Re: End of the Beginning 2.0 [AAE IC #262]

On Sun, 05 Feb 2012 19:47:56 -0600
Mac Sent
AAE In Character List Post Number: 262

> At 03:22 PM 2/3/2012 -0800, you wrote:

Mac comes bubbling out of the shop where he’s been closeted for hours that seem like days, with a big cylinder over his shoulder looking somewhat like an oversized rocket-launcher from the pistol-grip on the bottom, but missing the hollow center of such devices, that seems to GLOW a blue light from one end to the other. In his other hand he has, dangling by what looks like a black leather string, a glass globe about an inch or two smaller than a bowling-ball that also glows with a similar blue light, while it sparkles, snaps, and crackles with obviously apparent excess energy.

(OOC: A person familiar with high-energy physics would recognize the blue-glow coming from both items as Cherenkov Radiation; but for some reason Mac doesn’t seem worried about high-energy particles making the devices dangerous. He knows something about the glow that’s not obvious. /OOC)

“Say!” he asks brightly, “Does anybody here need powerful portable energy-weapons or a really good CHEAP power source? I just figured out how these steam things work, and thought that if … somebody … wanted ….”

>Roland came onto the bridge at that moment. “Perfect. Fuel shouldn’t be a
>problem. We’ll either win, or not, long before then.”

Mac deflates.
“Never mind,” he mumbles.
It seems that stolen technology isn’t going to win this fight.