DungeonWerx Portal Selector
Still pointed at the abyss, and now switched off and on mid-conversation with a rival crawler.
Story so far
The selector is what makes every portal trick of the hour possible: the cart portals stay tuned to The Abyss, and anything that touches one is gone. Nobody dares turn the hanging cart's portal off while Princess Donut has her head in the hole. When Prepotente starts hammering it from the far side and then calls out, Katia Grim rises on stilt-like legs to reach the controls and shuts the portal down on Carl's word, ready to flip it straight back on — the flicker and the sudden view down into The Space In-Between being the first time the two crawlers see each other.
Carl assures Imani C that these portals are stout enough that nothing can get through, without actually knowing whether that is true.
Appearance
A control panel mounted high on a rail cart, reachable only by someone tall or willing to grow.
Role
The switch that decides whether the floor's escape hatch is plugged or open.
Relationships
Sources — 4 recorded facts, by chapter
- A pair of numbered handles on a dusty screen that dials which of forty-eight coloured lines a portal opens onto.
- Ten seconds of nothing between one destination and the next — long enough to lose everything.
- Tuned to the abyss, pointed at the floor, and left running for a day.
- Still pointed at the abyss, and now switched off and on mid-conversation with a rival crawler.