Lost in Transit

14

^^ Adamantite Sonic Dagger (mk.2) ^^

It took several days to repair all of my golem's, but I was thankful for it, in a way; I realized that the ones with multiple materials, such as wood and clay, were far weaker than the others, even the ones that were just wood. Some sort of issue with the resonance of several types of materials not transmitting neural commands well? Clark said it made sense to him, so I trusted the science behind it and just made them all one material. While I'd been working, however, Medea hadn't been slacking at all.

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"Johann! Helen! Theo? Come check this out!!!" She ran into the Living room in just an oversized shirt and frazzled hair that needed a brushing, and grinned excitedly at us all. We all raised an eyebrow at her appearance, but we all shrugged and followed, curious as to why she was so excited.

Her room was just as much of a mess as last time I saw it, but now it was... organized? Organized chaos, I'd say, was the theme for her room, with piles of specific things in specific places, but there were still piles of random things lying around.

"If-no the clutta- ptuh-! Ignore the clutter! This is what I'm trying to show you!" She was apparently in the middle of her morning routine, rinsing her mouth out with some herbal tea that she and Cassidy had made once we'd run out of mouth-wash, (apparently it had the same effects,) and she picked up a metal dagger with a few crystals hanging off it along the handle.

I raised an eyebrow slowly, and hummed. "And this is... a...?"

"It's a Tuning Fork you dingus, what else would it be?!?" She snapped, and tapped it against the desk, causing a god-awful ringing sound to fill the room.

Johann grunted, clutching his ears, and then shivered as the sound ended. "You're lucky I got my Tinnitus fixed a few years back, Klienen..."

She grinned. "See!!! It works! Oh! Here!!!" She picked up a mason jar from her desk, and showed us the small puddle of liquid inside it proudly.

I frowned slowly, and then flinched when it formed into a stag beetle, a tiny fragment of a magic stone having been present and I hadn't noticed it. "Wait... did that sound turn it back into a slime? This is your Sonic Disruptor you've been working on!!!" I grinned, suddenly understanding the breakthrough she'd made.

She laughed and nodded happily. "Yep!!! A few tweaks to the audible portion, -maybe making it non-Audible would be best,- and then Johann can make the next one... a bit sleeker? The crystals inside the handle, obviously, and a piece of metal here to direct the sound down the blade, away from the user..." she began muttering again, setting the jar and dagger down and drawing a few sketches. She noticed us still standing there, and shooed us out casually. "That's all I wanted to show you, off you go!"

"Wait... you harnessed the powers of Adamantite in just a few days?!? The best mages in the world are still struggling with using that property to drive away monsters, and you just... how?!?" Luna smoothed her hair back slowly, looking confused.

"I'm smart, and it's basic physics and auditory resonance theory? Off you go, I'm busy!" She waved at us all irritatedly, and I began moving us all out of the room by virtue of my wide arms herding them all.

"Well done, lovely, I'm proud of you!" I called over my shoulder, and she raised a hand in acknowledgement, going back to work as I closed her door. "Interesting... and how's James doing with that rangefinder? I wonder if Medea shared with him?" I hummed, leading the way to James's worksite, at the caboose.

When I spotted James, he was up top, power-welding a thin rod of Adamantite to the roof of the water tank, to my confusion.

"How in the hell did you get a Power Welder working?!?" I barked up to him over the screeching sound. He didn't hear at all, and I noticed the Noise-Canceling headphones on his ears. "Damn... that noise doesn't travel far though... wonder why?"