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[entertainaplanb]

...What earthly good does it do me to know Ben Franklin's lightning rod boosts the energy level of anything you connect to it? How can a lightning rod even do that?

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[hollowleg]

Great. More useless crap from these weird vertigo things. Whoohoo...

voice, why the heck not

[entertainaplanb]

No kidding. At least the ray gun's good for something.

Or it would be if I could charge it.

voice BECAUSE c:

[hollowleg]

It doesn't like... plug in or anything?

[entertainaplanb]

It does, but who or whatever is running this show hasn't seen fit to give me the charging station yet. And I wasted what charge it had when it showed up trying to figure out what it does.

Apparently it stuns people.

[hollowleg]

You couldn't figure that out without wasting the whole battery?

[entertainaplanb]

I didn't run down the whole charge on purpose! [Indignant tone is indignant!] because of course I didn't get instructions with the thing. That would be helpful, and make sense.

Video, 'cause he doesn't get tech stuff

[originaloddcouple]

[Isaac just... blinks. At that. Then he attempts to rationalize it.]

Well, it's good to have any information provided to you! Even if it is, ah...

[He sort of wiggles his hand.]

And I suppose Franklin must have just really known what he was doing. I guess.

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[entertainaplanb]

[Eh, it's easy enough to turn on the video on her phone. So here, have a redhead (her hair's down, at the moment), already in her pajamas for the night. And Becky looks pretty damn confused by this latest flash of insight.]

I guess he did. It doesn't make much sense that a lightning rod would do that, but... I guess... maybe it has wires...?

Yeah, I've got nothing. And it's not like I could even get to the thing anyway. It's probably on display in some museum somewhere that isn't Locke, meaning by the time I got there I'd forget what all the fuss was about. Hardly worth getting myself arrested over.

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[originaloddcouple]

[Oh, a lady. Isaac wonders if a married man is supposed to look away from women in pajamas before dismissing it. He's in casual ware, so it's fine.

I'm sure it must! Wires were already invented, right?

It probably wouldn't be too difficult. I don't think museum security is very strong. But if you're going to forget about it, it might not be worth it yet.

[entertainaplanb]

I don't see how it would work without wires, but they aren't exactly standard issue on most lightning rods I've heard of.

[She sighs.] It may not be worth it at all. I'm sure the man made more than one lightning rod, so the odds of finding the right one are low, and if it didn't end up working it wouldn't be worth the trouble.

[originaloddcouple]

Maybe that's what made it special! Wires!

Well, that's a real pickle. Maybe you could hire someone to force you to steal as many as possible! I don't know what you could do with an energy boost, but it might be neat.

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[struckout]

What?

[ That's all, just... that. Safe to say this 'post' makes exactly zero sense to one Kallie Raydan. ]

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[entertainaplanb]

Trust me, that's what I've been saying. One of those vertigo things hit and... now I know that.

I don't know why it would do that, I don't know what I'm supposed to do with this information, I don't know why I would even have known it at another time.

If not for the marksmanship I'd be wondering if I were getting information from some kind of mad scientist.

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[struckout]

Pulse.

[ Because if they're all going to call the phenomenon something, it might as well be the same thing, right? Clearly this is important BUT ANYWAY. ]

I mean, what do you even mean by that? Energy level?

[entertainaplanb]

I have no idea. at a guess, I'd say that if you hooked it up to... like, a generator, it'd make it produce more power?

[struckout]

Okay, if you sa yso.

[ To be entirely truthful, it was the mention of anything with 'lightning' in it that kind of drew her attention in the first place. She's not sure what else to say, but in the moments following, can't seem to get herself to drop it. After a few more beats... ]

You don't think its magic-related, do you?

[hopeungovernable]

I suppose it means something to...someone?

[entertainaplanb]

Maybe, but I can't make heads or tails of it.

[hopeungovernable]

I'm assuming that's fairly common though? I wouldn't worry about it.

Though I don't know why it would be Ben Franklin's in particular.

[entertainaplanb]

Well, he did invent the things. That probably has something to do with it.

[hopeungovernable]

Did he invent lightning rods? I didn't pay him much attention in school aside from his historical relevance. I don't know why his would be any more special.

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[not_good_not_wicked]

Well do you HAVE Ben Franklin's lightning rod? Because that would be kinda cool.

You could use it to recharge your raygun.

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[entertainaplanb]

No, just useful information about it.

And call it a hunch, but I don't think that would be very good for the Tesla.

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[playerspooker]

Well, I'm no electrician, but I would imagine it would boost the energy level when lightning struck.

And then you have yourself a useless piece of junk 'cause the voltage fried it to hell and back.

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[entertainaplanb]

Something like that. I don't know why I needed to know this.