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This is an old revision of MedallionOfAugustus made by JonahPetri on 2008-09-12 15:56:51.
In normal use, the medallion is controlled using pins located at the four cardinal directions. These pins are almost impossible for someone without mega-perception to locate, but are relatively easy for even non-meta's to find once the location has been pointed out to them. When all four pins are pulled out slightly, the disk in the center of the medallion whirs around to form a sphere. A viewing panel appears. By manipulating the pins in and out, the user can move the viewpoint on this panel. When the user stops moving the pins, there is a slight pause, then a portal opens up to the location shown in the viewing panel.
Experiments with the medallion have resulted in the following information:
- There is a manifestation when opening the portal.
- There is a spike in the manifestation when you walk through.
- There is a super manifestation on the return, which has a weird temporal feel to it.
- The person on the target side cannot see the portal opening.
- The person on the target side of the portal can feel the manifestation before someone walks through the portal. It is a super-manifestation and feels like it is rolling towards the target.
- Someone who is standing between A and B feels the manifestation as it passes from A to B.
- On the return trip (B to A), the manifestation does not roll. It appears at A and B at the same time.
- Devi can use the portal to create shadows/portals on the other side that are technically out of sight, but they’re shaky, and probably unreliable.
- Walking through with the phone, it does not realign immediately, but keeps the real time (like the clockwork watch) for a few minutes. The phones are not damaged by being passed through the portal.
- When two people go through the portal, at A the manifestation is the same. On the return trip, the manifestation is twice as large. When Devi-shadow is the second person, the manifestation is larger than with just one person, but not nearly as large as when it is two physical people.
- If the distance between A and B is twice as far, the manifestation is twice as big.
- The longer you stay, the larger the manifestation.
- When Elana goes to B at 0:00 and comes back at 2:00 B-time (returning to A at 0:01 A-time), she cannot return to B until 2:01 A-time.
- When Elana goes to be at 0:00 and comes back at 6:00 B-time (returning to A at 0:01 A-time), and then tries to run (with the medallion) to B (a five minute run) so that theoretically she would get to B before 6:00 A-time, the distance stretches so that no matter how fast she runs, she cannot arrive to see herself.
- The same experiment, but passing the medallion to Alistair before beginning to run, results in the medallion manifesting hugely, a mile or more, and burns Alistair’s hand. Elana still does not meet herself.
- If a portal is opened and a rock is thrown through to Fio at point B, the portal does not close. However, Fio can’t see the portal, and can’t through the rock back.
- If the portal is opened, pushing the pins back turns it off again.
- If Elana opens a portal at A, and then tries to through the medallion through the portal, it doesn’t work. The second it stops touching skin, it immediately shuts everything off.
- Experiments show that nothing appears until it is entirely through the portal.
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