Hey Porter
It started as you'd expect if you'd read any of the science fiction stories about the concept: something happens that is going to result in your death, and you suddenly find yourself somewhere else. In my case, I had hiked up to the top of Multnomah Falls in the Columbia River Gorge and leaned over the railing to look down. Apparently I leaned too hard on it, as it gave way. I had a spectacular view for a second, and then went splat in my bed. Well, my bed went splat - teleporting doesn't change your momentum, and in a second, you get going pretty fast - 35kph actually. It wasn't particularly pleasant for me either, but I managed to avoid broken bones at least (and more importantly, going splat on rocks at 200kph, as I otherwise would have done!).
Once the shock of realizing what I'd done had worn off, I realized that the splitting headache I had was probably the result of the teleporting process, not the crash landing in my bed. Particularly as when I ran through those moments again to figure out how it happened, those parts of my brain felt like I was taking razor blades to them. I quickly learned to avoid trying to relive those moments...at least not very often. Hey, how much can you resist picking at an itching scab?
After a week or so, the razor blades had dulled to butter knives. I still wasn't quite ready to give it a try for real, but I figured whatever I was doing to trigger the pain was probably what it was going to take to activate my new ability. After two weeks, it had stopped being a "pain" and merely a "sensation", so I decided to make a test run. A short distance seemed prudent, so I tried going from my dining room to the deck without benefit of opening the sliding door.
All I got for my trouble was another splitting headache. Not terribly surprised, since I really had no clue how this thing was supposed to work.
- no robbing cash - too hard to use
- velocity vectors - physic giveth and physics taketh away
