While sitting in his unusually comfortable soul space wood chair, Jack continued perusing the template catalog.
Room (Rectangular)
-Instantiation Cost: 1 GP/100 square meters of surface area
-Operation Cost: 1 EP/sec/100 square meters of surface area
-Description: Length, width, and height are adjustable.
Room (Cylindrical)
-Instantiation Cost: 1 GP/100 square meters of surface area
-Operation Cost: 1 EP/sec/100 square meters of surface area
-Description: Height and Radius are adjustable.
Room (Domed)
-Instantiation Cost: 1 GP/100 square meters of surface area
-Operation Cost: 1 EP/sec/100 square meters of surface area
-Description: Radius is adjustable.
Room (Spherical)
-Instantiation Cost: 1 GP/100 square meters of surface area
-Operation Cost: 1 EP/sec/100 square meters of surface area
-Description: Radius is adjustable.
Hallway Segment (Rectangular)
-Instantiation Cost: 1 GP/100 square meters of surface area
-Operation Cost: 1 EP/sec/100 square meters of surface area
-Description: Length, width, and height are adjustable.
Hallway Segment (Cylindrical)
-Instantiation Cost: 1 GP/100 square meters of surface area
-Operation Cost: 1 EP/sec/100 square meters of surface area
-Description: Length and Radius are adjustable.
Why would he need more rooms? Nothing he'd seen in the Genesis Store suggested he'd need more rooms. So why provide them? And who needs spherical rooms or cylindrical hallways?
Whatever. At least his earlier question was answered. The instantiation cost was in GP and the operation cost was in EP.
There was no indication of size limits, so with enough GP and EP, he could theoretically make room big enough to hold a planet. Though the cost would be astronomical.
He briefly thought about what would happen if he made a room the size of the sun and filled it with chairs. Would the gravitational force be enough to ignite fusion? He shook his head; the idea was just too far out there, so he discarded it as fanciful and looked at the next set of items on the list.
Room Door
-Instantiation Cost: 1 GP/10 square meters
-Operation Cost: 1 EP/sec/100 square meters
-Description: Width, height, and locking modes are adjustable.
Security Door
-Instantiation Cost: 1 GP/10 square meters
-Operation Cost: 1 EP/sec/100 square meters
-Description: Width, height, and locking modes are adjustable.
He'd tried listening to "The Doors" once out of curiosity. They sounded like drugged out hippies that accidentally wandered into a studio. Very much not his taste.
As for these doors, what was the difference? They had the same description, yet one was labeled a security door. Maybe if he instantiated both, he'd find out. Just not now.
Environmental Controls (Normal)
-Instantiation Cost: 10 GP
-Operation Cost: variable
-Description: When installed in a room, allows control of lighting, temperature, and interior room surfaces. Light and temperature ranges are limited to levels that would not cause injury to room occupant.
At first, he thought this was just a combination light switch and thermostat. But then he noticed it could also alter the interior room surfaces. He wondered if it was just color, or if he could also alter the room's surface texture. Could he give the walls an eggshell texture, and the floor a carpet texture? He'd find out when he created one.
Environmental Controls (Weather)
-Instantiation Cost: 100 GP
-Operation Cost: variable
-Description: When installed in a room, allows control of lighting, temperature, interior room surfaces, and weather. Light and temperature ranges are limited to levels that would not cause injury to room occupant. Weather is limited to non-disaster levels.
Weather meant rain! But even if he had enough GP instantiate a weather control, it probably wouldn't do him any good. He wasn't thirsty in his soul space, so drinking water inside it would probably do him no good.
Re-reading the description, he wondered what the Genesis Heart considered disaster level weather. In Puget State, snow was infrequent, so a meter of snow might be considered a disaster, but in Ouisconsin a meter of snow was just another winter day. Some places saw golf ball sized hail at least once a year, so that might not qualify as a disaster. Though hurricanes and tornados were probably considered disaster level, no matter where you were.
Environmental Controls (Extreme)
-Instantiation Cost: 1000 GP
-Operation Cost: variable
-Description: When installed in a room, allows control of lighting, temperature, interior room surfaces, atmospheric pressure and composition, and gravity. Levels are limited to what can be sustained with available Energy Points.
Gravity?! Okay, now this was impressive. Though he still didn't understand why such a feature was offered. Athletes would kill to be able to train under higher gravity. But what good was it to him? Zero-G might be fun, but without that soul space girlfriend, how was he going to make the-beast-with-two-backs in zero-G?
Wall
-Instantiation Cost: variable
-Operation Cost: variable
-Description: Width, height, and thickness, and material composition are adjustable.
The item title said, "wall", but it felt like it meant wall in the abstract sense, as an obstacle. This item could be used to form any shape of any size he wanted. And he could also select the material properties. He wasn't certain, but he thought he could make it as soft as gelatin or harder than a diamond. He could also make it opaque, or transparent, or anything in between.
Target
-Instantiation Cost: variable
-Operation Cost: variable
-Description: Size, shape, and material composition are adjustable.
The target item appeared to be the same as the wall item. Same size, shape, and composition options. It was only when he focused on the item, like he wanted to actual instantiate one, that more information became available. He learned that, unlike the Wall item, the Target item was destructible. So, if he shot an arrow at a gelatin wall, it would bounce back, but if he shot a gelatin target, it would punch through.
Training Dummy
-Instantiation Cost: variable
-Operation Cost: variable
-Description: Size, shape, and material composition are adjustable. Movement can be programmed.
The last item, the training dummy, went well beyond size, shape, and composition, it could be programed! There was no indication of the degree and complexity of programing possible, so he didn't know if it was limited to something simple like walking in a circle, or if it could be programed to do something as complex as mimic a wild animal, or martial artist.
The presence of the target and training dummy items hinted at possibilities beyond pointless decoration. If he practiced a martial art in his soul space, would the results of practice transfer to his physical body?
If only he could instantiate one of these in the outside world. A giant spider would have no problem climbing the slope. If only...
[Achievement: Total Energy Points consumed exceeded 1000]
[Reward: 1000 Genesis Points]
He was just about to focus on the target dummy, like he had with the target item, when he received a new message.
Then two seconds later...
[Achievement: Longest single Soul Space visit exceeded 1000 seconds]
[Reward: 1000 Genesis Points]
It was time. He briefly considered just staying in his white room, but discarded the idea as foolish. If his physical body died, would he die, or would he be trapped in his white room forever? He'd go insane with boredom.
So, reluctantly, he left his white room to resume climbing. He needed to find water.