Greetings friends. As you may have heard from the most recent news bulletin, Portals are on sale in the Shoppe for 10 dp.

Accordingly, I am also putting forth a challenge to this community -- in my years of research and experimentation I have explored many uses for Portals and am fairly convinced no more remain to be discovered.

The challenge, therefore, is to prove me wrong. I will also offer a healthy financial incentive for the most innovative ideas, be they games, puzzles, race courses or anything your mind can dream up, Orderly or Chaotic.

The very best of luck to you all.

Good to "see" that the Seers are being looked after too and not tossed aside.

Good to hear from you Ms. Watkins.
I just hope you're travelling around with protection, these parts can tend to get wild!

Be safe now..

;) 8-)

Ah, my Mistress makes a long-awaited appearance.

One of my little tricks I tried was to use portals within a mission. On each step of the mission, there was also a portal, offering to take you to an example (or an alternative, if you prefer).
My mission was all about the albums of the band Madness and the portals took you to what I felt were decent Youtube clips from the appropriate album.

*EDIT* Bugger - what happened to the portal? I wanted to take it after I posted this and now it's disappeared...

@Sasha
Nice sale...!
Actually, i had wondered if you existed... i hadnt seen you around that much...

I've started putting portals within missions as well as a way to give additional information (or a place to hide crates on missions).

This sale will help that endeavor.

Thanks!

It comes as no surprise to me that the forces of evil swing their corrupt wheels into motion the instant the equilibrium is threatened.

We suffer the giveaways of Mines, St. Nicks and Watchdogs, with only a token sale of crates to try and hide where the Shoppes' loyalties lie.

And true to form, as soon as I announce my generous sale of Armor to loyal order followers, the hammer falls with another sale of evil tools.

Perhaps I shall purchase every last portal for sale, and leave them to rust and rot.

Fight fire with fire.

Order Forever, Chaos Never

Yours.

Thomas.

Might I remind you, Thomas, that without portals we would have never seen the invention of lightposts and missions. Without chaos, order cannot function (just as without order, chaos is meaningless).

I approve of this challenge.

I beg your pardon? Did you not read the original post? The one where portals could be used for Orderly or Chaotic purposes?

Besides which - since when was chaos 'evil'?
Chaos is a quantitative term, referring to physical matter.
Evil is a qualitative term, referring to an intangible idea.

Please be careful.

Yeah dude, as PMOG President and the candidate of the Chaos Party, I sort of resent the idea that chaos=evil.

No, no, no.

Chaos = FUN.

/me dances around with joy at cheap portals
/me also dances with joy at the appearance of sasha_watkins and professor_esper
And as a registered member of the chaos party, i resent chaos = evil

You guys can rant and resent all you want but the fact is Chaos = Evil, and Order = AWESOME!

As a counter measure to this competition for the seers, I suggest that the good version of seers a.k.a pathmakers find other uses for lightposts other than creating missions...

birch, have you realized that you are a Destroyer????
and remember, there's a destroyer in every benefactor....

Says the man who is currently a destroyer?

Chaos is the true path to enlightenment. Surrendering to pre conceived notions of "order" merely leads to restriction and eventual stagnation.
Chaos is Good. Order Evil.

Thereby, I approve of this sale. And the idea of suggesting new uses for my brother and sisters chosen tool of enlightenment. Might I put forth the idea of Puzzle Portals? Clearly the Lightposts are worthless for creating puzzle missions now. Portals though would be easily converted to this purpose. For example.

Portal A links you to a page with a puzzle on it, Portal B sits on the page that Portal A's riddle sends you to. It in turn portals you to the next riddle, and so forth until you reach the end of the riddles.

i came here to say CHAOS!

@Shyiskhar: But lightposts are timeless, and can never be removed. Portals are fleeting.

Also, people DO do that kind of riddle. Check out portal races sometimes.

Portal races?
Where can I find these?

I can't find any recent ones, but they've been done in the past before.

Why am I a seer?
I wanna be a benefactor.
If I use crates with traps, what does that make me?

A mess, if you get it wrong?

Sasha and Professor Esper are the most interesting people I've had the pleasure of seeing since I last looked into the mirror. Despite what seems to be a tricky past between the two, they still respect each other despite being on what seems to be on opposite factions.

Anyways, I think a good way to find out what undiscovered features a portal can have is to know what has been discovered? Anyone care to share what they believe a portal can be used for - no matter how obvious it is to state it. At the moment I can only think of research, trickery, alternative pathfinding, and mine field redirection.

I mean...am I a Benefactor or a Destroyer?

I'd say you're a destroyer, 4c1dk1ng. After all, the only gift you give is damage.

Can you tell that my avatar is a Benefactor?

@4c1dk1ng Yes... but it does look a bit 'etched'