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<blockquote data-quote="MNblockhead" data-source="post: 9364835" data-attributes="member: 6796661"><p>Depends. Do they have heat resistance? Is it pahoehoe that is slow moving but with an insulating skin? IRL people can get close enough to this to take a sample, though still hot enough that you can't actively step on it. In game I would less have rocks "floating" on it and more that it is slowly flowing and branching around uneven rocky ground so that there are safer rock out cropping that you can jump from one to another. A'a flows, would be similar, but the dangers much higher because they flow faster and give off much more radiant energy. IRL life there are people who will collect samples but wear more protection and have to do it a lot more quickly. But folks have had their hair singed and skin blister just from a change in the wind. In <a href="https://volcano.oregonstate.edu/faq/how-close-can-i-get-lava-and-will-it-hurt-or-kill-me" target="_blank">one article I've read</a>, the author recalls feeling the radiant heat of an a'a channel flying 200-400 meters over it in a helicopter. </p><p></p><p>More interestingly, for this discussion, in that same article they discuss two instances of people falling into lava. </p><p></p><p></p><p><a href="https://volcano.oregonstate.edu/faq/how-close-can-i-get-lava-and-will-it-hurt-or-kill-me" target="_blank">How close can I get to lava and will it hurt or kill me?</a>, citing Blong, R.J., 1984, Volcanic Hazards: A Sourcebook on the Effects of Eruptions: Orlando, Florida, Academic Press, p. 424.</p><p></p><p>Now everything I've read has been scientists or thrill seekers above ground. If your characters are underground near a pool a lava, the ambient temperature alone should kill them rather quickly without magic protection. This makes me curious to look up any examples of folks getting near magma. Doesn't seem realistic that you are going to run into magma pools while spelunking. But I have no idea.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="MNblockhead, post: 9364835, member: 6796661"] Depends. Do they have heat resistance? Is it pahoehoe that is slow moving but with an insulating skin? IRL people can get close enough to this to take a sample, though still hot enough that you can't actively step on it. In game I would less have rocks "floating" on it and more that it is slowly flowing and branching around uneven rocky ground so that there are safer rock out cropping that you can jump from one to another. A'a flows, would be similar, but the dangers much higher because they flow faster and give off much more radiant energy. IRL life there are people who will collect samples but wear more protection and have to do it a lot more quickly. But folks have had their hair singed and skin blister just from a change in the wind. In [URL='https://volcano.oregonstate.edu/faq/how-close-can-i-get-lava-and-will-it-hurt-or-kill-me']one article I've read[/URL], the author recalls feeling the radiant heat of an a'a channel flying 200-400 meters over it in a helicopter. More interestingly, for this discussion, in that same article they discuss two instances of people falling into lava. [URL="https://volcano.oregonstate.edu/faq/how-close-can-i-get-lava-and-will-it-hurt-or-kill-me"]How close can I get to lava and will it hurt or kill me?[/URL], citing Blong, R.J., 1984, Volcanic Hazards: A Sourcebook on the Effects of Eruptions: Orlando, Florida, Academic Press, p. 424. Now everything I've read has been scientists or thrill seekers above ground. If your characters are underground near a pool a lava, the ambient temperature alone should kill them rather quickly without magic protection. This makes me curious to look up any examples of folks getting near magma. Doesn't seem realistic that you are going to run into magma pools while spelunking. But I have no idea. [/QUOTE]
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