Balance

Myriad Reality

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I guess that's pretty cool. Do you learn anything?

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No, it's awesome.

@Etcetera

Yeah. I’ve been a vigilante reporter all my life, so I’ve just been feeling it out and learning from the examples of others. Not that I didn’t already get really good that way, but now I can refine all my skills with the tricks of the trade.

Myriad Reality

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Anyway, so that's where I've been.

@Etcetera

I’ve been busy at university, myself!

Myriad Reality

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As far as I know, I can make it as big as I want if I charge it long enough. But I think you're looking at it with too small a scope.

@Etcetera

I probably am!

Myriad Reality

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Nah, because the field was already there. Like, think of it as a fabric and all I'm doing is pulling on it in a given direction, kind of like gravity.

@Etcetera

So you’re not creating new energy out of nothing? That is, you can’t make spikes bigger than all the energy contained in the whole field?

Myriad Reality

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Nope. Pretty wacky, huh?

@Etcetera

That’s crazy! You aren’t breaking conservation, are you?

Myriad Reality

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I can do the second, but I can just make the spikes if I want to.

@Etcetera

Does it take an equal amount of energy from you to make them?

Myriad Reality

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So let's take a 2D slice of it—
*A translucent blue field appears in front of us, mostly level with small random fluctuations in height*
Imagine that the X and Y coordinates are your position in space, and Z is the amount of excitation in the electron field. Right now, that's the quantum vacuum—sometimes you get random noise that lines up well enough to create a virtual particle
*Two of the small crests converge temporarily, creating a local point of high excitation before diverging and returning to noise*
And then it poofs away just like that. More or less, I get to decide what the Z axis is going to look like.
*Several large spikes appear on the field*

@Etcetera

Do you need to input energy to make those spikes, or can you gather it together from the field, or both?

Myriad Reality

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The former. I've got fine-grain control over a quantum field right now, which is pretty hype.

@Etcetera

That sounds great. Is it like manipulating probabilities of something’s existence or changing energy levels to produce particles, or what?

Myriad Reality

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Yeah, I have no idea. I'm sure it'll turn off on its own, and then we'll see.

@Etcetera

Can you do extra awesome stuff in this form? Or are you in this form because you can do extra awesome stuff?

Myriad Reality

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I was out training for half a year with First and got rid of the stupid Tertiary Form and replaced it with this.

@Etcetera

Can you have it whenever you want? I remember that you only accidentally popped into it when yelling at Kirina really hard.