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 Posted: Tue Oct 31, 2006 10:46 pm
Welcome to my quest for an incantation of the spirit, Calida is my little dream lava girl and I hope you enjoy getting to know her better
Directory
1. About Calida
2. About lava
3. About Rose
4. Art
5. just in case.
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Posted: Tue Oct 31, 2006 10:47 pm
All about Calida
Name: Calida
spirit ( molten basaltic lava)
Gender: Female
Appearance
Eyes: Dark orange
Hair: Golden and fine resembling pele's hair(http://www.gc.maricopa.edu/earthsci/imagearchive/Peles_Hair_closeup.jpg )
Skin: Rough and black with many miniature cracks in it from which glows red , orange and yellow lava.
Markings: None
Abilities & traits :
*Natrually high core temperature and hot to the touch skin
*High tolerance for heat
*Can harden her skin into a protective barrier. ( The second ability takes time as her body is naturally at a warmer than normal temperature and to get the hard molten rock defence she has to cool her skin down.)
Unless using the above ability her skin while warm to the touch it's easily broken. Exposed area will ooze slightly until the top layer cools and reforms as a skin like crust.
Calida is also susceptible to extreme cold as her skin will automatically harden which makes her heavier and less agile the more hard skin builds up.
* bad luck: Legends state that pele is the hawaiian goddes of lava and that anyone who takes lava away from the islands is cursed. Reports actually show hundreds of returned peices of lava rock to the islands from tourists each year.
Calida herself is somewhat cursed with this bad luck as she is lava taken from her home. She accidently burns others , gets suddenly clumsy or simply happens to be around when bad things happen. Part of this as she grows however is psychological and her subconcious tripping her up to feed her fear.
A bit about lava:
Lava with low viscosity such as basaltic shows the following behaviours:
* It tends to flow easily, forming puddles, channels, and rivers of molten rock
* It tends to easily release bubbling gases as they are formed
* Eruptions are rarely pyroclastic and are usually quiescent
* Volcanoes tend to form as rifts, not steep cones
Personality:
Warm and passionate about all she does describes Calida best. Nothing this girl does is half hearted and most things are done with a smile and the intention to help someone .
Calida's a stubborn impatient girl and tends to steamroll through projects letting few things get in her way. Attempting to get her to change her mind is fairly useless and will likely only make her mad at you. Act now think about the consequences ( and other's opinions) later is her style of thinking which lands her in trouble rather often.( She wants to help others she justs dosen't want their advice on how to do it)
Calida is rather sociable though she works best in small groups where she can enjoy get to know group members more intimately. For her close friends will be more important than having many people she can call a friend.
On the flip side when pissed off Calida can be a ruthless little hellion . She will intentionally push every button you have in order to hurt you as much a possible. Burning bridges is of no concern to her and anyone who attempts to mediate is subject to the same treatment as those she is angered at. During these times she is flowing lava incarnate, speedy and all consuming stopping only for a force of greater power.
Retaliation with her is quick there is no plotting or revenge best served cold, this can of course make her careless in her endevours to hurt others leaving her open for attack.
By the time Calida has cooled down there’s likely going to be nothing left of the friendship she may have had with a person. However, once she’s cooled down she becomes reflective and starts to think about the situation in different ways. This will on occasion lead to her realising she was wrong or that at the very least an apology is in order.
As she grows
Baby: At this age Calida craves attention and will likely spend most of her waking hours trying to be in someone’s arms. ( Which just isn't going to happen) If no one will (can) cuddle her Calida will settle for being entertained with music and food. An active baby she will spend a lot of time crawling around and exploring aka destroying things.
Toddler:
It’s terrible toddler time and Calida is perhaps a prime example of that, her temper is just now beginning to show and a few choice words learned from some careless babysitters are likely to make their way out of her mouth at you if she’s mad.
Of course for the most part she’s just your average inquisitive toddler who wants into and at everything she shouldn’t. A lot of this part of her life will find Calida working on developing her sense of self.
* From this point on interaction with others and life experiences will likely determine much of Calida’s behaviours and thoughts. Though rising temper and impatience with others will happen regardless
Likes: Heat, fruit, music with lots of drums , attention and animals.
Dislikes: The cold, dolls, plushies, being alone and clothes.
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Posted: Tue Oct 31, 2006 10:54 pm
lava info
Lava is molten rock expelled by a volcano during an eruption. Magma is molten rock below the earth's surface. Lava, when first exuded from a volcanic vent, is a liquid at temperatures from 700 °C to 1,200 °C (1,300 °F to 2,200 °F). Although lava is quite viscous, about 100,000 times the viscosity of water, it can flow great distances before cooling and solidifying.
Lava solidifies to form igneous rock. The term "lava flow" refers to the hardened formation, whereas the one still having molten rock associated, is called an "active lava flow". The word 'lava' comes from Italian, and is probably derived from the Latin word labes which means a fall, slide, or sinking in.
In general, a lava's composition determines its behavior more than the temperature of its eruption. Igneous rocks, which form lava flows when erupted, can be classified into three chemical types; felsic, intermediate, and mafic. These classes are primarily chemical; however, the chemistry of a lava also tends to correlate with the magma temperature, its viscosity and its mode of eruption.
Mafic or basaltic lavas are typified by their high ferromagnesian content, and generally erupt at temperatures in excess of 950 degrees Celsius. Basaltic magma is high in iron and magnesium, and has relatively lower aluminium and silica, which taken together reduces the degree of polymerization within the melt. Due to the higher temperatures, viscosities can be relatively low, although still thousands of times more viscous than water. The low degree of polymerization and high temperature favors chemical diffusion, so it is common to see large, well-formed phenocrysts within mafic lavas. Basalt volcanoes tend to form shield volcanoes, as the fluid magma tends to form thin, widely distributed flows.
Lava with low viscosity shows the following behaviors:
* It tends to flow easily, forming puddles, channels, and rivers of molten rock
* It tends to easily release bubbling gases as they are formed
* Eruptions are rarely pyroclastic and are usually quiescent
* Volcanoes tend to form as rifts, not steep cones
Lava flows are enormously destructive to property in their path but generally move slowly enough for people to get out of their way, so casualties caused directly by active lava flows are rare. Nevertheless injuries and deaths have occurred, either because people had their escape route cut off, because they get too close to the flow[2] or, more rarely, if the lava flow front travels too quickly.
This notably happened during the eruption of Nyiragongo in Zaire (now Democratic Republic of Congo) on 10 January 1977 when the crater wall was breached during the night and the fluid lava lake in it drained out in less than an hour. Flowing down the steep slopes of the volcano at up to 60 miles per hour (100 km per hour), the lava swiftly overwhelmed several villages whilst their residents were asleep. As a result of this disaster, the mountain was designated a Decade Volcano in 1991[3].
Deaths attributed to volcanoes frequently have a different cause, for example volcanic ejecta, pyroclastic flow from a collapsing lava dome, lahars, or explosions caused when the flow comes into contact with wat
info from wikipedia
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Posted: Tue Oct 31, 2006 11:11 pm
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Posted: Tue Oct 31, 2006 11:13 pm
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Posted: Tue Nov 07, 2006 10:59 pm
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Posted: Wed Nov 08, 2006 9:49 pm
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Posted: Wed Dec 06, 2006 8:01 am
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Posted: Sun Dec 24, 2006 10:44 am
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