[OOC] Myriad Reality

[Source]

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Waiting on what?

@souleaterfan320

Whiz

[souleaterfan320]

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Whiz

@Source

Ah.

[Balance]

tomorrow
i will be going on a trip to Hume Lake with my youth group
i will not be able to communicate with you, my dear friends, until Sunday
goodbye!

[Stabby]

tomorrow
i will be going on a trip to Hume Lake with my youth group
i will not be able to communicate with you, my dear friends, until Sunday
goodbye!

@Balance

... ok.

[Stabby]

Can someone give me a somewhat detailed summery of both phylotes, the mindscape, and how technologically advanced a culture would have to be to know about and be researching this stuff? and by somewhat detailed I mean both the basics and some advanced stuff.

[Source]

Can someone give me a somewhat detailed summery of both phylotes, the mindscape, and how technologically advanced a culture would have to be to know about and be researching this stuff? and by somewhat detailed I mean both the basics and some advanced stuff.

@Stabby

Philotes: To know they exist, you have to have a society advanced far beyond detecting subatomic particles. To fully understand them, well, nobody fully understands them at this time. Some extremely advanced societies have an idea of how they work, but beyond "we know philotes do this but can't actually do anything with this information," there's not a lot out there. I have to go find the detailed explanation though.

[Host]

Data dump that I wrote a few years ago regarding a general overview of philotes:



The philotic system is the layer of Existence above code that makes things like powers and abilities physically possible. It's like all matter and energy is a bundle of string-like fibers wound tightly to allow matter to stick together. However, these philotes behave differently when exposed to living creatures; whenever a relationship is built between two things (an animal that eats from a certain tree every day, for instance), there becomes a thin connection, built out of strands of philotes between the two. The more they interact, the stronger the connection. This happens to a lesser extent with objects as well, but they'd have to be moved by a living creature to develop connections, as a general rule. However, philotes change when exposed to sentient beings. Now, instead of being connections created only by interacting objects, they are now influenced by will. When two people, for instance, develop a bond, the philotes connection grows stronger and wound tighter, and if you could see philotes, it would look like a thread develops between them, and then later a thick rope that connects the two regardless of where they are. A child will have a better philotic connection to a nostalgic ball he's had all his life than one that was just bought from the store yesterday. However, when dealing with beings with powers, these philotic connections (of which every living creature has massive amounts; even if they only met someone once, they likely have a small number of philotic connections already built) become extremely strong ropes that attach them to whatever they control (if they have a power based on control). Techi, for example, would be connected to every electron around her strongly, and then the further she goes from them, the weaker the philotic thread and the less she can control them, because the information has so far to go and can get lost in the noise. Hence, why she can't manipulate an electron on the other side of Existence. But because philotes are influenced via will, when Techi wills these electrons to do something, it causes the philotic strands to change and move the electrons, almost like tugging on a rope. This is also where the general rule "the more powers you have, the less control you have over each" comes from. The System is self-correcting, so if a being has too many strong philotic connections, it becomes difficult to send signals that are strong to one power in particular and the philotes themselves are a bit "tangled" in a way, so a lot of signal gets lost in noise. Of course, because most beings don't know about this, they aren't aware of the actual process, they just know what "controlling" something is for them, kind of like how nobody thinks about motion vectors and gravitational pull when they walk outside. It "just sort of happens." So, because philotes make powers physically possible, beings can use them at their discretion.

[Stabby]

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Philotes: To know they exist, you have to have a society advanced far beyond detecting subatomic particles. To fully understand them, well, nobody fully understands them at this time. Some extremely advanced societies have an idea of how they work, but beyond "we know philotes do this but can't actually do anything with this information," there's not a lot out there. I have to go find the detailed explanation though.

@Source

If you could, that would be useful.

Data dump that I wrote a few years ago regarding a general overview of philotes:



The philotic systemis the layer of Existence above code that makes things like powers and abilities physically possible. It's like all matter and energy is a bundle of string-like fibers wound tightly to allow matter to stick together. However, these philotes behave differently when exposed to living creatures; whenever a relationship is built between two things (an animal that eats from a certain tree every day, for instance), there becomes a thin connection, built out of strands of philotes between the two. The more they interact, the stronger the connection. This happens to a lesser extent with objects as well, but they'd have to be moved by a living creature to develop connections, as a general rule. However, philotes change when exposed to sentient beings. Now, instead of being connections created only by interacting objects, they are now influenced by will. When two people, for instance, develop a bond, the philotes connection grows stronger and wound tighter, and if you could see philotes, it would look like a thread develops between them, and then later a thick rope that connects the two regardless of where they are. A child will have a better philotic connection to a nostalgic ball he's had all his life than one that was just bought from the store yesterday. However, when dealing with beings with powers, these philotic connections (of which every living creature has massive amounts; even if they only met someone once, they likely have a small number of philotic connections already built) become extremely strong ropes that attach them to whatever they control (if they have a power based on control). Techi, for example, would be connected to every electron around her strongly, and then the further she goes from them, the weaker the philotic thread and the less she can control them, because the information has so far to go and can get lost in the noise. Hence, why she can't manipulate an electron on the other side of Existence. But because philotes are influenced via will, when Techi wills these electrons to do something, it causes the philotic strands to change and move the electrons, almost like tugging on a rope. This is also where the general rule "the more powers you have, the less control you have over each" comes from. The System is self-correcting, so if a being has too many strong philotic connections, it becomes difficult to send signals that are strong to one power in particular and the philotes themselves are a bit "tangled" in a way, so a lot of signal gets lost in noise. Of course, because most beings don't know about this, they aren't aware of the actual process, they just know what "controlling" something is for them, kind of like how nobody thinks about motion vectors and gravitational pull when they walk outside. It "just sort of happens." So, because philotes make powers physically possible, beings can use them at their discretion.

@Host

Perfect!

Now, is there anything this detailed for the mindscape?

[Balance]

@Stabby

The mindscape just kind of developed on its own. It's a portmanteau, of course, of "mind" and "landscape". It has been developed separately hundreds of times by those skilled in mind magic--a generally easily attainable form of magic for most any Tier Four--as an interface in order to make mind manipulation easier. It is a visual representation of the mind, influenced by the spellcaster's perceptions, with physical analogues to ideas like memories and emotions. It is extremely flexible, but in general, if you can do it without the mindscape, you can do it in the mindscape.

It's important to note that most mind spells require permission of the target unless the caster has a very strong will—much stronger than that of the target.

[Stabby]

@Stabby

The mindscape just kind of developed on its own. It's a portmanteau, of course, of "mind" and "landscape". It has been developed separately hundreds of times by those skilled in mind magic--a generally easily attainable form of magic for most any Tier Four--as an interface in order to make mind manipulation easier. It is a visual representation of the mind, influenced by the spellcaster's perceptions, with physical analogues to ideas like memories and emotions. It is extremely flexible, but in general, if you can do it without the mindscape, you can do it in the mindscape.

It's important to note that most mind spells require permission of the target unless the caster has a very strong will—much stronger than that of the target.

@Balance

Thanks!

[Balance]

see you guys soooooon
i will tell you all about the trip when I
return

[DarkwolfX37]

Can we just... fucking napalm the FCC

[Dynamics]

Can we just... fucking napalm the FCC

@DarkwolfX37

I'm going to say no because I don't want to be accused of supporting terrorist threats, but I understand your sentiment and agree completely. I dislike the FCC as well.

[souleaterfan320]

Im missing a mutitude of posts. Who all havent I resppnded to?

[Stabby]

Im missing a mutitude of posts. Who all havent I resppnded to?

@souleaterfan320

Me, though I'm pretty sure it can wait if necessary.
https://www.roleplayerguild.com/posts/4559451

[DarkwolfX37]

It’s okay to let go of toxic people and pets. Stop keeping poison dart frogs in your house.

[Dynamics]

It’s okay to let go of toxic people and pets. Stop keeping poison dart frogs in your house.

@DarkwolfX37

You never know when you'll need to poison a dart, though.

[DarkwolfX37]

Breaking news: Sexual biology in real life is still disgusting.

[Unhinged]

Being back at college from home means I'll be back in the saddle. Hopefully in the next 36 hours, but I have a lot to take care of before I'm settled in.

[Dynamics]

Being back at college from home means I'll be back in the saddle. Hopefully in the next 36 hours, but I have a lot to take care of before I'm settled in.

@Unhinged

Welcome.