10-31-2017, 06:59 PM
Aaaaannnd...
Ping!
Dane clicked his fingers, mentally grasping the "spell", letting it pull him to his new destination almost eighty metres away. Sweat dripped from his brow, but he grinned. This wasn't so hard.
And, the best part was that he actually understood it. At least in the sense that it utilised principles that he was already familiar with. Secretive magical communication worked by finding a "strand" of magic that connected the sender and receiver - the further the destination, that harder it was to find one, and even the slightest change in conditions could cause the positioning to rapidly fluctuate, meaning the spell had to constantly be adapted. That, naturally cost a lot of mana.
Explaining the "strands" was harder, and depended on the spatial model used. Some claimed there were six, other's seven, some said there were four, or three-and-a-half, and six-and-a-half was another common claim. The "and-a-half" suggestions weren't true in the technical sense, but the way the magic field seemed to work left it up to debate - similar to the initial confusion of light's particle-wave duality. Essentially, there were three main dimensions in space, that much wasn't debated. Three were sometimes added to that to refer to the three spatial dimensions of magic, while others claimed mana was simply an attribute of matter. The latter claim had lost traction in recent years, since the way magic behaved didn't add up. It was more like a three-dimensional piece of cloth draped over the world.
Comparing to a common example, if you had a hot object, and you moved it, the heat would move with it.
If you charge an object with enough mana, and you move it, a proportion of the mana lingers in its previous position, and ripples outwards.
Confusing, but something that had been held up under lots of tests - it was something Dane took for granted. Essentially, if one could move something through the magical world, moving it left, right, up, down, forwards, or backwards, would not correspond with the same in real space, hence why it was often referred as to having its own three dimensions, even if (technically) it didn't actually add three more orthogonal directions of movement.
The fourth, or seventh, dimension came from how there did seem to be another direction in the magical field, one typically incomprehensible that seemed to connect different points in space. While movement in the other three magical directions was continuous (in that, the absolute distance travelled would always be the same), here, that wasn't the case. Each strand intercepted a distinct unordered pair of points. Various experiments and reasoning had essentially proven that much (although it was up to debate whether there was always a strand connecting two specific points - practically, that didn't matter as there'd always been one close enough for it to work).
The key problem with the strands, however, was that those two points would only be connected at a given point in time, and even the smallest fraction of a second later, the same strand would be connecting two different locations in space. There was some speculation over a multivariable function in x and t (where x is a three-dimensional position vector and t is time) to output another vector, y, of the position of the other intercept.
Should that actually be true, it would imply that at a given point in time, a strand would always be going through x, assuming it was defined for all t. However, the main problem with it was the already verified possibility for a given strand w to intercept points P and Q, and another strand z to intercept points Q and R at the same time, meaning the function would have to give multiple outputs, infinitely many if all points were always connected (at which point it wouldn't actually be a function anymore).
Often, these strands were referred to as half a dimension, or just a strange magic thing no one really understood much about since they didn't really provide a new axis of movement, just a connection between two points.
Various approximations and research had led to the ability to consistently find the connections for shorter distances of a mile, none of which was Dane's area of expertise - he wasn't really a fan of statistics or "guessing".
Yet that did lead directly into his teleportation.
Everything was connected by something in a very similar way to magic.
They fluctuated, but after searching for long enough a link could always be found and Dane could project himself through it. Due to how they fluctuated, it almost always seemed to take the exact same time to do, which was strange. Thinking on it, Dane put that up to Omni. That guy liked to mess with people's abilities. Probably something about fairness, which, if that was the case, Dane appreciated it.
Getting used to increased abilities here in the Omniverse had been interesting, and his personal placement put himself at least in the top 50% strength-wise. Although he only had DA to go off of for that.
Regardless, he had a rough set of rules for how his teleportation worked, and diverse and well thought out ideas for how it worked, most of which he'd get down onto paper later...
...which reminded him of his half finished notes...
...and Cepheya.
He had a lot to do. He meant to do it, it was just, other time-related things kept coming up. He couldn't just miss out on DA, or the opportunity to meet Tearen.
Shrugging, he walked off, passing through the treeline. He saw no reason to linger - making allies could be useful, but Dane wasn't exactly a sociable person. He could pretend to be, but it just felt like too much effort.
His skin glinted, reflecting a final strained ray of light as invisibility gripped his body. He didn't need to use it, he just liked the ability. It wasn't like its use was limited.
Ping!
Dane clicked his fingers, mentally grasping the "spell", letting it pull him to his new destination almost eighty metres away. Sweat dripped from his brow, but he grinned. This wasn't so hard.
And, the best part was that he actually understood it. At least in the sense that it utilised principles that he was already familiar with. Secretive magical communication worked by finding a "strand" of magic that connected the sender and receiver - the further the destination, that harder it was to find one, and even the slightest change in conditions could cause the positioning to rapidly fluctuate, meaning the spell had to constantly be adapted. That, naturally cost a lot of mana.
Explaining the "strands" was harder, and depended on the spatial model used. Some claimed there were six, other's seven, some said there were four, or three-and-a-half, and six-and-a-half was another common claim. The "and-a-half" suggestions weren't true in the technical sense, but the way the magic field seemed to work left it up to debate - similar to the initial confusion of light's particle-wave duality. Essentially, there were three main dimensions in space, that much wasn't debated. Three were sometimes added to that to refer to the three spatial dimensions of magic, while others claimed mana was simply an attribute of matter. The latter claim had lost traction in recent years, since the way magic behaved didn't add up. It was more like a three-dimensional piece of cloth draped over the world.
Comparing to a common example, if you had a hot object, and you moved it, the heat would move with it.
If you charge an object with enough mana, and you move it, a proportion of the mana lingers in its previous position, and ripples outwards.
Confusing, but something that had been held up under lots of tests - it was something Dane took for granted. Essentially, if one could move something through the magical world, moving it left, right, up, down, forwards, or backwards, would not correspond with the same in real space, hence why it was often referred as to having its own three dimensions, even if (technically) it didn't actually add three more orthogonal directions of movement.
The fourth, or seventh, dimension came from how there did seem to be another direction in the magical field, one typically incomprehensible that seemed to connect different points in space. While movement in the other three magical directions was continuous (in that, the absolute distance travelled would always be the same), here, that wasn't the case. Each strand intercepted a distinct unordered pair of points. Various experiments and reasoning had essentially proven that much (although it was up to debate whether there was always a strand connecting two specific points - practically, that didn't matter as there'd always been one close enough for it to work).
The key problem with the strands, however, was that those two points would only be connected at a given point in time, and even the smallest fraction of a second later, the same strand would be connecting two different locations in space. There was some speculation over a multivariable function in x and t (where x is a three-dimensional position vector and t is time) to output another vector, y, of the position of the other intercept.
Should that actually be true, it would imply that at a given point in time, a strand would always be going through x, assuming it was defined for all t. However, the main problem with it was the already verified possibility for a given strand w to intercept points P and Q, and another strand z to intercept points Q and R at the same time, meaning the function would have to give multiple outputs, infinitely many if all points were always connected (at which point it wouldn't actually be a function anymore).
Often, these strands were referred to as half a dimension, or just a strange magic thing no one really understood much about since they didn't really provide a new axis of movement, just a connection between two points.
Various approximations and research had led to the ability to consistently find the connections for shorter distances of a mile, none of which was Dane's area of expertise - he wasn't really a fan of statistics or "guessing".
Yet that did lead directly into his teleportation.
Everything was connected by something in a very similar way to magic.
They fluctuated, but after searching for long enough a link could always be found and Dane could project himself through it. Due to how they fluctuated, it almost always seemed to take the exact same time to do, which was strange. Thinking on it, Dane put that up to Omni. That guy liked to mess with people's abilities. Probably something about fairness, which, if that was the case, Dane appreciated it.
Getting used to increased abilities here in the Omniverse had been interesting, and his personal placement put himself at least in the top 50% strength-wise. Although he only had DA to go off of for that.
Regardless, he had a rough set of rules for how his teleportation worked, and diverse and well thought out ideas for how it worked, most of which he'd get down onto paper later...
...which reminded him of his half finished notes...
...and Cepheya.
He had a lot to do. He meant to do it, it was just, other time-related things kept coming up. He couldn't just miss out on DA, or the opportunity to meet Tearen.
Shrugging, he walked off, passing through the treeline. He saw no reason to linger - making allies could be useful, but Dane wasn't exactly a sociable person. He could pretend to be, but it just felt like too much effort.
His skin glinted, reflecting a final strained ray of light as invisibility gripped his body. He didn't need to use it, he just liked the ability. It wasn't like its use was limited.
Quote:Dane's heading off now. If you leave roughly heading in his direction, I guess he might unstealth if you want to interract. Otherwise, I'm gonna go gank 13 after his bounty goes through.