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<blockquote data-quote="Janx" data-source="post: 7495135" data-attributes="member: 8835">Just a note to both my EN friends&nbsp; [MENTION=177]Umbran[/MENTION] and [mention]Nagol[/Nagol], I appreciate BOTH of your approaches to my problem.As Nagol notes, I've framed it a certain way based on something in my story.&nbsp; There's a crapton of detail I left out which might support why I did it that way.&nbsp; OR I might be missing an obvious alternate solution (like in the asteroid one, where I had one idea and there had to be others).There COULD be other alternatives in this story.&nbsp; I've thought of many of them (because I know the full list of talents and powers the hero has).&nbsp; I also haven't thought of some.&nbsp; I'd hate to say I thought of all the obvious ones, because I'm sure there's one more on that list and I'll look like an idiot :)Since Umbran likes thinking off the grid, consider that our hero has a background in stage/street magic. Sleight of hand, etc.&nbsp; He gets to approach the bad guy as he's finishing setting up.&nbsp; Monologue, tussle, countdown, bang.&nbsp; Lots of them. He's never been here before, the bullet deflection tech is mobile and recently upgraded/acquired. So he's limited on what kind of trick he can play here.At the moment, I want the bullet deflection to work because I use it at the beginning of the book (and it fails), and this is where the hero takes a stand, literally.&nbsp; That ties into the story theme.&nbsp; Also, I figured it will look really cool if lasers light up the bullets as they deflect, creating a shimmering wall so to speak. Well, not exactly, but actual force fields can't be done (to my knowledge), so this is how I came up with making it look like one.[/mention]</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Janx, post: 7495135, member: 8835"] Just a note to both my EN friends [MENTION=177]Umbran[/MENTION] and [mention]Nagol[/Nagol], I appreciate BOTH of your approaches to my problem. As Nagol notes, I've framed it a certain way based on something in my story. There's a crapton of detail I left out which might support why I did it that way. OR I might be missing an obvious alternate solution (like in the asteroid one, where I had one idea and there had to be others). There COULD be other alternatives in this story. I've thought of many of them (because I know the full list of talents and powers the hero has). I also haven't thought of some. I'd hate to say I thought of all the obvious ones, because I'm sure there's one more on that list and I'll look like an idiot :) Since Umbran likes thinking off the grid, consider that our hero has a background in stage/street magic. Sleight of hand, etc. He gets to approach the bad guy as he's finishing setting up. Monologue, tussle, countdown, bang. Lots of them. He's never been here before, the bullet deflection tech is mobile and recently upgraded/acquired. So he's limited on what kind of trick he can play here. At the moment, I want the bullet deflection to work because I use it at the beginning of the book (and it fails), and this is where the hero takes a stand, literally. That ties into the story theme. Also, I figured it will look really cool if lasers light up the bullets as they deflect, creating a shimmering wall so to speak. Well, not exactly, but actual force fields can't be done (to my knowledge), so this is how I came up with making it look like one.[/mention] [/QUOTE]

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