January 7, 2010

Coined

There was nothing to do, and no reason to do it. While the ringlet has been quite an interesting ride through the soup network, it's just my familiarity with it that I have to let go of. Lucky for me, I did not really sense the monster that rolled up on the ringlet. The Fifteen made a nice shadow. Perhaps I should count myself lucky that I'm still on this Fifteen tag unit, event though the rolling changed things.

Hopping from Eight to Fifteen to the opposite Eight, I found another Fifteen. Repeating the hop, I found the same thing, and on the third hop, I found exactly what I guessed I would find — that crazy triple-ringed structure — Four Sixes and an Eight which were a fairly scan, and the smashed together ringlet pair with the unique set of five Sevens. Most importantly, I did not scan any holds by the mesh or the departing monster.

Where this chain and rings were headed did not matter, at least it was going somewhere. The rings did have an interesting drag effect in the soup, and with a little work, I could encourage some of the Ones off of the Fifteen-Eight tag units into swapping along the soup. While not powerful enough to make great speed through the soup, there was a slight change in course. Perhaps with a little more effort I might be be able to tune the swap patterns for better effect.

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