Pre-Moebius Sharing [A couple days into the racetrack liminal]

[itsananimalthing]

So a lot of you know I've been tryin' to rebuild memories from before Moebius. For you new people, Moebius was a Jaunt before most of you got here, were we died a lot and lost our memories every morning. A lot of that stuck.

[Look, he's being helpful, filling things in for people who don't know the story. Isn't that nice of him?]

Managed to put together somethin' kinda big out of them.

[Enjoy a brief lifestream of Riddick's strange vision: everything is tinted slightly purple, sources of light are doubly bright, and everything seems much more focused on heat and motion. It's an image of his hands, held apart in front of him, and after a second, an arc of electricity jumps between them, from one hand to the other. He holds it only briefly, then lets it dissipate.]

We can make energy out of liminal stuff. Claudia don't need to shoot me with her electricity gun to power lightcycles no more, we can just make that shit.

Came with somethin' else interesting while I was tryin' to put that trick back together. I was on at least four Jaunts before Moebius happened, might be more-- but there were people back then from the last round of this. The one Fortune won. We called 'em the Unlucky Dead. I don't got much about 'em yet, just a couple names and faces, but I'm workin' on it.

Figured that might be important to know.

[The last bit is said dryly. He knows that's an understatement.]

Comments

[itsananimalthing]

[The forge doesn't look the same as it had in Bando... though there are some aspects she'll recognize as being build on it. It's all stone, like it's hewn out of rock, with metal rather than wood for the door and various fittings. But the forge and the room behind it are about the same size and shape, tools are in similar places, even some of the decorative weaponry on the walls is similar.

Riddick is beyond the forge proper, in the room behind the fire pit. Said room has been cleared of all flammable objects.]

Hey. C'mon in. Tell me what all you can do with liminal stuff, and I'll tell you if you can pick this up yet.

[forcechanic]

[She notes the lack of flammable objects. That seems like the sort of thing you'd do if you're expecting a project to explode. By which she means it's what she does when she expects a project to explode.]

Not nearly as much as with the network. But I can do the basics up as far as making real food and small electronics.

[The fact that no one could do larger electronics might have something to do with them never having this ability worked out before]

[itsananimalthing]

Then you can probably work this out. It's like makin' something real, only you stop before it's actually a thing. This is the step between having nothing and having something.

[forcechanic]

That sounds like one of those things Master Yoda would say...

[She has all that second hand, but he's still who she thinks of when she hears that sort of philosophical talk]

But... half make it...

[itsananimalthing]

[Remembering the version of Yoda from Bando, Riddick makes a vaguely disgusted face.]

I'll find a way to say it differently, next time. Think about it, though. All things are energy at their base. Just some things move slower and are more solid than others. Gotta keep it from gettin' that slow and solid, is all.

[He pauses, then adds,]

And gotta keep it contained. You can use yourself, though that might hurt, or you can use a wire or device. But if you don't, it explodes.

[forcechanic]

Oh, particle wave duality!

[When you have hyperdrive, those kind of things tend to come up much earlier in science lessons]

Exploding is generally frowned upon.

[And that's when she creates an empty power cell. It seems like the obvious thing to channel energy into.]

[itsananimalthing]

Generally, yeah. But just in case, I cleared the room of stuff that might catch.

[As she noticed.]

So see what you can do.