3 and 7 are pretty OP if used correctly
- 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.
Albert Einstein can probably run faster than me honestly so I’m going with that
He’s ded tho.
This free gravel, can I summon it whenever and wherever I want, or do I have to wait for it to be delivered? If it’s the latter, I will take Khitan. Resurrecting a dead language sounds fun.
Can I take a pill that gives me a whole sub for discussing these?
Considering how my driveway gets completely washed away any time it rains, I’m going with #2 no questions asked.
Don’t even have to read the rest of them, gravel is expensive!
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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- Open franchise that sells toast bread. Burn all toasters in the world that are not used in your chain. Raise prices to ridiculous amounts. Build a big toaster rocket. Fly away.
Isn’t easier tk jist sell gravel?
Can run as fast as albert einstein, but don’t actually take the pill. Use it only when you or a loved one is immobilized by old age or injury. Nothing to lose, even if its a bogus ‘0mph, he’s dead’ pill.
I was thinking it would be an excellent choice for my wheelchair bound coworker
If I were to lose my ability to walk, would I choose:
- ability to maybe walk, maybe like an old man, maybe not
- ability to teleport along with my stuff, 7" per thought
On the other hand, maybe I can only teleport once, for when I take the pill. That might end up being pretty useless for this case.
one time use would certainly devalue the ones that don’t seem inherently permanent. also too bad michael jackson died before the grow a second nose pill was thought up…
Does toaster control imply I can also read the internal state of the toaster with my mind? Like can I detect if the bread is about to burn?
5 and then make stuff where the switches are all miniature toasters.
3 is overpowered, it’s basically FTL if the reload time is low
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
Yeah teleporting 7 in if there’s no time like between teleportations is godlike.
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.
3 would get you through almost any door. Definitely my choice.
7 though, this would make you a star in the DEA. Imagine seeing inside everyone’s tires, and then you find one you can’t see inside. “Whatcha got in those tires, son?” I’m sure there could be other uses.
2, you could run a business on free gravel but you’re mostly paying for processing and delivery so you would only have a small edge on your competition. It’s still a lot of work and big heavy expensive trucks.
I thought the same thing about 3 until I realized that I’m more than 7 inches tall/wide/deep, so I can’t actually pass through anything, just get horribly mangled when I make it halfway through the door.
Now here’s the million dollar question: how many times per second can I teleport? Because if I can teleport at let’s say 1khz… now we’re talking
Depends on what is meant by “free gravel”, though. Given the effects of the other pills, it gives me the impression I can just summon gravel on command. In which case, I’d only have to pay for my own transportation.
- Sheer horror. You’ll never be able to eat these again.
- This has been brought up before. Gravel isn’t cheap. This is basically infinite money.
- If used continuously, you’re basically The Flash.
- Just a bad idea unless you can put it inside your existing nose for double the sniff-sensitivity.
- Okay, that’s just fun.
- Again, used continuously, this is the fountain of youth. You’ll still die of old age though.
- Only useful under very specific circumstances. Also, define a “container”.
- Unless the Khitan civilization knew things we don’t, this isn’t useful at all.
- Fast as he is now or when he was alive?
8, resurrect a dead language will make some linguists overjoyed
Again, used continuously, this is the fountain of youth. You’ll still die of old age though.
How would that work? “Age” isn’t some inherent property of atoms.
The text just says look 10 hours younger. To me, that means un-doing all the apparent signs of aging: superficial stuff. Less wrinkles, fewer sunspots/freckles, hair is back where it used to be, no more cataracts, etc. Meanwhile, your internal organs, bones, and muscles keep going with the usual aging process.
Also, there’s nothing saying you can’t spam that shit and layer it. We probably need a rules lawyer or any of these could be exploitable.
Fair point.
5 is awesome. My house will be full of toasters hooked up as switches for things.
I’m thinking that #7 might be useful in certain policing or security positions, depending on the definition of empty (there’s always dust and air).
Got a bunch of containers that need to be inspected? You can cross the ones you can see through off the list.
Also useful for winning the cup-and-ball game
Sheer horror. You’ll never be able to eat these again.
I think they’re just going so cold, water please, drowning…kill me…
- Damn you Plutarch!
