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Message: <blockquote data-quote="RUMBLETiGER" data-source="post: 5758649" data-attributes="member: 6674868">Thank you all very much for the input!  Is there another element or compound that would be more reactive in water than Potassium?Because it's a fantasy world, I will have the existence of pure Potassium.  I'll handwave how it came to exist, formed as deposits within existing stone.  It's very helpful with what you've all taught me.  First off, instead of Earthquake-style eruptions, I'll have the deposits of Potostone, having dissolved, collapse the land.  Exposed cliff faces would result not from the earth erupting upward, but from sections of land collapsing downward.  The resulting caves will be from cracks and empty spaces.  Since many, many years have passed, erosion and other natural processes have expanded upon the caves.  Since the surface Potassium would react, days worth of rain dissolving the Potostone would cause collapsing, fractured cavern pockets underground, hydrogen buildups that explode, stress fractures across miles of landscape, etc.  I'll see that the surrounding stone is non-porous.  I want to seal the raining Potostone from oxygen, because I do not want it to Oxidize and become an inert salt.  I want it to remain potentially active and still dangerous.  Another question, if pure Potassium would Oxidize, how deep would that Oxidation go?  Could someone chip through an inch to get to the untouched stuff?  Six Inches?  Three feet?As an Aberration, which by definition are creatures that are aberrant/different/alien, I can handwave nearly anything about things like nutritional details.  I do, however, really like the Potassium/Vigor&Inertial Armor connection, and will use that!  The Psionic Sinews actually metabolize the salt, not the pure Potassium, and so it's the Potassium Peroxide and Potassium Hydroxide that it considers food.  They get nutrition from the Potassium compounds within the fruits as well, but not as intensely as the substance more directly from the metal/salt, and so this is why the Psionic Sinews have done from active, underground dwelling creatures to mostly hibernating at the bottom of a pool.As for the Potostone dancing on top of the water, possibly catching in the fur, I'll change the concept from "Destroyed" to "Seriously Burned" if it catches in the Bugbear's fur.  The reality is, within the Argon cavern where the remaining pure Potassium resides, getting some drops of water on the Potostone would not lead to cataclysmic destruction, but since the knowledge has faded into mythology, the Elites will still take deadly caution to see the Potostone stays dry, by even a drop.  Thanks all!  While I appreciate the Fantasy that is D&D, it's important that things make some sort of sense, at least when I'm sandboxing things, as per my own standards.  Potostone will ultimately be a fictional, fantasy material, but I want some real world support for it's existance and actions.  I appreciate all the input!</blockquote>

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