opnet [OpNet] Eruption Experiences.

Avatar · January 20, 2003

I am curious, seeing as I have only erupted quite recently, I was wondering what everyone else's eruption was like. Not just how it happened mind you, but what was the whole proccess/experience like and how did it transform you?

You know, I really dislike the term eruption, It seems so crass a term for such wonderful experience.

Walker · January 20, 2003

Well, my whole experince was drawn out and slow and painful and it happened on a boat. Throbbing headaches, little flashes of the future, my mind reaching out to flying birds and nearby swimming sea creatures, I was hearing snatches of radio, I was seeing the heat in objects, I thought I was going mad, I tried to comvince myself it was just a flashback to a drug experince, it'll go away, it WILL go away. I also got a pins and needles sensation through-out my body, my guess for that being it was the adaptibility 'settling' into my body, but it's only a guess. Over a number of hours my head started to swell, naturally my family, who were on the boat as well, became concerned. The boat was turned around for the nearest port and hospital, the storm came out of nowhere but I'd seen those clouds before in my mind. I dimly remember a falling sail and a glow bursting out of my body deflecting the metal and cloth away. The next thing I knew I was opening my first ever warp gate to get my family off the rapidly sinking ship. The headaches stopped at that exact moment and I also realised that I was a Nova.

The whole experience seemed like a dream, bordering on an hallucination, bordering on sheer hysterical madness but it was balanced with an utmost sense of power in the last stages. It's still an impenatrable mystery to me until this day, but I probably wouldn't have it any other way.

Sandy Davis · January 20, 2003

Well, eruption is a flawed term for me. I know it is a good term for some, then so is homosexual. I do not want to compare those two in any other way than, they do not fit all people.

I was praying in a church, blaming the novas for the world's problems. I think it was about ho they set up most of the world's problems, and were subverting the Roman Church. I do not really recall. It is odd, but in the past year or so, my life before that day is getting fuzzy. It is as it was someone else, and not mean it is getting harder and harder to grasp at the idea of not having my power, for better or worse.

Now here is a tricky thing. I do not think erupted at one time but rather three time. I do not mean to sound strange, or insane. It is just that there were two days now when, I felt the same things happen to me as the day I became a nova. From the head aches, to the founding of new abilities

.I know I am being vague, but that is really all I can be as,if I wasn't it would take to much to explain each detail.

Arek · January 20, 2003

Although I had quite a bit in life, contentment wasn't one of them. I was always frustrated by not being, well, more than I already was. I pushed myself as hard and as long as I could, but the results were always a personal disappointment. Everyone who knew me thought I was trying to hard to be everything. Eventually, I realized that I could never be everything I wanted to be and I feel into a bit of a depression. Being 16, nobody really noticed a difference (as it goes for most teenagers ).

Eventually, I came to think that if I couldn't something I wasn't, I might as well give up. I found a nice high cliff several miles out of town and I jumped from it.

Imagine my surprise when I impacted, not on the ground, but back on the cliff. I can barely recall the sudden 'whooshing' noise and a strong uplifting force, but I do know it was there. Strangely enough, I was unfazed. Perhaps I was too deep in self-contempt. I tried to jump again. And again.

On the 6th or 7th time I landed back on the cliff, my frustration manifested itself as a burning pain growing in my skull as my Node began to grow. I passed out and regained conciousness in the hospital a day later. It was fairly obvious that I was now a Nova. That was back in late 2002. It's been awhile.

Looking back on it, although it was a serious situation, my eruption was fairly comical. At times, however, I wish I had waited a few years to attempt suicide. For one, I'm still physically 16. A preternaturally attractive, strong and agile 16, but 16 none the less. In many ways, I'm the idealized being that I always wanted to be.

Widget · January 20, 2003

Perhaps it will be better when you find your "Mrs. Robinson," Arek. Alternately you could take the time to learn the skills of make up, acting and style to remake your situation into one more of your liking.

What was it like and how did it transform me? One moment I was distracted in a seeming endless feedback loop of insurmountable problems. The next a spark of epiphany set fire to my mental landscape and I saw 213 discrete answers that would solve every problem I had ever encountered. The moment after that I realize 212 of the solutions were unnecessary as the original situations were not actually problems.

I finished my set, walked the floor, tripled my earnings for the evening and then went home to delete my thesis and start anew:

"A Variable Logic Approach To Resolving Operating Limitations Of Computer Processing."

After careful consideration later that evening I rewrote the thesis so that my package contained the original master and twelve cliff note summaries, each individually tailored to the possible attendees of my review board. The original was simply beyond them without months of study and analysis that I declined to allow.

I did want them to feel they were doing well despite their inherent limitations.

Widget,

Phantasm · January 20, 2003

Hello, I suppose this is a good as place as any to introduce myself. I usually go by Phantasm but I still answer to my old name which happens to be Reagan Munroe.

So to answer the erruption question... I was in a car accident. I know that's not very exciting. I really do hate drunk drivers. The hospital claims that I was dead on arrival. And I quess all practical reasoning would indicate that I was. But no, I was very much alive, I just didn't know it. Although I had to have errupted at the accident, I don't feel like I errupted until about a week after my funeral when I rose from my grave. Unfortunatly, my abilities led me to believe even more so that I was a ghost. I was invisible, intangible, highly succeptible to emotions, and a few other things. I wandered the world for a while until I met a friend in Europe who really helped me out. Now I remember how to be alive.

Anyways, I'm rather well adjusted despite the circumstances of my erruption. Pleasure to meet you all.

ronin · January 21, 2003

Avatar.

To answer your question, some people tried to kill me. What started out as a fist-fight elevated into gang violence. Shots were fired.

I sort of missed out on the feeling of eruption as I mistook it for bullets plowing through my flesh. In retrospect, I can scarcely remember the experience. It was like being burned all over. While you have a migraine.

Thoroughly unpleasant, but I'm satisfied with the results.

.ronin

Prof. Sydney 'Photon' Holland · January 21, 2003

Myself?

Well, from my perspective, it was really rather sudden. I was working on an experiment in the university's Particle Accelerator, noticed a red light, and was wondering what it meant...

...And the next thing I remember was standing in a pile of rubble, apparently 2 days later with not a scratch on me.

As I found out later, I also did not have a body on me, either. I was in the state I'm currently in, that of a hologram.

Yes, I am a victim of post-eruption amnesia. Yes, I've even asked telepaths to look into recovering those memories. Unfortunately, it's not that they're repressed, it's that that period of time was not recorded in my brain. Frustrating, but there you go.

Avatar · January 21, 2003

Thank you for sharing your expieriences with me. I find it fascinating although I am curious about one thing though. It seems to that you have all had rather "traumatic" expieriences while erupting and they seemed very painful. Is this the norm?

For myself, my moment of trancendence was a sublime experience unmarred by pain or fear. Is this an unusual occurance?

Apep · January 21, 2003

I personally don't remember an erruption at all. Granted, there are signifigant holes in my memory, but I think my erruprion happened very slowly over time. I don't think there was anything painful about my becoming other than puberty itself. No trauma other than everyday duties for me.

Widget · January 21, 2003

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Originally posted by Avatar:
It seems to that you have all had rather "traumatic" experiences while erupting and they seemed very painful.

I wouldn't characterize my experience as "traumatic". It certainly didn't seem so at the time or in retrospect. And to answer your question; no, most eruptions are not traumatic. Trauma accounts for approximately 15% of reported eruptions.

Widget,

Sandy Davis · January 21, 2003

Trauma?Well, Widget, what do you call Trauma?Would having to watch your mother die, count as Trauma.Or do you have be in the same car as her to have that be trauma?See, the problem is this, Trauma, is a word, and wile it could mean one thing, it also means another.To say that losing your faith in yourself is not a trauma.Well,that is to saying that pain you can't see is not real.

Widget · January 21, 2003

Does every half-formed vapid thought germinating in that skull automatically cause your fingers to writhe in a St. Vitus dance on the keyboard?

Curiosity.

Widget,

Sandy Davis · January 21, 2003

No, but then again you know all the answers. Right? Do you think that because I was not going to die, that it was not a form of trauma? For one who want total freedom, one is quick to condemn other's views. I was simply stating that Trauma comes in more than one form,and that more novas erupt from it,than what you said.

And maybe I am typing to a wall.You never know.

Widget · January 21, 2003

Apparently the answer is yes. Every misguided electrical anomaly traveling across a neuron gap in your brain does trigger a convulsive twitch that can only be stopped by the metaphorical equivalent of vomiting on your keyboard. You should see a doctor about that. There's several promising pharmacological extracts that might be of value in alleviating your difficulties without denying me the amusement of interacting with you.

On the plus side you actually managed to post something without your usual complete disregard for spelling conventions. Bravo. If you like I can provide the listing to many useful online tools including several dictionaries wherein you could look up the term "non-sequitur". Then perhaps you could actually take part in a conversation as opposed to merely offering up random comments. You might also find value in looking up the definition of the word "obvious" or its associated phrases like; clear as day, sticking out a mile, sticking out like a sore thumb, plain as the nose on one's face*, hitting one in the face, leaping to the eye, etc.

Widget,

Sandy Davis · January 22, 2003

Widget.

I could sink down,and call you name, or point the flaws in your character.That is not the way I do things.Here are a few words, remember that people are flawed,and so are you. Lastly, be careful how you talk to others, you are young but that will not save you from yourself,at least from everyone.Goodbye

Avatar, you should tell more about yourself, if you wish to learn more about others.I could help you out, if you are willing to be helped.Or I should add,if you need it.

Widget · January 22, 2003

Bye Sand-bunny. Thanks for the fortune cookie. And don't forget to look up "non-sequitur" in the dictionary.

Widget,

Vixen · January 22, 2003

I never thought I'd ever see a nova with such low self-esteem, they had to pick on someone with a learning disorder to make themselves feel better.

You're a real piece of work, Widget.

Sandy Davis · January 22, 2003

Vixen,it is okay. I do not mind this young child's problems.I live by the golden rules, and if you do know them.You could do well to learn them.

Thank you for saying something,anyways.I enjoyed the dinner,and party.I am just sometime too rigid in my mind set.Ido enjoy,and I have a nice gift for you.One of a kind.

Widget · January 22, 2003

What learning disorder?

Are we speaking of Sandy's fondness for creative spelling and optional punctuation? Or her communications being limited to elaborating on her increasingly unlikely "city cracking" power and sublime feel-good wisdom? Or is it her tendency to use every question or comment as a springboard to elaborate on her own tortured yet some how meaningful existence?

Lack of concern does not constitute a learning disorder.

Perhaps in an idealized world Sandy would be of some value for her "special" qualities irregardless of her unwillingness to actually read the posts she is responding to instead of rhapsodizing on whatever pseudo-random position she holds today. And when you're willing to endorse that "Ideal World" view when speaking of Geryon, Doctor Worm or myself then I'll stipulate your sincerity and we'll have something to discuss. Until then I've been to Disney Land and have heard the puppets sing "It's A Small World After All". It was very impressive but as I was eight years old my standards were somewhat lower.

In my "ideal world" neither of you would be allowed to reproduce without strenuously thorough genetic testing and psychological evaluation to insure you weren't going to straddle an innocent child with this sort of idiocy.

Agnelli Celeste has similar difficulties but unlike Sandy she's obviously trying as hard as she can and, although not possessing "city cracking" power, manages to be comprehended and comprehending of what is said to her. In short she is making an effort while "Sandy Miss Fortune" is simply lazy. Thank you very much for the fortune cookie message but ironically Sandy's was constructed in the correct format and therefore superior.

Widget,

Arek · January 22, 2003

*sigh*

I've yet to meet anyone quite as antagonistic as you. Do you need to point out the flaws in everything? Is being critical part of you nature? I'm really asking too many questions, but I'd like to know as to why you seem to enjoy insulting others so readily.

Sandy Davis · January 22, 2003

Vixen,it is okay. I do nort mind this young child's problems.I golden rules, and if you do know them.You could do well to learn them.

Thank you for saying so mething,anyways.I enjoyed the dinner,and party.I am just sometime too rigid in my mind set.Ido enjoy,and I have a nice gift for you.One of a kind.

David 'Dr. Troll' Smith · January 22, 2003

Moving back to the topic...

Other people erupt when their lives are in danger, I erupted when I lost my temper over the combination of a dysfunctional computer mouse and a several day migraine headache.

Then I ran through a load bearing wall, and buried myself alive. Then I panicked & picked up the building and tossed it off of me (badly injuring several people in the process).

The irony of a non-disasterous eruption being turned into a disaster isn't lost on me. Usually it is the other way around.

Sandy Davis · January 22, 2003

But your so cute, that it makes that somewhat funny.Wellm if you took away the people getting hurt.

Vixen · January 22, 2003

experiences... yes, to get back on topic:

I erupted during a combination of factors. Going through online journals and studies, I think my eruption was brought on by a combination of three factors: excitement, imperilment, and exposure to quantum energies.

The first factor came around because I'd discovered something rather... implausible in one of the animals I was studying as a cryotozoologist for a Seattle university. I was going through some of the brain work on it and I discovered it had faracytes in its brain.

The imperilment came when the building caught on fire. THey say it was arson. I'm pretty sure I know who did it, although I don't really have any proof so I'm going to avoid a libel suit.

Exposure to quantum powers... well, let's just say I'll never look at the creatures of mythology the same way again.

Phantasm · January 22, 2003

Avatar,

Is there a particular reason for your inquiry?

Avatar · January 23, 2003

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Originally posted by Phantasm:
Avatar,

Is there a particular reason for your inquiry?

Simply put Phantasm, Yes. I wish to learn more, about myself, my new existence, and about my fellow Novas.

My own transcendence seems both similar and yet at the same time so vastly different from those detailed here that it makes me wonder about my own origins. I suppose I should share with you my own trancedent experience, if only to be fair.

You should know something about my life before my transcendence. I was obsessed with Novas. I would collect anything and everything to do with us that I could possibly afford with what little money I had. That fact is only important in that it reveals my motivation for being outside the Amp Room the night I "erupted."

Yes I'm that guy. For those of you who don't keep up with current events, There was a new Nova born outside the Amp Room almost three weeks ago. The local (and not so local) news agencies had headlines such as; "Amp Room Eruption!" and "Divis Mal Heralds New Nova!"

For the most part, they got the facts right. I was in the crowd outside the Amp Room, hoping for even a glimpse of a Nova, any Nova. Sometime before I had arrived, Divis Mal had entered the Amp Room, and when he left a few hours later, the crowd had swelled to about 3 or 4 hundred people. Apparently, Divis was offended by the behavior and adulation of the crowd and he made us all very aware his displeasure.

I won't repeat everything he said while hovering 30 feet in the air, you can check out the vidclips for that speach. What I will tell you is that standing there in his presence was like nothing I'd ever experienced. We could all feel his power, even though there was no visible effect. It was like a wave of hot and cold was washing over us, all at the same time. I don't know when it happened during his speach, but I began to actually see the power and force radiate out from him. A multi-hued spectrum of what I now understand was Quantum energy, and it was enchanting me. All I wanted to do was touch it, feel it, and I rasied my hands in some vain attempt to get closer to the source, to touch raw power.

The energy did get closer, but Divis Mal wasn't moving. I was. I was floating in mid air, face to face with the most powerful man on the planet while his energy washed over me like an endless ocean tide. I could my feel body change, shift, and grow as I became an ideaized version of myself. I felt no pain, no discomfort, and no distress. In fact, I was strangely calm and at peace, like everything in my life was finally coming together.

If any of this suprised Divis, he didn't show it. In fact he had this cocky half-smile on his face the whole time, like everything was going to plan and he was just stitting back and enjoying the whole spectacle. We just stared at each other for what seemed like a very, very long time, and then he took my head in his hands and spoke to me. Again, I'm going to refrain from repeating what he said as it was private and I'm not really sure if he actually "spoke" it. Then he just left. He flew away, leaving me to explore my new life.

There are so many questions I have about my eruption that are unanswered. There is a part of me that wonders if my eruption was deliberate. Can one Nova purposely create or cause the spontaneous eruption of another? Was I just simply in the right place at the right time? These just some of the questions that bother me and I feel the more I know about the nature of eruption, the closer I will be to those answers.

Well, looking back over this, I see that I have rambled on long enough and with little coherency. Please forgive me but this is the first time I've tried to put my experience into words. I hope, Phantasm, that somewhere in all of this I have been able to adequately answer your question.

Jager · January 23, 2003

Well, Avatar, welcome to the fold.

As for me, I don't remember my eruption, per say, but I was quite young when it happened. Sorry about this, Arek, but I did grow up, physically. My emotional and mental maturity isn't for me to judge.

By quirk of my nature, I seem to age back and forth depending on my demeanor.

Phantasm · January 24, 2003

Only latent novas can erupt. I have seen novas cause eruptions within these individuals, but few novas know how to manipulate their quantum for this desired effect. I have seen novas bestow power upon baselines, but by no means are their proxies novas.

In a sense you were in the right place at the right time. Divis Mal noticed you and granted you a pleasant peaceful eruption. I'm sure you would have erupted on your own eventually. As only a latent nova can become.

Avatar · January 24, 2003

I don't disagree with you on the surface Phantasm, although in this Quantum-fused universe we inhabit, all absolutes are suspect and anything truly is possible however implausible it may seem.

That is not to say I believe I was not a latent, but it still raises questions in my mind. Just how involved in my eruption was Divis Mal? If he just happened to be there and bore witness to it is one thing. But what if it was more than that? In your words you say he "granted me a pleasent, peaceful eruption." That would imply that he had a more active role in either the genesis of my eruption or the way in which I developed. Neither of those scenarios leave me with a good feeling. I suppose this may be one of those things in life I must accept without explanation, but it vexes me.

To those with no memory of their eruption; Does it bother you not being able to remember it? What is your earliest memory of being a Nova then, if not your eruption?

Phantasm · January 24, 2003

I certainly agree with you, there is little if nothing that we are not capable of. It is unfortunate that so often do we set limits for ourselves.

Your relation with Divis is exactly that. Yours and His alone. I cannot even fathom what he has planned for you, perhaps he helped you on a whim, maybe you hold a part of his grand scheme, who knows. It is not for me to question his ways. Have you thought of asking him? It is not below him to speak with other novas.

David 'Dr. Troll' Smith · January 25, 2003

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Avatar:
Can one Nova purposely create or cause the spontaneous eruption of another? Was I just simply in the right place at the right time? These just some of the questions that bother me and I feel the more I know about the nature of eruption, the closer I will be to those answers.

Lots of novas erupt because of the quantum energies of another nova. There have been claims of doing it delibrately from some place in the far east (India?). To the best of my knowledge, Mal hasn't publically claimed that ability (although I'm not a Terat & have never met him).

Conclusion? I wouldn't put it past him, but I wouldn't put just showing no surprise at your eruption past him either.

In either case, welcome. And if you don't mind me asking, what do you do?

Avatar · January 25, 2003

Thank you for the welcome Dr. Smith although I'm not quite sure what you mean by "what I do." Are you refering to my Quantum manifestations, my occupation, or what I've been up to in the last three weeks since my transcendence?

David 'Dr. Troll' Smith · January 26, 2003

Any or all of those would do. It helps to put a face behind the letters.

Avatar · January 26, 2003

Well, now. Before my eruption, I was just a simple florist living in Cadiz with my family. Currently, I've been enjoying life as a Nova and exploring the limits of my new-found gifts with as much privacy as possible these days. As for the Nature of those gifts, well, I've set up another topic so I can discuss and explore their nature with those here. I'll go into detail about them there so as not to repeat myself in two different topics.

Anomie · February 22, 2003

Avatar, earlier you had asked if it's normal for people to erupt as a result of trauma and if you were the odd one out for having a peaceful eruption, then Widget started a debate on exactly what trauma is. Well I can only speak for myself in this matter, but I think even Widget would agree it was a traumatic experience.

I erupted because I was tortured and murdered.

Widget · February 22, 2003

Widget stated that her own eruption was without trauma. It was others that felt the need to cast trauma as drama, seeking thereby to prove they're the queens of it.

I would think that being tortured and murdered falls into the 15% of "eruptions initiated by trauma" category. Or it might have been merely the dying part that caused the eruption.

Widget,

Neil Preston · February 22, 2003

To the original question:

In retrospect, mine was a pretty beautiful experience. I, as a baseline, was invited to the funeral of a nova Elite. He was known here as Vile Bill. I speculate that so many novas exhibiting so many different quantum effects showed my quantum subconcious the way to erupt, and I did.

Yeah, it was painful and more than a bit disorienting, but I had other novas there to help me through it.

Hugin · February 22, 2003

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Originally posted by Neil Preston:
I, as a baseline, was invited to the funeral of a nova Elite.

I am very sorry to correct such a new and fresh face with anything less than utter care and propriety but young Mister Preston, you are wrong. I am simply sick and tired of this mistatement being made over and over again. Baselines do not erupt. Ever. Latent Novas erupt. You were a Latent Nova. You were not a baseline. Welcome to the fold.

Lemmy Chillmeister · February 23, 2003

Hey hey people!! Guess this is the place for newbs to give a grin and say hi. So hi.

The name's Lemmy Chillmeister, Metal God. Just god signed for a three chip deal over at Mefistofoleez's label. Gotta love it baby!! Can't stand that rap stuff but the man'll let me sing it loud, long, and nasty. Any other way is just pussy shit.

So, eruption huh? Eh, only 'eruptin' I do is with the honeys. I guess you mean when the node popped and I got these kickass powers. Not much man, pretty stupid actually. Was trying to get some scalped tickets off this fuck outside the Motorhead 'All Bad Things' Detroit show and the shitkicker took my cash and hit me with one of them stun guns. Left my ass in an alley in the freezing cold. Shoulda died. Didn't. Woke up one ice cold bad ass mother-fucker. Life's cool that way. My brother the cop is still gettin a fat ass sittin at a desk trying to catch hackers and I'm living large.

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