Letting go of Grue with one hand, I patted Amy’s hand and then reached back to give her a thumbs up. I set more dragonflies and other various bugs down on the backs of her hand.
I appreciate that Taylor is visibly validating Amy for her help here. Amy needs that.
In another minute, I had four more relay bugs. I paired them up and sent them forward, so one relay could transmit to the next.
Relay works as a term for them too, sure.
(I called them repeaters because of radio repeaters. My dad has ham radio as a hobby, so that’s what came to mind when I realized what the echo was.)
Two extra city blocks of range. I started gathering a swarm with the bugs in question.
Also, it seems they can indeed be daisy chained! That ought to come in handy.
Amy had balked at the idea of outfitting me with altered bugs. Had she maybe settled on these, because she thought they wouldn’t give me as much offensive potential?
Perhaps. On top of that, they do still give you one of the things you requested, though in a way that a) doesn’t require her to mess with brains, b) isn’t quite as powerful, and c) isn’t permanent unless you make sure the relay bugs she made stick around or you keep Amy around to make them.
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