<div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote"><a href="https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=170110.msg8015778#msg8015778">Quote from: MzHyde on 07-04-2013, 17:18:08</a></div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote">I don't think anyone mentioned working separately. I know I didn't.<br/></blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div><br/>It's true, no one mentioned it.  I just wanted to eliminate it as an option before it was considered.<br/><br/>There will be a bit of splitting up.  At least one person may have to stay behind with the vehicles, and they will have situations of their own to deal with.<br/><br/><div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote"><a href="https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=170110.msg8015953#msg8015953">Quote from: SatanKlaus on 07-04-2013, 18:10:12</a></div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote">I guess I can see why you would want that plotwise. But it doesn't make much sense not to open a permanent hole. It takes five minutes for the stuff to work and another minute for each of us to pass through. That makes it about ten minutes during which we are trapped inside and cannot escape because the lab is underground and we don't know where the other exits are. Not to mention that during half the time, the team will be cut in two and the person wading through the gelatinous wall will be helpless. It is far safer to open the hole in the beginning, do the job and close it up again. Or just place explosives in the tunnel and collapse it if there is pursuit.<br/></blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div><br/>You're right, it doesn't make much sense.<br/><br/>But it doesn't make much sense for a can of a chemical to turn a man-sized chunk of<del>ferrocrete</del>steel-like material into something you can crawl through either.<br/><br/>So I'm going with the "you can't make it a permanent hole" shenanigan and I ask for some suspension of disbelief on the part of the players for that aspect.<br/><br/>I guess another way of thinking about it is that you're making, say, a two meter high by one meter wide by one meter thick block of steel-like material go from solid to gooey.  That's two cubic meters.  Steel is about 8,000 kg per cubic meter.  So the block you'll be crawling through is pushing 16,000 kg, or over 35,000 pounds.  That's... a lot of digging for a pair of spades.  Better to just crawl through it while you can, and<del>argue about</del>coordinate the timing of entering and exiting.<br/><br/>