FWIW, whatever the official explaination for the different servers ends up being, I'd like to consider Mirami a member of the virtue Legendary for story purposes. I didn't have any background for her when I made her on infinity, and now that I do, I still don't feel like remaking her on a different server. (One gets bored doing Isolator...)
And yeah, Mirami would pretty much short-circuit things, since the power that gets her across dimensions is inherent. I don't think she could take anyone with her, but she wouldn't have any problems going home and getting someone with a conduit generator. Though the more I think about it, the more it seems to make sense that Mirami might be in the base, and just not get transported. (Leading to a very unhappy and bewildered Mirami if her onee-nichan disappeared, and probably adding confusion regardless.)
Something blocking them doesn't really work; one of the major rules is that it's only possible to block *entry* into a space by dimensional travel. (A couple of my characters just might drop dead if they entered into a protected zone otherwise. '.' )
Alexis on the other hand must make due with external devices. So if she's going to get shanghaied, the simplest way to keep her from popping home immediately would be to say that some aspect of the transfer blew the interface crystals. There's no way she'll be able to bypass that without totally rebuilding the system (which she can't do) or getting replacement crystals (which would probably not be available). Expect her to have figured out what happened and have better shielding next time if it happens again though...
(This reminds me of the RP where Discord originally appeared. I had to arbitrarily say that she only knew how to transport herself in order to keep from short-circuiting *that* plot...)
As far as helping out from home goes... If Alexis is there, she might not be much use. The tech she's familiar with is very good at transport, quick entrances, and daring escapes, but tracing someone else's transfers is an unknown art. And unless she thinks she can really accomplish something, she's unlikely to say anything, due to concern about what could happen if certain groups learned about the existance of reliable man-portable dimension travel. (From what I've seen so far, no one in the CoH universe has what she'd consider reliable, though some of their intradimensional stuff is quite nice.) I really think she'd be more interesting on the other side anyway.
Mirami is even more useless; what she does is entirely 'it happens because I want it to'. She's also been told not to even admit to being an extradimensional due to the above reasons. (I really need to come up with some idea of what sort of things she *does* know. She may not have been awake for very long, but she must have picked up *something*. I'm just trying to avoid the "Is an AI, so can learn everything ever put in a computer about X" cliche...)
-Morgan."I have no interest in ordinary humans. If there are any aliens, time travelers, or espers here, come sleep with me."
---From "The Ecchi of Haruhi Suzumiya"
-----(Not really)
And yeah, Mirami would pretty much short-circuit things, since the power that gets her across dimensions is inherent. I don't think she could take anyone with her, but she wouldn't have any problems going home and getting someone with a conduit generator. Though the more I think about it, the more it seems to make sense that Mirami might be in the base, and just not get transported. (Leading to a very unhappy and bewildered Mirami if her onee-nichan disappeared, and probably adding confusion regardless.)
Something blocking them doesn't really work; one of the major rules is that it's only possible to block *entry* into a space by dimensional travel. (A couple of my characters just might drop dead if they entered into a protected zone otherwise. '.' )
Alexis on the other hand must make due with external devices. So if she's going to get shanghaied, the simplest way to keep her from popping home immediately would be to say that some aspect of the transfer blew the interface crystals. There's no way she'll be able to bypass that without totally rebuilding the system (which she can't do) or getting replacement crystals (which would probably not be available). Expect her to have figured out what happened and have better shielding next time if it happens again though...
(This reminds me of the RP where Discord originally appeared. I had to arbitrarily say that she only knew how to transport herself in order to keep from short-circuiting *that* plot...)
As far as helping out from home goes... If Alexis is there, she might not be much use. The tech she's familiar with is very good at transport, quick entrances, and daring escapes, but tracing someone else's transfers is an unknown art. And unless she thinks she can really accomplish something, she's unlikely to say anything, due to concern about what could happen if certain groups learned about the existance of reliable man-portable dimension travel. (From what I've seen so far, no one in the CoH universe has what she'd consider reliable, though some of their intradimensional stuff is quite nice.) I really think she'd be more interesting on the other side anyway.
Mirami is even more useless; what she does is entirely 'it happens because I want it to'. She's also been told not to even admit to being an extradimensional due to the above reasons. (I really need to come up with some idea of what sort of things she *does* know. She may not have been awake for very long, but she must have picked up *something*. I'm just trying to avoid the "Is an AI, so can learn everything ever put in a computer about X" cliche...)
Quote:I think I've always thought that they had an actual physical location. (I remember reading some forum post saying that their supergroup had picked a certain building as being their headquarters, and they'd go over to it and have meetings there as part of their RP. Which I thought was one of the coolest things ever.) Sure, you get in by these swirling portals, but I'd just assume they work the same way as the teleporters to different zones, and just move you from one place to another. (Which, incidentally, would be the intradimensional stuff that impresses Alexis - their systems aren't so good at moving around within a single dimension.)
I missed this somehow earlier. I am under the impression -- though I don't remember where I got it -- that the bases themselves are extradimensional pockets, provided by Portal Corp under contract to the city. It certainly explains their ease of reconfiguration -- it's all energy to matter to energy after all...
Quote:Okay, that would be so cool. Even if you only had a limited selection of static scenes, it would add a lot of atmosphere.
I recall reading an interview where Statesman talks about how he'd like to give... the option to put windows in bases, so you can see 'outside',
-Morgan."I have no interest in ordinary humans. If there are any aliens, time travelers, or espers here, come sleep with me."
---From "The Ecchi of Haruhi Suzumiya"
-----(Not really)