Spaghettifiability
When you first eat Indigofera tempora, you can’t really tell what is different about you, just that something is. Really, it’s the whole world that feels different. It’s like ocean waves cycling, pushing you back and forth in all directions, even though you’re standing on solid ground.
You’re feeling the undulating heartbeat of spacetime as it passes through you. Most macro-scale animals, humans included, experience time as background noise. Temporal conditions are relatively consistent across the planet and its orbital path, so there’s no adaptive need to sense or respond to fluctuations. Better to say humans and other animals don’t experience spacetime. Still, it does fluctuate gently around them, and there are ways to induce a keen awareness of the little waves, I. tempora among them.
Indigo plant affects not just your awareness, but your actual physical interaction with spacetime. It turns you into a temporary jellyfish, liquid life, that handles the ocean of spacetime like family. You’re much more resilient to unusual-for-Earth changes in its flow, such as in regions near the event horizon of a black hole. You become “stretchy” and “boneless” in the face of the massive gravitational increase. The term for a body getting stretched out as it spirals around the center of a black hole is spaghettification. Thus, we term the wormy ability to survive this process spaghettifiability.
Just the feeling caused by I. tempora’s liquidity is motivation well enough to take it (or would be, if it grew anywhere humans can easily access). But it has practical uses too. Indigo (the animal species) individuals take it when they need to traverse compress-space on short notice, or spend a significant amount of time there. It eases the transition. In emergencies, they’ll also feed tempora to other species who need to step into spacetime under any unusual tension. Those who didn’t evolve with the fluctuations often need tempora to survive.
I. tempora is a defining facet of Indigo’s environment. They evolved to eat and process it, to leverage tensioned time as a tool. Further, once they had the technology, they engineered their bodies to be even more spaghettifiable. They are fundamentally liquid, wishrats especially so. Though all Indigo societies make use of spacio-temporal cavitation to some degree, wishrats interact with it, mundane, on the daily.
As a fun side effect, Indigofera turns wishrats’ fur blue!
You’re feeling the undulating heartbeat of spacetime as it passes through you. Most macro-scale animals, humans included, experience time as background noise. Temporal conditions are relatively consistent across the planet and its orbital path, so there’s no adaptive need to sense or respond to fluctuations. Better to say humans and other animals don’t experience spacetime. Still, it does fluctuate gently around them, and there are ways to induce a keen awareness of the little waves, I. tempora among them.
Indigo plant affects not just your awareness, but your actual physical interaction with spacetime. It turns you into a temporary jellyfish, liquid life, that handles the ocean of spacetime like family. You’re much more resilient to unusual-for-Earth changes in its flow, such as in regions near the event horizon of a black hole. You become “stretchy” and “boneless” in the face of the massive gravitational increase. The term for a body getting stretched out as it spirals around the center of a black hole is spaghettification. Thus, we term the wormy ability to survive this process spaghettifiability.
Just the feeling caused by I. tempora’s liquidity is motivation well enough to take it (or would be, if it grew anywhere humans can easily access). But it has practical uses too. Indigo (the animal species) individuals take it when they need to traverse compress-space on short notice, or spend a significant amount of time there. It eases the transition. In emergencies, they’ll also feed tempora to other species who need to step into spacetime under any unusual tension. Those who didn’t evolve with the fluctuations often need tempora to survive.
I. tempora is a defining facet of Indigo’s environment. They evolved to eat and process it, to leverage tensioned time as a tool. Further, once they had the technology, they engineered their bodies to be even more spaghettifiable. They are fundamentally liquid, wishrats especially so. Though all Indigo societies make use of spacio-temporal cavitation to some degree, wishrats interact with it, mundane, on the daily.
As a fun side effect, Indigofera turns wishrats’ fur blue!
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