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[onei]

[ Thankfully, Ina's gotten a bit more used to things since her arrival. Used enough to not hold the omnicom right up to her face and yell into it, at least. She...almost seems to have an idea of how to point the thing and get a decent picture, in fact.

Almost.

So she's got it far enough back to capture a bit of the place behind her, which is definitely not Legion World. Some might recognize it as the Hall of Justice museum, if they've been there; it seems she's decided to take a trip down to Earth for the day. ]

I have a request. It's my understanding that some of you are more...technologically inclined.

[ Polite understatement. ]

I had thought it would be helpful to learn more of the heroes who inspired the Legion, since I have little idea what to expect - and I believe I've found a worthy example to follow, in the one they called Green Arrow.

[ She turns her omnicom to point the camera at a nearby display of a variety of arrows, with holographic footage playing in the background that shows them in action. Smoke arrows that provide a haze to aid in escape or getting a quick hit in that the enemy can't anticipate! Net arrows that explode into a net on impact, entangling the target and keeping them from escaping! Boxing glove arrows that...well, hit things like a boxing glove. For when you don't have a real boxing glove, maybe. ]

My world has no such...variety, beyond fire arrows. What I've brought with me seems rather limited in use, compared to this.

Would anyone have the skill and the willingness to help me replicate these, and perhaps some others?

[ Come on, nerds, one of you must be up to the challenge, right? ]

Comments

[kingtyrantranger]

Whoa, Pidge, slow up a bit.

It's a boxing glove arrow. You can't improve on that!

[isthisapidge]

That's just it! It's a boxing glove arrow! It's so front heavy it'll just fall, like, three inches away from the bow unless you balance the weight of each one exactly perfectly without making it too heavy to fly!

It'd be more effective to just...I dunno, run up an hit them with the bow.

[kingtyrantranger]

It can't be that hard to do! And it's cool.

[Of course, Jason's main experience with bows comes from a teammate whose bow fires laser beams. The actual limits of a bow aren't something that he's really familiar with]

[isthisapidge]

Putting a boxing glove on the end alters the aerodynamic properties of the whole arrow. You're basically re-engineering something designed for quick piercing into forceful punching. It's like...trying to make a sword into a hammer. You'd get something that doesn't work as either one.

[Don't argue physics with Pidge unless you want to be here a while...]

[kingtyrantranger]

Couldn't you just turn the sword around?

[Not that Jason's ever tried to do that. He's usually a big practitioner of "pointy end goes into the other guy."]

[isthisapidge]

What, grab the blade and slice your fingers off? Or grab the hilt and risk cutting your own nose off while you hammer?

[kingtyrantranger]

Of course not!

You'd wear gloves to protect your fingers.

[isthisapidge]

...What, like chain-mail gloves?

Is that really any easier than just getting a hammer?

[kingtyrantranger]

But you can't open bags of potato chips with a hammer!

[Maybe he's stretching the joke a little thin here.]

[isthisapidge]

Well, you can...But you need a lot of air in the bag.

[Checkmate, Jason.]

[kingtyrantranger]

I...

...

...Well played.