odd little alucine

[affodell]

It's never previously occurred to Cayra to put a door across an alucine boundary, but now that she's encountered it in practice it makes sense. It makes it visually obvious and it lets you lock it if you want. This door wasn't locked, and it looked like it led to a public bathroom, not a bar, from the signage, so she's still confused. Still, it's a good idea. She twists open the glass vial pendant around her neck and bends her head to the little blue lily inside to make a note of it; as an afterthought she tries to send it off to her antheomancer-chatcircle, anything to have a decent conversation, but it doesn't go. Her flower doesn't look wilting, but she can put it back in the garden and get a fresher one for the vial later. At least her personal files look okay. She closes up the vial again, giving the flower a touch of antheomancy for its health, and finds a bathroom inside the bar that dominates this little alucine.

And then she emerges into the bar. It doesn't seem to be staffed. Or stocked. Why wasn't it locked?

Hello, anybody here?

with Flynn (ErinFlight)

with Harry (andaisq)

Due to some icon rearrangement errors, some of Flynn's tags appear with an incorrect icon. The correct face for this thread is Rosario Dawson's.

Comments

[affodell]

I can get a hemmed durable piece of cloth large enough for a human to walk through for 42 units Araming fiat.

"...Can I get it really thin without compromising durability, so if I make a kangaroo pocket I can tuck it away?"

Yes.

"Nice."

[erinflight]

"Can you afford to get three of those?"

[affodell]

"Yes. This is so you can make multiple tries, or do you need three per?"

[erinflight]

"Multiple tries and I want to make at least two portals. If you could get a few more, that would help."

[affodell]

"Why do you want to make two?"

[erinflight]

"I could make two leading to the room. I think it would be easier than making one portal with an adjustable end."

[affodell]

"I don't understand."

[erinflight]

"I'm not sure how I'd make a portal with adjustable ends, where you hold one end and the other end leads to your destination. I'd have to make the portable responsive to thought, and I'm not sure how I'd do that. Instead I was going to make two portals leading to an empty room, a place like an alucine, then you could carry one portal with you and leave the other in the place you want to go."

[affodell]

"...Oh, I think I was envisioning this differently. I was imagining that it would just be a room I could carry around with me, more or less, but you're thinking of the room as a throughway? So I'd pin one end to my bedroom at home and carry the other with me?"

[erinflight]

"I realized a portal that could only lead to one place wouldn't be that useful, so I thought of combining the two ideas. The room should be big enough for you to put stuff in, or stay in if you want to."

[affodell]

"I'm worried about leaving the ends unattended, though."

[erinflight]

"I could make it so you have to know about the portals to use them. That might be too complicated, but I could try."

[affodell]

"Know about like seeing me use them, or something else?"

[erinflight]

"Know that they specifically exist ahead of time, not just know there's some sort of doorway there."

[affodell]

"Hm - would it be more or less complicated to make it something like having a password written on them? Then I can do it very unobtrusively -" She displays the palm of her hand; it says 'password', then it doesn't. "And if I want to let someone in but I don't completely trust them, I can write it on them someplace they can't see and rub it out before they can show anyone else."

[erinflight]

"That would be a lot easier, that way the portal wouldn't have to see inside your mind. Is that everything? Are you ready to try?" Flynn is jittery and keeps looking towards the door.

[affodell]

"Not just yet," says Cayra. "I want to make sure I understand. So I will have two pieces of door-size cloth, and they'll both lead to a room that's like a walled alucine all its own, and - what happens if something happens to my cloth?"

[erinflight]

"If I can get two portals to work, I'll try to make you a third. But if you lose one, you'll have to go inside the room to figure out where it is."

[affodell]

"What if one's destroyed or something, say I piss off a pyromancer?"

[erinflight]

"I guess the portal would disappear too. Maybe I should try to make one of them on something more sturdy. Bar, do you sell any fireproof cloth?"

[affodell]

Yes, although if you want it quite indestructible it will be quite expensive.

"Like...?"

For three, seventeen thousand units.

"Augh."

[erinflight]

"Let's make one with the normal cloth first, and see how easy it is to destroy it."

[affodell]

"Experiments are expensive. Making them specifically to be wrecked seems like it can probably be improved on."

[erinflight]

"I'm doing this so I have a chance to experiment. I've never tried to weave anything this complicated, and I don't know if it will turn out the way we want. Maybe the threads will make the portal stronger, maybe it will stop being cloth altogether, I don't know enough about weaving to guess."

[affodell]

"You have a point. But if you're going to get less coherent as we go, yet might have more than a few portals in you, I'd like to have clear plans for what-all you'll make before you make any of it."