Merry Witchmas

[awitchdidit]

Well, well, well...ah, it seems I'm missing my usual camerawoman, but I have a couple of important announcements.

As far as I can tell, I've been here for almost exactly a year, assuming all Jaunts are "really" about six weeks and my trip to the Expo in Japan was a fluke of perception. I would like to thank you all, first of all, for being the most understanding and entertaining bunch of weirdos I've met in many years, and wish you a happy...either Halloween, or a spooky enough Liminal to be a close approximation.

The second announcement, and I'll thank anyone who cares to share this with the batch of newbies that are due to arrive in a day or three if the pattern keeps up, is that I've spent a great deal of time padding out my Liminal Room, if you'd like to drop by. I think I've turned it into a nice home away from home, and while I wouldn't think to ever detract from Maestro Leonardo's Workshop as a gathering place for Travelers, but if anyone needs extra space, I do have guest bedrooms, and I can 95% guarantee the place isn't haunted!

Except today, of course. I mean, it's Halloween. Or so.

And finally...if the calculations of myself and others are correct, Death and Justice just took the last turn in the game the Trumps are playing with us. We do not know what is next, except that change is coming. My suggestion to you, fellow travelers, is that we prepare ourselves for the unexpected.

Comments

[dino_zarf]

That's the one. With everything falling.

[It was quite the introduction]

And Rose is about seven months, so I guess it would have to be a year.

[awitchdidit]

How's she doing, by the way? Considering walking yet?

[dino_zarf]

She's still working on crawling. Getting pretty close though. I'm just hoping she doesn't learn portals.

[Or dear GOD please no teleporting baby]

[awitchdidit]

If that ever becomes a problem, I know how to forbid portals in an area. In fact, I plan to keep that up most of the time in my place now. I love surprises, but I love my personal space more.

[dino_zarf]

There's a way to do that?

[That sounds seriously useful with a baby who somehow keeps picking this stuff up]

[awitchdidit]

I invented it myself!

Well, came up with it independently, anyway. Still, it's a skill I can pass on, since it's really just changing a property of Liminal Space.

[dino_zarf]

That's definitely something I should pick up. Just in case. She can do an awful lot of other things with liminal space so it's probably only a matter of time.

[awitchdidit]

It does seem like the only way to keep someone with Liminal Powers in one place...

[dino_zarf]

Or at least to only have to worry about the normal trouble. Could you walk me through that one?

[awitchdidit]

Ahaha, of course. Let me see...first, you know how to alter the environment of Liminal Space, right? Declaring "it's not cold" in the refrigerator, for example?

[dino_zarf]

Yeah, just worked the finer points of that one out recently. She's been able to do it for a while.

[awitchdidit]

I wonder if it's an instinctive defense for her, like blinking...we can ponder that later, I suppose.

At any rate, the principle is related to both that and the way rooms are created. It's basically making an adjustment to your own personal space within Liminal Space that prevents it from being altered. Locking it down, so to speak.

[dino_zarf]

I figure that's probably exactly it.

Rooms I've definitely gotten the hang of. Made sure I learned that early on when I found out we'd have a screaming baby on our hands.

[awitchdidit]

We all thank you for that, even if we can still hear her psychically.

Think of a portal ban as like an extra wall in a room. You create four walls, a ceiling, and a floor to make a room one can't just walk into or out of, and then you add another wall to make it something you can't Portal into or out of.

It's really very similar to binding a magic circle to protect from or contain a demon, but that's probably beyond the scope of your education...

[dino_zarf]

At least she mostly keeps it to herself if someone else doesn't set her off first.

Another wall. Spaceships are pretty far from magic.

[awitchdidit]

I suppose you could also think of it as the airtight seals such a vessel requires, only against the cracks and gaps and dips in reality that Portals and teleportation causes, rather than the vacuum of nothingness between planets.