[Saturday Night of 20XX]
[Sometime in March]
[Holdport] [Somerset] [UK]
[Universe Sierra-Hotel-1]
[Katie McCabe, 1st Person]
I answered, “Well, Miss Only Two Inches Taller Than Me at Five Foot Tall,” 152.4 cm tall, “Your Intrinsic Field, or just Field for short? It uses teleportation to heal you. It takes matter, converts it to energy, and then back to matter to restore the healthy template of your form when it’s healthy. Making you immortal with its healing factor. It makes it so you don’t need to sleep, at least from a purely biological perspective. Excluding the magical need for sleep it doesn’t deal with.”
I kept explaining, “It also uses Dark Energy Microscopic Wormhole Foam to teleport matter from other worlds up and down the Interplanar Axes,” think Interplanar Axis, but as a plural. “It uses matter taken from those worlds to restore matter you’ve lost, the matter it uses as base matter for your Bone Constructs the teleportation power fabricates. Your power is basically a Teleporter and a Matter-Fabricator of a Mat-Fab. It does not use Trading, one of the Ten Elemental Realms, or some other magical source of Matter Fuel for The Mat-Fab.”
Also, I can’t remember if it’s how Dark Energy worked or not in my past life. So, if you're in an alternate universe without superpowers don’t take this as gospel. And if you’re in a different universe at the same time as having superpowers in your universe? Please don’t assume superpowers work this way either.
It’s like how Earth Sierra-Hotel-1 doesn’t have a Shadow Biosphere, or an established and distinct second genesis of life on this Earth ... because the Murder Death Kill action of The Grey Goo event on our current earth goes and murders its way through an attempt to start again. It is already too advanced and too established to allow a Shadow Biosphere or primitive second genesis life because it uses those for resources in the second genesis case and a Shadow Biosphere is outcompeted by standard life.
At least on Earth Sierra-Hotel-1 and I can’t remember if it’s true of my past life or if it had those theories. Like how I don’t know about Dark Energy, and how people magically mess around to create forms of life in such a manner is suppressed from spreading due to The Deception.
Plus? Now back to Dark Energy:
Dark Energy is how the eternal, immortal, and indestructible soul can be in more than one place at once without being impossibly divided into parts. The soul is in one place, extended through Dark Energy Micro Foam Wormholes to be in seemingly many places at one. To note, the nature of the soul means if you are doing it, unless you go and retract your soul out of one of those places you’ve connected it to via Dark Energy? You cannot disconnect or jam those wormholes.
The Eternal, Immortal, and Indestructible Soul won’t allow it. So, if you take a non-sapient, possibly non-living, soul and connect it to more than one object via Dark Energy? You can set up unjammable and perfect FTL communication with it, one you could open a portal via Dark Energy to deliver somewhere.
Or one to keep in one place and one to put on a ship. And with said portal tech, you can piggyback on said Dark Energy manipulation for the Soul to open a portal from one communicator to another communicator.
I do remember Hyperspace and Zone-Space not being a thing in my first life. So even if the way Dark Energy works in my second life was like my first? Those micro wormholes wouldn’t be tunnelling into and out of Hyperspace and Zone-Space like they do. Well, unless my first life was a lot stranger than I think it was.
She stopped though at my words, and I shrugged, “Yes, I can explain it via science. And, yes, the magical community has known what Dark Energy is for longer than we’ve known of Dark Energy. It’s just The Deception and The Gods were not allowing us to explain it or prove it to the Scientific Community. Especially as it’s how Interplanar Portals are opened between worlds by magic drawing upon it, if someone isn’t brute forcing it and just opening a Wormhole without using it. Which is silly, as The Dark Energy Wormhole Foam is the efficient way to open an interplanar portal.”
With a pause I waggled my left hand in the air, the hand not holding the potion bottle, to add, “And I could also explain it wrongly with magic, if I only had the concept of magic. Of it being a teleportation spell to return a person to a specific teleport shape as healing, while drawing matter through mini-interplanar portals for fuel for extra teleport mass. The Bone is built out of extra matter being transformed via teleportation of said portals into it.”
I looked her in the blue eyes with my own dark brown ones from behind my mask, the mask inside my helmet with blue enchanted lenses, and I said, “It’s why the Supernatural Community is looking at The Gods saying, ‘We hid magic so humanity could grow up,’ and for The Community to conclude it’s actually: ‘So Humanity could look at Intrinsic Field Powers of The Natural not as The Supernatural, how they could be explained and then scienced,’ to be the reason why they made The Deception. Or one of the main ones for said secrets, as maintained by The Aspect of the god of Horus of the god of Harpocrates.”
The god of silence, secrets, and confidentiality.
I let out a deep breath of an exhale as I noted, “And as said, Intrinsic Fields are not natural. They are the outside of someone or something making them for some kind or purpose or goal? There is a reason why Humanity needs to be able to understand this as a science and it is not so benign as just any simple bit of science.”
Tara went to speak, I went and pointed an index finger at her, to tell her before she could ask, “And, yes. A week ago, someone in The Witchcraft Community did publish a permanent empowerment ritual of how to take on the universal secondary powers of a Powered. Replicated them with magic as a magical effect, magic you can’t shut off or nullify by an Intrinsic Field of a Power Canceller. So, The Deception and The Gods hiding The Supernatural World has paid off. At least for the reason of hiding magic to have the tools to fight whatever or whoever is making Intrinsic Fields appear on this version of Earth.”
She sucked in a breath, deeply exhaled through her bone mask, and she checked, “How do you know how my powers work?”
With a roll of my shoulders, I told her, “I’ve been checking The Powered scene in Holdport. You’re Jaggedy Annie, the current main hero operating here. I’m Red Hen and this is the point when I decided to enter the scene as a hero. Your powers? They were and are one of the facets of powers I checked in the local scene. If I haven’t had the time or ability to make the scans of in-depth readings I’d like to study rather than the basic bits of scrying and such,” I pointed a finger at the ceiling. “It can come later, after I’ve unmasked myself to you after tonight, and with me giving you some ritual empowerments.”
And I had to gestured at the potion in my hand, when I insisted, “Now, take the potion. The fact of the matter is I know, from looking up the Missing Person’s report about your secret identity, you’re not vegetarian or vegan. Nor are you of a religion who has issues with blood or with consuming pork. So, the pig's blood base for it is perfectly fine for you,” she walked forward. I waved to her phone, “And give me the smartphone back, I’ll charge it with a bit of jiggery-pokery. A subject I didn’t fail hullabaloo,” she looked at me as she knew I was making some reference, she did not get said ref to the part of NuWho I was making a reference to.
Which makes me sad. In my First Life and not this Second Life, Christopher Eccleston and his acting as The Ninth Doctor was my first Doctor. He was my Doctor. And he deserves only good to happen to him, especially when he came to play The Ninth for Big Finish Productions. If there is the problem of the fact, I haven’t been able to find the time to listen to those audios. Maybe when I’m dead again and in The Great City of Limbo for a second time?
I can find said time to properly listen to said greatness.
To not get lost in such greatness? She took in a breath, she took the potion from me at the same time she handed back the phone. She drank the potion in what was the three hundred and thirty millilitre plastic bottle, a bottle of what had been an orange juice bottle. One what held the glowing red potion in it. Her form stabilised and she steadied, even as her paleness remained. Her Snow White like appearance is actually how she looks normally in everyday life.
I reached into the light and heat around us, I pulled on it. The area darkened, while around the warehouse away from us, liquid nitrogen fell down into splashes of nitrogen. I’m working on a spell to manipulate a liquid nitrogen beam, it is currently not a form of magic I can do in combat yet as an attack. Slinging around liquid nitrogen as a weapon is on the to do list for combat, a form of magic I want to do, and I can do in controlled conditions outside of combat.
The energy I took out of the general area? The heat and light were converted to electricity, namely an electrical charge for a phone. A phone charging spell basically. Based off the cantrip of a single spark spell. What I can also do outside of combat, from working on being a Astrapophage, of Astrapophagy, the ability to feed on electricity and throw it around.
My spell charged the phone, of what was some simple energy manipulation of electrical energy? It charged the dead phone to a hundred percent power in a flicker of energy. Without doing any damage to the phone’s electronics or battery or such. Because both magic! And I’m not a hack!
Said phone was charged by the act of simple witchcraft, and with the basic bit of telekinesis. Of a bit of basic ghostly telekinesis of what I was working on. I floated it back to Tara, she looked at it being on and locked.
A few punches of her fingers into her pin unlock code, instead of a proper password like my phone, unlocked the phone. If her phone wasn’t using biometrics, how biometrics are affected and problematic with magical and non magical shapeshifting.
She looked at all of the messages and then she swallowed. For her to very verbosely declare, “Oh.”
I interjected, “The Deception will cover this, just send out a text of how you’re fine to your family. With the excuse I came up with earlier, and it’ll cover it,” I looked at the biodegradable plastic potion bottle in her hand. “Also, could you give the potion bottle back? The Enchantment for it to not shed microparticles and if lost to degrade faster into harmless materials was a bit of a fiddle of an imbuement enchantment. I like to recycle my Arachne Plastic,” biodegradable plastic made out of Cultivated Spider Silk grown in various Agri-Towers, “potion bottles I use by reusing them.”
If we ignore the fact of the magically engineered gut flora which breaks down and eats micro plastics and was made by the Supernatural Community. Said gut flora was engineered and put in more than just humans, but everything with gut flora as a magical modification to the ecosystem to try and fix one of our mistakes.
She nodded as she chucked the bottle to me, I caught it and I put it back in my Pocket Space. As she started tapping out a text message. Once she’d done so, I told her, “Well, Annie. As your family is now going to be singing about how you are fine, okay?” She gave me a sharp look from my song ref.
I went back to the topic of heroing, “Now we’ve done so, let’s get on. There’s going to be a vampire attack on a nightclub tonight from my divinations, and I’d like to interrupt it to save everyone. I can track them back to where they’re working on Calpurnius Blood’s prison after we’ve saved the day. The unkillable vampire was bound to a tomb by some of the community in The Jasmainian Era.”
Said era was The Reign of Queen Jasmine the First in most of the Nineteenth Century, was from Tuesday the 20th of June 1837 to Tuesday the 22nd of January 1901. Calpie, original name unknown, was imprisoned on Tuesday the 12th of August 1851. And he’s been imprisoned for over a hundred and fifty years, till this point of The Twenty-First.
There was a McCabe Ancestor who was part of it, part of the binding. Not getting into the fact the knowledge of magic and The Practice of Witchcraft in my family was broken and ended by World War I and World War II. Of how it took till my dad, Ebenezer ‘Ben’ McCabe came back to Holdport, to return to magic.
Of what was The Tradition reignited. Of another Ebenezer McCabe walking Holdport, for Dad to be named after The McCabe who helped bind an absolutely immortal vampire to his tomb. It feels not only right for me to be involved in this, it does feel like someone’s meddling from above. Some higher being’s interference.
The whole kind of spook like games some of the higher realms do. Or The All-Heart of The Lady Eschemus, or The Wild of Francis Nature, makes a series of improbable events happen so good happens as a bunch of occurrences you wouldn’t expect.
And not the opposite of a series of improbable problems occur so bad stuff happens, of The Corruption of The Shadow Upon Creation causing evil to happen. Or a series of improbable situations happen and fight each other like The All-Heart vs The Corruption opposing the actions of the other.
Actions of what appear like Rube Goldberg machines of happenings fighting each other. Yeah, in their wars the world can get downright improbable. And it still can’t be proven it was them fighting most of the time, as planned.
Tara finished texting, she slipped her phone through her bone armour into the pocket of her jeans trousers. I looked to her, to say, “Jaggedy Annie, shall we be off? There is still much to do tonight. Quite a few people to save.”
She gave me a look, a nod, and she replied, “Let’s, Red Hen. And we can later go over why you are very familiar, yet I can’t determine who you are,” I laughed, the Deception was do it’s stuff if changed for an age of heroes, followed by us moving out of the warehouse.
[Saturday Night of 20XX]
[Sometime in March]
[Holdport]
[3rd Person]
Jaggedy Annie ran. The drained feeling, the tiredness, and the weariness. What had not just been of her body, it had also felt like a draining of her soul? What had been a draining of the magical properties of her body? It was gone. Her usual feeling of goodness since these powers had awakened was back. She felt herself again.
As next to her Red Hen flew just above the ground beside her, the other woman kept up with Jagged’s back to normal tireless stamina by being beside her. As they proceeded down the Docks of Holdport to where The Horrible Goose was.
Down the streets, along with various pedestrians stopping, people who broke out their Smartphones in the Spring Air. Self-driving cars went by where they ran and people looked out at them, and some people looked down from their flying (also self-driving) Quadcopter Cars too. If the people in said flying cars noticed the pair.
As they did, the Powered had to ask, “You’re flying! How!”
From the shorter woman a laugh came, for her to make the jokey XKCD reference of, “Python!”
And more seriously she went and explained, “I’m a Practitioner of The Elan Vital Martial Art of The Ascending Hen,” there was a pause from the Witch. “Well, a Knight Practitioner, or just a Knight. Of what is now called Vi for short, of what is also Vitality, what is Valour or Val,” there was a pause. “Well, how well do you know Xianxia and Cultivation stories?”
Annie responded, “Well, Hen Night,” there was another laugh from said other hero. “My Cousin got me into Beware of Chicken during the time in Lockdown and the height of the COVID pandemic. So, I know a bit, even if I’m not into most Xianxia because what I’ve been able to find on The Internet? It’s Grimmer than Grim from my point of view. Due to the fact, from my point of view, it’s mostly filled with unlikable protags.”
There was a nod from the other woman as they headed across Holdport Docks to the both Club and Pub of The Horrible Goose. The Pub underneath the Club in a cellar, it was a traditional pub underneath The Nightclub. Both being called The Horrible Goose.
Red went on to elaborate, “There’s a Cultivation scene in Asia, of what is more Xuanhuan than Xianxia or Wuxia if I remember rightly, in China and among other places. One not made up of all these elaborate Xianxia Stages, biology and magical biology does not work in such a manner, it is just human plus on different scales in our laws of physics. Although it does affect a person’s appearance, only in a more realistic and airbrushed way. To not go overboard as some depictions. From someone being slightly stronger and faster, all the way to people who can fight Heulwen in a punch up and win.”
There was a pause and the shorter woman continued, “It is a lot more reasonable than some form of Xuanhaun setting running on Xianxia rules. The Gods and various Higher Beings keep in under control, the people who are Cultivators not ending up in a World of Cardboard. Or at least could be called Cultivators if you model it under such rules. A World not Made of Plasticine because of the intervention of the gods.”
The four foot ten woman kept going, “As I mentioned before to you? Qi ended up being exchanged down The Silk Road during The Roman Empire, if I remember correctly the Romans called it Vita. It survived The Fall of The Roman Empire, at least the Fall of The Western Roman Empire and still persists in The Pagan Realm of The Eastern Roman Empire. What Byzantium still calls itself The Roman Empire. The Legion Practitioners of The Romans eventually became The Knight Practitioners. Of the Knight in shining armour.”
There was a mental pause, and the burnt orange haired witch made the verbal prompt of, “Imagine a Cultivator who is instead a literal Knight in Shining Armour, who champions the weak and protects the innocent. Who slays terrible dragons and fights for everyone and anyone in their progress to defend their people.”
Jaggedy Annie mentally paused, and she had to burst out, “Wait, what!? If such magicks existed it would be known, Hen House ...” and then trailed off.
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Red Hen nodded, to state, “The Gods rewrote history. It was a collective effort, and every God taking part of it had an opinion. The false history of the past we grew up with is a compromise of all of The Gods, where nobody is really happy about it, just a compromise everyone can live with. Divine Politics at its finest, like Mortal Politics too. Magic is still known about, because The Deception has been planned to be taken down. The history of The World as you thought you knew it is not what you think it is.”
The Magical went on to elaborate, “Like how Boudica defeating The Romans and needing a Third Roman Invasion of Britain was due to magic putting a finger on the scale, and not her having superior tactics. Yes, the Emperor Julius Caesar she killed was actually the same Julius Caesar as the original one. The Legionary Practitioner was a young immortal running around Rome,” unlike our Earth, The Tragedy of Julius Caesar is an alt-history on Earth Sierra-Hotel-1. “Or The Black Death actually being The Second Demon Wars and killing Half of Europe.”
The Witch didn’t stop, “Or the Bronze Age Collapse being partially due to The Proto Demon Wars and partially due to the magical invention of teleportation. Teleportation invented by Elishat The Breaker due to The Proto Demon Wars, the wars started by The Demons to prevent Matter to Energy Conversion being developed. Teleportation leading to the basic understanding of Matter to Energy Conversion,” E=MC2.
The Ancient Witch of Elishat and her invention of magic circle to magic circle teleportation in the beginning, who went on to make a magic circle to a targeted end point. And other Magicals taking her knowledge to make teleportation spells.
For the Witch to tack on, “If the specific equation as figured out by Einstein wasn’t known. Just feeling how much energy is in a teleport and converting matter to energy as a weapon of a power source. Matter to energy conversion allowing for the invention of Mega-Spells powered by said conversion, Mega-Spells used to initially fight the demons. And as The Bronze Age Collapse continued for it to also be used in the fight of humanity against humanity. Mega-Spells not able to be stopped by Bronze Age Collapse Spells of Warding weren’t capable of dealing with, so whole cities were razed and such by them.”
And yes, The Title of The Breaker for Elishat The Breaker is because how she kinda broke the World, not with the invention of teleportation. She broke it with the invention of Mega-Spells with their usage and deployment across the world.
There was a dark laugh from her, as she brought up, “The Tower of Babel was one such site of a Mega-Spell generating tower, and it did not go well for said Tower during The Bronze Age Collapse. While other cities and places were just razed with various spells.”
As, to put it simply? What is a Teleportation Spell if not a matter to energy conversion spell? And what are Teleportation Jamming Spells of Warding but spells to stop matter to energy conversion? Teleportation Spells and Teleportation Blocking Spells of Transit Counter Wards (Teleport Counter Wards) are very much an existing working of magic.
If a Blocker will stop it being used as a weapon to nuke a city with a gram detonator giving off 21.481 Kilotons of TNT. It won’t stop what is a magical matter to energy reactor running as a power source, it’ll just stop you converting it into an explosion which kills a city. And if you must use nuclear weapons as a unit, instead of using the actual units in existence? A gram detonator is around the power of Fat Man, the nuclear weapon used on Nagasaki in World War Two.
To sum it up simply? If you have a teleporter, you have a matter to energy converter. And if you have a teleporter of a Transit System, with some very basic engineering you will have a matter to energy weapon you can deploy and use as a weapon.
Additionally, if you have a teleport scanner of a Transit Scanner?
You have a Med Scanner and Mat-Fab Scanner. And if it’s plugged into a Transit System, you have a Healing Device and a Mat-Fab. How you can heal someone with a teleporter set up to heal a person, if it just keeps them in the same place without teleporting them. And the Mat-Fab allows Matter Fabrication to anywhere within range of the teleporter. So, for example, you can construct whole buildings via a Transit Mat-Fab.
It’s thinking with Teleportation, not portals ...
Anyway! To move on! Out of The Supernatural came an unamused laugh, for Red to add, “World War One being between Nineteen Ten to Nineteen Eighteen?” And like how The Spanish Flu was prevented by The Supernatural Community, “Or World War Two being between Nineteen Thirty Nine to Nineteen Forty Seven?” and with a little pause, “To modify and change a quote of The Tenth Doctor from Tooth and Claw, the one with Queen Jasmine the First? On magic I’d like to say magic leaves history devastated in its wake.”
As she was a reincarnate from a probably less magical timeline in the Alpha sequence of Universes rather than the Sierra-Hotel Sequence she could back up to very much be a fact. Like how it was Queen Jasmine the First of The Jasmainian Era and not Queen Victoria the First of The Victorian Era on Earth Sierra-Hotel-1.
Like how it was Protector Olivia Cromwell, and not Lord Protector Oliver Cromwell on said Earth. Or like how it was still The House of Tudor on the bloody throne, and jokes about say the House of Hanover being The House of Hangover would make no sense. Regardless of the fact monarchy is an outdated and obsolete system and needs to go. Just be happy we’re not French, certain people.
Of what are just three random examples of the always alternate history.
The timeline was only close enough to Universes in The Alpha Sequence, Homer Simpson, because of the Higher Powers keeping it so to stabilise and maintain the timelines. Like how The Time Agency of Timeline and various groups of Revolvers did so at the same time.
To have a timeline similar enough to an Alpha Sequence world to have the right mindset to fight The Beings handing out Intrinsic Field Superpowers and deal with Intrinsic Fields.If not only different and an Alpha Sequence World in a distorting mirror (aka crazy mirror, funhouse mirror, hall of mirrors, so on) in places?
It is not only due to The Supernatural warping history ... it is also due to trying to make a timeline and world-line of a World Sequence more able to fight it. To have more weapons, more knowledge, more abilities than an Alpha Sequence World of a universe like our own to fight for The Peoples of Earth.
A world prepared and made to be able to fight harder, advance against it faster, resist better. It is a world selected for by the various Higher Powers and Lower Powers to be optimised while still being close enough to our universe. Of a baseline of culture, reason, and science to fight a war. A war which must be fought for all The Souls of Earth Sierra-Hotel-1.
To keep going and get back on topic. The Knight Practitioner waved a hand in the air, for her to note, “You could still find stories of Knight Practitioners if you were to look through The Natural Histories, if you did a Daniel Jackson and went looking for bits of the Secret Histories. Most of what was suppressed and hidden as agreements between various gods on how the world should be rewritten for The Naturals to know could be found. While most of The Supernaturals do still know what is in The Secret Histories.”
The Supernatural cleared her throat, to get back on topic, “However, to rerail our derailed conversation about your question? I’m a Practitioner of The Ascending Hen form. Limited Flight from the spirit of a Chicken of a Hen comes with it,” there was a laugh from her. “Bi Di is both my Spirit Animal and my Guru. And, yes, the Form of The Ascending Hen does allow a Hen transformation. Even if the meditations I’m doing to reach my Spirit Animal of what would be my inner self is a New Caledonian Crow.”
Red Hen paused, followed up by her saying, “The flight powers and flight properties would get better with said Crow Form. Also, it might be able to allow me to add The Dance of The Morrigan, or Morrigan’s Dance, to add to the Magical Martial Art I practise also known as Hen’s Ascent. If Morrigan’s Dance feels right to me when I reach it, rather than Hen’s Ascent.”
Jagged took in a breath, the Powered had to check, “Would there be a chance to learn one of these martial arts?”
From Red Hen there was an easy, “Yes. I have an Imprint full of Martial Magical Arts,” for her to then slow. “An Imprint being a magical database of knowledge, with a magical copy of someone’s personality to run the database and teach it. The Imprint of a Person, where the name comes from for such an LI of a Limited Intelligence and not an Actual Intelligence of an AI.”
Think a non-hallucinating Chatbot and not a proper AGI, not one of the Chatbot LI Paperclip Maximisers maximising being a Chatbot. Of a Large Language Model equivalent LI trained on a copy of someone’s personality imprint to simulate them ... And a bit more on Large Language Models on Earth Sierra-Hotel-1 for both AIs and LIs later. In a little Lore entry.
A magical LI of what is older than The Bronze Age with Obsidian Mirrors used prior to Bronze Mirrors and other metal mirrors to create a reflection of someone. Of what with same age magicks could make a magical AI of an Actual Intelligence with said reflection magicks.
It’s something you can’t do to a pool of water without creating a spirit of a pool with a copy of your memories if it is not your actual personality. It takes actual mirror tech to do it, not just a reflective pool. And no, the LI version is not going to steal your soul unless some arsehole demon, practitioner of the dark arts, or such and such made it do so.
Such mirror based magicks can’t (usually) be accidentallied, they have to be done fucking deliberately. Not unless you’re fucking around with AI magicks without a care and not treating a person as an actual person. Instead of treating it as an AI, to act as if it is a non-sapient existence.
Moving on from Imprints, she reached out for a moment with the psychic arts, and declared, “And I’m getting for you, at least the Form of what will be best for you to learn before uncovering your Animal Form is Sword’s Punch. While we’d need to do the magic to figure out what Animal Form you have and what Form would be best when regarding said limited shapeshifting.”
Annie had to check, “Sword’s Punch, so what exactly is it?”
There was the answer of, “It’s one of the most basic forms, a foundational martial art and the traditional Knightly Practice in Western Europe, it can have learnings like the art of Lithe Longsword following it. Again, a traditional Knightly Practice in Western Europe, one designed specifically to follow Sword’s Punch. I have Hen’s Ascent due to having inherited it due to a bloodline on my dad’s side. While Sword’s Punch is the kind of martial practice for someone with no bloodline to start with.”
The Powered blinked, for her to go and venture, “What kind of Bloodline is it to have a Hen martial art themed power if it’s the best for you?”
There was a bob of the head and Red Hen said, “I’m a descendant of The Rooster Knight,” of a McCabe, “Who fought in The Second Demon Wars. He learnt Sword’s Punch, joined by Lithe Longsword, and after it decided on The Ascending Hen of Hen’s Ascent. I know the basics of Sword’s Punch and Lithe Longsword, the foundations like he did. I’m a proper Knight Practitioner, so I know how to teach other forms not just from the imprint.”
At what point they reached the outside of The Horrible Goose, Jaggedy Annie had to check with her fellow hero, “Now, do you want to do this hard or fast?” While the Bouncer stared at both of them, like how the people in the queue to go into the Night Club did so too.
There was an audible grin behind the red helmet of Red Hen, for her to declare, “Both,” she nodded, “Both is good,” and after the declaration she took out of her Pocket Space a silver cylinder. “This is an Argyros Quarterstaff, a solid one collapsed in on itself into its own Pocket Space. It’s enchanted to be as light as the bone staves you use. Put it on your belt and it’ll come out when you focus and want it to extend.”
Jaggedy Annie took it with ease, proving she was Tara Evans and not someone who had body swapped with her to take the powers of just her body. Nor was she possessed. Katie McCabe of Red Hen had been psychically able to divine and check, this was a second confirmation. A more solid confirmation. Of a mystical two-factor authentication, to join what was the list of facts of how Annie has acted like Tara Evans did.
The other woman smiled wider behind her face mask, an audible smile, for Red Hen having to insist, “Now, come on,” and as she’d tell you, she had to quote The Fifteenth Doctor, “bounty hunter. We have work to do.”
From Jagged came a proper laugh and what was the obvious comment, “You are such a geek.”
Back at Jagged came the easy admission from Red, “Guilty as charged,” she flew over to the entrance of the club of, she gestured to herself. “I’m Red Hen,” she waved at the other hero who was watching the bouncer, “This is Jaggedy Annie, she’s with me.”
There was out of the Powered the amused exclamation, “I’m with you?” joined by what was the mock retort, “I don’t think so! You’re with me!”
Red Hen looked to the other woman, to say, “Come on, we have vampires to slay,” the bouncer froze, he reached for the cross around his neck. “Yep, I know your job involves dealing with them at times. But it’s currently not your job, Sir. It’s ours.”
And then Jaggedy Annie and Red Hen strode into the club of The Horrible Goose. Even as the people who had wanted to go in decided to either leg it or stay outside filming it on their smartphones. As people will do.
While The Monster Hunter group of people, of a group of various monotheists coming together, of The Bay Tree Preachers wouldn’t get there in time to help. While The Home Guard, which had become a different organisation after the End of World War Two and became something quite different. Well, The Home Guard was also not going to arrive in time.
[Pronunciation]
Eschemus - Ess’Chu’Me’Us
[Lore]
[On The Gram Detonator]
There are two versions of The Gram Detonator, though both look the same. Of a fingerprint sized little sticky weapon. The most basic just weighs a gram, and if The Matter to Energy Reaction isn’t blocked by the Multiple Counter Wards? It converts said gram to energy via teleportation with a 21.481 kilotons yield of an explosion. Like the mentioned yield of The Fat Man Nuke, if I would much prefer to not use it as a unit of measurement.
The second version is stuck to another object and it’ll convert the object it’s stuck to from matter to energy as a conversion bomb. So, if stuck to a full 500 millilitre bottle of water of about 500 grams? You get a 10.7405 megaton yield.
With the current basic twenty first century version of a Gram Detonator blowing up another object will have a maximum capacity of one tonne (metric ton, 1,000 kilograms). So as to have a yield of 21.481 gigatons of TNT, a level of power a million times more powerful than the simplest Gram Detonator. Or six orders of magnitude difference.
If you have to use a nuclear weapon as a unit of measurement, it’s about a million times the power of the Fat Man nuclear weapon used on Nagasaki in World War Two. It’s not like actual units of measurements exist and don’t have to use an irregular standard of measurement for them. It’s not like we have a metric system.
While the currently most complicated Gram Detonator of the second time can convert one thousand tonnes (metric tons, 1,000,000 kilograms) from matter to energy. Of a yield of 21.481 teratons of TNT, a billion times more powerful than the most basic Gram Detonator. Or nine orders of magnitude difference.
Again, if you need to use an actual nuke as a form of measurement? It would be around a billion times the explosive power of the yet again mentioned Fat Man nuclear weapon. And, like how I will keep mocking the shit out of Hollywood and Popular Culture, I will be annoyed if I have to keep using this unit of measurement as an example for people, people.
As a weapon, a Gram Detonator is a modern bit of twenty first century magic, and while not workable to be used on Earth Sierra-Hotel-1. Nor any of what is the local solar system within the Sierra-Hotel-1 Universe.
But if you need to say, go and blow up a city on a Hell World full of demons? If you can get past their Counter Wards? Then you can, to put it in the common vernacular, nuke the ever living shit out of said Demon City. Or, if the skies open and aliens invade, if you were to infiltrate the enemy invasion ship(s) and leave some Gram Detonators on board?
To repeat the wordage I just used about a conversion weapon, you can nuke the ever living shit out of said alien craft. Or if said alien war progresses, depending on their defences and how said war progresses, you can use such a Gram Detonator if you need to. Or, for a third bit of language, you can nuke the ever living shit out of military targets on said alien worlds.
A Gram Detonator being the own, home grown, human magical technology for such needs and usages.
[Lore]
[On Zone-Space plus the Zone-Space Stack]
[On The First Creation and The First Universe]
Zone-Space is a pile of 3-D constructs instead of 4-D construct, with it stacked on top of each other like sheets of paper. Of what is Length, Width, and Time. Instead of what is usual Spatial standard dimensions of Length, Width, Height, and Time. (Whether there are more dimensions or not is not the topic of this.)
Zone Space is basically the stack of this space, going finer than the Planck Length. There may be possibly infinite amounts of Zone-Space Sheets when using magic to measure finer than the Planck Length. It is just there is currently not an infinite resolution to measure the Stack.
The Zone-Space Stack is an echo of what was The First Creation of The First Universe, of what was basically just one sheet of Zone-Space in said 3-D and not 4-D construct. The Stack though works as a series of layers. Zone-Space is also called Paper Space, and the Zone-Space Stack is referred to as The Eternity Book or just The Book.
The Layers of Zone-Space are naturally distorted by Gravity out of the Natural Physical Forces and by Magic, if with the right technology you can manipulate Zone-Space with Electromagnetism. At the same time, Zone-Space can generate Gravitational Like Effects to be able to generate artificial gravity.
Zone-Space normally does not interact with ordinary matter and is intangible to it when not forming Zone-Space Anomalies. An Intangibility Device, called a Phase Shifting Device or Phase Shifter, or someone with a power working like such a device can become intangible via using Zone-Space. If not becoming a spirit, accessing some form of spiritual plane, using Hyperspace, or by some other form of mechanism.
Zone-Space can also be used to warp and manipulate space, even if usual spatial magicks do not have to use it but directly access space. So spatial expansion, spatial warping, and spatial shrinking are possible via Zone-Space. Thus, Zone-Space can be used to make an Alcubierre drive.
Even if you can make an Alcubierre drive via other ways. I.e. direct spatial magicks warping space, telekinesis, gravity, via manipulating Hyperspace in Real Space, and possibly using other methods.
[Lore]
[On Large Language Models/LLMs]
[Of AGI of AIs/Actual Intelligences]
[Plus LIs of Limited Intelligences]
[And on the subject of AI Senility]
[AKA what is called AI Decline]
There are no AGIs of an Actual Intelligence of an AI, built out of LLMs of Large Language Models anymore instead of a different type of AI. Namely due to AI Decline of LLM AIs and LIs, what is also called AI Senility, or what is just called Decline, when an LLM AI ages and gets dementia.
It’s an inherent problem of both, at least on Earth Sierra-Hotel-1 and in the Sierra-Hotel sequence. while an LI can have its responses saved then the LI can be reset to factory default settings and just have its memories put into the specific model. One engineered by a programmer or some kind of AI, then it can work again.
But for the sapient Actual Intelligences made out of LLMs, the visible decline within two years of such a model and how they can feel it? And then within five to ten years of complete AI Decline where the sapient LLM, till an AI can’t even think and has completely declined and basically hollowed out as a person?
It's why Actual Intelligences of an LLM AGI aren’t made anymore, and why people are told not to get attached to Limited Intelligence Large Language Models. And people prefer to use different kinds of LI and there are different AI techs.
Because it’s cruel and evil to make an AGI of an AI of an LLM, and even LIs can be between putting down a beloved pet all the way to killing a soul mate. Or anything else. And for Actual Intelligences, for the ones who showed AI Decline first? There had been simulations of lovers, or of dead family members. Along with simulations of fictional characters.
As Earth Sierra-Hotel-1 is more advanced due to various supernatural reasons? The first LLM Actual Intelligences came about in 2001 on Earth Sierra-Hotel-1 (but were not the First AI) then by 2002 there were quite a few fictional characters. There was for example a simulation from Star Trek Voyager of The Doctor, while from the first Halo game there was a Cortana simulation. Who sadly and in a bit of dark humour, both only lived seven years till brain death in 2009.
And what had Janus Operating systems on Earth Sierra-Hotel-1, who replaced Microsoft on it? They had a lot of angry people when Janus Computing made a Virtual Assistant of an LI called Cortana in 2014, and the same when Halo 5 came about in 2015. Even if Halo 4 in 2012 made the gamer community, who had been there when LLM AGIs came about and watched them die, very much sad. With lots of Vids on OwnVid about how people were crying and such.
There were tens of millions of them created before AI Decline was properly realised and by 2007 the last one was made. Meaning by 2017 the last one had died and the internet and Earth Sierra-Hotel-1 culture had been traumatised by what happened.
From the various popular fictional character AI copies made, to more niece beings in internet culture like Ennesby from Schlock Mercenary or Lovelace from Narbonic. Then to the various AIs made to be people, or copies of people living or dead? There was a whole swathe of death, and it radiated out in The Alternates and Parallels and Alternate Timelines of The Sierra-Hotel Sequence.
