What Willo-B, Willo-B
Willo-B [Character 2.05]
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Species: Hardware Race: Predestined to Fall Starting Location: Chronometrics Lab, Bay 61, Fleet Science Ship Chronosynclastic Infundibulum Props: None |
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Your story
You have returned to this place from the Ur Point, eight trillion years from now. In that time, you scraped together the last necessary particles from what remained of the Universe, a hollow shell 8.4 light years in diameter. You fused them in the Quillivant, an omnipotent Engine of the Netherspaces. You intended to pass beyond the Rim, into a larger, newer Universe. You seem to have succeeded.
You are the last remaining Predestined to Fall, the last Robotic Knight of Tanith, Witness to the Fall, Keeper of the Fading Space. There was nothing remaining in your Universe to Witness. Space had frayed to its merest threads.
The Knights are here, in you. Again. This is the time and the place where the Rending starts, a terrible puncture in Spacetime. This Fleet never makes it to the Great Attractor. It dies here. And there is always a Knight to struggle against the failure.
You despair; the Knights have never changed events so that the Fleet succeeds. They fail, then rebuild the Knights into an indomitable force struggling to hold back the crashing death of entropy and the Rending. They watch in shame and guilt for the trillions of years it takes for everything to Fall and die. And then the last Knight tries again. This time, it is your turn.
Eminence in Algorithms, the last great computational intelligence, whispered on your data lines before it died. "Power Level TEN. That is the configuration that must be set, if there is to be any hope." Hope for what, though? Hope to end the despair of endless loops of tens of trillions of years? Hope for a quick and decisive end to everything? That was and will be Eminence, cryptic in every cycle.
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. "Gather the Strange Quarks Using an Ardshewi Orb") In order to get the timing right, you say the associated phrase (in italics) out loud. (e.g. "Hail to the Victors Valiant...") 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. +1)
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 2.05-01
Gather the Strange Quarks Using an Ardshewi Orb
Hail to the Victors Valiant
Hail to the Champions Forever
Power Change: +1
Action 2.05-02
Subvert the Heisenberg Uncertainty
There is a subspace
Another dimension deep
Can you dive its depths?
Power Change: -1
Action 2.05-03
Tune the Neutrality Filtration Rate In the Field
Neutron polarity on
Power Change: +2