One time when I was about 7 I plugged in a lamp and since my hands and fingers were so small I was able to just grab the metal conductors and plug it in. My entire arm was taken over like I just grabbed a 50lb weight. and this was only my pointer fingertip and thumb fingertip that touched the current for a slit second. They way the plug was when it tightened all my muscles in arm and hand it forced my fingertips to disconnect from the "Prongs".

 

Provided the floor is still non-conductive, yes

Sounds like you're on the right track!

Sounds Great, I'm so glad I found you guys and this forum. I've been reading in libraries, online for a long time tryingn to figure this stuff out.

 

when i was 10, i couldn't unplug my sewing machine from the outlet, it was stuck, so I used a knife to help dig the prongs out. You can guess the rest. Never told my parents about it.

 

I suffered electric shock one time, 220V, my english is no enough to describe it

 

Since we're on to "shock stories", I'll throw a few of mine in

The first shock I can remember happened when I was about 6 or 7. My dad built what he called a "light desk" out of scrap metal and some light bulbs. It was used to trace drawings--the light would shine up through the plexiglass top so that you can see through the sheet of tracing paper and onto the original. Anyway, when he built it he didn't bother to use insulated connectors when he connected the light bulbs. One time I reached over to unplug it and my hand came in contact with one of the contacts. It didn't really hurt. I just felt a strange 60 Hz vibration in my hand. I was able to let go just fine, but I never used the light desk again

Second time I remember getting a shock, i was probably about 8. For some stupid reason (don't ask me why--I'm still trying to figure it out myself), I bent a paperclip and stuck it directly into the wall outlet. I saw a bright blue and orange flash and heard a really loud bang. From that day on, the outlet remained scorched.

Age 16, i was working with high voltage. Automotive ignition coils, to be precise. Got a few nice 20kv nips from that thing.

Age 20, got bit by the output of my Tesla coil. About 30-50kv on that one. I've since built Tesla coils that put out much higher, and I'm glad I haven't been zapped by those. I imagine they'd hurt a bit, even if they didn't kill me. Luckily I've never gotten any shocks that caused serious harm.

Had a few minor ones since then, but I guess I've learned to be more careful. Either that or paranoid

Sorry to derail the thread, Ally. Just wanted to throw in my stories with the others

Regards

 

Second time I remember getting a shock, i was probably about 8. For some stupid reason (don't ask me why--I'm still trying to figure it out myself), I bent a paperclip and stuck it directly into the wall outlet. I saw a bright blue and orange flash and heard a really loud bang. From that day on, the outlet remained scorched.

HAHAHAHHAHA Someone always does this! Usually this is how people aquire the name Sparky.

 

HAHAHAHHAHA Someone always does this! Usually this is how people aquire the name Sparky.

As a matter of fact, that was my nickname throughout my teenage years

 

I got hung up on a 900V dc circuit once for about two or so seconds. I had to concentrate and screamed MFR and broke loose. I later opened the technical manual and read the way the transmitter output was switched was with the screen voltage. Too bad as the source of my shock was the Anode voltage.

When the Commander tried to get me to speak of the incident, I told him not until I'm sure the investigation isn't going anywhere and reminded him of his part in influencing my behavior ... he saw me reading a technical manual once and thought I was screwing off ... so he told my Division Chief who told my section Chief who told me.

So, since that day, I didn't give a rat's a$$ who said my charges were screwing off reading a technical manual ... I gave those uninformed people a lesson in safety.

It certainly was "enlightening" and something I had no intention of ever experiencing again ... but there were other occasions I managed to get shocked ... but not across the chest and being hung up. There are some pretty blue arc's associated with the energy comming out to "greet" you in some cases in 15,500 volt circuits ... but that is another story.

 

@Derstrom8

No worries of the topic straying, I'm busy writing for now.

 

As I was writing, something came up again.

The scenario is

Hero is touching neural circuit with left hand, and force field with his right. Villain sends electric current through force field. Technically, doesn't the current have to flow back to the villain, or the force field to complete the circuit?

Also, let's say the circuit closes with the hero no longer touching the wall, but there is still a really high voltage in the force field. I understand the hero still won't feel anything since the circuit is closed, but not even a little burn?

Thanks.

 

Normally, the current should return to the villain.

But what if the villain had a superpowered charge creation apparatus? That could explain the static electrical field around it and current would also flow out of it if the apparatus was grounded.

 

As a matter of fact, that was my nickname throughout my teenage years

My best friend did the same thing at school so naturally he was called sparky the rest of his schooling.

 

Hey everyone, I want to thank all of you for the help. Here is some of the scene I have written.

It does start midscene so here is a little background Terry and Kyzer are both in suits, and Terry can feel everything that goes on in his body (unlimited consciousness). Colony is the living alien space ship. And Gerden and Para are bands on Kyzer’s wrists that power the force field. Also, Iry is Kyzer’s sister. Terry is human, but when he is in the Zeris suit, he is connected with Iry by having her heart in his chest alongside his own (It’s a way to sense if the other is in danger).

Forgot to mention Oliver is a marine.
Thanks, hope you enjoy some.

Heart pounding with determination, Terry glided toward Kyzer and threw his fist into the translucent defense. The field hummed on impact, but he still failed to penetrate through.


(Insert description of Kyzer)


Kyzer took to the offensive and moved forward, pushing Terry back with the force field. Terry pressed back with both hands, tucked his chin into his chest and started driving his legs. Even with the strength of both hands the force field didn’t give, and he lost ground as his feet skinned away the top layer of Colony’s adipose tissue. His right heel hit the wall and Kyzer stopped pressing forward.


Terry looked up.


Gerden flickered and the force field shimmered and expanded.


Keeping his right hand against the force field, Terry opened wide and pressed his left hand into the wall in the nick of time. His elbows bent to a forty-five degree angle and held stable as his left hand stretched halfway into the adipose tissue.

Terry thought about bailing, jumping back, but it was too late. The force field would crush him before he could move away in time.

Terry felt Kyzer querying him, and he hated it. He hated him. And he couldn’t stand the thought that Kyzer was going to crush without even breaking a sweat.

Gerden flicker again, and the shield expanded again—Terry’s left hand broke through Colony’s tissue and pressed against her neural circuits.

“You’re nothing but a simulacrum,” Kyzer said.

A jolt of lightning transferred from Gerden to Kyzer’s hand and into the force field—golden lances of electricity snapped, crackled and scribbled across the defense, holding the electric charge. The muscles in Kyzer’s face tightened into something reminiscent of a smile as he twisted and knifed his foot into the floor.

Time slowed and Terry looked at his hands on Colony’s neural circuit and the force field, then to Kyzer’s foot. “No.”

Kaiser’s foot breached Colony’s tissue and planted on her neural circuit, completing the electrical circuit.

Thermoreceptors across Terry’s arms and chest heated as the electric current instantaneously lanced through his body and remained in a constant macroshock loop. Tissue across his skin burned and died. But as quickly as they did, his immune system responded immediately and effectively, replacing the dead tissue.

The current traversing through Colony and Kyzer didn’t seem to bother them at all, and Kyzer fed another surge of electricity to the force field, increasing its voltage tenfold.

Terry’s muscles involuntarily contracted and he clamped onto one of Colony’s neural circuits and the force field as it curved in his grasp. Embers ignited all across his skin and caught like wildfire. Tissue began to incinerate across his liver, stomach, and all the muscles across his torso. The Zeris suit smoldered, showing the signs of the damage taking place underneath.

Colony shuddered and groaned under duress now, and the room flashed red and white as her immune system kicked into high gear to weather the electric storm. Kyzer stood unscathed, his body withstanding the electrical current.

Despite wanting to and needing to Terry couldn’t let go of either the neural circuit or the force field. His peripheral nervous system was completely overridden by the current lancing in his body, the trillions of neurons firing action potentials involuntarily, maxing out all the motor units in his muscles, forcing his whole body into a tetanic contraction.

He was completely locked out of his own body. He couldn’t even open his mouth to scream in pain.

Lighting undulated across Gerden again for the final strike.

The amplified electric current blazed a track straight through Terry’s heart and cardiac muscles scrambled and contracted discordantly, others turned to ash. His heart fluttered, going into ventricular fibrillation.

The Zeris suit had given Terry strength, speed, hyperactive senses…and ultimately the insight to his very own death.

Blood stopped pumping from his heart and the last of oxygenated blood departed. The common carotid artery in his neck dilated, his brain begging for oxygen.

Terry knew it was already too late.

No more oxygen was coming.

The nerves in his somatosensory system slowed their firing rate and his whole body went numb. His vision blurred and darkness swarmed the outer edges of his eyes.

The neural circuit he held disintegrated—Colony sacrificing the whole circuit to rid the storm. Her adipose tissue regenerated and forced Terry’s hand out violently and the acromioclavicular joint connected to the outside of his clavicle in his maladroit left shoulder snapped like guitar strings. His clavicle sliced right through the brancial plexus peripheral nerve in his shoulder, and all the electrochemical signals in his left arm ceased and his arm fell limp at his side, completely paralyzed.

No longer completing the electric circuit with Colony, the electric current looping across his chest ceased.

Terry felt the remaining cardiac muscles in his heart jumpstart and synchronize their contraction. His lungs bloated and then imploded, propelling oxygenated blood back into his system. The nerves in his body regained their lightning-quick firing rate. Within seconds the dead cells in his organs, skin, and heart were replicated and replaced, the Zeris utilizing his immune system with great speed and efficiency to keep him alive.

Colony scrapped the neural circuits under Kyzer’s print, forced his foot out and he took a step back—Terry’s right hand straightened against the force field.

Terry realized the only way through this, was through this.

The electric current no longer circulating his body and overriding his peripheral nervous system, Terry was back in complete control. His head shot up and his enraged gaze fell on Gerden around Kyzer’s right hand—the source of the force field’s energy.

Kyzer didn’t even twitch at Colony’s interference or Terry’s sudden revival, standing insouciant.

 

With his whole left arm out of commission, Terry realized strength alone would not be enough to get him through this. A battle of attrition would not fall in his favor. His body could only feed his right hand enough energy for the Zeris to fully exploit, while Kyzer’s body would replenish whatever he had lost. Even if he were to get past the defense, it would only be the beginning; Kyzer would still be there to contend with.

His bodily consciousness withholding nothing from him, Terry found the foremost part of his outstretched hand with direct contact to the defense down to the tiniest cell. There, Terry strove for it strategically, concentrating solely on breaking through at this singular point instead of with his whole hand.

The force field didn’t give.

Iry’s thundering heart in Terry’s chest seemed to skip a beat, and his legs felt like they were going to give out. It was happening again. The cold liquid that severed the connection to the Zeris suit entered his small intestine.

Anxiety filled Terry’s mind and his pituitary gland secreted endorphins that sent chills down his spine. Kyzer had killed his family, and left his memories of them so shattered he couldn’t conceive their faces anymore. And he couldn’t even lay one finger on him, and now the power that was supposed to help exact his revenge on

Kyzer was going to be taken away.

The sound of a gun safety switching off boomed in Terry’s head. A barrage of rounds bent and ricocheted off the force field. Kyzer’s attention diverted to Oliver standing at the top of the steps.

The Merkel nerve endings that slowly adapt to pressure and texture in Terry’s right palm ceased sending electrochemical signals to his brain, and Terry no longer felt the shield under his hand. The sensation was like losing the feeling of a glove. Although Terry no longer felt the force field there, it certainly was, his muscles still burning through energy from its resistance.

Kyzer looked back down at Terry’s hand. Had he felt it too? Or the lack thereof? Was his concentration slipping?

Oliver chucked a grenade and it exploded midair and shrapnel buzzed on the shield.

Terry didn’t let Oliver’s presence distract him.

This was his chance.

Terry went all in, throwing all his weight behind that one point in his hand. The energy output for the muscles in his right arm dipped, meeting less resistance as that tiny cell in his palm broke through…but only that cell.

Kyzer and Terry met eyes.

Kyzer raised his left hand in front of Terry’s face. The air stalled in Terry’s lungs, seeing Para around Kyzer’s wrist. The force field was only at half power since Iry crushed his arm.

Thermoreceptors all across the front of Terry’s body heated, sensing the impending impact of the force field expanding a hundredfold. The cold liquid pushed through the arteries in his neck, preparing to swipe the Zeris away.

Terry took a deep breath and flowers blossomed over every inch of his body as the capillaries in every muscle swelled, taking in the maximum amount of oxygen, energy.

Para flashed.

Terry screamed, exhausting every muscle at once.