(01-23-2022, 02:04 PM)Black Aeronaut Wrote: 55-gallon drum, you say?
"Neh, Momo?"
"Hmm?"
"Isn't that Destiny's new spell?"
"Which new spell, Kuro-nee? She's like dad that way, remember?"
"Of course. That Red... Rum... thing?"
".... Oh. Redrum Machina? ...We need to run. Very fast."
"What? Why? It's not supposed to be that bad... is it?"
"Do you ever pay attention to the Device-Net!? She just burned up ten micrograms on that spell!"
"..... FUCK."
Just some notes since no one commented on this.
Redrum is a reference the the film, The Shining, in which the word was actually "murder" spelled backwards. So in a weird sense, the name of this spell can be taken to mean "murder machine". And even if she's being kinda chuni about it, it very much not an exaggeration. It creates arachnoid spell construct drones with a penchant for finding warm targets, latching on, and then exploding.
The "ten micrograms" refers to an expenditure of antimatter being annihilated. Destiny will have a Fermion Inverter and a M-AM Reactor.... but no Deuterium Fusor to fire the Inverter. This will mean that she makes antimatter at a much slower pace than her father, but the trade-off is that she has a much bigger "fuel bunker" to store it in. How big? ....Well, due to her slow rate of replenishment, they haven't seen her hit her maximum fill yet, but conservative estimates put her at 1000 milligrams. She doesn't often use it, but when she does? EVERYONE GTFO!
In this case, 10 micrograms is the equivalent to Ben's Level 3 shot - which has a TNT equivalent of 430 kilograms. And she just dumped all of that energy into a spell called "Murder Machine". She is most emphatically not fucking around.
Lastly, "Device-Net" is a system inspired by the US Navy's AEGIS system where all sundry Magical Devices are sharing tactical data with each other so others know what's going on around them. And Destiny's device was kind enough to inform everyone that's listening ("Lookin' at you, there, Kurohime.") that, "By the way, my boss just burned up enough antimatter to level an apartment highrise for a single spell, so maybe you might wanna get clear?"