Work was about seventeen different kinds of draining and busy today, so I didn't get to write much. >.>
EDIT: Things quieted down, and inspiration came to me. Here's some more.
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Good hit. Very straight... and right on the edge of the building! I then began to 'walk' the beam around the edges of the building, cutting it away from the outer walls. It's an older building, so the outer walls provide a lot of structural strength. Cut them off, and the center- THERE IT GOES!
I couldn't hear the CRASH of the building proper collapsing, floor by floor, inside its own outer walls... but I could see it in great detail. One building totaled... but that's an AWFUL lot of rubble just sitting there. I should probably clean that up.[What do you think, Mal? Think the walls will contain a good blast?]
[THEY ARE SUFFICIENT]
[Good. Arcane Blast.]
I pointed Mal at the center of the rubble pile, thought my way through the necessary calculations... and then found myself at loose ends while the spell charged.
I must be getting better at this. Wouldn't be able to have this thought otherwise.
...say, why is it that everybody else says their arias out loud? There must be a practical reason for it, else everybody would just cast silently.
Spell's ready. [Fire.]
True to Mal's word, the building's walls were still standing afterwards... if only just. The pile of rubble in the middle of the building, though? Gone, totally.
Okay, now I just need to knock all the people out, and leave some evidence behind. [Magic Missile. Verify non-lethal payload.]
[PAYLOAD SET TO NON-LETHAL.]
[Good.]
I spent the next minute or so juggling numbers like mad. I'd put a bit more power than usual into that spell, so the cloud of missiles was hundreds strong; it took some time to lay in individual targets for each one of them... and a bit more time to fix the inevitable errors, and make sure that every single target got no less than two (and no more than three) missiles assigned to them.
When I finally gave the order, about thirty of my missiles pivoted in place, and then shot off towards the ground. A second later, another thirty missiles aimed and fired. Then another, a second after that. It took about eight seconds to finish shooting... enough time for me to figure out a few tweaks to the spell.
...so I'm always going to be limited by how fast I can calculate new vectors... but it looks like Mal can only transfer vectors in lots of a certain size. Gotta look into streaming vectors as I make them... and making them more efficient.
I took one last look (and a scan, just to be sure) of the area. They're all knocked out. Good. Now for the evidence.
[Mal, patch me through to Uno, please.]
My Unitarian Jihad Name is: Brother Atom Bomb of Courteous Debate. Get yours.
I've been writing a bit.
EDIT: Things quieted down, and inspiration came to me. Here's some more.
**********
Good hit. Very straight... and right on the edge of the building! I then began to 'walk' the beam around the edges of the building, cutting it away from the outer walls. It's an older building, so the outer walls provide a lot of structural strength. Cut them off, and the center- THERE IT GOES!
I couldn't hear the CRASH of the building proper collapsing, floor by floor, inside its own outer walls... but I could see it in great detail. One building totaled... but that's an AWFUL lot of rubble just sitting there. I should probably clean that up.[What do you think, Mal? Think the walls will contain a good blast?]
[THEY ARE SUFFICIENT]
[Good. Arcane Blast.]
I pointed Mal at the center of the rubble pile, thought my way through the necessary calculations... and then found myself at loose ends while the spell charged.
I must be getting better at this. Wouldn't be able to have this thought otherwise.
...say, why is it that everybody else says their arias out loud? There must be a practical reason for it, else everybody would just cast silently.
Spell's ready. [Fire.]
True to Mal's word, the building's walls were still standing afterwards... if only just. The pile of rubble in the middle of the building, though? Gone, totally.
Okay, now I just need to knock all the people out, and leave some evidence behind. [Magic Missile. Verify non-lethal payload.]
[PAYLOAD SET TO NON-LETHAL.]
[Good.]
I spent the next minute or so juggling numbers like mad. I'd put a bit more power than usual into that spell, so the cloud of missiles was hundreds strong; it took some time to lay in individual targets for each one of them... and a bit more time to fix the inevitable errors, and make sure that every single target got no less than two (and no more than three) missiles assigned to them.
When I finally gave the order, about thirty of my missiles pivoted in place, and then shot off towards the ground. A second later, another thirty missiles aimed and fired. Then another, a second after that. It took about eight seconds to finish shooting... enough time for me to figure out a few tweaks to the spell.
...so I'm always going to be limited by how fast I can calculate new vectors... but it looks like Mal can only transfer vectors in lots of a certain size. Gotta look into streaming vectors as I make them... and making them more efficient.
I took one last look (and a scan, just to be sure) of the area. They're all knocked out. Good. Now for the evidence.
[Mal, patch me through to Uno, please.]
My Unitarian Jihad Name is: Brother Atom Bomb of Courteous Debate. Get yours.
I've been writing a bit.