[Kruppe of Darujhistan]

ATTENTION: Ignorant Kruppe Has Something to Bray!

What exactly is Blood Oil and where do the Uryd warrriors get it? Kruppe is only 125 pages into the story, so please excuse self if this question is one that will be satisfactorily answered upon further reading.

Kruppe in his ignorance cannot but compare Blood Oil to some multi-purpose lubricant like WD-40 laced with catnip, loco weed and Viagra.

Ignorant Kruppe Has Spewed!

[Eispeis]

Kruppe of Darujhistan, on Jul 9 2009, 05:32 PM, said:

ATTENTION: Ignorant Kruppe Has Something to Bray!

What exactly is Blood Oil and where do the Uryd warrriors get it? Kruppe is only 125 pages into the story, so please excuse self if this question is one that will be satisfactorily answered upon further reading.

Kruppe in his ignorance cannot but compare Blood Oil to some multi-purpose lubricant like WD-40 laced with catnip, loco weed and Viagra.

Ignorant Kruppe Has Spewed!

All will be answered in good time, and you will be enlightened.

[Salt-Man Z]

Someone can correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe your questions will be answered (in roundabout Erikson fashion, naturally) later in HoC, or possibly a subsequent book.

[Salt-Man Z]

What? Beaten by a minute? Never!

[D'rek]

The important stuff about it comes later. I think it comes from their trees, though, like sap? Anyone else recollect something like that?

[Lisheo]

Yeah, it does, or at least is hinted to.

[Kryphon]

Spoiler

It's just otataral, right?

Sorry, can't remember if this should be spoilered or not.

[D'rek]

Kryphon, on Jul 9 2009, 01:57 PM, said:

Spoiler

It's just otataral, right?

Sorry, can't remember if this should be spoilered or not.

No, there's plenty of other stuff to it

[MTS]

Spoiler

Yeah, I think it comes from the trees growing in places where there are trace elements of otataral in the soil. Probably what makes bloodwood so strong, and why the trees only grow in certain places. Besides, doesn't tree sap do strange things to you if you ingest it? I heard a story along those lines...

[WhiskeyJackDaniels]

Mappo's Travelling Sack, on Jul 9 2009, 02:55 PM, said:

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Yeah, I think it comes from the trees growing in places where there are trace elements of otataral in the soil. Probably what makes bloodwood so strong, and why the trees only grow in certain places. Besides, doesn't tree sap do strange things to you if you ingest it? I heard a story along those lines...

Well, the

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maple syrup

in

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Supertroopers

makes them get all

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antsy

in their

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pantsies

.

[MTS]

Hahaha fake rep to you sir. By God I love that movie...

But yeah, that's my theory.

Spoiler

Otataral in the soil, makes for increased effects of the sap plus increased hardness and magical resistance to the wood. Wonder what happens to Bloodwood or the oil when you burn it...

[Night Hawk]

Blood oil is oil from certain trees that grow near where the Teblor tribes worship or have their villages ... either or both.

Spoiler

We find in later books that it is similar if not of the same family as Edur Blackwood, the Teblor (Toblakai) just use it in a different manner (make swords, some tribes even making bloodwood armor, use as a sort of berzerker stimulant).

Mappo's Travelling Sack, on Jul 9 2009, 05:25 PM, said:

Hahaha fake rep to you sir. By God I love that movie...

But yeah, that's my theory.

Spoiler

Otataral in the soil, makes for increased effects of the sap plus increased hardness and magical resistance to the wood. Wonder what happens to Bloodwood or the oil when you burn it...

Oh yes also, this sounds very familiar! Good memory

This post has been edited by Night Hawk: 09 July 2009 - 11:25 PM

[WhiskeyJackDaniels]

Mappo's Travelling Sack, on Jul 9 2009, 05:25 PM, said:

Hahaha fake rep to you sir. By God I love that movie...

But yeah, that's my theory.

Spoiler

Otataral in the soil, makes for increased effects of the sap plus increased hardness and magical resistance to the wood. Wonder what happens to Bloodwood or the oil when you burn it...

Lol yea, if there was a movie quote thread on here I'd be a legend...

Can someone explain what rep is to me? I'm relatively new to the site, and I'm not sure exactly what it is...I think maybe someone gave me rep once or I gave someone rep possibly because whenever I see their name it says "Your rep +1" underneath their avatar. idk...just one of the things that I don't fully understand about the site.

[MTS]

Silencer has the your rep+1 thing I think...anyway back when this forum was on vBulletin there was a system whereby you could award worthy posts with 'reputation' points, and thus you could tell how useful someone was by their reputation level. But, it got out of hand - it became all about the rep, and people merely posted to get reputation, not out of any want to contribute to the discussion. So some people cried foul and it was taken away when we moved here. Many people lamented the loss, but now it looks like we're getting a version of it back.

This post has been edited by Mappo's Travelling Sack: 10 July 2009 - 03:33 AM

[Aptorian]

Mappo's Travelling Sack, on Jul 10 2009, 05:32 AM, said:

Silencer has the your rep+1 thing I think...anyway back when this forum was on vBulletin there was a system whereby you could award worthy posts with 'reputation' points, and thus you could tell how useful someone was by their reputation level. But, it got out of hand - it became all about the rep, and people merely posted to get reputation, not out of any want to contribute to the discussion. So some people cried foul and it was taken away when we moved here. Many people lamented the loss, but now it looks like we're getting a version of it back.

Good Lord MTB, stop lying to the kid.

People were not "merely posting to get reputation" and not contributing to the discussion. That's just nonsense. Not everything that is fun or insightfull needs to be fuelled by a want for rep.

And rep was not "taken away". The old IPB versions don't support reputation. The new forum upgrade to IPB3, which we'll probably be getting in the weekend, supports reputation.

Negreps MTB

This post has been edited by Aptorian: 10 July 2009 - 08:01 AM

[MTS]

MTB? Haha MTS thank you very much.

Merely posting to get rep? What about the I WIN thread? This isn't a rep discussion though so back on topic!

Negreps Apt

[Kruppe of Darujhistan]

ATTENTION: Ignorant Kruppe Has Something to Bray!

Kruppe has not read any of your spoilers and thanks one and all for employing them!

Kruppe has completed the first section of the book and discovered only that

Spoiler

the Uryd mine otataral from the hills of their native northland as one constituent of their Blood Oil. He has been forewarned to not let the Malazans become aware of its existence, lest the Empire endeavour to control it

. There are obviously other ingredients of Blood Oil that Kruppe is still unaware of.

Again, Kruppe extends his eternal gratitude for your wise and sagacious use of spoiler tags.

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Kruppe is a member of another board that used a rep system based on registration date, number of posts, and exponentially burgeoning "influence" based on one's total rep. There too, rep got well out of hand, with members approaching 10 millions of rep points and therefore giving out nearly 100,000 rep points at a pop.

Just today, it has been reset as a rep+1 system. However, not reset to zero, but just to where all prior instances of individual reputation giving have been recalculated to one point each, pleasing Kruppe greatly, as he has discovered that he is the most repped member of those humble boards, at 1,388 points.

The magnitude of Kruppe's greatness is almost too diffucult for even him to wrap his rapier-like mind around. Only Kruppe's legendary modesty exceeds his heroic fabulosity.

Carry on.

Ignorant Kruppe Has Spewed!

[DurhangAddict]

It's just another substance in the Malazan world to keep things interesting. Like the amusing Blood Oil scene in Lees of Laughter's End.

[Aptorian]

Dammit. I really need to get around to reading Lees!

[MTS]

Me too.