Writing 101: Molten Rock Scenes

[3113]

Just a bit of FYI for those of you writing up that high fantasy erotica story where the evil wizard dies by sinking into hot lava....

Do you suppose throwing yourself into lava would have the same effect as falling into a lake? Probably not. The average human has a density of ~1010 kg/m3, so a little bit more dense than water....If you are less than one-third the density of basalt (and you are, admit it), it is going to be next to impossible to sink into that liquid.

Full article here.

 

[sr71plt]

Well, that's THEIR molten lava, not MY molten lava. Harumph.

 

[dr_mabeuse]

I believe you'd go up like an Ohio Blue Tip before you even got close.

The real question is whether you'd have time to yell, "AAAiiiieee!" before you were incinerated.

 

[Harry Leg]

Sink or swim, its still likely to be uncomfortable.

 

[3113]

Well, that's THEIR molten lava, not MY molten lava. Harumph.

This is true. I happen to think that the blogger of this article is not taking into account the buoyancy (or lack there-of) of hobbits as well as their flammability (or lack there-of), not to mention the density of lava flowing through Mt. Doom as compared to any other volcano in Middle Earth. We have to consider that Mordor would have very special molten rock, not found just anywhere.

 

[TxRad]

This is true. I happen to think that the blogger of this article is not taking into account the buoyancy (or lack there-of) of hobbits as well as their flammability (or lack there-of), not to mention the density of lava flowing through Mt. Doom as compared to any other volcano in Middle Earth. We have to consider that Mordor would have very special molten rock, not found just anywhere.

The temperature and buoyancy of lave does vary with the type of rock involved.

 

[sr71plt]

This is true. I happen to think that the blogger of this article is not taking into account the buoyancy (or lack there-of) of hobbits as well as their flammability (or lack there-of), not to mention the density of lava flowing through Mt. Doom as compared to any other volcano in Middle Earth. We have to consider that Mordor would have very special molten rock, not found just anywhere.

In MY molten lava, one would see the other sinking, panicked look on face, into the lava and would jump in as well and they'd fuck sensually in the heat of the circumstance all the way down to a chamber below where they'd join in an orgy of centuries of lovers who had been sucked into the lava just as they had been.

 

[TxRad]

In MY molten lava, one would see the other sinking, panicked look on face, into the lava and would jump in as well and they'd fuck sensually in the heat of the circumstance all the way down to a chamber below where they'd join in an orgy of centuries of lovers who had been sucked into the lava just as they had been.

I call plot bunny on that one.

A Star Trek takeoff if i ever heard one.

 

[glynndah]

In MY molten lava, one would see the other sinking, panicked look on face, into the lava and would jump in as well and they'd fuck sensually in the heat of the circumstance all the way down to a chamber below where they'd join in an orgy of centuries of lovers who had been sucked into the lava just as they had been.

remind me, given the choice, to fall into YOUR lava and not the regular kind.

 

[voluptuary_manque]

ditto!

 

[LordMhoram]

Do you suppose throwing yourself into lava would have the same effect as falling into a lake? Probably not. The average human has a density of ~1010 kg/m3, so a little bit more dense than water....If you are less than one-third the density of basalt (and you are, admit it), it is going to be next to impossible to sink into that liquid.

Yes and no. Suppose our evil wizard has some fire protection spell in place (nod to Dr. Mabeuse) and lands on his feet. He will sink into the lava until the volume of lava he displaces equals his body weight. Since the scenario declares he dies, he might perchance be unable to fully resist the heat of the lava where he has sunk into it, and thus his legs are hideously consumed allowing him to sink slowly deeper as the camera angle shifts to capture the his tortuos descent in gory detail. At some point his spell of protection fails, and wizard becomes said Ohio Blue Tip (thank you once more, Doctor).

Thus, our suspension of unbelief is not asked to bear too much (voluptuary_manque will be relieved), and the evil wizard suffers horribly, as he surely must have deserved, having perpetrated heinous deeds upon fair folk, our hero and sexy damsel throughout the tale, and thus the story might end with the hero wedding the pretty girl. We declare they lived "happily ever after" since we stop the story at the honeymoon and leave out the 40 years of bickering that followed.

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[Verdad]

“Molten lava” yields six pages of results in the story file. I never knew Lit audience was so big on volcanoes!

 

[voluptuary_manque]

Well, volcanoes are big. Everyone knows that . . .

 

[3113]

having perpetrated heinous deeds upon fair folk, our hero and sexy damsel throughout the tale

Hey! Let's not be sexist here. That damsel might well *be* the hero

 

[LordMhoram]

Hey! Let's not be sexist here. That damsel might well *be* the hero

Funny you should say that. I am in the process of writing a series where the damsel is the smokin' hot hero. Well, she is growing into it over the next chapters.