Teleporters- not just Charles Brigman- exist in the PS238-verse. When the Department of Metahuman Affair came to deal with him, they had a plan and counter-measures for him.
It stands to reason that the Earth Defense League tower’s defenses cover teleportation as well.
So therefore for Ron’s newfound power to be able to work in escaping the tower, it would have to NOT be teleportation or NOT work in a similar manner. It’s something completely new and unseen in the metahuman world and thus cannot be counter-acted.
At the moment, I’m thinking he can interact with the fourth dimension. So walls have has much chance of stopping him as a line on a piece of paper has of stopping us.
Seems to me like some kind of finite improbability drive. You can tell it’s not an infinite improbability drive because there are no whales or petunias yet. Or maybe that’s because he hasn’t tried to leave Earth yet.
I am thinking this is an interpretation of quantum tunnelling. One moment you are here; the next moment you are there. Your positional waveform extended outside of a barrier that would normally stop you, so you could be there, but a higher probability of being here. Collapse the waveform and voila, you are outside (sometimes)!
I don’t know if that particular piece of directing would work here, as “the place we beat Charles” is also the place where Moonshadow ruined Clarinet’s home life, got his parents to split up….
As long as Ron can identify the place by Flea’s “the place we beat Charles”, it’s as good as any other method of identifying the place, and less likely than some to bring up unpleasant memories.
Depends. If what he’s doing IS the same sort of warp, maybe he’ll be able to feel it as ‘somebody’s doing the same thing I’m doing’. And, just going by plot hooks, this certainly means he should be able to step off the ride in the middle…
I am getting overpowered by the need to see the wormhole/stargate/shadowwalk in action! I don’t think this is a jump like teleportation or star wars or the teleportation countermeasures. Perhaps more like Trek, where they are still in part contact with normal communication and observation. Hope we get the explanation.
Huh, that’s true. Did the adults just stop paying attention to the giant cloth/eldrich thing behind them or did they just ignore it when it crawled back onto Cecil?
Maybe it had absorbed & assimilated enough stuff to split into two normal-sized coats, so that one could rejoin Cecil while the other kept the attention of any interested adults?
So it’s not teleportation. But it is moving from one place to another without physically passing though any of the intervening points. Cool
Teleporters- not just Charles Brigman- exist in the PS238-verse. When the Department of Metahuman Affair came to deal with him, they had a plan and counter-measures for him.
It stands to reason that the Earth Defense League tower’s defenses cover teleportation as well.
So therefore for Ron’s newfound power to be able to work in escaping the tower, it would have to NOT be teleportation or NOT work in a similar manner. It’s something completely new and unseen in the metahuman world and thus cannot be counter-acted.
What is it, though?
At the moment, I’m thinking he can interact with the fourth dimension. So walls have has much chance of stopping him as a line on a piece of paper has of stopping us.
Seems to me like some kind of finite improbability drive. You can tell it’s not an infinite improbability drive because there are no whales or petunias yet. Or maybe that’s because he hasn’t tried to leave Earth yet.
More like his own personal hyperspace drive it seems like to me.
@Opus the Poet Could be a personalized form of warp travel: literally bending space to get where you’re going.
I think he goes into Escher-space and the brain just can’t cope with seeing things like the waterfall from anything but that one angle.
I am thinking this is an interpretation of quantum tunnelling. One moment you are here; the next moment you are there. Your positional waveform extended outside of a barrier that would normally stop you, so you could be there, but a higher probability of being here. Collapse the waveform and voila, you are outside (sometimes)!
He still doesn’t know where he is going once outside. The flea needs to steer. 🙂
Flea just has to say “the place we beat Charles”.
I don’t know if that particular piece of directing would work here, as “the place we beat Charles” is also the place where Moonshadow ruined Clarinet’s home life, got his parents to split up….
As long as Ron can identify the place by Flea’s “the place we beat Charles”, it’s as good as any other method of identifying the place, and less likely than some to bring up unpleasant memories.
Depends. If what he’s doing IS the same sort of warp, maybe he’ll be able to feel it as ‘somebody’s doing the same thing I’m doing’. And, just going by plot hooks, this certainly means he should be able to step off the ride in the middle…
I am getting overpowered by the need to see the wormhole/stargate/shadowwalk in action! I don’t think this is a jump like teleportation or star wars or the teleportation countermeasures. Perhaps more like Trek, where they are still in part contact with normal communication and observation. Hope we get the explanation.
It just struck me that Cecil’s coat apparently did a very successful diet in only a few panels.
Huh, that’s true. Did the adults just stop paying attention to the giant cloth/eldrich thing behind them or did they just ignore it when it crawled back onto Cecil?
Maybe it had absorbed & assimilated enough stuff to split into two normal-sized coats, so that one could rejoin Cecil while the other kept the attention of any interested adults?