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Puella Magi Adfligo Systema

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Firnagzen said:
Ah, well, the junkyard it is. It is Mami's spot, after all, and you're with Mami right now.

You let Mami take half a step of lead, bounding after her with what's becoming practiced ease. You're getting much better at this - though your roof hopping still is still rather more parkour than Mami's pure, flowing élan. You roll, and you vault, and you somehow get where you're going without a single strand of hair out of place nor picking up a single speck of dirt, but there's not one trace of elegance to it.

Eh.

It works.
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Elegance?

Elegance?!

WE DON'T NEED NO STINKIN' ELEGANCE!

"OK, here we go," you mutter, mostly to yourself. "Test two: high intensity infrared light, focused into a beam." You bite your lip, considering. "Collimated, coherent light, emitted from Grief marble."

An exhale. You focus. Collimated, coherent light... you can do that. In your mind's eye and that odd other sense, you can feel the light drawing across the surface of the sphere like a shutter closing, until there's only a pencil thick beam left that hazes towards the invisible spectra of infrared.

The air heats. Even from this far away, you can feel the thermal bloom slicing through the morning chill. A sharp hiss heralds an acrid, burning smell making its way through the air to you.

... Success?

You kill the beam and dissolve the bunker, poking your head up around the rusting steel. Mami stands too, peering at the...

... well...

It's not an engine block. Not any more.

Nor is the sandy ground strictly speaking ground any more.

The pile of stag that used to be an engine block is still glowing. Faint pings reach you from the cooling metal - and sparkly, glassy bits of ground.
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....how much fucking energy was in that light beam?!

[x]bandwagon
 
Redshirt Army said:
Also Nanoha does all the names in German, and she's the ur-laser spam magical girl.
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Well, right now we're not really channeling Nanoha so much as we're channeling Hayate: phenomenal cosmic power no ability to aim. This of course just makes the German even more perfect.

Muramasa said:
What exactly do we need a laser for again?
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This isn't just a laser. We melted an engine block and glassed the area around it in seconds; that puts this weapon at somewhere between 10 to 100 megawatts I think, which is just insanely powerful for a directed energy weapon.

Onmur said:
How about we get around to making this thing usable, as in, we don't need to take cover and take eyes off our target before shooting, then pass the ball to Mami on what she wants to try next?
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Yeah, it's really not useful like this. If we want a more useful weapon we need to either go for a railgun-type weapon, or we need to figure out how to make sufficiently powerful laser shielding in an instant to protect our allies / ourself.

Agent Whiskers said:
Yeah, but I thought you guys wanted to wait for her to get better. Instead you're having Sabrina awkwardly, unintentionally flirt with her.

Seriously what
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I agree. @Kaizuki et al: try to remember that we don't want to unintentionally pressure Mami into thinking she has to be Sabrina's GF just so that she'll stay; that's hugely scummy.
 
Redshirt Army said:
Also Nanoha does all the names in German, and she's the ur-laser spam magical girl.
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No she doesn't. Nanoha's spells - and indeed, all spells using the Mid-Childan system of magic - are in English.

It's Belkan-system spells that are more typically in German, such as the kind used by Hayate and Signum (although Signum also uses a little Japanese in some of her attack names -- Shiden Issen, anyone?)
 
[:V] Carve both your and Mami's initials into the Moon
-[:V] Realize what you just did impulsively
--[:V] Try not to blush
---[:V] Blush a lot

Edit: My 100th message! Huzzah!
 
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[x] "No, you're right. What I should do is make a bigger laser worthy of the name."
-[x] Make a bigger laser.
-- [x] Ask her to come up with a name for the smaller laser, in case we don't want to slag a a city block for some reason...
[x] Continue vote in abeyance.
 
EvaUnit01 said:
....how much fucking energy was in that light beam?!
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Sand melts at 1700-ish C. So we'll call that our target temperature.

Melted engine block. Toyota camry engine block, about 450 pounds. Assume it's roughly iron, 275 kJ/kg heat of fusion. 5.5e7 J to melt it. Specific heat capacity of iron, mass, blah blah blah, 1.3e8 J to heat it up.

Sand. Call it 250 pounds of sand melted. Maybe about 150 kJ/kg heat of fusion, so 1.7e7 J to melt it. Then that's... weird, another 1.3e8 J to heat it up.

Put it together, around 3e8 joules, or 300 MJ.

With a one-second beam time, to yield a 300 MW beam... that feels like it's the right OOM? Smelteries eat a shit ton of electricity, easily as much as an entire city put together, and they're melting tons of the stuff (thousands of times as much material) over the course of hours (thousands of times as much time), putting them maybe in the right place?

Also, fuck that's scary.
 
Vebyast said:
Sand melts at 1700-ish C. So we'll call that our target temperature.

Melted engine block. Toyota camry engine block, about 450 pounds. Assume it's roughly iron, 275 kJ/kg heat of fusion. 5.5e7 J to melt it. Specific heat capacity of iron, mass, blah blah blah, 1.3e8 J to heat it up.

Sand. Call it 250 pounds of sand melted. Maybe about 150 kJ/kg heat of fusion, so 1.7e7 J to melt it. Then that's... weird, another 1.3e8 J to heat it up.

Put it together, around 3e8 joules, or 300 MJ.

With a one-second beam time, to yield a 300 MW beam... that feels like it's the right OOM? Smelteries eat a shit ton of electricity, easily as much as an entire city put together, and they're melting tons of the stuff (thousands of times as much material) over the course of hours (thousands of times as much time), putting them maybe in the right place?

Also, fuck that's scary.
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...mah gawd...
 
Martian Heat ray.

Where's the tripod?

(Also we can now legitimately claim laser is not difficult. Yus.)
 
Let's be completely honest, this is too much dakka to be used in most any fight we can get into. As it is now, this is not a precision weapon. This is an indiscriminate death beam that will cause uncontrollable collateral damage. We can gain some safety by getting into a state of mind where it's pulsed rather that continuous, and get more by restricting its use to barriers and around magical girls that can be healed, but even then we'd still have to spend half an hour healing severe flash-burns after every fight. This is a weapon that we can pull out when we want something 100% dead and don't care about collateral damage.
 
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Random mini omake I thought of in the bus to work. Probably much funnier in my head.


Sabrina didn't immediatley recognize the strange magical girls she'd sensed entering Mitakihara and came over to investigate, but there was just something familiar about them. Especially their outfits. Their outfits?

"Wait, no no no! Why?"

She had put off dealing with that silly place for a while now, but instead of her coming to a decision and making the trip, it seemed like Asunaro had come to her.

"Sabrina, we have been hearing of your inapropriate conduct for a while now and now that we've seen you in person and have comfirmed that the rumors are indeed true, let us help you."

"Help me? With what?"

"Your pants. We're here to get rid of your pants. It's just not proper for a magical girl."

"What."
 
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Vebyast said:
Let's be completely honest, this is too much dakka to be used in most any fight we can get into. As it is now, this is not a precision weapon. This is an indiscriminate death beam that will cause uncontrollable collateral damage. We can gain some safety by getting into a state of mind where it's pulsed rather that continuous, and get more by restricting its use to barriers and around magical girls that can be healed, but even then we'd still have to spend half an hour healing severe flash-burns after every fight. This is a weapon that we can pull out when we want something 100% dead and don't care about collateral damage.
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*nods vigorously*

Yes, should be spammable like gatling. I totally agree it's just a first step. A flashlight, really.

[x]RedshirtArmy
 
*deadpan*
'No, it's not alright. Attack names should be bland, boring, forgettable, and totally misleading. Like when you call out 'Hyper punch' and then kick somebody. Like me, right now, kicking you while you're at your lowest with this mental diatribe that was supposed to be a joke and is just making me feel guilty.'

Make it happen fam, we discuss it and it shall appear.
 
[x] "I like when you talk like that."
-[x] Wait did you say that. Blush.
 
Onmur said:
"Ray of HOPE!"
"I'm BURNIIIIIING! THERE'S NOTHING HOPEFUL ABOUT THIS!!"
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This strikes me as what would result if you did a hard scifi take on magical girls, where all the magic turned out to actually be techonology. :V

"But what about my transformation sequence?"
"Those are nano-assemblers breaking down your clothing for raw materials to build new clothing out of carbon nanotubes."
"But what about triumphing through the power of love and friendship?"
"Well, that is a real thing. We usually call it 'unit cohesion', though."
"And my Special Sparkly Rainbow Love Beam that purifies evil?"
"That... that's plasma. Why did you think you keep setting cars on fire?"


Vebyast said:
Put it together, around 3e8 joules, or 300 MJ.

With a one-second beam time, to yield a 300 MW beam... that feels like it's the right OOM?
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I dunno. Reading the update again, I get the impression that the beam was going for more than a second. There was enough time for the air to carry the smell to us across the length of a football field.


Vebyast said:
This is a weapon that we can pull out when we want something 100% dead and don't care about collateral damage.
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Like witches, our most frequent opponents.


Kaizuki said:
-[x] "I like when you talk like that."
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Hmm... this might not be the best time to say that. The last thing Mami said was to get all nervous and uncertain about disagreeing with us and go, "U-Um. If that's alright." We don't want her to think that's how we want her to be.
 
Eat your heart out, Ramiel girl.

Now all we need is to make some sort of remote eye constructs, stick them outside of our Mobile Oppression Fortress, and we can go full Ramiel.

Depending on how much we can ramp up the power of our lasers, we could do some kind of epic Ramiel versus Walpurgisnacht battle.
 
Isn't invisible light not that hot?
And we just made a WTF-level Death Beam from it...

Let's do it again! Only with X-Rays this time! :)

And maybe try to charge our current Death Beam, and then releasing it for a split-of-a-second? Hopefully that time frame will keep the damage to a minimum.
 
I think we should make sure we can calibrate this to clearly non-lethal levels, in case we end up having to break up another fight and so we can deal with snipergucas (Ramiel I'm looking at you) without having to get in close.

Against Walpurgisnacht, hopefully this won't be too useful due to timestop or better options we should develop for her.

Now, Lux Aeterna... I think it's four syllabes? Should be easy enough to say.

(But Mami probably wants us to name it 'Finale' so we can do a combination attack. Or just match. We should make an attack worthy of 'Finale' so we can Tiro Duet with Mami.) :p
 
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