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Post by Grigori on May 17, 2015 21:30:24 GMT
For reference:
It occurred to me that I already possess an Apokalyptic scanning device which could, nominally, perform clairvoyant scanning of alternate dimensions. The problem is that exact coordinates are needed for the remote location to be scanned. It occurred to me that the better part of the coordinate information used seems to be a very long string of constants. I attempted to run the device with a modified constant string, under the suspicion that some of that coordinate information might refer to plane of origin.
That... was a bad idea. My eyeballs literally exploded. Fortunately, I routinely employ a Prostasia-based mind shield; that may be the only reason I'm still sane. Or, at least, as sane as we Inspired can be said to be. I have since repurposed one of my simpler scanners, and am using it as a visual prosthetic, but I won't be repeating that particular experiment any time soon.
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Post by Captain Viridian on May 17, 2015 22:30:43 GMT
Yikes! I wonder if that's an effect of looking directly at the void or some particular dimension, rather than an effect of the scanning equipment you use. I recall there being a reason there's no windows on this ship, only a sensor display. That said, I wouldn't particularly want to test that hypothesis either. Checkpoints are convenient but spikes still hurt.
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Post by Andrew on May 17, 2015 23:07:45 GMT
You’ve mentioned spikes a few times as something dangerous. In my world, spikes can theoretically be dangerous if you get impaled with them. However, that doesn’t happen often: they are usually either static so easy to avoid (and often pointing into the ground even then), or being carried by people who know safety procedures for handling sharp things. Since they are not commonly used as weapons, spikes are not something people need to deal with usually.
Are spikes more commonly weapons on your world, or are they a result of dimensional degradation, or what?
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Post by Captain Viridian on May 17, 2015 23:26:50 GMT
They're a result of whoever built most of the structures in Dimension VVVVVV being jerks. And for whatever reason, the spikes there kill you (or rather, me, several times) even if you touch their flat sides.
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Post by Andrew on May 18, 2015 4:35:41 GMT
If they’re magical spikes, they might have other magical properties. Maybe they’re there for some architectural reason, and the architects were used to checkpoints existing?
I don’t know. It just sounds weird to leave extra-dangerous spikes lying around; there needs to be some reason they’re there. If their dimension has degraded too much, though, we probably can’t do more than speculate unless the keeper decides to help.
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Post by Captain Viridian on May 18, 2015 5:47:22 GMT
From what I can tell, most of them were there to serve as a sort of security system. But there were also a bunch placed out in the middle of nowhere with nothing important to guard.
If the Keeper decides to resurrect the inhabitants of Dimension VVVVVV, remind me to have a word with whoever designed the rooms near a certain shiny trinket.
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Post by Captain Viridian on May 21, 2015 5:51:53 GMT
Well, I have good news. Victoria finally broke the encryption on some of the files we had obtained from Dimension VVVVVV. It turns out that the dimensional instability there was either caused or at least greatly aggravated by the use of a form of travel between worlds that works by poking holes in the world. Holes that, it turns out, can be torn open wider by accident. Luckily, our ship's engines run on a different principle (repeatedly creating a 'nearby' area of space, travelling into it, and letting the ship's previous location collapse, so that over time ordinary three-space movement can cross the void between dimensions), and I don't think we'll be building (or releasing the plans to) one of these Distortion Drives barring very extreme circumstances. I'd much rather it take a year or so to get anywhere than run the risk of literally destroying entire worlds that I had meant to travel to.
However, this does raise the question: Did someone on our home world discover the Distortion Drive, and is that the cause of our home's instability? Plus, we still don't know if the effects can be reversed...
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Post by Orz on May 21, 2015 23:07:30 GMT
It is sad. The other place *hurt* Orz too much tired for keeping together. You should *slide* through the *in between* place. *Inside* is so much better.
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Post by Captain Viridian on May 22, 2015 0:35:14 GMT
Oh? Do you have more information about what happened to Dimension VVVVVV?
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Post by Orz on May 22, 2015 0:48:15 GMT
It is *outside*. *Levels* which are *below* are so much *frumple*. It is so sad.
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Post by Orz on May 22, 2015 6:30:39 GMT
Here is more. You *spit* of your *house*. It is *outside*, but almost not yet. When *campers* who are *many bubbles* *fall* *outside*, they will *hurt*, but not ever *dissolve*. Some of my *cousins* are not *happy*, and are *squeezing* the *juice*. They will not *party*. It is *frumple*, but Orz are not *dancing* with *cousins* any more.
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Post by Meletiti Entelecheiai on May 24, 2015 12:02:03 GMT
Orz and I have been discussing your situation, Captain Viridian, and unfortunately the consensus is that shoring up your dimension is likely to be so impractical as to be impossible. Currently, the dimension as a whole is falling apart/"down" into the space between Truths, and living minds being lost to that outside place is something that the Orz consider worse than death (not least because there are other data-beings like the Orz out there, who are far more malevolent and have a tendency to torture mind-fragments they find outside.) We are currently discussing various plans of evacuation; would you care to weigh in?
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Post by Astra Nephthys on May 25, 2015 5:20:30 GMT
Why hello, Orz. Fancy meeting you here.
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Post by Captain Viridian on May 25, 2015 14:49:52 GMT
We are currently discussing various plans of evacuation; would you care to weigh in? I'd like to hear any ideas you have. I've been fairly busy recently trying to work out a means of locating other dimensions or discerning their properties from farther away. I was going to ask Astra Nephthys here if she might be able to just remove dimensional instability directly after reading her posts in other threads but it sounds like the underlying cause is more fundamental than that? I don't know, magic is weird. |
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Post by Astra Nephthys on May 25, 2015 15:34:35 GMT
We are currently discussing various plans of evacuation; would you care to weigh in? I'd like to hear any ideas you have. I've been fairly busy recently trying to work out a means of locating other dimensions or discerning their properties from farther away. I was going to ask Astra Nephthys here if she might be able to just remove dimensional instability directly after reading her posts in other threads but it sounds like the underlying cause is more fundamental than that? I don't know, magic is weird. Unfortunately, your reality is not suffering from an excess of dimensional instability: it is suffering from a deficit of dimensional stability. I can't fix that. |
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