Using Diamonic I moved my Knight into check against Beldum’s King, “Check”.

  After we returned, I changed into a new shirt, (as the dried blood could no longer be reabsorbed), and went about teaching Beldum a few new games, like Checkers. It calmed down surprisingly fast. I wonder if it's a Pokemon thing? Or maybe it was because I kept feeding it fridge magnets like candy?

  During these few hours I had been practicing my control of Diamonic's electromagnetism, the same method Beldum used when maniputing the magnetic pieces. For the three hours we spent pying with magnetic pieces, I can say I was able to move them one square at a time without it looking too sloppy.

  During this time, I had several other things I needed to take care of. The first was retrieving a copy of my ptop from an image I had saved on my phone, and selecting which rings I would keep and which I would store.

  In the end, I kept five, putting the others into storage. Remaker and Spin had so much versatility, Diamonic, and The Liar complemented each other perfectly, and Nightbringer could help me train and practice with my sixth sense. Unless I was going to use them, Remaker and Nightbringer would sit in storage unless needed.

  Once I finished with these rings, I took out a Green Lantern Ring. But it was a lot harder to figure out than the Mandarin’s Rings. The Mandarin’s Rings worked through a thought connection that I could, with a little bit of effort connect to. The Lantern rings however worked off emotions, the Green Lanterns' being Willpower to create hardlight/energy projection. A further complication was that their connection reminded me of the Storage Rings. Unlike the Mandarin’s the others had no desire to meet you in the middle and facilitate the connection. When I finally got a connection with the Lantern ring, with all thoughts being of one object, it was a scaled-down projection that could hardly be considered worth the effort. I don’t know why this happened, but it’s probably reted to magic. The power source/energy the rings use has some retion to magic, so the Lantern Ring joined the others in storage.

  Between trying to figure out the ring and teaching Beldum some new games, I also started work on a short list of items I needed to investigate from the series on the Psychic List.

  List to investigate:

  Jackie Chan Adventures: Talismans, Other Artifacts

  Ben 10: Tech, Omnitrix + Variants

  Akame Ga Kill: Teigu

  Xiaolin Showdown: Shen Gong Wu

  The first and easiest was the Talismans as I quickly added all 12 of them to a pouch between making moves while we pyed.

  As I was looking at the screen I remembered that I still needed to do some tests with my ability. For instance, what happens when the device dies during or in the middle of my interactions with the medium dispyed? From current experience, I can say that when I’m interacting with them devices never enter sleep mode, nor did the power button function while my arm was inside.

  I never tried to see what happens when the power runs out. Nor did I want to check what happens when the device turns off while I'm inside. During our games I decided to see what happens if I just left it, sticking a pencil into the screen and waiting for the battery to die.

  Beldum moved a Bishop to get its King out of Check, taking my Knight.

  And so, pieces moved, the board was reset time and again, and the hours passed. The Porygon had remained busy with their tasks and Kuramon hadn’t come back out of the ptop. The st percentages of the battery started to deplete.

  Turn it off:

  Q: What happens when the screen is turned off with something still sticking through?

  H:

  1. Either the object gets ejected from the screen or is sucked inside.

  2. The object gets sheared in half at the point of interaction.

  (These were the hypotheses I came up with, though I’m hoping it's number one and not number two, less body horror if I or someone else ever gets trapped inside).

  When the battery finally hit zero, nothing happened for a couple of seconds. Not even the screen went bnk as if still deciding what to do. Then the pencil came out of the screen with a light *tink* while the screen went bck. Charging the tablet I repeated the experiment several times.

  The end result: The object in question is either pulled into the screen or ejected from it.

  This changed depending on how much of the pencil was sticking out of the screen. At halfway and above it gets sucked inside in a mere instant. Less than halfway and it gets lightly pushed out.

  But this left me with another question: What would happen if the object couldn’t do either? What would happen if it couldn't be pulled in or pushed out?

  To test this, however, I would need to make something that could hold the device and keep the object in pce. Functionally, I needed a box.

  And with that, after our test game, I took Beldum with me on our second field trip of the day. We arrived inside a workshop, the north wall covered in a selection of tools. To the south was a worktable. To the east and west side of the room were a collection of heavy machinery.

  With the machinery and a 2 x 4, the parts were cut with ease. Beldum helped py its part with the screws putting all of them in at the same time without issue. A hole was drilled into the top piece that would be acting as a lid and a box perfectly fitting the tablet was crafted.

  Once the tablet was pced inside after charging to 5% (the minimum required for it to turn on) I stuck a pencil in the screen sticking three-fourths of the way out. Pcing it through the hole in the top pnk, I tied it to the box using several rubber bands that connected to the screws at the corners holding it in pce.

  Backing up to the other side of the worktable, I used Spin to create a shield, During the time we waited, I went over a children’s book with Beldum going over a dozen common animals written in the book and the sounds they made (The Cow goes “Moo”). We made our way through the book listening to each animal.

  Once we finished I dismissed the shield and observed at the pencil. There didn't seem to be anything directly obvious until I removed the rubber bands. With the bands removed, the pencil started to crumble to splinters the force from the bands being what was holding it together. Taking off the lid, besides the splinters there was a sizable amount of wood dust. Wiping off the wood and graphene the screen was perfectly normal.

  Plugging the tablet back in to charge back to 5%, (What could have caused this?) The whole pencil had been affected by this strange occurrence, not just the portion that was trapped in the screen. Once the screen lit up, I immediately went to the image I had inserted the pencil. This portion had turned out retively unscathed, aside from a sheer line where it met in the middle beforehand.

  (An unnaturally rge amount of force crushed down on the object?) I wondered.

  With more questions than answers, I needed another experiment, this time using heavier material.

  Using electromagnetism, a box was made from sheet metal folded and bent into shape to fit the tablet. Instead of a pencil, a piece of lead pipe was used, inserted about halfway into the tablet’s screen. Securing it to the box tightly using some hyper-estic bungee cord across the folded yers. Securing the box to the worktable with the tablet inside and the pipe secure, I stepped away quickly.

  Using Spin I created a protective bubble around me and Beldum expecting a loud bang. I held my breath waiting for what would happen next.

  A few minutes ter the creaking sound of bending metal was heard. “Ow.” I winced, even with the dampening effect from the cycling air the sound was still loud enough to hurt my ears. The metal box started to bend and creak while I held my ears to dampen the sound. A couple seconds ter, a loud *Bang* released into the room.

  My eyes scanned the room, taking note of the metal box that had crumpled in on itself on the other side of the worktable, with a hole blown through it. To the left, there was nothing. To the right, nothing was out of the ordinary. Looking directly up at the ceiling, there was a hole, with the pipe lodged so deeply that removal was impossible. I couldn’t even see it anymore.

  Despite all the force and energy, the medium in question remains mostly fine. The only damage seems to be superficial cracking at the corners, likely caused when the box crumpled from the force. Plugging it back in, it charged without issue. After a few minutes, I confirmed simir stress lines from metal sheering on the piece remaining inside the photo.

  “So, if it can return it will, if it can’t… It will try until equal and opposite force applies…”

  To put it another way, when the screen turns off the object is tossed out with light force if inside less than halfway. While the opposite is true if it is more than halfway, the item gets sucked inside at lightning speed.

  When an object sits in this sweet spot where it can do neither (through interference on one or both sides) the energy builds up. Instead of a gentle ejection, the energy begins to build rapidly. This results in the trapped object sheering off at the meeting point. If the material is strong enough, the remaining portion will rocket away after the connecting is cut. If it's too weak to withstand this extreme force, instead of just getting sheered in half and unching away, it crumbles.

  Depending on the material, its size, and strength, it might even explode.

  After learning what happens when the screen shuts off with something lodged inside, I sent both Beldum and my Bloodborn back to the living room. It was finally time to find out what happens when the TV turns off with me on the Otherside.

  With my Bloodborn on the outside, following its directions, it grabbed the remote and hit the power button, nothing. Just like the tablets the power button didn’t work while I was interacting with the medium. With that confirmed, it moved towards the wall outlet where the TV was plugged in and pulled.

  Immediately after the plug was pulled, my perspective of the room, seen on the strange, clear screen that floated before me, shifted to that of my computer monitor. It appears the parent-child retionship creates a fallback system, meaning that even if one is destroyed, I can still escape from another in the chain. This left me more curious to see what would happen if the TV turned off while I was inside. But more apprehensive to test it.

  After the TV was plugged back in, I returned to the living room through the TV without issue.

  After sitting back down at my computer, “I should add a section on that too... But, what do I even call it?” It’s a clear floating screen that floats around me, acting as the camera when I view the footage after I return. “The Silverscreen?” The idea was honestly instinctual.

  Silverscreen: After fully entering a medium a strange transparent screen can be seen floating in the air. It spins around like a camera catching every angle, following my every action. Reaching out my arm causes the screen's moments to slow and draw it closer. Once the screen is close enough, touching it causes the clear transparent surface to change giving a view from the other side of the medium, allowing for return from the opening, making it a window/doorway back from the Otherside.

  Notes:

  Sound does not transfer from one side to the other unless I am actively traversing.If movement is detected on the other side, I can simply look at the screen and see what is happening. Its speed has picked up recently, after nearly dying because it was too slow.In videos pyback from the screen can be reviewed as it happened. (There seems to be some editing to blend me into the world seamlessly). Static images however persist with the same frame of reference regardless of my interference.

  Tests: When a medium is forced off, the Silverscreen redirects to the next one in the chain.

  Q: What happens when all mediums are turned off in a chain?

  END