Sweet mother of god, okay. I love these things. I know it's not something to be hugely excited about, but dang, son, I just gotta talk about these things. I had a brief discussion on live chat about them a few days ago, but my hunger is not satisfied. Dang.
Why do I even care about this it's so specific and it's only mentioned in like 3 articles
This is is…way too long to be about something thats hardly mentioned. I'm putting it under a cut.
Nevermind I have no idea how to do that, maybe it's not too long oh goodness I'm just gonna leave it out for now wikidot's help isn't working for me
1. First of all, according to Dr.Reach's designs here on the blueprint hub, they're round, not flat unless you're thinking about the Scantron boxes referred to in [scp-1451 SCP-1451], which I kind of want to go over here, too, or unless they're just 'buoys' in the sense of the term that they can 'float' on top of an affected portion of reality. Which seems to me to mean that they would/should sink into something. Which means that they could, possibly, not really need extra accommodations to stay steady on surfaces. So what if they could sink into/take root in reality itself and 'float' in whatever surface it's sitting in when turned on, and maybe 'bob' if disturbed and make weird little trippy 'ripples' in whatever they're placed in.
Because that would be awesome.
2. Do these things work alone, like lilly pads in a pond repelling anything in their radius, or do they work together to make a boundary/'electric fence' of safety?
3. What if a Scantron reality box is more of a reality bender 'shark cage'? So a person can stand inside one and not be affected by a reality bender's power, or stand outside one and put the reality bender inside as a temporary containment chamber. Or, it's just a Scantron buoy in a box shape. Who knows.
4. Can a buoy reverse the effects of a reality bender? For example, lets say that a reality bender has knocked down a bridge. If an MTF member throws a buoy where the bridge was, does the anchor land on where the bridge was, and sit on it like the bridge was still there? Or does it fall through, because the damage has already been done, and it's only job is to stabilize unstable portions of reality? If the former, that could raise questions about wether or not a reality bender is really bending reality at all, or if an anchor is really stabilizing our own reality, or reverting anything in it's radius into the same location in a reality where the bender does not exist.
5. How big are these things? Like, I can easily imagine MTFs running into combat with a 10-pound buoys on their backs, but can just as easily imagine someone pulling one out of their pocket or having to have one lowered in with a crane.
…Or, you know, they could be just objects that stabilize reality, and I'm taking this too far.
I really hope this is the kind of thing posted in discussion and that I'm not doing anything wrong/posting this in the wrong place oh no
