoore (My Character) loves the Farthest Reaches of Insanity!

I have decided on the metals I'm going to use. I have not decided whether it's better to spill all their names now, or wait until it's implemented and then let people find them. Just wanted to let people know progress is being made.

I'd say wait. I mean, it'll only be about two weeks, right?

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--October Project: "Dark Time"

I hope one of my things was chosen! Probably not though.

We'll see what we see when we see it.

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Vincent DeMoore (My Character) loves the Farthest Reaches of Insanity!

1- Annoying-Tantric Alquemia
2- Annoying Aristotelic- Relicuarismia

Metals:
Uh.... ehh

Uut
Uup
Uui
Uux
Uuc

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Didn't you read? Ryme closed it, May ended :/ And metals have already been selected :/

Satan, we all know that CN's a little... "slow"...

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I've won the 100k DD bet so many times, I should have the title "Mr. Luck"

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The first bits of this went live today. As you'll see, the Elemental skill is Metalmorph. I think Fly Die 0 suggested Metamorph, but I figured sticking the L in there made it a little more fun. They'll still get credit for the suggestion, though.

The two metals thus far invoked are cryonite (Mighty Coyote) and Cavorite (Bienenstock).

There shall be more to come as soon as I can get it ready.

Sweet. I did something right.

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I knew I should have named it Coyotium, but a win's a win! And I really didn't need you guys chasing me around trying to "mine" me!

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You think you would've won purely by the power of your personality?

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Congratulations, Fly Die O, Bienenstock, and Mighty Coyote!

With the newest skill comes another round of credits:

Rykar - catalyze

The Supernaturalist - Polysteel

JazzTap - Tritanium

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I've got more elements planned, but probably will break for a bit first. In the meantime I'll put together some thank-you packages for the contest winners thus far.

I'm always terrible at wrapping this contests up. Probably shouldn't have them at all, but I hope people find them fun, and I do get good game-improving things out of them. Anyway, I've decided on what will be the eventual total metal use, even though a number of them won't be implemented for a while. Wanted to get rewards out to those who earned it, just so I could kind of close this up.

Prize winners are:

Fly Die 0 - Metalmorph
Rykar - catalyze

cryonite (Mighty Coyote)
Cavorite (Bienenstock)
Polysteel (The Supernaturalist)
Tritanium (JazzTap)
Illuminum (Started with Cristiona's Illudium and then decided to change it a bit, but she gets credit)
Paladinum (well, this one is me)
Byzantium (sanjuro)
Pentium (Magininja)
Malkamite (seventhcross)

Those 9 will be the hero crafting metals, once I eventually add paladinum, byzantium, pentium, and malkamite.

Winners get a prize box that will give them 10 of each metal, including the 4 unimplemented ones.

lol love the malkamite metal, sounds like some kinda battery.
and Cavorite sounds like some kinda tooth paste...

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