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You assume that the light that you are seeing right now is integral to the security-surety that is responsible for the strickening strikes; and that is a patently reasonable assumption, based off of everything that you know about this Construct and Constructs in general. Additionally, you are assuming that if you can see light from the other side of the room underneath the door, then there must be a viable path for a cast to hit the security-surety; now, you would still consider that a reasonable assumption, though to tell it true there is more than a hint of hopes and prayers to that one. It is possible that there is some obstruction in the room, something that the light is shining through or around - and while the documentation for the wand never specified that the caster had to have sight on the target, you cannot imagine that not being able to see the target makes anything <span class="mu-i">easier</span>. Still, you know that the security-surety exists, and you know roughly where it is - hopefully that will be enough. If it - when it ... if it works out, and your casts successfully target the security-surety, and a number of them reach completion, then the light from the security-surety will likely be dowsed or noticeably reduced ... or at least effected in some way. That is also patently reasonable to assume - even without hopes and prayers. More to the point, if it so transpires, then you will have a fairly obvious way of telling that at least one of your casts with the Wand of Head-Knocking reached completion, so you will know that it is safe to proceed into the room.
But that is the extent of it. You won't know if the second, or the third, or any of the subsequent casts won through to completion or not. And because you won't know how many reached completion, then you won't know how long you have before the security-surety starts to regain consciousness. Say you were to 'chain' together the maximum possible number of casts - seven. You see the lights dim or dowse, and you bolt into the room. You could have as little as twenty seconds to reach the other side, look the entire thing over with whatever light remains in the room and from your eyes, and rush back to the hallway. That doesn't even seem feasible. But now that you really think about it ... is the full hundred and forty seconds that much better? You are going to pay dearly for that time too - for a start, you are going to be Estranged. You are also going to have one less Ounce-Nodule to use - and who is to say that whatever happened to the Nodule that you had pinned into the wand when you entered the house won't happen to whatever Nodule you pin in to use here? You think you know enough about Fuel Nodules to recharge one if it was in proper working order ... but you wouldn't dare to go as far to say that you could repair them, or make replacements for them.
