Playground

I did not realize how excited the team really was with the new zone of fun that I had introduced them to. The trigger mechanisms here were spontaneous and powerful, with different patterns and pulses being carried away by a bundle of high speed pathways. These were observations that never made it onto the Sphere-O-Vision display. They had no idea how close to the edge of their world they really were.

It took the team a very short period to discover that this was not an area where a group was required to set off a reaction. In fact, groups were discouraged beyond a size of a few doublings. What was important here was the variety. Each of the sensor inputs was triggered by a different pattern of molecules. One-Six patterns activated some sensors, while Seven based groups triggered other areas of the sensor array.

The team was having most of the fun at the concentration nodes, were a small input would trigger a few canopies into action with a kick. Here, it was not about being the last to smash and make a splash, it was more about tickling as many receivers as you can while the kick-potential remained, and getting back as soon as it waned.