Opening a Portal to a target on my Map didn’t an the Portal literally ford where that person was and cut them in half. That would be an extrely foolish design. They ford about two or three feet in front of the target. That ant that if the target wasn’t paying too much attention while walking forward, they may walk right into the Portal and end up on the other side without realizing it. Portals also didn’t understand height.
If I selected a target that was underground or flying through the air, the Map would automatically place it on the ground. This was basically because the Map I used was two-dinsional and only existed on a two-dinsional plane. If I picked anywhere, it was as close to the ground as possible at whatever elevation that might be. It could be used in so interesting ways, like teleporting to the top of a tower or mountain with ease, but it naturally had limitations.
For example, stepping through the Portal felt a bit like stepping through the water. It also had a similar resistive effect. That ant, you couldn’t create a Portal behind an enemy, and then shoot them with an arrow. The arrow’s montum would be all but lost when it ca out on the other side. We tried various degrees of strength, but no matter how powerful the blow, it didn’t pass through the Portal.
This led to another idea. Could you create a Portal in extre environnts and use them as an attack? My first thought was to create a Portal underwater. I could create a tsunami that could wipe out an entire army. If I got it deep enough, the high pressure would be like a water canon with enough force that I wondered if it could hurt bosses.
This naturally led to other thoughts. I could see space. What would happen if I opened a Portal in space? Everything would be explosively sucked out into its vacuum. How about the inside of a volcano? Sending molten earth racing down at an enemy would be a powerful weapon. Plus, I could make a lava moat.
In the end, while all of these ideas were great, they had one fundantal flaw. The Portal I created always ford a few feet in front of , facing . The first person to be struck with water, lava, or the vacuum of space would be . Since realizing this reality, I naturally gave up on the idea of weaponizing Portals. The only way I could use it would be if I got close to the edge of a cliff, and then hoped an idiot walking forward would walk through the Portal and off the cliff before realizing what they were doing.
The reason I felt the need to explain all of this at that mont, was as it so happened, the man I selected to Portal to had been at the edge of a cliff, taking a piss off the side. When my Portal appeared, he naturally stopped peeing and leaped back, but I was about three feet out over the ledge of a cliff when I stepped across. I let out a cry as I plunged off the cliff and into the depths below. In this case, I was the idiot.
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