The Way Home
24 Alowe, 598 SN / 1 Oct, 2008 AD
And so, I return.
I have proof of concept, at least, but now I must answer the cliche question: Now that I have the means to go home.... where is it?
Allow me to backtrack.
Eighteen days ago I first Sang my Song of the Gate. I stood upon Circe Island, the exact spot where I was deposited upon this universe three years ago. I was dressed as Captain of my skyship, ready to step into anything: Battle, capture, or silence. I was not expecting to walk straight through my Gate into a cliffside.
Unfortunatlly, even though I was at the same physical spot on Earth, my Gate did not lead back to my homeworld. So much for the easy way.
I settled in for plan 'B': Gate-hopping from one world to the next, searching for my own. Of the six worlds I visited in the past two and a half weeks, I received only two real surprises:
1: That of the six worlds, only one was completely devoid of sapient life. I was able to make good use of this world by practicing my lethal Songs there. A good thing that I did, for several of them worked differently than I had designed. The Gravity Well, while it performed admirably when its cylinder was but two feet in diameter by two feet high, was completely ineffective and almost... random when its area was increased to its performance level of 40 foot by 40 foot. Not the smooth transition from one to one-thousand gravities that I had envisioned. Density was almost as bad.
And lets not forget No. 2!
The theories that several scientists at Portal Corp. have on there being multiple 'Shards' of Earth and Paragon City are, in fact, true. I had hopped to the fourth, fifth, and sixth worlds in rapid succession, trying to get back to my 'Native' Paragon. Unfortunately, this task was much more difficult than I had thought it to be in my design, and I was quite lost when I came back to Peregrine Island on my sixth hop. To be precise: The Peregrine Island of the 'Infinity' Shard of Paragon City. Sufficed to say that after several days discourse with the scientists there I was able to make it back successfully to my native Shard of 'Virtue'.
But now I, like several members of The Legendary, come back to the cliche again. I can go home. I just don't know where home is.
I will go searching again, of course. First though, I must ask Lora'lai if she would not mind me emplacing a beacon for me to more easily return here, to my Home in Paragon.
24 Alowe, 598 SN / 1 Oct, 2008 AD
And so, I return.
I have proof of concept, at least, but now I must answer the cliche question: Now that I have the means to go home.... where is it?
Allow me to backtrack.
Eighteen days ago I first Sang my Song of the Gate. I stood upon Circe Island, the exact spot where I was deposited upon this universe three years ago. I was dressed as Captain of my skyship, ready to step into anything: Battle, capture, or silence. I was not expecting to walk straight through my Gate into a cliffside.
Unfortunatlly, even though I was at the same physical spot on Earth, my Gate did not lead back to my homeworld. So much for the easy way.
I settled in for plan 'B': Gate-hopping from one world to the next, searching for my own. Of the six worlds I visited in the past two and a half weeks, I received only two real surprises:
1: That of the six worlds, only one was completely devoid of sapient life. I was able to make good use of this world by practicing my lethal Songs there. A good thing that I did, for several of them worked differently than I had designed. The Gravity Well, while it performed admirably when its cylinder was but two feet in diameter by two feet high, was completely ineffective and almost... random when its area was increased to its performance level of 40 foot by 40 foot. Not the smooth transition from one to one-thousand gravities that I had envisioned. Density was almost as bad.
And lets not forget No. 2!
The theories that several scientists at Portal Corp. have on there being multiple 'Shards' of Earth and Paragon City are, in fact, true. I had hopped to the fourth, fifth, and sixth worlds in rapid succession, trying to get back to my 'Native' Paragon. Unfortunately, this task was much more difficult than I had thought it to be in my design, and I was quite lost when I came back to Peregrine Island on my sixth hop. To be precise: The Peregrine Island of the 'Infinity' Shard of Paragon City. Sufficed to say that after several days discourse with the scientists there I was able to make it back successfully to my native Shard of 'Virtue'.
But now I, like several members of The Legendary, come back to the cliche again. I can go home. I just don't know where home is.
I will go searching again, of course. First though, I must ask Lora'lai if she would not mind me emplacing a beacon for me to more easily return here, to my Home in Paragon.