Chips

Chips introduction

A collection of chips.

Chips are crystaline objects formed from the energy of Nightopia itself. Similar to ideya, but different enough to not be a one-to-one copy of ideya energy. This energy is able to break down ideya capture devices, this is due to this energy short circuiting the device, which makes it collaspe. These can also be used as projectiles by visitors and stun third level nightmaren, though this hasn't been tested on second and first level maren, nor is this advised to be tested.

Chips take two main shapes, with a technical third form. There are blue chips, the most common form. Then there are star chips, a less common and unstable form. Then there is the phenomenon of gold chips, but that will be explained later.

Chips Proper

Blue Chips

The most common form of chip, this has a small amount of dream energy, about ten jolts acording to the Nightopian measuring system. Holding one of these produces a static like feeling in one's hand, visitors compare this to the static one feels when close to an old TV. I don't know what a TV is exactly, but what visitors describe sounds about right in terms of how holding a blue chip feels. If one looks closely into a blue chip in the right light one can see a faint fractal-like mandala pattern inside the crystaline orb, and this pattern seems to be unique for each blue chip.

Visitors can collect these, and upon touching them these vanish into the visitor's body and can be summoned again at the visitors will. These blue chips can have multiple uses, often being used as projectiles by visitors in self defence against third level nightmaren. With the low but steady static, these can easily stun low ranking nightmaren and even destroy them if enough are thrown. These can also activate simple devices, and if about twenty are collected they can short circuit a ideya capture device.

Once a visitor grew curious about these and tried to break one open on a rock, this immediately shocked them awake and out of our realm, but I observed the blue chip violently burst in a yellow flash and become a star chip. Which brings us to the second chip type.

Star Chips

As mentioned above, Star chips occur when a blue chip is suddenly and violently broken, exploding in a yellow burst and "popping" like a food visitors called "popcorn". These chips have a stronger static feeling, giving visitors a shock when they're first touched. According to the Nightopian measuring system, a star chip comes in at about ten jolts, but much moreirratic and unstable. Much more volitial and dangerous, definately able to destroy a third level nightmaren in one hit, though this has yet to be tested. These chips are unstable and this seems to be why they're shaped like stars, they're stuck in the form of a burst of energy. Five pointed stars are the most common shape, but on rare ocassions four and six pointed star chips have been seen. The most points that have been seen on a star chip has been seven, and it was very fragile and gave a weak burst. These points are also shape and dangerous, so star chips must be handled with care.

There was however one time that I witnessed a star chip's abilities and they are dangerous. Once a faulty star chip was violently tossed to the ground and it bursted into a great flash of light that could temporarily blind someone, and from my first hand account, cause a terrible migraine. The area around the explosion was burned but not as severely as one would expect, and static hung in the general area of the explosion. The less points the star has the more durable and stronger the explosion, meanwhile the more points the more fragile and weaker the explosion is.

Gold Chips

These occur when a blue chip gains extra energy, becoming gold in color like star chips, but these are more stable and not as destrucively combustive. Similar to star chips these produce a light shock when touched. These come in at about 20 jolts, and gold chips seem to only occur when an ideya capture is destoryed, the energy bursting from it amplifying the energy of surrounding blue chips. But after a short amount of time they'll revert to blue chips, or if broken they'll pop into star chips.

If a gold chip is thrown, a bright golden flash will engulf the area much like with a star chip, but this will also electricute anyone nearby and can incompacitate those in it's radius for possibly hours.

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