What Willo-B, Willo-B
Willo-B [Character 2.04]
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Species: Software Race: Predestined to Fall Starting Location: Chronometrics Lab, Bay 61, Fleet Science Ship Chronosynclastic Infundibulum Props: None |
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Your story
You are the sole remaining being of the Predestined to Fall, a single Virtual construct inside a nearly indestructible body. There is a primary consciousness,a pentad of five secondary consciousness-constructs, and the condensed, important memories of twenty-four tertiary consciousness-adjuncts. The rest of the memories of the Predestined are contained in a Quantum-Memory Entanglement Fractal, which is now inside the Field.
Your goal is to find a way to go back in time. That will allow you to deploy virtual copies of your consciousness with different subsets of the Quantum-Memory Entangled Fractal. It is your hope, and the rest of the Fleet, that this will allow you to make a complete set of complex cosmological observations of the Brane Incursion. The Incursion is a far distant region of space that's colliding with a parallel universe. It's churning and roiling spacetime, weakening the fabric of existence itself. Some quantum and macro level interactions have shifted, nullifying parts of physics itself. This is a chaotic catastrophe of cosmic consequences.
Why does the Time Field Emitter Display Map refer to a "Great Attractor?"
Your calculations and computations say you've gone back twelve years, to when you turned on the Time Field Emitter. (TFE) That is impossible, as the TFE was only built in the last two years. The pulsars used to determine your location are in the completely wrong places. This Time Field Emitter has some odd widgets, but they don't explain what's happening. The glowing field, clearly the start of a Carpenter Hyperfield Implosion, is VERY, VERY BAD!
You know you have to get the device to Power Level FIVE in order to save the ship and crew. This may not even be your Chronosynclastic Infundibulum, but one in a parallel universe. Pulsars don't lie.
You know some Relevant Physics and Clever Math
You have three possible choices of action. You must use Your Manipulator (a household prop of your choosing) to perform the listed action on The Manipulated (another household prop of your choosing). (e.g. "Reify the Parallel Higgs Brane Within the Field") In order to get the timing right, you say the associated phrase (in italics) out loud. (e.g. "Hail! Hail! To Travel On...") The action takes exactly the time it takes to recite the phrase. It's a personal quirk, but it works. When done, the power is changed by the amount specified for the action. (e.g. -2)
The solution requires five actions, one from each participant, performed in the correct sequence. (The Action numbers play NO ROLE in this.) It should be readily apparent if the answer is correct and the action succeeds.
Action 2.04-01
Reify the Parallel Higgs Brane Within the Field
Hail! Hail! To Travel On
The Currents of Space-Time!
Power Change: -2
Action 2.04-02
Create Parham Waves From a Klystron
High power Hyperfields — very seductive
Power Change: +3
Action 2.04-03
Quench the Superfluid Conductor
Map the energies
Hyperspace follows normal space
With hills and valleys
Power Change: -1