The perils of game design

[ffutures]

I'm trying to describe a submarine being blown out of an asteroid via a convenient ice-ammonia geyser without it sounding like an elaborate sexual metaphor.

I've already had to modify the diagram of the geological structure that does this because it looked a bit too penis-like.

Any suggestions on synonyms for "squirted" etc.?

Comments

[whswhs.livejournal.com]

How about "blasted" or "streamed"?

[speakr2customrs.livejournal.com]

I thought of six synonyms within ten seconds; they're all even worse double-entendres.

[vicarage.livejournal.com]

No, but I'm now chuckling!

[johnreiher.livejournal.com]

Hmm, "erupted", "geysered", "shot cannon-like into space"?

[nelc.livejournal.com]

I think you're done for; once you think of it, you can't unthink it. You'll just have to embrace it and go with the flow.

Uh, you know what I mean....

[jinxed-wood.livejournal.com]

Sorry...can't help...too busy....dying from laughter...

[raygungothic.livejournal.com]

I'm struggling.

"ejected" and "forced" really aren't all that suitable. Can you re-phrase more extensively to get something like "cause the ship to break out of the surface"?

[bugshaw.livejournal.com]

Use a strong metaphor of a whale spout to outweigh the other imagery? Plenty of people escape from whales that way in fiction. Hmm, asteroids as space whales :-)