Just Enough Power - 5

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  1. Oh man. I so wanted Lonnigan to win!

  2. Cliff-hanging goodness!

  3. Typo in the 3rd para, "awaken" instead of "awakened."

    This continues to be exciting. Reminds me of Kill Bill, but with psychics instead of samurai. Totally awesome.

  4. Love it. Simply love it. They just *think* they have her, and I can't wait to see her show them what's what.

    (waits patiently for next installment)

  5. Good job on the HTML coding except... Well... the "next" button is broken. Dammit.


    On a serious note, I think the load she was carrying is a bit excessive. Unless I miscounted, she's carrying 1500 $20 bills, which adds up in weight, and 40 boxes of ammo. Each of which is bulky and adds considerable weight. I think you can get the same effect but just srop the amounts a bit.

    And how about that hook thing? Nasty.

    Looking forward to the "next" button working!

  6. D. Paul: Ha! I'm working on that "Next" button. Should have it fixed by next Tuesday...

    Interesting points about the specifics. What kind of a bag is needed here?

    Bills come in bundles of 100, so that would be $2000 per bundle. Fifteen bundles would be slightly smaller than a hardback copy of "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix".

    For the ammo, two of these boxes would hold ~2400 rounds. Each is 15-3/4" x 8"W x 10-1/4", so two of them together would be about as big as a Costco-sized box of Cheerios.

    Between the cash, the ammo, the gun and the extra clips, that's a pretty good sized bag, like one of these, in the extra-large size. That's a big bag, and damned heavy, too, but she's pretty tough. Since she was only going to carry it to the car, I'm going to call it OK.

  7. So I went ahead and did some reasearch and some math.

    God help us on the latter.

    A single bill weighs 1 gram, and there are 454 grams per pound. So 1500 hundred bills weighs out at around 3.3 lbs. Both a heavy amount, if you think about the tangible weight of the money, but less than what I was expecting. I though it was going to be a non-intuitively higher weight.

    I also found that a 9mm round weighs around ~190 grains, or around 12 grams each. So after the Math bit you end up at around 50lbs of ammo.

    So i think your bag would work volumetrically, and she is tough enough to lug 60 odd pounds to the car.

    So, you are right and it is a reasonable amount.

    I do have to ask though, if you actually do the math when you come up with these figures, or do you just go with what "sounds" right?

    I tend to start with what "sounds" right, and then go back and do the math.

  8. I always try to ballpark things based on facts up front. It saves time later on straightening out plot points.

    I'm no stranger to large piles of cash. Granted, what I was handling was bundles of singles, not twenties, but you get a visceral sense of what multiple stacks of bills look and feel like. Twenties are easier to pass anonymously than fifties or hundreds, which is why Lonnigan didn't go for the higher density currency.

    I used to shoot a lot, and went through a lot of ammo. I was thinking of 10 boxes of 200 rounds each, which I'm familiar with. I never bought ammo in bulk cans of 1000 rounds, but I had a general estimate of it.

    Incidentally, this is why I had her add nothing more than a first aid kid, socks, underwear and a hairbrush. I knew that bag was going to be big and heavy.

