Fortifications

[Nox]

Dorian and Ivan came up to him. Cruz looked like he was nodding in agreement to whatever his mother was yelling at him about. Nox couldn't hear a thing - not well anyway over the ringing in his ears. Nov was shaking in his arms and he was purring softly into the dogs ear to soothe the poor little one. That was the biggest drawback to using this as an alarm system. But we also saw just how effective it was.

Ivan patted Nova on the head and said something. Nox sucked at reading lips and just nodded. He thought he understood. He wanted to help but he was more eager to learn. Who the fuck wouldn't be eager to learn how to blow yourself up? right?

Nox flopped back onto the grass and stared up at the other two men with a grin. "They work."


Dorian rolled his eyes and squatted down. "You alright?"


Nox nodded. "Yeah. Ears are ringing. But hey I'm not on fire!"
Nox remembered the many times his sister had saved him from his own mistakes. When the fire singed his eyebrows, nearly melted his clothes on to his skin and the many burns he'd had. He frowned at the memories and sat up scrubbing his hand through his hair. "I miss Aurora."
he muttered mostly to himself as he picked himself up off the ground.

Ivan wanted to help. Cruz was utterly useless right now with Ana full bore momming on him right now. I was surprised she hadn't taken him in the house by the ear yet. I looked at the cop... "You want to learn, now's the best time. I have to redo all the network now. Nova tripped too many and it's failing all around."
Weaves were dying. They had tied too many together and didn't tie them off individually. Something learned anyway.

Nox started the weave for the multi-directional flash bang bombs. And tied them off with a trigger that if pulled by the power would go off. The weave itself was complicated and as he went through the motions he thought of something. He'd tri it in another one but first he looked at Ivan. "That might be hard to do, but feel free to try. But I need you to connect that one to this one here."
Nox pointed from the corner of one of the network connections that was still standing to the pull mechanism of the flash bang bomb and then to another one on the other side. "To there, with a very thread of spirit. If someone crosses the spirit thread it's like tripping a wire except they can't see it unless they can see it all. The bomb goes off, lights and sound flare and we get a nice house shaking to alert us to their presence. The trick is to get it high enough that squirrels and rabbits don't trip it. But anything as big or bigger than Nova will. No human's crawling on their bellies."
It was a physical network. It would be nice if Nox knew how to do it without alert the whole world but that was far beyond his thinking.

Nox showed Ivan what he was meant and then tied off the spirit thread in a nice safe knot. Ivan was still a rookie at this. The threads should keep him busy at least until Cruz could come help.

But it was that moment of clarity of what he'd done wrong before. The cone had to be in place first. Nox started backwards than he had the last time, and every other time before that. Light reflecting cone like a flashlight first, then the sound cone like a speaker, and then to the actual mechanism that went bang and released the light and sound.

Nox grinned as he finished the weave. It took longer than he'd have liked but that would take practice. And he intended to do that with each and every one of these. Nox turned the weave way from the house towards the street and pulled the trigger. The sound and light flashed in front of him but he was left unphased.

"Fuck yeah!"
Nox started again. Trying to make it faster but not fuck it up. Fucking it up had ear ringing consequences.


Edited by Nox, Nov 17 2017, 12:40 PM.