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

[claudiometer]

The main way we get basic supplies is making stuff here. Not many people know how to build a computer from scratch, so until recently that's been a 'hope the jaunt world has something' commodity. Where jaunt worlds really come in handy is when they have nifty local tech.

[biiowiired]

I know how to build a computer from scratch, but... I'm the only one of my species I've seen so far. My stuff's probably as alien to you as Jaunt stuff. We'd run into compatibility issues until I can reverse-engineer some samples, and I'd rather experiment on some throwaway shit than someone's prized husktop. 'Nifty local tech' it is.

[claudiometer]

If you want something you can poke at in the meantime, just say the word. It almost certainly won't be what you're used to but it might be better than nothing.

[Or it might be worse, but that's his call to make.]

[biiowiired]

Yeah, I'll take your old shit. I'm not bragging [[ he's totally bragging ]] but I've been known to make shit into gold.

[[ He neglects to mention that he had perfected this skill because he'd been a poor slave and had had to fend for himself. ]]