#Orichalcum

[my-marvel]

How I'd Make The MCU: 2016's Fantastic Four: Behold The Submariner

1. It's a good year for the Fantastic Four. Reed is receiving a Noble Prize for his work in the Negative Zone (which is driving Doom up the goddamn wall), Sue is pregnant with her and Reed's first child (Franklin), and Ben is engaged to his girlfriend Alice.

2. The main antagonist is Namor, leader of the underwater civilization humanity knows as Atlantis but to it's residents is called Tlaloclan. It's located in the Gulf of Mexico, instead of vibranium it's orichalcum (keeping in line with the original Greek tale), and is basically an underwater Aztec Empire. Namor wants to conquer/raid the surface world as punishment for humanity's interference with the Gulf, which is his realm. 

3. As a first strike, Namor attacks an American oil rig. The Fantastic Four intervene, saving the people on the rig as it collapses into the ocean. After the attack, Doom decides to travel to Mexico to find Tlaloclan and Namor.

4. Namor's next big plan is to kidnap Sue Storm, which actually succeeds. She's taken down to Tlaloclan. Namor's offer is simple, marry him and he's only raid the surface, or refuse and he will conquer the surface world. The whole time he's there he's trying to seduce Sue into accepting his offer, which she refuses because, ya know, she's MARRIED and pregnant.

5. Doom arrives in Tlaloclan in a submarine, demanding an audience with Namor. He says he has the same ambition of dominating the surface and offers an alliance to Namor. Namor accepts, and Doom discovers orichalcum. 

6. The Fantastic Four arrive in Tlaloclan to save Sue Storm. They fight Namor, who's preparing an invasion of the surface world. In the commotion, Doom and his Doombots launch an invasion of Tlaloclan, as his plan all along was to infiltrate the Empire, raid it of it's supply of orichalcum, and use it to conquer the world. Namor is terrified, as without the orichalcum his nation with fall into ruin. So in he teams up with the Fantastic Four to stop Doom from dooming Tlaloclan in exchange for promising to not invade the surface world. They defeat Doom.

7. Namor, instead of invasion, makes he presence known at the United Nations.

8. Post credit scene is Doom discovering a virus within his systems back in Latveria. He finds it, his screens go red, and we hear Ultron saying, "Hello Your Highness, I believe you have something I want."

[aestheticallypleasinganimeboys]

Orichalcum - Monster Strike

[chasing-caws]

Stephen: be careful it’s (Orichalcum) very volatile

Everyone: slams it into the barge, slams it around as a blunt weapon, never explodes or gives anyone radiation poisoning or ANYTHING

[gingersnapandgonzap]

found a rat in my mailbox. her name is ori and she’s a shitter

[gokyuzumanzarasi]

Sicilya'da Nadir Orichalcum Taşıyan Antik Batık Gemi Kurtarılacak

Gela II Batık Gemisi ve Orichalcum Sicilya açıklarında batan ve nadir bulunan orichalcum metali taşıyan 5. yüzyıldan kalma bir batık gemi kurtarılacak. Gela II adı verilen batık, 1980 yılında dalgıçlar tarafından Gela limanı yakınlarında keşfedildi. Antik çağda Gela, antik dünyada atölyeler, depolar ve dükkanlar da dahil olmak üzere geniş bir ticaret merkeziyle bilinen etkili bir Magna Graecia…

[gururbenimneyime]

Sicilya'da Nadir Orichalcum Taşıyan Antik Batık Gemi Kurtarılacak

Gela II Batık Gemisi ve Orichalcum Sicilya açıklarında batan ve nadir bulunan orichalcum metali taşıyan 5. yüzyıldan kalma bir batık gemi kurtarılacak. Gela II adı verilen batık, 1980 yılında dalgıçlar tarafından Gela limanı yakınlarında keşfedildi. Antik çağda Gela, antik dünyada atölyeler, depolar ve dükkanlar da dahil olmak üzere geniş bir ticaret merkeziyle bilinen etkili bir Magna Graecia…

[ladyabaniko]

Uh, David? I just ran more tests, and this data is really disturbing.

[zatartheperfect-blog]

Urban Shadows second addition does indeed continue to use the debt system.

@theresattrpgforthat my wife and I are going to be presenting at a conference this month about the intersection of roleplaying games and social/political imagination - do you have any recs for games we should look into that we may have missed?

[haorev]

I was about two months younger than I am now when I learned that orichalcum is just brass that’s made different than most brass

[gummi-ships]

Kingdom Hearts 2 - Bulky Vendor

[possessedscholar]

Doll girl that is actually secretly a slime girl wearing doll parts like armor.

[teratocrat]

well enough at last to return to tasks most paramount: rotating alchemicals in my mind palace

[naiverandfand]

My reference sketches for these two. I went with tudor style clothes on older brother (I wish he actually had a name)

[gingersnapandgonzap]

wwgat the fuck. y’all. i thought my sink was BROKEN. BRO. KEN. hired a plumber and everything.

now imagine the horror on my mom and i’s faces when we get a call from the guy saying “your drain is fine. some red lizard was stuck in there though, you want me to call the pound?”

motherfucker. orichalcum you are on THIN FUCKING ICE MISSY. spent 300 poke to play fucking HIDE AND SEEK. arceus. someone help.

[cthulhubert]

Chrono Trigger had some really solid translations, Woolsey's best work. He captured the spirit that the original authors wanted, rather than the lifeless result you'd get from a more literal translation.

The three sages were originally Gasshu, Hasshu, and Bosshu. I'm told that to the Japanese ear, these have a vaguely "Chinese mountain hermit" ring, but they're just kind of silly in English, so using the traditional names for the biblical three wisemen was a great touch.

Magus' henchmen were Vinegar, Soysau, and Mayonnai, a trio of tasteless fiends; their names were a little too long for the technical limitations of the SNES, so they became the trio of tone-deaf fiends: Ozzie, Slash and Flea.

It does have a change I really don't like. The Masamune is Granleon in Japanese, a much more European name for an obviously European sword. It's senseless. If he had to change it, why not Excalibur?

And finally the 魔神器 (majinki), aka Mammon Machine

Majinki could be considered a portmanteau, but of a type that's transparent to a Japanese reader. �� means something like evil spirit or magic, same character as in mahou (as in mahou shojou: magical girls). 神 is usually said "kami" outside of compound words, it's the first character in Shinto (pronunciation changes at the beginning of a word), and refers to the gods/spirits that they venerate. 器 has meanings like tool/vessel/utensil etc.

魔神 (majin) is often translated as "devil". Of course: it's a god of evil spirits and magic. (Fun note; 魔人 is pronounced the same way but means magic/evil person; you might recognize it from Dragonball's majin bu, or a race that's ubiquitous in Isekai.) 神器 (jinki) is what Velma says is a "sacred treasure", a thing in which the kami dwell. Edit to add: to help hammer in the meaning this word would convey to a Japanese player the Imperial Regalia of Japan are called 三種の神器.

You can't convey all that in English, especially not by calling it either "evil/magic sacred treasure" or "devil vessel/tool".

Mammon Machine may lose the heavy "magic energy" association (given by story context anyways), but it finds another way to be slightly ambiguous about it's devilish associations; drawing in extra associations of greed? Piece de resistance.

[ratasum]

Not pictured: Rhenn in the background being an absolute pest to the Astral Ward's operations in Lowland Shores.