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[aaaaaaaagh_sky]

Yesterday was a day of shooting- and, very briefly, shouting. Today, not so much. Ellen's got work to do outside to meet John-117's standards, and that takes a lot of time, a lot of effort, and a whole lot of sweating

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[evilontheloose]

"Hey Ellen!" Oh look, a rather cheerful Evil Genius. "How are you?"

[aaaaaaaagh_sky]

"Oh- hi, Jordan." Ellen looks up and smiles, though it's a little bit wince-influenced; the burn mark along her right cheek isn't very comfortable. "I'm doing all right. Long day today, out back. How have you been?"

[evilontheloose]

"I'm fine." She frowns, looking at the injury. "What happened? Need a stimpack?" Hers are not as good as Ellen's, but...

[aaaaaaaagh_sky]

"No, it's not worth it," Ellen says. "It's a lesson in why I need a helmet. Laser burn. There was a robot... Thank you for the offer, though. Have your formulas come along much in development since last time?"

[evilontheloose]

"Not really. I left Kendy doing experiments back home, but there's only so much I can advance without practical testing..." And that would mean using her stimies on people.

Injured people. "Got sidetracked by a heat-gun idea."

[aaaaaaaagh_sky]

Ellen nods. "What kind of range would it be?" she says. "Heat rays would be a little complicated, right?"

[evilontheloose]

"It is a microwave emitter firing inside a double-helix field of artificial gravity focused by force field lenses. The idea is to have sun-like heat focused on a single spot, and make anything hit evaporate. No melting, no slag, no ash, just turn what it hits into a cloud of vapor."

...Jordan is plotting a doomsday weapon? "Reshaping the lenses with the force field actuators I can in theory go from a wide beam to sweep a battlefield with, to a narrow band of focused heat that can cut and pierce anything."

"Problem is, test-firing it in my lab would not be a good idea." Which is actually good, if you think about it?

[aaaaaaaagh_sky]

Ellen winces. "I wonder if that's how the death ray on the aliens' ship worked," she murmurs. "Wow. How, um... how big of a sweep does it have?"

[evilontheloose]

"A cone of a 100 feet diameter, on a range of up to six miles."

"On the full-sized model, of course, that'd need to be mounted on a tank. A handheld model wouldd have a three feet cone or so."

[aaaaaaaagh_sky]

Ellen nods. "Sounds like the kind of thing Dr. Girlfriend would know about," she says. "Although I haven't seen her in ages. Not since I had to buy some microfusion cell substitutes from her, back when I had my Gauss rifle."

[evilontheloose]

"If you need spares, I can make them for you. My fusion reactor is running on low power most of the time, or I would run out of storage for nuclear fuel."

[aaaaaaaagh_sky]

"I'm reasonably well supplied, but I'm down by about six," Ellen says. "There was a robot in here the other day who needed them. What would you need in exchange for six more MF cells?"

[evilontheloose]

"Nothing, really. Take it as a gift." Jordan had been practicing being generous.

All part of trying to be Less Evil.

[aaaaaaaagh_sky]

"All right," says Ellen. "Thank you. But if you ever need a favor in return, let me know."

[evilontheloose]

"Actually, if you don't mind the company, I'd like to go take a few biological samples from the mutated wildlife..." She is back to biological experimentation.

[aaaaaaaagh_sky]

"It might be a little hard to explain just yet," Ellen says. "Star Paladin Cross and I just came from a battle in DC where three strangers showed up out of the Metro tunnels to help me. Asking her not to wonder where a fourth one came from would be a bit much- but give it some time and I'll try to come get you. And if you want, I can gather some parts as long as I'm at it. I mean, I've got yao guai meat in my backpack as a ration, it's not like I don't get this stuff fresh."