anarqrists anonymous

[rebells]

Who: salty anarchists club
Where: an undisclosed location near the mountains
When: Day 93
Open/Closed: closed to invitees and invitees of invitees!

[So Jay may have pulled you discreetly aside some time over the last week or so and invited you to a particular location near the mountains, or you may have been dragged along by a friend. Either way, there's a small group of people forming in this forest clearing, Jay at the center, pacing back and forth as has become his tendency.

Let the Qri shittalking begin.]

Comments

[oneandmikleonly]

[he perks up, a little like a startled bird]

Wait, that last one. The bones caused a power you naturally had to go out of control? May I ask for more details? I didn't know they could do that.

[his own use of them has also been very cautious -- it feels weird to be using something that was once part of a living, sentient being as a battery.]

[spaceforged]

[He nods, and points to his right robotic arm.]

When a bone fell on my hand, the energy that turns my hand into a weapon went completely out of control. It melted a hand-sized spot of ground before I could pull away.

Until that moment, I didn't know that could happen either.

[From now on he'll be handling any energy sources very carefully. Either only in lion form or with his arm covered to keep it from direct contact.]

It's possible it was just a residual effect from using the bone itself. But, be careful anyway.

[oneandmikleonly]

Mm, I will. Thank you for letting us know -- hopefully people here will spread the word and prevent any further accidents of the sort.

[spaceforged]

We also noticed the shock was a little less with two people using the same bone. That might lessen the feedback whenever we locate and secure another source. If...it has any kind of backlash.

[oneandmikleonly]

The amulet casing the Elto gave some of the bones lessened the raw effect, as well. All right. It should be manageable, then, as long as no one goes on a spree of sticking them together as the Uvi did.

[spaceforged]

[He winces. What happened to the Uvi is something straight out of a nightmare.]

I think anyone who saw what happened won’t take that risk. For everyone else, we might want to suggest a limit. Five bones?

[oneandmikleonly]

It can go a little higher than that without getting horribly dangerous, but...maybe no higher than ten. The shock from that was enormous, I can tell you

At least they're easy enough to store separately.

[spaceforged]

Having felt the shock from just one. I don't want to imagine what ten will be like. Ten it is. We don't want the shock being so great it knocks people out.

[oneandmikleonly]

That's...about what ten does, yes, or close enough.

[he's lucky he had company at the time.]

At least it means everyone will be more cautious about future power sources, whether we choose to pass them on to our hostess or not.

[spaceforged]

Even if we keep some of each back, everyone will hopefully continue to tread carefully.

But, maybe back it off to connecting only nine bones together. Just to be safe.