3 or 6 if there’s no cooldown. People talk about not being able to get through walls when over open ground you can hit potentially limitless speed without gaining inertia and going splat if something pulls out in front of you. Same with deaging, so long as the cooldown isn’t longer than 10 hours, you’re Benjamin-Buttoning it.
I’m 10 hours younger (5 seconds later) , I’m 19 hours 59 minutes and 55 seconds younger, rinse and repeat until you reach your desired age. Immortality?
But you’re not actually losing age in this one, just looking 10 hours younger so it wouldn’t really stack.
Oh dang. You’d still die from old age.
Yeah, but you’d still be hot.
You wouldn’t be though. It’s 10 hours younger looking (presumably than your actual age, so it doesn’t stack)
I could do so much with free gravel, you have no idea.
If you have even the most-basic business sense, this instantly turns you into an uber-wealthy gravel tycoon.
Can I take all 9 and never have printer troubles again?
Free gravel is so busted compared to these. Gravel’s one of those things that you don’t need often, but someone in any town on any given day will need some.
You could undercut every single other gravel business. Even if the competitions lowers their prices dramatically, they can’t go lower than their costs. Meanwhile, you have absolutely no costs on material. Gravel monopoly.
I imagine this working in a monkey’s paw kind of way. First, the local gravel suppliers just keep mis-delivering things to places where you happen to be. Then they start talking and figure out how to get rid of you so you stop costing them so much business. You survive, skip town, only to start again. You get incredibly wealthy from re-selling all this free gravel. Eventually, mountaintops start dissapearing due to all the illegal quarrying going on…
This is much easier to do the monkey paw routine by saying "you get one free piece of gravel per 100 years.:
Bet I could retire in a year, two at the outside. Have customers pick up at deep discount until I could get a pair of heavy trucks and drivers, pure gravy from there on out.
If there are no limits of scale or delivery, i think it’s OP.
cut me off? I’m gonna follow you at a disance and summon 50 tons of gravel around your car.
File an HOA complaint on me? You’re going to need a bobcat to find your front door.
Can i summon it anywhere without going there? You know how hard it is to get rid of gravel?
You’re going to need a bobcat to find your front door.
I forgot that was a brand of front loaders for a second, and my brain went on a whole trip trying to figure why you’d need a bobcat.
Ah, the ancient proverb. “May thine abode be buried so significantly in granite that thy’ll required services of a feline predator to findeth thou stoop.”
To be fair, I think AESOP might have written a few stranger things.
;)
Can i summon it anywhere without going there?
And do you create matter from nothing or do you relocate preexisting gravel? I see a way to virtually free unlimited energy here with the use of gravity batteries.
Drunk as a skunk, Rumba stood in the parking lot, staggering, freshly jilted. Arms raised in the air. Crying, screaming, and laughing maniacally, he urged all the magic showers of stone. They would pay. They would all pay. And he would pay too. But it seemed a small price. The stars begin to twinkle and to procure your passion. The moon, in its full glory tonight, grew by its third in just seconds.
The stars seemed to wink out of existence. First, a couple at a time, then in large swaths. They weren’t gone, but obscured. A few minutes after the last star disappeared from the sky, it was replaced by something wonderful, something magical. Before its impending death, the earth would be subject to it’s last and most amazing light show.
New stars seemed to faintly appear, but they were wrong, beautifully wrong. And they seemed to move, but as they did, they traced magnificent lines in the sky.
He dougian as he also his heels an pulled once more the heavens demanding the sky come. The lines turned into stripes. The stripes turned into an ever-increasing glow. But he didn’t summon just enough gravel to end the earth. He summoned gravel for hundreds of thousands of miles. Soon the moon would just be another layer in the crust, and still the gravel would fall. Long after humanity had breathed its last breath, the gravel would still fall. The inner planets and sun would soon dance an intricate path eventually merged together with the sun itself. But still, the gravel would fall. Not until some centuries later, one of the sun had increased to about 20 times its original mass, with the black hole form that would slowly engulf the rest of the known galaxy.
Not to mention the transport cost, and the usefulness of gravel as fill material on major building and infrastructure projects.
Teleport 7 inches only because doing so in quick succession could look really funny
Go slim under 7 inches and teleport through very thin walls.
That’s not very thin walls though. Average walls are 4.5”. Walls with things like plumbing are usually only 6.5”. Teleporting 7 inches would be hella useful.
With your back up against the wall, you’d still only make it about half-way through. Depending on the mechanism, you’d either have your front half stuck, merged or exploded.
7 would be really useful for those games where you have to find the ball under the cup. You can instantly tell if you’re being swindled, and always win.
No one is thinking of building a toaster with wheels and cameras ?
Gotta go with 7 here.
7 is actually useful? I don’t understand the debate
How is seeing inside of an empty container useful? There’s nothing in it
Could maybe win some money gambling on cup shuffle?
Cuss then you know which ones has stuff
Play “Deal or No Deal”
Okay. Your power instantly doesn’t work as every case contains a placard saying what the dollar amount is and is therefore not an empty container
Fuck
Logic is a cruel bitch
Ok then.
removes logic
everything becomes random
YooooOOooou HHhhhhhhhappÿ???!
Most things people consider “empty” are still full of atmospheric gases, dust, etc.
You could see inside of a sterile container inside of a vacuum chamber.
Putting a toaster inside a robot so I can control it with my mind and have an army of these
Albert Einstein can probably run faster than me honestly so I’m going with that
He’s ded tho.
3 is overpowered, it’s basically FTL if the reload time is low
I’m playing a Pathfinder game where my character has something roughly resembling this ability, and so far it has allowed my party to essentially skip a few fights.
So curious about any funny stories. Like tried to get on the other side of a wall but you’re skinniest character is 7.5 inches at the chest so their scapula gets stuck in some thatched wall so now they look like some kind of hay Angel.
The reload time is zero, but teleporting N meters away takes N seconds. Oh, and it looks like the transporter effect from Star Trek where you fade out and get all sparkly.
Yeah teleporting 7 in if there’s no time like between teleportations is godlike.
I was going to say, 3 is my choice. Subtly powerful and useful. Just have to be creative, even if it isn’t actually that much faster
5 and then make stuff where the switches are all miniature toasters.
Are these one time use? Like you gain the ability to talk to oysters forever? Grow a new nose as many times as you want? Or talk to oysters for 5 minutes and one extra nose?
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Become a water quality assessor with instant and accurate data on pollutants, if there are invasive species, whether or not there are pearls present, and any other information oysters can offer about the environment.
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Instant paving/gravel business with a huge profit margin compared to competitors.
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Depends on the locus of movement. If 7” only, like a quarter step in any direction, kinda useless*. If moving your entire body 7” away from it’s previous location, good for theft I guess if the barrier is less than 7” thick.
*if you can “spam” the 7” movement rapidfire with no speed limit, you can travel as fast as you can wherever you want in a “stuttering” teleport.
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Useful to someone disfigured, lost one to skin cancer or other issue.
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Depends on what you limit a toaster to and what constitutes control. If you can control any facet of any device that heats the interior for purposes of heating the contents to a specific temperature, then this is really powerful. Engines “toast” fuel. Kilns “toast” everything from carbon fiber to ceramics to tempering glass. You now operate the only successful fusion reactor on the planet. The ability to control the specific heating of any material in an enclosed environment would have wide application.
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Spam it.
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Catching smugglers? If a container that should be empty isn’t, you can’t see in it.
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Get your name in the history books as an expert on the peoples and culture surrounding the language.
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If you were a paraplegic this would be life-changing.
The gravel one is gonna have some stupid loophole, like it’s one pebble a day, but infinite and free.
Free gravel appears instantaneously at will, but only in the very center of Ohio
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- breed oysters > profit
- sell gravel
- still prob useful if you chain teleport real fast?
- why
- must be a job somewhere for you
- can instantly tell if a container isnt empty, work in customs or something?
- doctorate in archeology
- albert einstein when? now? yikes, when he was young? depends on your relative age and physical form
Communication doesn’t mean you can breed them. I can communicate with you and someone else but it doesn’t mean that I can convince you to breed.
No but you could gain a greater understanding of their needs. You can always learn the job on top of that. Oyster probably don’t need much convincing anyway.
What if you fed the 4rth pill to an oyster thus making it grow a second nose.
What is its first nose?
Bonus points if you have a friend that can talk to them in order to know how they feel about it.
