Canonfire! Forums-viewtopic-How big is your White Plume Mountain?

Wed Jun 13, 2007 4:41 pm How big is your White Plume Mountain?

Just more of a survey of opinion, do you go with the original S2 WPM size of 1000 yards in diameter and 800' high or the CONSIDERABLY larger 2miles in diameter and 8000'? I'm torn. I like big mountains but I can also see the point of not having an 8000' peak that dominates the surrounding area.

Wed Jun 13, 2007 8:31 pm

The Grey College Student Encyclopedia lists a mountain as land over 2000' high, anything lower is a hill. Many scholars over at the the Great Library dispute this fact however. Wink

Wed Jun 13, 2007 10:41 pm

Maybe we should consult the oracle of Ulaa. Smile

Thu Jun 14, 2007 4:26 am

Reminds me of a story I heard about the Keoish earth elementalist who walked up a hill and down a mountain...

Ghu Tarng, I think his name was. Laughing

Mon Jun 18, 2007 8:31 am

If it's supposed to be a volcano - I think you need to aim bigger, rather than smaller.

If it were 800 feet high, it'd be White Plume Hill. Happy

2 mile diameter and 8,000 feet (2,438 m) sounds more likely.

P.

Mon Jun 18, 2007 3:56 pm

IMC, Kilamanjaro. Pretty much fills a hex with multiple peaks. Smile

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Mon Jun 18, 2007 9:49 pm

I'm favoring the bigger version (not as big as Glenn's though Smile

). The diameter seems kind of small for an 8,000' peak but given its steepness in the depictions of it that's about right. Another thing is that it's geysers and hot springs are the source of the Yellowflow River which argues more for the bigger mountain.
I've been combing the web for images of steep volcanos and the steepest I've found so far is Mayon in the Phillipines. Check it out - http://www.camperspoint.com/IMG/jpg/mayon_volcano05jpg.jpg

Mon Jun 18, 2007 10:18 pm

The pic almost looks like it was taken from the old Erol Otis map. Gotta save that one.
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