What would you do with Sovereign Glue?

[NRSASD]

Sovereign Glue is truly wondrous stuff. Anything adhered with it is stuck until some Universal Solvent is applied, and no amount of force or magic can change that. What are some of the more creative/entertaining/bizarre uses you've come up with this lovely material, real or hypothetical.

To get the ball rolling:

1. Glue two cats together back-to-back and discover anti-gravity.
2. Weaponize a child's game and apply it to an Iron Golem's hands and order it to play patty cake with your foes.
3. Create an impossible bridge by gluing logs end to end across the Grand Canyon.

[Kelb_Panthera]

Impregnate sheets of fabric to make a nigh-indestructable fiberglass-like material.

[goto124]

5. Throw a vial of Sovereign Glue into the mouth of a Tarrasque.

[Mastikator]

Impregnate sheets of fabric to make a nigh-indestructable fiberglass-like material.

Then make a rope out of this infinitely strong material and use it to make a space elevator. Then begin the path that leads to me as the leader of the space empire.

[Ninja_Prawn]

6. Glue *anything* to an Immovable Rod, make *anything* immovable.

[Mr. Mask]

Just checking, lets say you glued someone's thumbs together. Could they get them apart by ripping off the skin, or by cutting off the thumbs, or is the magic glue trickier than that (that was the problem of police ideas for glue instead of handcuffs)?

[DigoDragon]

Just checking, lets say you glued someone's thumbs together. Could they get them apart by ripping off the skin, or by cutting off the thumbs, or is the magic glue trickier than that (that was the problem of police ideas for glue instead of handcuffs)?

I generally think of crazy glue for situations like that. You could rip off the skin to separate the thumbs. Probably hurt, but hey, it's thumbthing.


An idea I came up with as a DM-- use magic to pour out the contents of the bottle in air and let the sovereign glue harden into a ball shape. Now, fire that ball out of a cannon. Indestructible cannon ammo?

[Mr. Mask]

it is thumbthing

Interestingly, that was an argument for using stone cannonballs. They smashed on impact--so the enemy wouldn't fire them back at you. Iron cast cannonballs were apparently figured to be fairly reusable.

[Strigon]

Play a cruel, cruel prank with a Chinese finger trap.

[Millstone85]

3. Create an impossible bridge by gluing logs end to end across the Grand Canyon.

Just checking, lets say you glued someone's thumbs together. Could they get them apart by ripping off the skin

I would also expect the weight of the bridge to tear the logs apart, not from each other but internally.

Impregnate sheets of fabric to make a nigh-indestructable fiberglass-like material.

Much better.

[DigoDragon]

Interestingly, that was an argument for using stone cannonballs. They smashed on impact--so the enemy wouldn't fire them back at you. Iron cast cannonballs were apparently figured to be fairly reusable.

Considering how far an iron cannonball could travel through your infantry, I don't know if it's worth the effort to go retrieve it. Well, I suppose you could in between engagements.

So how about a cannonball designed to explode on impact and it's filled with sovereign glue? Upon hitting infantry anything not immediately killed by the impact and/or shrapnel is now stuck to each other, to the shrapnel, to their equipment, to the ground...

[Mr. Mask]

Millstone: If the glue is just invincibly sticky, and doesn't magically bind things so that even cutting them off won't save you, then yeah, it wouldn't actually be that useful for most applications. You could replace bolts and screws for certain takes, but only if you can get the glue over enough connecting surface area to lend as much support as the bolt. It'd also be dangerous enough that most people wouldn't want to make use of it.



Digo: The main worry was your enemy picking them up and shooting them back at you. You could retrieve the cannonballs after the battle, but prior to that, yeah, there in't really a chance.

Sovereign glue probably isn't worth the expense, you're better off with some more gunpowder and shrapnel. It does require the enemy surgeons to come up with some complex medical procedures where they skin off the top layer of skin, or just wait a couple of weeks for the skin to die and fall off with the glue. Also, the only armour you'd need against it would be a outer layer of clothing, making it less effective than shrapnel.

[Eldan]

Combine several in this thread!

Cut someone open, then use sovereign glue to affix an immovable rod to a vital organ, then close them back up.

[goto124]

But if you can cut the person up, why do to that trouble? Why not just stab those vital organs?

[Eldan]

Research? Fun? Torture?

[Mr. Mask]

Well, that's not really that different from drawing and quartering. Just that you stop at drawing, and what you affix the organs to may as well be immovable for the person involved.

[Anonymouswizard]

Sovereign Glue is truly wondrous stuff. Anything adhered with it is stuck until some Universal Solvent is applied, and no amount of force or magic can change that. What are some of the more creative/entertaining/bizarre uses you've come up with this lovely material, real or hypothetical.

To get the ball rolling:

1. Glue two cats together back-to-back and discover anti-gravity.
2. Weaponize a child's game and apply it to an Iron Golem's hands and order it to play patty cake with your foes.
3. Create an impossible bridge by gluing logs end to end across the Grand Canyon.

That's technically water, you know. Unless you really mean a universal solvent, in which case, yikes, that's like the world's strongest acid (we haven't worked out what we can store the bloody thing in) but slightly tamer, assuming it's not a fast-acting universal solvent.

Considering how far an iron cannonball could travel through your infantry, I don't know if it's worth the effort to go retrieve it. Well, I suppose you could in between engagements.

So how about a cannonball designed to explode on impact and it's filled with sovereign glue? Upon hitting infantry anything not immediately killed by the impact and/or shrapnel is now stuck to each other, to the shrapnel, to their equipment, to the ground...

I love this idea, and have a friend who would abuse this glue to no ends.

You know, if you live in a country where the entire ruling country is bards and you allow bastards to inherit then you can crank out the stuff as fast as you can make the mourning period turnover at first, and 9 months a unit later on. Could eventually glue the entire world in place.

[Flickerdart]

I would go around gluing sovereigns together, of course.

[Ninja_Prawn]

I would go around gluing sovereigns together, of course.

Are you mad?

There's only one thing to do with Sovereign Glue, and that is put a crown on it, assemble a court full of other (lesser) glues and find some unsuspecting duchy for them to conquer!

[NRSASD]

@Anonymouswizard- Yep, water is the universal solvent but not the Universal Solvent, which is the multiverse's scariest acid. Luckily, it comes in little packets that are completely inert unless you add water.

@Millstone- You're probably right. But still...

[Knaight]

@Anonymouswizard- Yep, water is the universal solvent but not the Universal Solvent, which is the multiverse's scariest acid. Luckily, it comes in little packets that are completely inert unless you add water.

@Millstone- You're probably right. But still...

Plus, at this point so many nonpolar molecules are in such heavy use that the term seems a bit dated. Prior to the existence of huge petrochemical industries, heavily used organic synthesis including lots of nonpolar steps and absolutely requiring lots of non-water solvents, and a few other things the term made a lot more sense.

[Grim Portent]

Glue coins to the street and laugh as passerby try to pick them up.

[Knaight]

If it interacts with liquids properly, this could be a fun way to make perpetually oily or wet surfaces. Take a bunch of canvas, glue one side of it. Then, run water or oil over the other side of the glue, making an extremely thin film that goes nowhere. Other water or oil should then attach over it easily enough.

[Tvtyrant]

If it interacts with liquids properly, this could be a fun way to make perpetually oily or wet surfaces. Take a bunch of canvas, glue one side of it. Then, run water or oil over the other side of the glue, making an extremely thin film that goes nowhere. Other water or oil should then attach over it easily enough.

If it goes nowhere, would not that be a solid? Like, if it cannot move why would it still be slick?

[braveheart]

Obviously every level 20+ dungeon needs to be made entirely out of sovereign glue, and have anti teleportation measures

That's correct, since it should stick to itself it will be the perfect construction material, don't ask me how I got that much, these things just happen

[Steampunkette]

What would I do with Sovereign Glue?

Sell it to a research laboratory.

I'd do a live demonstration on National News as to Sovereign Glue's infinite resilience, probably using two powerful trucks trying to pull apart a couple of pieces of chain that were glued together.

Then I'd take it to the research lab, sell it to people MUCH smarter than me so they can figure out how to make more of it, and spend the rest of my life with lots of money as a group of scientists came up with a hundred and one uses for the stuff.

[Knaight]

If it goes nowhere, would not that be a solid? Like, if it cannot move why would it still be slick?

The lowermost fluid layer would basically be solid. The upside to this is that a thin layer will essentially pull more to it, making an easily produced liquid layer around the base object, even if the base object would repel the liquid in question.

[BootStrapTommy]

Obviously glue someone's butt to a toilet seat... For eternity.

[goto124]

Glue coins to the street and laugh as passerby try to pick them up.

You could use normal superglue for this.

Obviously every level 20+ dungeon needs to be made entirely out of sovereign glue, and have anti teleportation measures

That's correct, since it should stick to itself it will be the perfect construction material, don't ask me how I got that much, these things just happen

Try not to touch the walls.

Better yet, cover the glue walls with... something. Paper? Rocks? Whatever's cheap?

[Fri]

Glue souvereigns together.