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WAHH HOOO HEYA WHOOOOOOOO!

*This noise comes from some where upstairs. It is followed by the sound of a 110 pound weakling hitting a wall and rebounding off the floor. Then Tim comes into view. His knitting of the previous night, a flaming pentegram, is stretched out across a frame that is 2 1/2 feet by seven inches, rounded ends. The really unusual bit is that this knitted thing is floating a good foot above the floor, and Tim is riding on it. It is a simple matter to hop from the floor onto the railing, and Tim slides down that with a resounding *

YEE HAHH!

*And then Tim is air borne off the end, hopping a good three tables before hitting the floor again, and skidding to a stop. He drops one foot to the floor for balance.*

That.... was Awesome!

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There are some things that are just plain impossible to ignore, andt his is one of them. Ray looks up at the BOUNCE BOUNCE BOUNCE, and his eyes light up at the sight.

"What exactly did you just do, and can I try?"

*Tim stomps his foot down on the bit of knitting and it flips into his hands.*

Flying Carpet. Skateboardsized. Pocketable, when broken down.

Ray whistles, peering at the bit of knitting. "Oh, man that looks like a sweet piece of spell work. Is it complicated to pull off?"

No more then any flying.

*Tim shrugs, examinging it.*

The spell is in the weave, and it gives a bit less control.... Which is kinda cool actually. Knowing you're in complete control can be boring. Which reminds me!

*Tim offers Ray the board.*

Do you think you could create a device that would generate a black hole?

Ray accepts the board, turning it over with both hands and examining it closely. He reaches for the PKE meter, but his hand freezes mid-gesture at Tim's question.

"A... black hole," he says slowly. "As in, collapsed stellar mass, nothing getting out but Hawking radiation, one-way aperture in space-time, kind of black hole?"
"The rings are made from a special neodymium-iron-boron alloy. As they spin, they'll create a magnetic field that will put intense pressure on the space-time fabric. This should cause vacuum polarization at the quantum level, and tear a hole in the dimensional barrier that separates our world from the spirit world..."
"Um. Possibly. Why d'you ask?"

*Tim strokes his chin, eyeing the front door. He lowers his voice, as if that would help.*

I have an idea for how to make a black hole into a type of quantum passageway, spinning magic around it with the appropriate flavor to create a shortcut. Throught he principles of cantagion, it could be used to inverse the raw potential to create a doorway. My only problem is that if I'm doing the binding aspect, the hole cannot be a creation of my own, to avoid backlash of the Constantine principle.

Ray gives this some thought. "Ah, okay," he says in a similarly low tone. "So we're not just looking for a way to get rid of really inconvenient Bar patrons, then. That's good. Does it have to be a classical black hole per se, or will you settle for an Einstein-Rosen wormhole? I assume you'll be steering the far end of whichever one it is by means of the magic, right?"

*Tim blanks slightly.*

Whats the difference between the two? And no, we're looking for a rescue mission device for when the bar doesn't play fair.

"The Einstein-Rosen bridge space-time structure is amazingly unstable, Tim. If you want to maintain the bridge you have to pump an awful lot of energy into it. Just creating a black hole that pulls in without dumping is relatively easy. Creating and maintaining a stable bridge is gonna take a different set of mathematics, that's all. If you can wait until I can build a Casimir effect generator big enough to put off a usable amount of negative energy, I can probably get you a Lorentzian inter-universe wormhole if I really try. The quantum vacuum fluctuations in the electromagnetic field are gonna be kind of a bitch to control but I think I can do that without too much trouble. I mean, the theory's been around since '48, I don't see why I can't make it work."

*Tim shakes his head.*

I just need a regular black hole.The actual anchoring and opening will be magic, but the black hole will feed it the needed energy to punch through the dimensional gauntlet.

"Okay. That, I can do. I've torn spacetime before- this shouldn't be all that different. What's the time frame on the project?"

No real limit. I just want to be prepared in case of a Faith happening again. Which reminds me.

*Tim pulls out a pair of scissors.*

I need two bits of your hair.

"Tracking templates?" Ray asks, leaning forward immediately. "Okay. Anything else necessary, you think?"

*Tim clips two bits that won't be missed, and slips them away.*

Yup, a good base for any finding spell.

*Tim gestures at the board.*

Going for a spin ont hat thing, probbably. It rides just like a skatboard, with more hang time.

"Beautiful," Ray says, carefully laying out the board at what he assumes is the appropriate hover height. "I was never much good with skateboards. They rattled my teeth on the streets where I lived. Something like this, though..."

Somewhat easier to control.

*Tim taps the side of the frame, showing lengths of leather.*

With optional straps, to stay connected. And it stays a foot up at nearly all times.

"Ooooooooooo."

Has Tim seen Toy Story? Does he remember the three-eyed aliens faced with Buzz Lightyear? Like that.

*Tim grins.*

Course that doesn't mean you can't still crash... But, well.... Ever see Back to the future part three?

"Five times," Ray says absently. "You're sure this'll hold my weight?"

He's thisclose to strapping it on.

*Tim grins with pride.*

You could jump on with your pack on and it would still fly smoothly.

Right, then. Ray starts strapping on immediately. "How do I start this thing if I'm attached by both feet?"

Push off with one foot, then slip it back in the strap, like with a snow board.

Ray rubs his hands together gleefully and does exactly that. Honestly, you might just as well expect sodium not to explode on contact with water as expect him to show restraint in the face of a toy like this.

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