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Shining Example (WORM ORIGIN QUEST)

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BloodyMagpie said:
I would have gone for Contessa like in the previous vote but it is kind of ridiculous that we haven't even met Hero.
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He works a lot. He's working on his next big project: Figuring out how to ask Contessa on a date. :V

Blood of Gaea said:
I find it worth noting that Alex has been smashed into walls multiple times at quite high speeds, and doesn't seem to have any brain damage to show for it.
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:whistle:

I have no idea what you're talking about.



Nope, nothing to see here. :V
 
Blood of Gaea said:
Of course, we can't forget the inherent Thinker power to see gravitational waves, that would probably make it a lot harder for a stanger or whatnot to avoid notice, also seems like a pretty solid hard counter to people like Grue.
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Oh it was also capable of showing the internal mechanism of things. So that's going to have some use.


However we need to be specific that these aren't gravitational waves. The 'Waves' that Alex sees are just how his shard describes the forces of gravity to Alex.
 
Dark as Silver said:
Please elaborate.
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Nothing solid, simply the fact that the discriptions seem weird to me. If there is an imaginary sphere of waves surronding a person, why does taking waves away from the top make them fly off into space? Would they just get crushed into the ground, if it was gravity?

That said, it could also just be an odd way the visual power is expressed or the like.
 
Blood of Gaea said:
Nothing solid, simply the fact that the discriptions seem weird to me. If there is an imaginary sphere of waves surronding a person, why does taking waves away from the top make them fly off into space? Would they just get crushed into the ground, if it was gravity?

That said, it could also just be an odd way the visual power is expressed or the like.
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We might have to jump back to grab quotes as I always imagined it as a skin layer shell. Any way as we were saying before the shell is an arbitrary tool the shard feeds Alex to make his power comprehensible to his puny 3D meat brain. Since the waves have often been described with terms like pressure my guess is that it represents the vectors in which gravity is pulling them.
 
Dark as Silver said:
Since the waves have often been described with terms like pressure my guess is that it represents the vectors in which gravity is pulling them.
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Therin lies my skepicism that we actually know if it's gravity (or just gravity alone). If there is a pull acting on someone from every direction, then eliminating the pull from above them would cause them to move down.


Here's an example of what I'm talking about:
IKnowNothing said:
Just for kicks, you imagine the ocean directly above it to stop. There's a sound like a gunshot as the ball shoots towards the ceiling. The metal above you groans in protest for an instant before relenting and allowing the ball to continue on through, as it rips a huge hole in the metal. You manage to catch it fly through the it and into the blue sky above.
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He removes what should be a "pull" from the top of the sphere, which would launch it into the ground.

My two thoughts for this are:
1. The Thinker power automatically inverses the gravitational forces, so he was actually reduces the pull from the earth, and not from whatever it was above the sphere.
2. The waves around objects aren't actively gravity, and are some sort of potential energy was released, launching the ball upwards, I'm not really sure what that would mean though.

In addition the the above, Shards ranges are only supposed to extend to about the moon... So what exactly was the gravitational force pushing the sphere away from the planet?
 
Blood of Gaea said:
Therin lies my skepicism that we actually know if it's gravity (or just gravity alone). If there is a pull acting on someone from every direction, then eliminating the pull from above them would cause them to move down.


Here's an example of what I'm talking about:

He removes what should be a "pull" from the top of the sphere, which would launch it into the ground.

My two thoughts for this are:
1. The Thinker power automatically inverses the gravitational forces, so he was actually reduces the pull from the earth, and not from whatever it was above the sphere.
2. The waves around objects aren't actively gravity, and are some sort of potential energy was released, launching the ball upwards, I'm not really sure what that would mean though.

In addition the the above, Shards ranges are only supposed to extend to about the moon... So what exactly was the gravitational force pushing the sphere away from the planet?
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I'm sorry I meant pushing rather than pulling. See back to my comment about pressure. The waves above something are holding them down.
Basically I'm onboard with your first thought rather than the second.

As for your closing comment. My range doesn't extend beyond my arms and legs but when I jump I'm still being affected by the earths gravity. The Shards 'range' doesn't need to include the sources of gravity to see how they effect things inside it. And as for what caused it to push away from the planet? At the time it was IKnowNothing's mistaken assumptions about gravity, force and inertia.
 
Good guesses, but only slightly right in some cases.

As for other things, the vote is going to stay open for another day.

Because I am lazy and I want some more time to finish the Fortuna interlude. :V
 
As you might have already guessed, the vote is now closed.

You're headed to talk to Charles, and you've given him just enough time for the powerpoint presentation to be finished.
 
Ok, this is your QM here to give you an chapter update.

That I seem to be doing every time I make a chapter. :V

The chapter itself is finished, but do to personal complications, it might not be up for a few more days.

But once it does, I will be posting two interludes along side it.

The first, being the voted for Fortuna interlude, where the deputy director starts to build her army.

The second, is a simple business deal between three men, two of whom happen to be tinkers.

Sorry for the wait, thanks for enjoying the story anyway.

As a final note, I have a question. Should I revamp the poll for the next Interlude so you guys can vote for the next perspective story? Or would you just want me to make interludes on who I think should have them?
 
Speed53066 said:
Reaction for two tinkers getting together.
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Oh come on, it's not that bad.

It's just a meeting of a tinker who is a living meme, another tinker that makes weapons of mass destruction for the highest bidder.

Oh! And a thinker with a god complex.

Everything is perfectly fine here, nothing bad at all. :V

Also, small note, no one has said anything about the question I proposed. Please give answer so I know what to do with that poll up top that's starting to take space.
 
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