Ooooh! *bounce bounce bounce*
I was just noticing the delightful synergies between the Cataclysm Balm version of this one and the Significant Concerns about runaway handwavium pollution. Even if the heroes *do* figure out that the thing the baddies are threatening people with is an aerosol disaster relief device, there's *still* some fairly significant reasons to try to keep them from setting it off.
Of course, if you want to go another path, is entirely up to you, but this would be so *pretty*.
"Oh no. It's not a planetbuster. What a horrible thought. I would *never* build something like *that*. It's just a little bit of disaster releif I was woking on."
"Oh, thank goodness."
"It's really just an aerosol handwavium dispersal device, with an area effect the size of a small country. Pakistan, maybe. Well, more than that with the right winds, but *most* of the handwavium would wind up in the target area. In any case, I'm certain that the resulting biomods would be extremely helpful to anyone who was endangered by a disaster or three."
"Okay. Okay. That's.... It's *WHAT*?"
I was just noticing the delightful synergies between the Cataclysm Balm version of this one and the Significant Concerns about runaway handwavium pollution. Even if the heroes *do* figure out that the thing the baddies are threatening people with is an aerosol disaster relief device, there's *still* some fairly significant reasons to try to keep them from setting it off.
Of course, if you want to go another path, is entirely up to you, but this would be so *pretty*.
"Oh no. It's not a planetbuster. What a horrible thought. I would *never* build something like *that*. It's just a little bit of disaster releif I was woking on."
"Oh, thank goodness."
"It's really just an aerosol handwavium dispersal device, with an area effect the size of a small country. Pakistan, maybe. Well, more than that with the right winds, but *most* of the handwavium would wind up in the target area. In any case, I'm certain that the resulting biomods would be extremely helpful to anyone who was endangered by a disaster or three."
"Okay. Okay. That's.... It's *WHAT*?"