"You ain't gonna bio-engineer me honey. I'm fine with my body just the way it is."



"I wish I could be there."



"Ya know what? I'm done impressing you. You either give me something solid to do here or I'm going to leave."

OOC) My player on my other forum gave me an idea.

IC) Try to Chaos my hand to vibrate at high speed. If I can vibrate at the right frequency, I can pass through solid objects. Pass between the molecules of them. Try to vibrate my hand at a frequency which will pass through the wall. Then try to get my whole body through it.

If I botch I could get stuck in the wall.....

(Doing Therapy)

"That is not how Testing works."  Acid starts to flow into the room from small slots at the base of the walls.

You start building Chaos and walk toward a wall....You stick a finger in the wall and lose control.  The finger gets spat out, broken and shredded.

Botch.

Acid is swirling around your shoes.

Hop up on the table that's in the middle of the room. Heal my finger. Check the acid on my boots. Order to neutralize that.

Watch the acid on the floor. Is it eating through the floor?

"Okay honey, you wanna play rough? I can play rough."

Draw the Chaos out of the acid and turn it into something hot enough to melt through the walls. Not necessarily the door. There might be wires or something behind the walls that I can damage to make my situation better.

You said all of my gear was here? Grab the AK-47 with the 100 round drum and prepare to leave. Once I've got a hole melted, that is.

In reply to JohnA1nut (msg # 166):

"This is not rough. I haven't even started dissecting you yet." The flat and calm remark makes you realize that Emma is quite insane.

You heal, and then you pump Order into the acid which neutralizes the pungent liquid.

"You could probably create a very powerful bomb with that skill." Emma notes.

No, the acid is not eating  through the floor.  Emma is a mad scientist, true, but she's not stupid.

You draw the chaos out, and start to burn through the wall.  This is good that you drew the chaos out, because Emma tries to light the acid on fire, but its already neutral so t hat doesn't work.

You eat your way through the wall, and step into a corridor which is a mix of a steel walled corridor, and fungus growing off the walls, and pulsing veins.  Its a creepy mix of Evil Villain Lair and Out of Control Greenhouse of Plants Need Blood.

You see an attractive blonde standing in front of you.

"Emma wants you to go back in."  Flame bursts from her skin, and she's standing in a translucent ball of fire.

"I'm Fire Princess, let's dance, Magehammer." And suddenly the heat in the air shoots up fifty degrees.

"I'll take that under advisement."



I was going to say "Torch This" but it looks like that other girl is going to do that for me.



Throw on my Order cloak. You know when I go Flame On? Except I'm not lighting myself. I'm just using it to protect me from her fire.

"You're gonna have to try harder than that Emma."

BTW, I also grabbed the backpack with the AK-47. But you knew that, I'm sure.

Just say to the attractive blonde "Look, I don't really want to do this, do you? Especially since it seems you can't really hurt me anyway. So let's just call it a draw."

Try to walk past her if she'll let me. If not, figure something else out.

(Doing Therapy)

"I'm here to help, Magehammer." Emma replies calmly.  Her reactions are just....off.

"I'm Fire Princess, not Emma.  Emma's my boss.  I have a Fire Power Core, what do you have?"  And the heat shoots up another hundred degrees.  You're still comfortable.  The plants on the wall are starting to wilt a bit.  She doesn't look like she's really trying yet.

She tries to shove you back, but she's not nearly as physically strong as you.

"I can easily melt steel.  Go back in, Magehammer.  Sides, even if you beat me, you have to take out Sylax...and she's scary."

"That's what the Nazis said honey."



"Oh puh-leeze, I eat Chaos for breakfast."

Channel her flames so that it just shoots down the corridor. Towards her, in the direction I am planning to go. That should take out anything that's waiting for me down there.

To be clear, I'm not trying to hurt her (yet). I'm just trying to channel her Chaos away from myself. As Guy Pearce said in The Road "I don't want your pistol, I just don't want you pointing it at me."

I dunno, it sounded right at the time.



"In another place, in another time, perhaps. But not today."



"I can do that too!!!!! Don't you see what I just did to that door? I'm telling you, you should let this go. I can turn your Chaos into a baby nuke. Turn this whole complex into a smoking pile of rubble. You really want me to do that?"

Seriously, that's my next move if she doesn't let it go. Turn her Chaos into a baby nuke and hope my Order shield is enough to protect me from it. If it isn't, what the hey? I'm a verser!!!!

(Doing Therapy)
This message had punctuation tweaked by the player at 16:39, Thu 24 May 2018.

"A valid point, Magehammer.  Personally I think the Nazis were misunderstood more than evil." Emma says.  "However, they were stuck in Reality O with no SCIENCE.  This limited what they could do in their studies."

You send some of her fire down the corridor.  She winces as you do this.

1@1 Redirect Fire

Fire Princess douses her flame and steps to the side of the tunnel.

"Sorry, Emma.  He's too strong for me."
"I understand.  Its not your fault if you're totally inadequate."  The voice comes from another speaker.

+@1 to Intimidation.

You trek down the corridor, passing several humans in jumpsuits with alphabetic and numeric tags on their suits....like 'A-31, and D-18' and so forth.  They are all working, either carrying stuff, or tending the vines.  None of them offer you any resistance even as they watch you.

Actually I changed my mind. I'm going back into Emma's room.

"Okay, I defeated your Fire Princess, I melted a hole in your wall. I hope you can now see I ain't to be messed with. So what's the deal? You wanted to help me get a handle on my powers. Let's learn together. But as long as you understand that I can walk out of here any time I want to."

It's really not so bad here. I just don't like the idea of being trapped.

(Doing Therapy)

In reply to JohnA1nut (msg # 172):

"On one side is Energy or Chaos and on the other side is Matter or Form or Structure.  The energy seems to be white, and the other black.  One thing seems clear, both sides require that the equations be balanced....which I'm guessing means no lying.

Can you link air molecules together to form a forcefield?

Can you sense weaknessin an object with Order?

Can you use Order to perfect your movements so that you walk or run without wasted energy?'

"I'm not so sure about that. I tend to think of both forces as energy in a fashion. When I was just an Order mage I couldn't lie, but once I introduced Chaos to the mix, it became as easy as 1, 2 5."



"Yeah, I just did that actually."

Demonstrate the smashing effect on the glass she gave me.



"Sure can. But I tend to think of adding Chaos as causing weakness. But I could be wrong there, too."



"Good suggestion. Never tried it."

Then I ask Emma "What do you know about Order/Chaos magic?

"Can you link air molecules into a flat, horizontal surface about a foot above ground, and then step on it?"

"I think both would work.  Adding Chaos would create a weakness, the Order sensing would find one that is already there."

"Only what I have learned from observing you."

"Huh, never tried that."

Try it.



Remove Order from a wall. That should weaken it enough to put a hole in.

In my thoughts, adding Chaos would be like burning something, removing Order would be like rotting it. Let's see if that's right.



"Huh, I thought you knew more about this from what you said."

Pause.

"So, uh, what's it like outside? If I had kept going what would I find?"

Pause.

"And now that I've shown you I ain't to be messed with, can I get some more food? A nice medium rare steak with mushrooms and onions and a baked potato would work."

No harm in asking, right?

You're able to stand on a ledge made of air.  You can't see it, but you can feel it.

Its like nothing you've stood on before.  +@1 to walking and forcefields.

The removing order moves more smoothly, and the chaos goes in fits, a little, a lot, a little....The basic theory is right.  Chaos also creates more of an opportunity for other chemical reactions to occur.

"I rule Aefwal.  The sky is a darker blue than Earth That Was.  I have five district lords that report to me.  Each has their own style of district.  My district is a mix of dirt mounds with roots and some tall buildings.  I have thousands of clones who work for me  The district lords are Sylax, Fire Princess, Mechanos, Princess Carraway, and Icthon.

Sylax's district if full of hardedged metal bunkers.  Fire Princess has woods and burnt fields and caves.  Mechanos has test labs of many sizes with hundreds of robots.  Princess Carraway has tall, black crystalline skyscrapers with pools with every person being astonishing beautiful and much artwork.  Icthon's district is hard to get too since he wobbles in and out of the present moment."


"I...yes, I could do that."  A few hours later, a flawlessly beautiful woman bearing the food steps in.  Her robes are white.

OOC) Oh how I wish this was a Mature rated forum......

I sit down and eat. Ask Emma what other theories she's comprised for Order/Chaos magic.

"What else do you think it could do? How could it be combined? Any more theories?"

Cheek for the verser sense. Is it still there?

(Doing Therapy)

In reply to JohnA1nut (msg # 178):

OOC: I would not play if it was.  I don't want to know about your fantasies.  Nor really anyone else's.  Its a little like accidentally walking in on someone in the bathroom at McDonalds.  Ewwww.


"I am Princess Carraway, leader of the Perfect.  Emma thought I could help you figure out how to use your magics to perfect your ability to move.  My people are naturally graceful.  Perhaps I can teach you how to walk so smoothly that you could walk through a minefield, and set none of them off."

"Sure. That sounds like a plan. What do I need to do?"

Keep checking for that other verser sense.

(Doing Therapy)

In reply to JohnA1nut (msg # 180):

She sets you to just standing there, and breathing while you hold Order in your body.  Whenever you sag your shoulders, or twist your spine, she taps the offending area with a long ivory wand.

"First we learn how to breathe and stand.  If you are very good, we may learn how to walk in a week."

It is surprisingly tiring.

The second day, she has you do the same with Chaos in your body.  This is even harder as the Chaos energy makes you want to twitch after a while.  At the end of three hours, your limbs are trembling.

On the third day, she puts a cup of very hot, and great smelling coffee atop your head, filled to the brim....

Be prepared to freeze the cup of coffee solid if it spills, but sure. I'm up for that.

What is the other verser sense doing?

(Doing Therapy)

In reply to JohnA1nut (msg # 182):

You have to freeze it pretty quickly.

She laughs. Its like tinkling bells.

"That's cheating." She asks you to reheat her coffee.

The other verser sense has gotten about half the distance closer.

I'll be their Guinea pig for now. Try to learn and improve myself.

Wait for Rachel.

A day passes as you learn 'the right way' to breathe.  With concentration,  you find you can walk, run, and recover more quickly and easily than before.  Its a door opened into a wider world.

A television screen appears, and shows Phoenix in the air.

"Who is this?"  Emma asks.

"Ah, my love...... She's the reason I melted a hole in your wall. And I guarantee she'll do a lot more than that to this place. Now, where is she? We've got a pretty nice setup here. I'd like to bring her into the fold. I'm sure she could teach you a few things, and you her. Just tell me where she is and I'll go get her."

Telepathy to Rachel. "Can you find me? I've got a pretty sweet setup here. Come on in. I'm sure they'd love to have you."

And if something goes wrong, I'm also sure that between the two of us, Magehammer and The Phoenix can fight our way out.

(Doing Therapy)

In reply to JohnA1nut (msg # 186):

"Sorry Magehammer.  But SCIENCE."  And the room slams into subzero cold, and floods with a sedative gas while an electric current knocks you flying as it jumps into your body through the floor.

"You son of a......"

Then I pass out. What happens when I wake up?