betiko wrote:chemistry time for dummies.
guys sorry i suck a bit at this, have taken just a couple of years of chemistry in high school and that was like 15 years ago. i have to wiki a bit to understand what is going on.
actually fluorine is a halogen, i thought halogen was an element..
from wiki:
halogens: comprising fluorine (F), chlorine (Cl), bromine (Br), iodine (I), and astatine (At). The artificially created element 117 (ununseptium) may also be a halogen.
and after a reread sam was refering to the same person as halogen and fluorine.
from wiki:
The six elements commonly recognized as metalloids are boron, silicon, germanium, arsenic, antimony and tellurium.
also, halogens are non metals, so would fluorine really be a serial killer, or would it rather be something good for town such as a vigilante? it doesn t really fit as a third party right or does it?
I think his scene is pretty much indicating that flourine is a third party.
samgrossy wrote:Day 1 Begins
Since 1869 when Dmitri Mendeleev arranged the all the elements into the Periodic Table, elements have been grouped together by similar properties. The metals, conductors of heat and electricity, on one side of the table. Nonmetals, insulators, on the other side. Shoved precariously between them, uncomfortably straddling the “stair-step”, are the metalloids, elements that have qualities of both metals and non-metals.
After almost 150 years of bad placement, there is discord among the elements on the periodic table of elements. Specifically, the metalloids are sick and tired of being disrespected and frankly they are tired of being crowded into their uncomfortable position on the periodic table. The maligned metalloids met in secret and decided that the only way they can really expand is toward the nonmetals. They briefly thought about their elements to the left. But the metals would be too hard to fight. Far too many of them exist to make a coup worthwhile. The nonmetals, on the other hand, are fewer in number, are brittle, and can be really weak. They also know that the nonmetals can be full of hot air, which only seems to solidify the metalloids decision to attempt a volatile take over of the nonmetals.
What none of the elements know is that fluorine, the most reactive and dangerous element on the periodic table, has been making plans of his own. Is now the time for that crazy halogen to overreact to all the strife? Or will he wait for a later time? He could hatch his plans years from now or tomorrow. None of the elements know…yet.
With 13 alive, it takes 7 to lynch. Day one will end in 12 days, on October 13 at 10 PM EST, or until lynch is reached.
(emphasis added)
The DM has given us a lot of good stuff to work with. First off, he lets us know that we can ignore all the metals completely. There aren't any in the game, period. That means instead of floundering about amongst 111 possible roles we only need to think about 32. (Well, unless he's thrown in one of the hypotheticals from 113 up, which I suspect is rather unlikely.)
Secondly, he pretty clearly indicates that flourine, "the most reactive and dangerous element.... that crazy halogen" is third party, and probably a dangerous third party, not just a Survivor.
So with 13 players and only 32 elements, we've got about a 40% chance of having any particular element on this end of the periodic table, and that should make it easier to narrow stuff down.
I would expect that:
- the seven main (covalently-bonding) non-metals (and notice that he chose a version of the p. table where the seven main non-metals are coloured an eye-pleasing green) are probably the really good guys (doctors and such)
- the five (violently bonding) halogens are an unpredictable and mixed bag (it's already almost a given that flourine is a nasty, but I would expect something like Bromine or Iodine to be an Insane Cop or something equally treacherous) and
- the six (non-bonding) noble gasses to be vanilla townies that don't do anything in particular.
