03-13-2021, 05:52:27 AM
I can't guarantee that Komaru. It's all theoretical. But I am reasonably confident. I suspect the host is not letting us stay dead, or at very least, is going to try to keep us trapped in its sphere of influence. IF that's true, which it probably is, that means that whenever someone dies here, information is transferred to a separate demiplane, where we end up when we escape here, since it's been confirmed that the survivors go to a specific place. Presumably, that separate demiplane, which is also behind the sealed door. So, information, it travels at a speed below infinitely fast. That means it needs a route to travel, otherwise it would be stuck in this demiplane forever, right? So, the information, the "soul" I guess you could call it, needs a route to follow. So it creates one to get to the OTHER plane. With this ritual setup, I take that route, and expand it to cover the entire doorway here, and stabilize it with this chargeable crystal, with which I'll be focusing it, with these sigils here being a very simple magic battery with which to charge the crystal. I make a portal, and we can follow that information. IF it works, IF the host didn't lie about wanting to harvest memories, and IF the host is reasonably smart, all these factors will be true enough for this portal to successfully link to the other side. The host ALSO said this sort of thing had been done before. That means that there are probably other people back there. Three demiplanes would be impractical, four would be pointless if you could just recycle the second one.
Kellensea sighs.
The portal will stay open for... maybe an hour. I don't know. If I was an experienced spellcaster with ritual training, I'd be able to set it up to work for a few days, at least. But I don't know how long it will last when I do it. The one person who I sacrifice to open the portal, they'll end up on the other side before us, and presumably, they'll be... alive-ish. At very least, they'll have their memories, their mind, and the capacity to communicate, which is... probably good enough. They might even get their body. I'm not sure. But I THINK this will work. And if anything, it's worth trying. I believe it's worth trying. At home, this would work probably... all the time. It's pretty difficult to screw up sacrifice-based summoning. But... here? The rules of magic might be different enough that it could disrupt the spell. I have no idea. My rings and amulets and things still seem to be working, so that implies that magic works VERY closely to how it works back home. But I have no idea if it actually will work. My educated guess is that it WILL work. In practice however, we won't know until we try.
Kellensea sighs.
The portal will stay open for... maybe an hour. I don't know. If I was an experienced spellcaster with ritual training, I'd be able to set it up to work for a few days, at least. But I don't know how long it will last when I do it. The one person who I sacrifice to open the portal, they'll end up on the other side before us, and presumably, they'll be... alive-ish. At very least, they'll have their memories, their mind, and the capacity to communicate, which is... probably good enough. They might even get their body. I'm not sure. But I THINK this will work. And if anything, it's worth trying. I believe it's worth trying. At home, this would work probably... all the time. It's pretty difficult to screw up sacrifice-based summoning. But... here? The rules of magic might be different enough that it could disrupt the spell. I have no idea. My rings and amulets and things still seem to be working, so that implies that magic works VERY closely to how it works back home. But I have no idea if it actually will work. My educated guess is that it WILL work. In practice however, we won't know until we try.
I am the They who says it!