crystal.

[biggame]

FORM: Crystal
SENDER: Xiomara
RECIPIENT: Everybody
NOTES: Threadjacking approved and encouraged

Hey, if we cut an eluvian in half, will it still work? Because imagine. If we could strap one to a griffon, we could be anywhere, and only one person would have to do the traveling. Or we could strap one to the bottom of a griffon and fly low over a battlefield or a lake and people could jump through without the griffon even needing to land—

[ Or maybe that's just her personal paratrooper fantasy, parachute part PENDING, RESEARCH. ]

I think we could be thinking bigger here. Or smaller. But in a big way.

Comments

[portalling]

Well, when you put it that way…

Yes, but you could always just, y’know. Decline the call.

( And he had. He’s not a great midwestern son. )

[biggame]

[ "Decline the call" takes a moment to parse, but she gets it. ]

Sure, if I wanted to be a monster.

[ She is a great midwestern son. ]

[portalling]

You don’t seem the type to enjoy neurotic hourly check-ins.

[biggame]

I'm not! That's why it's insane that people in your world can do that! If my mother doesn't hear from me for months now, she assumes I haven't been in a place where I could write to her.

[portalling]

I’ll grant you that the power of a passive-aggressive maternal guilt-trip being able to transcend all space and distance is one of its biggest downsides, probably.

[biggame]

A huge one. You can never bring that here. Swear to me you won't let your Research friends create it.

[portalling]

( Amused: ) I vow it.

—At least so long as the sending crystals stay functional.