Edward Elric

Try frying some eggs on it.

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Just because it would work doesn't mean I'm actually going to.

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That's disappointing.

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If you're so curious, why don't you try it?

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Let me see your arm and I will.

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I meant with something else!

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I think all this heat has you in a bad mood.

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Why the hell wouldn't it?

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You could fry some eggs.

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I could fry eggs at the bar without feeling like I'm boiling.

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I think we all feel a little boiling at this point.

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Try being half metal. It's a whole new experience.

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I would, but I think I like being whole. And I have this problem where everything grows back.

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Yeah, lucky you.

Point being, you're not nearly as hot as you could be.

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You could just take it off.

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Do you think I haven't thought of that?

I can't get much done missing two limbs.

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Then suffer. It's your choice~

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You. You have ... some passing acquaintance with mechanics, I believe.

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.. Something like that.

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What passing trifle of mortality might convince you to work with me on a ... minor project, temporarily? Money? An assurance of safety?

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... What kind of project?

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An alcohol distillery.

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To generate energy from the alcohol?

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Yes. Electricity.

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If I can use that work to provide the same energy elsewhere, I don't need any sort of payment from you.

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How appropriately altruistic of you. You know where the Riget is, then?

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... What?

Of course I do.

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Meet me there, then.

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I wouldn't advise it.

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Advise... what?

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Using your arm as a skillet.

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No kidding. My mechanic would kill me if I did, anyway.

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Mechanic?

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Yeah, the girl that made my arm.

If she found out I was frying eggs on her precious automail, she'd kill me.

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Oh, a prosthetic.

I've never heard of automail before.

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Most people here haven't, apparently it's unique to my world.

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Oh, good. I've been craving bacon lately~

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If this keeps up, I might open my own restaurant.

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Could probably make a lot of money doing it. I wonder if we can do underground ovens with this heat? I could make a pancake to go with the eggs and bacon.

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I'm not sure hot food would sell too well in this weather.

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...You have a point. Maybe ice cream?

Though my ice spells'd probably do a number on hot metal.

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.... ~~Why didn't I-~~

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I could probably transmute my automail to a lower temperature, but I'm not sure how long I could keep it that way for.

Which means we could transmute other metal here, to keep things cool during all this heat... Make water more drinkable. There is ice cream on the Upper Level, it would probably be really useful until this is over if we could find a way to keep it frozen.

I don't know why I didn't think of this before, I've been working on a type of cooling container all summer.

Edited Date: 2009-08-30 04:58 am (UTC)

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Metal weakens if it's cooled too suddenly. You'd have to make it gradual, especially in this heat. And not just making water drinkable-- how long do you think anything, terminals included, are gonna run in this heat?

I just cast Blizzaga on my pantry once or twice a month. It's worked pretty well so far.

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Right. I'd want to try to work from the coolest point in Purg, lowering the temperature in the air before even considering transmuting the metal itself. I think drinking water should be our first priority to keep everyone safe - we don't need the terminals to survive, do we?

.... Blizzaga?

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No, but it sure makes things easier to communicate, what with the factions going on here...

Second-level ice spell.

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