In article <l2ep7vFpbeoU1@mid.individual.net>,
Ted Nolan <tednolan> <tednolan> wrote:

In article <uav3sipplsml41p60t3qlsfhppb9oubnh5@4ax.com>,
The Horny Goat <lcraver@home.ca> wrote:

On Mon, 5 Feb 2024 00:22:46 -0600, Lynn McGuire
<lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> wrote:

Would you like to be able to teleport ? What happens if someone kidnaps >>>and chains you to the wall while they "train" you to perform their >>>nefarious deeds ?

what's the down side? there always is one you know...

I remember one setting where beginning teleporters often pulled their
brains out of their heads..

O'Donnell's Flingers often died at the hands of the kids they were
trying to train. There's a reason the government treated Flingers
as living WMDs.

(one of the necessary secondary powers was being able to match
velocities while teleporting from one world to another. However,
they could also teleport a ton of air in place, upping its
velocity from 0 to 10,000 m/s in the direction of someone who
annoyed them)
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