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Spicier-Angel said:
Or you could just never have significant travel time again. Make an Artifact with three properties/behaviors:
  1. Optically transparent shell enclosing Sabrina.
  2. Applies a gravitational field across the interior to match the acceleration of the contents with the acceleration of the shell.
  3. Produces no propagating disturbances in the atmosphere, no matter how it moves.
    1. Alternative: Exterior surface teleports and re-emits impacting molecules, with unchanged momentum and angular momentum (ie the location of the re-emission should be the same as if the molecule had instantly traveled through the Artifact in the direction of its momentum).
The purpose of Property 1 is general usability. The purpose of Property 2 is to remove the "don't splatter the Meguca" limitation on maximum acceleration. The sole purpose of Property 3 is to avoid sonic booms and loud non-shock noises during movement. Directions for use:
  1. Either form the Artifact, or retrieve it from storage.
  2. Get inside.
  3. Accelerate to... I have no idea how fast you want to move. As many km/s as you want? via Grief telekinesis applied to the Artifact.
  4. Travel to destination at ludicrous speed.
  5. Decelerate. Do not run into anything.
  6. Debark.
  7. Dissolve or store the Artifact.
There. Do that whenever, and you should thereafter be equipped to get from anywhere to anywhere else in only a few seconds, without making sonic booms. It uses no conceptually untested abilities, and will pay for itself in time spent by the end of the day you make it, if you should so choose.
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Spicier-Angel said:
Grief fire makes smoke--capable of rearranging molecules in a complicated way.

Yet another example of such rearrangement, and its mundane suppression. Neither the candy-wrapper smoke nor the fire imparts magic or Grief to the air it interacts with.

Grief-based smoke suggests that it would be obvious in the above experiments if the air were being imbued with Grief in order to affect its motion.

The light does not become magical or Witchy--it's just the sphere that avoids deflecting it.

Magical and Grief-based effects are undone when they leave your range. Mundane effects are mundane, with no magical or Grief-based substance to be undone when they leave your range. The experiment with the phaser was silly, I'll add, because an actual laser, rather than a magical sci-fi device, would almost certainly have worked.

Taken together, I believe the requirement of Property 3: to avoid disturbing the atmosphere in spite of a high speed vehicle moving through it, has good evidence in favor of its feasibility. That is what I called "conceptually tested" about it.

Gravity experiment described gravity as "easy". Careful not to make a black hole. The gravity is produced by Grief, and Grief responds to your will in complicated ways, so Property 2 also has good evidence in favor of its feasibility.



Because a teleporter would quite possibly run afoul of the range limit, and the rhetorical environment is unfavorable to Grief projects that have a significant chance of being unfeasible in an uninformative way. Thus, I make a specific proposal for a device that is barely less functional than a teleporter, if at all, that is virtually certain to work as described.

Actually, the teleporter would probably have to be stored rather than created on demand in order to be faster overall. The vehicle I described would probably be very easy to produce--I noticed that Sabrina seems to do mundane effects with Grief almost instantly, and it's the magical/nonphysical stuff that takes more time. For distances the size of Mitakihara, the difference between 10+ km/s and infinitely fast is mostly irrelevant.
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Redshirt Army said:
Maybe "as fast as you can without property damage?" Actually going as fast as we can is... Well, probably too fast.
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I suspect that if you tried the proposed silent hypersonic vehicle, even though it's never been done before, it would be faster than your planned fast-subsonic flight, including its creation time.

That said, if you want to do fast-subsonic, you should probably give yourself an on-the-fly aerodynamic shell, since Meguca are not so aerodynamic and thus cannot fly so quickly before they start rattling windows or losing pieces of costume/dislocating limbs/etc.
 
Spicier-Angel said:
I suspect that if you tried the proposed silent hypersonic vehicle, even though it's never been done before, it would be faster than your planned fast-subsonic flight, including its creation time.

That said, if you want to do fast-subsonic, you should probably give yourself an on-the-fly aerodynamic shell, since Meguca are not so aerodynamic and thus cannot fly so quickly before they start rattling windows or losing pieces of costume/dislocating limbs/etc.
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It's a pity we don't have anybody on hand to snap us out of trance if we needed it.

Or... maybe we could try and create a super fast Witchy vehicle... while we travel on a 'normal' Grief vehicle, which only should take a few seconds to make. Assuming we can travel and create at the same time, in case the Grief creation takes too long or fails, we don't lose travel time.

EDIT: Assuming we can't travel and craft at the same time, Sabrina flies high enough there shouldn't be any danger of crashing. :p
 
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It occurs to me that the house on fire thing might not be the best bit because Sayaka's house was actually on fire.

Unless that's the joke and I'm just being a wet blanket.
 
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It occurs to me that the house on fire thing might not be the best bit because Sayaka's house was actually on fire.

Unless that's the joke and I'm just being a wet blanket.
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It's intentional on several levels.

Onmur said:
But then it loses it's meaning, though. Since it's suposed to mean they get along very well...

And oh, boy, telling Sayaka about Oriko is gonna be such a thing.

SV, prepare.

Social challenges lie ahead.
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Eh. We can handle it. I have plans for that.
 
Onmur said:
It's a pity we don't have anybody on hand to snap us out of trance if we needed it.
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Well, that's one of the reasons I want to make a grief object that lets us maintain our awareness while making grief objects. Or at the very least, one that snaps us out of a trance should it become necessary.
 
Ugolino said:
Probably not on this trip. Too short. Next time? Probably.
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we should probably start mentioning it. At least warm her up to the idea and given the sheer scale Walpurgisnacht night is i am pretty sure kyoko's city is in just as much danger.

We don't need to come up with very detailed plans, just start talking to her about it, that's all. If it starts to take too long we can cut it short and it gives us another excuse to see best red head XD
 
noahgab1133 said:
we should probably start mentioning it. At least warm her up to the idea and given the sheer scale Walpurgisnacht night is i am pretty sure kyoko's city is in just as much danger.

We don't need to come up with very detailed plans, just start talking to her about it, that's all. If it starts to take too long we can cut it short and it gives us another excuse to see best red head XD
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Uhhh if we start talking about it, that'll be a conversation in and of itself. I'm all for being proactive but this is a can of worms we won't have time to open properly- I think.
 
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