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Re: Wizard's fire spell
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lugnet.castle
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Mon, 26 Apr 2004 03:58:11 GMT
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In lugnet.castle, David Gregory wrote:
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Does anyone remember that post several months ago where some guy made a
really cool looking tree out of tons of flame pieces hooked together?
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Not at all, but it sounds pretty interesting.
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Well, I got to thinking about other cool stuff that could be made out of
lots of flame pieces hooked together (‘cause after all, we all have a
ton of them).
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Heh, one would think this would have been the first thing that this technique
was used on.
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As it turns out, you have to daisy chain the flame pieces. Each
flame has 4 grooves where it looks like you could insert the tiny peg from
the base of another, but only 1 works. 1 groove is too small, and 2 grooves
are too big, so the flames have to be connected end to end.
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I found that two were way too large, one was just the right size but flared open
so it wouldn’t firmly grip the pin, and the fourth has a slightly enclosed shape
that pinches around the pin.
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However, each new flame in the chain can be turned in almost any direction.
One obvious application of this flame chaining would be a flamethrower,
which I’ll probably attempt later. The other application is some kind of
flame-producing magic spell, which is what I did.
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I know I’ve seen a long string of flames chained together before, but 1. I can’t
find it, and 2. I can’t remember if this is the way they were attached. All I
remember is that some mage was torching some beastie on the other side of a
river.
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In order to get maximum flaminess, I used a 1X1 brick with studs on all
sides on top of a brown lightsaber blade as the magic wand. This let me get
3 chains of flame.
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I like the look of the three chains together, but I’m not really fond of the two
side-ways flames that you used to start the outer chains. Did you try sticking
a pair of 1x1 tiles w/ clips on top to the sides of the 5-stud brick?
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| (...) Yes, that was me. It was actually this very same troll and wizard: (URL) This pic is from the medieval layout we (IndyLUG) had at the Parent/Child Expo in Indianapolis in February. The bad guys were having a little trouble crossing the river (...) (20 years ago, 29-Apr-04, to lugnet.castle, FTX)
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| Does anyone remember that post several months ago where some guy made a really cool looking tree out of tons of flame pieces hooked together? Well, I got to thinking about other cool stuff that could be made out of lots of flame pieces hooked (...) (20 years ago, 26-Apr-04, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.announce.moc, FTX)
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