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Lorica (post 'ward of the state') in the esperverse meets a Lucien and a Lia
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Whoa is that alive or dead
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Alive, I had to throw him back a second later when he tried to electrocute me.

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Into a fishtank or a dungeon?
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Dungeon, we're just finishing up and everyone's out. You can let Lucien know I'll be at his silo soon.

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"Lia'll be at your silo soon," she dutifully relays. "And says 4D dungeons can get 'pretty deep'."

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"Helpful."

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"I wish I knew how 'deep' a single dimension is. Like, is it it a Planck length, is it half an inch, I have no idea."

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"Maybe an esper who can properly do 4D would know? Lia doesn't have anything special for it, she just spent a lot of time practicing in VR and stuff until she had a knack for thinking in 4D so she could do some dungeons with espers who can move people in it around."

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"...sounds like pretty good VR. Inconvenient that I can't take passengers or I could see if any of those espers could just, like, tell."

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"Yeah. Oh - we could time me pulling you back? I think my power works equally fast in all directions."

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"Oh, how fast is it?"

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"People accelerate towards me at about 15 meters per second squared."

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".......for those of us who used to rely on robots we programmed with our superpowers to do math whenever it came up in daily life, does that mean that if I take more than a second to get to you I'm more than fifteen meters away or is it more complicated than that?"

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"A bit more complicated - you travel 7.5 meters in the first second, I think."

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"That's going to take so long to figure out if I go slowly and it turns out they're a Planck length but I really don't want to get lost."

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"It took you more than an instant to get back the one time I pulled you, I think?"

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"Do people sometimes take only an instant if you pull them from a short distance?"

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"No - I suppose it takes a moment to start. I think you were longer than that but I'm not certain."

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"Is your reaction time up to this or do we need some kind of speed camera setup?"

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"It'll depend on how far apart things turn out to be - we can try without the speed camera and if that doesn't work I will ask Lia whether she has any camera fast enough to be useful."

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Now's a good time given that he'll be heading to do guiding soon - he can set-up the towel again and tag Lorica.

"Want to try going to the closest dimension and I can time your return, and then we can do the farthest one you've gone to so far?"

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"Sure." Out she goes into the void.

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And back she comes. 

"Looks like 0.35 - the minimum time I get is 0.31, but that difference might just be my reflexes. Try farthest?"

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She gets suited up and goes out.

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