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]

[It helps that Riddick himself has been a conduit before, so "let it flow" is a thing he knows personally. He watches, ready to catch or douse as needed, but it seems to go fairly smoothly, so he nods.]

Yeah, it was. Tryin' a little at a time is better than tryin' a whole lot. There's a limit to what we can pull, same as with solid stuff. Don't think they're connected, so making physical stuff doesn't mean you can pull less energy.

[He thinks. He hasn't pushed the limits too much yet to test it.]

[claudiometer]

And if it turns out to be, I'll almost certainly end up poking enough to find out where that limit is and how they interact. But considering the other kind has a weight limit and electricity doesn't really have a weight, I'd be surprised if they did overlap.

[itsananimalthing]

Don't know if the weight limit has to do with how much liminal stuff we're using, though, and this energy comes from the same thing as the liminal stuff.

[He shrugs.]

They're connected, anyway. Just not sure how these skills measure that kind of shit.

[claudiometer]

God knows there'll be enough of us poking at it now to figure it out.