A Very Important Safety Lesson

[claudiometer]

Hokay, so. Now is the time for a network announcement that has nothing to do with ‘holy shit possibly Harrogate,’ other than I can share the load of beefing up mental firewalls. Otherwise network-fu isn’t so much my thing. Instead, I have a couple follow-ups to Riddick’s ‘hey we can turn Liminal Space into usable electricity’ discovery.

Thing One, during the last jaunt I figured out how to properly wire my rooms, so you can bring your own plugs. The downside is I think it has a measurable limit in terms of energy output, so I didn’t rewire the server room for Liminal Intranet. That’s still on… hell, I don’t know, cognitive power? I expect it to work so it works?

Thing Two, and slightly scarier: It’s possible to draw some serious shock power out of Liminal Space, if you play your cards right. The really bad news here is that shock power is measurable in milli-amps. Very Important Safety Lesson, guys – amps can absolutely seriously hurt or kill people. I’m reasonably sure anything fatal would take a deliberate effort, but it would be very easy to contact-paralyze someone by accident.

I’m not here to tell people not to chase it in the first place or whatever. Just… be careful. It’s one thing to have another weapon in your arsenal and another thing entirely to risk accidentally Flooring someone.

Comments

[biiowiired]

What do they want in return? There's always something.

[[ Clearly the concept of free food is foreign to him. He's only known one small group of trolls who did that. ]]

[thornsofmalkav]

... nothing tangible? I mean, they give it away because it's in all our best interest to not have Travelers starving and wasting away when they can get food. We're all stuck together here, so we have to take care of each other.

[biiowiired]

There's got to be a catch. Anyway, I'm not going to be in anyone's debt, and I definitely don't want to rely on someone else for sustenance. What if they're killed?

[thornsofmalkav]

... they'll probably get brought back to life by the Arcana. But okay, that's a legit worry. Maybe see if you can get people to teach you how to will food into being? It's totally possible here if you learn the right way of doing shit.

[biiowiired]

...Hypothetically speaking, does this mean I could eat cotton candy forever?

[[ He's a troll of simple needs. ]]

[thornsofmalkav]

Yes. Yes, you could. Well, I mean, from a technical perspective, I've never seen anyone able to make more than fifty pounds worth of liminal matter per day--and most people can only do half that--but you could at least eat cotton candy every day, even if you can't just do nothing but eat cotton candy.

[biiowiired]

Given all that, light-weight things can be made in bigger quantities. Not much help with food, but some things are both light-weight and valuable....

[[ He's not thinking of jewels or some such thing. He's thinking of computer parts. ]]

Is this 'liminal matter' reliable? Does it work as well as the real thing?

[thornsofmalkav]

Usually. If you make it right, which basically means you understand how the thing you're making should work.