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[X] Just instruct the spectators to flee and leave the area yourself. They'll talk, certainly, but nobody is close enough to get a good look at your features. Switching your hairstyle and changing clothes should (hopefully) be more than enough to throw them off track, assuming you cover Skybreaker with something.

Alright! We made out like bandits with our literally heavens defying First Project, and now it's time to skedaddle to make sure no one takes it from us! Reputation building is for when we have more resources and can defend ourselves better.

I'm thinking, order these guys to run, then once they're gone, teleport spam a bunch of times to get as far away from here as possible? Our parents (and anyone else trying to track us down) will have a far harder time finding us if we're moving by teleport spam instead of mundane travel!

EDIT: Wait a minute. Can we close the portals we open? Or will they seal naturally eventually?
 
[X] Share your name: Lorelei von Mendel. It'll make it easier for your parents to find you, but it'll also help you establish a reputation as quickly as possible.
 
[x] Just instruct the spectators to flee and leave the area yourself. They'll talk, certainly, but nobody is close enough to get a good look at your features. Switching your hairstyle and changing clothes should (hopefully) be more than enough to throw them off track, assuming you cover Skybreaker with something.

We pierced the heavens!
 
adaer said:
Lower odds of slowly draining the atmosphere into it too.
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Key word is slowly. There are about 4 billion cubic kilometers of air. Assuming a Rift 1 kilometer in radius sucks up 1 cubic kilometer of air per second (extremely unlikely, but makes easy math), it'd take 1.3 years of it being open constantly for us to lose 1% of our atmosphere. Since odds are it doesn't suck up air anywhere near that quickly, that means it takes even longer to cause problems.
 
Trondason said:
Key word is slowly. There are about 4 billion cubic kilometers of air. Assuming a Rift 1 kilometer in radius sucks up 1 cubic kilometer of air per second (extremely unlikely, but makes easy math), it'd take 1.3 years of it being open constantly for us to lose 1% of our atmosphere. Since odds are it doesn't suck up air anywhere near that quickly, that means it takes even longer to cause problems.
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Well yeah, the fact that they close means that it won't be a problem unless someone really tries to make it one. If they were permanent though, it would be bad. Also, it'd cause interesting changes to weather and prevailing winds if there were random places that were always extreme low pressure zones.
 
I'm just happy then when we use Skybreaker to teleport spam, we won't need to worry about people following our trail.

Why are 'power requirements' mentioned in terms of closing the rift? Don't we have basically infinite power and never need to recharge?
 
Trondason said:
@Alivaril Does air-pressure work across Rifts. And as such, is a thing we gotta be careful of (or abuse maliciously) when we are making them?
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You're not entirely certain, but you don't think so. Inspiration never warned you about suffocation hazards from opening rifts in enclosed spaces. On the flip side, you do think rifts might be devouring light. As far as you can tell, the void should be black, not white.

EDIT: Oh, you mean linked rifts. You're reasonably confident that's not a problem either.
 
[X] Just instruct the spectators to flee and leave the area yourself. They'll talk, certainly, but nobody is close enough to get a good look at your features. Switching your hairstyle and changing clothes should (hopefully) be more than enough to throw them off track, assuming you cover Skybreaker with something.
 
[X] Share your name: Lorelei von Mendel. It'll make it easier for your parents to find you, but it'll also help you establish a reputation as quickly as possible. ​
 
[X] Just instruct the spectators to flee and leave the area yourself. They'll talk, certainly, but nobody is close enough to get a good look at your features. Switching your hairstyle and changing clothes should (hopefully) be more than enough to throw them off track, assuming you cover Skybreaker with something.
 
[X] Just instruct the spectators to flee and leave the area yourself. They'll talk, certainly, but nobody is close enough to get a good look at your features. Switching your hairstyle and changing clothes should (hopefully) be more than enough to throw them off track, assuming you cover Skybreaker with something.

We're willing to accept a pretentious name as logn as someone else gives us one? Let's go fishing for one.

...although, that "wait, I think I'm forgetting something" bit feels like a *thing*. What *are* we forgetting? Our horse?
 
[X] Just instruct the spectators to flee and leave the area yourself. They'll talk, certainly, but nobody is close enough to get a good look at your features. Switching your hairstyle and changing clothes should (hopefully) be more than enough to throw them off track, assuming you cover Skybreaker with something.

Doesn't this mean we no longer need a horse? Portals are our method of transportation now and forever. We're going to need a something to protect against accidentally flinging ourselves straight into the ground at high speed, too.
 
pressea said:
Doesn't this mean we no longer need a horse? Portals are our method of transportation now and forever. We're going to need a something to protect against accidentally flinging ourselves straight into the ground at high speed, too.
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Portals are way less subtle than a horse. Using portals constantly would not only use up our batteries, but also make us really easy to track. I say we keep the neighilist horse for now.
 
What we're probably forgetting is that the Surge is over and we're no longer totally invulnerable. Alternatively, we're forgetting that these two had a reason to fight, possibly one that's overriding their free will, and that they're likely to go back to fighting each other as soon as we lose their focus.

@Alivaril Are the clockworks entirely dead, or just disabled?
@Alivaril Is there anything that'd give the peasants a feeling that we're "done" now? Would they know enough about Inspired to be willing to shoot at us again?
@Alivaril Does out Inspiration have any opinions on the idea of assuming command of these armies?

I'm leaning toward "tell them to flee", with a side order of "depart suddenly via portal as soon as you're done talking."
 
@Alivaril Based on our knowledge as an Inspired, do we think another Inspired could track our teleports? Every time we use Skybreaker, are we emitting some kind of energy that can be tracked? Are we leaving weaknesses in the fabric of reality that can be detected by another Inspired?
 
Vebyast said:
@Alivaril Are the clockworks entirely dead, or just disabled?
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Probably dead-dead.


Vebyast said:
@Alivaril Is there anything that'd give the peasants a feeling that we're "done" now? Would they know enough about Inspired to be willing to shoot at us again?
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1: Probably not while you're holding a device which just cracked the skies.

2: You didn't previously know a good portion of what you've used today. So, probably not.


Vebyast said:
@Alivaril Does out Inspiration have any opinions on the idea of assuming command of these armies?
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It does not.


Kai Merah said:
@Alivaril Based on our knowledge as an Inspired, do we think another Inspired could track our teleports? Every time we use Skybreaker, are we emitting some kind of energy that can be tracked? Are we leaving weaknesses in the fabric of reality that can be detected by another Inspired?
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"You don't think so" for all of the above.
 
Whew. We are bringing the biggatons.

I don't even know what to vote re: name except
[X] Don't just tell the peasants to bugger off. Actually...you could use some minions...Who here looks in awe, and not in fear? Who here wants to know and see more? If there are any, they come with you and you go onwards.
 
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[X] Don't just tell the peasants to bugger off. Actually...you could use some minions...Who here looks in awe, and not in fear? Who here wants to know and see more? If there are any, they come with you and you go onwards.
 
[X] Just instruct the spectators to flee and leave the area yourself. They'll talk, certainly, but nobody is close enough to get a good look at your features. Switching your hairstyle and changing clothes should (hopefully) be more than enough to throw them off track, assuming you cover Skybreaker with something.
 
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