Myth Tech Device #5: The Prismatic Image Projector
Myth Tech Device #5:
The Prismatic Image Projector
And here we are, the grand finale of my Myth Tech devices! For this semester of Myth Tech University, that is. This is one I am definitely most proud of. What you’re seeing is Kisharia’s answer to cable television. The Prismatic Image Projector is a wall-mounted, torch-like device that has 6 Wonder Crystals roosted in a metal holster. These crystals harmonize together to control the range, size, and frequency of what’s called a ‘Recall’ - or an illusory recollection of a recorded event. These recordings are made with what’s called an Orbuculus - which is a Palantir, for those familiar with Tolkien’s epic works. The Palantir is a seeing stone that allows wizards to see things from far away. All I really did was reverse engineer that concept into a more mundane functionality: a security camera, or recording device. These stones are used to make Kisharia’s equivalent to movies, as well.
The Staff Lines I mentioned in an earlier post circulate these Recall’s as well. Now, while being able to cycle through a few automatically projecting illusions is nice, how about when you want to watch something more specific? A good romance, like the Princess and the Peasant, or an action thriller, like King Lance’s Nine Trials? That’s where the Phaiso Disc comes in.
These little discs were inspired by real Phaistos Discs, which were clay discs from ancient Greece with various images carved on them. Whether the images were a story, or some form of poetry, we don’t know, but I first looked at this disc and thought “That looks like a DVD! I’m going to make that into a Myth Tech device,” and voila! I made that. The images carved on it help you navigate your place in the Recall/film. From the top and downwards in a clockwise motion, the disc slowly spins when placed behind the PIP. Each symbol ‘glows’ once its passed through the right phase of the film (which also inspired its shorthand nickname), all the way until it reaches the climax: the center of the disc.
The Prismatic Image Projector is intimately tied in its functionality to the Read Screen. You can’t use one without it, in other words. In order to ‘pair’ the Read Screen, PIP, and Disc together, what you do is this: you overlay the Read Screen’s… screen, over the Phaiso Disc. This will ignite the Wonder Crystals embedded inside the disc that actually have the Recall illusion enchanted into it, and a prompt will appear on your screen, allowing you to control your place in the film, halt the illusion, as well as widen the COV (Cone of View). The illusion projects outward three-dimensionally - you can think of it almost as augmented reality or virtual reality, rather than watching something on a flat screen. The most immersive Recall’s are the one’s that have a wide COV and let you ‘interact’ with it in unique ways (like maybe the flowers brush aside when you tap them).
Phew, alright, that one was a lot. The PIP, despite its complexity, is still my favorite! That marks the end of this first semester of Myth Tech University. Stick around for future entries, as with each book, I will feature different devices! And thank you all for reading these posts, I hope they were immersive enough to garner your interest in my debut epic series.
