Another concept (or the previous concept revised)
Okay, so I’ve been watching The Lost Room , and I really like how it establishes its own rules and then goes on to develop it in detail, as well as establish limitations of these rules. Unfortunately, I am not nearly that creative in doing something on that scale. So I was thinking I’d take the concept from the last post and limit it to one power rather than have a scattershot of powers to deal with. This way I can develop it in detail, as well as explore limitations, rather than have an opening for whatever I want. For now, I will try teleportation.
Only a select number of individuals have the power to teleport. No one knows what grants these people the power to teleport, and indeed, so few individuals can do it that most people assume the power to do so is just a fairy-tale.
How teleportation works: the individual “disintegrates” in his/her current location and “reintegrates” at the new location from new matter at this location. The teleporter can transport his/her body anywhere, as long as the needed materials are there to be able to reintegrate. It is possible, though painful (and sometimes fatal), to partially reintegrate if not all the required matter is there, and most teleporters will go back to their previous location (if the disintegrated matter is still there) to reintegrate themselves wholly. There is a 42-foot radius that the materials need to be in in order for someone to reintegrate. The teleporter does not choose where the materials to reintegrate him/herself comes from. This can be devastating if the teleporter lands in a populated area, since his/her reintegration may pull matter from passerby, heavily injuring or even killing people around him/her. Many teleporters learn early on not to do this, and mostly do teleportations within 42 feet of their previous location. There are occasional unscrupulous teleporters though, and those who know of the teleporters’ existence often carry a device to measure a drop in entropy to see if someone is reintegrating in their vicinity (a simple device to do this can be constructed, e.g. a jar of differently colored sand which would separate into the constituent colors if entropy dropped). There is a 3-minute window between the time someone disintegrates and reintegrates wholly in a new area. So if there is an unexplainable pain or unexplainable aggregation of various materials, one can check this entropy device or just go ahead and get the hell out of the area.
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Hm, this concept shows promise. Next I’ll develop a character with this power.
