Bold of you to assume that I know what I’m doing
several explosions later
Well now would you look at that, it worked. Now stfu and let's keep moving before this planet or I, kills you -- Anon Guest
Xym MacGillicuddy had one rule: Never plan, just be prepared.
Those encountering it for the first time were always confused. If being prepared wasn't planning, what was ze prepared for? To which Xym answered, "Zombie apocalypse suit you? 'Cause anything's good for a zombie apocalypse."
The Human capacity for non-extant terrors when the universe was full of so many other things to fear knew no boundaries. But as a thought exercise, Zombie Apocalypse covered a great many disparate disasters. They covered infectious disease, infrastructure collapse, hostile cogniscents by a technicality, and sundry resource scarcities. Simultaneously.
It also covered the need to be constantly moving, which was also a factor in Xym's preparedness.
Ze had a rather bulky livesuit, and half of the bulk was transportable gadgets that could operate on a whisper of power. Some of it was the means by which power was obtained. The rest of it was Xym MacGillicuddy, somewhere inside.
Where madness exists, there is also genius. Whist Xym may have had a gadget for most situations, what also helped was a vast store of knowledge. Mostly about how to make things.
It's amazing what one Human could do with simple chemical reactions.
The third and most important feature of hir livesuit was the inability to disable any of the gadgets without disabling the suit. When taking a Human prisoner, it's advisable to leave them and their hazardous body chemicals contained.
This might be a bad idea when facing a Human with a portable chem lab and synthesiser as part of their rig.
Fact: Urea and nitrates together go boom. Especially after encountering kinetic force.
Fact: The Human body can produce both of these naturally.
Fact: Xym MacGillicuddy never throws away anything potentially useful.
Fact: It's amazing the amount of kinetic traps one Human can concoct with a ball of twine and some stolen heavy objects.
The craters left in the landscape are used by many peoples in the Edge as to why it's a bad idea to mess with Humans, and any species that Humans may have pack-bonded with. Or, to put it briefly, any species that have known Humans for more than two days.
For the record, Xym MacGillicuddy and hir Havenworlder companions were well out of the blast zone by the time everything went off.
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