@Teeka
Duskshadow sighed, watching her happily prancing granddaughter. It seemed they were never going to get rid of that bug now…though at least Corona had agreed to let one of the Spirals cast a spell that dampened the sound a little bit. In the meantime, however, Duskshadow had some business to attend to. That insect might have provided some fun for Corona, but the rest of the Clan had not been as amused….this needed an answer.
Several hours later, the elder Guardian paid a visit to the Spiral Runemaster, and more importantly, his golem. It did not take much convincing to get the young experimenter to agree to help. Rune had been quite exasperated by that musical tone, which happened to be just the right frequency to disturb his latest experiment. In fact, he was more than eager to take over the whole project, which suited the Clan Mother perfectly, as she didn’t really like to involve herself in Clan battles…even ones that were in good fun.
Rune and his golem spent all day on his project, carefully assembling 3 smaller versions of a robot dog. In fact, they looked like robot pups, and used the same energy patterns as a golem. The difference was that these pups could be disassembled and reassembled without harming them, whereas their larger counterparts would never work again after such treatment.
Once the pups were complete, Runemaster took one and put it away for his own Clan to play with later, then carefully disassembled one of the other two again, taking several key pieces out of the pile. A few minutes work on the second, still assembled pup, and Rune had a series of places where it looked like an extra piece should fit….but it didn’t quite work. Once he was satisfied, the Spiral disassembled the second pup, adding the 10 pieces he had set aside from the first one--and tossing 2 key pieces from the second pup into the pile for the first one while he was at it. Rune then placed all the pieces from each pile into 2 separate large boxes, and fixed the same note on the top of both boxes, while casting a spell on the box for the pup he had disassembled first--the one now missing 10 pieces, and containing 2 that did not belong to it.
The Clan Mother had already spoken to Sunfire’s Sunspot Clouddancer, so he was waiting for the boxes. Runemaster explained how he wanted them placed, then sent the Clouddancer off to deliver the gift to the only Clan in Plague that both knew where the Clan lived…and had a dragon skillful enough to make something like that musical bug. When the Clouddancer arrived at the Clan in question, he placed the boxes next to each other near the cave entrance. As soon as he set it down, the second box vanished, not to reappear again until several hours after the first box had been found—and the overabundance of pieces had been discovered. This left one seemingly lonely single box, with with its note:
Fighting Pup…Some Assembly Required ….
Duskshadow sighed, watching her happily prancing granddaughter. It seemed they were never going to get rid of that bug now…though at least Corona had agreed to let one of the Spirals cast a spell that dampened the sound a little bit. In the meantime, however, Duskshadow had some business to attend to. That insect might have provided some fun for Corona, but the rest of the Clan had not been as amused….this needed an answer.
Several hours later, the elder Guardian paid a visit to the Spiral Runemaster, and more importantly, his golem. It did not take much convincing to get the young experimenter to agree to help. Rune had been quite exasperated by that musical tone, which happened to be just the right frequency to disturb his latest experiment. In fact, he was more than eager to take over the whole project, which suited the Clan Mother perfectly, as she didn’t really like to involve herself in Clan battles…even ones that were in good fun.
Rune and his golem spent all day on his project, carefully assembling 3 smaller versions of a robot dog. In fact, they looked like robot pups, and used the same energy patterns as a golem. The difference was that these pups could be disassembled and reassembled without harming them, whereas their larger counterparts would never work again after such treatment.
Once the pups were complete, Runemaster took one and put it away for his own Clan to play with later, then carefully disassembled one of the other two again, taking several key pieces out of the pile. A few minutes work on the second, still assembled pup, and Rune had a series of places where it looked like an extra piece should fit….but it didn’t quite work. Once he was satisfied, the Spiral disassembled the second pup, adding the 10 pieces he had set aside from the first one--and tossing 2 key pieces from the second pup into the pile for the first one while he was at it. Rune then placed all the pieces from each pile into 2 separate large boxes, and fixed the same note on the top of both boxes, while casting a spell on the box for the pup he had disassembled first--the one now missing 10 pieces, and containing 2 that did not belong to it.
The Clan Mother had already spoken to Sunfire’s Sunspot Clouddancer, so he was waiting for the boxes. Runemaster explained how he wanted them placed, then sent the Clouddancer off to deliver the gift to the only Clan in Plague that both knew where the Clan lived…and had a dragon skillful enough to make something like that musical bug. When the Clouddancer arrived at the Clan in question, he placed the boxes next to each other near the cave entrance. As soon as he set it down, the second box vanished, not to reappear again until several hours after the first box had been found—and the overabundance of pieces had been discovered. This left one seemingly lonely single box, with with its note:
Fighting Pup…Some Assembly Required ….
