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

[elegiaque]

We should put an eluvian in the airship, when we have an airship—

[laruetheday]

[ god that would be SO COOL, why didn't she think of this first ]

If we used ropes we could, yeah, just hang it underneath the griffon. Like cargo.

[reparo]

Well, has anyone attempted it? Does an eluvian split in half still work, or do you come out the other side split in half?

[portalling]

( The action girls are shooting the shit and they’re having fun with it; he doesn’t touch the parachuting ideas. But the conversation does get some wheels turning, so he starts to ponder another angle: )

If it were possible to divide a working eluvian into pieces without breaking it… not just half, but many smaller pieces like pocket mirrors. Put two eluvians face-to-face so the other end connects to a safe location near us.

Then, for the pocket-sized end, plant them at dead-drop locations for Riftwatch’s connections and agents. At the end of a small tube, or the bottom of a secret mailbox. Someone on the other side of the continent could drop in letters with their reports and information. Presto, you’ve got a mail room. Faster than waiting for a raven, and you don’t have to give away a sending crystal.

[wythersake]

[ wait — ]

I don't follow. Why are we cutting it in half?

[tadpoled]

I'm following your thinking, but let us add mages who can drop out of the sky. The havoc it would cause our enemies.