| 8-Bit Theater | |
| Episode 517 | |
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| Ice-capades | |
| Date Published | Saturday, February 19th, 2005 |
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Red Mage introduces his cold fusion reactor, and the team thinks its a great idea... to kill him.
Cast Appearing[]
Setting[]
- Unnamed tundra
Script[]
| Black Mage | You've created a giant block of ice. |
| Red Mage | In a form of a cold fusion reactor, yes. |
| Black Mage | Er, of course. Now, explain how this was going to help us survive? |
| Red Mage | Given: Fusion creates energy. Energy begets heat. Therefore cold fusion makes cold energy that gives off cold heat. |
| Black Mage | What? |
| Red Mage | But since we want warm, or "non-imaginary" forms of heat, we'd have to reverse it. The opposite of cold fusion is cold fission, see? That's why I needed Fighter. He was going to split the ice. Cold fission would make hot cold, and warm us in this desolate place. |
| Silence... | |
| Red Mage | He'd split it with his sword. |
| Black Mage | Oh, I get it. |
| Red Mage | Now that Fighter is down, we'll have to try something else. |
| Thief | Like take advantage of the fact that ice is a natural insulator of heat and hollow out an ice shelter to block bitter winds that are assaulting us. |
| Red Mage | Thief, this is no time for your crazy voodoo physics. Ice is cold, so it would insulate coldness. |
| Red Mage | No, our course is clear. We must build an even larger block of ice to push this one onto Fighter's sword at a precise angle thus splitting it to unleash precious cold fission energies. |
| Black Mage | I should like to hire you for an assassination, good sir. |
| Thief | Oh, no. This one is free of charge. I insist. |