Power Of Three

The Power of Three A Collaborative Story by Phealea, Krelle, and Talula

=Chapter One= By Talula

"Ok. Explain it to me once more."

The three women had been sitting around the workshop table for hours, the humid Vale air had made at least one brain quite foggy. Phealea sighed patiently and began round four of Portal Theory 101.

"It's like if you were trying to push a piece of string upriver and aiming for a specific rock. The string would need to be strong enough that it wouldn't just flop back on itself and you'd have to take into account all the variables in the current."

Talula absently doodled a river, a piece of string and a rock onto a piece of parchment, looking for an answer. "What if we reduced the amplitude of the signal through the transponder?" Krelle asked, looking at her own notes.

Talula shook her head. "That doesn't make sense. You can't just stretch the wave ou..." She stopped abruptly, looking at her sketch then at Krelle. "Can you?" she asked, leaning over to see the Forsaken's notes. Krelle did some long equasions on her parchment and the two engineers broke out into huge grins.

"We'd need a couple of really big antenna" said Krelle. Talula nodded and said "And for the best signal, we'll want to make sure they're both on bedrock and we don't know what's on the other side of the portal yet. Plus we'd also need to get some kind of magical dampening field around the signal to shield it from the arcane forces." She turned back to the mage who was beginning to look excited. "Can that be done?"

Chapter Two
By Phealea

Phealea muttered to herself as she was going over the basics of bending time and space. It was a simple task to move something from one end of Azeroth to the other, but from Azeroth to Outland was a different beast.

She listened to the two engineers go one about their theory as she study the various tomes about her, making notes in her own little book. As she made a few notes something clicked in her head. She made portals through the use of the use of power runes. A grin slowly formed on her face.

It was then Talula asked her about dampening the arcane energies around it. Phealea frowned in thought as she tapped her fingers against the harden surface of the table. After a moment or two a smile formed on her face.

Phealea began to write feverishly, as if it was a matter of life and death. She was making calculations in her head as she continued scribing her newest theory.

As Krelle and Talula looked at Phealea with odd looks, Phealea smiled and turned to the two observers. "I may have an idea here. Though the comm system itself may need a slightly large power supply." She said with a grin. "Nothing too big mind, something that can be concealed in a pocket."

"What do you mean, Miss Phea?" Talula asked, with a curious look on her face.

"Well as for the dampening, that can be done, but it has to be a field. Not allowing outside arcane forces in, or at least not a overwhelming amount. The reason for that is the new power supply will need to have a small rune inside. In theory mind you, it is the rune that could allow the waves from the comm through to our side of the portal. However, the designing of the power supply and the increased range on the comm is on you guys." Phealea explained with her normal cocky smirk about her features.

Chapter Three
By Talula

Talula nodded, comprehension finally dawning. "So it's like putting the signal into a lead sleeve before it ever leaves the comm unit. And with Miss Krelle's longer wavelength, the signal should go far enough to reach Outland and back."

A diagram of the new comm unit began to take shape beneath her quill. They would have to be slightly larger, but not ungainly. The new housing could be Thorium to make them more durable and to help contain the pieces should the whole business explode because their calculations were off.

"We're going to need to get in contact with someone in the Outlands to find out about what's directly on the other side and to set up the antenna." Talula said. "Any ideas how to reach the Tigers in the Outlands?"

Chapter Four
By Krelle

Krelle watched with interest as her friend started to brainstorm sketches for the new com unit. She found it endlessly fascinating to watch the gnome work. While it was true that her own mind was quick, and she could easily follow the theoretical discussions, she did not have the years of experience in the field that Lu did.

The quill flew across the paper, leaving trails of half-formed sketches and scratched out ideas in its wake. Occasionally Krelle would chime in with a suggestion or a question that might lead to an alteration, but mostly she just sat and stared, absorbing everything the gnome was babbling about as she drew.

"We're going to need to get in contact with someone in the Outlands to find out about what's directly on the other side and to set up the antenna." Talula eventually said. "Any ideas how to reach the Tigers in the Outlands?"

"Not really," she said with a shake of her head. "But Nerrok said he'd only be gone a few days, to scout around, and that he'd be back in Orgrimmar - at least briefly - some time at the end of this week. If we could get a few of these new models whipped up by then, he could take them back with him."

"He's definitely going back out, then?" Phelea asked.

Krelle nodded. "He hasn't said as much but... I wouldn't expect to see much of him around Azeroth in the next... while," she said, leaving it vague as to how long he'd be gone.

Nerrok had left a note with Kareth, that fateful night that the portal had opened. "This is the big one, Squirt. Meet me here at the end of the week - I'll come back and tell you all about it. I know you wanted to come with, but it's too dangerous. -N"

At first she had worried a bit about the hunter, but reason told her she was being silly. Nerrok was pretty much invincible, after all. He'd come back. He promised.

Still. It would be nice to talk to him... just to keep in touch.

She bent her head over the notes again, focusing her mind on the task at hand.