Dussander on 23/3/2008 at 00:58
I do wonder about the extent the rustgas would destroy - surely there's a limited amount of the stuff, so it probably wouldn't affect the outer districts of the City or the outside of the City. Like all chemical reactions, substrates (i.e. the rustgas) is a limiting factor and even the activity of enzymes (if the rustgas is an enzyme) requires a certain amount of energy. I'm not really sure, in retrospect, that the number of servants and the amount of rustgas, would have destroyed a whole city.
jtr7 on 23/3/2008 at 01:06
When it reacts it creates more of itself from whatever it's consuming. Spray a little active mutox on a pile of logs and the whole pile will be consumed. Anything around the gas cloud that can be consumed, will be consumed if the gas touches it before it becomes inert. Inside a breezeless room with no organic material to touch, the cloud will settle downward as dust. Outside, it can be uncontrollably blown around and set off more reactions if it hasn't had time to stabilize.
Viki: "Don't! The reaction will continue if it finds more organic material."
Garrett: "For how long?"
Viki: "It seems that when all the rust gas settles into dust, then it is safe."
