If I Ever Have To Take My Computer Apart Again I'm Shooting It · 1:36am Apr 12th, 2016
As it is I have to a put some buckshot in my old external hard drive, which broke so utterly and completely that trying to yank it out of the enclosure and stick it in my computer broke my computer. I had to reinstall my OS. Twice.
Perhaps I'll use explosives. Or build a railgun. I am an angry nerd with everything he needs to make one.
But yeah here, this is what I've been up to.
Rainbow was the hardest. She'd always been fast, but now she could practically teleport. Twilight had watched her dodge a stone Luna had thrown at a speed substantially greater than that of sound without particular effort. Her senses had been magnified to a borderline freakish degree as well, especially her hearing and eyesight. The only respite had been her choice of a weapon, some strange spear-like thing she called a ji. Being a bladed weapon, it was used differently than a staff, but it was similar enough that Twilight had at least understood the basic concepts she was trying to impart in training. She was perfectly suited for scouting and skirmishes, to be sure, but Twilight had no idea how to help Rainbow take advantage of her abilities beyond sparring.
Rarity at least had been simple enough. She'd quickly cottoned on to Luna's style of magic, and the veils and illusions she could weave were so perfect, only the Princesses knew for sure when she was around. In combat, she'd simply shown up one day with a pair of delicate, diamond-bladed daggers, an enchanted bow, and iron arrows tipped with yet more diamond. She was scarily precise with the application of both, even at long range. Twilight had seen Rarity aim at targets so far away they were barely visible, and she'd never seen her friend deliver anything less than a perfect bullseye. Rarity took an almost childish glee in taking on the role of a mysterious assassin, and Twilight was quite content to let her.
Applejack was the only one of her friends that could match Twilight in a fair fight, and it was entirely due to sheer brutal strength. She wore a set of thick, solid armour Luna had given to her, and she was all but invulnerable in it. Even out of it, the best blades Canterlot could offer, from small daggers to mighty claymores, shattered on her hide without drawing blood. For offence, she'd taken a hammer from the Royal Smithy, and Twilight had deeply regretted questioning a forge hammer's use as a weapon after Applejack had rather casually batted her out of the sparring arena with it. There had been profuse apologies over the broken ribs, but Twilight personally thought her friend had taken far too much satisfaction in the deed.
Pinkie was, as ever, a walking enigma. She wore no armour, and fought with a simple sabre, but considering her abilities before she'd been turned, it was nothing too far fetched. However, Twilight couldn't for the life of her decide if it was amazing or terrifying how Pinkie's Pinkie Sense had gone from brief snippets of soon-to-occur events to predicting the not-too-far future with impossible accuracy and unerringness.
Fluttershy, she had no such doubt about. The calm, shy, pegasus could bring Twilight to the edge of a panic attack with her dissonant serenity in the most extreme situations. She was learning the healing arts, but Twilight had the uncomfortable feeling that Fluttershy could just as easily watch a pony be dismembered as she could watch them be put back together, if she thought it was for the greater good. In a fight, she relied on a meteor hammer, a small weight on the end of a long silk rope. It was beautiful beyond words to see, but deadly efficient.
On top of that, Luna had taught them all the very basics of necromancy. Twilight had been rather discomfited to learn the emotional style of magic Luna favoured was essentially the same thing, except fuelled by her innate power rather than the essence of her life. As for necromancy itself, Twilight found the power very nearly overwhelming, and using it almost made her pity the necromancers. Even with the protection of her vampiric nature, it was borderline addictive, and seemed to inherently drawn towards destruction and ruin. It was far, far easier to throw a bolt of deadly, midnight black fire than it was to conjure something useful.The power didn't quite feel evil, but it reeked of corruption and defilement, and it was deeply unsettling to smell the brimstone stench of what Luna called nightfire wafting down from her horn.
And, of course, there was more. There was always more. A constant frenzy of activity, frenetic and chaotic and mind-bendingly consistent. Even when everything else failed, her friends required almost constant supervision at first, to prevent them from lashing out at anything they perceived as a threat. Or an annoyance, really. Again, Rainbow was the worst. She'd always been hot-headed and arrogant, but Twilight knew that was all because of how insecure the pegasus really was. Now, Rainbow had no insecurities. She was better than the best, and she was all too aware of it. More than once, Twilight had found herself forced to personally step in and physically enforce a pecking order to keep violence from breaking out.
Frankly, she just thanked her lucky stars that she was still the single most dangerous fighter of the group. She hated how much she reveled in it, but it was necessary, and so she would endure as long as she was required to do so.
A railgun?! Good thing I live on the other side(ish) of the world! Or I would never dare critique your work!
3864886 I can also make dynamite from items found in your every day pharmacy, grocery store, and gardening store.
You will never feel safe again.
3864934 I'll work extra hard for you, sir! Just please don't hurt me!
If it's a laptop, I feel your pain. I had to pull apart my laptop to clean out the inside a bit, and it took me half an hour just to get it apart...
Also, might I suggest thermite? Just an 8/3 by weight mixture of Iron Oxide powder and Aluminum powder.
~Crystalline Electrostatic~
10:3_4/12/2016
3865198 Thank thunderfuckin' jesus it wasn't a laptop or the explosion would be visible from fucking Pluto.
3865240 The small planetoid? Wow, that's pretty bad. Remember that mixture for thermite though, because it's super easy to make, and super effective at burning stuff. Just keep in mind that you need sparklers or magnesium strips to ignite it properly. It burns super hot and leaves a glob of pure iron when it's done burning.
~Crystalline Electrostatic~
10:40_4/12/2016
3865248 I know. I put a hole through an engine block with it once.
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*Feels less and less safe by the minute*
3865280 I haven't actually made it, but I know how to make it. I'm also creative enough to come up with a delivery system if I needed to, not that I would need to.
3865288 There is no need to be upset.
~Crystalline Electrostatic~
11:14_4/12/2016
3865309 Delivery is easy in theory, just make sure to have a timer for the magnesium ignition source or it's useless. Can't say I've done it, but I've got a few ideas whirling around the 'ol noggin.
3865288 Fear not, friend, I'm drunk again. The worst I'll do is sing.
3864934 While fertilizer is a good start, you need to make sure it has a healthy amount of sodium nitrate before you even think of 're-purposing' it for other activities.
3865315 Magnesium is a bit unreliable. I'd improvise and electronic ignition system, because it would be more reliable to do...
Look up Colin Furze, he made a thermite launcher that is pretty cool.
~Crystalline Electrostatic~
13:24_4/12/2016
3865315 *Is shaking in his boots*
3865522 I acknowledge your point while simultaneously having better uses for electronics than blowing them up, unless they anger me. Hell, most of the explodey things I can make are unstable enough that I've never actually worked with electronic detonators. I'm not a chemist or anything, just a nerd with a temper, a lot of free time, and very little skill at risk assessment.
3865432 Fertilizer? Psssssh. Cold packs. Made with sodium nitrate and water.
Of course, potassium nitrate isn't that hard to make in and of itself, and black powder is painfully simple.
3868348 Never made gun powder. Made gun cotton though... which got dry because I had a real big stupid one day. Almost burned down a fair chunk of a bloody forest
3868357 Potassium nitrate, charcoal, and elemental sulfur. Potassium nitrate (saltpeter) is sold in chemical form, sold labeled as "Stump Remover", and can be made in about 10 months from a drum full of piss, water, and horse shit. Grind it all into fine powder (washing mortar and pestle between use- USE CERAMIC) then dump it all together in the bowl and grind it some more with the pestle for like 10 mins, adding about 7% water to the powder to make it granulate and sticky and mix better.