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Around 3500 c. Try some Dicyanoacetylene or oxygen lance.

Right after I look up what those are.

Alright, here we go...

1. Attempt to construct a thermal lance which can be used as a projectile. In the front is hot, directed with some kind of small hole in the middle is a rube full of iron rods, and in the back is a canister of pressurized oxygen. The whole thing is encased in a protective sheath of plastic or something, as aerodynamic as it can be with a hole in the front for the burning iron to come out. Call it the Thermal Pike.

2. Attempt to make thermite with tungsten replacing the iron; if that fails, try niobium, osmium, rhenium, uranium, and zirconium; and if that fails try boron, carbon, lanthanum, and neodymium. I'm a bit fuzzy on the mechanics of oxidation, but Wikipedia says thermite can reach temperatures close to the boiling point of iron or whatever metal is oxidized in its place, and the aforementioned elements have boiling points near or well above 3,500 C.

Dicyanoacetylene's Wikipedia article is surprisingly uninspiring.
3. Fill some kind of light blue plastic sphere with dicyanoacetylene and include a lighting mechanism which can be remotely triggered. Call it the Cyan Bomb,  or the DEAD (short for Dicyanoacetylene Explosively Armed Device).

Fire a Thermal Pike at a battlesuit with an appropriate gauss thingy.
Detonate any successful quasi-thermite near a battlesuit. Did I mention that I'm a bit fuzzy on how people use thermite?
Throw a DEAD or two at a battlesuit.

Determine effectiveness and cost of such weapons.

Restart the Mission Replay program.

Yes, while Tinkering. It's called multitasking. If I can forum while launching a (virtual) spaceship, Grate can tinker while doing the Mission Replay thing.

If the former logic is accepted, look around to remember where I was, grab the monorazor, and peek out to get an idea of the scope of the situation.

((I was on Mission 1 right before a catastrophic drop pod failure.))

Head to the rest of the party. Talk with them.

((Yeah sorry been busy the past two days.))

Logan is patiently sitting in the smoking crater that was the barracks scratching the back of his neck. Hm, yes, most troubling.. He says to no one in particular, everyone having fled minutes ago.

He uncrosses his legs and goes to find the captain or whomever was briefing them earlier to ask him a few more questions. Mm, yes. A bit of mutton would do just fine. Perhaps with a spot of honey? Oh certainly, if it isn't too much trouble..

((It's not a smoking crater so much as a crystal-covered pile of rubble. Still works.))
"...Are you an idiot?"

Just chase her and catch her, then :<

Track that silly girl who ran away. Should I find her, envelop her in oil.

"Hey Bunny!" Summon iron wall in path "Would you mind taking a break?!"

Selina attempts to keep running as fast as she can! Hoping her friend would be able to find her.

Selina-Location Rolls: Angel [1+1=2], Kext [5-1.4+1=5], Kuroe [2+0.2+1=3]
Selina-chasing Rolls: Angel [5-1-1=3], Kext [1-1=0], Kuroe [5-1=4] versus Selina [6+0.4=7]
Angel managed to get turned around, but manages to notice Kext and Kuroe heading in the right direction and follows. Kext trips, and stuff happens, and he winds up on an oil-slicked chunk of crystal, in what seems to have once been a woman's outhouse. Meanwhile, the women chase Selina, but they lose her in the forest. They'll need to find her trail before they can follow her, and she stopped leaving crystal footprints a while back.
[Narcolepsy Roll: 6]

[Selina's Luck: 3]
She doesn't find anyone.

((Sorry guys, the dice were against you.))

Wake up

[6]
You do so. Wait, where are you? You can't really remember anything since you chatted with those recruiters. Were they witch-hunters? Did they kill you? Is this heaven? Is that why everything is shiny and weird?
((You're not permanently amnesiac so much as out of it.))

Range modifier... Hmmmm. I knew I forgot about something. Your range modifier is -1 every 2 tiles you are distant, with the assault rifle. So, you are approxiamatly 19 tiles away, so you have a -9 modifier. So, you will miss no matter what.

Whee.

I have an idea.

You know how I've made a bunch of Angels in other games?

The Marietrix has all the Angels.

Hunker Down.
Or look for an improbably convenient barrel of gunpowder or whatever.

((By the way, did I mention that my character sheet's fluff is mostly complete?))