RE: Chiasmata: Not your grandma's Monty Hall Problem.
07-03-2016, 10:27 PM
(This post was last modified: 07-20-2017, 02:56 PM by K25fF.)
>Ash: check out the red thing
ASH: “I’ll go look at the thing, you look at the door.”
DAVID: “Wh- okay.”
The red thing is kinda glowy and flickery. It dies down a little when you get close.
It's so… captivating...
At least, it’s mesmerising until the light starts to hurt your eyes.
>David: examine door-portal
You’ve noticed that touching things gives you little flashes of insight, maybe some kind of extra sense that goes with your powers. It’s why you blacked out briefly and apparently said you knew something when Ash was having her power side-effects before. Admittedly, you did immediately forget what you learned.
Either way, as soon as your fingers cross the boundary, you get something of an idea as to how this works. Something about folded space, something that cuts breaches and… not much else.
You’re considering stepping through and having a better look around, when you see motion in the distance, through the breach, and hear a different, familiar voice.
~==>
LEO: “Hey!”
His voice carries oddly well across the cavernous room. Still pretty hard to hear, though. You wave back and turn in Ash’s direction.
DAVID: “Some more of the people are here! I think it’s that ghost guy and Anders.”
~==>
DAVID: “And also some of those glowy robots.”
???: “You are correct in your assessment.”
That voice again. It kinda sounds tinny, but it still sounds like no-one you've ever heard, you're fairly sure.
ASH: “I’ll go look at the thing, you look at the door.”
DAVID: “Wh- okay.”
The red thing is kinda glowy and flickery. It dies down a little when you get close.
It's so… captivating...
At least, it’s mesmerising until the light starts to hurt your eyes.
>David: examine door-portal
You’ve noticed that touching things gives you little flashes of insight, maybe some kind of extra sense that goes with your powers. It’s why you blacked out briefly and apparently said you knew something when Ash was having her power side-effects before. Admittedly, you did immediately forget what you learned.
Either way, as soon as your fingers cross the boundary, you get something of an idea as to how this works. Something about folded space, something that cuts breaches and… not much else.
You’re considering stepping through and having a better look around, when you see motion in the distance, through the breach, and hear a different, familiar voice.
~==>
LEO: “Hey!”
His voice carries oddly well across the cavernous room. Still pretty hard to hear, though. You wave back and turn in Ash’s direction.
DAVID: “Some more of the people are here! I think it’s that ghost guy and Anders.”
~==>
DAVID: “And also some of those glowy robots.”
???: “You are correct in your assessment.”
That voice again. It kinda sounds tinny, but it still sounds like no-one you've ever heard, you're fairly sure.
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