Chrysalis

“Hold, dammit!” Brilliant roared.

“I’m not sure it can take it,” Assistant cried out. “It’s going to overflow!”

“It needs more power! Give it everything you’ve got!”

“We can’t do any more, the matrix will collapse!”

“A little further,” Brilliant urged as the mana surged and frothed. Dimensional boundaries were cascading around them and she could peer into them all, flashing images of twisting reality that bent and warped themselves around her.

They were so close!

“It’s gone! Run!” Assistant shrieked, and Brilliant was vaguely aware of her followers ducking for cover or diving into the blast cages. She herself didn’t move, of course, transfixed as she was by the beauty she beheld in front of her.

“So beautiful,” she whispered.

A moment later, she was spear tackled and knocked from her observation platform.

“Experimant! What are you doing?!” she yelled.

antennae with irritation. “It’s a little difficult to make use of your insights if you die

had been at pains

me,” she boasted, “I see it coming a

only for Experimant to yank her back to the ground. Then the explosion finally happened, the haywire

muttered. “Forgot

waited another minute before the mages and carvers that made up her merry band began to emerge from the reinforced concrete bunkers someone had decided to install in their research chamber. She strongly suspected Assistant was the one responsible, but she couldn’t

tap with an antenna. “Fantastic experiment, another rousing success! We are getting ever closer

as the last few sparks danced across the walls. “It seemed

do I have to teach you? Only a truly successful test will end with a multiple manifold-collapse. We

enchanted array embedded into the floor beneath the great stone edifice she had dubbed the rift-arch. Reinforced behind thick layers of hardened ice and embedded within a holding structure of living stone, the array was a sophisticated piece of enchanting, the only one of its kind within the Colony. Smithant herself had been consulted on the crafting of it,

sixteen identifiable threads. Our spatial pathway managed to make it a third of the

who travelled through it would

making great strides. Great strides. You don’t discover the secrets of teleportation magic without exploding a few gateways. If you

brain could handle it….”

want to travel through regular space, why is it necessary to

every line of her carapace,

Everything i-is a dimension. If you punch a h-hole in one, you punch a hole i-in all

three dimensional space, but rather find our way back to it. Right now, all we are doing is shooting bright light into the dimensional weave, illuminating the darkness so we can