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* Lightning generates a lot of heat even in a quick flash, enough to fuse surrounding soil into glass. Sustained arcs are terrifyingly hot. Unless you want to melt your own flesh to gory slag, you had best pick up a fireproof perk as well. Even then, you'll want to turn off the juice before you kill everyone in the room via heat exhaustion.
* Lightning is extremely bright, as anyone who's used an arc welder can tell you. Unless you want to reduce your retinas to gory slag, this is another good part to reinforce.
** For anyone standing close to the line of lightning, visible light would be among the ''least'' worrisome parts, and even hard UV not much worse, as even in modest interpretation, it has to be many orders of magnitude more energetic than common electrostatic sparks and welding arcs to get proportionally greater range. Since this discharge happens in the air, it's going to produce an expectable bouquet of ions (and possibly electrons) linear acceleration itself churns out ''and'' what this does to the medium — the shower of braking radiation and perhaps products of electro-nuclear reactions (collisions between accelerated particles and everything in their way hard enough to break something).
* And once you get past all that, where is the energy coming from? A sustained bolt takes one Hell of a lot of it.
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