{"id":1773,"date":"2013-07-04T05:00:34","date_gmt":"2013-07-04T12:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/arcdream.com\/home\/?p=1773"},"modified":"2013-07-02T14:22:02","modified_gmt":"2013-07-02T21:22:02","slug":"aquasanguinator-a-new-gadget-for-better-angels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arcdream.com\/home\/2013\/07\/aquasanguinator-a-new-gadget-for-better-angels\/","title":{"rendered":"Aquasanguinator – A New Gadget for \u2018Better Angels\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Better-Angels-cover-v4-front-612px\"<\/a>By Greg Stolze, \u00a9 2013<\/em><\/p>\n

If you want to get stone-cold Biblical on a community, you could do a lot worse than turning water to blood.\u00a0 The Aquasanguinator does just that.\u00a0 You point it at\u00a0 a quantity of water and it turns it into human blood. It\u2019s blood type B Negative, to be specific.\u00a0 Oh, and if you\u2019re wondering how much water it converts, the answer is 100,000 gallons.\u00a0 More than enough to contaminate even a huge million-gallon water tower, unless people in your community are content to drink something that\u2019s 1\/10th gore. Now who\u2019s ignoring your ransom demands?<\/p>\n

The effect here is a Major Environment Change, costing 3 Generosity.\u00a0 Why major? Granted, with a garage-sized machine and the right supplies, you could certainly wreck a standpipe full of drinking water, but the facts that it\u2019s (1) human blood and (2) operates as a beam that can penetrate the outer skin of a water tank to a thickness of 24 inches put it beyond human science.\u00a0 (For now, anyhow. Artificial blood could be right around the corner, but matter-transformation-beams are still, I hope, far off.)<\/p>\n

The mandatory flaw of this device is a cooldown rate, so you can only fire it every other round. Meaning that if you wanted to completely convert Rondout Reservoir in New York, it would take you almost 1 million rounds instead of a mere 500,000.<\/p>\n

By Greg Stolze, \u00a9 2013<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By Greg Stolze, \u00a9 2013 If you want to get stone-cold Biblical on a community, you could do a lot worse than<\/p>\n

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